Since the California attack, Obama has endeavored to demonstrate his administration’s capacity to tackle terrorism. Then the president will depart for San Bernardino, California, where he plans to meet with families of the 14 victims of the recent mass shooting.
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“But if you have a private communication between two individuals, that’s harder to discern”, he said. Those invited include seven sworn officers from five departments: the San Bernardino County sheriff’s and probation departments and Redlands, Fontana and San Bernardino police; five San Bernardino firefighters; two emergency medical service workers; and one civlian employee of the San Bernardino Police Department.
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President Barack Obama said a deal reached in Paris this month to reduce global carbon emissions will survive opposition by Republicans in Congress and in the presidential race. Those reports also suggested that Obama believes that if he sent ground troops back to the Middle East, up to 100 USA soldiers a month could die. “They’ve thwarted attacks. They have saved American lives”.
Obama presses Turkey’s president to lower tensions with Iraq
On Dec. 4, Turkey reinforced the force protection component of its units in the camp due to increasing threats to their security. Their conversation came after Turkish troops were wounded when a training base in northern Iraq was hit by Daesh on Wednesday.
Ron Fournier, the National Journal columnist, called it “breathtaking”, while the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto urged people to imagine the media outcry that would have occurred had former president George W. Bush made a similar remark.
At a news conference, Obama said Congress is ending the year on a “high note” and noted the passage of transportation and education bills.
Mr. Obama on Friday also defended the US decision to participate in coalition airstrikes in Libya in 2011, arguing that inaction could have resulted in an even worse outcome.
“We have shown what is possible when America leads”, the president said.
But when asked whether Assad’s presidency might outlast his own, the president demurred.
He said diplomats need to find a way to create a political transition that allows Assad’s allies like Russian Federation and Iran to ensure “that their equities are respected” in Syria.
Still, he said, he plans to do much more in 2016.
Obama’s acknowledgement that the country is vulnerable to continued attack is unlikely to settle an American public spooked by the prospect of fresh strikes by radical Islamists.
Barack Obama chided Republicans on Friday for standing apart from every other rightwing party in the developed world by denying the science of climate change.
The president said the Islamic State is still unsafe to the West. He said he intends to keep putting military pressure on the group through airstrikes against its leaders and its forces.
The White House says it is commuting the federal prison sentences of 95 men and women who committed nonviolent offenses.
“It’s important to give credit where credit is due”, he said.
Both chambers of Congress are debating several bipartisan bills to change sentencing laws, and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has expressed support for getting something done on the issue next year.
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In an off-the-record meeting with journalists on Tuesday, Obama said that he did not watch enough cable news to fully recognize the extent of people’s fears, sources with knowledge of the meeting told CNN. “We recognize that we disagree on a whole bunch of other stuff, and have fundamentally different visions for where we want to move the country, but perhaps, because even before he was elected he had worked on Capitol Hill, I think he is respectful of the process and respectful of how legislation works”.
