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President Says Fight Against ISIS Is Long-Term
The Obamas Jam With Bruno Mars On The 4th Of July
While many of us were stuff- ing ourselves with food, drink, American pride and fireworks on the 4th of July, the Oba- mas did that and got their groove on to the sounds of Bruno Mars.
Mars was the headliner for a USO-sponsored concert on the South Lawn of the White House that included a patriotic words from Presi- dent Barack Obama along with an epic fireworks display, MTV reports while noting that the President and First
First Lady Michelle Obama greets Bruno Mars, as Presi- dent Obama looks on.
Lady Michelle Obama
were clearly into Mars’ high energy performance.
Among the tunes the “Up- town Funk” singer went all in on were Michael Jackson’s “Rock With You,” Montell Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It” and Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” as well his own catalog of original hits.
Before Bruno Mars and band get nasty with “Uptown Funk,” President Obama has a few words, then it’s time to par-tay!
President Obama spoke to the Pentagon on Monday.
Congress Powerless To Block Deal With Iran If It Happens
President Barack Obama offered an update on the military mission against ISIS on Monday, emphasizing the long-term nature of the ef- fort and the importance of local forces and stable govern- ments as keys to stopping the
terror group's rise.
The President pointed to the
more than 5,000 air strikes against ISIS in Iraq, Syria and new regions like North Africa, and the efforts of a "galva- nized" Iraqi government in the wake of the fall of Ramadi, as signs of stepped-up efforts against the terrorist group.
"This will not be quick. This is a long-term campaign. (ISIS) is opportunistic and it is nimble," President Obama said, delivering remarks from the Pentagon.
President Obama said the coalition is going after the "heart" of ISIS when it comes to both monetary and human resources. And he took the op- portunity to prod Congress to confirm Adam Szubin as Treasury Department under secretary for terrorism and fi- nancial intelligence, to aid the effort to stop money flowing to ISIS.
Leaders at the table hoping to reach nuclear agreement with Iran.
As Congress awaits word from Vienna about a nuclear agreement with Iran that may—or may not—come this week, the Obama administra- tion has all but given up on winning Republican support for the deal.
The original June 30 dead- line has already been been ex- tended, and Tuesday’s due date as well. As of Monday, “very difficult decisions” had yet to be made, administration spokesmen said, and Secre- tary of State John Kerry warned that he would walk
away from the deal—crutches and all—in the face of “ab- solute intransigence” by the Iranians. “At this point, this negotiation could go either way,” Kerry said Sunday.
If Kerry does manage to seal a historic deal in the next few days, attention will imme- diately turn back to Congress, which voted earlier this year to give itself a say in the matter. Under the terms that lawmak- ers set for themselves (after some bargaining with the ad- ministration), it won’t be easy for Congress to stop the agree
ment, and the precise timing of the accord could have a sig- nificant impact on the out- come. If the administration submits the signed deal to Congress by Thursday, the House and Senate would have just 30 days to review and vote on it—a window that, in actu- ality, becomes even shorter since lawmakers are sched- uled to leave for their sacred summer recess by the end of the month. If the Thursday deadline slips, then under the law Congress would have 60 days to consider the agree- ment.
Lawsuit Could Test The Legality Of Hillary Clinton’s Email Claim
Just a day after former Sec- retary of State Hillary Clin- ton declared that she violated no law in storing tens of thou- sands of work-related emails on a private server, a watchdog organization is putting that claim to the legal test in court.
D.C.-based Cause of Action filed a lawsuit Wednesday against current Secretary of State John Kerry and Na- tional Archives Chief David Ferriero, seeking to force them to recover Clinton's emails and ensure they are placed in government hands. The suit, filed in U. S. District Court in Washington, also asks a judge to issue a legal finding that Clinton illegally removed federal records from govern- ment control when she stored them on a private server.
In an interview with CNN Tuesday, Clinton repeatedly insisted that her decision to use a personal email account and private server as her sole email account as Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton
did not break any law or gov- ernment rules.
Legal experts have different views on Clinton's claims. Some contend that the Federal Records Act, National Archives regulations and State Depart- ment rules did not permit gov- ernment officials to routinely keep work-related correspon- dence outside an official records system. Other lawyers say the law and the rules don't clearly prohibit what Clinton did.
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