NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin says Americans should be concerned about the situation in Aleppo because it's a "humanitarian catastrophe." Mohyeldin and NBC's Katy Tur discuss the latest details. Duration: 3:51
NBC's Kelly Cobiella and MSNBC's Thomas Roberts discuss the causes of the violence in Aleppo and what is being done to help people still there. Duration: 3:14
Infowars Nightly News Director Rob Dew ( @DewsNewz ) covers the Syrian Army's liberation of Aleppo and how the reports of them executing civilians in the streets is just another in long list of lies being promoted by western media.
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Fighting reportedly resumes in Aleppo hours after ceasefire
MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall 12/14/16
Trapped civilians are sending their last messages from Aleppo as fighting reportedly resumed after a ceasefire deal fell apart — delaying evacuations and resurfacing Rex Tillerson-Putin concerns. Duration: 11:45
Tillerson history at Exxon one of defying, opposing US interests
The Rachel Maddow Show 12/13/16
Rachel Maddow reports on Exxon's history under Rex Tillerson of pursuing business interests that were counter to the interests of the United States in countries like Chad and Iraq. Duration: 16:00
Newsweek reports Trump's international holdings are putting U.S. interests in jeopardy as foreign governments, especially Turkey & the Philippines, are already seeing ways to exploit them as a weakness for Trump. Kurt Eichenwald broke the story and joins Lawrence. Duration: 5:15
Terror expert: Team Trump has no relationship with intelligence community
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams 12/13/16
MSNBC Terrorism Analyst Malcolm Nance joins Brian Williams to discuss Donald Trump's dismissal of the CIA's findings on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Duration: 4:43
Isis manufacturing military standard weapons on an 'industrial scale' in Iraq Isis mortars discovered near Karamlais, Iraq, in November 2016 Conflict Armament Research Researchers uncover factories manufacturing mortars, rockets, bombs and ammunition near Mosul 14 December 2016 Isis [ http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/isis ] is developing its own arsenal of military grade weapons and ammunition including rockets, mortar rounds and bombs – as it battles to defend territory across Syria and Iraq, a report [ http://file///C:/Users/indy.news3/Downloads/Standardisation-and-quality-control-in-Islamic-State%E2%80%99s-military-production%20(2).pdf ] has found. Facilities abandoned following the recent Mosul [ http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/mosul ] offensive have revealed manufacturing on “an industrial scale”, making tens of thousands of units in a tightly controlled and bureaucratic process. Inspectors from UK-based Conflict Armament Research (CAR) gathered evidence while embedded with Iraq forces advancing on Isis’s last major stronghold in the country, finding a multitude of factories, workshops and warehouses in eastern Mosul. James Bevan, the executive director of CAR, said its findings demonstrate Isis’s “capacity to produce weapons on a massive scale”. “This is a centrally managed industrial programme, which produces munitions running into the tens of thousands, and taps into Turkey’s domestic markets for raw materials,” he added. “Its impact is clearly observable on the battlefield, where Iraqi forces face near-continuous mortar and rocket fire in the battle to retake Mosul.” Isis has set up an authority called the Central Organisation for Standardisation and Quality Control, which issues specific guidelines on weapon production parameters and controls manufacturing quality, the report said. It enforces standards similar to those of national armies to ensure the weapons work and operates specialised plants for separate stages of production. CAR investigators documented more than 5,000 rockets and mortar rounds in various stages of production, and more than 500 finished mortar rounds that had been recovered by Iraqi troops. Labels affixed to the weapons indicated they had only been manufactured a month before being confiscated, when the multi-national advance on Mosul had started. Most of the items used to create the weapons and ammunition are from the Turkish domestic market, CAR said, with many chemicals for explosives procured in bulk from the same factories and distributors. [...] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-islamic-state-weapons-manufacturing-rockets-bombs-ammunition-iraq-factories-mosul-mortars-a7473321.html [with embedded video]
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GOP Leaders Ignored Repeated Requests To Go Further In Condemning Russia’s Hacking House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell both declined attempts to more forcefully condemn Russia’s hacking of Democratic organizations. The Speaker, Majority Leader and RNC Chair each turned down calls for help from their Democratic counterparts. 12/14/2016 Updated December 14, 2016 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-leaders-russia-hacking_us_58513cb2e4b0e411bfd47270?fsp833di [with comments]
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