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By Maya RhodanJuly 31, 2017 7:55 AM EDTA video shared on Twitter shows New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie confronting a Chicago Cubs fan who reported jeered the politician at a Milwaukee Brewers baseball game.The Governor is seen getting in the Cubs fan face while holding an order of nachos on the stairs at Milwaukee Miller Park. You ;re a big shot, Chris
stanley cup tie can be heard telling the fan as he walks away.At Cubs Brewers game.
stanley cup ChrisChristie was getting razzed by fans, so he got in the face of one of them. 5:30 on @WISN12News pic.twitter/sx8euMgFy2mdash; Ben Hutchison @Ben__Hutchison July 30, 2017WISN reporter Ben Hutchinson recorded the video and identified the fan as Ben Joseph.Joseph told WISN that he told Christie he 8220 ucked while the Governor was walking up the stairs at the park. When Christie was on his way back down, Joseph says, he called him a hypocrite because it needed to be said.Apparently the Governor didn ;t think so, because that when he turned around to confront Joseph. The fan says Christie asked him, why don 82
stanley cup 17;t you have another beer and called him a tough guy.Christie and Joseph were at Miller Park for the Brewers-Cubs game; Christie son Andrew works for the Milwaukee team, according to the Associated Press.The Milwaukee incident was not the first time Christie mdash; the most unpopular governor in any state in 20 years mdash; Wril Denver Becomes First City to Allow Marijuana Use in Bars and Restaurants
By Justin WorlandApril 12, 2018 3:31 PM EDTMike Pompeo, President Donald Trump nominee to head the State Department, tried to shed his reputation as a war hawk and portray himself as a consummate diplomat during a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.Some of you have read the stories, Irsquo;m a h
jordan awk, Irsquo;m a hardliner, said Pompeo. But the best outcomes are always won at the diplomatic table.Despite his diplomatic rhetoric Pompeo first task might be building a coalition to support military action against Syria following the regime alleged chemical weapons attack that killed at least 60 people and wounded more 1,000 others last weekend
af1 . Trump said on Thursday that he was weighing options and a decision would be made fairly soon.The Secretary of State is the country chief diplomat, but d
af1 uring times of armed conflict that role has extended into coalition building for military intervention. Secretary of State James Baker played that role ahead of the first Gulf War and Secretary of State Colin Powell did ahead of the war in Afghanistan following Sept. 11. Powell also arguably failed at that task before the second Gulf War.U.S. action in Syria would not match the scale of those invasions, but building a coalition remains important nonetheless. Great Britain and France have both been in talks with the U.S. about potential military action against Syria while Germany has ruled out participating.Pompeo, a
