eastern europe, and two, the actions, of course, of vladimir putin himself. here's the pentagon press secretary earlier today. >> if there's another incursion into ukraine, i would believe that could drive nato and some of our allies to make other forced posture decisions that they haven't made yet. >> today cnn clarissa ward spoke exclusively, that russia has very little to gain from this situation. let's bring clarissa in from ukraine. the foreign minister was also sensitive about potential deals being made for ukraine without ukraine's input. >> reporter: that's right. i think what you're seeing here, a classic case of ukraine not being sat at the negotiating table and understandably feeling a little bit vulnerable as a result. there have been some differences. it is no secret between ukraine's leadership and some of the actions and rhetoric that we've seen coming from the u.s. and the white house
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so while we have closed the public hearings for now, those questions of will we take further evidence, will there be further depositions, witnesses? what will the judiciary committee do? are all undecided and we have to proceed like we have been proceeding. pursue the truth. and try and do that with urgency and expeditiously. but not let the truth get lost in a political timetable. >> okay. but it also feels as if you're letting the political timetable rush this a bit. i mean, look, sdny, the southern district of new york, is obviously investigating some weird ukraine business between giuliani and his associates. this, to me, seems like a classic case of congress figuring out how to work with another investigative body there. why not at least try to see what
president felt about jeff sessions and he put it out there for us and we learned about what happened behind closed doors, there was some concern about not firing the attorney general because could that then lead to objection charges? like could it lead us down that road? that doesn't seem to be a concern anymore. >> what i found remarkable about reporting by politico is that people around the white house figure if special counsel mueller is building an obstruction of justice case, oh, well, he's already done it, it's been in the open. he fired comey and said it was about russia and other examples where he's seen as interfering so if he fired sessions, oh, well, big whoop. which i think is quite an assessment. but what's striking is that he's beginning to sway senators who said months ago they would never support the confirmation of another attorney general. that they didn't have time and it wasn't the place. we know there are still stall
>> thank you. a full court press, the president's private and intense push to get republican senators to flip on jeff sessions. is it working? plus the sheriff calling it a classic stand your ground case after an uber driver shoots and kills a man who threatened him. dash cam video captures those key moments. and former vice president joe biden will pay tribute to his friend senator john mccain. cnn has those details for you. for years i've trained dogs for the marines - like me, some of these dogs have seen many tours of duty. and for the past 15 years i've been a navy federal member. thanks to their fast approval process, when it came time to buy a new car, we got everything we needed to transport my wife's little bundle of joy... ... who i just adore. open to the armed forces, the dod, veterans and their families. navy federal credit union.
ward supporters telling jeff sessions to hang on but increasingly they're making it clear, senators graham and grassley that on criminal justice reform and the immigration family separation issue, a whisper campaign that that was jeff sessions's fault and it was not the tacit approval of president trump which from reporting it seems like there was so they are building a case to dump him. what's remarkable 1 that they would led democratic voters know that eight weeks before the midterms. it looks like an energizing campaign message for democrats. >> and gasly is saying i can open up the calendar, we have space to deal with confirmation hearings. there is also a question about whether the distraction is perhaps part of what we're seeing from some of these republicans, fatigue with the distraction that is the jeff sessions situation and trying to get things done and all of the space that it seems to be occupying and oxygen it seems to be sucking out of the room for
ground. according to authorities, an uber driver was justified to shoot and kill a man who stormed his car and threatened him. in the dash cam video, you can see the man, jason bowic cutting off the uber with his truck. boek thought his girlfriend was a passenger in the uber. the two just got into a heating text exchange. diane gallagher joins with us more details. >> the sheriff calling this "justifiable homicide all day long." stand your ground laws are controversial when it comes to killings across this nation, particularly when we're talking about florida's version but this is what we know about this case, after a fight with his on again/off again girlfriend jason boek followed an uber he thought was driving her home. texts show he threatened the girlfriend and the uber driver and that dash cam video from the uber shows he served in front of the car, appeared to try to run it off a dark stretch of road.
we'll show you the video and i want to warn, you're going to hear a gunshot. >> i say something? >> you have a pistol? >> oh, god! >> oh, my god! >> the uber driver, robert westlake, a licensed armed security guard who hole holds a concealed carry permit. he called 911 and rendered aid to boek who died. the girlfriend was not even in that uber. this was a case of him following the wrong vehicle in the first place, westlake told police came towards me, shouted he's got a pistol and reached for his waistband. that's why the sheriff says it makes it a classic stand your ground case and doesn't plan to charge him. >> wow. >> don't mess with an uber driver.
all of this as the president is tweeting that white house us counsel don mcgahn is leaving this fall, a tweet that apparently surprised even mcgahn himself and despite news of another exit, president trump's executive time is in full swing, the president insisting the white house is a smooth-running machine, no kay yot to see here. he's excited about the person taking mcgahn's place and, oh, in case you were wondering, daughter ivanka, son-in-law jared kushner, the president tweets they had nothing to do with the counsel's departure. there's a lot to discuss thursday morning achlt thee that jones is at the white house. athena, the president hinting he knows who will replace mcgahn. >> erica, that's right. the president tweeting he's excited about the person but not naming them. he said i'm very excited about the person who will be taking the place of white house counsel don mcgahn. i liked don but he was not responsible for me not firing
escape and people who were inside and essentially the suspect gave up. we know he'll have his first court hearing some time on monday. >> dan simon, thank you so much. so let's talk about more about this. working with the department of justice on what charges to bring against the suspect based on what you know is this a classic case of domestic terrorism or something else? >> it looks like a classic case of domestic terrorism. obviously, there's got to be a lot of issues to work through. you have state jurisdictional stuff, federal jurisdictional stuff. obviously you have three homicides which will more than likely be handled by the state, but i think probably doj and the bureau are going to step in and probably file some domestic terrorism charges against him. once they sort out exactly, it's going to be interesting to see what the triggering issue was that caused him to go out on friday to this particular location, and i think obviously