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The very least. theyre not talking about removal. theyre talking about going through with the procedure to understand more of what is haing right now. and nancy pelosi is out of one side of her mouth saying, okay, the president belongs in jail and then on the other hand saying, but i dont want to do it for political reasons. im saying you are not making a decision based on political decision because youre deciding that we have time to wait for 2020 when he told us that hes ready to steal the ele...

Allegedly trying fwaurt the mueller probe. im told an official from the white house counsels office will be in the room with hope hicks and any assertions of executive privilege will have to be made on a case by case basis. that doesnt prevent the democrats from asking the questions, but she could still decline to answer those questions and instead only agree to answer questions about the time in the campaign. now the question will be will that be enough to satisfy democrats who could still go t...

Youre being unfair to the president an hes going get re-elected. >> do you see or fear that happening? >> so, im always a bit hesitant to attribute particular motives to fellow politicians when taking positions on people. try to take them at their word and evaluate the substance of their assertions. in senator grahams case what he is most focused on is a primary opponent in the 2020 election for himself and to assert that the mueller report exonerated the president which flies in the face of wha...

The secretary of state put in this list of, quote, unprovoked attacks that present a clear threat to international peace and security. now, it may be that they have newly arrived at evidence that allows them to attribute all these attacks to iran, even though theyve never done so before, but prove it. i mean, in the midst of everything else going on, the trump administration does appear to be trying to create a public justification for us moving toward a war footing with iran. and it is based on...

Because i know you have current knowledge about whats going on with this exact situation, but i wanted to ask if this looks to you like a normal process, in terms of how our government is handling this and how responsible theyre being in terms of what theyre telling the public in terms of evidence for these assertions. >> rachel, obviously, i dont have the benefit of the latest internal information. but i thought it was a very swift and very unequivocal po pinpointing of iran as the perpetrator....

Bezos got exactly conservative, find that we paid $2.6 billion in corporate taxes since 2016, we pay every penny we owe. congress designed tax laws to encourage companies to reinvest in the american economy. we have $200 billion in investment since 2011 and 300,000 jobs. assume the complaint is with the tax code, not amazon and the democratic national committee has announced the 20 presidential candidates will take part in the first debate this month, joe biden is in, so is julian castro and eve...

Trump administration does appear to be trying to create a public justification for us moving toward a war footing with iran. and it is based on this assertion from the trump administration that iran is carrying out this escalating series of violent attacks all over the middle east including targeting us. and if they are trying to set that as the context, as the justification for whatever it is they want to do to iran, presumably they will have to actually show some of this evidence, right? they ...

For the attack. and then right away really quickly this afternoon we got secretary of state mike pompeo setting up a press conference in which he stood in front of photos of the burning tankers and said the u.s. assessment is done and unequivocal and hes on the record publicly accusing iran of that attack and a whole bunch of other attacks. hes accusing iran of an escalating series of violent attacks in a way that makes me feel very nervous. and ones of the reasons i wanted to ask you about this...

Involvement in those explosions. now, iran officially is denying any involvement in the attacks, accusing the united states of, quote, warmongering. the japanese owner of one of the tankers also refutes one of the u.s.s assertions, saying some sailors onboard saw something flying towards the ship just before the explosion. its all contributing, though, to increasing tensions in a part of the world already on edge. with me now is ambassador chris hall, former u.s. ambassador to iraq and south kor...

Escalation. the united states, there seems to be a divide inside our government between the president perhaps and his secretary of state. where is all this heading in your view, and what is the driver of this right now? is this the entire iranian government, or is this the revolutionary guard? >> well, unlike president trump, i cant really interpret videos, but certainly theres reason to believe that this is some kind of quds force that is revolutionary guard action. that would lend some support...