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To step up to the plate. we had great statements made at the g7, if you recall, "global britain." this was all about britain returning to the international stage. joe biden was saying america is back to give greater resolve, purpose, to what the west stands for, what we believe in, what were willing to defend. and yet, here we are on our own watch, the biggest, most mightiest international military alliance ever assembled, defeated by an insurgency armed simply with ak—47s and landmines. the u...

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Than national security or if names should be redacted that shouldnt be made public. jon: it is rare that the house of representatives does anything unanimously, and they basically unanimously voted to make the report public. i mentioned that the president says he agrees. heres what he tweeted about it. he writes: on the recent non-winding -- binding vote in congress, i told leadership to let all republicans vote for transparency. makes us all look good and doesnt matter. play along with the guam...

Than national security or if names should be redacted that shouldnt be made public. jon: it is rare that the house of representatives does anything unanimously, and they basically unanimously voted to make the report public. i mentioned that the president says he agrees. heres what he tweeted about it. he writes: on the recent non-winding -- binding vote in congress, i told leadership to let all republicans vote for transparency. makes us all look good and doesnt matter. play along with the guam...

Whitakers ability to lead the attorney general is unconstitutional. they say it has denied each plaintiff the opportunity to cast a binding vote on whether to consent to defendant whitaker serving as a principal officer. senator plumblumenthal, whiteho and hirono are all part of the committee that appoints presidential nominees and whitaker skipped that process. the lawsuit lists multiple other problems with whitaker, including his public criticisms of the russia investigation. so lets start at ...

We did last week, it passed 88-11. it was nonbinding, but i dont think we could have passed a binding vote last week. i think we will be able to do so, however, in the coming weeks. but i do think that its time for the congress as a whole as a body, certainly the senate, to express its support for the intelligence community. >> do you think that is enough, though, to get through to this president? do you think somebody does need to get through to him? after all, dni dan coats sounded an alarm la...

But it is a good idea in some respects to our own interests, trying to keep these areas stable. is it a good idea to pull money out of these countries? >> that is the right question. the trump administration listens to what measures it will take. egypt is an interesting case because the egyptians did not initiate this resolution, it was initiated by the turks and yemen but egypt is an interesting example because they are on the security council, for all the talk in the media about how this isola...

Iraq. however, the government has not taken action on that. it was not a binding vote. and therefore certainly the sentiment is out there. there are many iraqis who would like to respond in kind to the united states, but i think cooler heads are prevailing within the iraqi government well aware of course that there are more than 5,000 u.s. military personnel in the country providing critical backing to iraqi forces as they battle against isis for instance in the city of mosul. and an operation t...

>> they have to do it? >> they have to go through a point to clarify, its not going to go to the house of commons. they have a secondary debate chamber where you have a quorum of three members of parliament that will show up. they will do this. there isnt necessarily a binding vote or not, and then it gets thrown to the version of the department of justice here in the u.k. the interior ministry and home office and they have to make a decision. and the folks above them are of the samic as the rep...

>> another area of contention is sanctions with iran putting up talking points while the white house has suggested a more phased approach. >> this deal is not done yet. it wont be done until details are locked down and hopefully by the end of june. >> hopefully is not good enough for bob corker who is pushing for an up or down vote next week. >> strong bipartisan support for binding vote. >> the president will not admit and confirm it will have a binding vote. he talks about a nonbinding vote in...