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Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is calling for an immediate and temporary halt to the far-right government's contentious plan to overhaul the judiciary. His warning makes him the first ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition to break ranks

Woman, supreme court justice. what this means, if theres any republicans that break ranks, probably a handful at most but in the end, does it matter? joe manchin, kyrsten sinema, if on board with the rest of the 48 democrats, thats enough to get this through. at the moment, democrats are confident it will happen. >> the president yesterday saying he will name his pick by the end of february. manu raju, thank you. new details this morning about text messages between former white house staffers ...

Liberal MP Bridget Archer was hauled into a meeting with Prime Minister Scott Morrison after she broke ranks and crossed the floor on Thursday to support a debate on a proposed bill for a federal watchdog, Sky News Australia has revealed.

You have to defend me, and if not, i can go to your state, i can punish you in a whole myriad of ways, these people get on line and follow him quickly. >> mitt romney was like that. he said what was said in the call was disturbing and he didnt approve of it, and right away we saw conservatives go after mitt romney in terms of ad. so the president and his allies laid down a marker early and said if you say something thats wrong, youre going to have repercussions. >> that was bad news for these pe...

With the president of ukraine. even though the investigation by house democrats has covered more evidence beyond the call. but last night he told the "washington examiner" he wants to read the call out loud to the person people. i want to read what yu he said. he said at some point im going to sit down, perhaps as a fireside chat on live television and read the transcript of the call because people have to hear it. when you read it its a straight call. now, the white house is ramping up outreach...

A fight and theyve seen the fact the president and white house have been stonewalling. thats put more of them in the camp of saying we should move forward with impeachment since we cant get cooperation from the white house. the white house has been so willing to decide to just say a blanket no to any request from the congress, the fact now you have one republican saying, yes, we need to go forward with impeachment and saying he read the full report and did see impeachable offenses, it does give ...

Has tapes, if there is more to come, do you think even if he has something like that, do you think there is any openness amongst republicans right now to have their minds changed by what they will hear from michael cohen tomorrow? >> i think that it depends on how open minded they go into the hearing. most of the time when you go into the hearings you are prepared. >> once you decide it. >> you either decide it or you know exactly what you want to get at. i dont think you will find in this heari...

It is certain to die in the senate. you may be curious what was the purpose of calling the vote in the first place? it is a good question. its a good question. it wasnt the first time republicans pushed a symbolic vote against health care. in fact, this was the 33rd time the house voted on repealing all or part of the presidents health care law. what exactly was the point of todays political stunt? congressman steve israel is the chairman of the committee. congressman, 33 times? how come? >> bec...

>> the decision to invoke executive privilege is an admission that the white house officials were involved in decisions that misled the congress and have covered up the truth. >> do you buy the theory that the president injected himself into this through executive privilege because he wanted to again be at odds with the gop-controlled house? >> i dont think that was his motivation. im really not entirely sure what his motivation is. clearly part of it is like all presidents to protect the prerog...

Seen as being strong and decisive and standing up to a republican congress who to americans are part of the problem. >> what if a vote is taken and some break ranks. that its not a partisan vote. then how is it spun? >> that will be a big deal. i think for the most part i think the american people hear things like john boehner versus nancy pelosi like this. if they say this isnt what we should be doing or the democrats say there are questions here, then i think it becomes a different issue and m...