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♪for the holidays you cant beat home sweet home.♪ the united states postal service goes the extra mile to bring your holidays home. all right. secretary of state mike pompeo backing up the presidents argument that the administration was just trying to fight corruption in ukraine. >> this in an interview conducted just a short time ago. he says, quote, i was part of americas ukraine palace. we were very clear. he wanted to make sure that the corruption that has been existing in ukraine for ...

Politics reporter for politico and ab stoddard. >> whats interesting about that line from pompeo, hes basically owning it, saying, we did do this, but its justified, because we were trying to fight corruption. >> so the new thing is, as dana bash said earlier, its okay, but. everyone says, this is what happened, but were cool with it. the problem is, what they asked for was for president zelensky to do an interview on cnn with fareed zakaria, announcing an investigation. the announcement was mor...

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Launch. did this high resolution image that you see here reveal secrets about u.s. intelligence gathering capabilities? thats the question. lets go to white house correspondent kelly odonnell, national political reporter daniel straus, and washington examiner reporter emily larson. kelly, start with the executive assistant. the president saying this is an off the record meeting that he is alluding to here. the question is how did we get the information, right? >> reporter: well, this was a situa...

Having work for him was in this position, but he also made clear this was a line not to be crossed about talking about his family. so she was pushed to the point of having to resign. she offered her resignation and apology for having done this, so that was the situation. this is one of the perilous moments where an error in judgment happened and shes paying the price for it. typically off the record conversations happen with people who frankly are much more experienced dealing with journalists, ...

From the 2005 bankruptcy bill. this is a bill that representative sanders at the time from vermont voted against in 2005, and it is also going to eliminate, not have a problem with credit scores. your credit score will not be effected by this either way with the medical debt elimination. theres not a ton more details beyond that. this is certainly something the campaign wasnt planning on releasing on the friday of labor day weekend, but within the next month, should be getting the full plan. >> ...

Or on a shelf, but i know from experience its harder than we think. we hope to see that progress in the new year, but one of the things well definitely see is a continuing conversation about that. we dont think that the discussion about this is over in capital hill. certainly not over in every walk of life in the united states and around the world, whether were talking about corporate america, if were talking about government, were talking about our entertainment industry. so well continue to ta...

Reporting. >> this is a big deal. this is a continuation of what weve seen in the past. and the truth is that we know more and more that muellers investigation is not going to wrap up soon and that really trump saying in past in his administration saying that they expected it to end soon was a comfort and not really something they knew for certain. so we know there is something that is going to continue being discussed over the next year. >> daniel straus, alexis simmon sh and matt welsch, thank...

An op ed by joe scar bro, the host of the morning joe is sounding the warning bell about what is in store for 2018. he writes a storm is gathering and there is every reason to believe that 2018 about be the most consequential political year of our lives. lets bring back daniel straus, alexis simmon dinger, for the hill and matt welsch, from reason magazine. daniel, break out your magic eight ball or whatever you do use for 2018, what are your predictions for 2018? this is always fun stuff. >> im...

one of the many headlines this week goes like this, out of "the washington post -- "the huffington post." just one of the many write-ups on all of this. we will give you insights from a hill reporter. we will take you when this all started august 2. [video clip] >> so, the word is out he has not paid any taxes for 10 years. let him prove he has paid taxes, because he hasnt. we already know from one parcel tax return desiccate but he has money been in bermuda, the cayman islands and a s...