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Is in iraq at the invitation of the joint chiefs chairman for an important visit there. lets discuss all of this with my panel. alex burns is here, cnn political analyst, national political reporter for "the new york times." barbara starr, of course, cnns pentagon correspondent. michelle kosinski is cnns senior diplomatic correspondent and colonel cedric leighton, military analyst and former member of the joint chiefs of staff. thank you all for joining me. a big week on the foreign policy front...

>> i was urging my former colleagues and frankly speaking the people on the hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the hill people get as much information as you can and as much intelligence as you can before the president leaves the administration. >> meantime, were told that the house intelligence chairman devin nunes new about the unmasking before the trump wiretapping allegations. nunes could have seen the logs at other places besides the white house scif. but it had been a few weeks an...

A bunch of information. he then went out the next day, briefed the press, went straight back to the white house to brief the president on information hed found out from officials at the white house. its this bizarre kind of theater or drama, whatever you will, that kind of has become this ginormous -- giant distraction. in a month -- lets remember this month began with jeff sessions recusing himself. that was less than a month ago. trump surveillance tweets, the director of the fbi saying in fro...

Revelations jared kushner met with a russian banker in december. and yet here we are and then ended with michael flynn asking for immunity and here we are wondering where devin nunes got a bunch of intelligence that we dont know is consequential. >> i want to drill down on this reporting. because you then -- put the headline up, you broke this story big in the "new york times" front page above the fold on thursday. there it is. last night congressman nunes back in fresno in his district with kgp...

>> bill: could he be approved monday? >> it sounds more like a late week thing maybe friday before they split town. >> bill: thank you, mike emanuel the latest from the hill. thank you. >> shannon: president trump using twitter to take aim at members of the freedom caucus and even calling some by name. should he be trying to bring them into the fold instead. well speak to newt gingrich next. >> bill: and jeff sessions cracking down on sanctuary cities saying theyll face a high price. well debate...

Had contact with russian officials that we cant explain or who have had done business with the russians that we dont understand over the past couple years. peter doocy has that on capitol hill. some of these people have volunteered to come speak to congress, right? >> right. so far, shep, three of these people have volunteered their testimony and are still waiting to hear back whether or not theyre wanted. one person has been invited to speak and accepted. that is jared kushner. he joined the fo...

Public affairs and a former ohio state senate minority leader. that is a whole bunch on the resume. i want to start with you. is this something that could be a quick, easy victory for this president after the healthcare of failure? >> no question. if he was smart and this admission she wanted to lead with an easy victory, they probably should have started with infrastructure spending first. it is an issue that members of congress on both sides of the aisle have always advocated for. its an oppor...

Had the goods on the obama administration, we would have known a long time ago. this is an effort that is going on. we will see where it winds up. another fold in the russian investigation is kushner. he deserves more kudos. he will talk to them. he now says he will testify. he says he will testify. we heard from quigley about this. this is on the senate side. here is what he had to say. >> ill tell you later. the point is they have serious questions they want to ask, jackie. him coming forward....

It began to collapse this building. what we do know is that in the days that fold, it basically pan caked on itself. what the as you say trying to figure out is whether its hitting of this building is the thing that brought it down, or whether it first isis that came in afterwards and as a way of trying to discredit the united states, set off explosives that ultimately brought it down. >> we should be clear here of the conditions. these are people who are occupied byizes that isis had a all of m...

Joining us is michael schmidt. michael, what do we know about how this happened? >> we know that medal of march the united states was really bombing a lot in mosul and he mitt this building. it began to collapse this building. what we do know is that in the days that fold, it basically pan caked on itself. what the as you say trying to figure out is whether its hitting of this building is the thing that brought it down, or whether it first isis that came in afterwa and as a way of trying to disc...