The people of israel want a leader who doesnt have corruption charges. Announcer this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Good morning. Welcome to your new day. First, upheaval in the department of Homeland Security. A senior white house official tells cnn the president is overseeing a near systematic purge, end quote. The Homeland Security secretary are out. More heads could roll, ignoring a shift to a hard line immigration policy, led by white house adviser Stephen Miller. It could lead to more families being separated at the border. The most senior republican, Chuck Grassley, alarmed by the changes. In reference to miller, quote, they havent accomplished a whole lot, so they need to find some other way to make themselves look important. In a couple hours, william barr testifies on capitol hill. This is his first time answering any questions since the Mueller Report was given to him. He will be grilled on the reporting that some in muellers team say his summary, barrs su
Already in the ukraine and ukraine ukraines got a lot of problems. The new president is saying hes going to be able to rid the country of corruption, and i said that would be a great thing. We had a great conversation. The president s acknowledgment there comes after a source familiar with the situation tells cnn that the president did pressure the ukrainian leader to investigate his political rival joe biden and his son hunter biden during a phone call earlier this summer. That was back in july. The whistle blower has also flagged the call as part of a formal complaint. We should note there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by joe biden or his son hunter biden. Several prominent democrats are calling for the president s impeachment over this. More than half of the democratic controlled house of representatives was already there following muellers report, but now there could be movement on the other side of the aisle in the republican controlled senate. Mitt romney of utah tweeting, if
Government was conducting mass surveillance and lying about it now Edward Snowden has written a book about the dangers to our privacy. Im sorry kelli walk into the program voting is underway in israel 2nd general election this year its expected to be a tight race Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife voted early its hope that todays election will and the political crisis that began with netanyahu was unable to form a government after the last election back in april former army chief benny gantz is netanyahu whose main challenger. And for more on this i am joined now by correspondent merriam daven who is live in jerusalem so how has the voter turnout been so far miriam. Hi sara so the voter turnout this morning is actually been higher than in the previous elections which was a little bit unexpected i mean we have to see how it pans out during the day but people were actually expecting kind of voter apathy in the 2nd round in such a short time and but of course this is an unprec
And loaded. We have the latest about the hostility developing in the situation out of iran tonight. We start with another addition of jerry nadler clown show on capitol hill. Again, in case you havent heard, nadlers Judiciary Committee have started impeachment proceedings i guess against President Trump, for what . High crime, misdemeanors, nobody knows, not even he knows. It is one big political stunt nothing short of a psychotic rage, a hatred that is neverending. Its every second of every day. Now, the simple truth is, there are no high crimes, there are no misdemeanors, no collusion, no conspiracy, no obstruction but jerrys psycho dog and pony show must go on. The judiciary chairman needs to appease the radical extreme base of this new democratic party. If that means destroying the careers of his colleagues every other house member in more moderate districts and districts donald trump won, they could care less. It hurts the country but sadly he could carry the left. Like speaker in
United states. Nbc news justice correspondent Pete Williams has been following this and joins me now with details of the latest. What do we know about the story . Doesnt appear to be specific attack plans and this soldier talked about possible targets and never had any actual plans. Hes 24 years ole. His name is Jarrett William smith. A private Army First Class at kansas and according to Court Documents the fbi said he started talking three years ago about fighting in ukraine with a Paramilitary Group and joined the army two years ago and even after joining the army the fbi said he was posting on a chat room on facebook instructions on how to make homemade bombs, improvised explosive devices and instructions to use a cell phone to detonate such a device. According to the fbi, he then in august began talking to a man who he thought was a likeminded person. But who turned out to be an undercover agent for the fbi. And according to the fbi and the Court Documents, he said that he might wa