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This is some current grumbling that says what about our refugee policy and also what about a broader policy for syria? this bombing raid alone is not a policy. >> bill: of course is not a policy. i dont think trump is going to do regime change. >> and i dont see any reason why he is obligated to. what he did here was to say mister, you committed a hideous atrocity and were going to make you pay for it. >> bill: we dont want you to do war crimes and this is a noble nation and were not going to st...

Both deny they had an affair, but mason later resigned. nbcs kerry sanders is in the state capital with more. impeachment is always a big deal. a bigger deal because alabama has never impeached a governor before. >> reporter: well, officially in the modern time, that is correct. we have seen impeachments back in the 1800s here in alabama and one other impeachment maybe in the 1993. so we have seen them before of governors, but if the governor steps down today, he would step down before hes impea...

Night. according to rex tillerson who briefed us last evening, the response has been for the most part very, very good, a lot of support, particularly among our allies around the world and the company around the region, clearly iran not happy about it, the foreign minister tweeting out this morning that this was another bogus attack -- rather an attack against bogus claims of chemical weapons, the same as 2003. clearly this rattled the cage of iran. russia not happy about this, and clearly syria...

Others said it was politically motivated in an attempt to cover up political problems and power struggles at home and president trumps own domestic concerns. that is a condemnation but a fairly weak one. there is no indication that the syrian military plans to retalia retaliate. there are hundreds of american troops in syria. no talks of potential strikes against him. when you look at the syrian reaction, they seem to be grumbling but not intending to do anything. the russians, pretty much the s...

Thats the set up. its an interesting question, its one that the congressman and i were just talking about. lack of curiosity. >> theres certainly been a lack of curiosity on the part of a lot of news media and it finally made news in a couple of mainstream outlets today because members of congress were calling for susan rice to be called to testify noon. but the revelation that she was involved in unmasking requests had not previously been news to them. this is one of the reasons why fox news wa...

There. >> reporter: it certainly is, john. a lot of technical gymnastics the senate will be jumping through today and the kor rog gra fee here is very important. i want to show you how this is all anticipated to go down. in the next hour the senate will convene. an hour after that, this will be the first vote to break the democrat filibuster. republicans do not have the 60 votes they need. they wont get this. this will fail as a small but temporary victory for the democrats here. that will set o...

Thats the set up. its an interesting question, its one that the congressman and i were just talking about. lack of curiosity. >> theres certainly been a lack of curiosity on the part of a lot of news media and it finally made news in a couple of mainstream outlets today because members of congress were calling for susan rice to be called to testify noon. but the revelation that she was involved in unmasking requests had not previously been news to them. this is one of the reasons why fox news wa...

Trump takes on a major new official role as a major office in the west wing of the white house. not just the informal adviser. but shes now a special assistant to the president. she wont be taking a salary or anything like that, but she is now a government employee. >> indeed. ivanka trump will not be taking a salary, wolf, but she will be a top adviser. of course she has basically been playing that role for the last several weeks or so. shes in a lot of meetings. her advice is certainly heard a...

Interestingly health care is one where he has at points held back one step of reserve and thats going to be a fascinating moment this week because the history of, as they both noel, since republicans took over congress in 1995, they almost always get whatever the bill is out of the house after all the grumbling from conservatives they find a way to pass it through the house and thats going to be what happens this week as well and then all of a sudden well be in a situation where the only thing s...

Done by the first or second week of april. so id say its moving along the normal political process. yes, you see some grumbling. there were three republicans in the house who voted against it in committee, but they knew that it was going to get through and go to the floor here. and, you know, is it going to be killed? you see the same names coming out, same couple of figures, mark meadows, ted cruz, rand pall, but i think -- rand paul, but i think overall behind closed doors republicans know the...