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Welcome back. Its now 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. I am Ana Cabrera in for jose diazbalart. A senior white House Official telling Nbc News, quote, the United States has Indications Iran is preparing to imminently launch a Missile Attack against israel. This comes as we are closely watching the Israelilebanon Border as israeli launched a Ground Mission in lebanon. This morning, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken said this about the situation right now in the Middle East. Were, of cours...

They will decide how to pour sue these, i am told by multimillion democratic officials if they dont get compliance, that essentially will be one of the articles of impeachment that would be obstruction of congress and exactly what adam schiff just alluded to here in talking to reporters. thats a sign that the democrats want to make. they dont want to be consumed with impeachment up through next year, through the election year. which is why they want to wrap this up in the coming weeks, which is ...

Records, but the house committee has already gotten wells fargo as reported. so these committees already have someplace to start on president trumps financial records. hes hanging on very, very tenuously at this point to the hope he can run the clock out. actually, its a strategy that could work. the house does not want this going into the election year next year, this endless fighting, this endless standoff. it overshadows whats going on -- >> neither side, actually. >> yes, but it advantages p...

Joining us here in washington a reporter for "the daily beast" and in new york a fox news contributor. betsy, were most of the media right in saying that what huckabee said was offensive and went too far? >> i think without a doubt. its indefensible to make any sort of comparison to the holocaust. israels ambassador to the united states who is probably one of the most energetic foes of the iran deal came out and said huckabee was out of bounds. when israels ambassador says you need to cool it yo...

In colombia a couple years ago. the white house staff is basically quietly fuming about it. you know, in some ways they are mad at us in the media, but mad at the incident itself because it overshadows what they are trying, the message that they are trying to send, particularly this issue, which is the president trying very hard to rally europe to its side. look, this has made headlines in the netherlands, over here and over there, at a time when the last thing the united states wants to do is l...

Sense. >> tell me what you think of this. my sense of this is that actually, in a weird way, the longer the shutdown goes, if this happens in the next 33 minutes, it appears it will, the longer that goes, the better the odds of avoiding a real nasty situation. some kind of negotiated settlement comes out with a raise to the debt ceiling as well. >> i agree with that. i want to say, 33 minutes from now also obamacare starts. which i cant believe thats not the top story. >> to be clear, shutting d...