Eric deadly soup vere weather across the southern plains, where the storms are he8 hours, it is all happening now. The 3 we begin with a fox news alert from capitol hill where battles are brewing over the investigation into russian meddling into our president ial election. And over president Trumps Supreme Court nominee, judge neil gorsuch. Welcome to the second hour of happening now, i am Melissa Francis in today for jenna lee. Eric hello, melissa. Good to see you again, i am eric shawn in for jon scott today. The Senate Intelligence committee is meeting within the next hour to discuss their ongoing probe of russia. This as calls are increasing for house Intelligence Committee chairman devin nunes to step aside from reading that investigation into the alleged ties between the Trump Campaign officials in russia. Meanwhile, more than half the Senate Democrats also now planned to vote no on judge gorsuchs Supreme Court nomination. That is setting up possible showdown in the senate that t
terrorists expected to be top of his agenda. john chandra joins us now, co-authored the report on turkey and also the vice president of research at the foundation for the defense of democracy, former terrorism analyst with the treasury department. first of all, what you will outlined in your report is alarming, nato ally with 30 terrorist attacks killing people and you say that turkey has a substantial threat by isis to that country. so what is the result for us? the result is that we are seeing a key muslim country that has served as a buffer against terrorists, against isis that appears to be eroding. i believe that really this is the result of disastrous policies carried out by the recep erdogan government, the current one in turkey. they tried to topple in syria by allowing jihadist pluralist to cross their border and in so doing for many years, they