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benjamin netanyahu is expected to speak to the media on the state of the war. this comes as israeli intelligence analysts poedly warned officials of plans of a major hamas invasion over a year before the october 7th attack. they were dismissed by their superiors. secretary of state, antony blinken saying, the security failure will be investigated. >> there is going to be plenty of opportunity for a full accounting of what happened on october 7th, including a look back to see how what h...

Hillary clinton and donald trump jr. responding saying that he would love it and accept that. and then theres the meeting that happened and donald trump jr.s the only trump associate who wasnt interviewed. so when asking folks why that is, our sources say theres one two of reasons. one ask that investigators didnt think he was important as a witness. they say thats just impossible that he is important and that hes probably the most important person because he was organizing the meeting. and the ...

Going to feel comfortable discussing them in public? particularly here where you are talking about someone who is ultimately a private individual. donald trump jr., son of the president, obviously a key figure in the trump campaign but not an official figure in the u.s. government. >> which is interesting because, carol and josh, you both agree this has strong implication that he took the fifth which is doubly interesting. because when he was running for office, then candidate donald trump, he r...

Interview with our kristen welker said hes very interested in the trump tower meeting. he singled it out as the kind of evidence that he intends to press mueller on. and so it will be very interesting to see how that plays out tomorrow. >> i want to switch gears here for a moment before we go because, josh, your reporting this week on a different trump ally or a former trump ally, which is michael flynn. he did not take the stand in the case against his ex-business partner, but did he plead guil...

Expect to hear this tomorrow. why was donald trump jr. the only american attendee of that infamous trump tower meeting not questioned by muellers investigation? im joined by josh gers seen it, a senior legal affairs writer for "politico." carol, lets start with you. talk us through your reporting. how much of a focus will be on the presidents son tomorrow? >> well, what we know is that the trump tower meeting in july -- in june of 2016 was the key focus of the investigation into whether there wa...

There about that page 117, it does say, as you quoted, he declined to be voluntarily interviewed by the office. but the interesting piece i find about that is that the next two lines are then redacted. so, josh, does that imply that the presidents son took the fifth but also what questions do those redactions prompt for the reader? >> yeah think there it does imply that there was some effort get him to testify and he probably declined. whether he might have been issued a grand jury subpoena is u...