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Taken. what are you hearing from the defense department about what went into this raid and how long it had been planned? >> reporter: so we know the elite special operators who were involved just arrived in the region about a week ago to start planning for it and to refine their plans for it. that also included making sure that this actionable intelligence that they had gone was accurate and they had the most up to date and most accurate information so when they actually were given the approval ...

I think the president and the administration. on a couple of levels. first, as you pointed out in your lead-in, it really undercuts their argument that this was a perfect call and that nothing -- that there was no problem here. essentially what you have now is what started out as a one-car collision has now turned into like a three-car major pile-up. the white house knew about concerns with this call first from the general counsel of another intelligence agency who called and put them on notice ...

Rules, youre not respecting our due process, youre not being fair, though thats why were not complying in any way. and right after the letter got sent, then a report came out that once again reminded why this is being conducted the way it is. turns out that when the energy secretary, rick perry, who became part of the ukraine dynamic, came back and the said i think you should work this guy and the president said go to rudy. if you can convince rudy, im in. really? lets bring in senator and presi...

Further digging into this investigation by further ensuring that we are using every congressional authority we have to get to the bottom of what happened and to be able to determine with clarity if, in fact, these allegations are true. and thats what we intend to do. >> are those admitted facts alone, are they enough for you to support impeachment? >> im a former cia case officer as you mentioned in the lead-in and a former federal agent. i believe the more facts and evidence we can bring togeth...

I have been crediting president trump and his administration for providing lethal assistance to ukraine when my administration, the obama administration, that i worked in, decided not to. and so now all of a sudden he is saying hey, kuwait wait a minut dont want to do this. and it is inaccurate for him to say that the europeans are not providing assistance to ukraine. they provide billions of more dollars to you ukraine than we do. >> so where did that come from? because yesterday it was about c...

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Correspondent courtney kubi. courtney what do we know >> so we know now based on a number of officials and our colleagues here on nbc news, in fact, the u.s. believes the attack on the saudi oil infrastructure over the weekend originated from inside iran. we know its a combination of low altitude cruise missiles and drones that were behind that attack so now, president trump has dispatched his secretary of state mike pompeo. hes there in saudi arabia and the officials i have been speaking to tod...

Sometime in near future because they had not begun. they were ripe picking because legally the pentagon was able to reobligate them, and of course president trump, under the national emergency, is sending the money out to the border. so the ones that really stuck out to me was the base main gate which you mention in the lead-in. of course, this has had an increase in national security concerns ever since the u.s. has been involved in the war in syria and the continued vovr involvement in the war...

>> i thought your lead-in was very accurate. its always a challenge for the candidates who are below the top three, byron, sanders and warren who are better known and its always a challenge for them to break through and the temptation is to take extreme conditions or attack one of the top three to attempt to do that, but as you point out that takes the spotlight out of donald trump who is the ultimate objective defeating him and it also runs the risk of making you look a little petty and that so...

Huge missed opportunity. mike: do they look to take on their closest rivals to have a moment on the debate stage or do they try to stay focused on going after president trump? >> mike, i think it is a combination of all of the above. you noted in lead-in to the segment this is the first time that all the top candidates will be on stage together. it is the first time that vice president biden and senator warren will face off in one of these debates. mike: uh-huh. >> if you look at polling, the to...