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here from our nbc team, with the department of justice saying to republicans on the hill, hey, bring it on. the new letter to house oversight. and what it said about any possible cooperate on new congressional investigations. plus the white house going public against a private group who they are now labelling a transnational criminal organization, well talk about the sanctions imposed today. and im hallie jackson and i want to bring in senior white house correspondent kelly odonnell ...

So today marks the half way point of president bidens first term with the administration claiming a long list of successes that they say outruns a lost white houses before them. just how does president biden stack up against his predecessors. who also tried to get a lot done in the first hundred days before setting their sights on a second term. to answer that question we go too our national correspondent steve kornacki at the big board. and youre looking at where different presidents in the pas...

Adversaries to interpret that perhaps real military operations may be under way and you want everybody to understand the difference between operations and simply training. the pentagon may be a little nervous about this strategy of not talking about it, but, of course, the big unknown in the coming weeks is what will president trump do. he may be looking at this and not talking about it very much or we could see him once again on twitter with very assertive language about north korea. >> we will...

Attack after a driver plowed through a christmas market, killing 12 people. the associated press now reporting police had anis amri under surveillance for months this year. police offering rae ward of $104,000 for information leading to his capture. in london, buckingham palace officials say queen elizabeth and prince philip are delaying the annual christmas trip. why? they are both sick. they have bad colds apparently. the palace didnt say when they will travel. the queen turned 90 this year....

president mahmoud ahmadinejad is in pakistan for a regional summit. he joins pakistani prime minister gilani who is facing a contempt of court charge before his countrys supreme court. hamid karzai is there as well, saying his government is holding talks with the taliban, a claim the taliban denies. police in thailand are seeking an arrest warrant for a fifth iranian suspect in connection with a bomb incident in the thai capital on tuesday. theyre looking to detain javad, a 52-year-o...

parties in parliament called on murdoch to dump his plans to pursue it. at least four members of the u.s. congress want the government to investigate whether u.s. citizens were victims of phone hacking by murdochs media outlets. international journalists were attempted to hack into the phone messages of 9/11 victims. > ruling party officials say mr. salih will go back after hes 4 surgery. those are the headlines. those are the headlines in cnn in london. "world business today" starts...

The final case death with who has the power to draw congressional districts in arizona. they use an independent commission. the court said that was fine with them. it comeplyied with the law. lawmakers argued they were ones given the power by the constitution. >> thank you. despite todays supreme court ruling the obama administration is going full speed ahead with its regulation agenda. on a milestone mark for regulation nation. >> reporter: finalizing rules on obamacare and homeland security ...