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is expected to climb even higher as night continues to grind on there in morocco. sam kiley joins us from morocco. i think perhaps you saw the ceiling above you giving way just a touch. how are things where youre at? >> reporter: well, jim, you put your finger on what everybody here is most afraid of here in the medina in the old city of marrakech. an environment that certainly not in living memory and for many people, not even in the history books has any recollection of being worried...

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>> shannon: president biden and chinese leader xi jinping had their first phone call in seven months. rear truck we were told it was a 90 minute discussion aimed at setting guardrails and parameters for the relationship. we are told the tone of the call was familiar and candid and did include discussion of covid-19. who are telling you about this last night, evacuation flights not stopping lawmakers from ramping up the pressure on president biden. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie has th...

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Self get re-elected, that was the core danger that led to the inclusion of the impeechachment power in the constitution. >> right. >> there was an argument there framing do we need an argument for impeachment, and the answer was he might steal that election especially dealing with foreign powers. thats why this is so important, and it would be distracting to go off into legal capillaries and arteries like robbery and extortion although that would have been a possibility. >> although it has given...

In all of these matters and the efforts by republicans to go after some of his underlings, some of his deputies and his aides simply does not -- this contradicts that republican push. and i also asked him whether or not he believes sondland was truthful to his committee. >> this is very, obviously, very important because there is an effort to -- apparently to, by the presidents allies, to throw sondland under the bus, throw mulvaney under the bus, throw everybody under the bus in an toefrts prot...

Democrats demanding he recuse himself from anything connected to special counsel robert muellers investigation. chief intelligence correspondent katherine herridge tells us how supporters are fighting back. >> democrats would like to talk about another attorney general recusing himself. >> reporter: republican push back after democrats formally ask the justice department ethics office whether they advise acting attorney general matt whitaker to recuse the special counsel investigation. democrats...

. so, this morning no surprise that big republican push back against presidents trumps new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. we want to talk about the concerns of this impact on jobs in the economy. we saw strong jobs and more added last month. some of the biggest criticism is coming from the presidents closest allies from capitol hill. garett is over on the hill. unlike us slabs here in the news business, congress get to go home on friday mornings. when you look at the reactions of some ...

High arks, 4%tohis response to the hurricanes. do you think the president deserves credit here? >> well, i think first of all, polls are polls. and i look at whats been going on. and i was supportive of the negotiation that was made, of course, with senator schumer and leader pelosi and the president to stop the government from shutting down by doing something about the debt ceiling as well as what we were doing with the budget. i think that was a good thing and that was an agreement across the...