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Operatives known as the Khorasan Group. It must be clear to anyone who would plot against america and try to do americans harm that we will not tolerate safe havens for terrorists who threaten our people. The latest developments on the air strikes in syria and iraq, the air strikes in syria were focused on the city of raqqa. Isis considers it to be the capital of its selfdeclared islamic state. But other areas were hit as well. A u. S. Official says four dozen aircraft took part in the strikes. ...

Shutdown. The president continues to all but promise to act on his own to fund his desired border wall, though americans by more than two to one margin oppose an emergency declaration. And this morning, we are also watching the next move of the governor of virginia as we speak, Ralph Northam is meeting with his cabinet while he struggles to keep his job amid, really, an alarming scandal over racist yearbook photos. Much more on that in a moment. We begin at the white house with cnns joe johns. W...

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What u.s. forces will be up to. can you explain that to folks so they understand why that might cause problems? >> yes, because iraq is trying to balance itself between iran and the united states. theres a lot of iranian influence in iraq. we watched that when i was over in the middle east in 2003. we watched the iranian cells spring up as the u.s. invaded iraq. the same thing that went on there is going on now. the iranians are exercising a great deal of influence. they control some elements of...