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nasa successfully crashes a probe into an asteroid — to test whether space rocks that might threaten earth could be deflected out of the way. ukrainians in four russian—held regions have one final day to vote — in a referendum, kyiv and its western allies dismiss as a sham. the head of the metropolitan police pledges to be "ruthless" in rooting out corruption, racism and misogyny in the force. a state funeral is underway for the former japanese prime minister shinzo abe. leaders ...

approved the outline of a deal to secure the release of some hostages captured by hamas. we just found out qatar had announced the agreement between israel and i moss and includes a pause in fighting with the release of 50 women and children. the deal was signed off by the israeli cabinet just a few hours ago that there is still a 24-hour period in which the families of israeli victims of hamas could appeal to the supreme court. nbcs clare symonds is in israel with more. >> reporter: t...

Finance laws. Bill barr leading the Justice Department saying, nothing to see here. Bill barr who pushed for this letter and transcript to be put out. Thank you, kaitlan. Great reporting. Thank you for being with me. Im poppy harlow in new york. Jim and i will see you in d. C. For special coverage tomorrow morning. My colleague, indicate bolduan continues coverage now. Hello, everyone. Im kait bolduan. As you can see, it has been a morning of Breaking News. The white house released its account o...

About our main story, the repercussions of friday�*s mini budget, the fall in the pound and what they will do for mortgages with some products being withdrawn, and of course potentially interest rates going up. ijust want to bring you some tweets coming in at the moment. i did ask you to let me know if you have any questions. dave said they made an offer on a house yesterday, last week they had the money to extend it and now almost all of their savings have gone into the deposit to keep the pr...

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Zelensky should be impeached. senator chris murphy met with zelensky and was joined by a republican, senator ron johnson. the president is leaving out the fact that a republican was part of the meeting because, kate, ukraine has been an issue where theres been bipartisan support in terms of russian aggression. in responding to jamils point, we provided assistance to ukraine after russia invaded crimea and started the conflict in eastern ukraine. president trump likes to spin the fact obama didnt...

Javelin. one thing worth saying, president trump is the first to provide a military to ukraine and thats why it matters so much. unlike president obama when crimea was invaded and russia began inappropriate activities in eastern ukraine we didnt provide military aid. an interesting dynamic playing out. >> absolutely. jamil, stand by for me a second. sam, one thing that was raised by the president this morning when he was responding that i am just to be honest now recalling, when he said a few we...

Release this transcript, it is going to set a bad precedent going forward. the question is why barr would want it released since his name is essentially all over it and you see how the president sees rudy guilliani and bill barr through the same lens. >> that may be the least surprising thing. >> true. >> sam, first, what is your point? >> obviously to your point, pompeo wouldnt want this released. the president trashes a u.s. ally, germany. he trashes the u.s. ambassador to ukraine and it is de...

Like you to have a phone call with giuliani. we dont know if thats actually happened. what we do know is giuliani and met with ukrainian officials. the state department hasnt answered any of our questions in recent days about what they were learning from the presidents personal attorney in the conversations he was having. >> some more perspective, sam, is there a good reason for an issue of corruption on any issue between two nations that any president, any world leader would want to employ thei...

President has, all of the work the state department and others are doing on behalf of ukraine going forward will be subject to congressional scrutiny. all of the work that should be done likely will be evidence, including the meeting happening in three hours between president trump and president zelensky. you can kind of see them wanting to get in there and compare notes about how to handle it. >> i cant even believe the news some days. i cant believe it is happening on this day. >> it is happen...