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im fredricka whitfield. thank you so much for joining us. new today, iraq is now summoning a top u.s. diplomatic official in protest of a barrage of punishing u.s. air strikes in the middle east. the u.s. says those strikes hit 85 targets linked to irans islamic revolutionary guard quds force and affiliated militia groups in iraq and syria. the strikes a response to a drone attack in jordan which killed three american soldiers on sunday. iraq is claiming the explosions that just happen...

Trial in the middle of a political season. what does that tell you. >> that is trumps attorney last night talking about the fact that he thinks it will take nine or ten months to see this play out. well see. and lets bring back in our experts. jack smiths statement last night was about two minutes. i have no doubt he chose every word carefully will that the fact that he said speedy trial, what does it tell you? >> i think that the case sorts . in terms of the espionage act case t case, this so m...

Have a quid, military aid in assistance for ukraine and we have a quo and involve in corruption, so far we dont have the pro, what we know today is that the ukrainians were never aware of delay in their aid until they were given the aid and told that it had been delayed and we never had that -- that grant of the aid predicated upon them making a commitment to investigate joe biden and the failure of the democrats, schiffs statement last night was problematic because the american people are going...

Have a quid, military aid in assistance for ukraine and we have a quo and involve in corruption, so far we dont have the pro, what we know today is that the ukrainians were never aware of delay in their aid until they were given the aid and told that it had been delayed and we never had that -- that grant of the aid predicated upon them making a commitment to investigate joe biden and the failure of the democrats, schiffs statement last night was problematic because the american people are going...

Have a quid, military aid in assistance for ukraine and we have a quo and involve in corruption, so far we dont have the pro, what we know today is that the ukrainians were never aware of delay in their aid until they were given the aid and told that it had been delayed and we never had that -- that grant of the aid predicated upon them making a commitment to investigate joe biden and the failure of the democrats, schiffs statement last night was problematic because the american people are going...

It was unusual. then you contrast that to young people confronting senator dianne feinstein yesterday. climate change is real. we are at the precipice of a crises. this is his appointment. so it suggests not only do we have a swamp full of grifters, expect level grifters as i like to say, and someone who really is denying, i think, or waffling to be generous on the most pressing issue facing this generation and the generations to come. >> thats our first d and d reference weve had here. tim, i w...

Hereby demanding tweet which i found just awesome on so many levels, incredulous at this point that someone set him free on this. >> it is extraordinary. as nick pointed out, devin nunes and the president have this symbiotic relationship that has been going on for the year so the presidents action yesterday which is extraordinary is more of a part of a campaign to try to get at what his argument is that the investigation was corrupt from the beginning. it was politicized from the beginning so wh...

President statement last night. >> dana: we are in an election year right now, 2018, the midterm, what happens to the candidates who have been endorsed by steve bannon? do they try to shed that? do they encourage it, what will happen? >> depends on whether their opponents make it an issue. we have seen that in the last 48 hours, 24 hours, we have seen the issue being made in arizona, kelly ward for whom steve bannon appeared is walking back from him in west virginia, congressman kevin jane comes...

Know, donald trump has been more explicit what he would do and in a statement last night by david friedman accepting his nominati nomination, he hoped to serve the american interests in israel from the eternal capital of jerusalem. it raises questions whether he would actual dlly do that. some have told the arab baeb ambassadors you part of a longer process that may not happen right away but a lot of concerns president-elect trump once in office would take the steps. s you know, wolf it would ta...