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Either the president or the people around him. >> well, schiffs committee met today with inspector atkinson. hes bound by orders of his superior not to. im joined by congressman danny heck of washington state, and contributor mulligan has held senior positions in the doj, and the office of director of national intelligence itself. let me start with ken our guy. this had to have reached a threshold, urgent concern. what would that embody that would cause the inspector generals office to get ahold...

Of attacks that are below the threshold of all out military conflict will become more and more common. so we need to improve and modernize our defenses on we are not caught unaware. >> and should we be concerned good this about this unprecedented whistle blower complaint that involves the presidents communication with a foreign leader, possibly according to the inspector general of the intelligence community concerning national security? >> well, i havent seen the report. i dont know what is in ...

Conversations. and one of the implications is who did he speak to when this was filed in the middle of august. >> yeah. one of the keys to this obviously is the phrase "urgent concern" that the inspector general believed that this whistleblower and the information he had was of so much urgent concern that it needed to be looked at, a legal threshold, by the way, that requires congress to be notified which is what had adam schiff clearly so -- i dont want to say angry because he was very controll...

Credible and troubling enough to be considered a matter of urgent concern. urgent concern is the phrase. a legal threshold that requires notification of oversight committees on capitol hill. however, acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire has refused to turn over the complaint to the hearings. he told congress the complaint contains confidential and potentially privileged information. adam schiff who issued a subpoena for the complaint on friday is crying foul. >> i believe that...

Congress now? >> the statute talks about flagrant abuse of power, illegal acts. >> illegal acts. >> there are lots of things that arent illegal for the president that are illegal for other people. classified information sharing. >> can we make that point, because shane you made this point in the piece, ive heard other people make this point. its important for people that are just waking up and listening, this is not about the president doing something wreck le and bragging. he can do that, but h...

Basically give them fairly good. marks in terms of free and fair so they can do in iraq why cant they do in syria priority iran the removal of all of the rainy and cmon dude forces from the inside its you know syria that good is not going to happen the bill to their integrated with the soon to be its forces. a theyre not integrated to define an integrated force is integrated in nato yeah they work together to the defense intelligence agency iran continues to field islamic revolutionary guard sol...

61-seat threshold in their version of the parliament that gives them the ability to govern in israel. a little bit about what is going to happen now, as the votes are still being counted, everyone is going to be looking towards a third party, led by israels former defense minister, and additionally, a longtime rival of israeli i minister benjamin netanyahu, and that i is -- expected to have eight to 8 to 10 the seats, giving him the ability to decide who the next prime minister will be. in the n...

But the ammunition is limited. the fed is about out of ammunition. one weird little thing and what do you do then? go to negative rates? that helps corporations. that hurts old people on fixed incomes. that hurts savers. anybody wants to save money, hurts all of those people. the ones that it helps in enormous ways, only them, corporations. any rate, the fed rate is the rate that institutions charge each other. the fed lost control of the interest rate because of a cash shortage. that sent short...

International pressure. kate in. >> >> thank you so much. its really important that youre there. really appreciate it. i want to bring in adviser dennis ross. hes also the author of a new book called "be strong and of good courage, how israels most important leaders shaped its destiny." ambassador, thank you so much for being here. >> nice to be with you. thank you. >> on what i was just talking about with nic and nick, can you give me just your kind of excerexpert assessment, do you believe its...

Investigations that begin to come to a head in about a months time. if benjamin netanyahu can pass that 61-seat threshold and introduce legislation as is anticipated if he finds himself to give himself immunity from prosecution, things will be looking very good. the turnout so far as of 2:00 this afternoon was 36.5%, which is 1% up on last year, consistent with previous elections, which would indicate in this system that about 65% to 70% turnover overall. now broadly speaking, thats good news fo...