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Or senate at one point in time voted for an appropriations bill that contained the hyde amendment. >> reporter: a high profile freshman has been making the case for scrapping the abortion restriction even though she cannot deliver on it now. >> and so the hyde amendment is about income inequality, and its about womens health care. so i think that we need to repeal it. >> reporter: ocasio-cortez was one of seven democrats to vote against the bill against their leadership. it did not matter. in th...

They wont do that. what is the strategy? what are we seeking to get what is reasonable. this is what congress should be focussed on. its lack of strategy thats behind this economic pressure. that iran is responding to. they cant respond economically. trying to respond with military. just below the threshold well strike back. i hope dong holds a hearing and gets into this. lets see the republican hawks who are so determined to strike back.

Make it in minnesota, youre not going to make it in south carolina. >> can they afford these lower polling candidates? can we afford to do this based upon whats been said about the panel so far. money is not everywhere. >> they cant afford not to. theyre at an existential point in this race where, if they dont prove their viability, theyll be out of this race pretty quickly. because the next round of debates, the threshold on getting in there on polling and on fundraising, is much higher than th...

Iran is being careful and there are many accusations in washington that iran is being reckless but from irans point of view here in the region, they seem to be quite cautious. they want to drive this issue to the center of the debate. iran feels it is suffering unreasonably under sanctions so they are trying to drive this issue on to the international forum. but with every attack that they have taken, theyre just shy of the threshold they hope of triggering conflict and they dont want to be one ...

Its lack of strategy thats behind this economic pressure. that iran is responding to. they cant respond economically. try tra trying to respond with military. just below the threshold well strike back. i hope dong holds a hearing and gets into this. lets see the republican hawks who are so determined to strike back. lets see them talk about more than tactics. lets talk about whats a real strategy for how we want to reshape the middle east. >> its easy to say you have to be tough. its harder to o...

>> but were worried that he and the administration may bumble into a war. we told the room that the democratic position is that congressional approval must be required before funding any conflict in iran. >> that is always a difficult vote. so the administration is relying on the constitutional power and the amuf from the post 9/11 era, 18 years old, of course. but the question about authority will be one that will be part of the political debate. we wait to learn more about the presidents think...

Japans abe has had a relationship with iran that the president has tried to utilize to try to bring down some of the tensions. it appears, based on the presidents comments today, that he has set a new standard for the moment, that irans provocations have been about american property so far, and property longing to u.s. allies, and not an american personnel, and so does this mean the presidents own threshold for taking a retaliatory strike of some kind would have to be the loss or harm to america...

We had one official we spoke to who described it as showing patience and sort of a moral threshold that puts pressure on iran. those are favorable to the presidents decision here. of course there is a concern about how do you pull it back if there were collateral damage, deaths that could then be used against the united states. so did the president send a signal to iran that could push them back. theres also the question of sanctions. hes alluded to new sanctions or more sanctions. we dont have ...

>> and the drone, theres a question was it in iranian airspace. was it in international airspace. what would that change? >> well, you do have central command saying this was a drone shot down over international airspace which is a very different act than shooting down an aircraft over your own space. but, remember, the trump administration has no credibility. this is a president who lies something like 12 times a day. they have disregarded intelligence in the past. and president trump refused t...

More unified nature. and hes able and its available to him to make a reasonable decision going forward. >> let me ask you, admiral skishbskish kirby, if its in international airspace, where it should be able to have safe passage, right? >> right. >> is that an act of war to shoot down another countrys aircraft over international airspace? >> im not a legal scholar, jim. i dont know if id go so far as to say its illegal. and its an escalation that frankly im surprise they had took. an expert said...