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Secret clearance. the senate intelligence committee wants to question jared kushner about his meetings with the russian ambassador, sergey kislyak and gorkov. but a meeting with jared kushner has not been scheduled. joining us tim matt, a correspondent for the daily beast who has been investigating the trump-russia question. and julian edelstein. tim mak, the significance of the intelligence committee wanting to speak to jared kushner about this, how do you read that? >> well, its obvious that t...

Sergey kislyak and gorkov. but a meeting with jared kushner has not been scheduled. joining us tim matt, a correspondent for the daily beast who has been investigating the trump-russia question. and julian edelstein. tim mak, the significance of the intelligence committee wanting to speak to jared kushner about this, how do you read that? >> well, its obvious that the senate intelligence committee wants to talk to jared kushner about his contacts with the russian ambassador and of course this ru...

Gop senators are considering a walk-out during the vote. senator graham said once again yesterday that hell do whatever he can to hold up the confirmation on answers he wants to benghazi. >> i dont think we should allow brennan to go forward, hagel to be confirmed to secretary of defense until the white house gives us an accounting. >> you are saying that you are going to block the nominations. you are going to block them from coming to a vote until you get an answer to this? >> yes. >> and desp...

0 day, that brand of selflessness was displayed again and again and again. soldiers exposing themselves to enemy fire, to pull a comrade to safety. tending the each others wounds. performing buddy transfusions, giving each other their own blood. and if you seek a measure of that day you need to look no further than the medals and rib bobs that grace their chests. for their sustained heroism, 37 army commendation medals. for their wounds, 27 purple hearts. for their valor, 18 bronze stars. for th...

theyre going to have to sacrifice some homes and businesses in order to save many, many more. the army corps expected to open louisianas huge morganza spillway when the river flow hits 1.5 million cubic feet per second. what does that mean? all you need to know is that rate continues to go up and getting closer and closer to that point. the spillway was last opened in 1973, but we are expecting it today and maybe in the next few hours. now, doing that, what does that do? it takes the p...

theyre going to have to sacrifice some homes and businesses in order to save many, many more. the army corps expected to open louisianas huge morganza spillway when the river flow hits 1.5 million cubic feet per second. what does that mean? all you need to know is that rate continues to go up and getting closer and closer to that point. the spillway was last opened in 1973, but we are expecting it today and maybe in the next few hours. now, doing that, what does that do? it takes the p...

Will hapb when that happens, the water will push through the gate and you can see over here the dry land that is out on this way, 100 miles and curve around like this through the river basin and 100 miles down towards morgan city and thats where we caught up with the mayor of morgan city. tim matt who has spent the last few weeks getting his city ready for the incoming flood waters. >> well, it is the heart of the city and its primarily protected, of course, by that wall right there and it would...