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Countries and its leaders. What happens next . Is our line for democrats. 202 7488001 for republicans. If you are an independent, 202 7488002. Join us on social media. We will read your tweets. Send us a text message. That phone number is 202 7488003. Tell us your first name and where you are texting from. We are also on facebook. Good sunday morning. A lot to talk about. Front page of the Washington Post a president vowing reprisal if iran hits u. S. Assets. This story from Bloomberg News the h...

Affects decisionmakers putting american lives at risk. We are headed close to the precipice of war. You heard the president talk about targeting armenian iran ian sites, including cultural sites, which is a war crime if the president were to carry that out. Make, the president is not entitled under the constitution to continue this escalation and take us to war without congressional action. That is what the constitution requires. I heard secretary pompeo talk about this. They have not accomplish...

Educe the national debt. As always, well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is 7 00 eastern time here in washington. The start of a holiday week. Congress returning in two weeks. President trump spending christmas with his family in florida. It is monday, december 23. We begin our first hour with Foreign Policy. The leaders of china, south korea and japan meeting today in beijing it. Comes as the pe...

Meanwhile here at home 2 men have been charged in the death of an oakland Research Engineer who died while trying to recover his stolen laptop. Sure shane who you see right here behind us is the individual he died after chasing the man who stole his computer from him while working at a starbucks in montclair our first morning kelly has new information about the victim and the latest details on those allegations. The Alameda County District Attorneys Office is filing charges against 2 suspects in...

A knife wielding man after he stabs one person to death and wounds 2 others. And the Turkish Parliament decision to deploy troops to libya comes in for strong criticism as. Fear it will lead to further escalation in the region. Are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is R T International want to thomas certainly glad to have you with us we start with breaking news from baghdad where a convoy belonging to iran backed militia has come under fire come under attack reports suggest 6 pe...

Over the attack on the iranian officials in baghdad. One of the questions looming today seems to be, what is the right move . How do you respond . It is hard to answer that question completely in isolation. What happens next will determine really whether this was the right move or not. I think the situation the president found himself in was one of iranian escalation over the last six months, starting with attempts to sink or at least attack tankers in the persian gulf, the shooting down of an a...

That it is that we are pushing back against. We are confident the iraq he people want the United States to continue to be there to fight the counterterror campaign. We will continue to do all the things we need to do to keep america safe. Hasnt been a change in u. S. Response where we will longer go after the enemy in the field . We wont go after irans control. There is a strategy that has been several years in the making now. We have been working on it. It has been a diplomatic strategy and eco...

Listen. Soleimani made the death of innocent people his sick passion. What the United States did yesterday should have been done long ago. We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war. David for more on what could come next, im joined by National Security analyst retired Lieutenant Colonel bob mcginnis. Hes author of the book progressive evil. Good to see you here, colonel. Senator graham was read in apparently on the killing of soleimani and what he had been pl...

Motorcycle museum in iowa. He opened the event by addressing the killing of the iranian general by u. S. Forces. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome senator bernie sanders. [applause] sen. Sanders thank you all for coming out. To talk aboutnt some of the very important issues facing our country. But before i get to some of them, i want to take a moment to address the events in iraq and the escalating crisis in the middle east. Yesterday, President Trump ordered the assassination of a top irania...

A moment or 2 and look back at what was the year that came before this day what took place around the world in our nation and our lives during those 300 some odd days that brought us to this very moment. Well today on the show we will do just that we will take some time to examine just a sampling from some of the biggest stories we covered all year long i mean weve got protesters aplenty from france hong kong to haiti all with the fires of change in their hearts some more celebrated some were sh...