would finally have achieved her lifelong mission to care for people, and make them well. cool she pops in my head. and i m just sad. she would have been one heck of a nurse. that is all for this edition of dateline. i m natalie morales. thank you for watching. i m craig melvin, and i m natalie morales. this is dateline. during the middle of the night i heard this loud noise. it sounded like someone who s in the house. i opened up her door to her bedroom, and i thought, i m hearing things. your instincts were right, that something was happening in the middle of the night. you think your child is safe in your home. she was just 16. emma the honor student.
intelligence community started to put together options as we refined making sure this was the leader of isis in this house, and they re looking at who s in the house, and around the house and getting the patterns of life and that takes some time. the president got his first operational briefing about six weeks ago in december, and really walked through in exquisite detail what this operation would be like, the complexity, because there was a family living on the first floor, and he knew that, and it was kind of ironic. he was responsible for a genocide and killing tens of thousands of people, and he was trying to use these innocent this innocent family who were unwitting of who he was, we believe, as a shield. and so to plan an operation, to ensure that our operators were able to take care of this family while also trying to complete the mission and remove him was extraordinarily complex, and the president was presented a number of options, and then over the course of the last month
in terms of the cost, if you add all of our deferred maintenance, just to get our transportation infrastructure in the state of good repair, we re talking something in the order of a trillion dollars. pls mr. secretary, it s kasie hunt. dca is the best airport in america bar none, you get into town, hop on the metro, i ve been to a lot, l.a., chicago, forget it, even the small town airports. washington needs some love sometimes. mr. secretary let me ask you, speaking of washington, to get this stuff done you need mitch mcconnell to at the least stay out of the way. do you think that he is a good faith actor in this process? i don t know what political calculations are involved on the other side. but what i do know is that every republican just like every democrat that i met in washington who s in congress, who s in the house or senate,
kristin: why isn t that something that the senate minority leader, chuck schumer, should have to hash out? why doesn t that belong to schumer? why does speaker pelosi, who s in the house, get to have a say in this? i think it belongs to both schumer and mcconnell that they could not reach an agreement last week and, hopefully, when they get back in january they will set those parameters, negotiate what they are. and then the speaker can decide who the house managers are. and i think you ll see the articles get sent over. kristin: another thing that speaker pelosi did yesterday, surprised some people, she sent an invitation to president trump inviting him to deliver his state of the uniing onaddress. typically, this is pretty normal stuff here in washington, but the fact this this happened just days after she led this effort to impeach the president, it was pretty senate especially when you think about significant especially when you think about what happened last year when she resc
they thought that that was going to be the path for them and russia was going o to be the key. and they really pushed as hard as they could on that. i want to share that picture you referenced of michael flynn on his phone during the inauguration, there he is, looking down, that comes from the house democrats in the house oversight committee and there s a time stamp, the letter by elijah cummings which you should check out is remarkable tale. to come back to the mueller point because the timing here is important. this whistle blower comes to cummings who s in the house government oversight committee in the ranking member, and mueller tells him specifically not to go bbl it, right? correct. and, you know, what because you had flynn taking a plea agreement last friday, and what mueller wants to know is there s no other things that flynn has done wrong. he s not going to find something else out that flynn, you know, oh flynn has done this or not done this and find out about that aft