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That wraps up this important hour. Im stephanie ruhle. Ill see you at 1 00. Here comes hallie jackson. An extraordinary morning and weve got special coverage of it for the next hour live from new york which is where my job covering the president is bringing us as he brings his brand of America First in the world stage in just a matter of moments. But his political future may not hang on what eats about to address, iran, north korea. Instead its ukraine with the ground shifting back home on impeachment. Some democrats now calling this a Tipping Point, including one lawmaker live with us in just...

Offensive military operations. [ applause ] >> joining me now is bret mcgirk. and bret yesterdayis speaking to senator coons and about a briefing that you gave congress. let's pull this back. details can be hard to follow if one isn't as well versed as someone like you. what is the situation, how do my viewers need to think about the developments over the last 2 1/2 weeks or so? northern se in northern siyria? >> why are we there, it was isis. it is about a third of syria. we claw the back all that territory. as of the end of last year, we had a mission that was right sized, that means that we...

Again, rather muted in president trump here in what is a closely watched speech around the world. i want to bring in kristen welker who is at the unite nations general assembly and carol lee, ambassador christopher hill, christopher hill, national security analyst evelyn farcass, and former adviser to the united nations and also bret mcgirk, some of the smartest analysts and leading contributors around the country. let's get your takeaways from what we heard from the president and reaction from the room. it seemed that there were murmurs when the president talked about the u.s. is the most pow...

Obviously holding an olive branch. and i think in the end given that the iranians understand him, they are trying to give him what he wants which is something where he can best obama particularly on the nuclear deal, at the same time a way to overt war. that is where the american public is and i think that that is what we should expect in the coming weeks in spite of what he said. >> and let me remind folks what the president had to say about iran in the speech we just listened to. watch. >> in response to iran's recent attack on saudi arabia oil facilities, we just imposed the highest level o...

And how all that came about. that's the thing that the supreme court is going to be ruling on. we'll see if obamacare survives in its current form. kevin, daniel, thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> new information in the battle against isis as the state department point man on the mission testifies today on the progress we have or haven't made. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon keeping an eye on this hello, jennifer. >> shannon. near east ambassador bret mcgirk is taking questions from the house foreign affairs committee. state department offi...