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all american troops will be home by the end of the year. that's 39,000 men and women. there was talk that 5,000 troops might stay next year, but, no. we've got jessica yellin at the white house and chris lawrence at the pentagon tonight. jessica, i wanted to start with you. this came down to whether our troops would be protected troops would be protected from prosecution in iraq in part, didn't it? >> reporter: that's right. the white house, this administration and the iraqi government were trying to work out a deal to get american troops immunity from iraqi laws so that some could s...

Republican party to go and get a quote/unquote easy scalp in the name of bob bennett. bob bennett did a terrible job, didn't go back home, didn't visit utah enough. didn't do his own politics here and got caught with his pants down. you sit there, and, yes, it's hard to believe a guy like bob bennett not exactly the definition of a liberal republican would somehow get pushed out by a more conservative wing of the party, but they're pushing him out because they can. it's easy to do. florida, same thing. and, look, crist also had the added issue of being governor at a time when it's not easy bei...

Conservative wing of the party. but they're pushing him out because they can. it's easy to do. florida, same thing. and look, crist also had the added issue of being governor at a time when it's not easy being a governor of any state right now. and it's a pretty -- you've got to make some unpopular decisions. >> well what i'm seeing here, chris, is a series of purges. it's not that the party is moving to the right. it's an incumbents like governors, five-term senators like specter, party leaders like john mccain, conservatives like bob bennett, all being pushed out of the party. told to go awa...

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Because that doesn't make a difference in how it works. >> noncommital from senator lake ford but others have come out and said it. others, two conservative wing of the conference, they have to make decisions very quickly u. they want to have the photos in march. there's no consensus yet. there's no yes whether they have the votes to pass it out of the chambers. white house will have to do a conservative sales pitch. >> can i ask? yesterday we heard coming out of the white house from a senior official. there was a comprehensive immigration plan that donald trump was going to get behind. it sou...