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Military. here's marcus moore. >> reporter: tonight, beijing retaliating swiftly against the u.s. for closing china's consulate in houston, ordering washington to cease operations at its consulate in chengdu. china's foreign ministry calling the move, quote, a legitimate and necessary response to the unreasonable actions of the united states. consulate workers in houston today scrambling to get out, packing u-hauls with garbage bags. shredded paper littering the ground. anonymous videos posted on social media days ago showing staff burning documents in the courtyard. >> we have done nothing wr...

Or reject the u.s. assessment again. why? >> i don't think he's going to get a lot of support on saying it was potentially a credible explanation. i think that's why he followed up with the notion that it is early in the u.s. investigation. it is early in the investigation of the international community. i think you're going to see going forward more reliance on a wait-and-see approach than the diplomacy by tweet that the president has sometimes gotten criticized for. >> what do you expect the white house is waiting for? >> i think the white house wants to see where the shoe drops. i mean, h...

Things. because the turks can only search the premises with saudi approval. and the vienna convention provides certain protections for consulate workers, protections that would not extend to the 15-man team that flew from saudi arabia to turkey to intercept jamal khaishoggi. so the turks could interrogate and arrest them under turkish law except all 15 are now back in saudi arabia. turkish authorities have reportedly not attempted to contact them or anyone else in the consulate at the time. so this investigation falls at the tricky intersection of international law and sovereign strength with ...

Kurdistan and irbil, usually a refuge but not today. a car bomb explode near the consulate but the driver had to blow it up before he reached the building, never got past the three rings of security. u.s. officials say no consulate workers were hurt. a reporter at the scene says the blast was so powerful it set nearby cars on fire. meantime, iraqi fors and isis fighters are battling for control of the city of ramadi. it's about 70 miles west of baghdad and not far from the al asad air base where u.s. troops are stationed and training. today a police officer there said islamic statewere surroun...

It's not clear exactly when they're going to be rolling this out. is this going to be a plan? there's a lot of nervousness about where some of these senate republicans are in terms of rubio and actually signing on to a potential deep. the worst attack in the afghanistan -- suicide bomber detonated his vehicle on the road as an american convoy passed. among the dead, two american soldiers and a foreign service diplomat. she is the first foreign service officer killed on the job since last year's attack in benghazi, senator john kerry spoke about her in turkey. kerry was with consulate workers...