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Later. jennifer griffin on the top story from the bottom of the hour from the pentagon tonight. lawmakers went ahead and made that cut today. struck down a fighter jet program that the congressman reported was nothing but pork, unnecessary, complete waste. >> that's right. in fact, the house voted to cut the second alternate engine for the f-35 fighter jet. the pentagon says this will save $3 billion over the next decade, shep. but house speaker john boehner from ohio and eric cantor of virginia both of them hawkish on budget cuts voted to save the engine. >> shepard: this isn't so much a part...

>> it's likely, shep, the iranians are playing their usual game of trying to deflect attention from problems of at home by provoking israel in the west it may also be that the iranian leadership wants to send these warships through the suez canal to send a message to its own people that it is a player on the world stage. now, officially, according to the iranian navy, those ships and their crews are on a mission to train antipiracy operations that would make sense if they are staying in the gulf of aden and red sea where some somali prior rats operate. suez canal entire length and docking in s...

Senator john cornyn was one of those interviewed as i was representative mike rogers. i think they're both held in highest steam in the congress. you've had senator lindsey graham and some others suggest that this is not the time to set a new precedent of having a politician as fbi director. it would be wiser to pick somebody from the fbi's ranks or a long-term prosecutor as we've seen, deputy attorney general, maybe has the criminal division at the justice department. those are a greater possibility than a politician. >> shepard: regarding the issues that we hear from people dale live. we did...

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Outcome but the president needs to back off here and let the investigation go forward. we need to call comey and got to the bet tom of this. >> shepard: senator graham says he does not believe that the president is the target of an investigation involving possible collusion between the trump campaign and russian officials. on the president's suggestion that tapes may exist of his conversations with james comey, another republican on the senate judiciary committee says history shows us respects recording their conversations is not necessarily the best idea. here's what senator mike lee of utah ...