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voicing their concerns at school board meetings. another fish whistle-blower discloses that the fbi employees are being out of of the bureau for attending conservative political events. another fbi whistle-blower discloses the fbi accepts private user information from facebook without the user s consent and information is from only the conservative side of the political spectrum. martha: the committee s top democrat calling the baseless rhetoric that is dangerous. watch this. i m deeply concerned about the use of this select subcommittee as a place to settle scores. showcase conspiracy theories and advance an extreme agenda that risks undermining american s faith in our democracy. martha: two very different takes there. we have britt humes with us today, nancy mace who had a very interesting exchange about whether or not the twitter executives have medical expertise and marc thiessen joining me on set. we begin with david spunt live at the justice department wh ....
hello. i m abby philip in washington. a desperate search is under way for survivors after a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck turkey and syria. the death toll is now more than 2500 and aid from across the world is pouring in. the aftermath of this is catastrophic. this was the strongest earthquake to hit that area in more than 100 years, and it struck while nearly everyone was asleep. hundreds of people this hour are still believed to be trapped. massive high rises reduced to rubble, as more than 50 aftershocks some as strong as 7.5 magnitude, make matters even worse for rescue crews. one survivor capturing this horrific moment that the building collapsed. floor after floor falling as people run from a massive debris cloud. nearby, another collapse. look at this. and video of dramatic rescues are also coming in. this child pulled from the wreckage. crews are now hoping to uncover more miracles in the rubble. cnn s scott mcclain will lead us off here. scott, a mas ....
Decisions were made at which time and why we let it fly over our most sensitive areas as it transited and shot it after its mission was done. these are all things that we have to dig in to. you said in that testimony that ten my is conditioning the u.s. population in a way that is lame or the to what russia did in the past. what do you mean by that, general? well, actually i said they may be conditioning. i m not sure can make that pronouncement. the fact of the matter is we in war and in the past as well as our opponents used conditioning. the example of russia is very good. they use exercises, the one called zapod, every couple years to move these mass forces against the borders. the baltic nations. right before the invasions of 2014, they had several exercises where they moved all of these forces up against the borders ....
Debris in the atlantic ocean. cnn s natasha bertrand you here for us. natasha, we re learning a little bit more about just how valuable that debris could be. what are you hearing? that s exactly right. so the commander of northcom briefed reporters and saying the delay in shooting down the balloon allowed the u.s. to collect very significant intelligence about what was actually inside of it, and the reason they were able to do that, actually, is because they were granted the military was granted specific authorizations by the u.s. government to collect intelligence on this object which is not something they would normally be able to do on something within the united states. they were granted specific and special authorizations to do so. in that kind of two-day, three-day delay as it transited over the continental u.s. they were able to collect important information about how this balloon works. interestingly, we re learning more about what the debris field actually looks like from ....
About 2,000 marines are on that. it s part of an overall expeditionary strike unit. reuters actually had a correspondent on the boxer as it transited through the straits of hormuz. so we may be getting a more first hand account of this. but this to me marks a major escalation. now here s what we don t know. we don t have confirmations from the iranians that this was their drone. we don t have confirmation on the iranians on what kind of drone it was, whether it was offensive or if it was just surveillance. we only have from the u.s. side the location of the drone as it relates to the u.s. ship, which is in within a thousand feet. and you have the president clearly invoking the doctrine of self-defense. the question now becomes what s the response from iran and then what s the response from the u.s. side? because you remember the president was given a suite of options back in june on how to respond when a u.s. drone was shot down. remember the u.s. claimed that drone was in internationa ....