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Good morning, its monday october 21st, im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian. We begin with Mick Mulvaney who is still trying to clean up his comments about why the Trump Administration withheld aid to ukraine for weeks. During an appearance on Fox News Sunday mulvaney continued to walk back his remarks last week about quid pro quo arguing that reporters had misinterpreted his comments. Why did you say in that briefing that President Trump had ordered a quid pro quo that investigating the democrats, that aid to ukraine depended on investigating the democrats, whyd you say that . Here...

World. We are live in baghdad in tehran, the pentagon, and the white house. We are going to be going to our reporters for the latest here as this news is literally developing moment by moment. I want to start with arwa damon, shes near the air base. What are you learning on the ground . Well, at this stage, all we are really able to confirm, and this is from a member of Paramilitary Force that is based not too far away from alassad itself is that ten rockets did hit the base. We dont know if any casualties were caused just yet, but given the heightened tensions that exist here, there is a lot ...

U. S. Officials blame the commander for killing hundreds of american troops in iraq, wounding thousands more and accuse him of plotting new bold attacks against u. S. Interests and personnel. Just before his death last friday. President trump warning iran if the country retaliates, he has 52 targets already lined up including some iranian cultural sites. That would be prohibited says the security council. The u. S. Would strike only lawful targets. Democrats say they want to see the information the white house used to justify the Deadly Strike and the president telling reporters that may just ...

Side will begin, and these new emails could impact whether we hear from witnesses. Sara murray with me now and ellie honig. First to you, sara, tell me what the substance of this is and what exactly do these emails say . Sure. These are emails that we got in a redacted form, the center for Public Integrity won them in a foil lawsuit. And security has managed to review unredacted versions. They show that in the wake of all of these concerns at the pentagon about whether it was illegal to withhold, whether it was going to disappear entirely because they were going to hit the end of the fiscal ye...

Is get rid of people who said some bad things about donald trump. bd then they had a not good vetting process and couldn't get people. next time, being the incumbent, that will not be the case because you have to have the expectation that you'll get there but i'm not seen a ton of change or a point person put on this that makes that change. >> and the president is handling a sensitive issue with iran with mark esper who just started on the job and he has ten secretaries in acting capacity. >> and the president believes having them in acting means they are trying out for the job and that is not...