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military bases in turkey and in iraq and every single neighboring country to turkey. excuse me, too syria supports the war against isis. we will not have issues with counterterrorism raids or air strikes. >> laura: were you shocked at the reaction from so many on the left to this news? this was significant news. and point by point by point, downplay it, downplay it, trashing the commander in chief. >> yeah, i was. this is a great day yesterday for america. abu bakr al-baghdadi ran one of the most evil organizations we have known in history. he is also significant because as an actor took over two separate countries without the support of any external countries. so taking him out was a great success for our nation. so i was pretty surprised to see folks chime in for partisan reasons. i think a lot of the big reasons why they did is because trump was able to launch that raid
it is un-american, it is unprecedented in our history. i don't know exactly what they think they are going to prosecute. maybe there might be a perjury situation but it seems to me an attempt to distract from an impeachment inquiry that is resulting in his removal at some point next year and definitely him not be on the ballot one way or another. we are seeing an acceleration of the impeachment inquiry. there will be public hearings, it is based on house rules that have been in place and 2016 when republicans controlled the house and all the whining and gnashing of teeth by the right is ridiculous and needs to stop. once these testimonies come out publicly it will not be good. >> both sides say if we have an impeachment vote members of the public need to be informed and good or bad everybody wants to
to go within those cases. >> not in that particular story but there are other unrelated stories. the assault claims were not found to have substance. the claim about trump having a love child, a new instance of the inquiry seeking to catch and kill the story in close collaboration with trump associates is documented in the book, a claim of underage sexual assault involving trump and jeffrey epstein, that is another one where we are not sure if there is a very rare. there are still resources extended to kill be stories. >> i want to read from page 343 and you are talking about some of these cases, from case in particular, as to claims about the love child the anonymous rape allegation was not backed by convincing evidence so it didn't go anywhere but that is -- >> i would draw a distinction between that and others that are more substantive. >> nbc takes your . point by
>> in addition to the news the rest origins probe is now a criminal inquiry we also have a brand-new letter from the doj inspector general looking at the fisa applications that sparked government surveillance of a member of the trump campaign inspector general thing the report is coming very soon and it henry is reporting it is connected so let's turn to chris on and molly hemingway. welcome to you both. i want to start with your reaction. this will mean he can subpoena witnesses, and impact grand jury, file, charges, this is very different from what durham has been doing up to this point. >> people knew there was an investigation taking place but didn't realize it wasn't a criminal investigation but he couldn't impanel a grand jury or subpoena witnesses. this is important not just, someone said it is good for
story and we had multiple names witnesses, every draft of the story, audio recording of harvey weinstein, admitting to not just one sexual problem but a pattern of them. that is not the point. the point here is we were ordered to stand down. we were never told go out and get more, we were told don't take a single call on this, cancel this interview with a rape victim. that is an journalistic and more important than nbc, that is about threats to the free press, the ways in which powerful people can seek protection and lack of accountability for alleged crimes through media organizations sometimes to assist in suppression of stories. >> it is very disturbing to read this and to look at the things you are putting together in the harvey weinstein story that went on to be award-winning. not only what you said was happening at nbc but the key was intimidating terrifying people,
apply, with the impeachment inquiry everything needs to be out there. why the same about the durham report and the ig? people called the ig, above ground, worked under various administration, he is not a partisan. one a listen to what he has to say and what you respect it? >> i have no reason to doubt the integrity of mister darren. i doubt the integrity of william barr and the president of the united states. we will see what happens. what is going to happen will happen behind closed doors, it will be a grand jury proceeding but to the point on the russia investigation the senate intel committee and last time i checked the senate is controlled by republicans just came out with a report that proves that russia was attempting to interfere in our election. the attorney general is trying to do on behalf of his client donald trump, he is supposed to
he's suspicious that democrats, i guess this would be you, sir are, trying to gain a partisan advantage through these proposals. so taking him seriously, what is your response to that? that's not just the trumpian thing of can't talk about russian meddling because it undermines trump. he's saying he and kentucky have had a long skepticism of manufacture election meddling in election. your response. >> point by point. first of all, no federal control would result from these measures. certainly not from my duty to report act. not from providing funding for election security. states would continue to control their own elections. not from the setting auditing or cyber security standards. not from requiring paper ballots which most states now have, and the states themselves, contrary to what mitch mcconnell said are asking for this additional funding that we want to provide yes, $380 million has been provided but a lot more is
but he wouldn't actually say what happened. i thought that was frustrating. he wouldn't read from the report. i thought that was frustrating. and then i also thought the presentation, as nice as the clips are that you have put together, your staff has put together, when you watch the whole thing, it wasn't compelling, because it was upside down and backwards. it started with the obstruction. it moved to after that to the actual crime. that didn't make any sense. he was very halting. he didn't defend the report with the kind of gusto i expected him to. while the information got out, it was information we all knew. >> yes. >> and i hate to be the contrarian on the network, but i did not think it went well. and i was unimpressed with the manner in which it was organized. >> well, a lot of this is the man's age and all kinds of factors. we'll be examining that. i thought although he didn't have racing stripes on, he did deliver the goods, point by
nevertheless we couldn't even get a hearing to determine what actually happened. >> el chapo was convicted on multiple counts, in connection with a drug cartel. el chapo is expected to serve his sentence at a super max prison in colorado. jason, what else did he have to say at his sentencing. >> as he entered the courtroom, he looked for his wife, then he shook the hands of his attorneys, he made a number of points, he said there was no justice, he said being incarcerated was one of the most inhumane situations he's ever had to live through, and he called the united states a corrupt country. now, when you think of what's inhumane and what's corrupt, you also have to think about, what was alleged during his trial. i mean, point by point,
and we need really bipartisan support. and so this is a sequential process that we need to go through. i'm confident in the process that we're moving forward on, and quite frankly, congresswoman edwards' op-ed leaves out one important point and that is that we don't have the full unredacted report available to us, so we have not seen all the evidence that robert mueller has and robert mueller should come before the judiciary committee and other committees and testify. >> and evidence in what you know now, the folks who are your colleagues, house democrats who believe, already we have enough evidence. it's clear to us that obstruction occurred and in fact, we saw that robert mueller laid it out, point by point by point, do you disagree with them? >> i think there are most definitely violations and that robert mueller in his report, especially at the podium the other day, clearly indicated that if he thought there was not a crime committed he would have said so which is the reverse of