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Impeachment probe, john. manu, thank you for bringing us that breaking news. joining us, cnn politics reporter, chris cillizza and political analyst david gregory. david, what s the state department afraid of? i mean, why now? why at the 11th hour, literally, the 11th hour, why are they stopping this meeting that had been negotiated for weeks? well, i think they ll say that this is a process fight that they don t like how democrats are going about it. you heard secretary of state pompeo say at the outset that they weren t going to be intimidated. what suddenly at the last moment broke and made them pull him is unclear. but it is clear that there s going to be a different set of rules for those who have resigned and those still in the inner circle. this is somebody who is still working at the state department, still an ambassador to the eu and was a central player in all of this. and his behavior on text ....
Whistle-blower says the ambassador had spoken to mr. giuliani to contain the damage to, quote, u.s. national security. the question is were they emissaries on behalf of the secretary of state? how involved was the state department in rudy guiliani s plan to deal with zelensky directly and the president s phone call either before or after. the chairman, dana, in their letter to pompeo say if the press reports are accurate, corrupt use of presidential power for the president s personal political interest and not for the national interest is a betrayal of the president s oath of office, and cannot go unchecked. the fact is these committees want the documents by next friday. what does that say to you what s going on. this seems to be moving quickly. they re moving quickly. manu was reporting even though congress is gone for two weeks, they re not. ....
It s what s called what we call a flexible response option that the president has. he can send a platoon of marines or a carrier strike group or anything in between based on the level of threat. as you heard secretary pompeo say and others that this is a credible and imminent threat. and what has happened is iran has resourced its proxy group in eye iraq primarily and other places in the middle east with funds, ammunition, with weapons and given them plans to attack critical soft targets that america has in that region. and our deployment of forces there makes a very clear statement that if they do so, they will pay a price. neil: do you think this has anything to do with obviously we got hold of that deal that president obama and other countries had signed with iran and this is our way of advancing that? you know, i think it s related, neil, for sure. because iran is feeling the ....
Married for the first time, most of us it was our first relationship and he just suddenly do is. dies. has a big effect on you. it makes you go crazy. it makes you traumatized. martha: do you think that she believes that she should be treated any differently because she is a woman rather than if she were an american man who had done this? we all have the example of john walker lyndh who picked up and fought. ultimately he was brought back as american citizen and tried in american court. martha: he was an american citizen and her status she is the child of a diplomat and you just heard secretary of state pompeo say that the state department does not consider her to be an american citizen. she was born to a diplomat who gave up his diplomatic duty a month before she was born. actually, had given up his diplomatic duties june 1st which is many months before she was born by the time it became ....
already, a raucous crowd. at least it looks like a beautiful day there in big sky country. hans nichols, i want to go to you. what s the thinking behind the scenes a to the white house right now, about what is going on in saudi arabia and that foreign policy crisis and whether it has any impact at all on the looming midterm elections? well, officials here will tell you that this is the president trying to walk and chew gum at the same time. now, it s clear from the pompeo briefing he gave here just a few hours ago that they re playing for time. now, just what that timeline is, that the administration has given the saudis, it s unclear. pompeo said a few days. it seems as though there is a deadline. there s a deadline on what the saudis end up saying to and explaining to the world on what happened to that journalist inside the consulate there in turkey. there s also question of credibility. and it seems as though the trump administration has been willing to give the saudis the benef ....