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Months. now that's the lead. it's kind of a weird lead. why would we know in advance there are going to be announcements about specific kinds of suspects being charged with crimes? why would you know that in advance to get to the why you have to read into the sublead which is the important part of this story. quote, last month national security prols csecutors were t to look at any on going investigations involving iran or iranian nationals with an eye toward making them public. quote, the push to announce iran related cases caused internal alarm with law enforcement officials fearing they are...

Be felt. >> and to you, carroll lee, you've been doing a lot of our reporting on all the tensions. a lot of this does involve secretary tillerson, the push against him, the criticism of him undercutting him. corker an ally of tillerson. this is part of the fallout. >> the senator corker defended tillerson last week in those remarkable comments where he said that not just secretary tillerson but secretary mattis and john kelley, chief of staff, were the only things standing between chaos. and so you know, one of the outcomes of this is if the president were to decide that he wants to get rid of...

Constitution under article 2 that says they can do so. you've got the code of federal regulation that you can do so. you've got a whole host of laws so i'm not clear why you would use the argument that it's unconstitutional when that has no bearing on a case that has not been decided by the tuultime arbiter of the constitution, the supreme court. >> i've got all these lawyers and i appreciate that you are back and forth on constitutional and not constitutional. ultimately, it was up to the president. we can't change the past, the man has ruled vis-a-vis his a.g. so this program is getting resc...

Out. i don't necessarily think there is a lot of appetite for that here. i this i this week is consumed by debate over the cruz lee amendment. a conservative package aimed at selling plans that don't meet obamacare requirements in an effort to lower premiums. that is what everybody is fighting about. we have senator flake he may support that. so i think that's the shape of the debate you will see over the course of the next couple of days. they are still hammering out details behind closed doors. i think the question is how many moderate members are there? i talked to is you is not collins tod...

Neighbors. >> reporter: still in the know. >> i'm still in the know unless the bill is dramatically changed. >> congress comes back from recess next week. [ gunshots ] gunfire in the streets of raqqa as u.s.-backed forces close in on the self-declared isis capital of syria. they just breached an ancient wall, a big strategic blow. cnn senior national correspondent nick paton walsh on the push to penetrate the heart of the city. nick? >> reporter: brooke, it is potentially a key moment in the move to take raqqa. it's about 8 kilometers and 6 miles long, the wall, and goes around the whole cit...