unpunished once we take office. and that s why those calls are so important. and it was the first priority before we even take office and mike flynn felt the need to lie to the fbi about that. kate, nick and tim out in oakland, thanks each of you for coming. you are calling as we report tonight for these urgent hearings, why? we re calling for urgent hearings because we now have we have had reports for some time, but now the head of the cyber security division at dhs said yesterday that the russians had penetrated had attacked the 21 states, penetrated a number of them and we think they will do it again. everybody from george bush to the cia director mike bopompeo,
met, he also said that, this is an incredibly unusual high stakes political situation. so whether or not special counsel mueller would bring the case is an entirely different question and holder admits he doesn t have all the information at his disposal so he doesn t know what mueller s looking at and whether he s sort of reached that standard. we re going to hear more about this, nick, this is usually something that lawyers only talk about in private company and we don t try to bore anyone else about it. but kate refers to a process inside the justice department, which is the doj s doj, the office of legal counsel, they had some memos that said, you definitely can t do these things, they amount to torture, then under the bush administration they seemed to change, so it s a reminder, whatever you think of the issues these things can change. you have a slight disagreement of what i said about eric
let me bring in c this. n military analyst, major general james spider marks. general, thank you very much for coming in. i appreciate your time. thank you, kate. of course. what do you make of what that iraqi mill what the iraqi military is predicting, that ramadi will be cleared within 72 hours? i think it s a great estimate, and clearly it s a victory that the iraqi military they ds to achieve. look, ramadi, they gave up ramadi without much of a fight. and that was about six months ago. they have now determined that they can get it back, and they got it back through a very deliberate plan of isolating ramadi and then taking a very strong effort to get into it during daylight hours and to then work through this very, very dense terrain. so the short answer is this would be great, but taking ramadi is simply the first step. the additional step that has a very long tail is how long can you hold it? how do you resist the efforts of isis and others that might try
vulcanized itself even without isis creating a caliphate in the northern regions of iraq in the vicinity of mosul. understand they still hold mosul. so these are great little victories for isis that they can paint to their great advantage. baghdad, on the other hand, has to be able to say, look, we re in charge. we are a protectorate for our citizens. we are one thanation. that s the largest challenge they have right now called legitimacy. they haven t been able to do that very well. look at up north. there s a very strong argument that we, the united states, should be supporting the kurds and their efforts up north. well, if we do that, now we re striking individual deals with each one of the elements within iraq. that doesn t fit with the narrative, and it doesn t fit with the national security objective when is to try to maintain the sovereignty of baghdad and the nation of iraq. general, as always, appreciate your time. thank you, kate. still ahead for us, a british family bl
presidential campaign in which at least some candidates have made it clear that they would like more scrutiny in banning all muslims coming into the united states, and that is feeding some of this concern that you are hearing not only in the uk, in europe about whether or not people are getting extra t scrutiny to travel to the united states. ka kate? thank you, evan perez. so much more we need to learn about in circumstance. thank you. appreciate it. and now, 2015 was filled with political firestorm moments, and how did we narrow it down to ten? i don t know, but we did. the top ten political moments of 2015 coming up. .no calorie sweetener. splenda® lets you experience. .the joy of sugar. .without all the calories. think sugar, say splenda® just serve classy snacks and bew a gracious host,iday party. no matter who shows up.