Personnel changes and recently phoning midlevel officials to angrily demand that they do more to stem the flow of immigrants into this country. Lets start at the white house with nbcs hans nichols. A very, very busy day. Would have been a busy day under normal circumstances and then you have the announcement of the departure of the head of the secret service. What do we know about this . He is a 40year veteran. Pete williams is telling us that alles departure isnt tied to any specific event and certainly not tied to what happened at maralago a few weeks ago when you had the Chinese Nationalist trying to sneak in. We have a new name. James m. Murray. Career secret service official. He has down counterterrorism and fraud cases looking through his background. He appears to be just a career person that is coming through. Now, overlaying all this is what is happening at dhs and there is uncertainty there. Nielsen be out on wednesday and the president announced his intent to have a acting ne
Question. My focus and that of the bureau and the entire department is to conduct a complete and accurate census. Following the supreme courts decision to block the questions from 2020 census. Kelly odonell is joining me. This one is a tricky one. The Commerce Department actually has to print the census and the census actually has to go out. This one seems to be easy to identify what the story actually is. Why are the president and the Congress Department is not on the same page about this. You can argue there are two different tracks. There is the practical piece having to print the census and in this case no questions about citizenship for those who participate. 2020 is knocking on our door. Wilbur ross and secretarys own name. You read the statement. This is clearly coming from the department of commerce. So where is the second level, you could continue the legal challenge and make it an issue and could be resolved at a later date or arguably you could say reprint the portions of th
Now. It is friday, january the 3rd. We start with the warning. Soon, you will witness the bodies of americans in all of the middle east. Thats from the new commander of the quds force, which is a secretive unit of irans powerful revolutionary guard, which the United States considers to be a terrorist group. The pentagon says it killed his predecessor, general Qasem Soleimani, in a u. S. Air strike near baghdads airport. Soleimani was not only one of irans most powerful military and political figures, he was also a key player throughout the greater middle east. Overseeing irans network of proxy groups. The u. S. Is taking irans threat to retaliate seriously. The pentagon announcing today it is deploying thousands more u. S. Troops to the middle east. President trump tweeted that soleimani was plotting to kill more americans and that, quote, he should have been taken out many years ago. But democrats want to know, is there a plan for what happens next . My guess is that the assassination
To Tell Congress that nunes met with anco exukrainian prosecut about investigating joe biden and his sont hunter. Heres how congressman nunes responded on fox news. I cant compete by trying to trying to debate this out with the public media when 90 of the media are totally corrupt. This is criminal in nature. And becauses its so bad, itso slanderous, weve got all the facts on our side and were going to file in federal court. R plenty of reaction coming in from both sides of the aisle, including msnbc contributor and conservative commentator charlie sykes. Nunes has become the de facto face of the gop defense of trump. In all its bizarre contempt for facts, its willingness to ignore and defame witnesses, and its zeal to defend the president at allo costs. Including, actively colluding with efforts to dig up dirt on his political opponents. Here is the thing. Theth embrace of fictional narratives have reallife National Security consequences. Former top National Security council official