Spartan shield, the brigade is currently serving as an active partner in the kaw waitty, saudi, and jordanian armies doing an incredible job. You also provide force protection and Security Cooperation in syria and in iraq. It is a Vital Mission and we want to thank you very much. Great job. Colonel chris gideon and the special Purpose Marine Air force and air, Ground Task Force joins from us kuwait, as well about the fantastic force is central commands Crisis Response force and a powerful force it is. Colonel, i understand among your many other missions, the task force has provided more than 4,000 flight hours of Close Air Support to the campaign against isis. Everybodys talking about it. Youve done an incredible job. So colonel gideon, we want to thank you very much. Where is the colonel out here . Where is he . Great. Thank you, colonel. Great job. Great job. Thank you very much. Merri Merry Christmas to all the sailors aboard the uss sampson. I want to thank you and your entire crew
politics. anya meech alcindor, national political reporter for the new york times. yamiche, your colleagues reporting, rather caitlin, i ll go to you first republicans on the congressional panels could not have been very happy this week. they heard andrew mccabe corroborating james comey s testimony. was mick cave pushed out because republicans were dissatisfied with his answers? this is why mccabe be significant in all of this. if you re looking at an obstruction of justice case, mccabe deserve verify what comey said about that conversation that he had had with the president. what s really interesting here is you ve seen on capitol hill a little bit of a divide among republicans. you have some who wanted these investigations into russia to continue and see their end. you have had other who have been consistently undermining the investigation, raising lots of