mcconnell has indicated would take weeks. jake, you ve seen it up close. you had senators, lindsey graham yesterday introducing this resolution and then the pizza riot a couple of days ago. when you talk to them privately because neither of those addressed the substance, for example, of what bill taylor said. when you talk to republicans privately, do they express concerns about some of the testimony? because i note they re not really attacking bill taylor s credibility as a witness or the substance of what he says. yeah, absolutely. i mean, what you re seeing is you re seeing a defense that is being launched and being posited because they don t have a defense of the president s actions or coherent defense of the president s actions. and i think what you see more broadly is that very few people want to defend on substance because they don t know what s around the corner, right? they don t know what else people are going to say, what other things are going to come up in these closed
his chief objective is his own personal survival and survival of the north korean regime. he has not, to date, taken actions that naught in jeopardy. an attack on the united states or allies, using make the lar weapons or massive conventional efforts provoke the type of respond from the united states that would weretufor sure be in regime s preference. we have the ability to manage this problem not only through sanctions, not only efforts to undermine the regime, and cooperation with china and others, but we have the ability to manage this through traditional deterrents. they should now if they attack
this hotline was used to prevent misunderstanding in a nuclear age. the call came a month after the president s face-to-face with vladimir putin at the g20 in china. a senior intelligence official tells nbc news he believes the message to the russians in that final halloween transmission ended up muddled, containing no bright line, and no clear warning about the consequences. the russian response, said the official, was noncommittal. based on what we know now, i would say that our response was insufficient to athe chief objective of ensuring that we do not receive further attacks. in other words, when someone tries to bully you, you have to push back or you invite further response. thanks to nbc s cynthia mcfadden for that report. news coming in later today, a federal judge has ordered a search warrant and supporting documents that authorize the fbi to look into a batch of hillary
president obama should have taken it. he failed. when the moment came, he flinched p. quick response from congressman mccaul before i left you go. look, it s been a failed policy in the middle east. there s instability in egypt, libya, syria is the next shoe to drop. i don t want to see syria the vacuum being filled by al qaeda forces. very, very concerned about that. any action this is such a limited action as well. it s not going to achieve anything. and i think at the end of the day, it could inflame the region. it could get hezbollah and iran geared up against israel, which i m very concerned about at the end of the day. i think the solution, quite frankly, david, is to get the international community involved, as the senator said, to rally behind the use of chemical weapons. there are no good sides, no good outcomes in syria, but the international community can secure and destroy these chemical weapons. that should be our chief objective here. all right. we ll leave it the
congressman mccaul before i left you go. look, it s been a failed policy in the middle east. there s instability in egypt, libya, syria is the next shoe to drop. i don t want to see syria the vacuum being filled by al qaeda forces. very, very concerned about that. any action this is such a limited action as well. it s not going to achieve anything. and i think at the end of the day, it could inflame the region. it could get hezbollah and iran geared up against israel, which i m very concerned about at the end of the day. i think the solution, quite frankly, david, is to get the international community involved, as the senator said, to rally behind the use of chemical weapons. there are no good sides, no good outcomes in syria, but the international community can secure and destroy these chemical weapons. that should be our chief objective here. all right. we ll leave it there. loretta sanchez, mike mccaul, peter king, congressmen and woman, thank you all very much. we ll be watch