Were going to start with the Breaking News. House intelligence chair adam schiff acc obstruction. Its the latest in the ongoing impeachment saga after a key witness today acting on orders from the white house refused to be deposed. Also President Trump is about to speak in chicago this hour after teasing the potential release of footage of the takedown of the most wanted terrorist ps. But hes under fire this morning for are revealing classified details about the raid that killed isis leader baghdabu bak baghdadi and the other major story were watching is california in flames right now. Mandatory Evacuation Orders are in place. 200,000 people have been told to get out so far including hospital patients, jail inmate, College Students as well. Well go to california in a bit. We start with that Breaking News on capitol hill right now. A key witness has refused to show up to a scheduled deposition this morning and democrats are now preparing to hold it in contempt of congress. We move forwa
in the face of, i think, what a president should do. it doesn t seem serious. obviously i m hopeful for it but i m not holding my breath. i think that what we need to do in this 21st century is embrace the values that we care about when we re engaging our allies and trying to deal with our adversaries. that goes for syria. that goes for trying to achieve a two-state solution between the palestinians and the israelis, our relationship with iran and the nuclear agreement. we had a conversation about that today. so when we look around the world, we need tone sure that we rebuild the trust of the world based on the values that we support of freedom, of democracy, of opportunity. there s one more question. the u.s. gives about $3 billion a year in military aid to israel. there s a conversation over whether that money should be used as leverage to push and to press israel to hold back from its settlement expansion in the west bank. is that something you support
they also could potentially allow states to change what s called the community rating. the rule that makes insurance companies charge the same amount of money for anybody who is the same age. i effectively means that people with preexisting conditions is supposed to be affordable. this particular version of the bill or some of the conversations centered around where states should be allowed to let insurance companies out of that requirement. that s why you re hearing a conversation about preexisting conditions. mark meadows with to be leader of the freedom caucus said we here not going to mess around with preexisting conditions. but what we learned is that moderates are hearing one thing from the white house and conservatives are hearing another thing. and when they try to get together to talk about it, there isn t significant movement forwa toward a compromise that gets enough votes in the house. you might have see mark meadows coming out of that meeting with the vice president talk
your of north korea. this is a very unstable leader with tremendous capacity of nuclear power. we have to address this national security and address it in a very sirius way. again there needs to be a thoughtful discussion of what is the right strategy, how do we eliminate the danger, contain this very unstable leader in a very important region of the world. thank you very much for joining us on what has been a busy day of foreign policy devepments. appreciate it. i want to bring in my pan to talk about all of this, national political reporter for politico, tim alberto. gies with, guys a lot to discuss here. i want to start with what senator bethune had to say a few moments ago. policy has to be assad has to go. that s the only way to bring stability to that region. secondly there s a lot of
it s complicated. no easy answers. sb we have to look at all options and encourage the coalition of partners in the region to do their part and come to the table. and the whole world has to respond to this. before i let you go i want to hit on the other big international head line of the day. north korea obviously launching a missile overnight. the secretary of state basically giving a kind of no comment, right, the idea apparently being don t give kim jong-un the provocation, the response that he might be looking for. was that the right move from the secretary of state? look, i think, you know, the president tweeted about kim jong-un some months ago. this is a serious national security challenge. was that not a serious response? it doesn t seem serious. this is a nuclear power that we ve got to figure out how to manage and we have to put real pressure on china, which is really the country that has the most ability to manage the maif