this. way before that explosive draft even leaked. one of the things that i ve been interested that you have been following is how the clinics in blue states are gearing up to meet the need. tell us about that. i mean, we see this playing out all over the country. in connecticut, in california, in illinois. i spent some time at an illinois clinic that is preparing for 14,000 patients from other states if roe isover jover over which is looks likely to be. they are opening call centers, expanding operations in every way that they can think to in order to accommodate the surge which they expect to come one to two weeks after roe was overturned. you ve been doing reporting on how lawmakers don t want to stop at roe, some have their eyes set on a nationwide ban. absolutely. i think up until now, this really played out in the states. that is where we have seen all of the legislation. but when you talk to the anti-abortion lawmakers, i mean,
today. mike schmidt is doing reporting on mike pence who is ostensibly hiding behind the sense that the committee is considering a deferral to d.o.j. to say no, no, no, i am not going to talk to them. the thing that stands between mccarthy and pence telling the truth is political ambition. is our justice department, law enforcement, institutional hard wiring suited to get the truth from people like that? i i would be less than truthful if i said to you that i had a high degree of confidence that d.o.j. is set up in all about getting to this. look, this is virtually an unprecedented challenge. you do have to go back to watergate to get anything close to this level of challenge with regard to d.o.j. it can be done. but, look, mccarthy and others are now facing essentially three roads ahead of them.
it s going on interesting, but if he breaks that precedent, what s not to say that, you know, some of the more conservatives in his conference don t push him to start getting involved in other primaries, where republicans voted to impeach. and potentially, primaries where former president trump has selected multiple candidates to endorse. i want to ask you to expand on something that you alluded to earlier, because you ve been doing reporting on what republicans plan to do with the january 6th committee if they win back the majority. what s their calculus? what s their thinking? we re sort of hearing from republicans. i asked leadership, i asked freedom caucus, i asked more moderate members. you re getting the goldilocks answers. some say, you know, crumple it up, throw it in the trash bin, we don t want to have anything to do with it. let s move on. that s congressman dan crenshaw, there are more moderate members. and you have more of a middle where they say, let s use it to inves
who is doing the beating, right? you just go to kick his ass, right? that is not what we are doing now. the sanctions are not going to do anything. cnn s arwa damon is doing reporting near the border, and what are you hearing from the people who are making this desperate journey? you are talking about the families torn apart there, jim, and despite the fact that there may be some happy reunions, many families are torn apart, and this is because the men between 18 and 60 are not really being permitted to leave. they are expected to stay behind to fight and help in the effort on that side. we spoke to one mother named yulia, and she is in the dombas region, and this is her second time fleeing war, and she had to say good-bye to her husband this
iran. so what led to milley s concerns? thank you very much. i think i was really struck when i first learned of this account a few months ago in the course of doing reporting for our book. that there were two issues. i understood that general milley, ever since that lafayette photo op last june was very worried about trump s effort to politicize the military to use it in the streets in an inappropriate way. but i did not realize there was also essentially a backstage struggle to make sure that trump did not engage in some essentially politicized strike on iran. that the general articulated to associates repeatedly, meetings at the white house in which trump and his hawkish advisers around him were suggesting a kind of missile strike that the chairman of the joint chiefs of