Welcome back. Its now 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. I am Ana Cabrera in for jose diazbalart. A senior white House Official telling Nbc News, quote, the United States has Indications Iran is preparing to imminently launch a Missile Attack against israel. This comes as we are closely watching the Israelilebanon Border as israeli launched a Ground Mission in lebanon. This morning, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken said this about the situation right now in the Middle East. Were, of course, Tracking Events in the Middle East very closely and the United States is committed to israels defense. We are watching all of this, as i said, very carefully. Now joining us is Richard Lingual from lebanon. What can you tell us about this potential strike from iran . Reporter in many Ways Iran has been forced to take this move. Iran has been embarrassed over the last several weeks. Health is its strongest proxy in the region and strongest Militia Group and its losing that Militia Group as we
that they are visiting is incredibly important, the u.s. is now leaning into provide ukraine kind of military support that we could ve been doing weeks ago but we were finally doing it now. we are in turn allies-ing the idea that ukraine success is an american interest, and we re going to sit down with them and strategize how to make sure ukraine succeeds and give them what s necessary, that s terribly important. second, with the kerfuffle back and forth over leaking details of the visit now doing it in silence, it s a bit unfortunate because it overshadows what is otherwise a very so, i guess my question to you kurt, is how do you strategize next, so far the biden administration seems to have be providing zelenskyy everything he s asked for, everything from weaponry to going after the oligarchs, including getting by for nato and now having two of the top u.s. officials in his home
they will decide how to pour sue these, i am told by multimillion democratic officials if they don t get compliance, that essentially will be one of the articles of impeachment that would be obstruction of congress and exactly what adam schiff just alluded to here in talking to reporters. that s a sign that the democrats want to make. they don t want to be consumed with impeachment up through next year, through the election year. which is why they want to wrap this up in the coming weeks, which is one way nancy pelosi at the beginning of the press conference tried to talk about her agenda and would not take questions for several minutes about impeachment. because it overshadows what they re trying to sell the public. as she noted it is very divisive and does not play particularly well with some democrats who are in tough re-election races. so they do want to whatp this up quickly. if the white house doesn t comply, they ll say this could be one reason to impeach and they hope to wrap i
records, but the house committee has already gotten wells fargo as reported. so these committees already have someplace to start on president trump s financial records. he s hanging on very, very tenuously at this point to the hope he can run the clock out. actually, it s a strategy that could work. the house does not want this going into the election year next year, this endless fighting, this endless standoff. it overshadows what s going on neither side, actually. yes, but it advantages president trump if this continues because there is no accountabili accountability. if it overshadows what s going on on the campaign trail, the democrats are desperately trying to turn the conversation around to what they re going to do for the economy, education, all those things, especially health care. if this continues, if that clock running out continues and doesn t bring president trump and his multitude of things that congress wants to look into to some accountability, it also allows him
fair or over the top? joining us here in washington a reporter for the daily beast and in new york a fox news contributor. betsy, were most of the media right in saying that what huckabee said was offensive and went too far? i think without a doubt. it s indefensible to make any sort of comparison to the holocaust. israel s ambassador to the united states who is probably one of the most energetic foes of the iran deal came out and said huckabee was out of bounds. when israel s ambassador says you need to cool it you should probably cool it. julie, when a politician invokes the holocaust other than discussing murder of 6 million jews during world war ii it overshadows anything else that s said. that s what mike huckabee wanted. he got attention donald trump was getting for a brief shining moment there and people were talking about mike huckabee a week out from the debates and he is one of the people trying to get into the debate. it served huckabee s sing cal