virginia. he is very frustrated with this. you can imagine what he is saying in private because in public, he s going out and saying, quit your chitty chat there on capitol hill. i need you to do something to save me, and he is in a very, very tight race made tighter by the fact that we ve seen in previous races in recent american history that pollsters aren t great at tapping into the trump vote. so it could be that youngkin is actually even ahead. so, yeah, there needs to be some action. but i just cannot understand the democrats thinking or some radical, you know, progressives, thinking that good strategy is to follow kyrsten sinema into the rest room or to put op-eds in west virginia newspapers to put pressure on manchin. they manchin in particular, you know, won his race in a state that went like by 5,000 points for donald trump. there s not going to be another
projects for two reasons. first of all because there s been extraordinary interest on this topic from these congressional oversight committees, and secondly because there s going to have to be a lot of accoordination with othe inspectior generals from the defense and intelligence community. this is just the beginning with regard to doubling down on looking closely at what happened with that withdrawal. what could have gone better. what didn t go so well and we ll learn more about this. but it is really extraordinary that they are letting congress know about their active work because traditionally, the inspector general says when we are doing ongoing probes we ll not let folks know what we re looking into. here they re charting a different path. kylie atwood, thank you. turning to our politics lead. it s filled with salacious claims about donald trump and it was part of a dramatic period of
take a listen. one of your main directors spoke to the inspector general and said that especially it was word of mouth and hearsay. conversations with friends over beers. it was just talk. if you have a confidential source and that confidential source is blown or is uncovered, that confidential source would often take fright and try and downplay and underestimate what they ve said and done. and i think that s probably what happened here. he s afraid? i think anybody that s named in this contact, particularly if they re russian, has every reason to be afraid. so you stand by the dossier? i stand by the work we did, the sources that we had and the professionalism which we applied to it. so jake, you hear there christopher steele refusing to back down from the allegations that were put forth in that salacious dossier. what was interesting at the end of the interview he was asked by george stephanopoulos if donald trump could potentially pose a
behavior, certainly in the recent weeks, we ve seen a lot of pretty bad cold war behavior. we ve just been discussing one, but there was also the prisoner swap with the release of the wawei executive, the threats against taiwan. there s a lot of cold war reminiscent behavior under way between both powers. donald trump talked about and focused on china quite a bit. do you think the chinese government has changed its approach towards the united states since president biden took office. do you think that they were going to pursue this weapon no matter what, if trump was still in power or not? oh, sure. weapons like this take years to develop. the u.s. has been working on hypersonics for years. the chinese have been working on hypersonics for years. i don t think that was terribly related to president trump. the argument about president
reveals that iran paid iraqi agents working for the united states to switch sides. infiltrating every aspect of political, economic and religious life. senior fellow from the foundation for defense of democracy says the united states needs to stay active in the region. approves iraq is worth fighting for but that battle is going to be more challenging than many americans in the public thought. rob: tensions have escalated as donald trump announced he would pull out of the nuclear deal last year. jillian: a look at the college where hundreds of hong kong protesters have hunkered down for days. they are unsure what to do next as their food supply dwindled and police threatened to arrest anyone who leaves. mike pompeo urging the hong kong government to end the chaos peacefully. repeatedly called for restraint from all parties in hong kong, violence by any side is unacceptable.