time for their drones to have the capability to be be be armed with strike capability. now, that s been going on for some time. not necessarily related to the deadly attack, but questions are being raised whether they have the resources they need here to mitigate the terror threat. there s a much larger french force in this region and we re coming out today from paris there was a strike by the french a few days ago in northern mali taking out allegedly 15 isis sorry al qaeda linked terrorists. it shows the complexity of the theater where we are right now and that these forces are trying to stamp out the threat. kate? absolutely. david, thank you so much. david mckenzie on the ground in niger for us. we ll get back to him. joining me right now is senior member of the senate armed services committee who is just briefed on the niger investigation, democratic senator bill nelson. thanks for coming in. thanks, kate. so you just left that
we may have evidence now of wrongdoing. yet the media was silent about this. democrats were silent about this. they didn t even notify congress that some of this back door dealing was going on. i just say let s investigate it. sandra: now democrats have reason to be concerned with rental gaitions, ben let s not predict newt gingrich is a beacon of morality. the uranium one deal. this seems like a distraction was going on within the trump administration, what s happening with with the niger investigation. sandra: you don t think based on what you know that it s worth further investigation. i think it s worth further investigation. i think it would have more investigation had hillary clinton won the election. she did not. sandra: she was state department at the time the deal. it is significant. i m not saying it s not
significant. the clinton foundation to go along with that? i talk about this on my radio show. at the same time we have to focus on the current administration and what s going on in this add bill: there is not a statute of limitations just because you aren t in public life anymore. just because she is no longer the secretary of state doesn t mean we shouldn t investigate this but also the decision to not go after this with a proper investigation. let s be clear. robert mueller knew what was going on. obama administration knew what was going on but members of congress didn t. that shows there was some type of cover-up. we don t know what it is yet and we need an investigation. sandra: going back to newt gingrich. he is bringing it together, he is saying the clintons are only part of this. wait until you get to loretta
there is a lot of questions and we obviously want to hear from the f.b.i. informant himself who is not able to speak right now. we ll see where chuck grassley is able to get with that. will there be a criminal investigation? that s not necessarily for me to say because in the congress we don t have that authority. the justice department can look at what they want. but what i would say is that we have credible evidence that the clintons were kind of the target of this russian engagement from the various earliest days when this guy was an informant. that s something serious and reaches to the upper levels of our government and we need to get the facts on it so the american people know what happened with this uranium one deal. sandra: we have to leave it there. do you think we ll hear from this informant soon? i hope so. if the justice department doesn t release him we have to subpoena him.
black congress who requested an apology for chief of staff john kelly. wrongly accused federico wilson of boasting. footage of the event proved kelly wrong. white house stood by him. wilson is responding to the details of the conversation. said yesterday wilsowilson s ac of the call was accurate. joining us now is deputy news desk. david, good morning to you. in the wake of the niger investigation, senator john mccain is calling for a new debate on the war powers act. a lot of members of congress saying they didn t know there were so many u.s. soldiers in places like niger and elsewhere around the world. we know there have been previous attempts at trying to have that conversation. those have fallen flat. given that everything else we ve talked about over the past several months that s on the agenda for the senate, how likely are we going to see congress debate this issue any time soon.