How mistakes in iraq may be repeating themselves all over again. Weapons of mass destruction have been found in iraq. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. If you are feeling dread and anxiety in this new year, you are not crazy. We are on the precipice of what many imagined as a worst Case Scenario of donald trump as president of the United States. The moment that he came down the escalator to announce his candidacy, people across the political and ideological spectrum from marco rubio to Lindsey Graham to Bernie Sanders to rick perry to ted vote your conscience cruz, they all have assessed trumps character as completely unfit to wield the power that he wields as president of the United States. For all of trumps narcissism and pettiness and bragging and ignorance, thus far through sheer luck we have avoided that absolute worst Case Scenario, the president essentially plunging the country into a new military conflagration geopolitical quagmire. A lot of t
Baby boy, shes got a baby boy, i see play dates. Theyre almost exactly the same age. Teddy is a very fun play date. Meghan, call us. Stephanie, thanks so much. I wish we could have been recordeling this in london. Guess what, this story is not going away. No, its not. Maybe next time well report from vancouver island. Good afternoon, im katy tur. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west. U. S. Intelligence sources tell nbc news that Spy Satellite evidence suggests that the ukrainian plane that crashed in iran was mainenly shot down by iranian missiles. 176 people were killed in that crash. Among them, 63 canadians. Well hear from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in just a minute. Earlier today President Trump told reporters he suspected something was amiss. I have my suspicions. I dont want to say that because other people have those suspicions also. Its a tragic thing when i see that, its a tragic thing. But somebody could have made a mistake on the other side. Could have made a mistake. It was flying i
Killing of soleimani tell cnn they were never told of specific threats to a u. S. Embassy. President trump claimed that soleimani was actively planning new attacks and looking at attacking u. S. Embassies, not just in baghdad. Did you see intelligence saying that . No. So this is an example of the president embellishing as he goes. I have no idea where he got that from. Lets go straight to cnn White House Correspondent kaitlan collins. You were in the briefing. You asked a question of the secretary to define imminent. How is the administration explaining all the confusion around this . Reporter well, there have been a lot of questions, brooke, and theres only more being prompted by their answers in recent days just about the intelligence surrounding this ranging from differing answers we heard from Administration Officials on whether or not iranians were trying to hit u. S. Troops, about these bomb plots that the president revealed yesterday that new information we had not heard from h
Plus, new pressure to start the impeachment trial in the senate and the growing calls for the house to subpoena john bolton. He would know nothing about what were talking about. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. By the end of last night, all official messages from the iranian government seem to indicate that it was a selfcontained retaliatory strike and this exchange of violence between the two nations is now finished if the United States declined to retaliate itself. The big question today, as we all woke up was would the United States and more specifically, would President Trump take the off ramp . Particularly in wake of the fact there were no u. S. Casualties and no iraqi casualties. In fact, the Washington Post reported that u. S. Officials knew the iranian missiles were coming hours in advance, thanks to intelligence sources and a heads up from the iraqis. The president came out today to address the country, essentially claiming victory, while a
This is cnn tonight, i am don lemon. A lot is going on. I am going to catch you up on all the headlines. An embarrassing incident a letter suggesting the u. S. Withdrawal troop from iraq is the result of the deadly air strikes a release of, quote, mistake thats not happening. Former National Security advisor john bolton says hes ready to testify if hes subpoenaed, if the call is perfect and the president did nothing wrong, why dont more Senate Republicans want to testify for him . President trump of an interview add toed to the long list of li and misfalsehoods. Well factcheck what he says. The president is slamming the squad and his top officials claimed that they took out Qassem Soleimani because he was planning imminent attack on americans. Mike pompeo dodging when asked to give details. We saw he was plotting further plans to take down americans, in some cases many americans, we took the right action to defend and protect america. How imminent are we . We are talking about days or