voters are heading to the polls at this hour in georgia s sixth congressional district. this is the most expensive house race in u.s. history. many see it as a referendum on president trump and the gop agenda. joining us now is the democratic candidate jon ossoff. good morning, mr. ossoff. good morning, great to see you again. do you see whatever happens today as a bell weather for something bigger than this district? well, the contrast in this district is between a career politician, my opponent, karen handel, who s notorious for cutting off funding for life saving breast cancer screenings at planned parenthood or a fresh voice who wants to work across the aisle and get things done and grow our local economy, work to make health care more affordable for women and folks with pre-existing conditions. yes, but don t you think this race also has national implications? el with, clearly there s a
people around, and when he s not pushing people around like when somebody sends a 59-cruise missile message to your ally, that does make you look weaker. leland: okay. and so he s antagonized europe so much that he s actually created the pushback that he didn t want. and he is running out of spaces to meddle. so ironically, all this russian meddling is actually not really paying off for the russians. leland: interesting, interesting perspective, james. always good to hear from you. thanks so much. thank you for having me. leland: good to see you. liz? elizabeth: el with, the house well, the house republican bill to repeal and replace obamacare now heads to the senate. many of the same issues that stalled the bill in the lower chamber will be debated again and again in the upper chamber, but the process may take a little bit longer. allison barber has more. hi, allison. reporter: hi, elizabeth. you how remember that supporters of the bill in the house celebrated its passage in a
very different. whereas flynn was sharing cla classified materials with allies in a war zone in afghanistan. so the nature and purpose was very different. the secret investigation, any idea when we might get information from that military investigation? el with, the u.s. military would have to declassify the information. we re in the process of asking them to do that. that s not an easy hurdle to cross. they would have to declassify the investigate report itself for us to find out more details of exactly what happened and what the end result was. craig whitlock, washington post. fascinating read, sir, thank you for coming on to talk about it. sure thing. clash of the titans? top executives and more meeting in just a few hours with president-elect donald trump. can they find some common ground or will their election year divide get in the way? we ll talk about that. plus also in a matter of hours, the fed expected to raise key
isis/al qaeda/bow ka haram. would it be too far to say epidemic? el with, it s epidemic in a way. there is this culture being grouped in isis. there s this prozmtsw we rarely talk about. which is we go into countries. we take out what we call dictators. and leave battlefields open for both isis to embed its culture and al qaeda to come with its militia. we did that in libya. in syria. which have opened up libya for north africa. opened up a huge terrain and tremendous trove, billions of dollars of weapons that people in mali can seize and use there. the same thing for syria, that s now the treasure trove for syria throughout the lavant. because of the isis caliphate in syria, that area, they ve taken oil fields. yes. ap report of tens of thousands of barrels of oil that come out of there every day. they have their own bank. they can sell this stuff on the black market. they have billions of dollars
seeing today in france happens here. the f.b.i. has an investigation in 50 states here. in every single state in the union. so the question is if you were in charge of the f.b.i. now, what would you be doing differently? what can be done to stop this. el with, i would take away all of the all of the things that burdened investigations all the nonsense that burtens it. we can do this well into the institution. i would hire many, many more f.b.i. you have the notion that you can follow hundreds and hundreds of people. that we can do that with the