United states immigration and Customs Enforcement will hold a Press Conference at 2 15 today. Probably not too far away. To announce the results of a highly successful recent gang surge operation. The president has made enforcement of our nations Immigration Law the top priority and todays announcement will under score not only that commitment, but his focus on targeting transnational gangs and prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens who pose a threat to public safety. Also today Secretary Mattis met with the turkish Prime Minister to discuss a range of bilateral Security Issues and the secretary reiterated the United States commitment to protecting our nato allies and both leaders affirmed their support for peace and stability in iraq and syria. One other thing i wanted to point out. Last night obamacare suffered another serious blow as aetna announced its decision to pull out of the nebraska and Delaware Marketplaces which ends their phar teus payings in exchanges
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the last couple days mccabe testified there remains strong confidence among the agents at the fbi. we all had a very rare admission, i don t think we ever heard this publicly before from a senior fbi official, that after director comey made the decision not to recommend charges for hillary clinton and her team for the mishandling of classified information, there was a lot of anger and frustration among the career agents involved, maria. maria: we ll be following that. want to bring in pete hexter. mr. chairman, thank you. your reaction to this? i ll tell you, there s so many angles to come at this. i think they ve covered them all. the bottom line is we re going to have a few fbi director. the president takes responsibility for the decision to fire director comey. not a whole lot more there. the investigations are going forward. maria: the president could fire any director any time for
contributor, pete hexter. is this escalation in afghanistan? not necessarily. the commanders on the ground have unwanted to unleash hill on the taliban and isis. but rules of engagement, constraints from the white house have prevented them from fighting the war you need to. this is one strike but it s the right step and motivate guys on the ground. this is a direct response to the fact that we lost a green beret fighting on the ground. is it retaliation? the pentagon won t admit that. but i ll tell you this, you take one of ours, president trump said we re going to go after you and unleash hill on you. this is in a known isis part of afghanistan. that looked like a bunker buster. has the fins. it was targeting a tunnel