Troops. How many more sparks can this powder keg take. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with the politics lead. It is official, secretary of state mike pompeo will meet with the president of ukraine this week in kiev. Arriving after the top diplomat there, bill taylor who testified in the impeachment inquiry was encouraged to leave his post. And as we learn new details about the white house efforts to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to ukraine to at least in part push ukraine to commence an investigation that might help President Trump political has admitted in emails obtained by the New York Times mulvaney asked about with holding the aid nearly a month before that now Infamous Trump ukraine conversation and only to be cautioned by one to say expect congress to become unhinged and a known meeting with top Security Officials trying to convince him to release the aid arguing it was in the best interest of the United States, ome only to be rebuffed b
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That of course a response to this. We should note that u. S. Diplomatic staff have been evacuated for their safety. Lets get to arwa damon live in istanbul with the breaking details. Arwa, you spent a lot of time on the ground in iraq. You look at these images as echoes of 40 years ago in tehran when the u. S. Embassy was taken over there. Tell us what youre seeing and what were hearing from iraqi officials. Reporter that most certainly would presumably be the fear at this stage, but the situation has not quite come close to escalating to that just yet. The iraqi Prime Minister under his title as commander in chief put out a statement saying while the demonstrators had a right to mourn the victims of those u. S. Strikes, they should most certainly not be engaging in t acts of violence against the u. S. Embassy, saying that would be in defiance of iraqi law. At least there we have an attempt to try to calm down the situation, and these protesters, look, are not your ordinary protesters.