members at a base in jordan. joining us now, nbc news chief international correspondent keir simmons joins us from erbil, iraq. we do not have keir yet. we are waiting to get him. we are waiting to get in to you some of our correspondents waiting at the pentagon. help us understand the planning that did or did not go into this attack, the targets of this attack, the significance of this group. again, this is breaking news happening as we come on the air. we have learned that there has been a strike against an iran-backed armed group in iraq. the pentagon suspects led the broad coalition of iran-backed militias behind the attack in jordan that killed three u.s. troop members. we are getting on air, our correspondents at the pentagon to break down what this all means, the planning that was behind this attack, whether or not this was part of the tiered approach we have heard so much about from the u.s. government in the past few days, the significance of the attack, how these ta
republicans are expected to torpedo a bipartisan immigration and foreign aid bill. well, democrats aren t entirely on board either with that bill. fail to go pass immigration reform is especially embarrassing for republicans who have been screaming for decades that the border is in crisis, and needs to be fixed through legislation immediately. but now that a once in a multi-decade opportunity to do something about it is in front of them, they re about to decide that chaos at the border is politically better for them than an attempt to fix it. in the gob smack words of conservative republican senator james lankford who cowrote the bill, quote, are we as republicans going to have press conferences and complain the border is bad and intentionally leave it open after the worst month in american history in december. well, senator, it seems the answer is yes. so what exactly is happening in the republican party? who is in charge? and is this these failures, what they want? joining
To him is really something to say about an ally. democrats in congress are boycotting this not in large numbers. it will not be significant. the ones who do, are are embarrassing. and, further degrading our relationship with an ally. i think most democrats will show up. i think that there is a long standing tense relationship so it wasn t just that president obama was mad with house speaker boehner. it was that he was mad that netanyahu and boehner went behind his back together. what s so troubling about this is it is so juvenile. it s about manners and protocol when really fundamentally under all of this is whether iran gets a nuclear weapon. that is not a little tiny thing. here we have got the administration a little bit annoyed with boehner because wayner went behind his back and they have had this trash-talking. i don t get that. obama went to israel to burnish his own foreign policy officials. you can go a few months before but not a couple weeks before it doesn t make sense.
Is a good deal they wouldn t mind having netanyahu here to make the case against it if they thought this was defensible. gotten unhinged lately. john kerry says we can t trust netanyahu because he supported the iraq war. this is john kerry who voted for the iraq war. hillary clinton voted for the iraq war now we can t listen to this guy because he supported it. he didn t vote for it or sent people off to that war. the administration is with speaker boehner because they are mad that speaker boehner didn t notify the white house that he had invited the prime minister to come and talk about iran nuclear weapons. so, it s sort of they are mad at boehner because he violated protocol especially manners. they are coming out and insulting our ally who is worried for his life for his country. yeah, i think that i actually thought that secretary of state kerry s comments, that the john just quoted were worse than saying that becoming destructive. to actually say he was so he is upcoming de
Is a good deal they wouldn t mind having netanyahu here to make the case against it if they thought this was defensible. gotten unhinged lately. john kerry says we can t trust netanyahu because he supported the iraq war. this is john kerry who voted for the iraq war. hillary clinton voted for the iraq war now we can t listen to this guy because he supported it. he didn t vote for it or sent people off to that war. the administration is with speaker boehner because they are mad that speaker boehner didn t notify the white house that he had invited the prime minister to come and talk about iran nuclear weapons. so, it s sort of they are mad at boehner because he violated protocol especially manners. they are coming out and insulting our ally who is worried for his life for his country. yeah, i think that i actually thought that secretary of state kerry s comments, that the john just quoted were worse than saying that becoming destructive. to actually say he was so he is upcoming de