About the Mask Mandates in place at the moment and Karine Jeanpierre said yes, the way this process is supposed to work. Its a different message out of the white house which is tightly controlling some of the mandates through cdc recommendations throughout the pandemic. Trace indeed. Gillian take a look at this, any moment now, Mitch Mcconnell will face reporters, it is expected to be mcconnells health, obviously, after two freezeups over the last few weeks. Welcome back, im Gillian Turner in washington. Good to be with you, trace. Trace gillian, good to be with you. Im Trace Gallagher in los angeles. Sandra and john have the day off. Breaking news in the hunter biden probe, david weiss and hunters attorneys have until the end of the day to provide an update on the battle over a Diversion Agreement that was aimed to keep hunter out of prison. Special council weiss says the agreement fell through when the plea deal collapsed in july. Hunter bidens team is arguing the opposite. David spu
the idf has confirmed that two russian women are now safely back russian women are now safely back in israel and others are also in the process of being transferred. the six day temporary truce is due to end in just a few hours. senior israeli government adviser mark regev told the bbc in the past hour that israel would agree to an extension as long as hamas continues releasing hostages. meanwhile, israel says it has carried out a raid on thejenin refugee camp in the occupied west bank, and killed two senior terrorists . the palestinian authority says two children were also killed by gunfire in jenin. my panel tonight to discuss all this is kezia dugdale, former leader of the scottish labour party now a professor at the university of glasgow and american journalist. leader of the scottish labour party now a professor at the university of glasgow and american journalist. and author brian stelter who is a special correspondent for vanity fair. we ll be speaking to them
and here we are sort of crunched at the end of the calendar year and the hope is that all of the work that they have done will be digested in a way that that they intended. it might be difficult given where we are in the calendar. yeah, and how high are the stakes when it comes to the release of these referrals? listen, i think this is a committee that cleared many of the stakes that were set forward. early on, i think there was doubt about whether or not they would be able to get information and dana talked about it and the representative talked about it too. the mass amount of information they did get. the coordination from trump s inner circle, hundreds and hundreds of pages of documents, text messages, email messages, and this was over 16 months that they conducted this investigation. and this committee was very smart. a bipartisan committee. they were very smart in terms of the sort of television aspect of it, dropping bombshells at each
that the president wants to have around him in this position. and to me, i mean, everything that he has written, this aggressive interventionist is totally opposite of what the president campaigned on. and so i give it ten months. carry all the hardline. i agree he is a hardliner. he is hawkish. but i also heard all night tonight on the news channels, folks talking about how the president keeps appointing yes men and people who are going to yes him. i submit pompeo is not a yes man. pompeo has his own strong thoughts. and everyone here around this table but the world view seems to be in line. philosophically they can be in line and they can get along. but that does not mean they re going to disagree in a civil way in the oval office. i think see putting good people in place that he trusts. it is interesting the television aspect which you raised on this. one goes back to where he talks about the generals that he learned from watching on
him in this position. and to me, everything he has written, this aggressive interventionalist is totally opposite of what the president campaigned on. and so i give it ten months. i agree he s a hard liner, he s hawkish. but i also heard tonight on the news channels folks talking about how the president keeps pointing to a yes man. he does seem to be very much in line, pompeo. philosophically they can be in line and they can get along. i think he s put in good people in place that he trusts. it is interesting the television aspect which you raised on this. one goes back to where he talked about the generals that he learned from watching on television, which was sort of an offhanded remark and some made