Of funding in a few weeks, and also because the white house will be asking congress presently for an aid package for israel, one that by all accounts so far cant pass without a speaker. Lets goat that story first, and then right back to israel where things are rapidly unfolding as well. Jake sherman, Cofounder Of Punch Bowl News and msnbc political contributor. Thanks for being with us. What exactly is going on . So scalise, katy, won the republican conferences nomination to be speaker. This is the initial process by which the republican conference caps their candidate to be the speaker for a house floor vote. As you noted, he only won with 113 votes. That is nothing. That is more than 100 votes shy of winning the speakership and in an alarming sign for mr. Scalise, he has several republicans already saying that they will not vote for him on the floor. Now, some of that could be bluster. We dont know, but tom massey of kentucky, max miller of ohio both have said they have not committed
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two cnn analysts who work for the obama administration and steve hall, retired chief of cia russian operations. steve, you first. one of the central pieces of all of this breaking news is rick gates had knowingly been in contact with a russian officer alleged to be as late as september of 2015 and gates knew he was a spy. he is also a former employee at manafort s law firm. as a russia expert, how do you see this? from a counterintelligence, the ka lit nick thing is a bad smelling thing. when paul manafort was working for ukraine, it s incomprehensible to me yanukovych was close to putin in moscow and would have been
they put out this very curious statement where they basically said the only people who had any role in that campaign was the rnc. now, there is actually some troop to that. cambridge annaly the ka is brilliant at overinflating their own brilliance and importance. but it s hard to distance yourselves when they were embedded inside the campaign machinery and they were real money spent through them. so robert, you were on top of the campaign and all moments. what about the fact that bannon, kelly an enconway and others joined the campaign from that mercer operation? the mercer relationship with the republican party, with president trump and many of his associates including those you name remains a target of investigation, as it should. because there s just not a lot known about this wealthy family, what their agenda is. they ve spent so much behind some of the most the biggest political names in the country, yet robert mercer, and his daughter rebecca, they remain in the shadows i
seems to be connected to some concerned about syria and the civil war. that is a standard position of the jihadists, is that this is somehow an attack on the west because the west is victimizing muslims in syria, libya, or you name it. that is standard propaganda for isis, al-qaeda, or any of the groups. i don t think we can read too much into that. what i do know is there is still several hundred people being kept inside of the ka ahead catd not let out because they are afraid that money one money them was an accomplice. that is according to a police spokeswoman a few minutes ago. is the area, are people being allowed around the area, is it