landed, a strategic air base there. since that time, there is been a lot of to ing and fro ing. unclear who controls which part of which territory in those outskirts of the ukrainian capital. the latest information we ve had within the past few minutes, the ukrainian security services say russian forces are holding about 40 civilians in a building in that region. holding they will as hostages, is what the ukrainian security forces are saying. so it is obviously a very fluid situation. and again, there seems to be some stand-off with civilians caught in the middle between the two warring sides, jake. and matthew, you ve been trying to access subways and basements where many ukrainians have been living in shelters. have you been able to get in
korea, you are not concerned about the to ing and fro ing of all of the politics. you re concerned about whether your equipment works, whether you re going to get paid, whether the government is going to shut down and those things. we need to take care of essential business first. well, speaking of military equipment, i want to ask you about this idea of a military parade. because you had told the hill that you didn t, quote, know that it is necessary. this is something that is already the president s request, going into effect by the pentagon. what do you mean by that? i was asked a very direct question, is this necessary? and my answer was, it is not necessary. generally whatever we do to honor and express appreciation for the men and women who serve in the military, i m for. but the best way to do it is what we were just talking about, making sure that the equipment and the training they have is the very best that our country
fire and fury and then kind of walked it back in a statement, subsequent statement, what the special counsel robert mueller wants to do is make it very cheer to steve bannon and also the president that he, steve bannon, is going to have to come before mueller and tell the truth, what really happened, what he really knows. so that is but that happens when mueller gets his chance. but now with the house, can they force him to cooperate? what happens now? no, they really can t force him to cooperate. i don t think any more than it has. there could be more to ing and fro ing if the republicans in charge in the house in particular want to make a bigger deal out of this and they could try to challenge the claim of executive privilege in a more formal way. but it s unclear if they will
we have the perfect person here, cnn s chief political correspondent is dana bash. she joins us now with more on this breaking news. where do we start? let s talk about tonight, all right? steve bannon appearing before the house intel committee today in a marathon session. it lasted for more than ten hours. what s going on? what do you know? it lasted for more than ten hours, yet it seems as though much of the to ing and fro ing was much about the questions steve bannon said he was unable to answer. i am told by a source that bannon was told explicitly by the white house, at least his legal team was, you cannot talk about things that happened in the transition, and things that happened while you were in the white house, because we, the white house, the executives, the president, is claiming executive privilege. as you said, they pushed back on that. even subpoenaed him, and it didn t go very far.
senate-confirmed. he was a member of the president s staff. and certainly there is a history of this going both ways. just on a very different topic, i remember condoleeza rice, back during the bush administration, when she was the national security adviser, there was a huge to ing and fro ing whether she should come testify in public about various things going on in the bush administration. finally they agreed that the answer is yes. but that kind of tug-of-war about executive versus legislative branch has gone the other way in the past. we ll see how that goes. this is going to open up that question, not just for steve bannon, but for others who are going to argue, you know what, i gave the president of the united states my advice, i had conversations with him as his aide and it s not appropriate for me to tell you, members of congress. you know, david, apparently the members of the house intelligence committee and robert mueller, the special