says he has no problem of him testifying in the house. when that happens though it is not quite clear. perhaps again about a month from now. these two men bill barr and bob mueller have known each other 30 years and bill barr told me on this trip he considers bob mueller still to be a friend. ed. bill hammer from san salvador. let s bring in jerry seid with the wall street journal. the wall street journal reporters also sat down with the attorney general about this trip. jerry good to see you. good to see you ed. i m looking at your web site. in addition to what bill hammer got from the attorney general he told your reporters among other things quote government power was used to spy on american citizens. that one sentence alone is pretty chilling. it is. it s a statement he made initially when he was testifying before congress and repeated it pretty bluntly in the interview with us the it s interesting that he said the part of the investigation that he s looking at most clo
anyone was ever kept here even though lots of members of congress an tour guides suggest they were. the ago text of the capital office can t say whether anyone was held here. pelosi suggests this con tempted citation will work out better than others. [inaudible] because i do. i just do. down want to have a contempt of congress against you that is not a desirable thing for someone to have. house speaker nancy pelosi says she has no position on inherent contempt. the house may consider a contempt of congress resolution against don mcgann. ed what this means is that a
standoff, ed. thank you for that let s bring in michael hanlan, senior fellow at brookings institution. he specializes in defensive strategy use of force and american security policy. welcome michael. nice to see you. how big a threat do you see this as as jennifer laces it out it may have been miscommunication. when the iranians are loading cruise missiles in boats it could be serious. yes. usually iran doesn t want to get in that kind of force on force confrontation with the u.s. because we will win that fight. they can try to put missiles on small boats an maybe cause some damage and kill americans but they re not going to be able to keep boats afloat in the persian gulf which is historically is why iran is more dangerous with
the threat for severe weather. saturday is more focused on the south. however we could see stronger storms with the risk of tornadoes even as far north as parts of iowa so keep in mind there is an active trend and we are not done yet. sunday there is another risk here as this whole system moves slightly east, places like chicago could be in on this action as we head through the day and indianapolis late in the day. and by the way if you think this is just one thing for the weekend, we are actually going to continue there trend into next week so we are not done yet, ed. important information melissa. thank you for bringing it to us. there are trillions of pieces of plastic in the ocean according the journal scientific reports. the evidence washing up on a remote island chain in the indian ocean located between australia and sri lanka. we are talking straws, bags, toothbrushes washing ashore, 238
hulls of small ships they were concerned could threaten u.s. bases or ships at sea. they have not yes declassified or released those images. that s when u.s. central command decided to accelerate the positioning of the uss abraham lincoln putting it on station two weeks ahead of schedule and deploying b-52 s to the region within 50 hours of assessing the threat now we are learning based on the wall street journal reporting new intelligence announces suggests the iranians were pre-positioning missiles because they believed the u.s. was preparing a military strike as the trump administration max pressure ramped up especially putting the u.s. revolutionly guard on the u.s. terrorist list. a former helicopter pilot. we don t have the level of communication we insure that unintend ed conflicts don t