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ininsurgency. will there be anyone behind him to make the president change his blazer or vote to impeach him. you just coauthored a book on impeachment. you and i lived through one of them. the house today, the democrats appear to be narrowing in informed by the relative failure of the messages of mueller to come through clearly, narrowing in their impeachment case on something finite and perhaps more understandable. is that about how you read it? i keep it s about right exactly. i think robert mueller s report in many ways was pretty damning about the president but it wasn t presented in a way that had the kind of political kick the democrats hoped it would. he didn t present it as an impeachable offense. he said that s another part of government, which he meant the
against iran in response to an alleged iranian plot to murder saudi arabia s ambassador to the united states. two men have now been charged including an iranian-american. one of the men still at large. attorney general eric holder spells out the charges against them. the united states is committed to holding iran accountable for its actions. they re charged with conspiracy to murder a foreign official, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, and conspiracy to commit an act of international terrorism, among other charges. u.s. officials say the plot never really got off the ground because the two suspects were dealing with u.s. government informant. more now on the events as they unfolded from our foreign affairs correspondent, jill dougherty. reporter: the united states and the obama administration are treating this as a very big deal. immediately, the treasury department came out and said that it was sanctioning five top people who they say allegedly were conne
as pieces of the helicopter. in the meantime, the taliban have claimed responsibility. they say that, in fact, the helicopter came to a compound in the district where they were located, and they were operating from, and as that helicopter was approaching according to the taliban, that s when they fired a rocket at it, having that helicopter come crashing down, killing those americans. the taliban also claimed that they lost eight fighters of their own. i guess is it known this tangi valley is this known for a taliban safe haven? this has been known to be a fighting safe haven for decades now, alex. it s a very good question that you ask, because i have been in areas near the tangi valley, and, in fact, this is an area that the soviets even had problems with in the 1980s. it s easily operatable for the insurgency. it was the mujahedin against the soviets and now it s the taliban and the ininsurgency against the
the debate continues but the polls indicate americans want it to end. the majority of people polled say end the wars. whether you agree with the war or not there is no doubt that over the past seven years all eyes have been on iraq. the chief correspondent looks now to how we got here. reporter: it has been a tough, tough seven years for the united states and for iraq, so many casualties on all sides, so many emotions, so many phases. invasion. ininsurgency. election. surge. but it began, of course, with shock and awe. at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. first stage of the war moved more quickly than anyone could have predicted, u.s. and coalition forces finding little resistance from the first days of shock and awe march 20 of