late today the u.s. state department says they have complete confidence in the dutch report. voters in ireland will decide friday on a referendum to repeal the country s strict antiabortion law. it would allow the procedure during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. the traditional roman catholic country surprised people in 2015 with same-sex marriage. air strikes over the night say to kill - the pentagon says they have no information to substantiate the report. some of the other stories beyond our boarders tonight. we will be right back.
ranking member of the house intelligence committee adam schiff revealed today the house intelligence committee has not yet spoken to russia special counsel robert mueller. presumably there will be time for that. with us tonight is jill wine-banks, one of the special prosecutors during the watergate scandal, former general counsel notably to the united states army. and jeffrey smith is with us, former general counsel of the cia and of the senate armed services committee, who also worked at the state department and the pentagon. counselors, thank you both for coming. jill, i d like to start with you. did i hear you correctly last night say, and i ll put it a little differently, in effect, if i stop time, if i stop the administration, called a time-out, could you make an obstruction case if i asked you to? i think i could. it depends on the evidence that i ve heard or read or seen on television on your show and
he did it. i would have directed him to do it if i thought he was not doing it. i did not direct him, but i would have directed him because that s his job. it came out that way, and, in all fairness, i watched dr. charles krauthammer the other night say, he was doing his job. and i agreed with him. since then, i ve watched many other people say that. you know, i didn t direct him, but i would have directed him if he did not do it, okay? jim? reporter: just for the record, we don t hate you. president trump: okay. reporter: pass that along. president trump: well, ask jeff zucker how he got his job. reporter: if i may follow-up on questions taking place here sir, well, not too many - president trump: i don t know reporter: if i may ask sir, you said earlier that wikileaks was revealing information about the hillary clinton campaign during the election cycle. you welcomed that at one
happen, actually, in the end. and ultimately, nixon gets up in a california ballroom and gives a speech, which is him talking about the results as he sees them. and nbc anchors that night say, was that concession? i don t know well, he said, if the trends continue. if the trends continue, he will be our president. at that moment, kennedy said, that s what i would do. i wouldn t be conceding at this point. but the next morning, nixon didn t give a good concession speech. he flew across the country, never said a word, he had herb klein, his press guy do. but he had to sit down and have a couple cokes together so kennedy would actually get a concession from his opponent. delivering by telegram from a press secretary is not the way to do it. you have to do it in person, if donald trump wants to be on the newspapers tomorrow, an old concern, you have to put your face out there. depending on what happens tonight, and how he reacts, we may be parsing his response to figure out i
keep in mind, the united states, who s better at this than anybody, it took us a while to pacify mosul. this could be a long road, indeed. let s not forget when the isis terrorists took mosul more than two years ago they captured a lot of sophisticated u.s. military equipment, armored vehicles, among others. so they do have weapons. they do have capabilities. there s no doubt about that. you heard donald trump at the presidential debate with hillary clinton the other night say, this, the timing of this iraqi/kurdish military offensive right now was designed to try to help hillary clinton s campaign. do you believe that? no. no, not at all. i mean, you know, look, i ve been extremely critical of president obama and some of the civilian leaders we have in terms of timing. in terms why it s taken so long, and things along that line, but no. that s a pretty dbig charge to say somebody is doing a military