Intent of killing innocent civilians, women, children, babies, beheading babies. This is a barbaric, disgusting, vile Terrorist Regime that needs to be eliminated. And israel has every right to defend itself and its right to exist. And they should take any and all action necessary to do that. Congressman mike lawler, we appreciate the overtime with you in having a very broad conversation. Please keep us posted on whether you plan to support speaker scalise if you wind up speaking with him later today or not. Thanks so much. Thanks. Of course. Still plenty more news to come. Stay with announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Im Boris Sanchez live in washington, d. C. Alongside anderson cooper, who is in tel aviv, israel. And we are tracking major developments on capitol hill and in the middle east. Republican congressman Steve Scalise has just locked down the republican nomination for House Speaker. A full vote to determine if he will become the 56th Speaker Of The House is potentially comi
And crucially he knows he is not supposed to do what hes doing, not supposed to get involved, admitting at much in a Radio Interview yesterday. You know, the saddest thing is that because im the president of the United States, i am not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department. Im not supposed to be involved with the fbi. Im not supposed to be doing the kind of things that i would love to be doing. And i am very frustrated by it. I look at whats happening with the Justice Department. Why arent they going after Hillary Clinton with her emails and with her the dossier. If we havent yet heard widespread calls for impeachment, its because this president s disregard for the rule of law for democratic norms, his authoritarian impulses are largely baked in in the countrys perception, even among political insiders. It was just a couple of days ago, for example, that he called the american criminal Justice System a joke and a laughing stock. On top of that, all indications are that th
encircled right now in the south the black russian forces or the black sea or close to taking the entire region over and advancing northward. but if the russians can take kyiv and link up with forces from the south, they are going to come to my cut the country in half and that will be end game this type of operation doesn t happen in days or even weeks. keep in mind, the u.s. tried inn the second world war to take out saddam hussein. it didn t work. but the u.s. also had ground offensive plan as well. and it took three weeks in the u.s. forces to take baghdad. wife would we think it would take the russians to codays to take kyiv and take over the country? these assessments, there is a lot of wishing out there. people want the ukrainians to win and i want the ukrainians to win back and saying they are doing well when they are not is not helping the situation at
evacuated so far. the figure must be well over 40,000, but there are many more thousands on the outskirts of the gate. local reports put those close to the gate at about 9,000. nick, you know, a lot of those folks are afghans who have a legal claim to emigrate from afghanistan because they did help u.s. troops. but look, i think a lot of people look at this day that we re at and they say, well, we re still a week out from the deadline. the fact is this operation doesn t turn on a dime. there are logistical considerations that are very much pivotal today. yeah, absolutely. while special immigrant visas are getting on, i understand it s 1s and 2s that they are having to essentially find their way through the airport, through their own means, through this unofficial channel that afghan security forces have had rolling for some time. it s small numbers, and the idea of bringing large numbers in is
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