The State Department. Putting iran on notice, is this trumps new red line . Hi, erin. Definitely being presented as a hard line on iran. Maybe somewhat blurry one at this point. But the white house is saying that it is dedicated to Holding Iran Accountable after this latest Missile Launch. And it is considering a whole range of options in a response and, yes, that does include a military one. A tough line on iran at the white house today. As to have day, we are officially putting iran on notice. Reporter National Security adviser Michael Flynn offering a cryptic warning after iran tested another Ballistic Missile sunday. The Obama Administration failed to respond adequately to tehrans malign actions including weapons transfers, support for terrorism, and other violations of international norms. Reporter the new administration making its clear it believes the Missile Launch violated a u. N. Resolution. Flynns comments today follow
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cooperate. i didn t voluntarily go in, but i was forced to by the congress. i wouldn t read too much into this question of subpoena or no subpoena. do you think tomorrow the ruling, when a judge decides whether or not bolton s top aides or one of his top aides has to comply with the subpoena? if the court rules the white house can block their people from appearing, what might that mean for the investigation moving forward? i would be shocked if that happened, particularly given the vote that s occurring tomorrow. remember, the vote tomorrow here in congress will be one to, essentially, establish procedures and to formalize what has been happening absent the vote that the republicans have demanded. even though, of course, as everyone knows a vote is not required by the constitution or the rules. after tomorrow, there will be no question that congress and no ability to say i m sorry, congress isn t actually doing an impeachment proceeding here. courts have ruled time and time again,
adviser john bolton got the call to testify and just before air time his lawyers told cnn he would not appear without a subpoena. and tim morrison announced he will be leaving his job soon. he was on the july 25th call with ukraine s president. take alone any one of these items is significant. taken together, they all speak to what the president said today he apparently wants to talk about. quoting from his tweet, republicans, yes, that s how he spelled it, go with substance and close it out. in a sense, republicans have not been talking substance. they ve been crashing hearings that many of them were entitled to be at anyway, ordering pizza and arguing process or avoiding questions about the evidence so far or the central question, do they believe it s right or wrong for a president to demand, in his official capacity on the global staigs stage, political
traditional process that had been discussing ukraine for months if not years. john, you mentioned the idea of bolton maintaining his credentials with republicans. if that is a large, motivating factor for him or a giant concern hanging over him, it might influence what he says, how far he s willing to go in what he says. i mean, if he wants to be re-embraced by the fox news crowd, that might color what he remembers. it gives him some cover in even appearing, but once he gets up there, i disagree with jeffrey on the fact that executive privilege is really not at play here. any witness who appears in front of the committee, unless he s employed at the white house, there is just no way to invoke executive privilege unless that witness wants to use it as a shield to not testify. once he goes as far as to go up
know, that seems to have worked for them thus far. sorry, jen. very quickly. i was just going to add, there s another factor with bolton. he has long been an advocate for military assistance to ukraine. he has a huge policy bone to pick here. a lot of fellow republicans who have long been advocates of that as well. i m not saying that s the only factor but that s probably in his mind, too. we ll see. we have to take a quick break. new details on exactly what happened july 10th in the white house that led to john bolton reportedly likening it to a drug deal. later the president s attack on lieutenant colonel vindman. with advil, you have power over pain, so the whole world looks different.