come back anytime. yes, sir, thank you. that is all in on this thursday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. good evening, my friend. we re going to have more on al-shifa and what s going on at that hospital with a reporter has been to that hospital and reported there extensively, that s our own eamon mohyeldin. i want to start a with a good point made a member of congress, made by the freedom caucus no less. here s what chip roy had to say to his colleagues. one thing i want my republican colleagues to give me one thing, one that i can go campaign on and say we did. one. anybody sitting thin complex you want to come on the floor and explain to me one material meaningful significant thing the republican majority has done besides, well, i guess it s not as bad as the democrats in. congressman roy is correct on two fronts here. first off, the republican controlled house of representatives has next to nothing of substance this year. seco
nightly satellite images reveal a significant expansion of a key north korea nuclear facility. alex, what do these images reveal about north korea s missile program? jim, what these images show, experts believe, is there is an intention by north korea to increase their production of weapons material. you are looking at the research facility complex. if you look at these images over time, one expert told our college zach cohen that what it shows is that expansion there adding a space around a thousand square meters that can hold athousand additional sentra fujs. that means an increase in production of 25% of this weapons grade material. this is in line, what the experts say is in line with what
head of this kim jong un meeting the multinational proliferation security initiative in 2003 that was designed to deter north korea s movement of weapons material. pete: he s the best of both worlds. he s an outside the box thinker who can explain complex concepts to people and he understands how they try to outmaneuver political appointees. so he s an insider and an outsider. harris: and inside the white house, somebody the president has been meeting with. dagen: there s one thing that has been setting for me, i ve been trying to talk him into growing mutton chops for year. it s probably not happening now. it s an inside joke. to the top of her book and on the house judiciary officially subpoenaing the justice department for reams of documents covering the hillary clinton email investigation and the recent firing of deputy fbi director andrew mccabe.
years down the road? the white house though has been countering over and over again. there are all kinds of contingencies in place. sanctions could snap back. and the white house insists that even if so 10 to 15 years down road iran is thinking about making a move in the direction of a nuclear weapon, there would be less risk then than there is today. michelle kosinski at the white house. that is the white house argument, but there is a another side. joining us now a republican critic of the deal, congressman lee zelden. of new york. let me ask you this. we just heard the prime minister of israel say the world is less safe today than it was yesterday. however, if you reduce the nuclear stockpiles, weapons material in iran by 98%, if you cut the number of spinning centrifuges by two-thirds, isn t that in and of itself a better situation than exists right now?
israel wants to see iran stop enrichi enrichi enriching all together. it s important they stop enrichment to impurity for the medical reactor. it s technologically a short step away from weapons material. one expert believes iran should diffuse all manufacturing sites. they could continue making them. if the deal falls apart, then they could emerge and deploy those fuses quickly. david al bright believes it s critical in the context of any deal iran address all unanswered questions about the chemical weapon program the watchdog expects it had at one time on the research and development level. this is a point he hopes won t