dialogue with prime minister sanchez short of the numbers required to secure his position in the courtis and the largest catalan independence party that you are see opening the door to support in exchange for talks however any move to a peace castle on ambitions will be passed on by the right wing opposition who selects his success has been largely built on a hardline approach towards catalonia it will be interesting to see if the circle can be squared because a continued constitutional standoff seems neither to the benefit of catalonia or spain and i next thursday is general election polling day in the united kingdom i'm with political coverage tickly levy so it will present a compilation of the highlights of some of our sure stick to international issues however the following week we summoned once again our prestigious panel of political pundits who examine the post-election landscape in the united kingdom and what might be the spectre's of christmas is yet to come but until then from alex and me and all that the show is goodbye and we hope to see you all next thank you. thank. you. th

and our national security and pentagon reporter courty cuby joins me on the phone.th you. what new have we learned? >> well, he's a second lieutenant or was a second lieutenant in the saudi air force who came here for flight training. there are sort of three groups that come. very junior officers, very senior ones. he was in the middle. beyond that, we don't really know much about him. there are some pretty fundamental questions like how did he get the gun? the sheriff's office says he did the shooting today with a handgun carrying it out in a classroom building at the naval air station. now, this is a training base. so it has a lot of classrooms. but the sheriff's office says that when the agent or when the officers came in, the deputies came in to encounter the shooter. it actually played out over two floors of that classroom building. so they were obviously pursuing him. and as you say, they were not seriously wounded. one hit in the arm. one hit in the knee. so they're going to be, essentially, okay. the big question is why did he do this? the mere fact that he

there's absolutely no -- >> there's no reason for this case to be at the supreme courti today. i just need that to be known.n. the regulation that is being mp. discussed inside the court today, and what the organization insidee there is putting politics and the profits of gun manufacturers over our lives. for frank, i say not today. the nra will not win today k because we will not stop fighting. we will not have prevention can ats and we will take back the federal legislators and we will make sure that those we vote in put judges on the bench are for the people andnd not for the profits of the few. p we will win this for frank, for you and for the safety of future generations and my name is elija nichols and i'm proudly of jah, muskegon michigan. now let's win this thing! [ cheers and applause ] >> all right. give it up for e, i liej a everybody! [ cheers and applause ] >> all right, really quick. i know a lott by gun of vio us someone or know someone who has been impacted by gun violence just as elijah spoke of frank. i want you to think about that name and on the count of thr

all of this is based on hearsay, courtis inadmissible in a in the united states of america. you are going to have the chief judge of the united states supreme court sitting there and the first thing that is going to be said is is any of this firsthand evidence? the answer is going to be no and the next thing that will come out of their mouth's case dismissed. you guys have thrown everything you can think to throw at donald trump and he is still standing, this is one great american president, merry christmas and god bless donald trump. host: rhonda in massachusetts, your turn. caller: i think nancy pelosi is wrong and i just found out her father, thomas telus andre junior was a heroin dealer and he had constant companions. host: where did you learn that? caller: on the internet. host: okay. what does that have to do with what is happening, this impasse between the house and the senate? caller: because i feel like corrupt and what her father did was wrong. in beltsville, maryland, democratic caller. caller: how are you doing, greta? i have not seen you in a while, you have a p

courti put forward to the a significant number of pieces of evidence do not support their theory of the case. that was never told to justice department lawyers, who have to be able to make that decision. they are the experts, not me. havedurbin: i believe you a pretty definitive statement about what impact the steele dossier had on the investigation. what was your conclusion? in terms of the investigation, it had no impact. it was not known to the team when they opened it. sen. durbin: you have concluded in several different ways that there was no evidence of influence during this investigation. mr. horowitz: correct. sen. cornyn: on the pfizer reform issue, one thing that is interesting year, he has introduced a bill that i am cosponsoring that would give the office in this circumstance the authority to investigate attorneys in the department. right now, that is not allowed under the law. mr. horowitz: it is not. thank you for cosponsoring. sen. durbin: do you know what the theory is behind them being separate? mr. horowitz: this is a legacy of history when they were created. the compr