in her university lab kusa spent over 5 years trying to find a suitable raw material. chicory is ideal because a substance forms in the root from which they can extract a basic chemical building block simply by boiling it. the chemical is used to obtain additional. substances which are used to make nylon . kusa says it's a real alternative to crude petroleum based plastics because 500000 tons of chicory waste are produced every year in europe alone enough to manufacture 3000000000 pairs of pantyhose. as we know that oil is a finite commodity that it will run out one day and of course there's also the c o 2 problem to deal with problematic when we use crude oil we also burn it in some form to break it down so to speak a. form that produces carbon dioxide. by when you use biomass however while it also releases c o 2 into the atmosphere it's exactly the same amount the plants absorb when they grow box itself name until they are cool hopes that one day pantyhose and plastics will be made from chicory roots but you'll need more funding to make her project marketable. that's

the reporter found fcc records that clearly indicate doctor patient unity took their money to kusa's the next week the group took their ads to other station. same happened in austin, texas, too, at nbc atffiliaaffiliate k. despite the dark money campaign, the no surprises act could advance to the floor by the end of the year. if p you see that on your local station, now you know where it's coming from. that'll wrap things up for me this hour. i'm katy tur in washington. chris jansing is in for avel al. >> at this hour, more drama on capitol hill as house democrats are continuing to methodically build an impeachment case around the president's mission conduct. two sources now tell nbc news that democratic leadership is reaching out to members in swing districts to gauge support for an initial vote on opening an impeachment inquiry. then it could discuss it with the larger caucus as early as tonight. all of this following that stunning testimony yesterday where we learned former national secu

iran many thanks of syria's imran khan there live for us in baghdad let's speak to kusa research at the university of texas strategy and security institute he joins me now live from london via skype good to have you with us sir 3 major blocks refused to allow their m.p.'s to attend this emergency session of parliament on saturday that we were covering yesterday it never actually happened what's going on what's behind that split. i think this is a case of political point scoring served as your correspondent from baghdad rightly said this is a systemic issue so when you have parties refusing to take part in parliamentary debates making sure that there isn't a chorus of they can't go ahead this is also that they can pile on pressure on our part prime minister that i've that many the reason for that is that when the negotiations were happening to form the government what normally happens in iraq post-election is that there's this kind of this horse trading and jockeying that goes on to see which parties get which ministries and which portfolios and that then contributes to that party's own