if your uc or crohn's medication isn't working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. entyvio. relief and remission within reach. >>> as the year wringds down, there are signs that the war on isis is ramming up. barbara, what is the status? >> how much can they accomplish in those days and weeks he has left? now president obama had just authorized 200 additional special operations forces to go to syria. authorized. will they all go in the coming weeks? if you look at the public statements by the pentagon, they're now connectling dozens of air strikes. trying to get them out of iraqi forces, still struggling to move deeper into mosul and iraq. the question for donald trump is what does he want to do with the plate in front of him? for some type of force for log forces. donald trump will have to face -- on how he wants to proceed, if he wants to -- of the iraqi government. it is a sovereign country. if he wants to raump up you press on the ground, there is that russian friends there. >> the kurdish forces have been the front line for this battle, is there concern they ma

if your uc or crohn's medication isn't working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. entyvio. relief and remission within reach. >>> welcome back. we continue to cover the breaking news of president obama announcing numerous steps, retaliatory action against russia, for hacking the u.s. election as assessed by the u.s. intelligence community. we want to get more from representative ted yoho of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you for staying with us. >> sure, jim. >> i hope you had the opportunity over the break to look at the intelligence community's statement from october talking about their confident assessment that rauusa was behind this. during the campaign as you are aware donald trump said frequently his slogan is america first, right? make america great again. >> i agree with that. >> seems like on this issue that he is siding with a foreign a adsa adversary against america and against members of his own party. >> i don't see that. i am not defending russia, trust me. i don't see donald trump doing that. the election has been held, we've moved on. le

if your uc or crohn's medication isn't working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. entyvio. relief and remission within reach. >>> breaking news tonight. a murder conviction reinstated for a member of the kennedy family. the connect supreme court ruling that michael skakel did receive a fair trial when he was convicted in 2002 of killing martha moxley. skakel was released from prison in 2013 when a lower court ruled that his legal defense has been deficie deficient. he may have to return to prison now for the killing of moxley back in 1975. jeffrey toobin is on the phone with us. he's covered skakel's trial and knows it well. tell us how we got here to the e instate of the vermont. >> after he was convicted in 2002, he went through his appeals all the way up to the connecticut supreme court and remained convicted. however, he then petitioned a state court for what's called a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that his defense attorney gave him ineffective assistance of counsel. the court granted that petition, ordered him released from prison. but the state of con

if your uc or crohn's medication isn't working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. entyvio. relief and remission within reach. >>> senator mccain, if i could start with you. donald trump, as you know, has threatened to expand america's nuclear arsenal, even suggested that he would welcome a nuclear arms race with russia and other nuclear powers. as you know, nuclear arms reduction has been a bipartisan priority for decades. in your view, are his comments in this case via twitter, are they dangerous? >> i believe that there -- it's patently obvious that vladimir putin is increasing his nuclear arsenal. he is violating agreements that he has made concerning certain types of nuclear weapons, and we need to have a strong nuclear inventory, and we ought to do what we can to make vladimir putin stay with the agreements that he signed that he is now violating. >> senator graham, on the issue of nukes, you, during the campaign, had been critical of many of donald trump's positions and the way he has expressed those positions on key national security issues. do you worry tha