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House effectively ends Hegseth impeachment. And, 3 men accused of plotting U.K. attacks
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House effectively ends Hegseth impeachment. And, 3 men accused of plotting U.K. attacks
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Open article →Iran-backed operatives have been charged over nearly 20 attacks, including a plot on a U.K. base housing U.S. troops. Separately, a U.S. soldier is held in the U.K. on Russia spying claims.
Open article →The House was on course for a floor vote Wednesday on whether to impeach Pete Hegseth. That is until House Republicans used a procedural vote to effectively end the impeachment effort.
Open article →Three men, including one already jailed in the U.S., were accused by U.S. authorities Tuesday of being Iran-supported operatives who plotted nearly 20 attacks on Jewish communities in Europe and the U.S., as well as a planned assault on a British air base used by the U.S. Air Force. Charges against Mohammad Al-Saadi, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national; Mohsen Mohajeri, an Iranian national; and Mohammad Ali Al-Hassani, an Iraqi national, were outlined in a superseding indictment unsealed in federal court in New York City. Only Al-Saadi — an alleged pro-Iranian terrorist who is believed to have plotted attacks across Europe, Canada and the U.S., as first reported by NBC News — is in custody. U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald in New York said in a news release that Al-Saadi, who was arrested in the spring, continued to coordinate with his co-defendants in the days leading up to the attempted September terrorist plot at a British Royal Air Force Base in Fairford , where U.S. bombers and troops had been stationed. “As alleged, these defendants helped orchestrate a campaign of terror on behalf of terrorist organizations affiliated with Iran that targeted Jewish communities in Europe and the United States, and the British military base, RAF Fairford , housing American service members,” said McDonald, whose office is handling the case. “The threat presented by Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups to America and our allies is not hypothetical — it is very real,” he added in the statement. The new indictment offers fresh insight into an episode that has been shrouded in mystery for more than a month after five men were detained after midnight Sept. 27 on suspicion of explosives and terrorism offenses after three suspicious vans were spotted traveling toward the base in western England. The Justice Department indictment alleges that Al-Hassani paid associates to carry out surveillance of RAF Fairford in August and paid several people to move forward with the plot in September “by procuring vans and barrels of fuel, researching the purchase of chemical accelerants, including large quantities of potassium chloride, and purchasing metallic objects that could be used as explosive shrapnel.” The group even made custom decals to give the vans the appearance that they were used by a fuel company and a swimming pool supply business, authorities say. Al-Hassani is alleged to have then tasked the people to go to the base with the fuel when U.K. law enforcement took the men into custody. Al-Saadi was helping direct the RAF Fairford plot while he was in a U.S. prison, according to the indictment. He made video and phone calls to his family members in Iraq, who are alleged to have passed coded messages to Al-Hassani and Mohajeri. In a July call with his sister, Al-Saadi asked, “What are we doing about all our old work?” — a reference to terrorist activity — according to investigators. His sister replied, “It isn’t cancelled,” investigators said. The indictment alleges that the three men conspired to use a network of contacts in the United Kingdom to commit terrorist attacks on behalf of an Iran-aligned terrorist network, which included Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Kata’ib Hizballah. In June, Al-Saadi pleaded not guilty to charges that he plotted at least 18 attacks in Europe in retaliation for the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran. The U.S. government has designated Kata’ib Hizballah and the Revolutionary Guards as foreign terrorist organizations. Tom Winter is NBC’s National Law Enforcement and Intelligence Correspondent. Jonathan Dienst is chief justice contributor for NBC News and chief investigative reporter for WNBC-TV in New York. Michael Kosnar is the Justice Department Producer for NBC News.
Open article →House Republicans managed to short-circuit a floor vote on the impeachment effort brought against the Defense Secretary by Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie.
Open article →WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House on Tuesday narrowly rejected a push to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over how he has carried out the war in Iran and other military hostilities in Yemen, Venezuela and the Caribbean. The vote was 211-204 to send the impeachment resolution to committee, effectively killing the effort. Even vocal GOP critics of Hegseth said they didn’t think that the secretary’s action rose to the level of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The impeachment resolution was authored by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a fierce critic of Hegseth and President Donald Trump; both helped oust Massie in his GOP primary race earlier this year. Because Massie had filed the motion as “privileged,” Republican leaders were forced to call a vote within two legislative days. Hegseth “has violated the norms of war, and it’s to the disadvantage and the dishonor of our country, and to the danger of our soldiers in future conflicts,” said Massie, the lone Republican who voted with Democrats to keep the impeachment resolution alive on Tuesday. “Somebody’s got to put their foot down and say, ‘Are we going to follow the laws that are on the books? Are we going to follow the Constitution?’” he continued. “And the best way to do that is to have an impeachment against Pete Hegseth.” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who is on track to be elected speaker in January, has said Democrats will “run Pete Hegseth out of town” when they take over Congress next year. But Hegseth is safe for now, and Trump said he is standing by his defense secretary, who has clashed with not only Democrats but a handful of Republicans in the Senate and the House. The vote came at the end of a dramatic day in Washington that Hegseth kicked off with a morning news conference at the Pentagon, where he slammed the impeachment as a “political spectacle.” “It’s a farce, and it’s a stunt and everybody knows it,” Hegseth said. He argued that all of the military actions cited by Massie were “lawful” and called the impeachment a direct affront to the men and women carrying out those missions. Hegseth also equated Tuesday’s impeachment vote to the two Democratic-led votes to impeach Trump during his first term — first over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the second over the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol. “If standing with President Trump puts me in that company, I’ll take that company every day of the week,” Hegseth said. Shortly after Hegseth’s appearance, Trump posted his support for the defense secretary on Truth Social, saying he “gets an ‘A’ PLUS, PLUS, PLUS for his defense against a disgruntled, angry, defeated, former Congressman, Thomas Massie, a TOTAL LOSER!” Trump posted again after Hegseth survived the vote Tuesday evening, saying the vote was an “EXONERATION of a Great American Patriot.” “The Democrats continue to weaponize and abuse the United States of America. They must be stopped!” he added. Hegseth, a former Fox News co-host, has been a polarizing figure in Washington, surviving a bruising Senate confirmation battle in 2025. However, one GOP critic, outgoing Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said he has had plenty of disagreements with Hegseth but didn’t like how the impeachment resolution was led by Massie. “I don’t really align with the impeachment itself,” Bacon, an Air Force veteran, told reporters before the vote. “But I surely, if you would have put in [a line] about firing 80 generals , if we talk about firing 80 generals and not spending appropriated money, I’d feel a little differently about it.” Another Republican leaving Congress this year, Rep. Darrell Issa of California, suggested Massie was pushing impeachment because he was upset about his primary defeat. And he added that even if it did pass the House, there are not 67 senators who would vote to convict him in a Senate trial. “It’s going to die in the Senate; it’s just that simple. It doesn’t really matter what happens in the House. The secretary has committed no high crimes or misdemeanors,” Issa said. “The Senate often has to protect against the rashness of the House.” Massie’s resolution included eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth. The first article charges Hegseth “with waging the Iran war despite no declaration of war, statutory authorization, attack on the United States, or imminent threat,” according to Massie. Three others that are related to Iran fault Hegseth with continuing the war after both the House and Senate directed the removal of U.S. forces; continuing hostilities after the War Powers Resolution’s 60-day termination period had expired; and ignoring laws that minimize civilian casualties. Another article charges Hegseth with directing “extrajudicial killings” of suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean, secondary strikes on survivors, and overseeing orders to U.S. personnel not to rescue shipwrecked persons. The others say Hegseth illegally seized and deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro “to assert U.S. control over Venezuela’s oil reserves”; used the Defense Department to retaliate against and demote Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., for telling service members they should not follow unlawful orders; and carried out an unlawful war in Yemen . Hegseth on Tuesday morning defended his record and said every operation was a lawful one. “We destroyed terror regimes’ capabilities. We sank the boats carrying poison into our communities. We put a narco dictator in handcuffs. These are not high crimes. This is the job, and it’s the job well done,” he said. Scott Wong is a senior congressional reporter for NBC News. Kyle Stewart is a producer and off-air reporter covering Congress for NBC News, managing coverage of the House.
Open article →Watch live coverage as the House of Representatives holds votes on Republican Rep. Thomas Massie's impeachment resolution against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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