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Republican Senator Rand Paul told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Monday that he believes that Congress needs to approve a declaration of war with Iraq after President Donald Trump's termination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. "I think killing a country's major general is an act of war," said Paul.

Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, Majid Takht Ravanchi, said "we cannot just close our eyes to what happened."

Former CIA chief Leon Panetta told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday that Qassem Soleimani never showed up on a direct target list because the threat from Iran was not from "one particular individual."

Biden's "being eclipsed in fundraising by Buttigieg and by Bernie Sanders," Tapper said.

CNN reporter Phil Mattingly mocked Lewandowski on Tuesday after the former Trump campaign manager announced he would not be seeking a Senate seat in New Hampshire.

"I was sure that Trump was going to get elected, the day he announced. I said, 'It's going to be like Hitler, and the Mexicans are the new Jews.'"

The president revisited the insult to describe the CNN host that he has sparred with on social media in 2019.

CNN's Jake Tapper asked guests on a news segment Monday if they though media coverage of recent anti-Semitic hate crimes would be different if the attackers were "white supremacists."

Despite Trump's Twitter tirade Wednesday about impeachment and Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker's daughter told CNN that her family did not discuss the impeachment over Christmas.

Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter and former senator Rick Santorum had a heated moment after Patinter compared Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to "a judge impaneling an all-white jury for a Klansman trial."

Panelists on CNN's "The Lead" laughed at Rudy Giuliani's interview in New York magazine, where he allegedly drank Bloody Marys with a reporter and discussed his wish to defend President Trump during the impeachment trial.

"Forgive me for being snarky and blunt, but he's stealing a page from Omarosa's playbook," Mark Groombrdige told CNN.

"That's really dangerous," Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger warned.

Despite candidates' unified effort to convince the DNC to reduce its qualification requirements, the committee has declined to lower the bar for participation.

CNN correspondent Ana Navarro called President Trump "pathetic" for attacking late Rep. John Dingell because Dingell's wife, Debbie Dingell, voted for his impeachment.

Wolf Blitzer shared a video of Clinton apologizing for his actions in 1998, just days before he was impeached by the House of Representatives.

Impeachment lawyer Ross Garber told CNN's Jake Tapper today that Democrats "haven't had a sales pitch to the American public" about the importance of impeaching President Donald Trump.

Jeffrey Toobin, a CNN anchor, said that he felt that his own network's polls—which show a decline in the number of Democrats who favor impeachment—are wrong.

"You really want the American people to believe this guy cares about corruption?" the CNN host asked Congressman Mike Johnson.

"I think there is a reason why women, people of color, young people, don't feel affinity for the Republican Party. It's because the brand, the way business has been conducted, sends a message: 'we don't value you, and we don't respect you,'" Fiorina told CNN's Poppy Harlow.

"The president has a very unorthodox style of messaging. It's not the way that I talk or I would tweet," Republican Congressman Mike Johnson said.

"You can't hide from history," S.E. Cupp warned.

Trump claimed the conservative cable network is "trying sooo hard to be politically correct" by interviewing former FBI director James Comey and Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

The attorney general has continued to defend President Donald Trump's attacks on the FBI even after many of his conspiracy theories were debunked.

"Impeachment is not a single-shot weapon. The constitution does not say it's a one-and-done deal," Paul Begala said.

"Republicans were left floundering in their defense of a president who kept admitting to what he was accused of," S.E. Cupp said.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi faced an audience with questions tonight during a CNN Town Hall, where she spoke about health care, climate change and the potential impeachment of President Donald Trump.

Trump canceled a planned press conference after world leaders were filmed joking together at the NATO summit, apparently about the president, although his name was not mentioned.

CNN's chief political analyst Gloria Borger said this is "a lesson on how when you run for the presidency, you need to have a message and you need to stick to it."

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo argued Republican congressman Randy Weber about conspiracy theories that claim cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is partially owned by a Ukrainian.