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a say or brecht's that since residents could not vote liberated affect us that he and some fifteen thousand other islanders will lose their passports should london come up short in its bid to secure a good breaks a deal and will its residents worry that they will be among the biggest losers and will ensure that hadn't a chance to participate in the backseat and that no other people should decide and one state but then britain has been. increasing homemaker managing with other anglo is it fair to us. that mean we have no say because if you take the economy i'm going to take the budget up angle it has to be approved by england so we are just puppets in the end the whole thing yet another ways britain is less involved since hurricane devastated last september many homes still lie in ruins the state's coffers are empty and the plan. struction is funded by the e.u.
neighbors in the caribbean just why many here would rather be a part of the european union than of britain in the in. the last. year of his closing its doors to refugees and migrants trying to cross the mediterranean but that doesn't stop people trying to make the dangerous journey by sea. thousands are waiting for that chance and thousands have died trying. hardly anyone visits this place on the tunisian coast others sent here are doing main so women children and young men they drowned in the mediterranean chasing an uncertain dream a dream off life in europe. he wants to give them dignity shamsi dean is a fisherman here near the tourist hot spot of sadducees he has buried the remains of three hundred people. to stop the crossings europe has proposed the creation of
increasing numbers of its own youth who dream of a brighter future these young men died trying to reach italy what in seven thousand tunisians tried to cross the mediterranean last year while i was one of them he invites me to his home to share his story. and hurt them of in the. hope here the dead nor alive it's all the same we don't have any jobs or future nothing in this country kills our dreams that's why i want to escape the. well survive several boat accidents in the mediterranean but he's undeterred he wants to try again. if i stay here in tunisia i have zero hope for more had been in europe i had least have a chance to hit the tunisia's government has repeatedly said it does not want to be the gate keeper for migrants trying to reach europe caught in limbo thousand see
trying to lock on the mediterranean as the only option they spy the dangers. born during a war to mothers who were raped often rejected and all too often still forgotten the children of the bosnian civil war now their children no longer and they want their voices to be heard. twenty four year old i know usage was conceived when a crow at soldier raped her mother during the war in bosnia growing up after the conflict without a father surname was enough to mark ajna as an outcast. yet the class project children born of war aren't recognized as victims of war in bosnia and that often leads to discrimination. and i just see programs going so that's a source of the most common problem these kids face during their upbringing is with
a result. many rape survivors kept the assaults and their children's paternity a secret women like alina. after my child was born i hate her because i was afraid i thought someone would take her away or tuck or kill her. alaina who asked to speak anonymously was twenty three when an enemy soldier raped her she didn't tell her daughter but she learned the truth from her mother's police report that she discovered by chance. i know i know to tell you since you find out is how she was conceived my daughter has been driven by rage rage against society rage because she is an outcast. they swept us under the rug as if none of us has ever happened they denied it when we showed ourselves they only talked about us when they needed something like our votes when there are elections. but for now
voices like i knows are the only ones breaking the silence about bosnia's invisible children. is the state doesn't want to talk about it somebody needs to that's why i feel responsible if i've started something i need to see it through to the end it's the only way to finally achieve peace after all that's happened. to. us president donald trump's so-called zero tolerance policy has separated more than two thousand migrant children from their families as they attempted to cross the u.s. border. following a storm of criticism that practice was reversed but the scars from deep. the lucky few reunited after months of not knowing whether they'd ever see their children again. and for others even this moment soon turned to heartbreak after being separated for so long as some parents had their children didn't even recognize them
. dr lucy is one of many pediatricians warning of the damage these separations may have caused already. she told me extreme stress from such an experience can result in lifelong health problems the younger they are the more vulnerable they are so we see changes in their stress hormones you see changes in their brain development the long term that also can manifest as mental health illnesses so p.t.s.d. anxiety depression kids who've experienced toxic stress actually have a higher risk of suicide as they get older than the change in the hormones actually causes physical changes in their body so an increased risk of heart disease of diabetes of liver problems increased risk of cancer so why are migrants from central and south america willing to take their chances on exposing their children to this kind of future i think these families would say that they didn't have a choice i have patience a mom who told me that her ten year old son was asked to join
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acknowledged that the police have asked him questions about mollie. he told me does not know the results of that lie detector test and he insists he has nothing to do with her disappearance. shep? >> shepard: matt finn on scene brooklyn, iowa. the judge in paul manafort's trial has apologized now to the special counsel robert mueller's team for being too harsh on them in font front of the jury. yesterday the judge criticized prosecutors from allowing an expert witness from the irs to stay in the courtroom while other witnesses were testifying. prosecutors pointed out he had already okayed. this now the judge says he was wrong. more on that ahead. the feds say president trump's former campaign chairman was the master mind of a multi-million-dollar scheme to evade u.s. taxes and banking laws. he faces more than a dozen charges connected to lobbying he did for a pro-russia political group in ukraine. paul manafort pleaded not guilty to all charges. and peter doocy is covering his trial live at the court how fast in alexandria, virginia in washington, d.c. hey, peter. >> shep, the mueller team
formally complained that this judge who keeps dressing them down in front of the jury might be killing their case. and apparently the final straw for the prosecutors was late yesterday, right before they went to recess when the judge admonished them for allowing a government witness to sit in the court before he took the stand. the problem the mueller team has with that the judge never said that witnesses couldn't sit and watch from the pews that are in the back. from the benches that are in the back before they took the stand. so they filed a motion where they said this in part. the mistake here prejudiced the government by conveying to the jury that the government had acted improperly and had violated court rules or procedures. well, this morning the judge came, in hat in hand and he said this: this robe doesn't make me anything other than human. any criticism of counsel should be put aside. after that the folks at the manafort trial today shifted to bank fraud and whether or not paul manafort misstated his debt and his income to
obtain a $5 million mortgage from citizens bank for a lot of in solo. part of the government's case is trying to prove this house wasn't a second home for the manaforts but actually a rental property making him money. they had somebody from air b and b come to the stand and testify it wasn't just a single room in the house that was available for rent online. it was the whole thing and that at one point somebody paid more than 11,000 to do so stay interest fo there for je weeks. right now on the stand somebody from citizen's bank which gave manafort the mortgage for this property is testifying. this is the third witness of the day. that means that the mueller team plans to call up five more before they rest their case. they say that is going to happen some time tomorrow. shep? >> shepard: peter doocy at the courthouse. i mentioned the judge apologized to prosecutors today for being too harsh on them yesterday. it's but one of many memorable moments from judge t.s. ellis who sometimes steals the show with that trial. trace gallagher with more on the judge. trace? >> shep, you know, those who
have been before judge ellis in the past say when the defense begins calling witnesses, judge ellis will likely crack down on paul manafort's lawyers as well. the judge fully acknowledges he is not a patient man. in fact, during his days as a high power litigator at international law firm ellis was nicknamed taz for the tazhayakov mainian devil. relentless task master. recent days the 78-year-old district judge as you routerred has repeatedly called out the government attorneys at one point telling the lead prosecutor in the manafort case to, quote, look at him and not look down. he also admonished the prosecutor to not roll his eyes and he often jumps in to question witnesses himself judge ellis has long refused to allow defendants to plead no contest. saying quote i'm a caesar in my own rome adding it's a pretty small rome. judge he will lisa colombian immigrant who speaks fluent spanish.
pilot in the gheaf did ground grad at princeton got legal education oxford and harvard. he was nominated by president reagan and over 30 years he has presided over notable case us including the 2002 trial of john walker lyndh, the so-called manner taliban. ellis accepted a 20-year plea deal and told linsd he made a bad joins to join the taliban and had to live with the consequences. in 2009 he handed downed longest sentence ever to a member of congress when he gave 13 years to former louisiana congressman william jefferson for bribery saying at the time, quote: there must be some kind of greed virus that affects those in power. this week judge ellis told the lead prosecutor, quote: judges should be patient. they made a mistake when they confirmed me. i'm not patient. so don't try my patience. and on goes the trial. shep? >> shepard: trace gallagher live for us. president trump's lead attorney rudy giuliani says
he and the rest of the president's legal team would be fools if they let the special counsel, robert mueller, ask the president about possibly obstructing russia investigation. >> he knows the answers to every question that he wants to ask. he is going to ask him did you tell comey to go easy on flynn? the president will say no, i didn't. why do you want to get him under oath? you think we are fools? want to get him under oath so they can clap slap him with perjury. we are not going to let you do that. >> shepard: rudy giuliani has been pushing for mueller to wrap up the investigation next month political side of the argument which is all this is. kevin corke is on the north lawn. >> shep, good afternoon. the president's private attorney continues to insist that mr. trump could ultimately decide to speak to mr. mueller under the write conditions. based on the moving bar of expectation and parameters, very few people here, quite frankly expect this to ultimately happen although they still say it okay for his part the president is once again on twitter e extoggle the virtues of the
witch-hunt. he is saying this is an illegally broughting rigged witch-hunt run by people corrupt or conflicted started and paid for by crooked hillary and the democrats. phony dossier and some lying and dismonday nest people already fired. 17 angry dems, stay tuned. giuliani, help, is warning that the president needn't answer questions that the special counsel already knows the questions to. accusing them set up perjury tran heard the clip of comparing answers with james comey conversations that previously happened. words like conspiracy, corruption, collusion continue to swirl. still no hard evidence to report as yet. here at the white house, complaints about the probe are relatively muted but that can't be said for some inside the president's inner circle. >and i can tell you this, shep. regardless of where you have come down on this argument, about whether or not the president should decide to be interviewed by this the special counsel, one thing
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the white house says the goal is to have the space force ready by 2020. defense secretary jim mattis is backing the plan. a year ago he asked congress not to approve it saying the new force was unnecessary and way too expensive. fox business network blake burman live at the pentagon. >> hi, shepard. the vice president coming over to the pentagon earlier today he saying when it comes to space we need to be bold and creative. we cannot afford inaction. to that end, the vice president outlined detailed some of the administration's plan to create eventually a sixth branch of the united states military which, indeed, would be called the space force. now, when you boil this all down, essentially what this comes down to is trying to protect our crucially important satellites, way out there in outer space. north korea, iran, but most especially russia and china were described today as the possible adversary. >> as their actions make clear, our adversaries have transformed space into a
war-fighting domain already. and the united states will not shrink from this challenge. >> it is becoming a contested war fighting domain and we have got to adapt to that reality. it's on par with the air, land, sea and cyberspace domains. >> still a ways to go here because adding a sixth branch to the united states military, which, by the way, if it happenings would be the first time that would be done in seven plus decades. that would still need congressional approval, shepard. the administration is targeting 2020 for this space force to be unveiled, shepard. >> shepard: congress has to approve it so this is just talk for now. sings we are just talking, the critics are saying what are you doing? >> right. and keep in mind, here, the united states air force already has a space commands. some 30,000 people are attached to that unit. that's about 10% of the air force as a whole. so it is a pretty sizeable number. one of the critics is the nasa astronaut mark kelly a
goes on top of these rockets and launching on saturday. >> shepard: what are they going to do? i know we are going to touch the sun. >> they are going to measure a lot of things about solar weather that comes. we don't really know very much about the sun at all. we have seen the whole rest of our solar system going all the way out to pluto we haven't gone to the sun yet. >> shepard: happy trails and good luck. thank you. flare up in the gaza strip has turned deadly. israeli warplanes hitting dozens of hamas targets overnight. today word of a new strike in gaza city. that's next. oh!
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france. that's after heavy rains caused some incredible flash flooding. you can see the water along the streets there. officials say four children are in the hospital and there is word at least one person is now missing. and from this video, from what looks to be outside a restaurant or a store, this is not far from marsi in what would normally be a very busy tourist area in august. another all out war in hamas and allies in israel could be brewing. [explosions] two sides exchanging fire over the gaza border with civilians trapped in between in a deadly back and forth throughout the night and the day. israel launching war planes and airstrikes. hamas firing rockets. hours ago palestinian officials claimed that israeli war planes struck a cultural center in gaza city, injuring at least seven people. our own david lee miller on the ground in israel to survey some of the damage.
>> if necessary, we're going to make our way in to a bomb shelter, that's that brown building you see over my shoulder off in the distance. we are in the city of sderot. this is a community of about 25,000 because of its proximity to the gaza border, about one mile away it frequently comes under rocket attack. and that was the case last night. a rocket landed right where i'm standing just a few feet away. the debris is gone. but you can still see some of the damage to this car. the damage extensive, broken window and a great deal of damage to this as well as other vehicles. things could have been horrific here. take a look at the end of the parking lot. and there you see a children's playground. last night the scene here could have been tragic. >> shepard: hamas and israel have fought three wars since the militant group took control of gaza in 2007. the last time they were at war was 2014. bring in michael o'hanlon senior fellow at the
brookings. what do you say michael. >> could easily be the brewing of the fourth war. in a sense this is better thought of as maybe the fourth battle. because there really isn't any victory by either side. you know, hamas is not going to be strong enough operating out of the gaza strip to somehow take part of israel away or enlarge its territory israel doesn't want to rule gaza. they left voluntarily because they didn't want the burden. what you are seeing are battles that really just sort of return back to a semi unstable peace until the next battle. there really is at the moment no end in sight as to where this goes. hamas, as you know, an extremist group that doesn't really accept israel's basic right to exist. the palestinian entity in the west bank is much more responsible but has some weak leadership issues and doesn't have control over hamas. so, i think of it more as the looming fourth battle in what's likely to be an even longer war. >> shepard: is there a dialogue underway now? >> there's not too much of a
dialogue. there is certainly not a negotiation that you could call a realistic path to peace. and, in fact, you hear a lot of people who are experts on this subject much more than i who talk about how the whole to state dream is are the solve dying. the idea that either value or the palestinians would really make the compromises necessary to share this territory and manage the common security challenges with american help together. that dream, which has been worked on so hard for some years is slipping away, perhaps in ways that are becoming almost impossible to reverse. so you may have to almost create new concepts here like shared sovereignty, two nations on the same land, various kinds of ideas that really almost sound science fictiony. but probably need to be investigated. unless we can somehow get back to that basic idea of a two-state solution where gaza and the west bank of the jordan river area become a palestinian state and then israel has its security in the rest of the land where it now exists.
>> shepard: what's your level of concern that will escalate and involve others around and about. >> it's possible, shepard, but this is no longer the number one problem for most of the middle east. you and i both remember times when it was. when everything was about, you know, arabs and israel disagreeing fundamentally over israel's right to exist but also over israel's treatment of the palestinians. and so all through the 70's, 80's, 90's, this was sort of seen as the central issue in much of the middle east. today, of course, there are too many other problems for this to dominate the concerns of most states. jordan has got to worry about refugees from syria. iraq is trying to piece itself together and so on and so on. >> shepard: michael o'hanlon from brookings. thank you, michael. he murders his own family members and throws thousands of people too go logs today the north korean dictator is rocking a summer look to stare at food while people are starving and reportedly dying in the middle of a heat wave.
kim jong un wearing a white button down t-shirt and floppy hat wherer visited a factory where workers pickle fish. heat hitting triple digits in some areas. the government has warned people to pull together to survive. tough to grow crops in that kind of heat. isn't he all smiles? ha ha. still inside all smiles from the dear leader. breaking news in undecided primary race here at home. we will tell you about word of a mistake in the vote counted. coming up. when i received the diagnosis,
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colyer by just 91 votes. the state elections director says that's because of a mistake in one county's numbers. president trump went against the advice 6 his own party's leaders and endorsed kobach over the sitting governor, republican governor. kobach has been a loyal supporter much the president but also one of the least popular politicians of any kind in all of kansas. analysts say the democrats have a much better chance of winning in november against kovach then against governor colyer chris collins says he will not step down and is defiant saying he will stay on the ballot in november's midterm election. he's the one from new york a grand jury indicted the lawmaker on insider trading charges just yesterday. the son a secret tip about a stock pleaded not guilty. one of trump's first supporters endorse him in 2016 presidential election.
the house minority lowered nancy pelosi blasted representative collins in a statement reads in part the american people deserve better than the g.o.p.'s corruption, cronyism and incompetence. house speaker paul ryan removed congressman collins from the energy and commerce committee until the case is settled. is he calling for the ethics committee to investigate. laura ingle with the rest of the story now. laura? >> this continues to be a fast moving story. we have a lot to get to here. new york congressman chris collins launched an immediate defense last night he got out in front. cameras with his wife by his side to denounce the charges against him and let the voters know he is not planning on going anywhere. listen. >> the charges that have been levied against me are meritless as i fight to clear my name, rest assured i will continue to work hard for the people and constituents of the 27th congressional district of new york. and i will remain on the ballot, running for re-election this november. >> the republican congressman was charged with 11 counts in federal
criminal court on securities and wire fraud accusations which could bring him decades in prison if convicted. federal prosecutors say they have the phone and email records to prove that collins received the news that the ceo of innate immunotherapies gave collins the heads up about a drug test failing while attending a white house congressional picnic in 2017 and then shared that news with his son and others so they could sell their stock. when that news broke, the test results the company's share price fell more than 90% saving the accused almost $800,000. innate issued this statement. the company wishes to advise that it has cooperated fully with requests for information made to it by the u.s. securities and exchange commission. the company and its directors, officers, accepting mr. collins are not under investigation. the company considers the ongoing investigation to be a private matter to mr. collins. now members of congress as we know do not automatically forfeit their offices upon conviction of a felony. but we'll have to see what voters and what they have to
say and how they react in november. >> shepard: should be a thing. laura ingle, thank you. accusing the united states trying to demonize moscow. announcing the penalize for using a chemical weapon to try to kill a former double agent and his daughter. the spokeswoman for russia's foreign ministry called the penalties unacceptable. >> all these allegations are baseless and cynical. russia has warned multiple times that using force and using ultimatums when talking with us is futile. russia is going to develop a response to this very hostile step on the part of washington. >> shepard: earlier this year british officials said that russia porscheed a pair with a military grade nerve agent. russia has denied playing any part. a spokesman for vladimir putin say the new penalties go against the constructive talks that putin had with president trump last month. rick leventhal live brooklyn heights, new jersey not far from where the president is staying in week. rick?
>> shepard, the trump administration and the state department saying it's clear that russia violated international law by using chemical weapons and u.s. law requires that these new sanctions be imposed. the victims, former russian spy sergei skripal and his daughter were poisoned by november chak. a nerve agent said to be tightly controlled by the kremlin and u.s. and british investigators say there is clear evidence that russia was behind the attempted assassination. earlier today the u.k. foreign secretary tweeted if we're going to stop chemical and biological weapons, including nerve agents becoming a new and horrific 21st century norm, states like russia that use or condone their use need to know there is a price to pay. thank you u.s.a. for standing firm with us on this. of course, the attack happened on british soil. and the sanctions could cost the kremlin hundreds of millions of dollars. numerous russian agencies have reacted calling the new sanctions draconian, farfetched, absolutely unfriendly and absolutely illegal and also, as you
mentioned, shep, a diplomatic set back but the trump administration says these sanctions are well-deserved and required and they actually could get worse in 90 days if russia doesn't agree to stop all use of chemical weapons. by the way, the president does have an event scheduled at his golf resort coming up in the next hour, shep, on prison reform. and we will be reporting on that during the 4:00 hour. >> shepard: rick leventhal on scene for us. ahead the horrifying truth is finally revealed about a disaster on american soil. come here, babe.
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there is something about getting the score and knowing is really important. >> shepard: puerto rico now after hurricane maria wiped out that island last year. the government initially claimed the death toll was 64 people. no one believed the government. that number ended up being completely wrong. puerto rico now estimates more than 1400 americans decide as a result of that storm phil keating with more in our south florida newsroom. phil? >> shep, after months of disbelief and criticism of the commonwealth's government by people outside the government, that politicians were drastically under estimating the death toll, well, suddenly today they are now saying that maria's devastating effects cannot be overstated. for nearly a year the official government death toll from the u.s. territory stood as under 70. many from landslides or flooding. in sent you may recall the category 4 hurricane blasted the island with 155 mile-per-hour winds and
torrential rains. totally wiping out the power grid and causing $100 billion in damage. well, harvard researchers earlier this year studied how many people died during and in the months after maria struck comparing those months to the same death tolls of those months in previous years. and they found the death toll range due to maria could have been anywhere between 800 and 8,000. well, now, the island territory along with george washington university has done the same, concluding 20 times more people died because of maria and her impact from september through december last year things like no healthcare no. access to medicines, no electricity and no airconditioning and blocked roads preventing medical help from reaching the most fragile. the death toll was buried on page 306 a 400 page funding request to congress for 150 billion reconstruction dollars for the island. well, the government as of today said 99% of the island
of puerto rico does have power. we were there last month for the approaching hurricane beryl because it really threatened to rebuild infrastructure the people on the island were seriously worried. as it turns out beryl toldly totally parted. only hit with 40 mile-per-hour winds. still it ended up knocking out power to at least four towns. that still remains the big concern on the island, shep, if another hurricane happens this year directly striking the island, especially if it's a major hurricane. it could be yet another calamity. the locals we spoke to said everyone fears anything more than 50, 65 mile-per-hour winds they think is going to be massive power outages yet again. shep? >> shepard: phil keating in south florida. the u.s. is stepping in to help a country escaping in crisis. millions going hungry in venezuela u can't afford basic supplies like toilet paper because of skyrocketing inflation. their leader nicholas madeira refuses to step down
and he is cracking down on his political opponents accusing them of trying to kill him with exploding drones during a military parade. one opposition leader says madeira stage you had the whole thing as an excuse to crack down. rich edson is live in colombia. he visited the border with the u.n. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley. rick, what did you see? >> shep, we saw venezuelans lined up throughout this border city, many of them were waiting for food, for medicine, even for clean water. according to the government here, tens of thousands of people cross over into colombia every day from venezuela across this bridge. some stay in colombia. others will travel on foot to other places throughout central and south america. and still there are many who come to colombia. they have a hot meal. they will get some medicine and then they will return to venezuela. many say they are here just to work, to try to earn some money. maybe bring their family to colombia. but what they're telling us is they can't have improving
conditions and don't have improving conditions in venezuela right now. >> like i told you, there is a big crisis. we have shortage of food and medicine. children are dying because of the shortage of medicine. the senior citizens are dying because of the shortage of medicine. we can't find food. everything is overpriced. and that is why the majority of venezuelans are fleeing the situation. >> we are fleeing massively, not because we want to, we don't want to come to a foreign country. we don't want to disturb anyone. we want to recover our identity. >> we traveled here with u.n. ambassador nikki haley. she toured the relief efforts at the border town. she pledged 9 million additional u.s. dollars to what has already been about $60 million in u.s. aid to this crisis. she also called for madeira to step down. though, despite that attempt on his life this week, there is little sign he is doing so. in fact, a number of venezuelans we spoke to told
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>> shepard: member of the harlem globe trotters went above and beyond for basketball trick here. look at this. bull bullard is his name made the shot from the skies of new jersey while sitting in a plane traveling 70 miles per hour. this may even top his previous trick shots including one from an amusements park ride and another from a helicopter. harlem globe trotters team has been around for nearly 100 years now. look here. there you go. and that's good for two. inside the line. members are known for their amazing basketball skills and all that. it's not fun dealing with people who are drunk and angry it says here. but what about wasps that are drunk and angry. that's apparently what's happening in parts of britain. the wasps are drunk and angry. the insects from been drinking fermented fruit and leftover sider from the bars and making them sting people a lot more. i swear to you.
experts say they're resorting to booze because the stuff that makes their normal diet is scarce. folks in britain have nicknamed them logger laut wasps, laut by the way means aggressive. the world's number one smart phone seller unveiling its largest smart phone yet. largest. samsung execs from introduced new galaxy note 9 phone in brooklyn, today. the note 9 is expected to hit store shelves later this month. samsung execs say it has more storage and battery will last longer of course all of that comes at a price. fox business network susan lee live from barclay center in brooklyn home of brooklynettes hello, susan. >> that's right. very good, shep. tech like me here in brooklyn today to check out samsung's latest offer galaxy note 9 starts at $1,000. more storage, faster processing and get blue
tooth pen. has the tech world going wild is the announcement that samsung is going to offer a home speaker. that means they are are going to go head to head with the likes of amazon and google for space in your home. back to the note 9 just quickly because the note some say this is a make or break in this note line because remember a few years ago they had the combustible battery recall on the galaxy note 7? well, if this doesn't do well this might be the end of all notes for samsung going forward. shep? >> shepard: it's announcing some new partnerships, samsung is? >> yep, so, for the knight it's the biggest video game on the planet right now. it's a billion dollars in revenue. 125 million gamers in the world. and it's just being offered on android. samsung has exclusive rights of the first four days of the offering. partnership with spotify as well. the spotify ceo is here. this hab the criticism for samsung compared to apple. samsung doesn't have that addictive ecosphere they don't have the music and
movies. they are trying to update with that partnership with fortnite and spotify today. >> shepard: did you get to try one, a note 9? >> i did. it's actually -- yes, a note 9. it comes in fancy new colors you get lavender and blue as well and rose gold. i would say it's not much of an upgrade from the galaxy note 8. that's a knock on this new offering. what are you really getting for 1,000 plus and is there really that much new in it, right? >> shepard: right. i guess that since apple had set a price point with iphone 10. they figured they could dance around that price point and see what happens, right? >> yeah, but 1250? that's pricy. 1250 you get a tara by the of storage and,yes, faster processing. that's a lot to spend on a phone, don't you think? >> shepard: sounds like a lookout to me for anything. susan lee, great to see you. [laughter] >> good to see you. on this day in 1936, jesse owens won his fourth gold
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>> the whole town is alive. >> it's going to be even better when we win a world series here. >> don't jinx it. thank you. we will celebrate. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington, which is celebrating. but we're awaiting the president's press conference with italy's president on a day when mr. trump is already refusing to accept blame for turkey's incursion into syria despite the call with turkey's president, saying it's not our problem, we are not a policing agent, his words. >> i wish them a lot of luck. if russia wants to get involved with syria, that's really up to them. they have a problem with turkey, they have a problem at the border, it's not our border. we shouldn't be losing lives over it. >> the president will meet later today with speaker pelosi and other bipartisan leaders at the white house about the crisis in syria which now has russia taking the upper hand and america's allies, syrian kurds,
fleeing for safety. even as the president repeatedly today attacks pelosi for the expanding impeachment inquiry. >> paul ryan would never have issued a subpoena. i don't say right or wrong. he have wouldn't have done it. he has too much respect for the country. nancy pelosi hands them out like cook cookies. she's created a phony witch hunt. this is an open and shut simple days. they're desperate because they know they're going to lose the election. >> nbc's kelly o'donnell is at the white house. and we have two experts on foreign policy and on the inner workings of washington, bob corker, former tennessee senator, former foreign relations committee chairman, and leon panetta, former secretary of defense, cia director, and former white house chief of staff to president clinton. senator corker, as the foreimer
foreign relations chairman, we have ambassadors confirmed from your committee post, and they are saying the politics that has infected the state department has now become so per vasive that several of them have resigned and are now testifying. now we have a situation where the president is saying we have no responsibility for what is happening in northern syria to our allies. what is your reaction? >> andrea, it's a totally unavoidable humanitarian crisis. it's hard to believe that the president would engage in such a precipitous, i would call sloppy telephone conversation with another head of a country and create the catastrophe that is there now. in essence, he gave them the green light, and now through some modest sanctions is pushing back. i'm sure even the turkish people are wondering what he was thinking. and so here we have a situation where allies, the kurds, who
have lost 11,000 lives, are now in the process of being slaughtered. we have hundreds of thousands of people that are being displaced. we have villages without water. all of this was totally unavoidable. now we have pompeo and pence going to turkey. they have no bargaining chips. we've given up control of a third of the country that has hydrocarbons. we had the kurds working with us, now they're not. we would have been a much better place to negotiate a political resolution that would have been satisfactory, that would have been avoiding -- we would have avoided the killing of kurds who have been working with us for five years. and again, threw it out on the ground with a sloppy, precipitous phone call that is going to end up killing a lot of people. >> and can you understand why the president is under such influence from president erdogan who now says, he's been quoted
both ways but he at least initially said to press people today that he would not even meet with the vice president, pence, and the secretary of state is also going, supposedly going this afternoon, this major delegation going to try to persuade him for a cease-fire. he's saying no cease-fire, he wouldn't even meet with the vice president. if he does end up doing that, it does seem as though there is an incredible amount of arrogance on the part of turkey right now. >> well, i think, again, i don't have a lot of respect for erdogan. i can't imagine how president trump has much faith in what he would do. what is happening here has been told to the president by secretary mattis and so many others, this is exactly what would happen if we left precipitously. it is happening, people are dying. and i guess they're in an arrogant place, if you will, because they felt like they were given a green light by our president when he received
pushback in our country by letting down the partners that we've had for many years. he's gotten political blowback. so this is a feel-good mission. i hope something good comes out of it. it leaves us in a place where the only thing we have left is to really counter strongly a nato ally. but i still don't think -- i still do not think, now that the genie is out of the bottle, much good is going to come of this. so i'm disappointed for our country, it diminishes the character of our country. it's also a tremendous strategic error after years of working to get to this place. andrea, we never anticipated being there photographforever. there was a way down the road of leaving but leaving in such a way that we didn't create such chaos and harm to people who have been our friends for so many years.
>> in addition to that chaos, what about the isis fighters who are now not being guarded, some have escaped already from prison, and the president saying, some would say cavalierly, let them go back to europe? >> it's hard for me to understand how a president could have such disregard for things that over time will come back to haunt us. in idlib, we still have al qaeda there. there's still isis to be dealt with. again, we're so close to that being finished. but even that aside, the chaos we've left behind, it's just hard to explain. and not caring about the relationships that we've had, not caring what happens to other parts of world. we have to remember that we do these things -- >> and memoriand memories are short, but we have involvement
overseas to protect people back home, to prevent isis from doing things to us like they did in september 2001. sometimes people forget that, we have short memories, but that's why we do things on the ground. it was at such low cost to us, a huge cost to the kurds, that we've thrown under the bus. and very difficult to explain. and i don't know how any leader could have made this type of decision, especially over a phone call, an undisciplined phone call that has now wreaked havoc, has caused havoc to occur in that part of the world. by the way, by cleaning out a swath of northern syria the way that they are, the way turkey says they are, this is basically genocide. it's ethnic cleansing. this is the home of the kurds. and then forcibly putting 2
million syrians back in that place, again, it's ethnic cleansing that is taking place. >> senator, i want to ask you about ambassador yovanovitch, ambassador kent, or assistant secretary kent, and others who have now testified about smear campaigns against the ambassador, about political interference, a shadow campaign and diplomacy by rudy giuliani, and another phone call, the phone call with ukraine's president. does inviting another country to interfere in our election, not just him but also then the president inviting china to do the same, should that be an impeachable offense? >> so andrea, i'm not a senator anymore and i realize that, but i think that all senators -- and i realize i'm not one -- should realize they're going to end up being the jury if there is an impeachment trial. and if i were a senator, i certainly would not be saying
anything, i would be observing closely. obviously the president does many inappropriate things. >> but since you're not a senator -- >> i'm sorry, andrea -- >> since you're not a senator -- >> i don't know, andrea, i'm going to still have that code of conduct myself. there may be a point where i say something that might make some small difference. but right now i'm watching. obviously some of the hearings, many of the hearings, all the hearings right now are closed, so i'm only hearing leaked comments that are being made. but obviously, like everyone else in our country, i'm paying attention. there may be some point when i want to say something. but right now i'm observing. >> in terms of what has happened to the state department from the president's own acknowledgement, he asked rudy giuliani to intervene. what about the pressure to remove a sitting ambassador who was confirmed by the senate, by your former committee, you were one of the people confirming her, and leading that
confirmation, what about taking people out like that, recalling them under pressure from the president and the secretary of state, to permit rudy giuliani and these associates of his who are now under indictment? >> well, you know again, you know, i haven't heard the testimony directly. i'm reading what has happened. obviously if someone was pressured to be taken out for some nefarious reason, that obviously is something that's incredibly inappropriate and shouldn't be taking place. but andrea, i want to hear all this, i want to see the facts. and at some point i may be more willing to make a forthcoming comment. >> understood. >> if you will. but i just don't want to do that right now. i want to be a little more thoughtful than responding on a daily basis. but i can understand why you would ask. >> and of course the notes, the notes, the rough transcript of the president's confidentiversa
himself was that he said the ambassador was a bad person. but we'll leave it there. >> thank you so much for leaving it there. >> and hope to hear more from you in the feature. thank you, sir. and now turning to former defense secretary leon panetta, as a former secretary of defense and cia director, your reactions to the situation we're now in with the syrian kurds being removed or running or under attack, being killed, and what senator corker himself said is amounting to genocide. >> i think that this is the single most disastrous foreign policy blunder by a president of the united states in recent history. with one decision, he has betrayed our allies, the kurds, who fought and died alongside of us. he has given a green light to
turkey to invade syria. he has withdrawn our forces from syria and basically given syria to russia, to iran, and to assad. and at the same time, opened up the opportunity for isis to reorganize itself and again become a threat to the united states and to europe. every part of this decision has weakened the united states. but most importantly, it has undercut our credibility in the world. there isn't an ally that we've around the world that doesn't as a result of what the president did now distrust us and worry about whether or not we will stand by our word. >> turkey is a nato ally. and there is no mechanism that i am aware of for reducing somebody from nato. a country can quit nato. but they have at least 50
tactical nukes at the nato base on turkish land. do we have any ability to control or protect those nuclear weapons, or does erdogan have control over whether we try to remove them? >> no, we're the ones that -- the united states is defending that supply of nuclear weapons that are located in turkey. and i'm sure we will continue to do so. i think the bigger issue is going to be, as the situation deteriorates, and as turkey continues the aggression into syria and goes after the kurds, how long are we going to maintain our presence in turkey? i think that has to be a serious question that the united states is going to have to face. >> there are jordanian troops there, there were french and british troops in that area as well.
there was no warning to them when the president made his decision on the phone call that day, as well as the people next door in jordan and israel, who is concerned about iran, the saudis are concerned about iran. basically he has empowered iran and russia in that region and is asking for a cease-fire which would leave them in control of what was a kurdish area. >> the president of the united states, you know, just this morning again has said that somehow this is not the united states' business. and yesterday talked about the fact that somehow we're 7,000 miles away from that area. that's what the isolationists used to argue priori to world wr ii, that somehow the oceans would protect us from nazi germany. the reality is that al qaeda, even though they were 7,000 miles away, found a way to attack us on 9/11. the president ought to be aware
of that fact. and as a result that have, i think it's incredibly important that the united states recognize that we are -- if we're going to be leaders in the world, we have to be able to take a stand with regard to russia. what we're doing now is handing syria to russia, to establish a base in that area. russian soldiers are making fun of the united states having pulled out yesterday. that's a disgrace. we ought to be ashamed of having pulled out and allowed the russians to go into that area. and now allowing iran to establish a base in syria. we've taken the position, this president has taken the position that iran should be prevented from extending its influence in the middle east. and yet we are handing syria to iran. and they are trying to expand
the persian empire from beirut to damascus to tehran. and we've just given them a license to be able to do that. >> the president also does not seem to be talking about the fact that the turkish-backed militias went after u.s. positions as recently as yesterday. we had to scramble apaches and some fighter jets to try to give them some air cover. what is the availability of other u.s. forces in the region? >> i've never -- i've never in my over 50 years of public life seen a president who does not speak out to the need to protect our forces abroad. this president hasn't said a word about the importance of protecting american lives in that region. he pulled back a few of these
troops. the rest have kind of been in many ways abandoned there. we still have to be able to successfully withdraw them frlgt ar from that area. but they are now in harms way. obviously the turks almost bombed near those positions a few days ago, so they're vulnerable. and this president ought to be taking every step necessary to make sure that our men and women in uniform are protected. and he is not speaking to that, and that concerns me. >> and one of your successors, the secretary of defense, is saying that he's not going to comply with subpoenas or with requests, i should say, from the house investigating committee, the impeachment inquiry. the acting chief of staff mick mulvaney and other top officials. what do you think their obligation should be with this ongoing committee?
>> well, you know, there is an impeachment inquiry going on. and that's important. it is a power that's provided by the constitution of the united states, to hold the president of the united states accountable. and it is important for people to cooperate with that inquiry. whether you're a democrat or republican, we ought to be able to find the truth. that's what an impeachment inquiry is all about. but when they resist cooperating, when they resist subpoenas, all they're doing is sending a message to the country that there's something to hide and they don't want to be truthful with the congress in this inquiry. that in and of itself can become an article of impeachment. >> leon panetta, thank you very much, on a very tough day in washington. thank you for joining us.
let's go to nbc's kelly o'donnell. we're awaiting from the joint news conference, but we certainly heard from the president today. now there's more and more testimony, mike mckinley, former top adviser to mike pompeo, an ambassador to three different countries, is up there testifying. we understand that the politics of the state department have now become something that he could not continue to participate in, or at least observe, so he quit on friday. >> reporter: andrea, i would imagine that the impeachment issues related to things like that, where you have firsthand accounts from people who have served this administration, some of the president's closest allies, in the case of secretary pompeo, or inside the white house, with the former nsc official who have all given testimony behind closed doors, that paints a picture of a white house that does use influence with political agenda items that are important to the president
in places where official government lanes should have been open and free of that. expect questions on that today. and certainly picking up on your conversation with senator corker and former chief of staff and secretary leon panetta about all the complexities of the u.s. position with respect to turkey and syria and how fraught this is for a president who has campaigned and trumpetted bringing u.s. servicemembers home. yet he is not embracing the responsibility, based on the questions put to him a short time ago with italy's president in the oval office, an extended question and answer. the president was defensive, saying that, for example, u.s. nuclear material that is stored in turkey is safe, not going into detail about the potential ongoing threat to that, given the change in circumstances there. also saying that turkey and
syria are handling their own business and that it is not the concern of the united states. and at the same time emphasizing that turkey is a nato ally. so what is the importance to this president about the power of those relationships when in one breath he strengthens the notion of this nato alliance and in another talks about the economic harm he could bring to turkey, andrea. >> kelly o'donnell at the white house. joining me, nbc white house correspondent geoff bennett. geoff, the testimony so far this week and last has been devastating as reported in all your interviews with those who have been present at these hearings. what are you expecting now today? >> reporter: well, we know, andrea, michael mckinley is testifying behind closed doors. he was the former top adviser to secretary of state mike pompeo, his chief of staff until his abrupt resignation last friday. i'm told by a source familiar
that mckinley is painting a picture for house investigators of the political pressure that was applied and in some cases is still being applied to career officials in the state department, apolitical folks, in particular as it relates to this ukraine controversy. i'm told mckinley was particularly outraged by, galled by the unceremonious and some might say unwarranted ouster of marie yovanovitch, former ambassador to ukraine. he had a 37-year in the state department before he worked side by side with secretary of state mike pompeo. he had a number of posts in central and south america, also in afghanistan. so his departure raised a lot of eye brows, his abrupt resignation raised a lot of questions. we expect he's giving house investigators more insight on what was happening in and around the state department around the time rudy giuliani and his associates were running this influence campaign. what's so interesting about this record testimony is you can
start to see how democrats, andrea, are stitching together the story. they have this tapestry now of evidence and testimony, not just about this call, but everything that lead ted up to it and everything that came after it. what we're hearing is the way marie yovanovitch was targeted by this smear campaign led by rudy giuliani and his associates. why? because she was one of those people who didn't necessarily know what rudy giuliani was up to and she was raising concerns about this influence campaign. she was making the point that if anyone is going to have contacts with ukrainian officials about american interests, it should be her given her role as the u.s. ambassador. of course that did not happen. she was targeted and unceremoniously ousted from her position. she's back here at georgetown, still a member of the foreign service, andrea. >> geoff bennett, of course and i know from covering these people just how important their roles are or used to be in other administrations, as ambassadors. and speaking of ambassadors,
joining us now, former u.s. ambassador to russia and nbc international affairs analyst michael mcfaul. michael, you know better than anyone the importance of an ambassador with the knowledge of yovanovitch about russia, ukraine, and the relationships there. george kent, who was also a witness in the impeachment inquiry, was in charge after being the number two at the embassy. he came back to be the deputy assistant secretary for europe and in charge of the anticorruption efforts and knows very well who the bad actors were in ukraine. it turns out the bad actors were some of the guys giuliani was dealing with. >> exactly. you just summed it up, andrea, that's exactly right. and what you see here in addition to that is a clear cleavage between the professional diplomats, ambassador mckinley, ambassador yovanovitch, and others who have testified, versus the outsiders.
the biggest outsider is someone who has nothing to do with diplomacy, mr. giuliani, but also ambassador sondland who paid for the position. he was the eu ambassador with no experience in ukraine. never has the european union ambassador been involved in this. and you see a clash. on the one hand, people trying to advance america's national interests and on the other hand, the throw amigos, as they call themselves, trying to advance president trump's personal reelection efforts. >> how do you think this should play out now that they are assembling step by step insider accounts with people who are bravely stepping forward, some giving up their careers, mike mckinley and others having had to quit over this. how do you think this plays out legally or in terms of the politics of impeachment? >> well, legally, i'll defer to others who are more expert. i think what it does underscore is how grossly inept and just
broken down the trump foreign policy making process is. by the way, this is not just a ukraine story. i think you see the exact same thing happening with respect to this decision on syria, where instead of having an interagency process where the president sits in the white house situation room next to a secretary of defense, next to a secretary of state and the entire members of the nsc, he's sitting in his residence on the phone, based on his intuition or personal interests is a way to conduct foreign policy. i think it's a complete disaster for american national security interests. whether it's illegal or not, i'll leave to other people to judge. but in this case, in both cases but especially the ukrainian case, you know, what we're seeking to achieve in terms of our national security is being undermined by the personal interests of the president and these lieutenants he's hired to help him in the process. >> in the last 24 hours, erdogan
in turkey has said he will immediate in a number of days with vladimir putin but has indicated he does not want to meet with vice president pence and secretary of state pompeo who are headed to the region. >> extraordinary. >> what does it tell you? >> it tells me the breakdown in bilateral relations between turkey and the united states are at the lowest point than i can ever remember. by the way, that's just another example of how we have not been practicing diplomacy in the trump years, that engagement. number two, yes, vladimir putin is the big winner here. they are joyous in moscow. you should watch the television these days. after an impasse, they were disappointed with what president trump did for them after he won election. but now they are seeing the returns on that investment, where they tried to help president trump win in 2016, in the two domains, andrea, that
were the most confrontational when i was in the government, ukraine and syria. we spent more time arguing with vladimir putin about those two different portfolios. and on both now you see capitulation from president trump. these are big, giant victories for vladimir putin. >> michael mcfaul, ambassador mcfaul, thank you very much, joining us from stanford today. and at any moment we expect that press conference from president trump and the president of italy. you see the east room but i don't believe the reports are in there yet, a lot of empty seats. we'll bring that to you as soon as it starts. up next, elizabeth warren fending off attacks from all sides at last night's debate. stay with us. >> at least bernie is being honest here and saying how he's going to pay for this and that taxes are going up. i'm sorry, elizabeth, you have not said that.
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it certainly looked as though the democratic contenders had decided there was a new frontrunner on the debate stage last night as they gave joe biden a pass, peretty much, and instead all piled on elizabeth warren. >> your signature, senator, is to have a plan for everything except this. >> i went on the floor and got you votes. i got votes for that bill. i convinced people to vote for it. >> when i called on twitter to suspend donald trump's account that you did not agree, and i would urge you to join me. >> i want to give a reality check here to elizabeth because no one on this stage wants to protect billionaires, not even the billionaire wants to protect billionaires. your idea is not the only idea. >> joining me now, nbc news correspondent mike memoli. jim messina, former deputy white house chief of staff to president obama. and jonathan capehart, columnivity for "the washington post" and an msnbc contributor. welcome, all.
mike memoli, you are in columbus, ohio, i think, expecting to see joe biden pretty soon. >> that's right. >> he had a pretty good night. what's your take? you're closer to it. >> first of all, andrea, this has become something of a tradition in your hour on the days after a debate. we expect the vice president to be pulling up literally any moment behind me. he's about to tour a union facility here. you're right, after five months in which joe biden has been the center of the conversation in this democratic primary, especially in these debates, he had a good night. he had some strong moments. not flawless moments, of course. but there were some other candidates who probably had stronger moments, including candidates who are really increasingly making an overt play for the kind of voters joe biden has been trying to appeal to in this primary. so it will be interesting, as we've heard from biden advisers now in terms of the road ahead, they feel there was an opening given to him by the co-fron
co-front-runner, elizabeth warren warren, on foreign policy. he plans to give a speech today on foreign policy and president trump's abdication of responsibility in the middle east. this is an opportunity for him to bring back the conversation to what is an area of strength for him, of course, and that is foreign policy. >> and jim messina, what about elizabeth warren and the efforts by amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg as well to try to come at her and put out a more centrist vision, sort of a non-biden position? >> yeah, welcome to the general election, or the frontrunner status for elizabeth warren. she got flack from all sides and i think she handled it pretty well, with one exception, andrea. this is the first time you've seen her sort of do the frontrunner dance of not wanting to get pinned down. she wasn't able to answer about her health care plan and taxes when the other candidates were. this is a problem for her brand. her brand is honest, truth
teller willing to fight power. last night she wouldn't talk about whether she would raise taxes. she wouldn't talk about how her plan would deal with obamacare. there's a problem, she's looking toward the general election, she's saying, if i win, and i could, i don't want to take positions that could hurt me in a general election against joe biden. that's a real problem when you're trying to win the primary. that was the one weak moment where she started to seem like she was dancing like a typical politician. besides that, i thought she had a very good night, pushed hard, stayed on message and parised te blows coming at her from every side. >> and joe biden addressed his son hunter. let's take a look at that. >> my son's statement speaks for itself. i did my job. i never discussed a single thing
with my son about anything to do with ukraine. no one has indicated i have. my son made a judgment. i'm proud of the judgment he made. i'm proud of what he had to say. and let's focus on this. the fact of the matter is, that this is about trump's corruption. that's what we should be focusing on. >> jonathan capehart. how do you think he did? how do you think he handled that? >> i think he handled it well. he knew the question was coming. obviously also because hunter biden did that interview that landed that morning. i think the vice president benefitted from two things. one, his opponents by and large don't want to get into that fight. they don't want to hammer him over that. one, because the democratic electorate has shown through all of these debates that when the democrats fight each other,
they -- the person who does the attacking bears the brunt of the responsibility from the folks who are watching. but the other thing is, looking at vice president biden, compared to president trump and president trump's children, i think also makes it possible for the vice president to say, look, i'm taking responsibility, i've put out thissethi ethics plan er today, let's focus on corruption and the corruption is right there in the building behind you in the white house. i know there's a lot of debate about whether the vice president wants to be on this ground talking about these things. but i do think it sets up a nice, nice in the sense of a clear contrast, between what's actually happening in the white house and what never happened when it comes to vice president biden and his son. >> the only question i would have about that is, jim messina,
the president has this twitter following, he has the mega phone, and he is going to keep going after all of his opponents, but particularly joe biden, about hunter biden. >> yeah, look, i think that's not great ground for the president to go on, right? i want to talk a little bit about the vice president's decision to put his kid on tv the day of the debate. i'm not sure why hunter biden is doing interviews on the day your dad is trying to move a separate message, i'm not sure he did his dad any favors on that. but going forward, i agree with jonathan, this is good ground for the democrats to say let's be very clear about the differences here. we've laid out a plan that says ethically the kids can't have any deals with foreign governments. and meanwhile, the president's children are doing things that are insane politically and the president will have to defend
these in a general election debate with whoever the nominee is. jonathan is right, this is not great ground for trump and it's going to continue to be brought back to trump. if he wants a fight about this, it's going to go right back to his kids. >> and mike memoli, you're in the best position to tell us, why did they decide to try to inoculate against this on the day of the debate? >> well, andrea, it's interesting, in my conversations with the campaign and those close to the family about how this all went down, it would be wrong to say that the campaign orchestrated the interview and the timing of the interview. but it would be wrong to say as well that they were unaware of it. i think what this is about is hunter biden seeing that not only is he under attack by the president and his allies but his father is, and he wanted to do something to step up, after his campaign frankly said he didn't need to come forward and do that. it did help the former vice president in this respect, it gave him an opportunity, when the questions were posed to him,
to simply defelect and say this has been asked and answered. there are still questions, but it was interesting, of course, to see especially cory booker to come to the defense of the former vice president. in the spin room, i was talking to other candidates last night, they were very much treading carefully but leaning in the direction of echoing cory booker and saying they feel the vice president has done enough to address this for now. >> jonathan capehart, what about bernie sanders? he looked vigorous and people were very affected by his thank you, his acknowledgement for all the good wishes from the other candidates as well as the larger public. at the same time, he's now getting some big endorsements, everyone but presley in the squad, starting with aoc, endorsing him yesterday. >> he looked vibrant, vigorous, as loud as ever, as he always is
in those debates. those endorsements are coming out this weekend, it's just another sign that between those endorsements and his fundraising in this last quarter, he's not going anywhere. his poll numbers might be coming down, but his campaign is still chugging along vigorously. >> and jonathan, what about those fundraising numbers? we see a much higher burn rate now for buttigieg. these had an extraordinary success in fund raising and he's now beginning to spend it on infrastructure in the early voting states. >> right. i talked to folks in his campaign early on, when he had that breakout moment in march. and they knew they were caught flat-foot flat-footed. their assumption was the first debate in june would be where he got the breakout moment and instead it came two or three months earlier. so they not only didn't have the
infrastructure in place but they didn't have enough money to create the infrastructure. now they've got the money, now they've got not the time, but they know what they need to do now. and so it does make sense that mayor pete buttigieg is spending the money that he has to put in place the infrastructure that will make it possible, they hope, to last beyond iowa, beyond new hampshire, nevada, south carolina, and into super tuesday. >> super tuesday being key, of course, with midwestern states playing a role as well. jim messina, we understand joe biden may be appearing very shortly. we'll turn to mike memoli for that. but how is biden holding up under this onslaught that continues from the white house? >> i think he did pretty well last night. i think he showed a little fight when answering the question about his son. he's trying very hard to stick to his economic message. >> and speaking -- >> i think he's doing okay.
>> speaking of that, he's speaking right now. let's listen. >> you all have copies of it before it was delivered. but i'm ready to take your questions. >> reporter: mr. vice president, on foreign policy, are you concerned that when elizabeth warren says pulling out of the middle east is the same kind of america first policy that -- >> i'm frankly surprised, i've never heard anyone say with any serious background in foreign policy that we pull all troops out of the middle east. and i'm not sure exactly what she meant by it, if she meant pulling our fleet out of the eastern mediterranean or the persian gulf, i think it would be an absolute disaster for american security and american foreign policy. we have already significantly undermined the confidence of our allies in our reliabiliti.
after world war ii our fathers and mothers put together a security apparatus that were not just designed to keep russia, then the soviet union, from invading europe. they were to keep europe from fighting with one another. they were to keep us together so no one nation could abuse power. and i hope she didn't mean in a literal sense, because i think it would be a disaster for american security and american foreign policy. >> reporter: sir, we are a little over three months away from the iowa caucuses and your campaign is burning through a lot of cash, your rivals have more than you, bernie sanders has more than three times the amount you have in his bank account. are you confident that you're
going to have the resources if this primary carries all the way 'til june? >> i am. i am confident. >> reporter: are you changing anything operationally? >> remember, we got started later than anybody at all in this campaign, number one. number two, we did not start off by dropping $10 million from a senate campaign, wherever that money was raised from, into a race. number three, we've been in the process of having about a third of the time that many people have had. and we're doing fine. our fundraising is building. we've raised a lot of money online and we've raised money offline as well. so we feel confident we're going to be ready. >> reporter: it felt last night like it was somebody else with the target on their back that is the center of the conversation. do you still feel like the
frontrunner or is it a good thing to see the attacks going in other directions? >> it's about time other people get questioned. i haven't seen any polling showing that nationally on average that anybody else is the frontrunner. you guys keep talking about that. i think elizabeth warren has done very well, she's moved. but now that she has moved and is taken more seriously, people are going to ask her about, you know, a little candor here, tell us how you're going to do what you say you're going to do. what i found interesting last night is two things. if you notice, all my colleagues in the past on the stage talked about biden is naive. did you hear the closing statements? they all had an epiphany, guess what, we're going to work with republicans. we have to do it. the second thing i observed was that all of a sudden everybody likes the biden health care plan. it's the same plan.
and that's a good thing. there's a focus. public opinion is changing across the board based on recent polling data and stuff that's come out today. so i'm feeling awfully good about last night's debate. >> reporter: you said from the beginning on impeachment that the president should be impeached if he does not comply with congress. but now we're seeing that with vice president mike pence and secretary pompeo. do you think they should be removed from office as well? >> look, let's do one thing at a time. this will be a giant undertaking, impeaching a president who deserves to be impeached because he's indicted himself. this is a good thing fdifficult the nation to go through. we talk about, let's have all these impeachment parties. i've been through two of them, two presidents being impeached, and it's deadly, deadly earnest. look, this is a constitutional issue. focus on the constitution. the irony is the very day the
constitution was signed, when benjamin franklin came out and said, what are you giving us, mr. franklin, and he said, a republican, if you can keep it. when washington was sworn in, he talked about the greatest concern a new republic has is influence from foreign powers. it's ironic that we learned about mr. trump asking for foreign powers to intervene on the same day. this is a constitutional issue that should be taken as a deadly serious matter. this should be done one at a time. other people like rudy giuliani and others may end up in jail, they don't have to be impeached, at least the two thugs he had with him have been indicted. and they've been totally discredited. i think we should just be -- this is a very serious undertaking. >> reporter: how do you convince
primary voters that you're a better choice than bernie sanders when alexandria ocasio-cortez just announced that he is her guy? >> that's how i do it.-- did yo that your son is taken up your job and maybe he's not doing this or fend off this whole situation. >> my son's comment and i am very proud of my son. my son's comment speaks for itself. let's keep the focus here. the president of the united states says he wants to talk about corruption. well, let's talk about corruption. he's the most corrupt government in the history of united states of america. number one. number two, he's in a position where as he talks about corruption, he's engaged in practices that in fact everyone
around the world, how in god's name this man can be doing that while he's president. mr. president, you want to talk about corruption, i released 21 years of my tax returns. i made no money while i was in there other than my salary. mr. president, even richard nixon released his tax returns. mr. president, release your tax returns or shut up. >> no, i don't. i never discuss with my son and having anything to do with what's going on in ukraine. here is a look, guys, let's focus on the problem here. the corrupt president engaging -- the reason why he's
running after him because he knows i will beat him like a drum. he understands that. have you heard anybody going out and getting the special interests all of whom i have beaten, the nra, the gun manufactures and the healthcare people across the board, have you ever heard any time they spent millions of dollars going into a primary or another party to try to eliminate a candidate from trying to beat a candidate before they can get a chance to beat them. come on. this is so obvious. as i said rudy giuliani and the hench men and trump's lawyers. how many of these folks are in jail? these are the president's people for god's sake. this is a thoroughly corrupt t outl outlet. if i am not mistaken and i did not coordinate any of this with my son. i didn't know he was having this long discussion for some time with abc. i guess it is abc, was it abc?
i believe it is abc. he pointed out the reason why he regretted it is because he did not anticipate like thug like rudy giuliani would use to in fact try to embarrass his father. they're thugs. the reason why i set up the idea that i laid out had nothing to do with hunter. >> as we hear the former vice president saying release your taxes mr. president or shut up about the conflict of interest. here is the president with the president of italy. >> today is my honor to welcome president sergio of italy to the white house. we have known each other for a while and we had some really great conversations. we had a productive discussion throughout the day with our staffs and representatives that
i look forward to hosting our president and his daughter laura. >> i look forward to it very much. we are bound together dating back to thousands of years to ancient rome. the italian people have blessed our scivilization with magnificent works of arts. we paid tribute to our italian explore who led a voyage of discovery to the new world, christopher columbus. to me it will always be called columbus' day. some people don't like that. i do. today the united states and italy draws a strength from our heritage as we work together to safe guard our people and
promote prosperity as nato allies our countries cooperate closely defense issues including the protection of our nations against radical islamic terrorism. the problem is that italy is only paying 1.1% instead of the mandated 2% which is a low number. it should be 4%. anywhere from 4% to 5%. only eight of the 28 nato countries are paying the 2% meaning 20 of the country are delinquent of the payment to nato and they have been for many years. germany is at 1.3% at most depending on calculations. spain is atless than 1%. i want to just thank secretary general sultonburg because he's
going around saying president trump was able to raise over $100 billion last year which was true. it is still only a large fraction. a large fraction of the amount of money that's owed by many of the countries that are not paying their dues. we hope that italy will boost its offense spending in order to meet nato's minimum 2% of gdp. i will say they have just purchased and we learned about it today, 90 brand new beautiful f 35s. the straight fighter, the program is doing phenomenaly well. one of our challenges facing nato is instability and the mediterranean north africa areas and much of the volatility region stems from the violence in libya which is close to italy border. the president and i were talking about that at a great lengt length -- big problem. the ongoing libya conflict led
to a migration crisis and unfair burden on italy in familiar. i asked the european union to get more involved. if they are not involved enough, that's a problem with the european union. they do well with us on trade. they had a trade surplus with the united states over the last five or six years about $150 billion a year. they have to get more involved to help italy. the italian government has stepped up as a leader to fight this illegal immigration. we urge also nato and our european partner to uphold sovereign borders. immigration control is critical to national security and essential to the well-being of our citizens, nations must be able to vet screen and manage. the legislation that we have passed, we had no help from the
democrats, the closure of loopholes which would be easy to do and they refused do. they want open borders and italy does not want open borders and we are not going to have open borders. i want to thank the president of mexico for the great help they have given us. they helped us much more than a democrats. here in the united states we taken dramatic action to secure our borders, speed the removal of illegal immigrants. we are moving the ms 13 gang members out literally by the thousands. they're getting out, we are dropping them out of our country and they can't come back. what we have done with guatemala and honduras and el salvador. the agreement that we have signed, they accept them back and they keep them back. it is a much different relationships than we have had with those three countries.
i want to thank the leadership of those three countries. we have been working well together. our message is clear. if you enter illegally, the united states, you will be promptly returned home. they're all returning home. takes a long time because we had years of people coming and staying and that's the end of that. president mattarella also discuss the steps of our two countries. we invest billions of dollars in each other's economies. without the burdens as unfair as they are imposed by the european union, we would have a much higher number than $70 billion between italy and the united states. however, we can do more and we can achieve fairness and reciprocity which we don't have now. america's trade deficit with italy accounts 150 to
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radical policies failing us in new mexico with families, education, overspendings, they understand they have opportunity to replace career politicians looking for their next seat. >> todd: get your thoughts, shocking video showing storming a news station. take a look. [screaming] >> todd: the carley and violence embolden in central and south america, do you worry about violence like that in the u.s.? >> of course, when you have open border, when you are not securing the border and have people with free reign, no opportunity to check those people and make sure who is entering the country, there is compromise for safety of every
paid for tickets to other parts of the country. she recognizes and understands those nuances. and she also has relationships of understanding of foreign policy, to work with our allies. not just in mexico but throughout central and south america. where a bulk of the illegal immigration is coming from. so i would say that she does have a level of specificity in understanding of this problem. and is willing to make the tough decisions. because here is the reality. the white house can solve this problem tomorrow. they. >> do you really think? so that the white house can, the white house tried to solve this issue and it's not been in a 24 hour window. >> sure because, this all started with donald trump, let's be frank. donald trump is the one that changed the policy in the department of homeland security to treat everyone as an asylum seeker. because he wanted to see and increase, and in the problem so