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Report in the post because it shows a growing number of republican senators are ready to acknowledge president trumps quid pro quo on ukraine, dismissing it as not an impeachable offense. but what exactly are they missing about why this threatens u.s. national security? >> i dont think theyre missing the threat to national security, but i do think that they want desperately to avoid impeaching the president. you know, look, the question is, did he do something illegal, like you or i might do som...

Going to show how one day americans will cry and beg for their life. >> we have christopher dicky, msnbc contributor and what is the difference between the isis threat over a week ago and the isis threat today? >> i think that there may be more motivation on the part of some of the isis partisans and jihadists and would-be jihadists but i dont think that they have any more capabilities today than they had a week ago, maybe they dont have as many as they had a week ago. so i think these are the k...

Troops back, we dont bring them home, we betray the kurds, and we get involved in this weird quasi--colonial shakedown operation about syrian oil. >> christopher, turning to the impeachment inquiry there, new details in the british press today that characterize what attorney general william barr asked the u.k. government to dig up saying theyre asking in quite robust terms for help in doing a hashtag job on their own intelligence services. what more can you tell us about that? >> you have to rem...

The turkish-backed militias continued attacks yesterday on kurdish fighters pushing them farther northwest where the displaced kurds also are flowing into those areas. this comes days after president trump celebrated what he called a great outcome in syria. >> todays announcement validates our course of action with turkey, that only a couple of weeks ago was scorned, and now people are saying, wow, what a great outcome. congratulations. >> joining me now is christopher dicky, world news editor w...

Symbolizes what they may be feeling. some security experts fear also a potential resurgence of isis after prisoners escaped from camps in syria. how do you think that isis and the threat will play out? >> i think isis will gain a lot of strength from this. among other things, who would fight isis on the ground now? we know that bashar al assad released isis prisoners in order for them to create a jihadist force that he could then say he is fighting as terrorism, but he never fought isis, the tur...

Gut, apparently, just decided to pull american troops out of the way, so that erdogan could invade northern syria. this is not foreign policy. this is whim. this is caprice. this is sure stupidity. and, shear stupidity, and now trump is trying to make it look like an unconventional victory of some kind. but he sold out kurdish ally, sold them out to turkey, which is more lose to russia and in the process of selling out ukraine, make no mistake about that because his only interest in ukraine is t...

Never hear about this, and christopher, what do you think? >> well, i think youre exactly right, i think the issue here is not trying to reveal trumps sensitive conversations about matters of state. the issue here is that a lot of people, right around trump, listened in on that conversation, with president zelensky of ukraine and said this is clearly an abuse of power. we better hide this transcript. and you know, jo, something to remember, we still have not seen the actual complete transcript o...

Snippets of conversations about military aid to ukraine, president trumps request for investigations, and fears they might be connected to his re-election campaign. this week, more reports surfaced that the president requested help from the u.k., italy, and australia, to dig up the origins of the mueller investigation. thats separate from the presidents request of investigations into joe and hunter biden. first privately, in a secret phone call to the ukraines prime minister, and now, almost cyn...

>> given all we know about this, what is your best guess on how this impasse gets resolved? >> my best guess is if it is going to be resolved, it will be resolved by, or begin to be resolved by meeting between trump and rouhani, the iranian president. i think that that is probably the best way to go at this point. and the iranians probably think it is the best way to go, too, looking at the record of trumps meetings with kim jong-un, where the meetings get a lot of play, things get calmed down, ...

People are very surprised and many people are extremely happy. >> joining me now, christopher diggy, world news editor with the daily beast, and msnbc contributor, christopher, your argument is this may be less to show strength and more the president seeing an offramp in irans denial but now that the u.s. has used the toughest sanctions available and is deploying more troops to the middle east, what else is left, besides a military option? >> i think trump will avoid military action if at all po...