security counsel or anybody else. the damage the president has done, the president has really stepped in it, and we re going to be the ones that have to pay for this. is there on that front or any other front is that going to express itself in the form of bipartisan legislation here? potentially but what we really have to do is step back and figure out where we got, and stg that the armed services committee investigate, we got answers from the pentagon, who do we talk to? do we talk to our generals, advisers, do we talk to the turks, the fact this president is continuously putting our national security, our alliances at risk is something i think we should all be very worried about. we mentioned that piece there from charlie psyches about lindsey graham.
trump left senior officials at the state department, pentagon and white house blind-sided. when a national security official told reuters, quote, there s a real sense nobody s going to stop trump from being trump at this stage, so in a tweet earlier today senator lindsey graham, a trump ally warned, quote, if turkey moves into northern sear dwru, a sanctions from hell by congress will follow. senator lindsey graham who s called this decision a disaster in the making has spent a lot of time cultivating this relationship with the president apparently trying to avoid this rash policy type decision. so why didn t the president listen to his close ally on this one? you re watching hardball. his s one? you re watching hardball. motor? nope. not motor? it s pronounced motaur.
of a number of counts of impeachment or will it be a separate count that you will fast track and use it to kind of hold over the president s head? because if it s separate i think from a communications point of view not a legislative one but a communications one, it would be a mistake because that s mud yg the waters about why we re going after the president. i think that s why we have to do the investigation, present whatever they re going to do, obstruction makes sense. the quid pro quo makes sen, have that and keep this as clean as possible. because what the president does, he denies, he delays, he deflects and right now we re getting perilously close to having a conversation about the process than what he did. arguing that the impeachment inquiry is, quote, alegitimate, the white house letter to pelosi says this. given your inquiry lacks any constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness the executive branch cannot be
congress a top secret briefing on the situation on northeast syria. the briefing comes amid a torrent of criticism from lawmakers from both parties. today president trump invited turkey s president erdogan to the white house. at the same time he pushed back against the criticism he was hanging a key ally out to dry. quote, we may be in the process of leaving syria but in no way have we abandoned the kurds who are special people and wonderful fighters. a top kurdish general told nbc news the president s decision was disappointing and that it hurts american credibility. he added that watching over isis prisoners locked up in syria has become a second priority. yesterday nbc reported president trump wanted to smooth things over the with turbish president who was upset he didn t get a one-on-one meeting with trump during the u.n. general assembly. an official tells nbc the president told erdogan that it would be unacceptable.
giuliani to testify before his committee. as the president s point man to ukraine giuliani has been trafficking in information that even the national security advisor said was completely debunked. my initial response was they re ready to throw rudy giuliani under the bus. if he has to testify under oath, he s not going to be answering lindsey graham s questions, he s going to be answering democratic senators, three of which are presidential candidates, i can t figure out how this reconciles and if he testifies in front of the senate, how does he not testify in front of the house? the whole thing seems a little bit off. again, it could be part of that deflection and process instead of focusing on what the president is being charged with or investigated for. nbc s jeff bennett there on capitol hill, thank tuesday all