we ve heard from nancy pelosi and other democrats on the hill who want to get this over as quickly as possible. there are concerns if they let it extend through the 2020 election season, it could increasingly pea seen as a political act, an election year attempt to try to undermine the president. but as the president hits the campaign trail later this week and next week, we re going to really see him try to run on this impeachment mantle, try to make the case the democrats are trying to take him down from the very first day he took control of the oval office. the democrats were trying to get him, undermine the 2016 election and it gives him this platform to be able to run as this victim which is something he likes to do. we re seeing in many ways here very similar trump traits on display in response to this. you have an unusually good sense of him. do you think he views this as a different kind of threat than he s faced before in his
powered by vmware. a single hub for a consistent operating experience across all your clouds. that should clear things up. welcome back to hardball. turkey s vice president said, quote, it would not react to threats from president trump as it continues its preparation for a military offensive against u.s. allied kurdish forces. this comes just days after president trump siped off on a small turkish incursion into syria and then turned around and threatened turkey with obliteration. earlier today republican senator bill cassidy told politico that president trump was reconsidering that decision. yesterday senator lindsey graham said he would put forward a resolution asking to change course, but it s unclear if he
bureaucracy and to protect that we ll overturn a democratically elected president. let me be categorical here, this is preposterous. what trump is calling a deep state in the united states is in fact patriots who recognize that they, a, work for the american people, and b, their sworn allegiance is to the constitution. they do not work for a president. james comey, of course, a pillar of the so-called deep state told me he thought in that sense, yes, there is a deep state in this country because it is protecting us and preserving the rule of law when we have elected officials trying to rub shot over it. and the idea of a deep state intersects with ukraine. we talk about was the president trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden, his potential 2020 opponent? but the other aspect of it is ukorean is central in a lot of ways or a key player in terms of
and i would imagine it may have strong bipartisan support. i don t know if they ll pursue it to the point they ll overcome a pezdential veto if the president decides to stick to this policy position, but who can really say what he ll do. but i agree with congressman that damage is being done here every time we fail to live up to our commitments our strengthen globally depends on our relationships and i think the damage is being done here, and i think we re looking at years of work to repair not only this relationship with the kurds but other relationships with our allies abroad. susan rice president trump s president obama, excuse me she slammed president trump s decision to pull back turkish troops from syria. she called the president s decision crazy. take a look. it seems like six days a week i just put my head in my hands.
with ukraine. the president s attempts to undermine the credibility of the whistle-blower had been hampered by a second whistle-blower claiming to have first-hand knowledge of his actions. the president told reporters yesterday he is not worried. not at all because the call was a perfect call. you had stenographers, people who took it down exactly. it was a perfect call. it s just a scam. it s a scam by the democrats to try to win an election they re not going to win in 2020. meanwhile the associated press reports, quote, the white house is finalizing a high stakes strategy to counter the impeachment threat to president trump. stall, obfisicate, attack, repeat as lawmakers seek to amass amination to be used in an impeachment trial the white house increasingly believes all out warfare is its best course of action. for more i m joined by jill colvin the white house reporter for the associated press, and