Consequential testimony to date in the impeachment inquiry. Here are the headlines President Trump woke up to this morning. The Washington Post says new testimony undercuts the president s claim of no quid pro quo on ukraine. The New York Times says ukraine envoy testifies trump linked military aid to investigations. And this from the wall street journal, diplomat says trump tied ukraine aid to probes into biden and alleged election interference. In other words, there was a quid pro quo. Ambassador bill taylor told congress that multiple Senior Administration officials informed him the president personally blocked military aid to ukraine and refused to meet with that countrys new president unless he agreed to investigate joe biden in the 2016 u. S. Election. Quid pro quo. Taylors testimony refutes President Trump and his loyalists and includes intricate detail and were told its based on meticulous notes. And also breaking news in the 2020 race. A new cnn National Poll out shows former
officials. he s there discussing the u.s. withdrawal of troops from syria and the attempt to redeploy them in iraq. cnn s crist ann amanpour spoke with esper about the situation along the syria/turkish border and a possible isis resurgence. here s part of her interview. we see an army captain who has talked to the new york times and basically said, i joined the army to prevent genocide, not to pave the way for it. we ve even seen the head of the senate republicans, the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell write a very, very pointed op-ed in which he said the combination of a u.s. pullback and escalating turkish/kurdish hostilities is creating a strategic nightmare for our country. even if the five dhaf cease-fire holds, it s set back the united states campaign against the islamic state and other terrorists. unless halted, our retreat, he calls it a retreat, will invite the brutal assad regime in syria