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Discovered a weird combination of encouraging, confusing and ultimately alarming circumstances. there was an irregular informal channel of u.s. policy making with respect to ukraine, one which include then special envoy kurt volker, u.s. ambassador to ther, european union gordon sondland . secretary of energy rick perry. and as ier subsequently learned mr. giuliani. taylor then. describes meeting month later when a staffer from the office of management and budget made him realize that this irreg...

President and lindsey graham should know better and frankly i think they do. but this issue is what you are talking about as well, mary katherine, impeachment is a directive that the founding fathers gave and said to check an abuse of power you have this as an option. you can exercise that. the president seemed to disregard the notion of the constitutional mandate of checking powers, separation of powers as being too inconvenient to take seriously. that is also an issue. >> stick around. we have...

To pull the troops out quickly like he did in syria. is there any indication a decision like that might be coming from the president? >> officials told us theres no directive from the white house to withdraw troops from afghanistan at this time. this is more officials kind of reading the president, trying to guess where his next move might be because of a couple of things. this is a president who talked since he came into office about pulling out of -- not just afghanistan, but syria and elsewhe...

The situation in syria. >> where we see american interests at stake or fundamental norms around the world that need to be enforced, well use all the powers that we have. you suggested the economic powers that weve used. well certainly use them. well use our diplomatic powers as well. those are our preference. we prefer peace to war, but in the event that military action is needed, you should know that president trump is fully prepared to undertake that action. >> elsewhere in the middle east, th...

>> gillian: this is a fox news alert, waiting presidents comments meeting with the cabinet as we speak. and obviously syria is top of mind. the president is going to explain the u.s. directive in syria. and the refocus. and how u.s. troops according to president trump should be more focused on guarding those oilfields, and less so on guarding the kurds. he has made some the comments about not only syria and turkey, and how turkey may in fact pay if they are committing atrocities, but also the ro...

Have both been called down to that committee. the question is will they cooperate because they are in the nsc, right, thats whats so entlesing abo interesting about the back half of the week. most of what were hearing what happened before this phone call or leading up to it. this gives the atmosphere if they do indeed decide to comply, the atmospherics, inside the nfc, before and after, during the call the president had in late july. all of that said, the official directive and the official orde...

Thought about the influence that was wielded by the attorney, making things happen, or not happen at the state department, or whether or not it was a reflection of the leadership of the state departments secretary of state. what are people saying, thinking, and feeling about -- from where is the directive coming. >> recent weeks show us that the directive for what happened in ukraine has come from the president, but who has had the presidents ear? and i have never seen anything like this where d...

The presidents actions are impeachable. while only 20% of republicans agree. and u.s. ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland testified under subpoena yesterday as part of the house impeachment inquiry into president trump. according to "the new york times," sonland told congressional investigators that trump delegated american foreign policy on ukraine to personal lawyer rudy giuliani, a directive he said disagreed with but nonetheless followed. the times reported that sondland test...

Donald trump, is saying i didnt rob anything, he acted on his own. thats essentially where hes going to go. the only thing that was missing yesterday after mulvaneys statement, and im not joyce, but the only thing that was missing was someone should have came in and read him his rights because he confessed to a crime right in front of national television. and donald trump is not going to go down with him, though i think he absolutely brought donald trump down. and i think in many ways cemented t...

Mentioned that -- excuse me -- you mentioned the united states opposed turkeys incursion into northern syria and erdogan always want add safe zone here. what concessions did you chi actually get from president erdogan and terms that they would comply and said they wouldnt do before and with the u.s. sanction in terms with them then moving south how do you address critics that call this second abandonment from the kurds? >> youll see from the agreement itself what concessions were made. president...