security assistance to go through. so that is the gist of how ambassador sondland then replied to the ambassador of ukraine, saying there s no quid pro quo and explicitly saying he misunderstood what was happening and told the ambassador to call up the state department. interesting here, however, ambassador sondland, who also works for the state department, didn t call the state department here. he called president trump. we know that he is an ally of the president. sources know ambassador sondland, he was a donor of president trump s, and he had a direct phone line in. now, today, however, his testimony was blocked. it was expected to happen on the hill, but it was, the white house counsel who advised the state department not to allow him to go forth. the interesting thing here, however, is there s a bit of a wedge, because a statement from ambassador sondland s lawyer says that he would like to go
us. richard, let me start with you, talk through what you re hearing this morning from your sources on the ground there. reporter: so first of all, turkey is pushing back a little bit after president trump put out that tweet yesterday in which he said that in his unmatched wisdom it would be wise for turkey not to go too far because, if turkey launched a military offensive against the kurds beyond what he thought was morally acceptable, that trump would destroy and obliterate the tub oirk economy. i m not quoting it exactly. that was the gist of it. today the turkish vice president pushed back and said when it comes to matters of turkey s security, we set our limits and determine our priorities. so the world now is watching. u.s. troops in syria are watching. we are watching to see what turkey will do next. turkey believed that it got the green light from president trump in that sunday phone call
only words but the meaning and it s a disgrace that should not be allowed to happen. trump was referring to a statement in which shift paraphrased the gist of a phone call between trump and ukraine s president in which democrats say trump abused his office. or congressional democrats have launched an impeachment inquiry over the president s the ledge to abuses which trump has condemned as an attempt to subvert the will of the american voters. the white house is boosting its self defenses outside the security fence is being raised from 2 to 4 meets is to keep out unwanted visitors and inside it s all hands on deck for the impeachment inquiry on wednesday the president continued to defend himself against accusations of misusing his position as well as having acted against the u.s. constitution trump alleges he s facing a coup and he says he was in the rights to ask ukraine s president to investigate
democrats should be focused on building up our country, not wasting everyone s time and energy on bs, although he wrote the word, which is what they have been doing ever since i got overwhelmingly elected in 2016. 223-306. get a better candidate this time you ll need it. yesterday afternoon he got into this heated exchange with reuters white house reporter jeff mason but never answered the question. sir, what did you want president zelensky to do about vice president biden and his so hunter? are you talking to me? yeah, it was just a follow-up of what i just asked you, sir. listen. listen, are you ready? we have the president of finland, ask him a question. i have one for him i gist want to follow up on the one i asked you. did you hear me? did you hear me? yes. ask him a question. i ve given you a long answer. ask this gentleman a question. don t be rude. no, sir, i don t want to be rude, i just wanted grou have a chance to answer the question i ve asked you. i
ignored, utterly ignored. and trump, i m sure he s never read a page of hagel, the german plos fer, but he instinctually gets the gist of hagel. all human beings want recognition. what trump did was give recognition to the people, the electorate, that have been ignored by both parties and i feel sorry for the people. now, i know a lot of trump voters who even now can t give up, can t admit they were wrong because their pride s caught up in it. so we re in for an interesting election year. yeah, colonel ralph peters, appreciate it. thank you. thank you. next, a former diplomat weighs in on the secretary of state and the news he is making tonight. later, the first joint interview with presidential candidate elizabeth warren and a man you might not know too much about, her husband. so .how are you feeling? on a scale of one to five? one to five? it s more like five million. there s everything from happy to extremely happy. there s also angry. i m really angry clive!