In san rafael and one in morocco would love to see you there. We like books. We are happy you are here tonight. My first memory of john lithgow is seeing him as a paranoid passenger in a 1983 remake of the classic Twilight Zone episode nightmare at 20,000 feet. Absolutely terrifying. Its impossible to list all the films plays and Television Series featuring john lithgow but heres a sampling. On television he played dyck sullivan in the sitcom third rock from the sun. Arthur mitchell and dexter and Sir Winston Churchill and the crown. Wonderful. His credits include harry in the hendersons, shrek, love is strange, the world according to dark and terms of endearment. He played disgrace late fox news ceo roger ailes in the upcoming film bombshell. I understand thats coming out in time for christmas. And hanukkah, excuse me. On the stage he has appeared in Sweet Success and dirty Rotten Scoundrels and he made his wellsite Shakespeare Company debut as mel bodio in 12 tonight. Last year he st
You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Michael we begin with york host we begin with your thoughts. The last of the u. S. Forces have left syria as fighting between turkey and the kurds escalate over the weekend. Your reaction to the president s decisions. We will get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with mark esper, the defense secretary on the sunday shows. He was on face the nation, and here is what he had to say about the decision to withdraw these troops. [indiscernible] a deliberate [video clip] a deliberate withdraw from the entire country . From Northern Syria. 1000 troops. How long and over what time period . It will be a deliberate withdraw and we want to conduct it as safely as possible. We want to make sure we deconflict a pullback of forces and dont leave equipment behind. I am not prepared to put a timeline on it. You said you are doing this for u. S. Force protection. The armies are advancing after the u. S. Pulled back, after the u. S. Air force,
And for our country. And to are this Incredible Company in brand in texas is an honor for all of us. I mean with syria . Were happy, i want to thank president erdogan of turkey, thank the leaders of the kurds. Many people came in to this for this. It was unconventional. But they saw it was not working out what they were doing. And were happy with the way it worked out. Very successful. And now over the next number of days, things will happen that will be positive, there is a lot of goodwill right now in turkey with kurds and everyone involved, membership people are involved many people are involved, i want to thank mike pence, mike pompeo, they did a fantastic job, all of my representative who went two days ago late in the evening, got there, not easy, a little bit dangerous also they did a fantastic job. Do you think it is over . I do. I think it will all work out now. I think they needed an unconventional touch, i am very unconventional, right. I knew 6 months ago, he told me at the
Origins of the impeachment inquiry. Let us go back to 2014, 2015, 2016, the Obama Administration. What is u. S. Policy toward ukraine at this time . Consistenteen fairly antiukraine on reform. That is been fairly consistent under both president obama and president trump. Under the Obama Administration, it was carried i his ambassadors to ukraine who have long played a strong role in ukraine working with politicians there to clean up corruption. What was then Vice President joe bidens role . Obamas point person in ukraine and carried that message for the president. He also oversaw the u. S. U. S. Messaging when it came to the conflict on ukraine and the russian annexation of crimea. And then the war began in Eastern Ukraine in the spring of that year. The first hot war in the region in an extremely long time. And biden really carried the messaging from obama. The United States that was worried about corruption in the ukraine at this time . For thes been an issue u. S. Allies in europe a
Last quarter but not enough to move the stock. Its down right now, higher shipping costs hitting the bottom line and a lot more we will discuss there. Wait until you see what happened during my interview with senator Marsha Blackburn. Varney company is about to begin right now. This is what people want to see done, and i got to tell you, summertime it might be hot but people are pretty happy campers. Charles real quick, you mentioned are you okay . Yes. Charles oh, my goodness. You just never know whats going to happen on live tv. That was my interview with senator Marsha Blackburn from yesterday. A pretty rousing interview to say the least. Going to be a rousing start this morning also. We just got the latest read on the economy. I want to bring in David Mcintosh with club for growth. David, just your initial reaction to these gdp numbers which i should let the audience know, the official consensus was 1. 8 . The wall street whisper number was 1. 3 . Obviously significantly better tha