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Khorasan and al qaeda and others are going to take those individuals hostage because they see america in a position of weakness when it comes to afghanistan. and then that is the worst situation you can have because you have americans held hostage overseas and that is a leverage point for the terrorist, our enemy and we will not be able to go and rescue them because this administration does not have a plan to do so and our intelligence capabilities on the ground have suffered drastically because...

You are running for congress. what would you do to change what is going on? >> this is where my opponent nancy pelosi creates this national fear in washington dc, we have devastation going on. congressman and congresswomen pride themselves on the federal money they bring back to their districts but if i were the congressman for this district i would use that as leverage point with local city officials who run the city and say you are not getting the street under control and i dont think people u...

Didnt. you took that flak, including from me. were you convinced you had to bring this to the senate that there was enough there that had to be investigated? >> reverend, what i would say is that it was very apparent as the investigation continued to move forward that there were serious actions taken by this president that concerned me, that were a clear violation of the presidents oath to the united states of america, to the constitution, that jeopardized our national security, and opened up ou...

Not there. >> we do know one fact. the aid was held up. we also know the aid was released and when it was released it was not released as a condition of anything that the ukrainians had to deliver. so you cant have a leverage point if there was not a deliverable on the back side. so the president is innocent of that regardless of all the rhetoric that you are hearing from capitol hill. >> bill: mike mccaul was with us yesterday and said the following. he says i think they, meaning adam schiff an...

Very clear is from bill taylor. he said its crazy, crazy to condition withholding aid on a political campaign. so theres been plenty of testimony, you dont -- maybe you wouldnt call it a quid pro quo but the tradeoff here and the fact that corruption was being used, as code for going after the bidens rather than going after what was clearly the issue, which is the russian threat to ukraine and their need for the congressionally appropriated military aid, which according to the witnesses was inex...

About this. the president now being forthcoming about the u.s. interests there and what hes choosing to protect over the lives of the kurds. senate erlor lindsey graham reenforcing the president, what dow make do you make of this? >> we want to secure the oils so the terrorists dont get their ha hands-on it. it is a leverage point. it is a leverage point that we had before the president says we are going to withdraw. we are correcting the stakes a week or so ago. it is his own era that hes tryin...

New cease fire deal with turkey. russian troops will be making joint patrols with turkish troops as the u.s. was doing until things blew up with trumps decision to let the turks invade. the russians are negotiating with the kurds to arrange the -- where the kurdish troops will be, so theyre really playing all the levers here. essentially theyve taken over the structure the u.s. had built in northeast syria and are now owning it and running it. on this question of the oil, ive heard lindsey graha...

Appropriated by congress as a leverage point to put influence, to exert influence on a foreign leader to get information on a political opponent, that that crosses that red line. i have heard actually from a lot of my constituents that feel the same way. >> im sorry. are you saying that you have heard from republican senators if these facts bear out, it is the tipping point for them? >> i do think -- yes, yes, thats correct. >> you have heard from republican senators that? thats a very big deal....

Whether a brief hold on military to ukraine was tied in as a leverage point. theyve been looking at this for weeks now. and they know the call came a day after bob muellers testimony on capitol hill. theyre very well aware of the calendar on that. they wonder if that emboldens the president to have some outreach to the ukraine for potentially election-related information the day after. >> kyle, stay with us if you would. well go to the congressman in just a moment. you and kyle have complementar...

Take those terms. you got the president committing to wanting to withdraw. he said he made those comments going as far as back on the campaign. we always knew he wanted to draw down, as hans said we dont need to be the policemen in afghanistan. the numbers of service members being killed is drastically down. but at the same time, we dont have a clear strategy as to what were doing with the taliban or the afghan government. we know the afghanistan government is not happy about the talks. where do...