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Presence there to to have leverage that will be very important. >> sandra: thats what you were most concerned about, about american losing leverage in the wake of that decision. here is the president talking about and addressing criticism that he did not tell particularly democratic leadership, including nancy pelosi, about this raid ahead of time. here he is responding to that. >> president trump: the only thing is they were talking about why didnt i give the information to adam schiff and his ...

Critic, a plot of the operation. >> its a great development. i am hearing about maybe some changes to the policy which i would be supportive of purity think about what syria is, think about turkey, iran, russia. russia was introduced under president obama. he allowed that to happen. all in this area that not only pushes the u.s. presence out, thats one thing. its a major threat to israel. think about this alliance, this development ultimately threatening israel. its a real concern. there are som...

>> chris, great to see you as always. im in for hallie jackson this morning. were going to go to capitol hill where some of president trumps defenders are addressing reporters. lets listen in. >> whatever you want to call it, it was in there the whole time. and if you had any take-away other than the fact that when ambassador sondland talked to the president, he said i wanted nothing, there are no conditions, and all i want to make sure of is that we get this behind us. and i can tell you, it ha...

Requests? >> well, for sure, they have never had a legitimate excuse for doing it. after judge howells decision where she said an impeachment inquiry doesnt require a formal vote, so you would hope by that moment he would realize this is not a good excuse. but look, the president has resisted efforts, our efforts to collect evidence and to get at the truth. hes tried to obstruct this investigation since the very beginning. we should not lose sight, we are investigating the president for reaching...

To fight some of the legal battles over the long term. in terms of what the balance of power is between the presidency and between the congress. what theyre getting right now is more and more detail it is a chemothat the president concocted and executed and basically created leverage for himself to try to get the ukrainians to investigate joe biden. the question will be is that something that the house views as impeachmentbable and whether or not they are meriting the approval from office. all o...

Make sure of is that we get this behind us. and i can tell you, it had nothing to do with any quid pro quo, regardless of what the attorney says. i can tell you jim and i were there for the entire thing, the entire deposition, and the president made it very clear to ambassador sondland that this had nothing to do with any leverage or any wrongdoing. >> will he or wont he, will >> we were there for the entire charles cumberland show up for time. yep, ask his testimony. they believe he has first-h...

In the face of, i think, what a president should do. it doesnt seem serious. obviously im hopeful for it but im not holding my breath. i think that what we need to do in this 21st century is embrace the values that we care about when were engaging our allies and trying to deal with our adversaries. that goes for syria. that goes for trying to achieve a two-state solution between the palestinians and the israelis, our relationship with iran and the nuclear agreement. we had a conversation about t...

Point we are so excited that j street is launching our new campaign where we are asking the democratic national committee to change their party platform, which at this point rightly states a commitment to israels security. >> chloe, i think this is some of what were going to be hearing somever the summer, the loyalty of democratic voters that do not vote for president trump, one of the conversations that we should be expecting to hear addressed to these candidates in which elizabeth warren and p...

Using that aid money as leverage? >> i support doing everything we can to pressure israel not to move forward with unilateral an exannexation. my hope is theres going to be a new opportunity with a new american president in january of 2021 to get this relationship back on track and to work toward a two-state solution and stop any kind of effort to unilaterally annex the west bank. i would not take off the table the option of conditioning our aid on israel not annexing the west bank, but that wou...

Human tragedy. >> i think theres another all the information taken off the site, the term-of-art is reason. the reason that jeremy and i and mass effects. you want to take that others like us went into information and act upon it to national security, it used to be that politics ended at the basically totally uproot the remnants of isis cells and waters edge. once youre involved in these networks across particularly sort of operations this was about americas national iraq and syria but really ar...