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Leverage, republicans, or the trump administration, for this right now because, look, the political winds are changing out there in the american public, vis-a-vis impeachment. >> buying time works for the trump campaign when its things like the presidents taxes, because until we see them, theres nothing we can do. does buying time really help republicans right now, or does it actually help nancy pelosi? because while some republicans are stonewalling congress, youve got other people like mike mc...

Having people in syria we had leverage. we had leverage with the kurd and turks with this bumper zone we were dealing with. so i dont know what we can do much fast here. we will do these sanctions. we will condemn it. id love to see the president get back into engaging and protecting. but im not overly optimistic right now, unfortunately. >> do you know whats motivating the president? >> i dont. you know, i guess its this idea of getting out of endless wars he thinks is a campaign promise. his b...

Collusion from all kinds of countries. the stakes are also high because great power politics are undergirded by many hard assets, from those u.s. nukes, apparently jeopardized in the middle east after trumps shift on syria policy, to the international energy markets which russia both impacts and is vulnerable to. russia treats oil as a resource and as a weapon and a point of national pride. putins aides, quote, believe their energy industry is about restoring russian honor and deploying power an...

Domestic political support. but when president trump says that we had nothing to do with it. its not our war. actually, we enabled it. weve known this was coming. we couldve put the leverage on turkey before. we didnt have to agree to pull back. we werent going to be involved in a turkish/kurdish war as long as we stayed there because we had the prepondrant power. once we pulled back, we enabled the conflict. >> general wesley clarke. always good to see you, sir. thank you so much. appreciate it...

When you think about where the united states stand and since the post world war ii order, the fact that we talk about our manufacturing in this country and that came basically because we inherited the german and japanese supply chain that after world war ii. we see that role america played. this idea of this doesnt involve us, whether its the slaughter of turkeys, turkey giving russia back basically syria and creeding that area to them. i dont know where it comes from. america needs to realize b...

>> thats exactly right. president erdogan has been on the phone with president putin. its reported in russia that hes agreed in the coming days to go meet with president putin. so the messaging is pretty clear to president trump. i have another friend. so i can negotiate here. i -- i have leverage. now, look. the reality on the ground in syria is that not everything is going president erdogans way. were hearing now that the pro-dough mass cuss syrian forces are in kobani and that russian forces ...

Who would have serious leverage on both of them. anything of value pass for dirt on biden had been delivered. this is why laws exist. why there are strict rules and why founders saw soliciting foreign interference is a major abuse of office. it is not just ukraine that calls the hoops. why do i say pal instead of lawyer? before he was hired, rudy giuliani represented iranian turkish gold trader. he used his relationship with potus and the campaign to get into the office and secretary of state re...

Testimony that ive seen and everything that ive read about whats been going on there suggests to me that rudy giuliani and parnas and fruman were engaged in a shadow foreign policy with their own goals for the president. and it all came to light of course when we discovered that the president was on this july 25th phone call with president zelensky in which he essentially shook zelensky down -- >> do you believe this president knew what giuliani and others were up to in his name or to his benefi...

Ambitions with this operation to clear the safe zone and then potentially resettle 2 milian syrian chiefs. the dramatic developments saw the kurds turn to the regime of bashar al assad for assistance, the movement of bashar al assads forces up to northern syria, an area they havent been in, in years, that has caused some to voice their concern for yet another possible flash point between the syrian governments forces and the forces on the ground that are being backed by turkey. russia, though, i...

Who would have serious leverage on both of them. anything of value pass for dirt on biden had been delivered. this is why laws exist. why there are strict rules and why founders saw soliciting foreign interference is a major abuse of office. it is not just ukraine that calls the hoops. why do i say pal instead of lawyer? before he was hired, rudy giuliani represented iranian turkish gold trader. he used his relationship with potus and the campaign to get into the office and secretary of state re...