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While hes president. something that has to come out on thursday like a tip to see how much sondland is really cooperating is, does he come in with his documents? so far he hasnt come in with his. the text messages that we have are from volker. we dont have anything from sondland. and theyre all playing around on this whatsapp and theres text messages and all kinds of information. if hes really coming forward, well see a lot of documents. if hes just playing footsy to try to get himself off and t...

Interests to trump theirs, no pun intended, over the decades. i think this relationship between the u.s. and the kurds was also a transactional one. we didnt have the heft, the leverage, the will frankly or the skill on the ground it seems to me to sustain this relationship over time. it was only a matter of time. you have a very risk averse president, donald trump, eager to fulfill a campaign commitment, eager to allow his own personal sensibilities and own politics to override the american nat...

Barbara starrs reporting suggests this, will be looking toward moscow, toward putin, whos the only actor in this very sad and horrific drama, that frankly maintains leverage and relationship with all of the key parties. and i think thats where this is going. >> thats huge. and what has this done to the u.s. standing, trust amongst allies, particularly because of what is unfolding here? >> you know, its interesting. i have a slightly different take on this. i think that when american allies look ...

Anymore. the answer is no. its not often in the history of the united states a president self-impeaches. you cant go to a foreign government and have them investigate your opponent. >> so his answer is, yeah, so i did it and i was investigating corruption. and then came out and said china should do this as well. theres a brazenness to his response. >> when you have not one whistle-blower and now theres two, maybe three who have alleged with their whistle blowing that crime has been committed, an...

This is a bipartisan issue. everybody knows china has been a bad actor related to trade and everybody wants to bring them to a point of trust but verify where we could get a good deal but no question some of the leverage related to impeachment had a shift to the chinese because the president really needs to get something done. he cant afford to have the economy falter with the election coming up. neil: on that issue the president tweeting the deal i just made with china is the greatest and bigge...

Gregg popovich. the nba answers to nike. nike is a 40 billion dollars business. the nba is an $8 billion business. president obama the basketball president, friendly relationship with the nba. went to nikes headquarters to announce his defense of the tpp. this thing is very simple. this is about money. this is about a president that wont cooperate with what nike wants done. nike is using the nba and its leverage over the nba to go after this guy because they disagree with him about his policies ...

Any sort of waves -- neil: it is a start but we -- this week the big gamemakers and easing up on that. >> lots of things changed. at one point it was a big deal or no deal and now we have a little dealing three parts and there was supposed to be an enforcement mechanism so if the chinese were reneging on their commitments there would be accountability and that did not come up anywhere yesterday. neil: chuck schumer did praise the fact there were no concessions to huawei. the president didnt cave...

The nba is an $8 billion business. president obama, the basketball president, friendly relationship with the nba. went to nikes headquarters to announce his defense of the tpp. this thing is very simple. this is about money. this is about a president that wont cooperate with what nike wants done. nike is using the nba and its leverage over the nba to go after this guy because they disagree with him about his policies as it relates to trade in china. >> tucker: thats a fascinating story. and i gu...

Lot of it. >> you can see it is an incredible danger. even in a weird way for the president himself because he got caught up in his own echo chamber on this thing. the next thing you know, hes on the phone with the president of ukraine trying to use leverage to get him to go along with a story that the president of ukraine knows isnt true. >> right. >> and its a disaster. >> right. >> and he may get himself impeached over this. >> you have written a lot and researched a lot on dark money and the...

>> wow. >> so, theres that element as well. he announced it on vladimir putins birthday. but the real issue here is that our government has no strategy vis-a-vis the middle east. and this is the problem. number one, you have the counterterrorism issue. so, this is only making it more dangerous now for the united states and our allies in europe, right? because these isis fighters -- the kurds are not going to be able to hang on. they have to defend themselves, their families, their villages. they...