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Chinese people for believing in democracy. this is an outrage, every american regardless whether they are sports fans are not should be insulted by the way the nba has handled this crisis. >> what i think its so interesting about this, we seen it with apple and facebook where they go up against -- you have a major company going up against the chinese government. but in this situation the nba has so much leverage, they have more recreational basketball players in china than they do -- then we hav...

Really raises the question of what is the u.s. leverage here and how did this get so flipped so that, you know, if youre another country or a potential adversary in the world, youre looking at this and thinking, you know, is turkey running u.s. foreign policy, u.s. military policy? and so, that argument, one of the arguments that theyve put out there in the last 48 hours, really raises more questions than answers, and the presidents problem here is that he has done nothing to convince members of...

Figures by nbc. just this morning the hood llyw reporter came out with a new story in way fathat he used leverage to pressure nbc into keeping stories about his own improprieties quiet. nbc denies the claim saying in part it was never blade aware in any way of any threats. in addition, nbc news reached out to matt lauer for comment. he just released an open letter addressing the assault allegation saying in part, in a new book it is alleged that an extramarital but consensual sexual encounter i ...

Policy around. well see, but for the military its a tough, bitter pill to swallow. >> so david, actually, what lindsey was talking to you about if he really does have 85 people, and i bet he does have 85 people that would actually put sanctions on turkey if they invaded and attack the kurds, that actually -- you talk about leverage. turkey is a country that has been struggling economically. erdogans had some of his greatest political challenges yet because of a struggling economy that appears to...

Authoritian threat to democracy. we ought to be considering ejeking turkey from nato, not embracing them as a fall on our kurdish allies. >> brett mcgurk, former coalition, both pointed to that phone call as something worthy of investigation trying to understand what went on, on that phone call, who staffed that phone call. what did america get in exchange for greenlighting a military operation that will result in the slaughter of our closest allies in the region? do you think that phone call is...

Going against nato. the first one was his purchase, erdogans purchase of a russian missile system. that, a lot of members of congress, think should have triggered sanctions. and trump has essentially held those off. trump also notably praised erdogan after his crackdown, after a failed military coup in 2016, effectively taking over a number of independent news media outlets. imprisoning a journalist, and trump, again, kind of soft pedaled that and even praised erdogan. erdogan has also used the ...

Where well actually engage, fight and withdraw at a weird point in time that makes no sense whatsoever? you actually should be withdrawing our forces, mr. president, as part of a peace deal, as part of an agreement where we use the leverage we have from the forces we have on the ground. and by the way, you know, larry is right, this is we still have forces there nearby. we should be using our leverage to get all of the sides to the table and come up with an agreement, because theres a civil war ...

Recently who succeeds in charming him. >> i appreciate you both being with us this morning. somebody else who is with us, congressman a democratic from california. congressman, its good to have you here this morning as a member of armed services. >> good to be here. >> what is your reaction? >> its very concerning. there are many democrats who are for a responsible withdraw from syria but you cant have foreign policy based on tweet. what we should have done is gotten erdogan to commit not to inv...

Building. this white house stone walling just adds to their case about obstruction which they say will factor in to articles of impeachment. >> thank you. joining me now is congressman a democrat who serves on the judiciary and foreign affairs committee. thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> in this letter the white house argues that your impeachment inquiry is ill legitimate and unconstitutional. whats your response to that? >> its not appropriate or permissible for the subject t...

Dont do is a lot of money we dont engage in active combat so actually its a pretty low cost operation so lets keep leverage and lets keep a foot in the do you think its a mistake. from the point of view of a strategist who wants to create u.s. leverage in the region i think its a disaster absolutely because it was a very cost efficient way of staying somehow in the game. politically in general as trump says that this is kind of a ridiculous war i dont think its a ridiculous war i think its a tra...