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You realize how much leverage they have financially and why the bullying works and american companies will cave. china says we will take sponsorships off the air and in this case pull broadcasting. this is a mush bigger issue that has to be dealt with. its getting worse. i give president trump credit for talking about this when no one was talking about it. you dont realize where all of this leverage comes from. these companies need to make a decision. if you want to priorityize your finances ove...

Senior reporter. to that point if im now the ceo of name the company. delta, apple, pepsi, disney. any of them, am i not sitting on pins and needles thinking if any one of my tens of thousands of employees, any basic tweet defending the values of democracy, i could lose tens of millions, maybe billions of dollars worth of business from china? >> yeah, you are. thats absolutely right and there are many companies amongst several of the companies you named that are grossly overexposed in china. and...

Campaign and thats in large part how he became the u.s. ambassador to the european union. one of the other reasons, what sort of precipitated this subpoena, is that adam schiff says he was communicating with the state department until late last night. there was no indication, he says, that sondland would not appear for his scheduled deposition until they got a voicemail that was left at 12:30 a.m. saying he would not show up as planned. one of the reasons why schiff wants to hear from him and ge...

He was a real political guy in campaign who would run these ops. he would accuse them of corruption, even if their only proximity to real corruption was the fact that they were the ones cleaning it up. that was a manafort special in ukraine. back before he became trumps campaign chairman. its what theyre trying to do to zblooind ukraine today. we have since learned in this current scandal that his lawyer, rudy giuliani, has been regularly consulting with paul manafort from prison on how best to ...

Manafort from prison on how best to make this this accusation against joe biden and how best to the leverage ukrainian government into helping trump slime joe biden with it. theyve been consult winning manafort on that from manaforts prison cell. we learned in addition to trying to get together these words have no meaning accusations against joe biden to try to turn his anti-corruption efforts in ukraine into some sort of evidence of his corruption, weve since learned in the last few days that t...

Anything outside of what we would think is humane, to use the word a second time. we talk about hong kong, we talk about this. they could suffer the wrath of an extremely decimated economy. >> the wrath of an extremely decimated economy. we hear him talk ant fire and fury with north korea. he tweeted if turkey does anything that i in my great and unmatched wisdom consider to be off limits i will totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey. maybe republicans would say hes joking with tha...

>> its the threat to the life of this whistle-blower thats of deep concern to so many members. >> absolutely. its one word and its outrageous. this should never have been the case. for this person to feel that theres a threat against their life f life, for the committee to have to protect him from other members, this is beyond through the looking glass, wolf. its just outrageous. >> at the same time, these committees now are demanding from the pentagon, documents, office of management documents....

Graham their identity has to be made public? >> well, the desperation of some of the republicans is quite extraordinary at this point. it used to be a bipartisan commitment that we protect whistleblowers because we want them to come forward with the truth of the conduct of our elected officials, but we dont have to depend on just this one whistleblower, not only is there another whistleblower about to come forward but everything that the whistleblower said has been corroborated by independent ob...

Waiting for this moment for decades. it just shows the sort of capriciousness of -- and the lack of understanding the president has. and i guess the last point is it helps the russians. and if you look for a commonality in decisions that the president has made that dont seem to make sense on their face is it helps the russians. >> and so heres a president who hates to look weak, yet many are questioning why give into the turks right now. what leverage do they have over this president? especially...

The peace with the turks have been seen leaving the border area. kurdish fighters are guarding 10,000 isis fighters and 2,000 foreign fighters at a prison in eastern syria. u.s. commanders belief the kurdish guards will abandon their posts allowing the hardened isis fighters to escape. president trump said one reason is european allies would not repatriate the isis prisoners. the pentagon issued the following statement, quote, as the president stated, turkey would be responsible with european na...