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To deter turkey from invading northern syria and attacking the kurds, but they lost key leverage and tonight there are reports that the kurds are conducting air strikes against the targets. >> martha: you will see a long that takes. thank you. but he may now, one of the many republicans who are against the presidents move, adam kinzinger, member of the foreign affairs committee. good to have you here tonight. what is your best guess at how long it takes before the turks come over that line and h...

Even the presidents allies like mitch mcconnell criticized him a treat, a precipitous withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria would only benefit russia, iran, and the assad regime. only senator rand paul defended the presidents decision saying he was fulfilling his promises. >> the pentagon officials and they have suspended intelligence sharing with turkey with u.s. drones and they help to determine invasion and slaughter, but have lost the key piece of leverage, u.s. troops. im told the night ther...

Read the presidents call with the ukranian president in july, he told ukranians to work with barr into the investigation on the bidens. the whistleblower complaint was sent to the justice department, and many think, simply buried and not investigated. barr has been on a world tour trying to get to the origin of the russian investigation, the beginnings of what became the mueller investigation. mike pompeo was the one to recall the ambassador of ukraine. he will be a key witness this coming week....

Investigated. barr also has been on a world tour trying to get to the origins of the russia investigation, asking other countries what intelligence they provided to the fbi about the beginnings of what became the mueller investigation. the secretary of state, hes on the world stage right now, he was on that july call with president zelensky and president trump where the president said i need you to do me a favor and brought up the investigations into biden. hes the one mike pompeo as you recall ...

Basically and implying that he should be executed and you had senator romney this last weekend coming out to say what was very, very wrong about making these kinds of threats when youre in the middle of trade negotiations with china using the leverage that should be used to help our farmers and our workers and instead trying to use it to get dirt on opponent or the fledgling democracy of ukraine so im waiting for the old kids story, the emperor has no clothes and you have a president cloaking hi...

Whistleblower after the president implied he should be executed. you had senator romney just this last weekend being willing to come out and say what was very, very wrong about making these kinds of threats when youre in the middle of trade negotiations with china, using the leverage that should be used to help our farmers and our workers, and instead trying to use it to get dirt on an opponent or the flejabling democracy of ukraine. im waiting for more of them to basically like that old kids st...

Rival, then it sort of undercuts the argument that this is some sort of generic justice seeking effort as opposed to rgt taying the 2020 presidential election. second, to the extent that president trump used the possibility of an oval office meeting with the ukrainian president or giving military aid to ukraine as leverage in order to induce them to initiate an investigation of bidens now were talking about actual abuse of power. and possibly a quid pro quo which brings it into far different ter...

Looking at is did the president beyond any kind of doubt extort a foreign leader for domestic political purposes, and the answer is quite clearly already yes. we have the transcript the white house, itself, issued, and the complaint from the whistle-blower and the text messages from a number of state department officials that clearly make it obvious that the intent here was a quid pro quo and an exchange. >> curt voeller lckeelcker afte thursday hearings, what did you make of the text? >> shocke...

Concerns. and the chinese arent stupid. yes, the chinese foreign minister said piously today that we would not interfere in the american political process, and you poor people go sort yourself out, but that says you better not say a damn thing about hong kong because we consider that our internal matter. that is some leverage already. but the real concern in my judgment is that the chinese understand two things. one, weve got a president who is incredibly unstable, unpredictable, and not on his ...

Side." >> is russia as robert mueller alleged attempting to influence the 2020 elections in the united states? >> translator: ill tell you in a secret. yes, we will definitely intervene. its a secret so that everybody can laugh and so we will go big. but dont tell anyone, please. [ applause ] please dont tell anyone. >> all right. now "the washington post" reports russia is already looking for leverage on ukraine and to undermine president zelensky as a minor leaguer. russias foreign ministry sp...