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A say in this by way of their representatives who will vote on this resolution tomorrow. so as we know based on the resolution, the text of the resolution that came out yesterday, the heavy lifting, the investigative heavy lifting will stay with adam schiff. house democrats by and large view this entire ukrainian controversy as a national security and intelligence issue. they will hold the public hearings that will happen at some point in the near future. im told in a matter of weeks. at the end...

The heavy lifting in this operation. the presidents speech shouldve been a lay-up. it is such an easy thing to do. it ought to be such a unifying moment for the country for the president to come out and announce. he can thank our allies and praise the troops. and thats it. instead he turned this into this self-aggrandizing moment where he talked too much about the operation where he picked an unnecessary fight with democrats on the hill and lost what could have been a great opportunity for him, ...

So first of all, realistically, how could that happen given that syria is a sovereign nation? whats happening here? why is he making that argument? >> its really bizarre, frankly, because if you really wanted to focus on preventing isis from regenerating and really doubling down on the gains weve made with these raids and you wanted to be able to execute future raids of this nature, you would never have walked away from the kurds. you would have kept that partnership where they were doing the bu...

According to the commander of the formally u.s.-backed syrian democratic forces, turkey and its affiliates continue to quote launch attacks along parts of the border region. the syrian observatory for human rights also reports that the turkish-backed militias advance has continued. nbc news cannot independently verify that hostilities have resumed but turkeys erdogan told officials just yesterday that the offensive will continue against the kurds if they dont withdraw from the safe zone, adding,...

Trashed based on behind-the-scenes testimony, they try him behind closed doors without the ability to confront his accuser and this results in the impeachment article, the process results in an impeachment article. i will move to dismiss in the senate because i think it is illegitimate and unconstitutional. im asking democrats to do is have a transparent process like we did with clinton so the american people can make a decision and not rely on a bunch of democrats. >> democrats blame trump for ...

>> let someone else fight over this long blood-stained sand. >> reporter: even as administration officials paint a very different picture of what is happening on the ground, today trump defiantly declaring victory. >> todays announcement validates our course of action with turkey. that only a couple of weeks ago was scorned and now people are saying, wow, what a great outcome. congratulations. it is too early to me to be congratulated. but weve done a good job. weve saved a lot of lives. most im...

Like me-ow. consequences. >> reporter: trump also announcing the imminent lifting of sanctions on turkey, though just yesterday his top envoy to syria admitted turkish forces likely committed war crimes against the kurds. >> weve seen several incidents which we consider war crimes. >> reporter: the president also trying to downplay the escape of more than 100 isis detainees. >> there were a few that got out, a small number relatively speaking, and theyve been largely recaptured. >> reporter: tho...

Event because i want you standing behind me. what is the strategy here? as nick just laid out, a lot of what the president said in that statement is simply not matched by the facts. >> reporter: that was interesting. you saw the president having pence and pompeo, the two that he dispatched to turkey last week, a trip that i went with them to turkey on. hes declaring victory here saying not one drop of american blood had been spilled. but there are a lot of questions about what is going to come o...

The electricity sector. the embattled hariri will hope that the reforms satisfy those calling for change on the streets. and polls have now closed in bolivia where voters have been deciding whether to give left wing president abel morales a 4th term around his face a tough race opinion polls suggesting an outright victory i think difficult for him to win that could trigger a runoff election in may december as has been credited with lifting millions of people out of poverty but also accused is al...

U.s. election, and also some sort of a bribery and extortion scheme. but thats a normal world. and we know that bill barrs justice department has declined to open investigation into the whistle-blower complaint. theres no indication that theyre investigating here, although one would like to think that the southern district of new yorks investigation may ultimately bring giuliani in but no official word that this is something thats receiving attention in washington, and so that leaves congress to...