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Turkey forced the hand of the united states of america? turkey? >> i think he is largely right. there is always a contradiction in the u.s. policy, we are allied with the kurds, we do most of the heavy lifting. but turkey is a nato ally and sees the van guard of the syrian democratic forces as a threat to turkey. but in confronting this, we have done it in the worst possible way. at best you can say the cease fire put a band aid on a very deep seventy inflicted wound. and that stress, that strai...

>> and can i say, the democrats are giving a completely different readout of this meeting. and according to reporting by manu raju and it doesnt sound, according to the democratic readout, that the president was measured, that when chuck schumer raised general mattis and quoted general mattis about isis reconstituting the president went off and -- cut schumer off and called mattis his forther defense secretary the most overrated general. you know why. he wasnt tough enough. i captured isis. matt...

Which the kurds dominate, they were the ones who were doing the heavy lifting in terms of fighting against the islamic state caliphate and securing the territory pending some sort of political resolution. that may well have been far off, but, you know, what the president has given up is all forms of leverage here. whatever is going to happen, you know, going forward in syria, the united states lost its ability to dictate any kind of resolution that is consistent with u.s. interests. >> another p...

Erdogan and putin and mbs in saudi arabia. he seems to like bad guys, a nn he might have business dealings and we know that he has a trump tower there, but he is responsibility for the retreating. and part of it might be russia who wants to be involved in syria as well. what is happening with the kurds is deplorable, and so sad. they have worked with us. 11,000 kurds died secretary mattis said, they did the heavy lifting and the hard work and working in the trenches for and with us. yes, they ha...

As one which has been decreed by the speaker of the house and some partisan leaders of the relevant committees who are doing the heavy lifting. it is not the work of the house of representatives as an institution. the house acts by voting. the constitution commits the power of impeachment to the house as an institution, not to the speaker. i think the president is on solid ground arguing that this is not the work of the house. it is not a legitimate inquiry. now, no one can make them take a vote...

All kurds as terrorists even though there are kurds of many political stripes. the pkk specifically is regarded by the turks as a terrorist group, but they just like to consider all kurds as terrorists. you know, the president likes to claim that were more respected now than ever. well, on the contrary, all this is going to do is cause people to question our word and not trust us. and here are the kurds, who did everything we asked them to do. they did all the heavy lifting, took thousands of ca...

It happened the night he was arrested but he says he doesnt remember a thing about it. >> from what i was told i chased after a court officer when i was being cuffed up. they said i hit one of them and kicked one and spit on him. >> he came in severely inebriated of some sort. whether it was drunk, drugs, something. he was definitely under the influence of something when he came in. >> espinosa was arrested for soft lifting and instead he was taken directly to the segregation unit. fortunately f...

Interfering in our elections in 2016. that is the uncovering of corruption of paul manafort his former campaign advisor. and both of those stories have little evidence to support them. thats however whatnot just the president but his team including mr. volker and ambassador sondland are asking for and in return they get the lifting of the freeze they put on military assistance to ukraine and the oval office visit. its just clear as day. that was the trade and they then go farther as you rightly ...

And at the end of the dinner, armey said, "you know, ive always flown solo and i have never tried to fly in formation. that was really the key moment. if armey had come back and said, "i really cant be on a team", it would have been really hard to put it together without him. - [bob] people who id remembered being there were dick armey, tom delay, bill paxon, newt, and myself. they came out of there thinking we could all work together and trust each other to do the heavy lifting and not cut and ...

Violation, the presidents tax returns, the findings of the mueller probe, the intelligence committee, the house intelligence committee under the leadership of adam schiff is now really positioned to take center stage here. really positions him as in many ways public spokesperson of the impeachment effort second to house speaker nancy pelosi, of course. even as the judiciary committee will retain that responsibility for making an ultimate decision, to vote articles of impeachment out of a committ...