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Related news here. you might remember impeachment witness bill taylor. hes the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine at the moment. hes been told to leave the country, headed by mike pompeo. he is set to visit kyiv in january. taylor, who already planned to leave his post in january, is being told not to be there when the secretary goes. you might recall he offered some quite damning testimony against the president, questioning rudy giulianis role in ukraine and he thought it was crazy that u.s. military...

Trading on his relationship with the president for his own benefit. china, furious that president trump signed bills that back hong kong protesters. will beijing retaliate? this afternoon president trump makes the traditional thanksgiving call to the troops, but the pleasantries he extends to servicemen and women overseas and here at home. the tension between the president and upper echelons of the military is high. thats putting it mildly. much of it stems from president trumps intervention i...

Whether or not thats going to happen this year. thats something the president does when hes not in front of the cameras for several days. people will be watching to see whats going to be hanging over is this recent criticism from people inside the military and from the presidents critics over how hes intervened in the cases of the allegations of war crimes and of course eddie gallagher, something the president has been quick to defend though it comes in light of the departure of the navy secreta...

One thing. but deploying. >> i taught marines at the command in the 90s and what you teach the military officers is -- i didnt teach them this actual operational stuff, but what i learned listening to my colleagues is its more dangerous withdrawing from a conflict than when youre going in. and this idea that its a deliberate withdrawal. its not deliberate. there is barely any notice for these service members. there arent a lot of them to begin with. i understand why they now need to take them ou...

In your hour about secretary pompeos morale problem. theyve got a morale problem over at dod as well. >> well, and i wonder why. charlie pierce, malcolm nance, naveed jamali, evelyn farkas, thank you very much. appreciate your time. coming up, right-wing evangelical leaders do something even more rare than lindsey graham criticizing donald trump. we will tell you what that is when im joined by author jim wallace, next. if youre 65 or older, even if youre healthy,

Betrayal. one of the things were hearing, in fact, from syria is not just the kurds who feel betrayed, but rather, its the u.s. forces who have really forged a relationship with these kurds who were caught completely off guard by this announcement. and theyre feeling betrayed. i mean, if you read the dods statement yesterday, it was pretty harsh. and i think that that shows kind of where america is. if youve lost the trust of the people on the battlefield, where are we going? and that is exactly...

Prime minister tomorrow, that person would need to have a close and friendly relationship with the american president. right now the american president is donald trump. i think between these two gentlemen who have certainly enjoyed reinforcing each other over the last couple years, trump has more leverage. >> thank you so much for being was. lots to watch, as you mentioned with bill, over the next day or two. in the next hour, two former border patrol agents speaking out against the trump admi...

Appointed john durham, the u.s. youre still going to encounter attorney in connecticut, to be ahead of this. it. >> good to see you as always. william barr is very much thank you for reporting for us. involved. i think what kelly asked the ben collins, nbc news reporter. president really gets to the next, president trump making crux of the matter. new claims of treason against that is whether or not this information gets out that could his own former intelligence officials. well break down wha...

So again, secretary mattis, defense intellectual, long-term view. i think he was finally on ground he couldnt support. >> where -- give us a sense -- he was popular with the rank and file. i know secretary mattis was. what kind of morale problem we might have in the pentagon and in the military ranks? >> well, look, there is a tremendous structure of discipline and obedience built into the senior military officers. they wont in any way lose focus on what their priorities have to be. on the other...

Spectrum of everybody from u.n. ambassador to chief of staff and all the names in between -- >> its worth saying this is a regular time for there to be a great deal of turnover in any white house. after the midterm elections as the president gets ready for his reelection campaign. but it is still unusual in the trump white house because were now looking at getting a third chief of staff in under three years. president trump criticized his predecessor barack obama for the number of chiefs of staf...