that president trump may send as many as 14,000 new trips to the mideast to counter iran. that s according to our corporate cousin the wall street journal citing u.s. officials. though the pentagon is now pushing back. team fox coverage continues with lucas tomlinson reporting live at the pentagon. lucas? press secretary alyssa fara pushed back strongly on the wall street journal story. defense secretary s. reaffirms that we are not considering sending 14,000 additional troops in the middle east at this time. the pentagon s top policy advisor. they have conducted attacks, and they were concerned about the threat string that they were seeing. with respect to that threat situation we are concerned about what we are seeing. so you are considering it. is 14,000 the correct number? or is there a lesser number?
considering there were several fbi officials who were publicly against then candidate trump. trace: live for us on capitol hill, thank you. a team fox coverage continues now, chief white house correspondent john roberts reporting live in london where president trump is expected to arrive within the next hour. just a little bit after 8:00 here in london, an hour and 45 minutes from now will be touching down at the air force base and then he will participate in the nato summit but on his way out of the white house, the president again according to another denial of any kind of pressure or quid pro quo he put on the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. in an interview with time magazine, zelensky saying i never talk to the president from a position of a quid pro quo. i don t want us to look like beggars, but you have to understand we are at war. you are our strategic partner, you can t go blocking anything for us. i think that is just about fairness. is not about a quid pro quo,
hearing calling it highly partisan inquiry. and president trump as blasting democrats rescheduling the hearing while he is meeting with our nato allies at a summit in london. we have team fox coverage, chief white house correspondent john roberts in london but first, mike emanuel reporting live for us on capitol hill. what are we expecting on wednesday? it will be in the judiciary committee with experts looking at the constitutional and historical relevance of impeachment, but the panel s top republican says he doesn t have much more than that. we are going to have an academic hearing on wednesday which we don t even know who their witnesses are yet. we don t even know how to prepare. we asked for fairness and have not got an answer back on that. this is another slideshow. on the other side, senate judiciary democrats as a little historical context is helpful. i see it simply as a global
year and a half plus here. every action that i took and have taken will continue to be driven towards that objective. gillian: well, the house judiciary committee just announced a short while ago their first public hearing as part of the impeachment investigation. no word, trace, on what witnesses will appear next week on december 4th. but, maybe some time soon we will hear from one of the president s own cabinet secretaries. trace? trace: indeed we expect to. gillian turner live for us at state. thank you. team fox coverage continues now mark meredith live from washington. mark? as gillian was just talking about. the judiciary committee scheduled for 8 days from now on december 4th. we got a letter from the committee s chairman jerry nadler sent to president trump. i want to read you support of it, trace. the committee intends this hearing to search as an opportunity to discuss the historical and constitutional basis of impeachment as well as the framer s intent and understandin
i think it will grant a hearing to the president. in that case this will likely go away until june. trace? trace trace makes sense. john, thank you. team fox coverage continues now. gillian turner now live at the state department. jillian? gillian: secretary of state pompeo kicked off a few minutes after president trump tweeted thought morning that he would love to see pompeo testify as part of the impeachment inquiry. we had the chance to ask pompeo for his reaction to this. he didn t entirely waive us off the idea. take a listen what he had to say. the president tweeted a short while ago that he would encourage you, essentially, to testify in the impeachment investigation. is that something you are considering? when the time is right, all good things happen. well, sources here at state department tell us that the president believes