adam schiff calling this another effort by the trump administration to block the impeachment inquiry. any effort to prevent the congress and therefore the american people from learning more about the president s misconduct will merely build a public case for obstruction of congress by this president. bill: earlier this morning, president trump defending his phone call with the ukrainian president. we had a very good conversation with the ukrainian president. the conversation was perfect. they don t ever talk about the conversation. house democrats say they are moving ahead with their investigation even without kupperman s testimony. we have team fox coverage. white house correspondent john roberts is on the north lawn today. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel at his post live on capitol hill. mike, let s begin with you. the relevant house committee chairs issued a warning shot after the attorney represented charles kupperman writing should your client defy the
replace is you and your family. bill: power company pg&e shutdown electricity for more than 2.5 million californians over the weekend to lower the risk of the fires spreading even more. the company s warning that more blackouts are likely over the next few days. we have team fox coverage. dan springer is live and sonoma county near the northern california fire. first, william la jeunesse reports live in los angeles near the getty fire and william, how are conditions now? hello. they are improving. i want to say there are big fires and there are dangers fires. they are not always the same. this is the latter. one of the reasons why s you see behind me the steep canyons, the fire moves quickly. narrow roads and dense neighborhoods, difficult to fight. the fire ran through this neighborhood. eight homes lost, five damage. it s also burning or the santa monica mountain preserve, america s largest urban park.
country. i can t tell you what s happening. i will tell you this. i think you re going to see a lot of really bad things. dana: we have team fox coverage. charlie hurt on the politics of it and former u.s. attorney on the legal side but first let s go to kristin fisher live in columbia, south carolina, where the president will be speaking momentarily. he will. president trump landed in south carolina about 20 minutes ago and if you just heard, he had a lot to say about the big picture of what this means now that this investigation into the origins of the russia probe has shifted to a criminal investigation. when it comes to the specifics, president trump is leaving back to his attorney general. i leave it all up to the attorney general. and i leave it all up to the people that are working with the attorney general. who i don t know. this shift to a criminal investigation is significant because it allows the u.s. attorney, john durham, to issue
and therefore we don t have to have the full vote on the house floor and we can do it with these three committees. martha: thank you very much. team fox coverage continues with chief white house correspondent john roberts reporting live from the north lawn this afternoon. hi, john. good afternoon. nothing from president trump on camera today on the impeachment inquiry and what s going on about capitol hill today. we thought when he stopped for cameras on the way to the helicopter to go to pennsylvania that in addition to remarks he made on syria that he would take questions on this but he didn t. he turned on his heels and walked to the helicopter. the resident is giving a nine impeachment quoting john ratcliffe from your show last night. contradicting testimony from bill taylor. taylor telling congressional investigators he believed there was a quid pro quo in ukraine, that military it was being held up unless you can begin investigating bidens and the
the senior trump administration official tells fox news that the kurdish militia told them that the withdrawal was complete. vladimir putin striking a deal with turkish president erdogan to share control of northeast syria. the turks and russia also rigged to start joint military control. in the meantime, some u.s. troops in syria have moved them to iraq, but iraqi military officials say that they do not have permission to stay. we saw angry kurds pelting the american convoy with potatoes and rotten fruit as it made its way out of syria. president trump s defense secretary says that some u.s. forces will stay behind in syria to guard oil fields. we have team fox coverage, jennifer griffin life at the pentagon, but steve harrigan reporting from iraq, tell us what is happening on the ground. trace, it was right at this hour, 3:00 eastern, 10:00 p.m. local that there were a lot of scared people, people on the