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Take. mick mulvaney said trump chose his own florida golf resort to host next years g-7 meeting. that decision is without precedent in modern american history. the president used his public office to direct a huge contract to himself, "the washington post" says. mulvaney also admitted the trump administration withheld foreign aid to ukraine because, among other things, it wanted the country to investigate the conspiracy theory that somehow russia was not involved in the hacking of the dnc server...

Confirming the ukraine story. the steady march of insider testimony increasing the pace of impeachment on the hill. and his vice president in effect giving turkey everything it wanted in its drive to kill the kurds. with us for more here tonight, our own veteran, jonathan allen, nbc news national political reporter. jonathan, do we pretty much have it right on what this week felt like, what today felt like, what yesterday felt like in the life of this administration? >> i mean the solace of toda...

Resort. his own chief of staff confirming the ukraine story. the steady march of insider testimony increasing the pace of impeachment on the hill. and his vice president in effect giving turkey everything it wanted in its drive to kill the kurds. with us for more here tonight, our own veteran, jonathan allen, nbc news national political reporter. jonathan, do we pretty much have it right on what this week felt like, what today felt like, what yesterday felt like in the life of this administratio...

Pompeo, in turkey to announce a cease-fire deal in syria, a deal that seems to give turkey everything it wants. >> i know the president is grateful for president erdogans willingness to step forward to enact this cease-fire. >> the deal appears to meet most of turkeys military goals and will force americas allies in the fight against isis, the kurds to give up a huge swath of territory. last night, president trump touted the deal at a rally in texas, comparing turkeys military attack on kurdish ...

Vice president mike pence and secretary of state mike pompeo, in turkey to announce a cease-fire deal in syria, a deal that seems to give turkey everything it wants. >> i know the president is grateful for president erdogans willingness to step forward to enact this cease-fire. >> the deal appears to meet most of turkeys military goals and will force americas allies in the fight against isis, the kurds to give up a huge swath of territory. last night, president trump touted the deal at a rally i...

Dana abanne, thanks, really appreciate it. coming up for us, the trump administration announces a cease fire agreement with turkey -- between turkey on the kurds. the critics of the president also though are quickly saying the president just gave turkey everything that it wants. and has it actually stopped the violence on the ground? were taking -- giving you a live report from the region coming up next. plus president trumps former defense secretary jim mattis hitting back after president tru...

You have to say it, nobody wants to say it, were making the kurds look like theyre angels. we paid a lot of money to the kurds. tremendous amounts of money. weve given them massive fortunes and you know what, its wonderful. they fought with us, but we paid a lot for them to fight with us. >> the blow-back from capitol hill for president trumps decision to withdraw forces has been strong and nonstop, especially from republicans. trumps ally, senator lindsey graham, called it a disaster saying the...

Come through with sanctions and the president said, oh, it might happen but also seemed to not want it to happen as well. >> part of the deal with turkey was there will be no sanctions if turkey keeps its part of the deal and gives turkey everything it wants. well see how that goes, but you have so many republicans calling the president weak there and the president saying the kurds are very happy. >> the president also said isis is under control. i think we all know isis is not under control. th...

>> the blow-back from capitol hill for president trumps decision to withdraw forces has been strong and nonstop, especially from republicans. trumps ally, senator lindsey graham, called it a disaster saying the president will have blood on his hands. the commander of the kurdish-led syrian democratic forces accused the president of selling out the kurds and leaving them to be slaughtered. so trump sends vice president mike pence to turkey do woto wot a deal but its a deal that appears to give tu...

Means things have gone from bad to much, much worse. there was even more bad news for the president. a key ally at the center of the ukraine scandal turned on him in front of congress. ambassador to the e.u., gordon sondland, telling house investigators president trump ordered diplomats to go through rudy giuliani on all matters involving ukraine. sondland said he and other foreign service officers were disappointed by the presidents direction. and he testified giuliani stressed the president ...