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Thank you for joining us on this wednesday morning and the Washington Nationals, they are setting the stage for the world series. The fan celebration in d. C. That says it all and 20yearold outfielder juan soto rocking that monster home run last night and i would say get that man a beer but he wont be 21 until iday, so early happy birthday to him and what a big week. What a big week. There will be some big celebrations coming up. But we are going to begin with that explosive day in washington. The top u. S. Americas top diplomat in the ukraine making the case that President Trump held up military aid on the condition that ukraine investigate his rival joe biden and the 2016 election. Directly contradicts President Trumps denials of a quid pro quo as a brandnew poll just out this morning shows support for the impeachment inquiry hitting a new high. 55 according to quinnipiac, it jumped from last week. Our senior Congressional Correspondent mary bruce starts us off from capitol hill. Good morning, mary. Reporter george, good morning. Democrats say this testimony is the most damaging yet to the president and it outlines what the president and his allies have been denying, a clear link between trump and the campaign to push ukraine to investigate the president s political opponents. In explosive testimony bill taylor, the top u. S. Diplomat in ukraine, personally implicates President Trump in a quid pro quo Pressure Campaign. Describing in detail how trump withheld military aid to force ukraine to investigate his political rivals. This is my most disturbing day in congress so far. Very troubling. Reporter democrats in the room say there were gasps and sighs as taylor, a career diplomat, described eight separate times he was told the president demanded pressure be put on ukraine to investigate the bidens and debunked theories about the 2016 election. His Opening Statement which is now in the Public Domain is devastating to donald trump. It was very damning for the president. Reporter for weeks, taylor says he was given no reason for why that much needed assistance was being held up but then in september the u. S. Ambassador to the eu, gordon sondland, told him, the president himself wanted ukraine to announce a public investigation into his democratic rivals. Ambassador sondland said, everything was dependent on such an announcement including security assistance. That trump insisted ukrainian president zelensky go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of biden and 2016 election interference. And that trump wanted zelensky in a public box by making a Public Statement about ordering such investigations. Taylor detailing the Pressure Campaign that trump has repeatedly denied. That there was no quid pro quo. There was no quid pro quo. There was no quid pro quo. Reporter according to taylor, the secretaries of defense and state, the cia director and the National Security adviser sought a joint meeting with the president to convince him to release the hold on the aid. But that meeting never happened. Taylor describes an irregular informal channel of u. S. Policymaking that includes ambassador sondland, and was led by the president s personal attorney rudy giuliani. That unofficial channel, taylor says, was running contrary to the goals of longstanding u. S. Policy. Now taylor alerted multiple officials including the secretary of state sending a cable to secretary pompeo descri the, quote, folly he saw in withholding this aid which taylor says was potentially life saving and critical to fending off russian aggression. Taylor told pompeo he simply could not defend holding up this aid but taylor says he did not receive a response. George. Not much response from republicans on capitol hill but the white house put out a statement. Reporter in a statement the white house says the president did nothing wrong and there was no quid pro quo. They continue to insist the president has done nothing wrong. They say this is just a, quote, Smear Campaign by far left lawmakers and radical unelected bureaucrats but taylor, of course, was put into this position by pompeo himself and he has served under president s of both parties since 1985. Yes, mary. Before that he graduated with honors from west point, served in the infantry in vietnam, so this idea that hes a radical waging w on the constitution, that is a quote from the white house statement, is the smear right there directly contradicted by taylors lifetime of service. I want to bring in dan abrams, our chief legal analyst, for more on this and clearly this testimony, the most significant incident yet in this impeachment inquiry. Absolutely and you cant view it in a vacuum, right . The administration would like you to say, well, you cant believe this guy, this guys an outlier. The problem is that his testimony is entirely consistent with both the transcript of the phone call thats come out and the Text Messages among the diplomats. And the admission from Mick Mulvaney last week. And Mick Mulvaney as well. So you have to take it together. I mean, in a typical trial, right, Defense Attorneys will try to get people to isolate a single piece of evidence and say to the jury, youre not going to convict on that piece of evidence, are you . Thats not enough to have proof beyond a reasonable doubt and prosecutors will say, wait a sec, look at all of this together and put all the pieces together and thats what i think you have to do in the context of what were seeing here. And it leads you to more things and used to talk about the whistleblowers being a road map. This also a road map leading to new testimony from other witnesses and other documents. With dates and times and notes to back it up. I mean, thats the important thing here. Taylor isnt just winging it here. He isnt just saying, you know what, i think it was this day. He literally has notes contemporaneous notes from all of this to back up what hes saying and going through methodically in his Opening Statement. He created a road map. He laid out day by day heres what happened and then i responded and then they responded this way, et cetera. Thats what makes this so much more powerful than just someone coming in and testifying. White house sticking to this line, no quid pro quo. Right. And so the president even seems according to the testimony from taylor, was saying no quid pro quo while doing things that would clearly be identified as a quid pro quo. And when youre looking at it, legally for impeachment purposes, whatever, you can call it whatever you want. Its the actions, its the words that matter, not just how you characterize it. Dan abrams, thanks very much. Okay, george, the impeachment inquiry has President Trump firing back and that is sparking new outrage this morning. The president comparing the inquiry against him to a racist and painful chapter in American History tweeting, take a look, all republicans must remember what they are witnessing here, a lynching, now some of his republican allies quick to denounce the language but others defended it. Take a listen. This is a lynching in every sense. This is unamerican. I think lynching is being seen as somebody taking the law in their own hands and out to get somebody for no good reason. Okay, so lets bring in terry moran there at the white house. Terry, this was yet remarkable moment in this presidency. Reporter it sure was, the president has used a lot of incendiary language to express his fury at this impeachment inquiry, but for millions of americans, this crossed a line. The history of lynching in america is a history of pain and terror and racist tyranny. Thousands of black americans were murdered this way, so for the president to compare a congressional investigation to a lynching, it was a rhetorical firebomb. One he deliberately detonated for political purposes and even for some of his republican allies, it was too much. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky said that given the history of our country he would not have used this term. The president s defenders were quick to point out that some democrats including joe biden used the term to describe the impeachment of bill clinton. Biden apologized. Bidens defendersay neither he nor the other democrats have the same. One more headline before we let you go. That senior that anonymous senior official who penned the oped claiming to be part of the resistance inside the administration now has a book coming out. Reporter thats right. Its the book that has washington buzzing today. Coming out next month. Titled a warning. Th author is a Senior Trump Administration official. In that original the New York Times article he painted a devastating portrait of President Trump saying that he was erratic, making reckless decisions. This is the kind of thing that just infuriates the president. He clearly does not have the loyalty of everyone around him. Cecilia. Terry moran. Thanks very much. Coming out november 19th. We move to the latest on the crisis in syria. As u. S. Troops continue to pull back, russia is moving in. Reaching a deal with turkey on controlled kurdish territory and our chief foreign correspondent, James Longman reports from the region this morning. Good morning, james. Reporter good morning, george. America moving out, syrias future now firmly in the hands of these evendominant power brokers, president s putin and erdogan cementing their control of the north. After a sixhour meeting, the two men agreed on a new deal. Turkey will retain its control of the area, its claimed after these last two weeks of fighting but now Kurdish Forces are required to withdraw from even more land, a strip of territory to the east and west along the border. Erdogan saying Kurdish Military positions are to be destroyed and that kurdish soldiers will be forced to pull back. His ultimate goal to resettle 2 million Syrian Refugees in turkey currently, into that kurdish region, meaning the fate of thousands of kurds already uprooted from their homes is still in the balance. Without their American Partners in the face of a looming humanitarian crisis, the kurds may have little choice but to accept, george. And james, at least some of the u. S. Troops pulling out will be going to iraq. That comes with some controversy as well. Reporter yeah, thats right. The iraqis are now publicly refusing to allow them in and so the defense secretary mark esper has been in baghdad making their case for redeployment. Were just hearing in the last few moments theyll have four weeks in which to leave. This has been a chaotic situation and one over which russia and turkey have taken full advantage. George. James longman, thanks very much. Michael. Thank you, george. Now to the extreme fire danger in california. Its intensifying this morning. Record heat posing dangerous conditions and ginger is here with the red flag warnings right now. Good morning, ginger. Good morning to you, michael. Right behind the storm that will bring snow from denver to amarillo theres this great basin high settles in by tomorrow and that rotates clockwise, sends winds offshore, especially in california. The whole state almost is under some sort of critical fire danger. Tomorrow, Southern California going to get into extreme fire danger. But today is northern californias turn to be at its worst. So if youre there in the red flag warning, which that means fires start easily and spread rapidly, from quincy to san fran, you could see 45mileperhour wind gust, the bay area, 10 to 20 relative humidity. Thats very dry. I know our meteorologist in the bay area will be all over it and we will too this week. Cecilia. Okay, ginger, thank you. Now to penn state temporarily suspending a fraternity after a 17yearold died at an offcampus house. Gio benitez has this story. Reporter this morning, a Penn State Fraternity has been suspended as Police Investigate the death of a visiting high school senior. Officers were called out saturday to an offcampus house which the school says was allegedly occupied by Chi Phi Fraternity members. 522 west college avenue, 17yearold male unconscious for approximately 10 to 15 minutes, breathing is very shallow. Reporter State College police finding 17yearold John Schoenig in full cardiac arrest. First responders tried to resuscitate him, but he was pronounced dead on the scene. His high school posting this on facebook, please pray for the prepvilla community as we mourn the passing of our brother john jack schoenig. Friends and teammates also remembering the student athlete. You could walk in the locker room and everyone just brightens up, smile on their faces joking around on the ice, always gave it his all. Reporter police say there were no signs of trauma and several witnesses told them he became uonscious, but the university not taking any chances. Immediately issuing an interim suspension to the alpha delta chapter of chi phi. Fraternities across the country have been under fire. Penn state having one of the largest hazing prosecution cases in American History. In 2017, 19yearold sophomore tim piazza died. It was after an alcoholfueled party at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. In schoenigs case there are no allegations of hazing or alcohol but police are asking anyone with information to come forward. And the medical examiner says it may take weeks to learn what triggered his cardiac arrest. The fraternitys National Chapter telling us overnight it is deeply saddened by this tragic event. They point out this happened at an offcampus house, not owned by chi phi, but say the fraternity is assisting investigators right now. A lot of people want these answers. No question about that. Such a tragedy. Thanks, gio. Were going to turn now to a close call cauon cam look at this, a massive tr crashes into their home while the familys two teenage daughters were sitting hanging out with their dog. The familys ring Surveillance Video captured the moment the tree fell through the ceiling destroying the living room. You can see that extensive damage there. Fortunately and miraculously the girls and the dog were not seriously injured. Michael. Thank goodness for that. And now were going to turn to the world series and a thrilling start to the fall classic. 20yearold juan soto and the Washington Nationals takg game one stunning the Houston Astros and their elite pitcher. T. J. Holmes is here with that. Good morning. Reporter and that elite pitcher youre talking about, Houston Astros pitcher gerrit cole, has not lost since may, 190 since may coming into the game and the nationals, huge underdogs, the nationals never won a World Series Game in their history. All that changed last night thanks to a kid that goes by the name of childish bambino. Houston texans star j. J. Watt enthusiastically got the crowd ready for game one of the world series. Play ball reporter after pussycat dolls Nicole Scherzinger performethe National Anthem the bombs bursting in air reporter the crowd was treated to a thriller that featured Houston Astros ace pitcher gerrit cole who came into the game with 19 wins in a row. And the Washington Nationals juan soto, the 20yearold phenom left fielder known as the childish bambino. Third youngest player you saw hit cleanup in a world series and he just cleaned up. Reporter soto crushed a 417foot homer tying the score in the fourth inning. Wow. Reporter then in the fifth, soto was at it again, smashing a tworun double that gave the nationals a 52 lead. One run scores. Reporter the nationals managed to hang on for the 54 victory. The firstever world series victory in their franchise history. The nationals take game one. Reporter soto turns 21 on friday. The same day the city of washington will host its first World Series Game since 1933. You were talking about this earlier. Hes not even old enough to have a beer to celebrate. What hes doing is phenomenal. He said he relaxed afterwards, but that first atbat, he admit it, his knees were shaki