I think it clears things up a lot more than they were before. You know, the president was saying no quid pro quo. I will give the guy the benefit of the doubt. I was hearing all the testimony at the impeachment hearings and come to find out, there was a clear quid pro quo admitted to by his chief of staff. Jon Mark Meredith has the latest from the white house. Mark . Good evening, jon. The president has repeatedly lashed out at House Democrats for their work on an impeachment inquiry, but this weekend the white house remains in damage control mode after some comments the acting chief of staff made on thursday. It was during a News Conference on thursday that the acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said one of the reasons the u. S. Delayed sending foreign aid money to ukraine was because the president wanted ukraine to investigate the 2016 u. S. Election. Heres what mulvaney had to say. Just described is a quid pro quo, it is funding will not flow unless the investigation is into the democratic server happened as well . We do that all the time with Foreign Policy. Now, mulvaney tried to walk back those comments a few hours later. He said the media had basically misinterpreted what he was saying and the clip you were listening to, he put out a statement writing quote, the president never told me to withhold any money until the ukrainians did anything related to the server. The only reasons we were holding the money was because of concern about lack of support from other nations and concerns over corruption. For his part, President Trump was asked about his acting chief of staff comments on friday. Heres what the president has to say clarify what [inaudible]. I think he clarified it. The acting chief of staff remains in his position. Hes been in there since december of last year. Jon . Jon what about the pressure the white house is also facing from lawmakers over its decision to pull u. S. Troops out of Northern Syria . Does the president appear to be fazed by any of the criticism . No, jon, he doesnt. The president says he stands by his decision to pull out troops from Northern Syria, but as you mentioned, there have been a lot of lawmakers, including republicans on capitol hill that say they are perplexed by the decision. Theres also been some talk about whats been happening behind the scenes with the pentagon. We also had a chance to hear from the president when he was asked about what this could mean for isis in the region. This is what the president has to say. We have isis totally under guard. Turkey is also guarding separately. They are watching over everything. So you have the kurds who were dealing with and are very happy about the way things are going, i must say. One person who is not convinced is the former obama Era National Security Advisor susan rice, she and the president got into a war of words on twitter after she made these remarks on hbo last night. Weve given assad and putin and the iranians a green light to take over that territory that they have been long wanting to take. And isis is going to come back. But that was not the end of it. The president as well as susan rice trading jabs at each other on twitter late through last night. The president also very busy on twitter today but we havent seen him on camera. Jon . Jon Mark Meredith tat white house, thank you. At the white house thank you. President erdogan of turkey calling on kurdish led fighters to withdraw from the border as a clock ticks down on the u. S. Brokered ceasefire. Steve harrigan has the latest. Despite the ceasefire signed in turkey by Vice President pence and turkish president erdogan, its clear that there is still violence going on along the border between turkey and syria. You can see the smoke plumes rise. Both sides kurdish fighters and the Turkish Military accusing the other of violating that ceasefire. But you can see in key towns there is still small arms fire and shelling going on. The deadline for the pause in this fighting according to turkish president is tuesday. He vows that unless kurdish fighter arent completely cleared out from a safety zone by tuesday, he will quote crush the heads of all the kurdish fighters. Here is turkeys president erdogan. Translator if it works, it works. If it hours expire, we will continue from where we left off and keep crushing the heads of the terrorists. Turkeys goal in this military offensive was to create an enormous safety zone inside syria, 20 miles deep, 275 miles long with no kurdish fighters, while attempting to do so, they have also created a large number of refugees, more than 150,000 people on the move on the run, families really, trying to flee the fighting to get away any way they can. And as u. S. Forces have withdrawn from this region, russia has been quick to fill the void. Russian forces are patrolling in some strategic cities in between Syrian Government forces and the Turkish Military, acting as mediators between both sides, and we can see as early as next tuesday, turkish president erdogan going to sochi, russia, to meet with president putin of russia for further negotiations. Jon, back to you. Jon steve harrigan, thanks. Now to the u. K. Where Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has sent a letter to the eu to request a delay, even though he opposes the move. This as the parliament voted to delay a final decision on the brexit deal today. Meanwhile the brexit leader Say Parliament is not representing the country as all. Do you want to leave with a clean break brexit or remain in the European Union . There is a very very Comfortable Lead for those who want to leave. My message for the Prime Minister is rather boris than pushing through a very bad new eu treaty, better to play for time, lets get a general election and then hopefully we get a parliament that reflects the country. Jon Fox Business NetworksAshley Webster is in london with more. Ashley it certainly hasnt been the day that Boris Johnson had hoped for. British lawmakers were expected to vote on his freshlyminted deal struck just two days ago in brussel, but it never happened. An amendment preempting that vote and the government not wanting another delay withdrew its plan. Another defeat for Boris Johnson, but he remained defiant. I will tell our friends and colleagues in the eu exactly what ive told everyone in the last 88 days that ive served as Prime Minister, that further delay would be bad for this country, bad for our European Union and bad for democracy. Johnson says he will not negotiate with the eu for another delay, even though the law as it stands says he must. And opposition leaders say he has no choice. The people who are outside this building right now will be heard and they deserve the final say along with millions across the country. So the most urgent thing right now, mr. Speaker, is that the Prime Minister complies with the law. Ashley tens of thousands of antibrexit protesters marched on parliament demanding a peoples vote on any agreement that is finally approved. Boris johnson says he will hope to get his brexit deal approved next week, and if he can do that, he says he may just well beat the october 31st deadline, something that seems more and more unlikely. Jon, back to you. Jon Ashley Webster reporting, thanks. Hong kong antigovernment protesters held a prayer vigil to call for International Help today. It comes as the group plans to march tomorrow despite not getting approval for it from police. Meantime, hundreds of demonstrator showing their support for hong kong protesters at an nba game in brooklyn last night wearing shirts that say stand with hong kong. The nba has been in a battle with china ever since Houston Rockets gm tweeted support for the antigovernment activists in hong kong. Bernie is back on the campaign trail. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders held his first rally today, since his heart attack earlier this month. He was joined in new york city by progressive congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez who is endorsing him for president. I look at this huge crowd, brothers and sisters, i have no doubt that the Political Revolution is going to sweep this country. Jon ellison barber joins us live from long island city, new york, with the latest on that. Ellison . Hi, jon. Yes, senator sanders came back today with a major endorsement from congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, not only did she endorse him today, but she introduced him at his rally this afternoon as well. It was sanders First Official event back on the campaign trail since suffering a heart attack. Ocasio cortez talked about sanders as a candidate of the people who have pushed for the rights of working people for decades. She said the current support for Democratic Party the more progressive policies like medicare for all is because of senator sanders. In her view he has elevated the playing field. Ive grown to appreciate the enormous consistent and nonstop advocacy of senator Bernie Sanders. The only reason that i had any hope in launching a long shot campaign for congress is because Bernie Sanders proved that you can run a grassroots campaign. [cheers] i call him bernie. Ocasio cortez is the second member of the so called progressive squad to endorse sanders this week. Representative omar did that a couple of days ago in a twitter video. Age has been somewhat of a factor in this race. More questions have started to come up since senator sanders suffered that heart attack. The current president , President Trump is over the age of 70. The top three democratic contenders, all of them will be over the age of 70 on inauguration day. Neither sanders nor his supporters see his health or his age as an issue. I am more ready than ever to help create a government based on the principles of justice, economic justice, racial justice, social justice and environmental justice. [cheers] to put it bluntly, i am back according to sanders campaign, todays rally permit was for 20,000 people. They hit that number before senator sanders even walked on stage. The number that were hearing is 25,872 people, at todays event. If that number is right, that would make it one of the largest events we have seen for any 2020 democratic candidate so far. Jon . Jon ellison barber, thank you. Florida congressman Francis Rooney is the latest republican lawmaker to announce his retirement. The two term representative tells fox news Leland Vittert he accomplished what hed come to washington to do and added that his time is up. Leland put up a list of the republicans who have said they are not going to run again in 2020. Do we add your picture there . Yes, you do. Yeah. I have done what i came to do. I want to be a model for term limits. You know, im the guy that came one the term limits bill that doesnt require a constitutional amendment. People need to realize as you said leland this is public service, not public life. Jon rooney joins the long list of 16 g. O. P. Lawmakers who are calling it quits in 2020. Democratic president ial candidate Tulsi Gabbard is firing back at former secretary of state Hilary Clinton. This after clinton made comments on a pod cast suggesting gabbard is being quote groomed by the russians and calling former president ial candidate jill stein a russian asset. Former deputy chief of staff to president george w. Bush karl rove says the accusations are appalling what a charge after a single bit of evidence. Im not fan of either jill stein or Tulsi Gabbard but they have every right to be upset this morning at the smear, the drive by character assassination by former secretary of state. If she has evidence that they are russian assets she has an obligation to go the fbi and turn over that evidence now or make it available to the American People. Jon Garrett Tenney has that story. Tulsi gabbard had a number of things to say to Hilary Clinton starting with this tweet where she calls clinton the queen of warmongers embodiment of corruption and personification of the rot thats sickened the Democratic Party for so long. That comes after the 2016 democratic nominee strongly seemed to suggest during a pod cast interview that gabbard who is a military veteran is a russian asset along with 2016 Green Party Nominee jill stein. I think they have their eye on somebody who is currently in democratic primary and grooming her to be the third party candidate. Shes a favorite of the russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways to have supporting her so far. And thats assuming jill stein will give it up which she may not because shes also a russian asset. Its important to note that clinton offered no evidence to support her conspiracy theory. She does have bad blood with both women, though, going back to the 2016 race, when gabbard resigned as vice chair of the Democratic National committee endorse Bernie Sanders and believed the dnc was rigging the primary in clintons favor. Now the hawaii congresswoman is Challenging Clinton to get in the race herself if she wants to have this debate. This is about Hilary Clinton sending a very strong message saying that because i am and have long been calling for an end to our countrys Foreign Policy of waging one regime change war after the next, you are sick and tired of Hilary Clintons warmongering policies and corruption, come and join our campaign. As for jill stein, clinton and her allies blame the former Green Party Candidate for their loss in the 2016 election. And today stein said clinton is apparently still desperately looking to blame anyone but herself for coming up short. This is just a its a wild and insulting theory and i think it speaks to hillarys need to try to explain perhaps to herself, you know, why her campaign was not successful. Despite clintons theories and concerns about a third party candidate, it is important to note jill stein isnt even running in 2020 and Tulsi Gabbard has already said she will not run as a third party candidate. Jon . Jon Garrett Tenney in washington, thanks. 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