That only a couple weeks ago was scorned. Harris this coming after turkey struck a deal with moscow. For Russian Troops to help out patrolling the border region. The president says turkey could face major consequences if the new ceasefire is broken. We reserve the right to reimpose crippling sanctions, including substantially increased tariffs on steel and all other products coming out of turkey. We are now an economic powerhouse like never before. Our competitors are not doing very well. Harris the top kurdish general, you heard the president mentioning him today, spoke out with a tweet. We thank President Trump for his tireless efforts that stop the brutal turkish attack. He went on to tweet President Trump plumber promiso maintain support. Joining me now daniel davis, senior fellow in military expert with defense priorities. Christian whiton, former state Department Advisor with the trump and george w administrations. Great to see you both. I want to start with the military aspect of this if i c can. What happens next . What are our u. S. Troops going to be doing . Lets hope that all the u. S. Troops withdraw because the president said two key things in his remarks that i think overshadow everything else. Number one he pointed out that over the last couple decades almost all of our middle eastern military operations have resulted in an absence of success. They are completely failures to that point. The idea to continue on doing that is just going to deepen and expand the failure. The second thing is he points out that all the people who were involved over the last couple decades of putting those strategies into effect at the same ones who are saying we should stay there now. They were wrong then. They are wrong now. The president s right and we must get our military out of there. Theres nothing for us to win back militarily. Harris christian whiton, what is there to win, if you will, diplomatic leap. The president is leveraging an incredible economy right now. Against the less than incredible economies around the world. I think what is to win is what the president just won which is to get a diplomatic solution that has a humanitarian angle that limits violence that was going to be inflected by turkey on the kurds. While all the critics and washington, republican hawks like lindsey graham, and democrats who are very pass best when it comes to defending americas vital interests who are starting around like john wayne saying we have to use the military to get involved. Donald trump used our economic might. This threat of sanctions against turkey really made the difference in while everyone in this town was piling on him and trying to undermine our president in an international crisis, he goes out and wins a diplomatic solution that will save lives. Harris i want to hear directly from the president now. We pulled some of his words from earlier in the last hour. The president said its not americas role to police the world. Lets watch and then colonel davis, your reaction. The job of our military is not to police the world. Other nations must step up and do their fair share. That hasnt taken place. Todays breakthrough is a critical step in that direction. Harris colonel. I couldnt be happier. On your show ive been advocating that very thing for a long time because our military is not going to solve political problems. Its just not going to. The president recognizes it and he looks like its going to really pull it out. Harris christian, i want to do a quick follow with the kernel. From our own reporting at the pentagon, there were some 500 kurds who were killed, some are allies of ours. Are we at risk of losing people in the region if they think the u. S. Is going to leave us behi behind . Im sorry. No, absolutely not. I will say that the way this was handled was not good, it shouldve been done a lot. Harris what would you have done differently . We could have done these negotiations before President Trump announced we were leaving we couldve coordinated with turkey and the stf and avoided any loss of li life. Now hes right to pull us out because the worst thing would be to continue to stay there militarily. As your other guests just pointed out, you cant win that militarily. Harris quickly and then we will move on. Christian, with what you know about turkey and syria in that part of the world, without about an option . Erdogan on the president were having conversations and we know the president definitely has information that we dont know publicly. One of those relationships like with those countries . Its very difficult and things are very transactional. There are no White Knights in this picture. Theres a lot to dislike about erdogan. Certainly to dislike about assad and putin. They know weve accomplished the main military goal which is killing isis as an entity that can hold territory. Erdogan saw that we had achieved our interests even if that message hadnt gotten through to capitol hill. The donald trump was not going to throw u. S. Forces into that so it kind of limited the ability to have a fine tuned outcome. What we have here is pretty darn good. Harris quickly and again will move on but i im trying to get the scope of what the American People will see today when they learned about this news. Is this as big a deal as perhaps it looks like . I think the American People, poll after poll show they want us to disengage from the middle east because they see the results of failure and they dont understand why so many on capitol hill want to stay all the time. I think he is deftly going to have america on his side. Thats one of them thinks he got elected for. As long as he actually follows through and thats critical, and actually pulls us all the way out, its a big win. Harris the president was very honest about what permanence means in the middle east. Who knows even with the definition is of that but hes hopeful. Just before President Trump statement today, the Ranking Member on the House Armed Services committee, he waited on russia, turkey, and the United States. Hopefully the violence was and thats a good thing. It also means russia has more influence. Turkey gets a lot of wanted wanted, although it had to make a deal with russia to get it. The kurds are further dislocated with a real severe humanitarian consequences. And the credibility of the United States is hurt. Harris did what the president do with his decision today, lifting sanctions on turkey, and moving forward with the deal for a more permanent ceasefire, a few well did that make russia less able to become the hegemony in that region . Probably. Tricky has been traditionally a good counterbalance against russia and theres a lot of majomutual skepticism and conce. Syria is essentially arubble ins absorb the blood of 300,000 plus people. The is basically over. Whether russia has a little adventure in syria, thats not as concerning as colonel davis has pointed out, we have other interests elsewhere. China, iran. Fighting over the rubble in syria is just not our vital interest. Harris you say that we mean it. Contradiction today over whether or not the Islamic State fighters have actually all been captured, as the president has said. Some pushback on that. Maybe thats not the case. Colonel, where are we with isis . Isis was never going to be defeated as a mentality. As an ideology. They were never going to be able to keep their caliphate. That was always guaranteed because they dont have the ability but we always knew they were going to go underground after that and thats exactly whats happening here. The idea that they are going to rise geographically is absolutely crazy because the russians, the syrians, the iranians, the turks, all kinds of people in the area still want to kill them and theyre not going to rise again. I dont believe so. Harris gentlemen, thank you very much. A lot of breaking news and its great to get your expertise. New reports today that democrats are raising the alarm about their field of 2020 president ial candidates. Could some new faces enter the race at this late stage . Democrats are calling a pentagon official to testify in their impeachment inquiry. Some republicans trying to force their way into those closeddoor interviews. Demanding transparency. Are they going to get it . 435 members of the house for presenting over 3 million americans and the only one of those 435 who know the individuals who started this whole thing, the only one is adam schiff. Why dont the rest of us know . Or partly why dont the American People know . Chevys the only brand. 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Its like a rorschach test, everyone seeing something different. The hope was a pentagon official with expertise on ukraine would be able to fill in the gaps in this impeachment inquiry. Laura cooper arrived on capitol hill this morning ready for her deposition. Its believed she played a Critical Role in trying to move military aid to ukraine forward. A key democrat spoke earlier about what they are hoping to learn from cooper. As someone who worked at the pentagon, we do believe she would be able to shed some testimony regarding the Security Assistance to ukraine and the process of deciding what assistance to give and how that process flowed. About 30 republican lawmakers from other committees including Armed Services decided theyd had enough with these closeddoor briefings are not being allowed to attend. They are also objecting the chairman adam schiff made the rules and being very restrictive about allowing people in during the depositions. They have also been complains about restrictions on republicans who want to read transcript of some the interviews. A key republican set a short time ago enough is enough. Its finally reached a boiling point where members of sub they are so frustrated at the idea that they can be part of this since he was going on. This comes a day after that acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor, gave his deposition as part of the impeachment probe. Taylor says President TrumpFirst Ukraine to investigate election interference and a company linked to former Vice President joe bidens son and was willing to hold up military aid and a white house meeting to get it. Tension here is building. Adam schiff is trying to impeach a president of the United States behind closed doors literally trying to overturn the results of the 2016 Election Year before americans get to go to the polls to decide whos going to be the president. The white house maintains President Trump did nothing wrong and there was no quid pro quo. Harris mike emanuel, thank you. We want to bring in ari fleischer, former press secretary to president george w. Bush and a Fox News Contributor. Good to see you. Congressman scalise makes an interesting point. This is a long time to talk about the same thing over and over in terms of impeachment inquiry, if it should go on far beyond thanksgiving. Democrats saying they are going to slow it down a bit. Is he getting to the point where its almost too detailed for the American People to lean in and know about or maybe not . I dont think the American People can know anything about this because of the process they are using. Our nation has had three serious impeachment and history. Andrew johnson, richard nixon, bill clinton. Now we are having one dirty impeachment. This is a dirty impeachment because its all been done in secret. We have secret witnesses, secret transcript in the public has no way of knowing if whats being selectively leaked is reflective and accurate or if witnesses are being crossexamined, if there are other facts emerging in private. This is a dirty impeachment and you cannot go after donald trump for breaking the norms. If you break them yourself. Harris its interesting because he mentioned nixon. He resigned. Before the process completely played out. But in those past instances, your pointing to evidence. My question now is is it perception, opinion versus evidence with whether or not there was quid pro quo on the phone call with ukraine. Can democrats draw a line to show one way or the other . I am pointing to basic fairness. How can the American People know what the evidence is when the evidence is held in secret . Why nobodys allowed to watch any of these witnesses coming before this committee to testify. Whether its being able to watch them get crossexamined, being able to have republicans asked questions for the public and judge whether or not its legitimate lead oakwood roco and a problematic one or whether if there is a mitigating reason, explanation. Perhaps its not as bad as the leaks want to make it look to be. Thats my whole point. I think with the democrats are doing is setting themselves up for utter failure in the senate. You cannot have a dirty impeachment in the house and expect the senate take it seriously. Harris impeachment is always politically risky. Newt gingrich was with me yesterday. Even when they went after bill clinton and he was impeached, its always risky. In this sense, its a flavor of unfairness among the American People. Theyve already said they dont like it. Lets move on to the messaging from the white house. The president reportedly is being urged to hire kind of a king strategist above it all. Does he need that . You did messaging for a former white house. Whats needed . He would need that if he were a traditional style president but hes not. He sees his own communicator. For better or worse, i dont expect that to change. He will continue to defend himself in public. It would be a helpful mechanical step for the white house to do it. Their allies and capitol hill will sleep a little better at night and thats important but i dont expect the white house to be able to do that. Thats just not how they operate. Harris you mention what would happen if impeachment were to reach the senate. The senator Lindsey Grahams approval resolution in the senate would disapprove the way the houses handling the impeachment investigation. Do you think thats necessary . I dont. I think you have to point to the facts of the evidence of what the house is doing. The public cannot see for themselves. The thing about a resolution of the senators who knows what the vote will be. If you lose two or three republicans on it and you dont pick up any democrats harris so you think the president might be right that republicans arent sticking together as much as democrats do . You heard him say that. I think theres always an element of that. Weve seen that with mitt romney. In the end, when it gets to the senate, you may have a mitt romney or to vote to impeach the president but youre going to have a joe manchin or doug jones in alabama, Democratic Senators vote against impeaching the president. Were wasting everybodys time through the process thats brutally unfair and does not represent the best of our government when it comes to looking into wrongdoing. Harris ari fleischer, thank you very much. Good to see you today. Thank you, harris. Harris is the uproar over President Trumps remarks in a tweet yesterday beginning to backfire on democrats . A certain word he used. We need to get him out of the oval office as quickly as possible. 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