Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier 2019

FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier October 9, 2019

Of those favoring impeachment and removal, that breaks down to 85 of democrats, 39 of dependents and 13 of republicans. But we began tonight with turkey and the kurds. And a president defending a decision. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts. Greg good evening to you when turkey launched an invasion of syria this morning, President Trump made it clear in a statement that the United States to endorse and thinks the operation is a bad idea. President trump said that in a statement he expects the turkish president to live up to the commitments he made to him. But tonight, it is unclear if that is going to happen. With turkey escalating attacks and or syria and the kurds taking casualties, President Trump again warned kurdish turkish president not to launch a bloodbath. President trump i will Lindsey Graham said the administration had abandoned the kurds. The president defended his decision to plug u. S. Forces away from the border between syria and turkey sang american troops only meant to be there temporarily and that the feud between turkey and the kurds has been going on far longer. President trump fighting each other for many, many decades, actually for centuries. President trump is keeping in his back pocket harsh sanctions against turkey if going too far but citing to walter reed, Service Members gravely wounded in conflict. The president insist it is time to bring u. S. Troops home. President trump it is easy to talk tough guys come all these tough guys, lets keep plugging, lets keep fighting. The walter reed, the president , the white house and campaign in congress did keep up the war against impeachment inquiries today. The President Trump saying he would consider cooperating with the inquiry if House Speaker nancy pelosi calls for a vote the full house to authorize it. We would if they give us our rights it depends if they vote and say you cant ask questions, you cant have lawyers, nobody president and all these crazy things. The three previous impeachment inquiries, nixon, johnson, clinton authorized by full house bow and some democrats highly critical of the president believe the president should be followed. A full vote of the house, politically difficult for some minute members is the right thing to do to show the American People that this is the full house of representatives moving forward. President trump responded to fox news reporting that Robert Mueller met with him in the Oval Office May 2017, mueller was indeed interviewing for the fbi job contrary to what mueller told congress and that mueller had also been speaking to Rod Rosenstein about possibly taking the job of special counsel. President trump i had no idea he was doing that. To the first question, he absolutely wanted to become the fbi director. Robert mueller one of the job to be fbi director and the other element of the question, i never heard that until recently when its being reported. Bret fox news asked the president if he spoke to attorney general bill barr about the pending Inspector General report out in the genesis of an Russian Investigation were recently expanded investigation being conducted by prosecutor john durham who reported yesterday that investigation had been expanded because of what durham was finding. The president said no, he is leaving that to the attorney general. Bret john, thank you will play senior u. S. Military source telling fox news tonight that President Trump went off script during a conversation with turkish leader, on sunday. And talking points by the National Security council including to tell Tayyip Erdogan twos stay north of the Syrian Border. Earlier today, fox news spoke with reuters Dominic Evans about what he is hearing about the turkish incursion from there. In fact, it was about 4 00 local time, six hours ago, when there were sounds of explosions to Syrian Border towns right on the border with turkey. Since then, we have learned about strikes in several other towns, one of them 20 miles inside of syria. And two others on the extremes, if you like come a long 300mile stretch from a port strip between the two countries. Off to the east and the west. And so it is the artillery strikes and air strikes that are happening against several targets spread over a wide area at the moment. Bret Dominic Evans, in stubble of reuters. Warning of what they called humanitarian catastrophe brought on by the Turkish Military operation. Part of that story from the middle east newsroom trey ying trey yingst. 16 fighter jets, pound villages in northern syria. The Turkish Military begins its operation against Kurdish Forces. Turkish tanks and artillery units gathered at the border between turkey and syria awaiting orders to invade. The action, deemed operation piece spring pipe turkish president Tayyip Erdogan hitting 30 miles into syria. The other commander, to break down the core door. We are determined our combat is not against civilians. No steps will be taken against civilians. Is hearing Democratic Forces have multiple casualties just hours after the operation got underway. Two days ago, these Kurdish Forces stood shoulder to shoulder with u. S. Troops after President Trump decided to pull out u. S. Soldiers meant to prevent kurdish attack in the kurds left alone to protect families and territory. It is the latest stepped in a complicated relationship between the u. S. And the kurds. One that includes alliances of necessity and the consequences of political realities dating back to the end of world war i. The new battle is forcing many of the democratic fighters to relocate causing a new problem to arise. The kurds are currently guarding 10,000 pesos fighters and jails across the region. Kurdish Officials Say preventing their escape is a second priority. This will have a direct impact and [inaudible] this is a great danger. And can have global, regional impact. Bret Turkish Forces did receive those orders to begin a ground operation tonight and asd the kurds, they continue to look for help from other regions. There are talks of a new alliance from Syrian Regime of alassad, and they maintain close with the russians and iranians. So this new partnership does move forward, it could be problematic for future western interest in the region, bret. Bret trey yingst, tres thanks. Into knights democracy 2020 report, first, joe biden is back on the campaign trail and taking a new position on President Trumps impeachment. However biden tonight is no longer the acknowledged front runner in the battle to face the president next fall. Tonight correspond to peter doocy from manchester, New Hampshire, where biden is holding a town hall meeting. Joe biden just became the tenth president ial candidate to say this about President Trump. He should be impeached. Elizabeth warren has been saying that since the end of may. For the first time she sits atop the real average polls, head of biden, sanders, Peter Pete Buttigieg ahead of kamala harris. In the primary through small toll small donor donations. Joe biden didnt mention any of his own until nearly a half an hour into his remarks today, focusing almost entirely on trump. We all laugh, in the middle of fifth avenue and can shoot with shoot someone and get away with it. It is no joke. He is shooting holes in the constitution and we cannot let him get away with it. [applause] President Trump did not wait long to jab joe biden back. President trump biden is dropping like a rock. I dont think you will make it. This is one way he can do it and he didnt say that until he sees whats happening to him hes no longer the frontrunner. Some questions about hunter biden are okay to ask whose fame only similar allegations. There is no allegation anyone did anything wrong a question of judgment about his son. That is fair game. Hillary clinton believes if she ran again she would be a sure thing. Maybe there does need to be a rematch. Obviously, i can be him again. That she has to beat biden first. The accusations about him havent been proven. Hes tired of me and my family, lies and distortion and smears. And that is all they are. But it is also live point accusations of his own that havent been proven. It has been alleged that the allies with Rudy Giuliani working on the a side deal to manage ukraine. Bret we didnt have a chance to follow up about any of that because biden ignored our questions on the way here. Aunt did not plan to take audience questions from a crowd that has spilled outside of this ski lodge and when he got here he quickly mentioned health care and domestic violence, but went back to all talk about trump from the script in his teleprompter, bret. Bret peter doocy live in manchester, peter thanks. Mike pence defending President Trumps call with ukraines president and the Vice President added that he would release a transcript of his own calls with ukrainian president zelinski. The clear reading of the transcript shows that there was no quid pro quo. Will he release those transcripts i would have no objection to that and we are discussing with white House Counsel as we speak. Bret Vice President pence is in iowa to help joni ernst reelection bid and we will have more on that a little bit later. Arkansas republican tom cotton is demanding answers from Intelligence Community Inspector General about the ukraine phone call whistleblower. Cotton says michael atkinsons testimony to the Senate Intelligence committee invasive to the point of being insolent and obstructive. He wants to know whether the whistleblower has a professional relationship with them a credit president ial campaign. A lawyer for the whistleblower responded saying his client has never worked for or advised a political candidate, campaign or party. Ukraines foreign minister says his country does not want to be dragged into political battles in the u. S. Tonight, we began a series of reports on what is happening in that former soviet satellite nation. Correspondent david spun in the capital city and reports on the impact they are of now infamous phone call between President Trump and ukraines new leader. 4900 miles away from the white house, it is a busy day on the streets of ukraine. The country is getting used to its new president a famous comedian, the political fight came to office promising to fight corruption. Congratulations. I am an advisor of campaign. You were his advisor during the campaign. What were you advising him on . On corruption issues, international relations. Former member of Parliament Says corruption long rooted in ukraine allegations of election tampering in the United States. But he left the Zelensky Team around the same time President Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani accused him of tampering with the 2016 president ial election in the u. S. Did you in any way interfere in the 2016 election . What i did, i disclosed corruption and who i know because of ukrainian politics. He release the socalled black ledger involving trumps 2016 Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and his payments. He was convicted for tax and bank fraud stemming from the mueller investigation. He was sued in ukraine for tampering but said the charges outrages. The call between the two president s took place on july 25th. The president zelensky works here at this building behind me. He has yet to visit the white house and at this point it is unclear if or when that would happen. On that call, President Trump asked zelensky to look into the relationship between you Ukrainian Energy company and hunter biden. The former Vice President son. Hunter biden appointed to the company in 2014. Trump believes bidens position on the board while his father continued number 2 to president obama illustrated corruption. And the prosecutor general in ukraine from may 2016 until 2 months ago. He met with trump attorney Rudy Giuliani who he discussed the biden connection. Joe biden was it beneficial. He was an american official. That is why i think that yes, they didnt against ukraine. But likely to be in conflict of interest with american. President trump and his team note biden bragged about his role with the predecessor fired. The trump supporter say the motive was to protect his son. But biden and others know that he was fired after an International Course of leaders pushed for his ousting because he was inept. Just last week the new prosecutor general taking a second look at investigations from prior administrations, bret. One of those Companies Paris smith but he made it clear he is not opening a new investigationo the energy company, bret. Bret life in ukraine, david, thank you. A Counter Intelligence analyst with Intelligence Agency is under arrest tonight for allegedly passing National Defense secrets about a foreign countrys weapons system to journalists. 30yearold henry kyle freeze is charged with disclosing classified information to two reporters, one of whom he was apparently involved with romantically. He was in indicted yesterday and arrested on his arrival to work today. Up next, california in the dark over wildfires. We will tell you why millions are without electricity on purpose. But first around the country, fox 4 and Dallas American Airlines pushing back the expected return of its boeing 737 max jets to next year. The company says the grounding of the plains caught its thirdquarter pretax income by 140 million. The airline says, it expects to slowly bring the plane back to its schedule starting januar january 16th. Box 55 in springfield, illinois, as a prosecutor charges a 9yearold with five counts of firstdegree murder in connection with a mobile fire, mobile home fire that killed five people. The juvenile will be charged with two counts of arson and one count of aggravated arson. The child, if convicted, could be placed on probation for at least five years but not beyond the age of 21. Therapy and counseling would be likely. 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