Attack and a new endorsement announc announced. We go there live. And the impeachment inquiry, day 267 a and its starting to happen. President trump is losing support from his own party. Senate Mitch Mcconnell is saying an impeachment trial is inevitable. An oped why trumps withdrawal from syria is is a great mistake. Six more witnesses are set to give depositions in the inquiry. You see them there. An nbc News White House correspondent hans nichols joins me now. What is the president saying about the latest questioning of his recent moves . Reporter there isnt there hasnt been a big lashout by the president on Mitch Mcconnell. He published his oped a little less than 4 ho24 hours ago. Mitch mcconnell talks about it being a grave mistake. To get out of endless wars you need to be prepared to win them. Clearly indictment of the trump policy without mentionen trump by name. Whats more remarkable is as criticism stands even if the ceasefire holds, because what you have seen from the Trump Administration in the last 24, 48 hours is also an idea this ceasefire is the best possible outcome, and that was the direction they were always driving in. Regardless whether or not the ceasefire holds. Mcconnells criticism is more damning and about a broader set of principles that he thinks should inform the post9 11 Foreign Policy world view of his party. Its a significant departure. Its also significant, kendis, we havent heard direct criticism from the president at Mitch Mcconnell just yet. Interesting. For him to put it out there in an oped. After trumps acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, controversy comments and a walk back regarding the quid pro quo. Told at Campbell David th david. Reporter Mick Mulvaney likes to get to camp david, get together, game out strategies. Unless someone is in the room telling you whats going on, im loathe to read much into it. They do like these retreats. I dont know if theyre all doing trust exercises and kum ba yah moments, cant say that. But they look at serious longterm findings as well as short term. We dont know what the subject is. Just in general, at camp david, you have to be very careful. What, a mob aa ag month ago we the president was thinking of hosting the taliban. We knew virtually nothing about that. Camp david is a very secure location t. Location. It is secure but the trust negotiations could get dicey within the Republican Party at this point. Busy week we mentioned top of the hour. Reporter yes and no. Busy with some officials scheduled to attend. We havent had confirmation about some of the depositions or testimonies, however they end up coming, in the back half of the week. Thats important, because congressional investigators are looking to get directly at those individuals that are in the National Security council, that are there, that were there for this phone call. Remember, fiona hill, testified last week, for all the damaging information she had, she left over the summer. The white house, congressional investigators are trying to get white house officials. The split on this has been interesting, because so far youve really only had state Department Officials or former state Department Officials as well as former nsc appear before these committees. You havent had anyone from energy. Department of defense is not cooperating. Energys not cooperating and omb and the Vice President s office arent going to cooperate. Could be a situation they end up only getting a fee from the state department. Day 26s the impeachment inquiry but moving fast ahead. Hans nickel frhols from the whi house. And u. S. Officials confirm to nbc news the ceasefire is not holding. Turkey claims it has paused its invasion of land held by u. S. Allies in Northern Syria through tuesday. But today a senior u. S. Official with direct knowledge of the situation says turkey is using this socalled ceasefire to advance and take territory. Smoke was spotted as you can see there rising from kurdish territory earlier today. The death toll climbing. Meantime thousands of refugees placed with a growing humanitarian crisis on the horizon. Nbc news Foreign Correspondent matt bradley is on the ground in iraq where the u. N. Says thousand us of refugees, matt, arrived since the start of this conflict. Reporter thats right. You know, this ceasefire you talked about. Sounds like its really quite tenuous. We were looking earlier at how, this has been going on now several days. The reaction from the Syrian Democratic forces, the mostly Kurdish Fighting force that used to be allied with the u. S. , until this massive double cross in the last ten days by the white house. You know, they were saying that they were pointing out the general, musloume routinely violated and essentially imposed upon. The reaction, not to withdraw from the ceasefire. The general said the kurds are still abiding by the ceasefire and still hoping theyll be able to maintain this, because essentially this, again, was something negotiated by foreign powers and imposed on them. They dont have any other options. All they can do is abide siby t ceasefire. Seven people have died today in the bombing around this area at the hands of turkish forces. These fatalities continue and one of the things that a lot of kurds are saying is that the turks dont really want this ceasefire at all. What they want is to kill kurds. So, matt what do they expect to happen next . If this is the socalled ceasefire, and yet we had several people who died today as a result of some bombings, what happens come tuesday . Reporter hard to know, because, of course, tuesday is when theyre reevaluating it. The people with the upper hand now are not the kurdish Syrian Democratic forces. Its the russians. The regime of bashar al assad, and several points used to be occupied by the kurds and essentially blocking the advance of the turks. President erdogan of turkey. The only ones with sway in the situation and come tuesday when that 120 hours finally expires, it looks as though all of the power to evaluate the situation and decide whether or not this ceasefire is going to hold will be out of kurdish hands. You know, the turks, president erdogan, has already said this isnt a ceasefire. They called it a pause in fighting and refused to recognize the term ceasefire because, they said, calling it a ceasefire means they negotiated with terrorists. Thats exactly what president erdogan calls the kurdish sdf. So its a fragile situation and one that has really left the kurds on their back foot here. Interesting Vladimir Putin is expected to meet with turkey the president erdogan this coming week. Matt, one more question for you on the growing humanitarian crisis just to the north of you. Many refugees make their way to the south. Whats happening there . Reporter i was actually just at a refugee camp a couple days ago and spoke with some of them. 800 people arriving. Now close to 3,000 people who have come here into northern iraq. This is the kurdish area of iraq. You know, those 3,000 are of maybe, 150,000 possibly as many as 300,000 people displaced from their homes in northern eastern syria. They were tired. They were terrified. They said the u. S. Betrayed them. They were very angry at the situation, of course, and for a lot of them its going to be very difficult for them to go back because as youve mentioned, this ceasefire doesnt seem to be holding. So while it looks as though the guns are slowly starting to stop, the humanitarian crisis and the knockon effects of this weeklong round of hostilities doesnt seem to be ending. Kendis . That the headline there. Despite the socalled pause the hostilities continue. Matt bradley joining us from iraq. Thanks to you. Back here at home. It appears bernies back. At least thats the message that senator Sanders Campaign hopes to send with a rally in new york city today. Kicking off a Vigorous Campaign comeback after suffering a heart attack. Nbc news reporter, in new york, the senator picking up deendorsements. Like the worst kept secret in politics. Reporter right. Everyone kind of expected it. I actually spoke to senator, or representative ocasiocortez a few minutes ago who is here to endorse Bernie Sanders who is having his first rally since, in three weeks, since he left the trail for that heart attack. Listen to a little of that conversation that we had. Listen to what they told me. Im trying to prove that the ideas that alexandria and i believe in are the ideas that the working class of this country believes in. Its an opportunity to be up there on the platform with alexandria. This isnt about, why not her . Because we all are on the same team. Senator Sanders Campaign is around Mass Movement politics, and i think that is something that is just thrilling and exciting and empowering. Reporter and the reason why, as you said, one of the worst kept secrets, because theres been a connection between representative ocasiocortez and senator sandsanders. Theyve done policy before, had appearances before. People expected this moment to happen however she considered endorsing elizabeth warren. This is not against warren, more fo sanders. She volunteered for sanders back in 2016. The message that the campaign is trying to show, that Bernie Sanders is back. Trying to say hes back with a bang. His top surrogates are here. Thousands of people you see behind mere here cheering. I got to speak to a lot of them before as they were coming in, and this is a candidate that just had a heart attack a couple weeks ago. I asked, did they give them any pause in their support . Not one person, not one supporter i spoke to said theyve reconsidered support for senator sanders. A campaign flexing muscles showing they still have a support despite the heart attack and despite sliding poll numbers. You can see it is a Beautiful Day there in queens, new york, but a lot of people are showing lush and support for Bernie Sanders and theyre very loud. Give us a sense, though, what the plan is. What point do we expect the senator to take the stage there behind you . Reporter we expect him to take the stage in about a half hour, i believe. Were going to see. Representative ocasiocortez will formally give her endorsement and then the senator will be on the stage. First rally since back on the campaign trail. In the conversation i had with him he made a point to say hes back. Ramping up. This weekend, for example, in iowa. Going to South Carolina afterwards and hitting early states. Trying to make a point to show despite him being off the trail, despite him recovering and resting a few weeks he is back and he is here to deliver that message. Hes committed to winning this primary. Talk about that forum hes headed to in South Carolina with his Campaign Manager later on in the hour. Our thanks to you. Appreciate it. All right. Did you hear that . Those little whispers, a whisper of dissent against President Trump . Well, theyre coming from here. Right there. And from the other side of the aisle. The political aisle. Were not used to hearing it from. The growing number of republicans criticizing the president s actions, but at what personal peril . Plus, massive protests as the British Parliament holds a saturday session for the first time in more than 35 years. Why it was a setback for Prime MinisterBoris Johnson, and what it means for his brexit deal. R a wealth of perspective. A wealth of opportunities. Thats the clarity you get from fidelity wealth management. 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Is that acceptable for a sitting president . Riim not happy with it. I dont understand why at this moment they had to do that. You dont hold up foreign aid previously appropriated for a political initiative, period. When america leaves we create a vacuum. We create a vacuum we create chaos and thats what were seeing now. President trump is facing a new challenge with the ongoing impeachment inquiry. Dwindling support from republicans. The decision to pull troops out of syria and the announcement the g7 will be held at a trump property. Some republican lawmakers are having a hard time defending the president. Many wonder is it a sign the party is actually split and are starting to break with the president . With us, a former chief Communications Adviser for paul ryan and former press secretary, for jane boehner and well as a Political Columnist for the Washington Post. Welcome to you. The congressman from florida representing the fort myers area, Francis Rooney, came out yesterday saying he was looking into the option and would potentially support an impeachment inquiry. Well, just within the last couple of hours, he told fox news that, ive done what i came to do, and he, after two terms, he does not plan to run for reelection. Why is it so difficult for people in your party to kind of stick up and say, we disagree with the president . Well, for most of them its because the only election that matters to them is their primary and the president has a strangle hold over primary voters. Francis rooney is a terrific member of congress. He is at the same time, he is relatively new. Hes independently wealthy. Sort of done a bunch of incredible things in this career. Really smart. Sort of a traditional republican, which left us asking the question when he first came, why do you want to be a member of the house of representatives . Hes not a natural fit. There are not a lot of people like him in the house and im not surprised at all after sticking around for a term and a half he decided this isnt the place to get anything done. Most members in the house are in solidly red districts. The only campaign, as i said, is the primary. This is the time of year theyre worrying about whos going to run against them. Whos filing paperwork to run against them . And the president has done a really good job as relates to this impeachment debate of convincing the base that the fix is in. That democrats are out to get him from the beginning and hes built a firewall among the people that House Republicans care most about, and basically if youre going out there to cross the president on it and i think what weve seen with mitt romney has been great, but that could be the last thing do you as a House Republican if you go down that road. Dana, you heard and saw that matchup top of the segment. Many republicans for the first time least in the last two and a half years are coming together and saying, at least some things that go against what this president has been doing. So is it sort of a Tipping Point here . You know, boy, i wish i had a nickel for every time we thought it would be a Tipping Point with republicans. It never quite seems to come. Look, i dont doubt if there were a secret vote on impeachment the president would be impeached by a lopsided margin and removed by the senate. But its exactly right when you look in the house. Theyre just particularly, given the fast pace that impeachment is taking, theyre going to be right looking at primary season. So i think you are hearing noises, but i dont think youre actually seeing a whole lot of action in that direction. So theres movement, but not something thats going to be of any significance. And as we mentioned, we worked with paul ryan and with john boehner. Well connected in the Republican Party. Based on what youre hearing from many former colleagues and current leag colleagues now, if there were a secret vote would this president be out of office . Close. I really do. What are people telling you . So i was talking to a few folks on the hill. It was interesting. Ive been in a lot of Conference Meetings where we walk into the room after something crazy has happened, and when we expect members to either be upset with the president or questioning where are we going . And i sort of taught myself, stop thinking that. This is what we heard again this week. Members were at home two weeks over a twoweek recess. The sentiment in the private Conference Meeting was that leaders werent doing enough to protect the president. That is sort of typical of what you hear from House Republicans be, because they were back home two weeks and heard from their constituen constituents. Why arent you sticking up for the president . You see a few cracks. I agree. I dont thin