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You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Michael we begin with york host we begin with your thoughts. The last of the u. S. Forces have left syria as fighting between turkey and the kurds escalate over the weekend. Your reaction to the president s decisions. We will get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with mark esper, the defense secretary on the sunday shows. He was on face the nation, and here is what he had to say about the decision to withdraw these troops. [indiscernible] a deliberate [video clip] a deliberate withdraw from the entire country . From Northern Syria. 1000 troops. How long and over what time period . It will be a deliberate withdraw and we want to conduct it as safely as possible. We want to make sure we deconflict a pullback of forces and dont leave equipment behind. I am not prepared to put a timeline on it. You said you are doing this for u. S. Force protection. The armies are advancing after the u. S. Pulled back, after the u. S. Air force,
Origins of the impeachment inquiry. Let us go back to 2014, 2015, 2016, the Obama Administration. What is u. S. Policy toward ukraine at this time . Consistenteen fairly antiukraine on reform. That is been fairly consistent under both president obama and president trump. Under the Obama Administration, it was carried i his ambassadors to ukraine who have long played a strong role in ukraine working with politicians there to clean up corruption. What was then Vice President joe bidens role . Obamas point person in ukraine and carried that message for the president. He also oversaw the u. S. U. S. Messaging when it came to the conflict on ukraine and the russian annexation of crimea. And then the war began in Eastern Ukraine in the spring of that year. The first hot war in the region in an extremely long time. And biden really carried the messaging from obama. The United States that was worried about corruption in the ukraine at this time . For thes been an issue u. S. Allies in europe a
As exmilitary, im appalled that one of my guys has to stay at one of his failing hotels or my Vice President has to travel hundreds of miles were going to leave this conversation to return to the Senate Foreign relations policy. Live coverage on cspan3. It is a consular issue. You were confirming the Washington Post reporting that you met with mr. Giuliani in 2017 when he was representing ree reeza. Did you believe it was appropriate for mr. Giuliani to press for intervention in an ongoing trial to free an iranian sanction to avoid testimony that would implicate powerful figures in turkey . What action did you take in response . It was a meeting at the request of judge mukasey. There was no action taken after either meeting. Can you confirm you only met with mr. Rlg twigiuliani twice . Correct. Again, it was a meeting at the request of judge mukasey. And i know judge mukasey. He was attorney general of doj in the bush administration. I served at the justice department. Ive known him fo
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