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Related news here. you might remember impeachment witness bill taylor. he's the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine at the moment. he's been told to leave the country, headed by mike pompeo. he is set to visit kyiv in january. taylor, who already planned to leave his post in january, is being told not to be there when the secretary goes. you might recall he offered some quite damning testimony against the president, questioning rudy giuliani's role in ukraine and he thought it was crazy that u.s. military assistance was being withheld from ukraine. why? are we that thin-skinned as secretary of state ...

Trading on his relationship with the president for his own benefit. china, furious that president trump signed bills that back hong kong protesters. will beijing retaliate? this afternoon president trump makes the traditional thanksgiving call to the troops, but the pleasantries he extends to servicemen and women overseas and here at home. the tension between the president and upper echelons of the military is high. that's putting it mildly. much of it stems from president trump's intervention in three war crimes cases. cnn learned pentagon officials found it disturbing and it created a mora...

Whether or not that's going to happen this year. that's something the president does when he's not in front of the cameras for several days. people will be watching to see what's going to be hanging over is this recent criticism from people inside the military and from the president's critics over how he's intervened in the cases of the allegations of war crimes and of course eddie gallagher, something the president has been quick to defend though it comes in light of the departure of the navy secretary who became embroiled in a scandal because of all of this. >> kaitlyn, thanks. let's talk ...

One thing. but deploying. >> i taught marines at the command in the '90s and what you teach the military officers is -- i didn't teach them this actual operational stuff, but what i learned listening to my colleagues is it's more dangerous withdrawing from a conflict than when you're going in. and this idea that it's a deliberate withdrawal. it's not deliberate. there is barely any notice for these service members. there aren't a lot of them to begin with. i understand why they now need to take them out. but i'm sorry, but our president put them in harm's way in the first place. so this is goi...

In your hour about secretary pompeo's morale problem. they've got a morale problem over at dod as well. >> well, and i wonder why. charlie pierce, malcolm nance, naveed jamali, evelyn farkas, thank you very much. appreciate your time. coming up, right-wing evangelical leaders do something even more rare than lindsey graham criticizing donald trump. we will tell you what that is when i'm joined by author jim wallace, next. if you're 65 or older, even if you're healthy,