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Intelligence james clapper and the former cia director john breneman who recently dismissed the idea, bret. >> bret: more on that later. katherine harris live on capitol hill. >> you are welcome. >> bret: the trump impeachment inquiry against him putting future presidents at risk. and he is equating the process to a crime from one of the most infamous chapters of american history. chief white house correspondent john roberts is here with details from the north lawn. good evening, john. >> bret, good evening to you. president trump and his republican colleagues found themselves in a familiar po...

To which the president is being subjected is totally unprecedented and totally unfair. >> just when you thought the process couldn't get any more unfair, we found out last night that democrats will now not even allow republicans to have a copy of the respective transcripts from each of the witnesses we have interviewed thus far. >> republican colleagues are shrewdly not actually talking about what happened because it's completely indefensible. instead they pick a complaint dejour about whatever is going on in terms of process. >> bret: some of the sound from capitol hill today as the inquiry c...

Syria which happens to have some oil fields. sos not a considered policy. these are spasms. and to stay in syria just to protect an oil field, that might be one of the purposes. but to say that out loud raises very serious questions. >> bloomberg is writing about it this well. the president has mentioned multiple times the idea that troops would stay there to protect oil fields. where is that coming from? >> first of all, it's illegal. i know this issue pretty well. we cannot exploit the oil. the oil has to be smuggled because we can't legally sell it. so you want to protect the fields to make...

Sense, mattis is in a special military. he designed in writing over principal to continue the exchange with mr. trump. and coming out of the university is, i think, a patriot. at the end of the day what we're seeing is a total break down in national security process. this is mr. trump, home alone, writing letters to president erdogan. that are almost comical. >> general, to the things that the president has said that we played earlier of the president in the oval office saying the kurds are no angels, this is not

China. there is no foreign policy going on right now and no national security process. we are taking on increasing risk from the country from issue to issue. what happened in ukraine, there was a policy to provide assistance to the ukrainian government but there is a shadow policy coming out of the oval office to counter that. diplomats on the front line are interphasing with the government, don't know what the policy is because you don't know what the president is going to do from day-to-day. this is taking on risk for our country and national security. it is serious. there are just no defens...