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Roosevelt and churchill is the most important friendship in american history. bret: then there was joseph stalin born into poverty rising through the ranks of the communist party using mass murder as a tool of statecraft. >> stalin is such an enigma and a fascinating figure. on one hand he's a brilliant military tactician and understands the levers of power in a way that few leaders did. bret: in 1939 he's done the best by west by entering into a nonaggression pact with hitler but in 19 for the one hitler attacked the soviet union anyway and effectively in allen greg heard the bloodiest battle...

More now on our breaking news. president trump calling for new sanctions on turkey and sending vice president -- the vice president there in hopes he can work out the kind of deal that his knee jerk statecraft blew up about a week ago. joining me now is democratic senator chris coons, a member of the foreign relations committee. senator coons, thanks for being with us. to people who have been following this region closely, it is not stunning how quickly this situation has deteriorated after the president made the decision that he did. when you hear people in the administration sort of pushing ...

Against the advice of the state department, talking about his concerns regarding what some people have said was smear campaign about former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. i want to bring in debra jones, who was most recently the former ambassador to kuwait and libya. she served under five administrations, was one of 50 former female ambassadors, who recently signed a letter of support for marie yovanovitch. good to see you. thanks for being with us. i want to read part of the letter you signed. it says for u.s. diplomacy to be an effective instrument of state craft it is vital that the nonpartisa...

Influence u.s. politics. the two men were said to have made contributions to pete session' campaign in an effort to get a ukraine ambassador removed from her post. a move supported by rudy giuliani. the arrest would only complicate the impeachment inquiry into president trump. as we were discussing. dan, back to you firstly and don our last hour made the frick and frack joke. you've got the two guys, the video of them at the trump international hotel. this is a rag tag bunch. what's fascinating about it is what they were trying to do at once. ken saying these were gas price who wore two hats. ...

And there are many other things about this call and we can get into it as you wish, but many other things that say this was not handled the way a normal call would be handled. in other words, the transcription is sent around as a package. there's no package number and raising questions about whether it was kind of essentially along the way interrupted, and that's again what the whistle-blower claims is somewhere along the way, white house lawyers and other officials got very anxious about this transcript and wanted to do something to control people's access to it. >> the final sort of point yo...