>> a shake-up at the very top of the homeland security department as given mcaleenan resigns as acting secretary. welcome to america's news headquarters from washington, i'm gillian turner. it's great to be with you. leland, great to be with you on a saturday. leland: nice to be with you as well. what is this three or four dh secretaries. gillian: something like that. leland: i'm leland vittert. the race to replace mcaleenan is on. and president trump says he'll announce a new acting secretary next week. >> both of you have been doing great reporting on this.

what we're hearing that this was mcaleenan's decision, he was not fired. he said he was leaving to spend more time with his family, but according to the source the acting dhs secretary has been on the outs with the white house for some time and felt like administration officials didn't listen to him anymore and he knew he was not going to be nominated to lead permanently so he decided to step aside. he was appointed after kirstjen nielsen was gone. he's done an outstanding job as secretary and he wants to spend more time with his family and to go to the private sector. now, the president has said he would announce mcaleenan's replacement next week and a

former dh official says that ken cuccinelli acting director of immigration services is at the top of the list. getting him confirmed would be a challenge. a number including mitch mcconnell are not fans of the former virginia attorney general who previously led effort to primary senate republicans as part of the senate conservatives fund. although cuccinelli is in sync with the president and advisors when it comes to key immigration policies and that the white house has been working to make this happen and worth remembering, the president said previously he prefers having folks in these acting secretary roles to give them more flexibility. so we'll see what happens in the next couple of weeks. gillian: and he likes to have the media vet the candidates. ale we see. thanks, garrett. the turkish military says they've got the offensive in the

northeast of the country is in day four. steve has the latest. >> gillian, kurdish military leaders speaking out complaining bitterly about their relationship with the u.s. saying they have, quote, been stabbed in the back by allies who allowed this turkish military operation to take place. in day four now, no sign that that military operation is slowing. turkish forces still using war planes as well as shelling. they're trying it push in to create a 20 mile buffer zone, a safety zone into syria. they're calling this an anti-terror operation. as far as the death toll goes, roughly 50 civilians, about 25 on each side, have been killed. it's hard to determine with any accuracy how many fighters have been killed on each side. both sides exaggerating the numbers. one they think that's not exaggerated though are the civilians fleeing from that fighting. the u.n. saying more than 100,000 people are on the move most heading south desperately trying to get away from the

explosions, the turkish president has endured tremendous criticism from around the world for this military operation. the u.s. has warned about possible sanctions, warned about serious consequences, but no hard action from the u.s. yet. the u.s. forces in a city in syria were nearly hit by turkish mortar shells and turkish military officials say they're not intentionally targeting the u.s. forces. back to you. gillian: we'll check with you next hour. thanks for staying on top of that for us. leland: as steve noted, international backlash against the turks. and the former advisor to turkey. speaking of reaction from around the world. here is the u.s. defense secretary mark esper yesterday and then we'll get your reaction. >> we oppose and are greatly disappointed by turkey's decision to launch a unilateral military incursion into northern syria.

turkey must stop this incursion now and that remains our message, stop. leland: i guess you guys aren't going to stop though, are you? >> no, i mean, we're very determined because we have two objectives. one is to clear our border from this terrorist group, the wpg, which is equivalent to the pkk, which is a terrorist organization as recognized by the united states and european union. leland: so if you-- >> go ahead. leland: go ahead with your second objective. >> yeah, and the second objective is to actually return, ensure the return of about one to two million syrian refugees. we're already hosting four million of them in our country and also, a part of this objective is because since the wpg grabbed a lot of land in northeast syria, unfortunately after the u.s. policy to arm them-- >> hold on, i want to understand this, are you accusing the united states of helping

terrorists? because that seems to be where your logic is going. >> yes, i think it was a very ill-gotten policy. leland: hold on, hold on, let's go back in a little bit of history, ma'am, ma'am, in 2013 and 2014 your country allowed a jihadist highway of foreign fighters to stream across the border into syria, why is because you didn't like bashar-- >> that's not true. leland: it's absolutely. spent a lot of time on the border of syria and turkey, yes, our reporters do. you didn't go against isis, you liked that they were going against assad and now that the kurds have done the dirty work, you've said we can take them out. why is that not true. >> leland, let me finish and let me answer your question. leland: that would be nice. >> i think the american public have a right to know because they're being lied to at this very minute. there's a lot of lies and misinformation about what we're trying to do here. leland: what do they have-- >> we have never-- >> hold on. >> finish my question, this is

unfair, you have to let me finish. leland: we're expected to not believe the n.a.t.o. secretary-general, not believe the french, not believe the u.s. military that you've already fired upon and believe that, believe that erdogan is on the side of the angels and listen to the turks cozying up russians and buying missiles, really? >> you're not going to get anywhereby demonizing turkey in this way. leland: maybe if they deserve it. >> listen, you're not letting me speak, please. now, listen, i think that president trump is absolutely right in want to go bring home u.s. troops because i think it's very unfair that u.s. troops are hostage to this very il ill-begotten policy that president trump inherited from the previous administration arming one group to the other. the international coalition here with isis, that's clear more

area in syria from isis than any other member of the could he ligs, and. leland: i'm still lost here though, if you all are the ones so good at fighting isis, if you're the one so good fighting isis. >> we are. leland: why was isis allowed to grow on your watch and now the entire world is terrified because of this military turf that isis will be allowed to grow. >> a large area. leland: come on. >> on the country they were allowed to grow under the watch of the wpg. leland: come on. >> who actually allowed thousands of them to escape. we didn't do raqqa, we asked the americans to do it and they didn't and chose to do-- >> now it's the u.s.'s fault. >> i think the american public have a right to know that, don't you think so? i think there's so much lies about this going on. leland: i'm unclear what the lie is. because our reporters who have been on the ground and i've spent a lot of time in the middle east as well. turkey is a country cozying up

to russia. >> they've been attacking us. leland: why should we believe anything the turks are saying, with friends like these who needs enemies? your forces are firing on u.s. soldiers and you expect the american people to trust you? >> no, we're not. that's another lie. leland: hold on, i just want to be-- ma'am, ma'am, i want to be clear. >> we did not fire at american soldiers and that's confirmed by the pentagon please get your facts right. leland: ma'am. i want to be very clear. >> we did not fire on american soldiers. leland: that's interesting because the pentagon says you did. >> that was a lie spun by wpg. leland: the pentagon says that you did. >> no we-- no, no, we were returning fire that was actually fired at us at our territory by the terrorists from that region, but we were very careful not to fire on the american observation posts there. leland: well, that will be --. >> and no americans were targeted. leland: that will be news--

that will be news to the u.s. department of defense because this is from the department of defense who says turkish artillery rounds landed near u.s. forces in northern syria. how that's not firing on u.s. forces i don't know. >> we're not. we're not firing on u.s. forces. i've already said that. leland: well, the pentagon-- >> and denied and the pentagon said that they didn't. no, because we were returning fire from the terrorists who were actually attacking our border towns. leland: just so we go full circle, the government of turkey and you as the president, one of the president's senior advicers is accusing the united states of aiding and abetting terrorists against an n.a.t.o. ally? >> i said it was an ill conceived policy. leland: you're saying the policies are continuing. >> for one group to fight another. kristin: i think it's time you stop this policy. we're disappointed that you're still working with the wpg outside of did $. leland: do you understand that the u.s.-- hold on. you say you're disappointed.

you've made your point, ma'am you've made your point you're disappointed in american policy. will et-- let me ask you a question. you're disappointed in american policy, people can disagree with policy. >> yes, we ever. leland: do you understand america's disappointment in an n.a.t.o. ally for 70 years and cozying up to the russians and helping hamas in gaza? can you understand our disappointment and mistrust of turkey in those things? >> everything you're accusing us of is not true. leland: it's not true. leland: you all have the s-400 missile missiles. >> yes. leland: that's true. >> it's a system you did not provide for us, and. leland: ma'am, why it's so difficult for turkey to defend this policy. >> we had the right-- you're not actually letting me speak.

leland: we let you finish a number of times, it would be helpful if-- make it easier if rather than spin we got actually some facts out of the turks, that's been difficult to do. we'll have you back sometime. >> i'm giving you the facts. this is a terrorist organization and terrorist objectives. leland: we understand your position, ma'am. >> thank you. >> the operations which you'll fully informed about. leland: and fully informed the americans troops subject to your artillery rounds. we've got to go, gillian. >> no, we're not-- >> joining us for more on this, tom malinowski. the former secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, important to have somebody with real foreign policy experience on the policy side of things, as well, joining us today. congressman. >> thank you. gillian: okay, so we have who leland just spoke to saying that

turkey, the president erdogan is essentially flipping the script and saying that the united states is actually the country that's aiding and abetting terrorists in the middle east. what's the response to that? >> well, wow. well, first of all, look, there is some complexity here. wpg, the syrian militia we have been working with in northern syria are not angels and turkey has grievances, but there's absolutely no justification for invading syria, kurds, christians in the way and basically undermining our common coalition effort against isis. kristin: you say ethnic cleansing because for our viewers, specifically attacking kurds in the border region they're going after them based on their nationality? >> it's a war that thousands of people are now fleeing. it's a humanitarian catastrophe, a catastrophe for our interests

and it's a victory for assad and iran and russia. i'm angry at turkey, but let's be honest why it's happening. president trump gave them the green light to do this. gillian: by withdrawing troops from the border region? >> ironically that decision was made at the same time as he announced that we were sending thousands of troops to saudi arabia because the saudis were paying us money. so the saudis pay us money and the kurds nearly pay with their lives, with blood to fight with us to defeat isis. what message is this sending about what we stand for, what our foreign policy. gillian: what president trump said he's making the case that essentially, the turks and the kurds have been fighting with each other in the middle east, for decades, if not hundreds of years and the united states presence there is sort of extraneous, we're not making the difference between them fighting or not. they're been fighting since, you

know, the dawn of time and they're going to keep fighting until-- >> clearly we're making a difference because the decision to make our troops aside. we're not withdrawing them. we're not bringing them home, we brought them to one side to allow turkey to do this and it's happening before our eyes and president trump is saying it's terrible and we're going to destroy turkey's economy and he go gave them the green light. gillian: lets play that clip, we've got the president threatening sanctions-- excuse me, secretary mnuchin threatening sanctions. >> these are powerful sanctions and we hope we don't have to use them, but we can shut down the turkish economy if we need to. gillian: okay, but that's going to save lives? >> it's a little bit late. the president of turkey called president trump, that was the moment when the commander-in-chief needed to say, no, you cannot do this. we have troops there, and they will not move. had he said that, this would not

be happening. gillian: i want to get your take on the story that's kind of dominate washington this week, which is the impeachment inquiry. you happen to be one of the members who was in that closed door deposition yesterday with marcia evanovich, the former ambassador to president trump in may. tell us what your thoughts are out of that. >> sure, i can't say what happened inside the room. i can tell you that she is a patriotic diplomate with great integrity who did the right thing by obeying a legally binding subpoena. she set is example for others in the administration civil servants foreign service office that you can and you should do this. as far as the policy and the bigger picture, look, let me say this-- >> well, she also, the reporting out of that meeting yesterday was that she said, she made the case that president trump's firing of her was unethical, it was sort of out of bounds.

>> well, it was completely contrary to the leadership of president trump's state department. so look, here is the big picture. the trump administration was running an excellent policy critic of president trump's it's not easy for me to praise him, but it was a perfect policy. it was better than the obama administration's policy. gillian: wow. >> the official policy, which was fighting corruption, and supporting ukraine against russia. but what started happening over the last year was that the president through rudy guiliani was running a parallel policy, a shadow policy, that had a different aim, the aim was to try to get dirt on vice-president biden to get help in making a case that was ukraine, know the russia that interfered in 2016. >> and that's where the shadow governing, running a foreign policy by rudy guiliani is sort of the crux. problem. >> and overtook the official policy and one result was they got rid of our ambassador, who was ably representing secretary

pompeo's policy in ukraine and that's the crux of the matter. gillian: well, congressman malinowski, thanks for joining us today. we'll have you back to dig into this further. >> thank you so much. leland: all right. president trump has been taking to trump to defend his personal attorney rudy guiliani. this as congress moves ahead with the impeachment policy. kevin corke weekend duty at the white house. good to be with you my friend. >> always nice to be with you, lucky. even though there's no vote on the house floor, they say they don't need one and they'll move forward what they've done so far. and we've seen a great deal of individuals come over to capitol hill, sometimes on camera and sometimes you don't even see them on camera, they'll go over the steady stream of individuals being questioned by house investigators. yesterday, the recalled ambassador to ukraine, of

course, one of them, she told congressional lawmakers in scathing testimony that the president pushed to have her removed based on false claims and that it's undermining our interests. and the president told a full house rally in louisiana the whole situation is a sham and that his administration is fighting every step of the way. >> we're putting a stop to their pillaging and their plundering and their hoaxes. the radical democrats' policies are crazy, their politicians are corrupt, their candidates are terrible, and they know they can't win on election day so they're pursuing an illegal, invalid and unconstitution al (bleep) impeachment. >> this is a family show, thus the bleep. i'm sure you can figure out what he said.

democrats on capitol hill have a familiar refrain and this is speaker pelosi or nadler are coming and the question they say, leland, a simple one. is it okay for a president to pressure a foreign government to undermine our election for political gain and the other question that's exactly what happened here, and we've seen the transcript, that's open for interpretati interpretation. adam schiff says the white house needs to stop i am pooh he had -- impeding their probe. >> and for the white house from obstructing, and keeping witnesses from obeying lawful congressional subpoenas will be deemed acts of obstruction. >> acts of obstruction, so says adam schiff. the president tweeting about rudy so now they're after the legendary crime buster, the

greatest mayor of new york city, a wonderful guy and a wonderful lawyer, such a one-sided witch hunt going on, the deep state. >> we'll hear from you in the next hour and we'll be right back. ♪

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>> this is a fox news alert. a suspect now in custody following a shooting in a new hampshire church this morning that left at least one person so far injured. authorities in pelham responding to the incident shortly after 10:00 this morning. we know that several police, ambulance and fire crews are reportedly still on the scene. officials say though it's no longer an active shooter situation. leland: still watch that. in the meantime, don't bother checking your calendar, you're right. it's still early october, but it's time to bundle up in much of america's heartland after it's now under a blizzard warning. adam klotz in the extreme weather center. and last week it was no more. >> we're talking about a blizzard moving through this october. a lot of cold air circled into the system. there's the center of the circulation and snow on the back side of this. back you out a little bit.

unless you're in this region it's pretty much dry across the country, we're not looking at a whole lot of systems. this system is causing problems, definitely an early winter feel. everything highlighted in the red, that's north dakota, that's a blizzard warning, that means you'll be talking about snow that makes visibility under a mile for at least three hours. we've been seeing a lot of snow here in the early morning hours across this region and even if you're not in the regions getting heavy snow, you're probably in an area where you're feeling some of the colder weather pushed in with that same system. these are the temperatures we woke up to early, spots in the teens, 17 degrees, 19 degrees, more widespread, plenty of places below freezing. it's cold because of this one. i'll leave with you this, this is the next 48 hours, so we see this spinning and not adding a whole lot of snow. in the upper midwest and upper plains, they're going to replain in place. leland: golf season might be over. >> yeah, in that area. leland: gillian. gillian: a tweet from the nba

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>> 2020 presidential candidates hitting the complain trail this weekend. weekends turning out to be prime time to shake hands and make the case to american voters ahead of the next democratic debate that comes on tuesday. jacqui heinrich has the latest and she'll break it down. where are the candidates today and what are they saying? >> well, they are all over the place, as you might expect, gillian. democrats trying to rally support ahead of a crucial debate next week, one that could turn the tide for biden or warren and leading the pack as frontrunners. which was one a three-way race with biden strongly in the lead and warren and sanders behind

more looking like a biden, warren split. biden often the target of president trump and now dragged into the ukraine controversial seeing a surge of support for warren in the polls not necessarily at biden's expense, but drawing away from bernie sanders who took the time off the campaign trail, after a heart attack and the death of his daughter-in-law who was suffering from cancer. support is waning and the progressives are headed to warren's camp. this week warren double down to turn down lobby money and fund the campaign with grass roots donors. and biden is trying to widen his lead. north carolina is among the early primacy start. and tulsi gabbard who threatened

to boycott the debate is having a dinner there. and two candidates in iowa, kamala harris and booker. and harris joked about moving to iowa and she's got events every week and amy klobuchar is in oklahoma and she made jobs at elizabeth warren and others, and pete buttigieg. and he's in-- >> and a lot of them are outwest. >> tinseltown was the hit this week. >> it was, especially pete buttigieg we hear. thanks. leland: this is has come up with the 2020 race, china's continued bullying of u.s. companies. the latest move of a u.s. company accommodating the chinese is the nba. they've canceled media ability for the rest of their 2019-2020

game preseason in china saying we decided know the to hold media availability for the remainder of our team in china. they've been placed in an unprecedented situation abroad and unfair to address these matters in real-time. the decision comes as the nba faces backlash over tweet from the houston general manager. and the voice of new orleans, jeff, this may be the first time that the nba is silencing their players. i thought players should be able to talk whenever they wanted? >> you make a great point, leland. this is supposedly a woke league. remember they've criticized the police, they took out after north carolina because of the bathroom bill there. they canceled their all-star game and now they're silenting them over the issue of freedom.

hong kong is trying to get more freedom for their region, and the tweet by the houston rocket's gm was, i mean, completely innocent. all it did was stand up for freedom. they made him apologize, and then all of this has, you know, happened after that that i think is reprehensible. leland, i'm a nba fan from the days of pistol pete marivich. and i used to idolize him before ronald reagan. it's sad to see the league going in this direction. leland: it's not just the nba though and it's easy to pick on them and you've got steve kerr to compares communist china to owning an ar-15 and the moral equivalencesy, that's been adjudicated. isn't it simply a larger issue of how much control the chinese are now having over a lot of facets of american life that we don't know about? >> yes, indeed. i think it's one of the reasons why president trump is trying to refactor the whole relationship with these trade deals that he's

renegotiating and he's getting some pushback from that. i think he is a -- he's doing the right thing. china has been taking van for years now. they've redone their military because of what we've pumped into the economy. leland: what we've pumped in and they've stolen. >> look at the deficits with china. you don't think that they've been helping their people? they're building their military and stealing our secrets as you say. this is an important issue are we going to stand for freedom, leland or kowtow to a communist regime. leland: let's listen to president trump and we'll come out and talk about it. >> i've got to tell you i just made a great china deal today for energy, for the farmers. so far your senators and your congressmen that are here, that was one hell of a deal. this is phase one. phase one. leland: that was him last night

in louisiana. part of that deal, if you believe the reporting that's out there, and certainly evidenced by the fact that president trump hasn't said much about hong kong and the democracy protesters. you want to talk about kowtowing to the communist chinese. president trump hasn't said look, one person gets hurt on the streets of hong kong and we're coming after you. he hasn't said anything like that. >>'s the first person who change the dynamic as far as the trade deal. you have to give him credit for renegotiating the credit deals with china, pro chinese and anti-american, but at least he's brought it to the forefront-- >> that's different than standing up for democracy. >> i wish the entire administration would stand up more for hong kong. the american people do. we recognize people protesting for freedom there. by the way, they're shooting protesters on the street and you know what the hong kong protesters are doing, singing the national anthem and waving the american flag. leland: they're doing that. >> we should support those

people 100% and should, too-- >> good thing you don't have any chinese listeners, we know what happened to the manager of the houston rockets. the race down there, the president showed up today and the jungle primary that you guys are having. predictions, the president making enough of a difference? john bell is popular. >> because of the president, vice-president pence, don, jr. coming here we'll keep it below 50%. if you asked three weeks ago, no way he would have won. beau because of the president and republicans getting involved, finally, now i think we'll get him into a runoff and one-on-one watch with john bell edwards. leland: interesting to see what that means for the president's coattails going into 2020. a first look perhaps in louisiana. we'll have you back to talk about the governor's race after we get the results. as always, good to see you.

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hi christina. >> right now the saddleridge fire is 19% contained and with that mandatory evacuation in effect, thousands of people were told to evacuate this area, to stay clear of this powerful fire that caused damage like this. i mean, just take a look at this house. it is destroyed and just looking into it, i can see maybe a couple of chairs and a couple of exercise machines, but that's about it because this house so badly damaged. to the right of it, you can see another home there, now, it's doing just fine and that's a testament how hard these firefighters worked to protect these properties from the strong winds carrying these intense flames. now, the cause of this fire is under investigation. about 7500 acres burned so far and a man died of a heart attack trying to stop the fire near his home. about one thousand firefighters are working to put out the flames and when this fire started thursday night, the santa ana winds, some were 65

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are under investigation and firefighters continue to work hard on the front lines because it's very windy out here and you still have these very dry conditions and they want to get these fires contained before they damage any more property or possibly hurt anyone else. leland. leland: all right, christina coleman, we'll check back in with you. thank you so much. gillian. gillian: pg&e is now catching major flak for cutting power to hundreds of thousands of customers in an effort, they say, was meant to help prevent new fires and also to prevent other ones from spreading. now, the company said yesterday night about 98% of the customers who were affected by that power cut have since had their power restored. but we know around 13,000 people still living in the dark. pg&e ceo bill johnson offered an apology yesterday. take a listen. >> with winds like we saw over the last 24 hours or so and the condition of the vegetation, we simply could not continue to run parts of this system given the risk to public safety.

there are many things we need to do better next team than we did this time. to put it simply, we were not adequately prepared to support the operational event and this will improve. gillian: well, one person who is not buying that apology is california's governor gavin newsome. he slammed the company in a press conference earlier this week. >> this is not, from my perspective, a climate change story as much as a story about greed and mismanagement over the course of decades, neglect, a desire to advance not public safety, but profits. they chose not to modernize their grid over the course of many, many years. they've led to their own demise. gillian: well, we know pg&e, leland, isn't just apologizing for the power cuts, right, they're apologizing for holding

celebratory drink party two days and people trying to get critical information weren't able to get the information they needed. leland: and there are issues against pg&e. one is that gavin newsome, high winds in california happen and they weren't ready for it. and the other issue that power was going to be cut for about a week is how reliant all of us are on these basic things of life that you just take for granted. >> on the electric grid, for example. leland: that our cell phones work, that every credit card that we have works, that apple pay works. it did give you a sense in the united states if you had an event, an earthquake that knocked out power to a huge part of america or some other kind of event that's man made, it gave you a sense just how quickly things will get really, really

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the media, according to howard kurtz, is taking sides. here is howie. >> the media storm over impeachment is growing over the day with many journalists and pundits picking sides after president trump declared he won't cooperate with the house probe he calls illegitimate. >> the no choice, but to stonewall and to obstruct in the face of lawful inquiries from congress. why does this president always see himself as a victim? >> the guys votes for this point, if he cooperates he's guilty, if he doesn't cooperate, he's guilty, he can't win. >> four national security officials were so alarm with the president's call they notified the white house lawyer and the arrest of two rudy guiliani associates on campaign charges. and the testimony of the fired ambassador to ukraine. >> and saying that the president

is with nancy pelosi. >> they're playing in their hands. >> there's scrutiny of the whistleblower pro and con. >> the whistleblower called the july 25th call as crazy, frightening and completely lacking in substance to national security. >> ap the wash examiner says he had a working relationship with a 2020 democratic candidate. and many sharply criticized trump from withdrawing troops from syria, and america's ally. >> what a disaster, we defeated the caliphate and destroyed. we would not have done that without the kurds who did all of our fighting. >> the president of the united states is in danger of losing the mandate of heaven if he permits this to happen. >> trump's allies on the right are apparently looking to distance themselves on foreign policy without undermining him on impeachment, and in defying the house, the president may be

trying to shift the media from ukraine to a beltway process at that sounds more just like more partisan bickering. leland: congress comes back in session this coming week and talking about it before it happens. media buzz 11 a.m. sean spicer, the former white house press secretary will break down how the media is covering this. and sean spicer, he's sort of midway through the transformation to the dancing with the stars sean spicer. he looks good these days. >> he says he's already lost ten pounds or something. leland: there we go. gillian: and they say they've captured a key syrian border town. stick with us. al customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. that's a lot of words. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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>> donald trump doubling down on counterattacks against congressional democrats and the impeachment inquiry, dealings with ukraine reaching the skids for lawmakers gearing up to head back to washington after a 2-week recess, let's hope they are well rested. we are feeling pretty good at america's news headquarters, live in washington. >> the last two weeks congress was off. the next two weeks, they are here, get ready. lucky you know what.

congressional democrats stay busy during recess and now there are subpoenas and depositions on point. both with where we are and where we are headed. >> reporter: a good point. testifying on the intent to block capitol hill testimony, former us ambassador to ukraine yavanovitch said the president pressured the state department to fire her. the former ambassador told lawmakers the ouster was based on what she called false claims, she tried to block efforts to investigate joe biden and his son hunter, working for a gas company. critics say his only qualification is being a former vice president's son, the house intelligence can be defended the former ambassador for 30 years in foreign service. >> i think she has been a model diplomat, served better than the shabby treatment she received from this president and the

secretary of state. i think we are all deeply in her debt for representing the country so well around the world and for so long. >> reporter: at his rally last night the president pushed back. >> worse than the whistleblower. why are we protecting a person that tells you things that weren't true? listen to this. shifty schiff, little adam schiff, adam, i've had you up to here, little adam schiff comes out and he made up my conversation. >> reporter: many republicans rushed to the president's defense. >> they are cherry picking what to leak, lying about other claims in the american public gets completely deceived as a result of it. if you are going to have these

secret hearings, yesterday lasted all day long. i was there the entire time for ambassador voelker and a copy of the transcript afterwards, kurt voelker's transcript is not been released and it has been a week. >> jim jordan defended yavanovitch's remover from ukraine saying the president can fire anyone he wants. leland: we will wait for the battle of who testifies this week. thanks so much. jillian: back to our other top story, turkey saying it captured a syrian border town. the military offensive in the northeastern part of the country and its fourth day. steve harrigan has details on what is unfolding on the ground. >> reporter: no sign the military operation turkey claims is against terrorist activity is slowing down anytime soon.

a victory today in a major city along the border that used to be in curtis hands, now turkey claims it is in their hands. they are planning to fix several major highways in northeast syria. their goal is to push 20 miles in, a buffer zone. as far as casualties go, 20 civilians on each side have been killed. it is hard to get a clear picture of the a number of soldiers or kurdish fighters killed so far in four days of heavy activity. both sides exaggerate the numbers. the chaos the operation is producing in the region, the un saying 100,000 people on the run, many desperately trying to flee south to get away from the explosions in any vehicles they can, carrying what they can come entire family simply fleeing. tremendous international criticism against turkey for this military operation.

us officials have threatened financial sanctions against turkey, different serious action but so far it is just talk, no real action taken against turkey. turkish mortars fell within a few hundred yards of the us physician inside syria, no casualties. turkish officials said they were not liberally targeting us forces. rob: now we have republican congressman from kansas, member of the foreign affairs, former army officer steve watkins. thanks for being here. jennifer griffin reporting i just spoke to a distraught us special forces soldier among the thousand or so us troops in syria serving along the kurdish forces. this woman has been to a lot of places and talk to a lot of folks including suicide bombers.

the quote from this soldier i am ashamed for the first time in my career, ashamed by the decision made by his commander-in-chief. do you share that sentiment? >> you've been in tough places too and so have by. i have been embedded with kurdish forces before. those who face death -- it is impossible not to have cohesion that builds up naturally. those are on my mind frequently and i am very concerned about them. leland: that not the question i asked. do you share this soldier's feeling that he is ashamed by the decision of his commander-in-chief? >> i'm not ashamed. i'm focus on doing what is right. we heard talk of sanctions, fully supportive of entering the conversations. leland: there is a difference between entering into the conversation and actually doing it.

the president said we can shutdown turkey's economy tomorrow. should make? we had someone from the turkish government on, advisor to the turkish president who said we are not stopping despite the defense secretary saying stop. those are clear sides and lines drawn. is it time for sanctions? >> we will look at what the sanction options are. we talk about as they relate to military trade and military sales. leland: our allies are dying at the hands of a nato ally and you say we need to look at options, nothing we can do right now? >> i have been embedded with the kurdish people before in the kurdish region. leland: i would think you of all people would say sanctions by all means if you are so concerned. i'm confused. >> i can't support something i haven't seen yet. we will turn back -- we are back in session tomorrow and we will handle the situation aggressively. leland: i don't hear you

speaking aggressively about decisions by the trump administration, you say we are going to study it, we are going to look at it, think about it, i don't hear you say what this president has done is wrong or i personally am going to speak out against these decisions. >> i back the president's america first policy. i'm in complete support of making sure our interests and our troops are taken care of but i spent eight years in conflict environment and you have been there before. the connection between the host country nationals and us is meaningful and they are on my mind and we will do what we can to protect their interests. leland: you make a good point in terms of how important relationships are between the us and our allies around the world, they are built by us special forces a long way from home as you did dangerous work. do you worry in this story that is seen around the world there are host nations around the world going the americans might

be friends sometimes but when it gets difficult for donald trump gets on the phone with my enemies i might be alone tomorrow night. >> i am concerned about the democrat socialist rage they have against our president and their willingness to allow that to work its way to the international politics. leland: how does that relate to what other countries might be thinking? >> what we are seeing in the foreign affairs committee in a long time, perhaps the first time ever we are seeing highly partisan policy and conversations in international affairs, being as partisan as it has become. leland: how does that relate to us special forces dealing with host countries you talked about and how important that relationship is? host countries are seeing what the us did with the kurds in abandoning the kurds and saying

the americans may not be as good of friends as we think they are. i don't understand how the foreign affairs committee is related to that. it is a decision by the commander-in-chief, not the foreign affairs committee. >> the foreign affairs committee affect international policy. we are committed to our allies. we have a president who i support when he talks about an america first policy and we are going to proceed smartly given the actions -- donald trump didn't cause this action. it was caused by turkey. leland: based on this tweet it seems he is allowing it to happen. we appreciate it and your service and perspective. see you back in dc. jillian: if you're interested in this please watch fox news sunday tomorrow. chris wallace sit down with donald trump's defense secretary mark esper. they will hash this out. check your local listings for time and channel. leland: on to domestic issues, donald trump defending rudy giuliani on twitter today, this

as congressional democrats are moving ahead with their impeachment inquiry. kevin cork live on the north lawn of the white house with more. >> reporter: that they are, despite nora formal vote on the house for democrats press ahead with this impeachment inquiry. it is not just democrats on capitol hill taking aim at the president was apparently investigators in new york have their sights set on rudy giuliani, the president tweeting about that not long ago. i will share that with you and folks at home. now they are after the legendary crime buster, greatest mayor in history of new york city, rudy giuliani. he may seem rough around the edges sometimes but he is a great guy and wonderful lawyer. such a 1-sided witchhunt going on in usa. deep state. shameful. last night in louisiana the president calling the impeachment inquiry a sham. he also criticized house speaker nancy pelosi for moving forward.

>> she hates the country. nancy pelosi hates the united states of america or she wouldn't be doing this. foreign nations, foreign people looking at us think we are nuts. they -- you have nothing was wrong. >> reporter: democrats argue no one is above the law. there investigation which includes a number of witnesses and alleged whistleblowers including a conversation with a recalled ambassador to ukraine yesterday continues. bottom line, say democrats, that pursue the truth, no matter where it takes them and they say the white house needs to quit stonewalling. >> any effort to prevent witnesses from obeying lawful congressional subpoenas will be deemed acts of obstruction and add to a variety of evidence that continues to grow that the

president is violating the constitutional separation of powers and seeking to cover up his misconduct. >> reporter: adam schiff speaking right there but here at the white house they say the process is a sham because they are not getting fair treatment from the house intel committee chair and they won't cooperate fully until there is a formal vote on the house floor. you may wonder what the president is doing today, he has been on twitter and we know he is taking a they round of golf. if anything changes or we hear from him personally i will you know. leland: have you gotten any thinking from the white house, a couple of officials, speaking about ambassador to ukraine and ambassador to europe testifying this coming weekend a hearing, a deposition before congress. is the white house saying people are going to the files, don't testify, it is okay, get the feeling there is a hard line they will draw at some point?

>> reporter: i get my conversations on and off the record and to be clear they have simply said until we get full and fair treatment from the house intel committee chair, there is no reason to move forward in making these people available. there is, as you know, privilege. but that said there will be others who will come forward regardless what the white house instructs them or suggest they do. leland: there was quite a statement in terms of that. thanks so much. the president has a speech tonight and throughout the day. jillian: fox pulling so the majority of americans support impeachment.

51% of registered voters saying in that poll they think donald trump should be impeached and removed from office, that is up 42% from july 2019. while 4 presents a trump should be impeached but not removed, 40% say the president should not be impeached. this should remain in office. for more on this we bring in our political panel, fox news political analyst and author of taken for granted, how conservatism can would back the americans liberalism failed. to the credit strategist christian hanley on board. thanks so much for being with us this afternoon. christian, i will go to you first. last night, first of all hillary clinton jumped into the impeachment for a. she is on a book tour and his been talking a lot during her book tour about the impeachment inquiry. she said last night what is "happening now" is a national crisis and donald trump is a direct threat to national security. >> she is right, she's a private citizen, she did not when the

electoral college vote in 2016 it is on a book tour but she's correct about that, the fact that we have someone in the white house who is putting his personal interests, his own business interests ahead of the interests of our own country, our national security frankly. he is talking to foreign leaders trying to get dirt on his political rivals we she just sacrificed our own actual people who have bled with our troops in the middle east. he is creating new enemies abroad and endangering our national security. this is a protracted crisis. jillian: i think you're conflating the ukraine issue, when you talk about american blood, when you talk about american blood and treasure you are not talking about the ukraine scandal. you are talking the president withdrawing us troops from the turkish syrian border. >> i'm responding to your question about hillary clinton's a bit of us being a crisis situation right now. both of those things measure into the state of our crisis. right now yes. on the political side and legal

side donald trump did try to solicit an illegal campaign contribution from a foreign government and on the national security front he is risking our national security by what he has done in turkey. jillian: that is a stretch, we don't know it is illegal yet which is why there is a congressional investigation. >> i think he is getting his analysis from the daily onion which i'm not familiar with any of the elements he mentioned saying donald trump is utilizing this issue for his business interests. i'm not familiar with any data that supports that claim. speaking of this i don't agree with everything donald trump does or says but when it comes to impeachment inquiry, this legitimately is a witchhunt and i tell you that because we have democrats who from day one have been talking about impeachment. before the whistleblower complaint was even revealed to us they were talking about this and we don't have facts to support that and the way in

which my friend christian just claimed. when we talk about analysis from the department of justice they said this wasn't a campaign issue. they did a clear-cut analysis and said they didn't see comesm sure there was a big cloud created. we saw what poll numbers are when it comes to impeachment and that is what democrats want. they want to continue to see a cloud over donald trump's head into the election. this is pure politics. jillian: the issue of anything was or is or is not legal or illegal is up in the air and that is what congressional democrats are investigating and it will come down to politics at the end of the day. impeachment as we like to point out at every possible moment is a political process, not a criminal, legal process. i want to get your thoughts. hillary clinton said house republicans stepping down.

there are 16 of them, are cowards. by not standing up to donald trump when they disagree with him and instead choosing to retire early or not run for reelection, they are giving up the store. what do you say about that? >> people have the right to leave when they want to. when you talk about people standing up to donald trump if you are watching "fox and friends" earlier in the week you saw lindsey graham went after donald trump on the issue of turkey and the administration was pushing lies. when we talk about individuals willing to stand up to the administration look at mitt romney. a number of individuals -- jillian: they are the exception. >> that is true but think about democrats in the 2016 election, said there was nothing wrong with hillary clinton being investigated as a candidate. there will be folks on both sides who will stick with one party or another. there will be exceptions when it comes to both. we know what this is. people say in office.

lindsey graham is against impeachment but is talking about donald trump when it comes to this area of turkey. those are exceptions that should be recognized. jillian: we are out of time. we got to leave it there. christian, i know you a couple seconds on the other side. we will get to i promise you. >> you have me that for a long time! leland: at least one person died, 3 others unaccounted for after what they call a partial collapse of the hard rock hotel being built in new orleans. fire crews and police are on the scene, with we are working to get more information from crews on the ground as they searched through debris. we are told 18 others were taken to the hospital. we have video of the crane actually collapsing coming into our newsroom in the next couple minutes. we will bring that to you as we

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acting secretary of homeland security, we worked well with border crossings being way down. mcillinin after place will be third to lead the department in 3 years and the president plans to make that announcement next week. right now the leading candidate is ken cuccinelli according to a senior dhs official with ties to the administration who also note that he could have a hard time being confirmed in the senate where he would face a bruising confirmation hearing but also high on the list is former secretary of state crisco box who has been outspoken on immigration and spent a long time with the president and will likely face and externally tough confirmation hearing. it is also possible we could have another acting secretary for the foreseeable future because the acting title is something the president is a fan of.

leland: it prevents a confirmation hearing and gives more flex ability as well. thanks so much. shannon: the white house responding after federal judge dealt illegal below to the public charge policy proposal. that has been blocked for now, would have limited green card holders for immigrants likely to rely on certain forms of public assistance. stephanie grisham saying the recent rulings to block the president's policy are, quote, the latest in a clickable example of the administration being order to comply with a flawed or lawless guidance of the previous administration instead of the actual laws passed by congress. the trump rule sets to go into effect tuesday just two days from now. donald trump striking a partial trade deal. more on the agreement coming up next. however, since 2000, the buying power of the dollar has dropped by over 31% -

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if you pull the threads, what are the most consequential pieces of the deal for the us economy? >> the tariffs next week, that is a good time for american consumers who have to pay these taxes. >> the administration so the consumer doesn't pay these tariffs. >> we do. $20 billion from american taxpayers because of these tariffs. the devil is in the details. we have a month to figure out what will go into this partial deal, phase i of this deal. they mention a few things but we have to wait and see what the text says. how much access are we giving to china? and agricultural purchases and things like this. a lot of details are needed. jillian: for farmers it is the best deal ever. do you agree with that? >> he put them in this situation starting this trade war two years ago.

it is a good sign that they can recuperate from losses of the last couple years but the question is china going through with these purchases assuming they do, there have been promises in the past that they never kept up with. the question is can we stop giving farmers aid at this point? jillian: i can't imagine the trump administration would not jump at the opportunity to cut aid to china if that was possible. have you heard anyone in the administration talk about that? >> we don't have a deal signed yet. they are in the negotiating process. they announced it on friday but even now they are still writing the text of it and hopefully in a month. we won't know until then and even then there comes phase 2 of this deal. one thing i am worried about is

if anything, they will delay the progress of tariffs, start removing the tariffs. jillian: if the ink is dry on phase 1, what is steve mnuchin looking at for phase 2? >> probably going deeper into the intellectual property issue, tech transfers and other requirements. they are doing it piecemeal. it is not just intellectual property and phase i. it is intellectual property throughout all phases. the question is what parts? is it a complicated matter? it seems the agricultural purchases china is agreeing to our in phase 1. phase 2 and phase 3 will get more difficult. this could be a harder negotiating in the future, i am

a little worried when we have difficulty negotiating and have trouble getting phase 3 we get to phase 3. that could undo phase 1 and 2. jillian: a free trade deal has two sides. what is the united states giving up? the administration hasn't really laid that out yet. do you know? >> that is the point. this is not necessarily a win-win deal. it is supposed to be a 50-50 deal, china coming into -- jillian: capitulating. >> becoming more modern like the united states. the way they regulate american companies, we have freedom of society and don't regulate chinese -- it is more burden on the chinese to own up than the united states. we are not giving things away.

the tariffs on 400 billion goods, that would be the one thing we give up one day. it is chinese imports but americans are paying those taxes. jillian: thanks for your expertise. leland: afghanistan's presidential election is a recount in a race it with accusations of fraud, misconduct and insurgent attacks. kitty logan with what this means for us troops in afghanistan. >> reporter: this is a long process. counting is still underway. some people had feared -- it is a complicated logistical challenge. the initial results is not expected for another week. it could take a few days longer than that and the final result, handling and election and setting up the election process

in afghanistan is a huge challenge because of security concerns. and in remote areas, always takes a long time. turnout was pretty low this time for this vote partly do to that but official figures have not in released but as for the result itself, the front runner is the current president tipped to win again, 50% of the vote in this initial vote there will be a runoff. whether that is necessary it does happen, that delays the final outcome. the runner up in the last afghan -- that result if you remember over forward allegations. before the initial vote is

announced, to urge election officials to monitor any voting irregularities. the fact this election was held amid the backdrop of violence with a significant achievement for the country but the violence continues friday. several people injured in a series of explosions in the east of the country. if there's a runoff vote it could take as long as next spring to organize that and the country is in political limbo and it could well be the taliban and others could take the opportunity. back to you. jillian: a harrowing scene out of louisiana where a crane collapsed in a hard rock cafe and killed one person so far. we show you more of this video.

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neil: we are getting new video of the building collapsing. that is the hard rock tell that is under construction, the crane ripping off the side of the building and falling down. right now there is one dead, three unaccounted for and you can imagine how much rubble there is and 18 to the can to the hospital. realize the crane is still not secure and you can see other cranes above it so you can imagine what is happening on the ground as firefighters put their lives on the line to search through the rubble and tried to find those unaccounted victims and see if they can get them out and out of harms way in new

orleans this afternoon. we have crews working the story right now to bring the latest as it happens. and eighth parent sentenced in the college admission scandal. he is the first to be let off without any jail time. he will face one year probation, 250 hours of community service, $9500 fine and this happened after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, admitting to $15,000 to boost his daughter's act scores. prosecutors originally asked that he served one month in prison in addition to probation and a fine. this is different than a lot of the other parents because there were parents who both gave money so the coach got money and the kid got into college or parents gave money to change or help

inflate their kids's act scores. this case is the latter. >> we are seeing the first round of people getting sentenced as we have seen felicity huffman. a similar sentence but two weeks of jail time. these are the categories of parents who have done the right thing, taken the high road, admitted that what they did was unethical and illegal. they apologize to the public and their families. >> the question is whether what they did was illegal. >> that is a legal strategy. lori laughlin paid have million dollars to get her kids to school and she's not admitting she did anything wrong. i shudder to think what her sentence might be. leland: she might be found not guilty. just because you gave money to one party and not the college your kid gets in.

jillian: all right. firefighters. >> battling a fast-moving wildfire in los angeles, that is charred 7500 acres, tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. christina coleman is tracking the latest from the ground. what can you tell us? >> reporter: the fire is 19% contained and the mandatory evacuation is effect for 100,000 people who live in this area. firefighters want to keep them clear a fast-moving flames that destroyed this house. take a look at it. you can hardly make out what is in there. debris spilled out here on the driveway. the house next to it is okay. i spoke to the neighbor who was here that night trying to hose down his house to protect his

property. he tells me the neighbors who lived here were across the street and watched their home burned down. the cause of this fire is under investigation. it burned 7500 acres so far. a man died of a heart attack trying to stop the fire from getting to his house. 1000 firefighters are out here working to put out the flames and when this fire started thursday night the santa ana windss were blowing at 60 miles an hour, strong windss fueling the powerful fire, one woman evacuated in the middle of the night. >> it feels horrible. even coming home after being able to come home it feels surreal and there is a massive sense of gratitude for not being in this devastating situation.

>> reporter: the sandalwood fire swept through a mobile home killing one woman. at last check that fire burned 800 acres and was only 10% contained. that fire started by trash dumped by a truck driver. investigators are working to determine whether criminal charges will be filed in that incident and the state's largest utility cut power to lots of customers in north and central california to lessen the risk of these fires but the cause of these fires are under investigation. we spoke with the firefighter moments ago who told me the winds will be getting stronger in a few hours so although there are residents checking out their property, please be careful because we have dry conditions and strong winds and heavy fire danger.

>> pg andy says they restored fire to 98% of the folks that they had cut off. i think 13,000 were left without power. thanks so much. friends and family of us citizens being detained in lebanon pleading his release, we will tell you about that story coming up next. orlando isn't just the theme park capital of the world, it also has the highest growth in manufacturing jobs in the us. it's a competition for the talent. employees need more than just a paycheck. you definitely want to take advantage

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>> new hampshire family wanting to bring their father back from lebanon. he is being detained without charges. >> reporter: these women hope their cries for help reach the oval office and they fear their father may be killed if donald trump doesn't intercede on their behalf. a naturalized us citizen is being detained without charges in lebanon. his family says he was arrested and tortured last month on false allegations from hezbollah. bases his passport during a family trip, he is been out of the country for so long. he was told to return to timber 13th but before the day came, a hezbollah newspaper accused him

of torturing hezbollah prisoners in the 80s 90s. they called for his death. the family says they were also targeted online. >> one person commented just one bullet. it was a picture of my sister and my mom. >> that he is being used as a political pond by the government. a largely christian forests contained hezbollah and palestinian terrorists, hezbollah's influence, won he seat in the government, charged along with thousands of former members for working with israel after occupation but his name was cleared and he was never accused of torture. a government source in lebanon told fox news on condition of anonymity there is no legal basis for the case.

>> we have medical records, need to get him out as soon as possible. >> reporter: under pressure, corey was used to a military prison where doctor evaluated him. fox news saw that report, pictures showing show signs of torture, the state department says it is monitoring the case. jillian: thanks for that report. leland: donald trump's new national security adviser used to be the main hostage advisor. jillian: a key reason donald trump wanted him at the white house was so they could double down. leland: we will follow that story. great reporting, news continues from new york. my grandfather was born in a shack in pennsylvania, his father was a miner, they were immigrants from italy and somewhere along the way that man changed his name and transformed himself into a successful mid-century american man.

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