. >>> earlier, my colleague, jonathan mann spoke to james jeffrey about the growing tension between the netherlands and turkey. >> turkey, like germany and other countries has hundreds of thousands of european union citizens. running campaigns in these countries, you will remember barack obama was a candidate in berlin in 2008 is not uncommon. the problem is that the right in europe, particularly strong in the thnetherlands before the parliamentary election sees the turks and muslims as bad. the left see the turks as too supportive of president erdogan and what they see is his authoritarian policies. the result is a perfect storm. europe needs turkey and turkey needs europe given all the threats and challenges we have in the world today. this is a real mess. the way you are describing it, you passed over quickly the fact that the netherlands is having its own election next week ahead of the turkish referendum. in the dutch case, is that what this is really about? the dutch government trying to influence the outcome of that election. >> it is hard to say, jonathan. i have been following

discussed this with james jeffrey, he is now at the washington institute for policy.r jeffrey, welcome to the program. >> thank you, laura. laura: what is the significance of the u.s. is sending troops? stagesre in the end fighting at isis in the state of caliphate. it is being destroyed in mosul before our eyes. the troop deployment is not just to accelerate that move, it's also the day after. that's the reason the talk turkish american and russian generals to talk about what is going to happen after isis leaves the scene. are not happyks the americans will be fighting alongside the kurds. what is your assessment? >> you are absolutely right. the americans are aware of this. some of this is turkish internal issues, because the president is planning to win a referendum on his presidency. weak at afford to look this point. on the other hand, we need someone to fight. we can't do it all with american troops. we need someone to fight, and we think the kurds will be part of the answer, the turks will be part of the answer as well. there is pressure in multiple and in raqq

i welcome james jeffrey, he's the former u.s. ambassador from turkey to iraq.ctor comey says that the wiretapping allegations are completely baseless, how much damage will that do to the president ee's credibility on the world stage? >> the question is wrong. i think the "new york times" as we have said has said flat out that the fbi was leading an investigation into president trump's associates, that's the "new york times," i want to know yes or no. if not, then the u.s. times will have to retract their story. but i suspect the "new york times" is correct. so i want to know did the fisher under any circumstances surveil any of trump's associates. >> jeffrey, we do have an answer from that "new york times" reporter, in fact he was asked about what he wrote in that report you are referencing. listen to what he told our anderson cooper when asked about whether in his reporting was indicating that there was any kind of surveillance of trump tower. >> if we do that, that would be a fantastic story. i would not be here with you, i would be at home writing it or repo

with me now is the former us ambassador to turkey and baghdad — james jeffrey.ng, is he acting increasingly irrational, is it politics, what is going on? it has gone very bad, very fast. this is the erdogan i know from 2008—10. he exploits situations to advance his political agenda. this is working on the ground in what will bea working on the ground in what will be a tight referendum for him. the dutch prime minister mark rutte is happy about this because his numbers are going up at the expense of geert wilders who erdogan doesn't want to see win. both sides are actually benefiting from this. what does it do to turkey's chances of one day joining the european union? people are not going to forget the things he has said to germany and holland over the last couple of days?m he has said to germany and holland over the last couple of days? it is going to further diminish what most people think is a slim chance that turkey would become part of the european union? is it basically giving up on the ambition to join the european union? turkey has a greatly beneficial cu

new york times" commentator, wajaha ali and managing editor of cnnpolitics.com zachary wolf and james jeffrey, former u.s. ambassador to iraq and turkey and a visiting fellow at waesht institute. zach, first to you, what answers could we have on monday? >> it will be the first opportunity for the fbi direct tore weigh in from a really official standpoint. it's pretty clear there's no evidence that he's going to know -- bombshell, it seems like we would have heard a bombshell to back up these claims that trump keeps talking about. it could put to rest finally the fact of whether or not this happened. although it seems clear that it didn't. i think trump is going to have to answer this. the president is going to have to explain himself at some point on this. >> jeffrey, does he have to explain himself? >> well, all he has to do is cite the evidence on this, that's presented by "the new york times," the "washington post." >> wait a minute, wait a minute. is that, is that evidence? he could have evidence directly from the intelligence agencies. >> "the new york times" is not retracting its storie

. >> want to bring in ambassador james jeffreys.r ambassador to iraq and turkey and also workod the george j. bu george w. bush administration and other posts. one of the big changes is iraq has been removed. now six countries instead of seven. you were ambassador to that nation. a great deal of lobbying from iraqis, not to mention americans who had ties in iraq who said it's just unfair given the wars fought there and the iraqis that fought alongside the americans. do you welcome this change? >> i certainly do. the entire limited ban doesn't make a whole lot of sense, frankly. but the thing that made the least sense was iraq. we need iraq not only in the struggle against isis but in the larger trump administration correct priority of balancing iran and the region. it's really good that it's off. >> dhs secretary general kelly went on television and said they might add more countries. maybe 13 or 14 different countries they are looking at. he didn't say which ones. this eliminates iraq, but it does not add any other countries. not i

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. >> jeffrey toobin, james kobe has been in the news a little bit, and remind us of this man, who is james comey and how do you think he will respond to this moment tomorrow? >> you know, he was one of the most distinguished prosecutors of his generation. the u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york in has n manhattan, and fbi director named by president obama, but then in october of 2016 in violation of all justice department policy, he announced that the investigation of hillary clinton had been re-opened on the eve of the election, and he announced it has closed a couple days before election day, and something that many people believe costs hillary clinton the election, so there is tremendous rage at him in democratic quarters, but he is still the head of the fbi, and he is conducting investigations as we speak, and one possibility is that we will not hear a dispositive answer from comey tomorrow, that he will say that this is a pending investigation, i can't comment on everything, and so the expectation or the hope that we are going to have a neat closure of the trump a

. >> james clapper who were members of the obama administration, we're supposed to come testify on tuesday. that was just postponed, jeffrey yeah, i mean, i don't know what the reason is, but i do believe we should get to the bottom and get all of these people out there and let's hear what they have to say. >> i have an idea. i have an idea. >> real quick. >> listen, here's the thing. this is a dangerous, this is dangerous for donald trump because when you voluntarily testify under oath, we know these individuals have communications with accusations of russians helping donald trump. this is a real problem. it needs an independent prosecutor. and look for the change in leadership of that intelligence committee. >> we'll see. a. scott bolden and jeffrey lord, thank you so much. we'll be right back. life desera modern way to pay. and we'll end up in venice. oh..venice... let's get the check. nope! i got it. you can use it online and what's with this one? and on your phone. taking care of the check. it's all masterpassed. first impressions. priceless thank you so where to now? well we're thinking shoe shopping. i was hoping yo

james comey will or will not say. how critical is this testimony for the trump administration at this point. >> look, this is just -- as jeffrey said, the first act of what's going to be long running. the easy part today, will be expect clear away any idea that there's evidence that president obama or britain's gchq wiretap trump tower in 2016, hopefully finally pointing out so story from the president. the more important but more difficult part is going to be the extent of russian interference in the 2016 election and to what extent the trump administration knew about it. that's where it came at different levels. one is did trump administration know about the russian interference. two, did they have contact with russian officials about that. three, did they try to cover up the contacts, and four did they coordinate with the russians at any point. as you can tell from that layered scenario. there's a lot of evidence that has to be gone through, comey, i think, will hold the line pending the investigation and that will set us up, to be honest with you, more speculation, with the fbi, cia, and nsa will swift through the hard wor

james financial advisor can do for you. >>> we are talking about the big fed decision on interest rights and we are back with double line ceo/co-founder jeffreyach sxwlchlt it if you think we are going to get a near term rally on bonds, that stocks and bonds can go up together? >> yes, i any stocks and bonds can go up together. one thing people have to watch out for is it seems like risk is starting to get risky. we have started to see some tired action in parts of the credit market, the stock market is going sideways these days instead of going up. the junk bond market, the jnketf. i look at jnk. risk is getting risky. the thing about credit, you don't really get the big blowout in credit in terms of underperformance and negative returns unless there is a recession coming. our work at double line, we don't see a recession coming at all. back last summer, there was some dicey-looking stuff. the leading indicators were flirting with zero year over year. you had the pmi of industrials looking recessionary. all of that changed with the election. none of these indicators look recepti receptionary. gdp was just revised down at 0.9. first quarter g

jeffrey absteen a million money manager who loved to party. they visited his mansion, flew on his jet to join him on little st. james and even joked about his taste in younger women. president trump called absteen a terrific guy, saying, he's a lot of fun to be with. it's said he likes beautiful women as much as i do, and many of them were on the younger side, closed quote. trump is on the witness list in a florida court battle over federal prosecutors handled obligations that he sexually abused more than 40 minor girls, between the ages of 13 and 17. the lawsuit questions why trump's nominee for labor secretary, former miami attorney alexander costa who confirmation hearing is scheduled to begin wednesday cut a non-prosecution deal with absteen a decade ago rather than pursuing a federal indictment. i'd like to introduce the record, mr. chair. >>ty will be introduced. >> i'd like to ask you about this, first, a couple of questions. my understanding is that there's a pending civil lawsuit filed by a couple of the victims in that case, seeking to argue that they should have been given notice prior to the plea deal be