jeffrey says.octions, the easier it is put them in place and remove them, the better it is as a tool for us to use in influencing behavior. the goal is to affect the behavior of target states. sen. udall: thank you, mr. chairman. palmer ambassador -- >> ambassador jeffrey, do you believe the civil war in syria basharemated and al-assad will continue to be in charge of the syrian government? mr. jeffrey: it is stalemated cost. extraordinary human half the population has fled. they are getting no money. it is basically a pile of rubble. i think it is open to question whether assad personally will lead the country indefinitely. sen. paul: i would disagree. i think he will stay barring something extraordinary happening. one of the things that will happen from this that i don't know if anybody could have predicted, one of the reasons why we haven't had a peace agreement is our position through the human agreement, fair elections, and a sawed doesn't win fair elections. one of our goals has been regime c

jeffrey: no. the purpose of the president's phone call with erdogan was to persuade him against something in the days before we decided was not a possibility, but a probability, then a minute. the president implemented sticks and carrots in order to get erdogan met to do that. he made clear when erdogan said he would do it anyway, we would be against it. we would not act militarily. >> i recognize the gentlelady from minnesota for five minutes. >> thank you, chairman. it is clear we are here for one reason only today. three weeks ago, president trump held a phone call with the present -- with the turkish president, who by his own admission gave the green light to enter syria. this set off a cascade of destabilizing events that has endangered u.s. national security, the stability of the middle east and the world. turkish troops have invaded northern syria. more than 100,000 people are displaced and hundreds of isis supporters have escaped. turkey and the turkish backed militia have been accused of

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and jeffrey tucker of the american institute for economic research joins us show to sift through the stats and what that could mean for the market what's just we have seen may be gone but the mystery surrounding them and to use them because of new earnings have been unveiled archie correspondent john hardy is on his to delve into the details of the new revelation to get into a bit of the business mindset let's go. this time a job report is out and the numbers show a tight labor market as the unemployment rate dropped to a 5 decade low the top line data looks good with 10 industries adding jobs 3 losing and one unchanged alleviating some concerns on the street and boosting the markets today but let's take a closer look at the payroll report was rather stagflation area as wage growth was flat stagnating and posting the worst annual growth in one year if we take out government jobs private payroll added only $114000.00 jobs which is the 5th lowest private jobs in the past 3 years and finally if we take a look at the composition of job gains that wasn't so great with only low paying jobs

jeffrey: first of all, thank you for having me.n not overwhelming endorsement of the trade policies. i think it is pretty well split. there are certain ceos who feel this trade policies will bring jobs back to the u.s. and will make the u.s. more competitive with china which has historically been a low price competitor. it has unrealistic government subsidies. while 43% think it is harmful. i don't think there is any 33%r-cut indication, 46%, is pretty close to me. but there is still an uncertainty that is affecting the market and affects both middle-market companies, publicly traded companies, and the investing public. shery: i want to see how your business is you actually advise her thinking about what came out of this week. because the take from what was accomplished seems to be different from washington to beijing. the influential global times editor and chief in china actually tweeting, "based on what i know, u.s.-china trade talks made a breakthrough in the two sides will reach a final deal." the official statement is moderat

and with more on the macro narrative we're now joined by jeffrey tucker from the american institute for economic research so jeffrey the job numbers came out today and they were bad but not too bad the street was actually expecting a lot worse so right now it has temporarily cooled off fears of the market completely nose diving off a cliff but does this really change anything in the broader narrative especially when unemployment as we know is a lagging indicator for recession. by the way thank you for your report which desegregated some of the data that came out you know of course the headline was enough to give trump an opportunity to tweet you know which is really all that matters i suppose the $3.00 number but actually going to start looking at it it's not so impressive and may actually illustrate something like a labor shortage in the us it's true that everybody in the us who wants a job complete roblin get a job whether it's a good job whether it's is to sustainable job a high wages that's another thing entirely and let's also remember that recessions are not always characterized b

joining us is jeffrey sachs, university of columbia professor .ow an advocate for secretary-general antonio guterres. professor, welcome. give us a sense. as we look back over this enormous growth story, the greatest in history of the world -- and you can look back to the beginning of deng xiaoping 40 years ago. what has driven that growth, what is slowing it down? >> the main thing was catching up. china by 1978 after a century and a half of one disaster after another was impoverished. like other countries of east asia, japan, singapore, korea, china finally got on the right track of market economy globalization, and they absorbed tremendous investment from outside and exported to the world. they achieved about 10% growth per year for nearly 35 years. absolutely extraordinary. that means they increased in total size more than 30 times. they worked hard, saved a lot, and escape from poverty. when you do that, the growth tends to slow down. the head room diminishes. you have adopted the modern technologies, so it was inevitable there would be some

so rudy giuliani is key here. >> jeffrey, i want you -- >> let me get jeffrey to weigh in on that pointgo ahead, jeffrey. >> it is just that he is a witness now in many different parts of this investigation. and one of the bedroom principles of being a lawyer is that you can't be both a lawyer and a witness and he's i think will have to decide or the president may decide for him that it is time for him to be a witness. not to be a lawyer. but it is an untenable situation to be both. >> sean, go ahead. >> yeah, wolf, i was going to add that one of the things that we can't underestimate is how important it is that ambassador yovanovitch defied the white house and going to testify today. there is a lot of career civil servants who have been watching what is is happening in this white house and with this administration and they certainly had concerns about what they were seeing. and sometimes what they need in that case is they just need a catalyst, a leader to step forward and have the courage to go up and say what is going on. and so the fact that she's had the courage to do that, we'll h

jeffrey. >> thank you very much. it's an honor to be here today. let me start with agreeing with the chairman that the turkish incursion into northeast syria is a tragedy. it was a longstanding u.s. government policy in two administrations to keep that from happening and we clearly were not successful. what i would like to do is explain what we did when we were faced with this threat and what we have done since the turks marched in. first, i would like to turn to the larger situation that this is all embedded in in northeast syria, which is the syrian crisis since 2011. that crisis brings together the three disruptive, destructive forces in the middle east. a local dictator who is a threat to his own people more than a beneficiary to them with half of the population having fled his misrule. an idealogical state on the march, iran that has dug in in syria and threatened its neighbors including israel. and thirdly, various islamic fundamentalist terrorist forces that have also grown up in the mi

government accountable for giving jeffrey abstain an incredibly light sweet deal are now pushing for an appeals court to hear their case corney while this is just one of dozens of women who have come forward to give a name the end of phase of their her story of a sex trafficking ring that is implicated presidents politicians professors and modeling agency alike but a federal judge in florida ruled last month that while the government violated the victims' rights by failing to notify them about the deal they still were not entitled to compensation from the justice department and because of died in august the plea deal will not be overturned in his ruling u.s. district judge kenneth moore a growth of the victims may take solace however in the fact that this litigation has brought national attention to the crime victims' rights act and the importance of victims in the criminal justice system and a new petition filed by courtney while she calls on an appeals court to overturn the ruling and she uses her real name rather than jane doe because she says she believes it is the best way to en

jeffrey epstein was preying on young women from south from afr.re were those horrified with what jeffrey epstein had done and saying we don't want anything to do with this and yet the profit went on. >> and what does the bill gates foundation say about this. >> it was just phil laanthropph. >> you said some smelled foul. >> he's a registered sex offender. i open the door there was a beautiful young woman standing there who i didn't think was 16. but she could have been 19. i thought, a sex offender has a beautiful woman opening the door. i didn't even have to go through the door where i realized there's something weird going on here. >> your book is about weird connections, dark circles, deep corners. the deep state. you lay out the organization and how now bannon, mcgahn and sessions protected the president from his own impulses. now that these guys have their own issues, what's going on inside the white house? >> i think you see what's going on. you see all of the behavior we're witnessing here both in syria and ukraine is aptly on display in "d

jeffrey, to come out and tell us what happened. but with this one, we remember benghazi. and they held the hearings in private. and they had their reasons. they stated them at the time. they thought it would be less of a spectacle. and now three years later, they're storming the skiff, the secure room, with their cell phones which is not allowed to try to create a spectacle. >> last night on ac 360 there were references to one of those who led the protest. he's a congressman from alabama named mo brooks. but i kept hearing mel brooks. because it's so much sound -- i mean, this whole spectacle yesterday seemed like something out of a mel brooks movie. you know, this protest to be allowed inside when many of the members of the protest were actually members of the committee. they could have walked in at any point. you know, it's a sign of desperation. you know, they captured a news cycle. but i don't know what good that news cycle did them. because they looked like such jerks. >> yeah. you thought mel brooks, i thought an episode of "

. >> it is interesting, jeffrey, and i was anxious to get your thoughts on this.ve learned that senator romney used a secret twitter account to criticize the president the president under the name pierre delicto. what does that tell you about the state of the gop opposition to the president? >> well we all need to learn the term sock puppet. which is like inventing a persona to say things that you're afraid to say under your own name. i think it is a remarkable act of coward is on mitt romney's part. what is he afraid of. he was just re-elected and -- elected to the senate. he's very popular in utah. why does he have to use this fake name? it is indicative of how he's -- republicans hide from the president. but i think senator romney should be a big boy and criticize under his own name. >> susan, back to mulvaney. i want to play the clips how his explanation shifted over the past few days beginning with that ill-fated news conference he had. >> i was involved with the process by which the money was held up temporarily. okay. three issues for that. >> and there wer

jeffrey, david, thank you very much. to that point, the impeachment investigation is really galloping along this week. so, will we see a vote on articles of impeachment? weeks from now. what is the time frame for all of this? and what's the scope of this impeachment inquiry? we ask a democratic leader in the house, next. saturdays happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. what are you doing back there, junior? since we're obviously lost, i'm rescheduling my xfinity customer service appointment. ah, relax. i got this. which gps are you using anyway? a little something called instinct. been using it for years. yeah, that's what i'm afraid of. he knows exactly where we're going. my whole body is a compass. oh boy... the my account app makes today's xfinity customer service simple, easy, awesome. not my thing. ♪ >>> several of president trump's top men are under fire. his attorney rudy giuliani has been subpoenaed by house dems to hand over docum

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>> the point jeffrey raises the phrase white collar investigation. there has been this conflation -- and i don't mean by you, but in general in terms of people assessing the information -- this is not a criminal inquiry. mueller was a criminal inquiry. this is a parliamentary inquiry. the white house's calculation is we have to withstand all of this and hope it doesn't move public opinion. public opinion has moved on impeachment. it has. there's no question, but it has not gotten to the level yet where the white house believes they are going to lose enough senators for the president to be removed, and those are tterms i which they're thinking. whether people think that's appropriate or fair or right is a totally different question. that is their approach. they figure if they can keep this veneer and not crack and keep republicans on their side that they will get through this and roll on to the next increment of time. >>> nancy pelosi has scheduled a vote, so on thursday the house will vote on the next step, and that is the public portion of this impe

. >> from one investigation to another, gregg jarrett follows case of jeffrey e epstein. >> man was aystery, the more we study him, the more we report on him. the more questions we have about him. >> it was that level of secrecy that enabled him to become a notorious predator. >> he was a master criminal, he got away with it for a number of years and came to a mistearous end. >> here to give us a look at jeffrey epstein, fox news legal an lyft, authoanalyst, author o, witwitch-hunt, gregg jarrett. >> thank you. >> we all by now know the story of jeffrey epstein. in your words what made him such a twisted individual? >> his life was shrouded in secrecy, secret finances, secret business contacts, and a secret sworded sex life involving underage victims, i think we're still under ralphing som -- unre of the bassic facts associated with epstein, the more federal prosecutor look into the case, the more evidence their saying fine, that he -- evidence they will find he did not act alone, he it accomplices aiding and abetting. that may have involved as many as 80 victims. >> what do you get i

jeffrey: there is.tes but the second is he start to see so many equities, especially those that start to trade like bonds. this convergence in terms of evaluations at how equities behave and also bond prices that youd be -- sort of thank one 2018 but as roger said, if it is a demand, the fiscal or natural recovery, then beyond the short-term, it is much more manageable. the will said but is convergence constructive or it is a thickening of those tales where beget the convergence instability? >> i think the conversation has started to move away from stability right now, especially with the bond prices. i don't think we get too much off in terms of equity valuations. no one is saying they are exceedingly expensive. going toivergence is happen, can it happen to bond prices in isolation in a way that doesn't track out equity are always going to see more prolonged repeat of what happened in the first quarter of 2018. that is what many clients are worried about. look at theen you ecb, they are key about a gov

certainly ambassador jeffrey is very, very worried about that.he kurds, this is an issue for them that turkey wants ethnic cleansing in this region. they want to resettle millions of refugees on kurdish land pushing the kurds out. the u.s. should never facilitate that. >> what -- i guess why is turkey an ally now? at what point do we not consider them one? we have our nukes there. this is a disaster. >> i mean, in a way, if you think about it, n.a.t.o. grew out of the u.s. right at the end of world war ii deciding that they needed to invest in both turkey and greece to keep the governments being toppled from pro soviet elements within the countries. turkey is not only a member, n.a.t.o. started because of threats to turkey and greece. recent actions by missile defense systems from russia instead of u.s. systems and other steps, they're not an ally now. >> what do we do? how do you trust -- do you trust turkish soldiers standing next to american psoldier es for a n.a.t.o. mission? >> the mill to middle relationship has life blood in it. the politi

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so let's welcome back jeffrey toobin, chief legal analyst. also jim baker, former fbi general counsel and cnn legal analyst. jeffrey toobin is both a great guy and legal analyst and so is jim baker. also bianna golodryga. just to put a button on what we saw yesterday with the republicans stopping that hearing and the significance you think of what it says overall. >> i think this whack-a-doodle act of storming a hearing to which many of them were entitled to go in the first place was an act of frustration about what's really going on, which is the damaging testimony is coming out about the president. they are trying to protest about the process. the process is perfectly routine for congressional hearings. there are often private nonpublic depositions before there are public hearings. the republicans did it when they were in charge, but it is away of throwing things up in the air that gets us to talk about the protest rather than the substance of the hearings which have proven to be, i think, even more damaging substantively to the president t

negotiated with erdogan, the word cease fire does not appear in the text by the admission of ambassador jeffrey on the flight out of turkey on the way to israel to try to reassure netanyahu about abandoning the syrian kurds and opening a land bridge for iran. if you look at the map, iran is empowered as you've been pointing out, the russians, the syrians, assad, all of our putative enemies are empowered by this position. and it was a pause, the difference between a pause and a cease fire is a little d distinction as well. >> it is.

joining us now is cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin and cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser writer for "the new yorker." >> jeffrey, read the tea leaves and what's behind the mystery here and all he says is he has an urgent matter to discuss with congress. urgent is a legal term that was used when analyzing the initial whistle-blower complaint by the intelligence community inspector general when he agreed it was a matter of urgent concern. >> berman, i'm going to use the three words you're never allowed to say on cable news which are i don't know. i don't know what's in these reports, and you know, we'll know soon. you know, given the pace of developments, it appears that it's likely to be related to the whole ukraine matter, but i -- you know, i -- you know, i just don't know. >> i don't know either, but that's not stopping me, susan, and so what i'm hinging my theory on is this sentence from the reporting about what the inspector general has to say. here it is, the inspector general said the reason for the briefing was the office had obtained documents from an acting legal

that's a question that's never answered is why. >> were you the one who broke the news to jeffrey? >> yes. >> that must have been extremely difficult. >> it was very hard. >> jeffrey, brittany's older brother was at the gym. >> which got back to my locker and got my phone i had 40 missed calls. she said, somebody killed your sister. >> did you immediately ask who did this? >> i never thought about it. >> all jeffrey could think about was brittany was gone, the kid sister who always filled him with pride and often talked about becoming a mom. now that dream would never be realized and in its place would be a murder investigation. >> it was a very closed off scene. they had, of course, crime scene tape around. >> when reporter jamie satt satterfield heard about a body she went to the scene. are police telling you anything. >> the major crime folks came later as did the crime scene folk. >> what investigators found was a ransacked apartment suggesting a burglary interrupted and had turned violent. in fact, there had been a series of burglaries in the area in recent days. for jamie, th

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states will look like in the coming at months now while trump was hailing the deal as a success jim jeffrey now he's the u.s. envoy for syria and the coalition against isis said that the united states believes to turkish supported opposition forces in syria have committed war crimes there jeffrey also confirmed the secretary of defense mark aspirate statement that more than $100.00 isis fighters how to skate and they said that they don't know where they are as you can imagine that hasn't gone down well at all within the republican party or the democrats who trumps it really just trying to appeal to his support base at home isn't he. you're absolutely right no this is part of trump's election campaign and also his election promises now he said that he'd bring the troops home and he's claiming he's getting the u.s. out of endless wars now one thing to note is that the troops are actually that are supposedly coming home are actually being moved to iraq to fight against isis and so many factors are going to stay in syria trump ailed it as a big success and his critics are saying that in fact it

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let's bring in the big guns now with us former federal prosecutor and cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin and former advisor to four u.s. presidents, both democrat and republican. senior analyst david garrigan. two of the go-to defenses we heard from republican ss is if this call was concerning, more people would come forward and it's based on hearsay. they can't argue the points anymore. >> i think that the democrats increasingly are knocking down the defenses that the republicans are trying to erect. you know, first the big defense was well this is all -- it's all -- there is no quid pro quo and we now we know there was. we have text messages that show that but the next argument was that the first whistle blower was providing second-hand information and another whistle blower says he has firsthand information and eyewitness account. i doubt he was in the room with the president but suggestions he might have been on the call and he can answer a big question that has been lingering out there since maine raised it and that is what happened to the other 20 minutes? we have a tape or

. >> with me now to talk about all of these developments, jeffrey angle, the director of presidential history projects at southern methodist university and a cnn presidential historian. also with me, michael zeldin. good to see you both. >> hi. >> michael, you first as a former federal prosecutor. how much potential trouble is rudy giuliani facing? we're talking about at first the accusations of doing unlicensed foreign lobbying type of work and now we're talking about trying to get a visa for someone who was denied a visa, mostly for security troubles. how do you see this? >> the way i see it is that the failure to register as a foreign agent on behalf of ukraine is a valid investigatory lead for the justice department. they have to determine whether rudy giuliani was doing that and failed to register for it. with respect to trying to get an interview of the former ukrainian prosecutor general, i don't think that that implicates any criminal laws. i think it is what lobbyists and lawyers do all the time, which is to try to get their clients or people that they're interested in into t

. >> jeffrey, you're a historian. you're an expert on impeachment. the white house's blanket noncompliance here. historically, how well does that work out for an administration? >> you know, historically, we've really crossed an important rubicon. this is something that doesn't particularly work out well for any administration. in fact, the three impeachment cases we have, andrew johnson in the 186 ons and richard nixon's in the 1970s, really averted. ly we need to rea skpert not. the question wloof congress has the right to subpoena, that's actualment. historically that's when congress has acted. >> republicans, the white house, they have obviously settled on the reality that the house democrats are moovving on this. so yes, the democrats are saying, as adam schiff said this morning, this is another key piece of evidence we're building on obstruction of congress, as jeffrey just said. that's a case they've already got. so this -- we're not going to give them more evidence strategy is acknowledging that reality. >> do they need more evidence for a co

jeffrey admitted that the u.s. has no way the track any of the isis fighters that have been released. he expressed confidence that the kurds who are still guarding these prisons would still continue to do so, but he said that some of the prisons are inside the new turkish-russian safe zone. he said he did not know what was going to happen to those prisoners. it's a good remind their isis remains a threat. the pentagon itself, the inspector general a few months ago said there were 18,000 isis members across syria and iraq and in syria still establishing resurgent cells basically trying to become an insurgency again. >> woodruff: and separately from this, jane, back to that news conference today with turk ey's president erdogan and vladimir putin of russia, you were listening to that along with us. you were telling us you were hearing some of the finer points that were being made. what were you focused on? >> what was interesting, judy, wasn't just what was said but what wasn't said. erdogan has had extremely strong

what do you think, jeffrey? >> well, i think that's right. i think there really is no more need for the whistle-blower, because his complaint was, as we said, hearsay. that he said, you know, i know these other people were very upset about what was going on. congress has now contacted these other people. they now have the partial transcript of the phone call with the president of ukraine. i just don't see what the need is for the whistle-blower. >> it's also vindicated the inspector general, right? the inspector general looked into this and said, there is a concern here, it is legitimate, and it turns out it has been borne out i by the testimony. >> and every witness that has gone in has given remarkably consistent testimony. they're all telling the same story, whether or not people who thought it was wrong or deeply concerning, they are all laying out the same exact facts. >> everybody, stick around. there's more breaking news we're following. another trump judicial nominee gets confirmed, despite being labeled not qualified by the american

of the american institute for economic research joins the phone today in studio jeffrey tucker of the american institute for economic research joins the phone today in studio to help us sort through the safety concerns in the cook the space a minute. we have a help us sort through the safety concerns in the cook the space amid. that is to let's go and dive right in. the usa because it is a let's go and dive right in. the u.s. economy grew at a 1.9 percent annualized rate beating expectations of 1.6 percent on may grew at a 1.9 percent annualized rate beating expectations of 1.6 percent but still below the already weak 2nd quarter print this 3rd quarter report that but still below the already weak 2nd quarter. and this 3rd quarter report reflected increases in consumer spending household investments and exports while business in the reflected increases in consumer spending household investments and exports while business investment inventory investments decreased personal consumption was the main driver as an inventory investments decreased personal consumption was the main driver as a

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michael baden was hired by jeffrey epstein's family to look at the autopsy and he's going to be herethat report. brian: it was ruled a suicide. the question is that beyond a shadow of a doubt. he might be looking to push back on that. at least he is going to share what he found. steve: right. you know, because what dr. baden is going to say flies in the face of the official report. he is an expert after the it. you are not going to want to miss it. come up in 90 minutes. right now our lead story politics. brian: and impeachment. house democrats outline the next step in impeachment inquiry into president trump. steve: speaker nancy pelosi said yesterday the house will vote on the issue, the resolution tomorrow. ainsley: griff jenkins is live in washington as republicans accuse a house lawmaker of coaching a witness. griff? griff: yeah, good morning ainsley, brian and steve. house republicans are furious blocking vinman from answering their questions. >> we tried to ask the witness certain questions and mr. schiff would not let him answer. >> adam schiff trying to run a one sided sovie

back with john dean, jen psaki and jeffrey toobin.uch of an upper hand does it give democrats moving forward, if any? it's really not going to change the white house's level of cooperation. >> you know, i think, anderson, it sets the rules for moving forward. and as jeffrey kind of talked about briefly earlier in the show, you know, democrats have a self-imposed timeline here. they have done a lot of the behind-the-scenes depositions. moving it to the public is also in their interest. so this puts in place some rules. they don't expect republican votes. that would certainly be a surprise. they know they could lose some democrats but it kind of moves the process forward and that's certainly in their interest to the public at this point in time. >> jeff, hearing the president urging republicans to, quote, go with substance. it's almost like he's been watching news reports and people pointing out that the republicans have been going with process because they can't really use substance or are unwilling to or it's more uncomfortable to do

a new count of jeffrey up there jeffrey epstein's autopsy raises question what happen in the end. he kill himself? some people who looked at him believe he did not. that is ahead. it's becoming clear by the day that, let harris will not be the president, obviously you should celebrate that. wait until you hear her excuse for why her campaign is failing. fascinating. stay tuned. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: all presidential campaigns and the same way with chaos and sadness. we see kamala harris doomed campaign right now. she has firing staffers, running out of money and it is clear she will not make the democratic nomination. the news does not come as a big surprise. the junior senator from california, but she has not accomplished anything in congress. she is not likable or popular in her home state. rather than acknowledge this, she decided to play the blame game.lend biases the real problem. lisa boothe is a senior fellow independent woman's voice. i almost downgraded you but i don't know why.sa >> i appreciate the upgrade. >> tucker: it is great to see you tonight, lisa. what is she saying?

i want to thank ambassador jeffrey and deputy secretary palmer for coming before the committee. ambassador, i understand you came out of retirement for this post. i'm not going to suggest you need a mental check. and i applaud your commitment to serving our country. i think it's incredibly important. ambassador jeffrey, we understand that you and ambassador satterfield and the rest of our core of military leaders on the ground spent the past months'work of diplomacy, balancing an increasingly belligerent nato ally. and a force to defeat isis however, your recent efforts, in my view, were hamstrung from the outset since december of last year when president trump made abundantly clear that he was more swayed by president erdogan's manipulative threats and persuasions than advice from his own diplomatic and military corps. indeed, the president's decisions over the past month are yet another betrayal of u.s. foreign policy to russia. a betrayal of our kurdish partners who fought and died alongside us in the battle against isis, who are now throwing in their lot with the russian and

a new count of jeffrey up there jeffrey epstein's autopsy raises question what happen in the end.id he kill himself? some look at it, that is a head appeared clear by the day that kamala harris will not be the president, obviously, you should celebrate that, but wait until you hear her excuse for why her campaign is failing. fascinating. stay tuned. ♪ devices are like doorways that could allow hackers into your home. and like all doors, they're safer when locked. that's why you need xfinity xfi. with the xfi gateway, devices connected to your homes wifi are protected. which helps keep people outside from accessing your passwords, credit cards and cameras. and people inside from accidentally visiting sites that aren't secure. and if someone trys we'll let you know. xfi advanced security. if it's connected, it's protected. call, click, or visit a store today. ♪ >> tucker: all presidential campaigns and make the same way in chaos and sadness. we see kamala harris doomed campaign right now. she has firing staffers, running out of money and it is clear she will not make the democratic

can we turn this around, ambassador jeffrey? >> we believe we're on a path to turning it around. >> i hope so. turning it around would include a resolution between turket and kurds that's sustainable. do you agree with that? >> over the longer term that would be a necessary -- and again, it's not with the kurds and it's with this element of the kurdish population. >> ypg. >> right. >> the way i envision this is turk ir's lengthity mat security concerns about ypg-armed elements have to be addressed and we need a demilitarized zone. do you agree with that? >> we think the way we addressed it in august was actually a very good way. >> what happened here in august we had a plan, we get it the ypg armed -- heavily-armed forces along the border is a non-starty for turkey and i've gotten that and i've gotten that for years. i've always toeldz friends that the ypg were there to help us with isis and we can't abandon these people and we're not going allow ethnic cleansing in the name of a buffer zone, do you agree with that? >> absolutel