mr. trump and the actions of his subordinates is the only kind of corruption he seems to be conveniently interested in are unsupported allegations about a fellow who might be his principal appointed in an upcoming election. the noticed this is a broad-based interest in corruption is ludicrous, actually. >> frank bowman is a graduate of harvard and teaches at georgetown university here in washington, d.c. he has a book on impeachment. you can send us a text message to (202) 748-8003. we want to share with you what congressman steve scalise said on the house floor in regard to impeachment of the president. >> there are hearings going on behind closed doors, many of my colleagues try to attend some of those hearings and have been turned away if they are not on the committees of jurisdiction. colleagues that have tried to read things like testimony and have been turned away, denied the ability to do that. there is a real concern that there is an attempt to impeach a president of united states, remo

mr. trump plays with financial statements [inaudible] >> before you go to two, actual situations. can you finish up? >> what he's saying when he applies -- >> to the post office? >> correct. second, we need to know what is mr. trump's relationship with the business entity that is signing the lease? [inaudible] doesn't, congress would pass a law requiring it in the future. >> [inaudible] >> before we even get to that question, don't we have to, hundred supreme court precedent, have to have some indication from the house that they authorize the committee here to take action? the courts are pretty clearly to respects -- [inaudible] herehat evidence is there that the house is in fact giving the community the authority committee the authority to investigate the president? >> i need to say one thing first. [inaudible] i don't understand. this has nothing to do with statutory. i think he meant -- that has nothing to do with statutory power. once we all understand that. so, what we know is, from the co

mr. trump replied. i would like you to do us a favor though. mr. ed him to investigate a theory about a su committee computer server. the server mr. trump said, they an oedhe asseas it. th i d youo om of thlame to l u.s. intelligence official heard about if and filed an official government whistle blower and writes i've received information from multiple government officials that the president of the united states is using the power of his office to solicit the interference of the election in 2020 election. >> here we have struggling democracy and what's the president telling them in his word and deeds. >> the chairman of the house intelligence committee has this to say. >> where does your committee take this from here? what's the procedure. >> we have a pretty good road map, the complaint sets out any number of witnesses and documents we need to seek. >> do you expect the testimony of the whistle bloeler? >> absolutely. your committee already has an agreement with the whistle blower that he will testify. >> we have an agreement he or she will testi

the dirty little secret between both mr. trump and mrs. clinton in the last campaign was, don't tell anyone he, mrs. clinton voted for those walls. neither candidate wanted that fact to be out. it never did come out. more broadly, hitting away from the wall, i think we need more work visas in the united states. not fewer. i spent a lot of time in the western part of the state. from texas west, i worked a lot with george w when he was governor of texas. staff the't agricultural industry or the construction industry in the united states without all those brown people coming across the southern border from mexico. yes, a lot of them are from wanted out -- guatemala and honduras. that doesn't mean they can't be helpful to us. i point to the program that canada has called a guest worker program. many people come. they have a worse problem than we do with weather and a short season on those two industries. many people come to canada and work for four months. they send their remittances back to the family. they go home and live with their family

finance laws two businessmen with ties to rudy giuliani, mr trump's in the us.e ethics lawyer for president george w bush and is now a law professor at the university of minnesota — he's been giving me his take on the arrests. it's very clear there was russian interference in the 2016 election. it is undisputed, that was put out very clearly in robert mueller‘s report that the question is whether the collaboration with the trump campaign was criminal or not. robert mueller concluded there were criminal charges. in connection with what happened in 2016 but donald trump claiming that he is exonerated in the rush investigating turned around and did the same thing. he is 110w around and did the same thing. he is now approaching the ukrainian government and he had rudy giuliani contact the ukrainian others, state department officials, to try to get dirt onjoe biden and then withholding united states government aid to ukraine as a threat as a quid pro quo for dirt onjoe biden which isa pro quo for dirt onjoe biden which is a very serious offence, the use of official p

said so yes here's what's possible a little make believe deal full of claims particularly by mr trump that a great deal has been accomplished he will look like he has done something he hopes nobody will look too closely at what the real meaning of it is so it'll be a splashy headline the stock market will bubble up for a while and then we'll all go back to where we were before except that the 15 months of this has already caused very heavy damage to the world economy which will look back on mr trump's declaration of a. economic war against china as a horrific mistake even from the point of view of the united states then on another trade front the leader of the largest labor federation in the us president richard trumka a.f.l.-cio says organized labor could defeat the new now after this so-called u.s.m.c. 8 telling the washington post quote if there was a vote before thanksgiving the agreement would be defeated the chamber of commerce in the white house meantime are floating and pushing a vote by ben i can see the play from the chamber they may be thinking let's get this done before im

they're assets of mr. trump and if the saudis come in, just hypothetical, they come in and say they we want to rent the entire hotel for the year and just name a price. whatever you name is fine with us. is that an emoluments? we need to know. and he might say one of my assets is the old post office hotel and that is mine. >> but how would a statute address that problem? i mean, if congress determined that the president was in violation on the emoluments clause? >> several. one is congress can say we think that is not a foreign emolument. two, congress could decide is it ok for the president to do business with the government? because remember, domestic emoluments clause provides pay for the president and not more. so if the president is doing business with defense department and let's say he owns a company that manufactures a key part for airports -- airplanes and the defense department is purchasing those and the president is saying i'm keeping my full ownership and knowledge about this company, that might be

well again let me go in reverse order mr trump and the people around there mr navarro and others have made a remarkable set of quite different demands on the chinese at one point or another they should stop doing intellectual property theft they should change their system so it's more open and more like that of the united states all the way down to they should buy more corn and soybeans here's the problem the chinese have been the fastest growing economy in the world for 25 years they grow much quicker than the united states they're more successful if growth is your objective as it has been for them there is no way they are now going to give up a system that has worked so well for them to this point that level of irrationality and self destructive this is not going to be forthcoming so all those kinds of demands that trump and his allies make they're never going to see those anyway all they're going to see from china is little things they'll buy some more agricultural those kinds of things those will not get the big changes mr trump wants they won't even get much of the little ones he

and the dirty little secret between both mr. trump and mrs. clinton in the last campaign was don't tell anybody. mrs. clinton had voted for those walls and neither candidate wanted that fact to be out so it never did come out. but more broadly getting away from the wall, i think we need more work visas in the united states, not fewer. i spent a lot of time in the western part of the state and i often say from texas west, and i worked a lot with george w. when he was governor of texas, he and i overlapped from texas west. you could not staff the agricultural industry or the construction industry in the united states without all those, yes, those brown people coming across the southern border from mexico. and, yes, a lot of them are from guatemala and el salvador and honduras. but that doesn't mean they can't be helpful to us. you know. i point to the program that canada has, it's called a guest worker program. many, many people come and they have a worst problem than we do, obviously with weather and a short season on those two industries. many

[applause and cheers] mr. trump: and they want to impose an extreme agenda. they cannot pass it and they cannot win it at the ballot box. they're not going to win. they won't come close in 2020. they know it. they know it. they are not going to win it. they say, let's see, what's another idea? what's another idea? how do we win this election? you know, i really don't believe anymore that they love our country. i don't believe it. >> four more years! four more years! four more years! four more years! four more years! four more years! four more years! four more years! pres. trump: crazy nancy, that crazy nancy. she is crazy. >> [booing] mr. trump: and shifty schiff. how about this guy? >> [booing] up myump: he makes conversation, which was perfect. he makes up my conversation. he sees what i said. it does not play well because it was perfect, so he made up a totally false conversation with the ukrainian president. >> [booing] mr. trump: and we caught him cold. everybody knew it anyway. see, we did one thing -- you alw

mr. trump seems to have single-handedly and unilaterally precipitated a national security crisis in the middle east. you know, at the end of the day he green-lighted the turkish invasion. the five-day pause is probably a good thing. maybe it will reduce the number of people murdered by arab militias, give the kurds time to run for their life. where they're supposed to go is beyond me. the instant take on this is you allow assad to re-enter the kurdish areas. you allow iranian dominance in the region and you let the russian military occupy, abandon, hastily abandon u.s. military outposts. it's an astonishing outcome. what did mr. trump think he was getting out of all of this? why didn't he move an additional 500 u.s. soldiers into the northern region and tell erdogan don't cross the border, you'd be attacking a nato ally. this is inexplicable behavior. >> if we can't protect the kurds, if we're unwilling to do that on the ground, it seems to me if we were the country we were five years ago or ev

mr. trump tried to obstruct the mueller investigation, clearly, by ordering documents be destroyed or that false documents be filed, that would be enough in itself. every time he had that conversation with one of his folks and they said, i can't do that, that would be a lie, he said, what is your point? hise've seen in relationship with jeff sessions and jim comey, he thinks the function of others in government is to watch his political skirts. ukrainerecent deal with and trying to use the leverage he has from suspending $400 million of military aid to get the president to investigate his most likely rival, joe biden, that is over the top in terms of the definitions that i mentioned earlier. so i think the house will go ahead. the delicate question is, what are republicans in the senate going to do? there will be no removal unless 20 republicans vote for it. right now they are holding the line. there's probably just a handful of republican votes for removal now. but the polls in the last week o

and it is as a result of those tariffs that mr trump has has put on obviously he's not going to admit that both sides are suffering from these tariffs so i think the chinese side very much they're very much looked looking to try to avoid this hike in tariffs that slate the pencilled in for december and they'll do that by trying to spin out this phase one process the u.s. side i think they're probably looking much more to try to get a deal to sign that comprehensive deal because of the political calendar but the chinese side i don't see them wanting to give mr trump that kind of a win and i think they probably see this stimulus that they've done is still in the pipeline and they're looking to a recovery regardless 5 of of the tire of spin removed or not in the beginning of next year but they certainly don't want that tariff i can december what you're explaining right now seems to be the perfect example for what's being said about china that for them it's politics before business does this stand in the way of a deal. i think that it does is the short answer i think that the economic sid

mulvaney said it was mr. trump who opoldi the g7 at his club. senior officials said mr. ump took a very personal interest in doral hosting the summit. mr. trump said this in august -- >> not about me, it's about getting the right location. i think it's very important. >> reporter: business at doral is struggling, according to the "washington post." doral's profits dropped nearly 70% between 2015 and 2017. rooms range from $134 to $878 per night. doral tends to attract fewer guests in june, meaning the summit could compensate for a seasonal lag in revenue. >> it's publicity that you couldn't pay for. >> reporter: the white house move comes amid charges from president trump that joe biden's son profited from his father's office by serving on the board of a ukrainian energy company. >> if there's one difference that you look at between the trump family and the biden family, the trump family made their movie before they went into politics. >> reporter: the constitution prohibits officeholders from accepting any present or emolument from a foreign state or payments from the fe

mr. trump single handedly and yun latunilaterall precipitated a crisis in the middle east. at the end of the day he green lighted the turkish invasion. the five-day pause is probably a good thing. maybe it will reduce the number of people murdered by arab militias following the turkish army. where they are supposed to go is beyond me. but, you know, the instant take on this is you allow assad to e re-enter the kurdish areas, allow aryan yan dominance in the region and let them abandon outposts. it is an astonishing outcome. why didn't he move an additional 500 u.s. soldiers into the northern region and tell him don't cross the border. you will be attacking a nato ally. this is inexplicable behavior. >> if we can't protect the kurds, it seems to me, if we were the country we were five years ago or even a month ago, wouldn't we be trying to air lift kurds out of harm's way. >> i think we could be deterred turkish advance. i don't think there is any chance if we had said, look, we are going to mai

. >> [indiscernible] mr. trump: perhaps the last one, i hope. i hope the last one. of the three i hope it is the last one. we have no soldiers in syria. we have won, we beat isis. we have no soldiers. the last thing i want to do is bring thousands and thousands of soldiers in and defeat everybody again. we have already done that. we have two choices, bringing in the military and defeating everybody again or you have the choice of doing strong things to turkey so they take it easy on competition that is, i don't think it is being fairly traded in. we have a good relationship with -- i hope we can mediate. [indiscernible] mr. trump: turkey knows where i stand and the last thing -- ok, very simple. we had a big victory, we left the area. i don't think the american people want to see us go back in with the military and go back again. we won, we left the area. let's see what happens. we are going to possibly do something very tough with respect to sanctions and other financial things. [indiscernible] mr. trump: i think we can win. it has been a long time since a republic

knows that mr. trump has the most sophisticated social media. mark zuckerberg said we have to be careful about adopting more and more rules around free speech. while facebook leaders were defending their policy. there was a fake page that was linked to mr. trump's re-election campaign to run ads on his platform. >>> the pentagon releasing newly declassified images of the raid that killed abu bakr al baghdadi. the cent-com commander said that the raid was prestaged in syria, after president trump ordered most troops to withdraw. barbara starr has the latest from the pentagon. >> reporter: dave, christine, the top u.s. commander briefing reporters at the pentagon about the mission to get baghdadi. it should be noted that general mckenzie said he could not confirm president trump's details that baghdadi died whimpering and crying. he said that baghdadi had attempted to fire his weapon. he showed three sets of videos. the first video was u.s. forces on helicopters approaching the compound, when they came unde

in fact, if we want to beat mr. trump, i think somebody who can go toe to toe with him and show him to be a fraud and a failure as a business person, and a fraud and a failure as a steward of the american economy is going to be necessary. he is one. his tax plan's a failure. his trade war is a failure. i would love to take him on as a real businessman and show that, in fact, he's failed the american people, and he has to go. >> thank you, mr. steyer. senator booker, how do you respond? would a president booker break up big tech companies like facebook and amazon? >> anybody that does not think that we have a massive crisis in our democracy with the way these tech companies are being used, not just in terms of anti-competitive practices but also to undermine our democracy, we have seen it in the '16 election practices being used that have not been corrected now. we need regulation and reform. and antitrust, i mean robert bork right now is laughing in his sleep. we have a reality in this country where antitrust from pharma

to ukraine contingent on a public declaration from kiev that it would investigate one of mr trump's rivalssidency, former democratic vice—president, joe biden. mr taylor said he found the demand politically troubling. mr trump has denied he did anything wrong. for more on this, let's talk to our north america correspondent david willis. this was evidence behind closed doors, but it has been leaked?m has. william taylor is of course a career diplomat, he is somebody who has served both republican and democrat administrations since 1985. he came out of retirement to become america's top diplomat in the ukraine. hejustified america's top diplomat in the ukraine. he justified for more than nine hours on capitol hill today, and very damning evidence saying that very shortly after arriving in kiev to take up that position he became aware there were two channels, if you like, of us policy—making. the official channel of which he was a part, and the other, an unofficial channel made up of disparate characters such as the personal lawyer to president trump, rudy giuliani, and others he said the off

military forces in syria the raid took place in the province of it live where mr trump says back that he was cornered in a tunnel where he blew himself up and died quotes like a dog barked at his body was properly identified minutes after he was killed 8 helicopters were used in the mission and there were no injuries among the u.s. troops involved these exclusive pictures show the aftermath of that strike where the mission took place mr trump thanked kurdish forces russia syria turkey and iraq for intelligence that proved helpful to the raid is called the killing of baghdad a great night for the u.s. and the world more now on that and here's what mr trump had to say last night the united states brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice abu a car al baghdadi is dead. he was the founder and leader of isis the most ruthless and violent terror organization anywhere in the world the united states has been searching for baghdadi for many years capturing or killing baghdadi has been the top national security priority of my administration u.s. special operations forces execut

mr. trump is trying to persuade americans against him that they can see with their own eyes and that came out of his own mouth. >>> with conditions. we're breaking down a series of damming text messages that show how the trump administration pushed ukraine to investigate joe biden. cnn obtaining new information about crucial testimony. >>> changing his story. a trump appointee told a gop senator that aid to the you yan was tied to the push for investigations. why did the diplomat later deny any quid pro quo. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're many tin "the situation." >>> the white house could be hit with gn a new issue knsubpoena at any m. in separate move, democrats are asking vice president pence for documents related to his possible role in the push for ukraine. mr. trump is threatening to defy congress and withhold documents unless the full house formally votes on an impeachment inquiry. it's another day of rapid fire developm

. >> reporter: mr. trump fired back. >> lindsey graham would like to stay in the middle east for the next thousand years, with thousands of soldiers fighting other people's wars. i want to get out of the middle east. >> reporter: a bipartisan majority of the house voted to condemn the president's decision to pull troops from syria, and when that came up in the meeting with the president and congressional leaders, mr. trump reportedly became angry. >> he was insulting, particularly to the speaker. >> reporter: mr. trump tweeted this photo at the meeting. democrats say the president called pelosi "a name" and was "quite nasty," so they walked out. the presidendisputed claims he gave turkish president erdogan the green light to invade syria, releasing a letter he sent last week urging restraint. "don't be a tough guy. don't be a fool," he wrote. that same day, turkish troops stormed into syria, hitting the kurds with ground and air strikes. o o'donnell: paula, take us inside that extraordinary white uuse meeting

and a white house meeting between mr trump and senior democrats ended with the democrats walking out.e's our north american correspondent peter bowes. president correspondent peter bowes. trump under fire frorr directions president trump under fire from all directions over his decision to pull us forces out of syria. the house of representatives voted overwhelmingly to condemn mr trump's actions in the strongest terms. the president impulsive decision to leave is there without end of deliberation has ignited a conflict in one of the most volatile regions in the world. more than 100 republicans voted with the democrats, although the president did have some support from his party. the blood of america's patriots is among our nation ‘s most sacred currency and it must be spent only when absolutely vital to protect american interest. we are not the world ‘s police force. protect american interest. we are not the world 's police force. one of the president closest ally, lindsey ally, says mr trump has made a grave error. to suggest that it is safer, it is delusional. if you say that you do

last wednesday, mr. trumpbled down on what he said in the call. >> president trump: believe it or not, i watch my words very carefully. there are those that think i'm a very stable genius. okay? i watch my words very, very closely. >> pelley: the call with zelensky came in july, days after mr. trump suspended military sales to ukraine, which is fighting rebels backed by russia. in the official record, president zelensky asked for javelin anti-tank missiles. president trump replied, "i would like you to do us a favor though." that's when he asked zelensky to investigate the rumor about 2016. what do you make of that? >> hurd: i wouldn't have handled the conversation that way. >> pelley: republican will hurd is on the committee leading the investigation. >> hurd: it is behavior that i wouldn't have done. >> pelley: is it improper? >> hurd: is it an impeachable offense? i don't think so. but that, in concert with some of the allegations made by the whistleblower, is why i think we should understand what actually

then a letterfrom mr trump came out, urging turkey's president not to be a tough guy. a white house meeting with senior democrats ended with an exchange of insults and the democrats walking out. here's our north america correspondent, peter bowes. president trump under fire from all directions over his decision to pull us forces out of syria. the house of representatives voted overwhelmingly to condemn mr trump's actions in the strongest terms. the president's impulsive decision to leave syria without any deliberation has ignited a conflict in one of the most volatile regions on earth. more than 100 republicans voted with the democrats, although the president did have some support from his own party. the blood of america's patriots is among our nation's most sacred currency, and it must be spent only when absolutely vital to protect american interests. we are not the world's police force. but one of the president's closest ally, the republican senator, lindsey graham, says mr trump has made a grave error. to suggest the kurds are safer, is really delusional. if you thi

mr. trump's open admiration of mr. putin, who of course wants to destroy nato and the european union, with their support for mr. trump. i think that's a very tricky one. i guess one thing that has become less clear in the u.s. in the last few years, and i think that's the result of both the obama and the trump administrations, is just how fragile this order is. we've become much more self-centered and we tend to think that the world's just going to go on the way that it was shaped. that's clearly not true. the order that we helped to make is breaking all around us during the trump presidency. >> what are the pitfalls? this is a blatantly political question. what are the pitfalls for democrats as they pursue impeachment do you think in this current environment. >> i think the argument for impeachment has to also be an argument for a better america. the republicans speak about the deep state. the deep state in this country is called the constitution. the argument for impeachment has to not be negative. it has to be posit

. >> most republicans defend mr. trump. >>an nothing criminal about it, nothing impeachable about it. >> while some remain cautious. >> the president isin going to y what the president p is going t do. >> my guest this morning, the bipartisan senate pair who were leading advocates of aid to ukraine. republican ron johnson of wisconsin and democrat chrisoh murphysi of connecticut. >> also, former cia director john brennan. plus, the bernie sanders heartlu attack. his health, how it could impact the race, and it's a reminder that all of the leading candidates are in their 70s. joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker, rich lowry, editor of national review, o. kaye henderson, director of the iowa radio network, and rick stengel. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longestc running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. i made the point earlier this week thatoi a national nightmar is

mr trump has suggested that one of the senior democrats investigating could be arrested for treason.call was perfect. when the whistleblower reported it, he made it sound terrible. and then you had adam schiff who, even worse, made up my words, which i think is just horrible. i've never even seen a thing like that. i asked our north america correspondent peter bowes first about mr trump's personal lawyer, who has spoken about the allegations on ukraine before. yes, he's given several television interviews, especially this past weekend. and the committee chairman focused on what he said, that he has acknowledged that he went to ukraine, he's spoken to ukrainian officials, to try to get an investigation into joe biden, the former vice president and possible candidate for the democrats, opposite president trump, at the next election. and he has indicated that he wasn't doing this alone, that there were others in the trump administration involved, and that he had text messages, documents, to prove this. so the committee chairman want that evidence. they want to see what has happened, and

mr. trumphrew fuel on the fire when he tweeted that the investigation is a modern-day lynching and called on republicans to protect him. that choice of words dredged up a painful chapter in american history and drew a firestorm of criticism. nan nan nan nan nancy cordes reports. >> reporter: what he's been describing all day is the quid pro quo that the president had been denying. what made you concern about a quid pro quo. behind closed doors ambassador bill taylor described a secret campaign to pressure ukraine, using u.s. aid as bait. >> this is my most disturbing day in congress so far. very troubling. >> reporter: taylor was a recently retired, seasoned diplomat, pressed back into service this summer. according to his 15-page opening statement, taylor encountered a highly irregular u.s. policymaking effort in ukraine, engineered by president trump and involving the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. by mid-july, taylor said, it was becoming clear to me, the meeting that ukrainian

mr. trump has been tweeting at high speed today, taking on the committee adam schrgence parroting his phone call with ukrainian leader, asking in atwe arrest for treason. this afternoon at the house, the president again defended what he called thal perfect ca with ukraine's leader. pres. trump: as you know, the anyou probably haven't figured itit out,-- have figured it out, the statement i made to the poofrtenedes aaiedt totally different statement. i made a call. the call was perfect. when the whistleblower recorded errible.it m the saditndou laura: jeff flake is a former senator who has been a vocal today he wrote an op-ed urging fellow republicans to stand up for their principles. behind mr. trump, but senator flake sato that could change. mr. flake: there's not oflo love behind closed doors, but the ni sisntfiigun acat moof president can go against them you are not going to see many members stand up until they think the president -- his ac ons may have made tim polly vulnerable.ap that cann

of this as a dance to which the chinese are invited but it's a dance completely choreographed by mr trump and his drive for reelection so not japan and the u.s. have just signed a limited trade deal that opens up markets for american farmers and brings tokyo a degree of assurance that trump won't impose new tariffs on auto imports for now prime minister our goal was to win a pledge that the u.s. won't slap tariffs on autos but the written text doesn't explicitly cover auto tariffs so here's what president trump said in the deal on monday in washington. in the united sates these deals are a game changer for our farmers and our ranchers or farmers ranchers and growers will now be able to compete fairly in japan against major competitors. so this actually looks like this was more of a lose lose deal as the agriculture agreement didn't even compass what was previously done in the t.t.p. so there was this deal rushed as both sides didn't really get what they wanted. absolutely again i don't mean to be a dead horse but mr trump has to get something somewhere so he has this agreement with the ja

mr trump of course.headache for mr trump and the republicans? yeah, you mentioned that one of them came from ukraine. this is going to be one of the questions that the democrats ask about what exactly were the links here? some of that is going to focus on rudy giuliani, the president's personal attorney. he has been pushing and trying to talk about the potential ofjoe biden, the potential ofjoe biden, the potential as a dental candidate and one of his big brothers in 2020 having being involved in some business dealings, or his son being involved in business dealings in ukraine. there have been unsubstantiated allegations made by both rudy giuliani and mr trump. mr trump did ask the ukrainian president to launch an investigation intojoe biden, and it seems really giuliani was also involved with conversations with ukrainian officials, it seems these two men actually help temples that they introduced him to a former ukrainian prosecutor. you can imagine democrats are going to be asking a lot of questions ab

there is going to be an agreement the chinese have kind of the the framework for an agreement if mr trump is really interested in that they have talked of the trade balance can certainly be dealt with issues of market access can be dealt with issues of investor protection can be dealt with but issues related to national security and issues related to state owned enterprises let's do that a little. there's enough on the table to have a good agreement at a time when manufacturing and services numbers are among the worst manufacturing numbers worst in a decade so says numbers of worst in 3 years this is the time to do a deal mr trump must be smart about it. but in the meantime the tramp and mission has been considering capital controls on trying to further escalating this entire issue and they were actually considering potentially delisting chinese stock from u.s. markets but this would actually just further push the belt and road businesses on to either the long london exchange or even the harp on exchange so this one leaves essentially new york out in the cold so who exactly is trump tryin

but in a statement, mick mulvaney said: mrtrump mr trump later said he had a lot of confidence in hishe trump administration has resigned. the energy secretary my rick perry, is leaving after being drawn into the ukraine investigation over the role he played in the president's dealings with ukraine officials. he's been outstanding and we already have his replacement. rick has done a fantasticjob at energy, but it was time and three years is a long time. donald trump is also under fire over news next yea r‘s donald trump is also under fire over news next year's g7 summit will be held at one of the president's us golf resorts. the white house has denied he will profit from the event. peter bowes, bbc news. now it's time to get all the latest from the bbc sports centre. hello there. i'm ben croucher with your friday sports briefing. we'll start with golf, and it's the european tour's french open, scene of where europe and the usa battled out at the ryder cup last year, but it's a new zealander and a south african with the first round lead at le golf national in paris. ryan fox and this m

mr. trump pointing fingers when he insists his call was perfect? >>> the president claims his decision was great and unparalleled. tonight, top republicans who usually refuse to rebuke him are angry and they are speaking out. >>> key witness gunned down. just days after a former police officer was found guilty of murder, a man who reluctantly testified in the trial has been shot and killed. this hour the man hunt and the mystery. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> we're following breaking news on new efforts to protect the whistle-blower who exposed the scandal. they are considering extreme measures if the whistle-blower testifies before congress including hiding the individual's face and voice. >>> also breaking, impeachment investigators turn out more subpoenas. they are demanding documents from the white house, pentagon, budget office related to the president's decision to with hold military assistan

the house of representatives voted overwhelmingly to condemn mr trump's actions in the strongest termse decision to leave syria without any deliberation has ignited a conflict in one of the most volatile regions on earth. more than 100 republicans voted with the democrats, although the president did have some support from his own party. the blood of america's patriots is among our nation's most sacred currency, and it must be spent only when absolutely vital to protect american interests. we are not the world's police force. the president was widely criticised for, in effect, giving the green light to turkey to move into syria. but, in a letter written before the offensive against kurdish fighters started, mr trump urged president erdogan to work out a good deal. he said, "history will look upon you favourably if you get this done the right and humane way. it will look upon you forever as the devil if good things don't happen. don't be a tough guy. don't be a fool!" the president is under intense pressure from his critics. leading democrats walked out of a meeting with mr trump at the

. >> [inaudible] mr. trump: trey gowdy is a terrific guy.hink there is a problem where he can't start for another couple of months because of lobbying rules and regulations. you will have to ask about that. i just heard he can't start until after january because of the lobbying rules and regulations. so i don't know. but we will have to see. i have not spoken to him. >> [indiscernible] mr. trump: perhaps the last one, i hope. i hope the last one. of the three i hope it is the last one. we have no soldiers in syria. we have won, we beat isis. we beat them badly and decisively. we have no soldiers. the last thing i want to do is bring thousands and thousands of soldiers in and defeat everybody again. we have already done that. we have two choices, bringing in the military and defeating everybody again or you have the choice of doing strong things to turkey so they take it easy on competition that is, i don't think it is being fairly traded in. we have a good relationship with the kurds. i hope we can mediate. >> [indiscernible] mr. trump: turk

mr trump said the deal, which covers agricultural purchases and intellectual property, would be greatsia business consultant and author of the new retail born in china going global. hejoins us from new york. thank you forjoining us from bbc news. this is a pretty limited deal, when you look at the finer small print. yes, it is a real 0ctober surprise, even its limited form. i think there has been, myself included, lots of pessimism around the idea that any of deal or agreement could get done before the end of the year. this is a very positive move in the right direction. limited in nature, yes, but it will give the markets, it will give corporations around the world, and both governments, a chance to breathe, to get a sigh of relief, and to set the foundation for dealing with some much larger issues between the two governments and the two economies going forward. michael, give us an idea of what the impact has been so far on both economies of these tariffs? well, i ama economies of these tariffs? well, i am a confirmed, true blooded free marketer, and i have been saying for the last 1