peggy noonan, columnist for the "wall street journal." democratic pollster cornell belcher, and ashley parker, white house reporter for "the washington post." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history. this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. we do have a lot to get to this morning including the growing support for impeachment and president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani now reportedly being investigated for his lobbying work in ukraine, but we're going to start with breaking news from syria where turkey has unleashed a brutal assault on our allies, the kurds. that invasion came after president trump essentially gave turkey the go ahead. and nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engle is reporting on scenes of atrocities carried out buturkish backed militias. richard is covering this from northern syria. richard, you're on the phone with us now. just tell us what you have been seeing. >> chuck, things here are developing v

joining me for insight and analysis are, michael schmidt, correspondent for the "new york times," peggy noonan, democratic pollster cornell belcher, and ashley parker, white house reporter for "the washington post." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning we do have a lot to get to, including the growing support for impeachment and his personal reporter rudy guiliani being investigated for his lobbying work in ukraine. we are starting withreakg news from syria where turkey has unleashed a brutal assault on the kurds. that came after president trum essentially gave turkey the go ahead and nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is reporting on alleged atrocities by arab militias and these have been caught on camera richard is covering this from northern syria and, richard, you are on the phone with us now. just tell us what you have been seeing >> reporter: chuck, things here are developing very rapidly. u.s. officials are incre

with pier 70 and we were the first development entity and put a trailer on site and started in the noonan building and moved to our project. the idea is for the park at the time, they were developed, designed and it's really, really exciting to see there's a potential for the port to join a development partner or fundraising partner to raise the money to get the job complete. i know hearing from the committee and from our tenants and everyone else for crane cove park to come online and we want to share that. >> thank you. any other public comment regarding this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner g gillman. >> thank you for the presentation and i'm familiar with the work and i'm excited we're partnering with them to get the project over the hump and deliver as promised to this neighborhood. so thank you for the presentation. >> commissioner? >> thank you for the presentation, to questions. >> commissioner? >> thank you for the presentation, as well. i was involved with the park ace line'saligns alliance in 201 2012 and so i'my supportive because i think crane cove pa

. >> commissioner, tim noonan from "south china morning post" in hong kong.s you know, your regional office has been there almost 30 years and you have 60 employees, and the current culture of companies like -- >> nba commissioner adam silver speaking in tokyo about the controversy between the nba and china saying in a sense, they are not willing to compromise their values, they support freedom of expression of daryl morey, his freedom of speech has consequences that they are willing to accept, and silver saying it may not die down quickly, christine. >> there are those who call this an authoritarian straddle, one foot in the united states, american democratic values, and another in a big, lucrative market. look, china's coveted consumer market comes with big moral concessions for american companies. if history is a guide, companies make those concessions. the airline industry changed its dropdown menu so the taiwan flag or taiwan was not its own country because that angered the chinese. a taiwan emoji on a keyboard. tech companies are careful not to use thos

believe passionately in the unity of spain and that is a view that is held by 48 percent of cast noonan's according to the latest poll that was held in july and that's most of the 44 percent of capacity and who believe that independence is the way forward both sides are looking to that politicians for a way out of this crisis you know the castle and president came to or has also said to government to sit down and gauge and look find a way out of this crisis but so far the acting prime minister had a sentence has rejected those pulls the talks he says toure must 1st come out and condemn the violence that we mostly saw on friday when protesters were cutting police with rocks and stones and setting fire to bins throughout the city so it seems that spain finds itself at an impasse just as another general election approaches charlie and the inside story well what's led to the latest protest so the independence question has divided catalonia for decades many believe the region strong identity culture and economy are good reasons for political separation from spain other catalogs don't want chan

. ♪ >>> welcome back panelists here democratic pollster cornell belcher, peggy noonan, ashley barkerspondent for the "new york times," had that big scoop over the weekend on rudy guiliani welcome to all of you. before i get to turkey, specifically, peggy, jim mattis, what do you make of what he said and he didn't say and what he was trying to imply? >> oh, solid american opposed to what he thinks as a foreign policy blunder being made by tho what he thinks as a foreign cy d administration in northern syria. i think he was frank about one of his central concerns which is how the allies and friends of the united states view this decision to abandon people who have long been our friend what did he not say? i think it was pretty clear he did not want to get into his not experiences of and observations of the president he served as secretary of defense, one wonders if he will ever decide it would be a good time to speak in a very candid way or if he feels constrained perhaps by his position and the possibility of doing any damage i'm not sure how he's thinking >> a marine is a marine. i t

peggy noonan, "wall street journal" op-ed. it is assumed the house will impeach the president. how?e and not win in america. this cannot be one party doing its one-party thing. i think nancy pelosi knows that. we're left wondering what happens next with this. we'll hear more from the president in a second. to your point on that letter to pelosi, the president just said moments ago we will be issuing a letter. he says we've been treated unfairly. go over history and see how we've been treated. >> i think that nancy pelosi or at least prior to last week would have agreed with peggy noonan that this can't be a simple party line vote. one of the reasons she resisted efforts for, what, two years to try to impeach the president and move against him it can't be a purely partisan effort. there has to be some republican buy-in. at this point there is 1 1/2 republicans who have supported the idea of an inquiry. amash of michigan completely in favor of it. an inquiry. and another republican who is sort of supported the idea. but at this point the republican party has held but not holding a vot

>> you know, i was thinking of peggy noonan's article, her op-ed in the wall street journalist, whereows. and she was talking about politics, but i think the same could be say about wework. and everybody knows that wework is not truly a technology company. everybody knows that there's a disconnect, really, between the long-term leases that they sign and the short-term leases that they license out to their licensees. >> because we'd seen their debt prices already rise, quite significantly before this ipo was pulled so is that already priced into your market? or do you think there is a big shock to come from wework's travails >> i don't think there's a big shock at all in terms of new york, you know, new york, it seems, has never been more vibrant in terms of the types of tenants that are coming to new york so we're seeing a lot of technology tenants, financial tenants has always been the case, creative tenants so wework is just a small portion of this space. >> but you sound like you are skeptical of some of the other flex office space operators, and names like convene, no convene, ind

about the way they approach it. >> peggy noonan is exactly right. and i'm glad that some voices on the other side of the aisle are saying let's be transparent. why are we doing all this behind closed doors? frankly, that's not consistent with american tradition. it's not the way impeachments have been run in the past. so, why are we doing this? let's also not forget one basic fact. the speaker of the house of representatives is third in the order of succession. so she should follow the example of newt gingrich and karl albert during the nixon years and say my hands are off. this i entrust. this and she should have entrusted it to the house judiciary committee. everything that has been done this far is not consistent with our traditions and what's called in washington regular order. and that's bad. >> martha: so adam schiff, basically said this week that he has taken the special counsel role on himself, essentially. and he said there is very good reason for why they are doing this behind closed doors. because they believes that's the way it has to be