us s secretary of stae mike pompeii was in rome tuesday but was fully engaged in a political fight back home in a letter to congress pompeii hosted five state department officials scheduled to appear before committees in the impeachment inquiry this week would not show up. calling the requests from democrats in attempt to bully and intimidate them. the refusal comes amid reports that pompey was on the july twenty fifth call b between prpresident trump andnd ukrainin president below demersal lylynskey. which trump asks the lynskey to dig up dirt on his politicall opponent and front runner joe biden while withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid. democrats also want to hear from trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani who said tuesday that he hasn't decided if he'll comply. i don't know i'm i'm weighing the alternatives on. i don't like go through it all get all my evidence together i'll get my charts i don't know if they let me use video tapes and tape recordings all this nonsense about identifying the election. i gathered all this evidence before the mall or paroled end

s. section of state mike pompeii a both due to arrive in ankara. to meet with the turkish president recep tayyip erdogan with the goal of trying to secure a ceasefire deal overall civil jasper mortimer is in akron joins us now. i'm just what can you tell us abouot the situation in qabbani and how the news that. syrian troops have entered this town is significant. well thehe latet from thehe syrian observatory from human rights s which is a monitotoring group based in london. is that ththe syrian kurdh militiaia have allowed.. both goverernment forces and russian i into kobani so thisis brings thehe russianans up to oe turkisis walled u up for thehe t time sincece the s syrian civilr begannight yeaears a ago. now dorms p psident thehe other one said todayay he didn't mindd if the syrian governmenent army tok over man beat. which is aboutut thirty kilometers south of the turkish border because at least then man beats won't be under the control of terrorists which is his tererm foror the syrian kurdisish militia and i a assume that he will take mee or

secretary pompeiie: the vice president and i heard from christian leaders around the world who expresseduch of the same concern you just described. we think this reduction in violence this ceasefire, redeuces the risk of that, so we think this greatly contributes to protecting real jus minorities throughout syria and throughout the broader middle east as well. this all happens in the context of lots of religious challenges, lots of challenges with religious persecution in iraq and other places. we think this is an important contribution in that regard. the other thing that we talked about at some length, to the extent there are abuses that are identified, we'll ask each leader, certainly president erdogan and his team and other, investigate any allegations of abecause that have taken place. vice president pence: i may have an addendum to that. one thing i no ethis president and the american people are most proud of is the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars to help rebuild a christian -- to help rebuild christian, yazidi, and other religious communities after the violence in sy

archeologists in italy have unearthed a well preserved fresco depicting fighting gladiators in pompeiiwas unveiled today. it was found on a wall beneath the stairwell of what was probably a tavern frequented by gladiators that is the news update this hour guys, back to you. >> turns out we all love pompeii. >> absolutely. >> how can you ever get enough it's fascinating. >> they keep uncovering new treasures. >> it's wonderful. >> sue, thanks very much china's vice premier arriving at the white house as well with the rest of the trade delegation we showed you he will be meeting with president trump in a few minutes time the dow is still near session highs with gains of more than 400 points right now same for the s&p and nasdaq. all the major averages within about 2% of their all-time trading highs today. oil prices are also higher, but different story there. its claims from iran that one of its tankers was attacked by two missiles in the red sea. now from tehran with more. >> reporter: that's right. authorities here in iran are saying that their oil tanker was hit in the early hours thi

and sector state mike pompeii a well the us president donald trump announced on twitter just a shortle ago. the delegations efforts to persuade turkey to hold its offensive against the kurds in northern syria had succeeded. trump called and i quote great news and he thanke

secretary pompeii wrote on twitter, he will not tolerate such that fix. the european union is ready to consider a time limit on the contentious backstop for the irish border. a time limit, something the eu has long said was out of the question, would only be offered if the u.k. except in the backstop that would keep northern ireland in a customs union with the block. boris johnson was planning to reveal his own proposals for the issue this week. he says he will not accept the backstop. it's back to the bargaining table for the united states and north korea. diplomat says they will resume nuclear negotiations this weekend. pyongyang wants the u.s. to drop sanctions in exchange for partial disarmament. attorneys representing the family of a black man killed in his own apartment by a white dallas police officer called the guilty verdict in the case a huge victory. a texas jury convicted former police officer amber guyger in in killing of botham jean 2018. geithner was off duty but still in uniform when she shot the accountant. geithner testified she mistook

of the development sir regard and the state department i was seen at the secretary of state mike pompeii finally admit that he was actually on that call between donald trump and linger as a landscape. but it's a he also pushed back on and the subpoenas issued a bright house democrats towards documents regarding at that phone call and ukraine and- the fact that those at house of democrats called on as far. as the new state department officials and to have that positions in front of the house and committees. over the course of the next day a week or so he called and my company called those as something along the lines of bullying and it has to be said that. right as we speak probably. there is a meeeeting supposed to be going on as a meeting called by the inspector general of the state of department et he called that needing just yesterday ask my company was calling. the subpoenas of bullying and the inspecector general calling an urgent meeting to brief the senior officials of and the different house and committees to give them some documents regarding a ukraine and at that phone call it

with the state department and the mike pompeii and they have said at that if and the- these documents are not released and if. as the expects and they had expected right because as you said that the white house is said to send a letter saying that. it will not cooperate until there is a vote because it considers that it has noo obobligation. to give those documements o on less and theres a vote on that impeachment. and ends at the end of the house democrats a warning that if that was the strategy of the white house if the white house. even a claim to executive a privileged in order not to release those documents then they would see that. as obstruction of congress and that could lead to a potetential separate article of impeachment and now and the latest development. in and the request for documents is that now and the house democrats are asking the same. from the vice president mike pence they want all his documents because so far mike pence's at defense has been that he didn't know about that phone call between donald trump and working as a landscape. and add the house democrats and

and sector state mike pompeii a well the us president donald trump announced on twitter just a short while ago. the delegations efforts to persuade turkey to hold its offensive against the kurds in northern syria had succeeded. trump called and i quote great news and he thanked president i'd want since said that millions of lives will notot be savedd but until now the turkish president. and ignored international pressure to hold the offensive which monitors say already claimed the lives of dozens of civilians in which a displaced more than three hundred thousand people. over that part turkish officials say they had my quote. got exactly what they wanted out of the meeting. well speaking a short while ago president trump call thisis a great day for turkey ad a great day for the cuts. this is an amazing outcome this is an outcome. regardless of how the press would like to. dampen downwn this was something that they've been trying to get for ten years. you were lost millions and millions of lives they couldn't get it without a little rough love is i call that i just put out they needed

. >> it appears to be in response to a letter secretary pompeii your sent to congress.e thinks he has some kind of protective privilege blanket that he can draw down over all of the documents he is requesting. >> he has a duty to protect certain information out of the state department, classified information, and he's doing that. >> this is >>> we want to welcome our viewers all around the world and the united states. it is 6:00 here in new york and once again, a lot has happened overnight. >> get ready to say that the next few days. >> we've been saying that every day and it is warranted. today we begin with several big developments in the impeachment inquiry into president trump. here's what we've learned in just the last several hours. the state department's inspector general is asking for a, quote, urgent briefing today. one congressional aid says the report is highly unusual and cryptically worded. secretary of state mike pompeo is resists demands to turn over documents and make current and former state department officials available for question

pompeii 3, secretary poe said before the trump administration came into office, hey violated the new deal and continued to work on their nuclear pompeo. r. hook in your opinion was iran working on a nuclear weapons program during a period compliance with the jcpoa? was is the case that iran hiding under armed guard in a of house in the heart materials.lf a ton of >> was it out of compliance with jcpoa, in your opinion? ani think if iran is housing atomic archive and keeping it rom the international atomic energy association, that they are not in compliance. disagree with secretary mattis, secretary the rson and general, generals and the joint chiefs of not out of hey were compliance with the jcpoa? in this case, n under, i think a statute passed by congress, the president had o certify on a fairly regular basis whether iran was or wasn't in compliance of the deal. atomic overy of the rchive happened just a couple of months before the president left the deal. i think that was a factor. secretary gree with tillerson and secretary mattis? believe they were out of compliance is that what

secretary pompeii so said we don't want a confrontation.own the receipt rick of the first few years that china is a mortal threat to our country. if we get their signature on the agreement, then the enforcement mechanism begin to kick in or intellectual property theft. that's the good news. lou: there will be apparently an effort by the chinese. they waived the way to legitimately in their view take every american company's data, files, whatever maybe contained therein for themselves. this is outraid just. >> it is. the chinese have a full court press through our businessmen, our millionaires, media, some people inside the administration to cancel all the tariffs in december. that's what the chinese want. i think they are bluffing. their idea is we'll walk out of these trade talks if you don't take all of these tariffs off of us. lou: the louder they squeal, it's an interesting signal to try to interpret. i would like to get your view on something that seems to have escaped the chinese. they may push this president into do exactly the thing

when we look at him resign, the "washington post" says part of the reason was pompeii eo o's failure to appoint state department personnel. >> i think it probably could be and suggests there's a schism between the political appointees and the ditplomats over at a minimum support by the secretary and perhaps beyond that to the idea that there is dissatisfaction with how information is can coming out about the ukrain issue and whether things have been arope retly handled if you're a secretary. saying at some point i have to disassociate myself with it or the suggestion is i'm going along with it. >> and mckinley could now be called to testify. how do you see that playing out? >> and we have upcoming testimony from fiona hill who's the top white house advisor on russia. and this could start a process of more and more career officials testifying, questioning how all this happened unukrain. with were the experts sidelined and igernoed and if they're credible, how does that play with the american public when you have rudy giuliani with people who were if indicted. >> going back to the phon

on july 23, secretary pompeii the trumpsaid, before administration came into office, violated the nuclear deal, "continue to work on their nuclear program." mr. hook, in your opinion, was iran working on a nuclear weapons program during a period of compliance with the jcpoa? >> it is the case that iran was hiding under armed guard in a warehouse in the heart of teheran half a ton of materials. >> were they out of compliance with the jcpoa, in your opinion? >> i think if iran is housing an keeping itive and from the international atomic energy association that they are not in compliance. so you disagree with secretary mattis, secretary tillerson, and general -- the generals and the joint chiefs of staff that they were not out of compliance with the jcpoa? case,depends on, in this under, i think, a statute passed by congress, the president had to certify on a fairly regular basis whether i basis whether iran was or wasn't in compliance with the deal. the discovery of the atomic archive happened just a couple of months before the president left the deal. i think that was a factor. with you d

this is we are learning that pompeii was on that july 25 phone call with the ukrainian president. the call during which president trump asked for an investigation into a political opponent, namely joe biden. our nation's top diplomat ignored reporters questions today. >> mr. secretary, do you have comment on reports that you are on the july 25 call with president zelensky. >> shepard: listen to what he said we could go. >> "the wall street journal" is reporting president trump pressed the president of ukraine eight times to work with rudy giuliani to investigate joe biden's son. what do you know about those conversations? >> you just gave me a report about a whistle-blower complaint, none of which i have seen. see when he was on the call, as i reported for the house foreign affairs committee subpoenaed secretary pompeo last week for documents related to that exact call. the deadline for those documents to be turned over is friday. secretary pompeo has not yet indicated whether he will cooperate. meantime, the republican senator of iowa, chuck grassley, says the whistle-blower who

democrats accuse pompeii know of obstruction. >> these folks will testify secretary pompeo will fail in his efforts to intimidate them, and we'll know even more about something that we already know a lot about. >> reporter: that something, whether the state department directed trump attorney rudy giuliani to dig up dirt on joe biden in ukraine. the department's inspector general asked lawmakers for an urgent briefing today. giuliani is under subpoena to produce documents on his contacts in ukraine. he hired his own lawyer and told fox last night he may sue. >> the members of congress, individually, for violating constitutional rights, violating civil rights. we'll also sue them for trying to violate the attorney/client privilege. >> reporter: overnight, the president tweeted that the impeachment inquiry is a coup intended to take away the power of the people. we may hear more on this from president trump today. he's gotten unrelated news conference happening this afternoon. he has been very focused on identifying that whistle-blower, but that whistle-blower is protected by law. marcu

. >> president trump also ripping schiff for criticizing secretary of state mike pompeo because pompeii was on the call was latimer zalewski. democrats in congress calling him a fact witness in the very fact that pompeo, i don't want to say he's stonewalling but slow walking the idea to get people to congress for depositions. democrats are saying because he's a fact witness, anything he does to try to slow walk access to congress to members of the state department would be seen as obstruction of congress and in intimidating witnesses. the president saying to schiff, how can he criticize somebody like my pompeo, first of his class at west point. the president going so far as to say that adam schiff could not hold pompeo's blank-strap. >> dana: i'm going to try to figure out what that is during the commercial break. >> i don't think you have to try too hard. >> dana: the white house is no stranger to subpoenas from congress for documents or information or witness testimony. they haven't always complied. why would that be different this time? >> well, i don't think it will be different. th

pompeii arend headed to turkey today is the turkish offensive in a kurdish control areaeas of norerern syra continues. the ground offensive began after prpresident trump withdrdrew u.. trtroops stationed in the area, clearing the way for the assault. now pence and pompeo are hoping to meet with turkish p president to stopto persuauade him the military. thisis morning, erdogan declalad he wouldld probably nonot meet h the u.s. envoys will stop he is headed to russia to meet with russian president vladimir putin in the coming days. the committee to protect journalists reports a second reporter has died covering the conflict. the syrian kurdish reporter rasho that inein a convoy that also killed another seared reporter. humanitarian aid organizations, inclcluding doctorors without boborders, say they are being forced to suspspend their opererations in northern syria amidst the ongoing fighting, which has already force more than 100,0,000 people to flee te area, i including mohammed. >> we e are coming here but our families and relatives have not come yet and the conditions are very bad. s

but you know what, that is all in the past and we have to figure out what mike pence and pompeii were trying to do. >> harris: you know someone well, senator mitch mcconnell and you have a senator lindsey graham. yeah, you will have a bipartisan resolution on sanctions, but what else are these leaders looking to do at this point? it is hard, first of all, people have already been fighting. >> josh: totally. there is no good answers in this region but here is the thing we have to remember. the further and further we get from 9/11, the easier it is to forget these lessons. radical islamic terrorism has been that were with the united states since early 1980s. whether the ferric bombings, whether it was the northern african embassy bombings, the first bombing of the world trade center or 9/11 for heaven sakes. the only difference after 9/11 is we recognize the work back on them. so here we are 19, 18 years removed but we do need to remember engagement in that region is not in this war but prevented war and preventing war in america. >> harris: all right, real quickly, fox news, senator mc

i think it's very unlikely you would see him outside of the orbit of mike pompeii yoep. they are very, very close. kurt volker resigned on friday and that, i think, is the signal, i think you are hearing that on the hill, that he is going to testify and he will be open about this. >> does it say a lot about what mr. volker wants to do, if he could have hidden behind the pompeo statement today, couldn't he have? >> yes. but he's no longer there, it would have been harder for him to. foreign service officers are incredibly intestimony daimidat happened recently, let me just point this out quickly, this expansion of the email interrogation and inquiry has infuriated career diplomats and frightened them. if you are under the level as someone as esteemed as william burns, who was targeted by this, you are a career diplomat and you, if you get several of these letters or this letter in particular, you can never serve again and you could be fired. >> all right, pete, let me move to mr. barr. do you feel like justice has been totally honest in barr's involvement in this? >> well

he was serving as ambassador to brazil when pompeii over -- -- when pompeo recruited him.peo expected to issue a statement announcing the departure sometime today. we will look for that and continue to monitor the secretary of state's twitter feed. sayingarta texted us according to the president no one treats him or america fairly. it sounds like my five-year-old grandson. don saying that the crowd was bigger than all of cnn's viewership. independent line from maryland. good morning. caller: how are you doing? host: fine. go ahead. caller: when i watched donald trump, it is sad that the american people allowed someone to be in office, one who is acting like he is a little child of five years old. that seeksve someone advice of a foreign country, so that they can do harm to the american people during voting times, then you allow another when americahis has always been a country loving and kind and reaching out to other countries. you had this man up saying things that he is saying, it is a disgrace to america. it is appalling, and i cannot believe that people are agreeing w

pompeii 3, secretary poe said before the trump administration came into office, hey violated the newdeal and continued to work on their nuclear pompeo. r. hook in your opinion was iran working on a nuclear weapons program during a period compliance with the jcpoa? was is the case that iran hiding under armed guard in a of house in the heart materials.lf a ton of >> was it out of compliance with jcpoa, in your opinion? ani think if iran is housing atomic archive and keeping it rom the international atomic energy association, that they are not in compliance. disagree with secretary mattis, secretary the rson and general, generals and the joint chiefs of not out of hey were compliance with the jcpoa? in this case, n under, i think a statute passed by congress, the president had o certify on a fairly regular basis whether iran was or wasn't in compliance of the deal. atomic overy of the rchive happened just a couple of months before the president left the deal. i think that was a factor. secretary gree with tillerson and secretary mattis? believe they were out of compliance is that what

defiant secretary pompeii answering questions about the ukraine call blasting the house democrats for was on the phone call and we won't tolerate folks on capitol hill bullying intimidating state department employees. that is not acceptable. that is not something i will permit to happen. reporter: pompeo said in the context of that call policy with ukraine is consistent, seeking to take down the threat russia poses in ukraine. as the secretary is pushing back last 24 hours for subpoenas against five current and former state department employees. democrats keeping pressure on writing to deputy secretary john sullivan, that pompeo has conflict of interest. trying to cover up illicit activity saying that any effort to attempt to intimidate witnesses will be obstruction to the inquiry. president railing against inquiry, i'm coming to the conclusion what is taking place is not impeachment. it's a coup. that drew strong reaction from 2020 hopeful kamala harris, who tweeted directly at twitter ceo, hey, jack, time to do something about this. all eyes on the hill as the state department's ins