into another dive when the us president trump announced he's doubling metal tariffs on turkey robert pearson is the former u.s. ambassador to turkey from two thousand until two thousand and three i spoke to him a short time ago and began by asking how the trumpet ministrations tariff announcements will help secure the release of pastor andrew bronson. and i think that it arose because of the apparent and very clear fact that there was no credible evidence against mr bronson at all a congregation of twenty five people he's been there twenty years. they accused him of cooperating with. p k k on the one hand and on the other hand of cooperating with mr arrogance closest political ally for ten years mr glenn and so it just isn't credible and finally this triggered a reaction from senators in the american midwest and in the american south whose constituencies are faith based and they began to put pressure on this issue and so i think that. it's now been going on for two years there's a simple solution to this release mr bronson to go to the united states for medical care they don't have to drop t

oh well robert pearson i'd like to know if you think that the united states have been hijacking the issue but first you know the world unilateralist is something that president to one wrote in his opinion piece is something that other world leaders have complained about the current us administration is this something that is actually playing in favor of or do you as or do you think it's. old allies and friends around the world. i think that mr trump is a very aggressive president and he's taken very aggressive steps i don't think this problem is a global problem at all i think that this problem is bounded and i two or three things that are very important the united states has always condemn the p.k. k. and always work with turkey including intelligence cooperation against the p.k. k. the united states has never ever supported the p.k. k. when the when isis invaded syria it attacked the kurds the kurds did not attack isis and when the kurds asked for help turkey declined the us agreed to help and now isis has been largely defeated secondly this is actually about the relationship for years

reunited since the american side has been hijacking the issue unfortunately while robert pearson i'd like to know if you think that the united states have been hijacking the issue but first you know the world unilateralist is something that president erda one wrote in his opinion piece is something that other world leaders have complained about the current us administration is this something that is actually playing in favor of the us or do you think it's. old allies and friends around the world. i think that mr trump is a very aggressive president and he's taken very aggressive steps i don't think this problem is a global problem at all i think that this problem is bounded and i two or three things that are very important the united states has always condemned the p.k. k. and always work with turkey including intelligence cooperation against the p.k. k. the united states has never ever supported the p.k. k. when the when isis invaded syria it attacked the kurds the kurds did not attack isis and when the kurds asked for help turkey declined the us agreed to help and now isis has been

robert pearson i'd like to know if you think that the united states have been hijacking the issue but first you know the world unilateralist is something that president air to one wrote in his opinion piece something that other world leaders have complained about the current us administration is this something that is actually playing in favor of do you as or do you think it's in ating old allies and friends around the world. i think that mr trump is a very aggressive president and he's taken very aggressive steps i don't think this problem is a global problem at all i think that this problem is bounded and i two or three things that are very important the united states has always condemned the p.k. k. and always work with turkey including intelligence cooperation against the p.k. k. the united states has never ever supported the p.k. k. when the when isis invaded syria it attacked the kurds the kurds did not attack isis and when the kurds asked for help turkey declined the us agreed to help and now isis has been largely defeated secondly this is actually about the relationship for ye

economy system ok so let me bring you robert pearson as only jeanne was saying turkey has been a nato ally for six decades one gets a feeling that the world order as we have known it so far is shifting isn't there a risk by alan ating. key and president emerita one who is also a strong willed man that you will see turkey move more eastward still would russia china iran i mean for even a few days you will have a visit of the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov to ankara iran said that it will support you can help its neighbor as much as it can isn't that a risk for washington. there is a risk in international affairs in all relationships with countries and since the end of the cold war countries have begun to act more independently and turkey has been on an independent track now for at least a decade so there isn't anything new about the strategic orientation of turkey trying to find its own place in the world and separating itself a bit from the united states and from the european union as well but i think that the point that's really important to keep in mind here is there are two

partly to deal with a possible iranian threat so iranians are no friends of turkey ambassador robert pearson we thank you very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera thank you thank you thank you very much so with trades economic wars and sanctions in full swing it's a good time to remind you of our business show on al-jazeera counting the cost as a weekly look at the world's top business and economic stories you can watch it every friday twenty two thirty g.m.t. and you can we watch episodes on al-jazeera dot com you can also send in your comments and your questions to us here at the news grid to any one of our online platforms you can tweet us at a.j. english we're also on facebook at facebook dot com slash a.j. news grid and you can send us a whatsapp at plus one seven four five a triple one one four nine in just a reminder to always use the hash tag a.j. news grids now the saudi m.r.c. coalition says it will investigate an air strike in yemen that hit a bus full of school children killing at least fifty one people forty of them were children this father he was searching the wreckage for a

robert pearson, former ambassador to turkey, and gordon chang, columnist at the daily beast and author of "the coming collapse of china. doug, i want to start broadly and with you you were front and center during the european financial crisis when grease was causing all kinds of trouble we saw selling in european banks today because there is concern about their exposure to the turkish financial system and to turkish loans. should we be worried about a european financial crisis again? >> you know i think that's an exaggerated reaction i think there's a lot of things to worry about in turkey, and kwooi would be much more worried about turkish exposures. what's happened in the last week, two weeks, quite frankly for the last year is not going to inspire confidence. but does it warrant an actual set of risks that is translated into the european financial system writ large? look, i i think they highlighted there are some exposure risks. they're legit. they're not existential to the european banking system. there's no contagion risk emanating from europe. totally different apples and oranges

for the first time, lester pearson, canadian liberal party leader, won nobel peace prize on suess crisis, he would be elected prime minister of canada the following year. robert frost was there, he was 88, he was a magnet all evening for people. of course, frost was -- had become famous for his reciting of the gift outright poem in inago intraiciÓn -- inauguration and president kennedy would send him on a mission, cultural affairs mission to the soviet union. katherine anne porter was there, she had written one novel, she mostly wrote short stories but her one novel on that very day reached number one in "the new york times" best seller list. only nobel female was there, mary hemmingway, as mentioned in the introduction, she sat at president's kennedy table but she also got into an argument over cuba policy that hemmingway had lived in cuba for 20 years and had perspective on the day of pigs which is not shared by kennedy and also fidel castro. people enjoyed themselves that evening even those who would have ordinarily had been uncomfortable for one reason or another. pauling even though he was picketing enjoyed himself, he was a great dancer and he liked to

pearson was the canadian liberal party leader was fair. he had when the notebook grease prize for his work on the suez crisis and he would be elect the prime minister the following year. robert frost was there. of course frost had become famous for his reciting of the palm of the maturation in 1961 and president kennedy coming in now, a couple months was sent into russia onm a special missin to the soviet union. catherine porter was fair. one novel she had mostly wrote short stories, but are one on that very day reached number one in "the new york times" best seller list. mary hemingway as you mentioned in the introduction she sat at president kennedy's table, but she also plotted argument with him over the policy. hemingway had lived in cuba for 20 years and she had a particular perspective on the bay of pigs which isis not shard by president kennedy and also fidel castro. people enjoyed themselves thatle evening. even those who would ordinarily feel comfortable for one reason or another. minus pauling, he enjoyed himself and then play. he was a great dancer and he like the tango and when there was a wall in the evening when they were moving from one room to another, he and

pearson will reveal new information about amarosa in a moment. the charges and counter charges. >> three separate interviews including two tonight. amarosa has more tapes to release suggesting robert mueller's special counsel office has contacted her. >> i have plenty. >> reporter: anything mueller would like to see? >> if his office called again -- >> the investigation by mueller -- >> anything they want. >> you think he should be impeached? >> at this point yes. >> reporter: she continues contradictions in her book, she writes someone told her during a taping of the apprentice years ago donald trump used a racial slur, then she claimed she personally heard it, now she says he used the and word multiple times. >> it rolled off his mouth like when you first heard the access hollywood tape, you never imagined he talked that way, just rolled off of his tongue. >> donald trump denies making racist statements answers apprentice creator mark burnett says there are no racist tapes but newman has failed to provide evidence of her claims and yet she also made new allegations about john kelly firing her. here is general kelly and amarosa in the situation room. >> important to understand if