could be otherwise i think this is really for something russia house to i think explain a little bit more because i really. i don't know the details so i'm unable let me ask you a somewhat different but related question that you know that russia has often been critical of the previous u.n. special envoy stuff and the mystery it suggested that perhaps sometimes he was stonewalling the process or that he wasn't fully neutral. you worked with him closely you just said in this interview that you believe that the constitutional committee could have been created earlier is it least part of the freshest criticism is every staff and dennis justify is it fair i wouldn't personalize it i've worked with close to friend in the story quite closely. his heart was in the right place and i think mr lavrov will say that quite clearly they had a very good relationship and they understood at the end of the day the special envoy whether it's the mr or or anybody else working on other issues. has to operate within the parameters set by the security council and its men and particular the 5 permanent member

maybe because russia never expressed any concern in response to that white house announcement. they never seemed concerned at all that meeting might actually be off. in fact russia subsequently bragged as far as they were concerned the meeting was still on. telling reporters, quote, this meeting is being prepared. in other words, did the white house tell you the meeting was off? that's adorable. if we say putin is going to meet with trump, then putin is going to meet with trump. you're going to listen to those people? and sure enough the day after the white house officially announced that meeting would not happen, that it was canceled after which russia kind of c asserted yes it would happen, the following day russia formally announced the meeting between trump and putin at the g-20 was still on. and in fact when donald trump went to the g-20 meeting he did in fact meet with vladimir putin just like russia said he would. sure, the white house said he wouldn't take that meeting but russia said he would. and now as of today, as of this afternoon, now we actually know more of the

russia. >>> a former white house official expected to testify behind closed doors just hours from now, in the trump impeachment inquiry. >>> what the officer observed and why he did not announce police, will be addressed. >> ft. worth, texas, police speak after an officer shot a woman to death in her own home. >>> umpire core glazeer. >> this time is over. >>> the astros beat the yankees in game two. >> welcome to our viewers around the world and in the united states, this is "early start." >> it is columbus day and indigenous peoples day. 4:00 a.m. in new york. the remaining u.s. forces in northern syria, preparing to withdraw under new orders from champion. defense secretary mark esper says the president and his national security team are concerned american troops could get caught in the crossfire. >> what we're facing is, u.s. forces in a trap between a syrian russian army moving north, to take on the turkish army moving south. it puts us in a terrible position. and the protection and safety of our service members comes first to me. >> esper says with the president ordering u.s. forces to

it's almost like russia knew they were more in control of the situation than the white house might be because russia never expressed concern in response to the announcement. they never seemed concerned that meeting might be off. in fact russia subsequently bragged that as far as they were concerned the meeting was on. this meeting is being prepared. in other words, oh, did the white house tell you the meeting is off? that's adorable. if we say putin is going to meet with trump, then putin is going to meet with trump. you're going to listen to those people? hah. and sure enough, the day after the white house officially announced that that meeting would not happen, that it was cancelled, after which russia asserted oh yes that meeting is still on, it'll still happen, the following day russia formally announced that the meeting between trump and putin at the g20 was on. when donald trump went to the g20 meeting, he did in fact meet with vladimir putin just like russia said he would. sure, the white house said he wouldn't take that meeting but russia said he would and he did. good boy. an

russia being dropped. so this is something that the white house has been pushing for. obviously the way that president trump has been behaving toward ukraine means that any such settlement right now between ukraine and russia would be more on russia's terms than it otherwise would be, right? i mean, ukraine is in a newly weak position if they newly cannot count on u.s. military aid, if they newly cannot count on public shows of support like meetings at the white house, invitations to the white house. these are things trump has actively withheld from ukraine since he took office. ukraine is now further weakened by these allegations that the new ukrainian president is a supplicant to the united states, trying to get that support. that makes him look weak too. the united states has in multiple ways weakened ukraine, put them in a weakened negotiating position they used to be in vis-À-vis the united states, while russia has been increasing pressure on ukraine to come to the table right now and do a deal right now. well, today, the other big surprise news of the day, today t

catherine: a source familiar with the matter tells fox news former white house russia advisor told white host house investigators that she and others became so alarmed by rudy giuliani's efforts that they weren't toize to eisen berks rg. giuliani said of bolton, i'm disappointed in john. i received this evidence as part of my representation of the president. it is the origin of some of the false information against the president. house democrats scheduled a full week of impeachment depositions including george tent who is expected to address whether giuliani pushed for the removal of marie yovanovich. democratic chairman adam schiff questions heading into the closed door session. by changing the designation of the white house interviews to depositions. house democrats have more control over the public release of transcripts. >> they say an official impeachment investigation would give them the right to issue subpoenas and call witnesses, in fact, leveling the playing field. lou: today congressman mark meadows saying that based on the information that the committee has heard, the schiff c

congress returned from a break to hear president trump former add virz on russia testify in the house impeachment inquiry. hill is an intelligence officer. president trump's top adviser on russia and ukraine. she left her job before the july 25th phone call with ukraine president. which launched this. three house committees subpoenaed her. in which lawyer rudy giuliani sidestepped. >> they were working with official government policy. which was to oppose and root out corruption in ukraine. >> president trump kept up his attacks on social media. tweeting about biden's announcement he'll step down from the board of a chinese company. despite no evidence of wrong doing. >> thursday is the 30th an verse rift of the 1989 earthquake. october 17, 1989. you know exactly where you were when that quake hit. lt magnitude 6.9 killed 63 people. most victims from the day died after the upper deck at the freeway claptsed in oakland. others survived thanks to first responders and doctors. including an oakland surgeon. who saved a little boys life. >> doctor james has been a surgeon at the children's

mentioned, this is in the wake of the explosive testimony from fiona hill, the former top white house adviser on russia who said she was so disturbed by giuliani efforts in ukraine that she went to a top white house national security lawyer. it is explosive testimony that shows the president most senior foreign policy advisers were against what they felt was a rogue, drug deal-type operation in ukraine. that operation led by rudy giuliani. the president's personal lawyer. this according to multiple senior officials, the whistle-blower and hours of testimony from multiple witnesses in front of three house committees. fiona hill, the white house's former top expert on russia telling lawmakers monday that former national security adviser john bolton called giuliani a hand grenade who, according to a source, was going to blow everybody up. giuliani's operation bothered hill and bolton so much that bolton told her to speak with a white house lawyer. a source telling cnn she saw wrongdoing related to the ukrainian policy and reported it. >> the intelligence and oversight and foreign affairs committees are ga

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russia collusion, empty. the fbi investigation, nothing could house until investigation, no collisions. bipartisan senate investigation, 22 month mueller witch hunt, no collusion whatsoever. now we have this secret soviet style attempted impeachment coup that is just the latest, pathetic attempt by people that never accepted the results of the 2016 election and want to influence the next election. meanwhile, there is evidence of quid pro quo right in plain sight. it has nothing to do with president trump, everything to do was sleepy creepy crazy joe and his son. by the way, he's not a kid. he's 49 years old. 2015, 14, bite and put charge of the administration ukraine policy. his son hunter thereafter got a lucrative millions of dollars very small holdings contract to be on the board of this massive ukrainian oil energy company owned by a ukrainian oligarch. hunter was being paid millions of dollars paid no experience in ukraine create energy. oil. gas. none. three smell wasn't paying for his experience. now, can you imagine if it was vice president trump and hunter was don jr.? what you

hill was the senior advisor at the white house on russia and europe. e ukraine was part of her portfolio and left the white house before president trump's phone call this summer with a ukraine's president. there has been some criticism that so much of this probe has been done behind closed doors and today one member was actually kicked out. florida republicans matt gaetz. >> why is adam schiff trying to run a kangaroo fort? why is he continuing to limit access to evidence and even for members of congress. i'm deeply disappointed that as a member of the house judiciary commission, i'm unable to participate and listen to the questions and answers. >> so this is being handled by house intelligence, oversight and foreign affairs. gates is on the division series so he got booted from that. this goes to the broader point that the vast majority of lawmakers, republicans argue that they have no idea what's going on behind closed doors. >> and what more are you learning about the ambassador's testimony? >> gordon tomlin is expected here on capitol hill on thursd

interesting times ahead with the latest now from westminster jenna thank you the former white house russia adviser fiona hill has been testifying behind closed doors in congress as part of the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump she resigned days before the july phone conversation when trump asked the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son shepard hanson has more now from washington d.c. . unlike before bastardy ukraine's testimony on friday there was no opening statement for fear in the hills or nothing that could be leaked almost immediately to the press number less we have been receiving briefings from those around her about what she is saying and the key the key point is yes there was a shadow foreign policy operation underway at the at the control of rudy giuliani on behalf of donald trump but the next question is always right that's fine the president is allowed to conduct foreign policy in any way that he sees fit but was this on behalf of the united states' national interests or was it on behalf of donald trump's personal political interests and that

thursday, a top white house official, national security council, tim morrison is expected to testify. he is a top russia adviser, someone who has knowledge what about what happened to the ukrainian aid. he is going to back up bill taylor, who is the top diplomat for ukraine, who testified before the house committee and said clearly, he was told, that the president has withheld private information that could helple the president politically. he mentioned morrison's name many times. the democrats will finish out the impeachment probe. the republicans will push back. there's concerns by republicans on capitol hill. you can learn things in the first hand. that could be one area that the republicans decide to push back. we'll have to see what he decides to say. guys? >> manu, thanks. >>> democrats are discussing the scope and scale of articles of impeachment and more explosive testimony could be on the way. attorneys for national security adviser john bolton is working on a date for him to appear behind closed doors. all of the closed-door testimony is making republicans angry, even though it is not unusual.

among them fiona hill, the former white house russia advisor. she certainly has insight into what was going on with the ukraine policy over the last six months or so. george sekent is the deputy secretary of state. ulrich brechbuhl and gordon sondland. the state department blocked sondland and he is subpoenaed and he is prepared to appear on thursday. that's a busy roster. democrats are signaling it's just the beginning of their attempts to gain information about the president's dealings with ukraine. adam schiff, the house intelligence chairman, wrote a letter to lawmakers yesterday saying that more subpoenas were prepared to come. democrats are rushing forward with this impeachment inquiry, hoping, victor and christi, to get everything wrapped up by thanksgiving. >> we'll see what the start of the week brings. kevin, thank you. >>> margaret patis with us this morning. we just saw that full screen of the people who are going to be testifying this week or supposed to be in front of congress this week. which of these voices that you thinkes mo--

russia fully intends to meddle in next year's u.s. presidential election that was the tongue and cheek response about amir putin and answer to a question about moscow's plans for the upcoming race for the white house. russia. attempting to influence the 2020 lection states. secretly yes we will indeed do that so we could chew you up tripoli's but don't tell anybody ok well that's quite a statement coming from the russian president but you have to take it with a pinch of salt because he was obviously joking but on a more serious note he was addressing probably what might be come in russia did his area of volume 2 now after all the numerous investigations that we've seen into russia's alleged meddling in the us presidential elections back in 2016 all the media hype that we've seen in the past 2 years pretty much every single quarter someone screamed that it was russia that meddled in the u.s. presidential elections russian meddling in the u.s. election russia did meddle in the 2016 election for united states to still vulnerable to russian and political interference russia's blatant interference in the united states 2016 presidential elections this is actually the crime of the century. if you think a

congressional committee holding impeachment hearings into president trump on monday former white house russiaadviser fiona hill gave her testimony she resigned days before the july phone conversation when trump asked ukraine's president to investigate joe biden and his son jabatan she has more now from washington d.c. unlike before my ambassador to ukraine is testimony on friday there was no opening statement for fear in the hills or nothing that could be leaked almost immediately to the press number less we have been receiving briefings from those around her about what she is saying and the key the key point is yes there was a shadow foreign policy operation underway at the at the control of rudy giuliani on behalf of donald trump but the next question is always right that's fine the president is allowed to conduct foreign policy in any way that he sees fit but was this on behalf of the united states' national interests or was it on behalf of donald trump's personal political interests and that the suggestions we've been getting is yes fairly he'll say it was the latter this wasn't about u.s

a federal judge calling the house impeachment proceedings legal and ordering the justice department to hand over grand jury materials from robert mueller's russia investigation to the house judiciary committee by next week. previously redacted materials would be included. democrats have been investigating whether trump obstructed the long-running probe into russia's interference in the 2016 election. the president continues to rail against those charges. >> this is the worst hoax in the history of our country. >> reporter: and now attorney general william barr ordering the justice department to launch a criminal investigation into itself into how that investigation began. something barr has been skeptical of since he became attorney general. >> we should be worried about whether government officials abuse their power and put their thumb on the scale. >> reporter: the president has been calling for the investigation for months. >> it looks like it's becoming very serious from what i'm hearing. investigate the investigators. >> pierre thomas with us live outside the justice department tonight. pierre, democrats critical of attorney general willia

incursion, vital discussions about stability and dangerous opening provided to isis, iran and russia. the houseverwhelming approved the resolution criticizing the syria strategy, minority leader he like it is vice president and the secretary of state to brief. >> thank you, appreciate it. >> great reporting, mark, now we bring member of the house foreign affairs dean, good to see you. >> good to see you, leland. leland: lindsey graham seems to be willing to give this some time and on top of that he's been one of the president's outspoken critics on the issue, so you can see how things turn out in syria? >> i will use mitch mcconnell's words, it's a strategic nightmare, goes without saying, taking time is smart but driven by a strategy and absent that -- leland: the president seems to have a strategy but you don't agree with it? >> when it comes to foreign policy in this part of the world thoughtful strategy that's well executed and at this point i don't see evidence and grave concern and not just short-term instability in the region but the long-term, when you betray allies which we have been d

congressional committee holding impeachment hearings into president trump on monday former white house russia advise a few on the hill testified she resigned days before the july foreign conversation when trump asked ukraine's president to investigate joe biden and his son shihab rattansi has moved from washington d.c. . unlike before bastardy ukraine's testimony on friday there was no opening statement for fear in the hills or nothing that could be leaked almost immediately to the press nonetheless we have been receiving briefings from those around her about what she is saying and the key the key point is yes there was a shadow foreign policy operation underway at the at the control of rudy giuliani on behalf of donald trump but the next question is always right that's fine the president is allowed to conduct foreign policy in any way that he sees fit but was this on behalf of the united states' national interests or was it on behalf of all trumps personal political interests and that the suggestions we've been getting is yes furia will say it was the latter this wasn't about u.s. national s

of our putin an answer to a question about moscow's plans for the upcoming race for the white house. russia has robot. alleged attempting to influence the 2020 lections in the united states but you can go to some country that you secretly yes we will indeed do that so we could chew you all up properly but don't tell anybody ok. the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election wrapped up earlier this year with the former special counsel robert muller finding no collusion between donald trump's team and russia however he stated moscow did indeed meddle in the election although provided no evidence that. meanwhile an impeachment inquiry into donald trump is in full swing in the u.s. but it's actually turning out to be good news and not just for the democrats or bill all later in the program. people in the french city of iran are demanding the truth after a major fire at a nearby chemical factory they fear a cover up and dispute claims by authorities the air was safe to breathe for the difference has more. almost a week ago the chemical plant just across the water that was a blaze a

told russia about the raid but opted against briefing people like nancy pelosi the house because they were worried about leaks from pelosi but not russia. although when asked today by nbc news, the white house press operation couldn't identify a single instance of nancy pelosi leaking any national security secrets. kevin's still here and the table's still here. always, always, always a russia angle. >> i am reminded as he stumbled into this ridiculous accusation that nancy pelosi might leak this. who was it that actually leaks classified information to russia? it was president trump not nancy pelosi. you know, obviously it was the special forces operators who did the heavy lifting in this operation. the president's speech should've been a lay-up. it is such an easy thing to do. it ought to be such a unifying moment for the country for the president to come out and announce. he can thank our allies and praise the troops. and that's it. instead he turned this into this self-aggrandizing moment where he talked too much about the operation where he picked an unnecessary fight

russia, tim more o -- tim morrison. this comes on the eve of his scheduled testimony before the house committee. for the latest we turn to john roberts. reporter: a new development in the impeachment inquiry. tim morrison who is the top russia expert at the national security council will be leaving his position. sources tell fox news it's been expected for some time. but the timing is significant because morrison is scheduled to testify tomorrow. according to the ambassador, morrison believed military aid to ukraine was contingent on ukrainian officials opening an investigation into hunter and joe biden. president trump kept up his

given the president was not found by robert mueller to have been conspiring with russia, it thees the question why white house is still trying to undermine the separate finding that russia engaged in a sweeping systematic campaign to undermine the election. that concerned vladimir putin the russian government. >> who is responsible for that document? >> the inspector general has no idea where it came from. on its face, it says it's coming from the white house. it doesn't look like white house stationery. then there are trump hotel folders going into it. it has mysterious and uncertain provenance. >> the attorney general was covering his basis, not alleging any wrongdoing by anyone inside the state department? >> correct. the inspector general was saying we are sitting on this packet of disinformation that came from some uncertain place. this is my interpretation of it. by theay be misconduct secretary of state or other state department employees in disturbing this if they did know where it's coming from and they had an authentic source in the white house. maybe it did come from the white house. i think that's

fiona hill was a leading advisor to the white house on russia including europe, russia and also ukraineshe is expected to speak about her work there at the white house. she left her position this summer but is expected to answer questions in a private deposition with lawmakers and staff today. then on thursday the congressional committee involved in the impeachment probe will hear from gordon sondland. he made president trump's case. the chairman leading the probe says it may not be necessary to hear from the actual whistleblower, the person at the center of this controversy. >> well, our primary interest now is making sure that person is protected. indeed now there is more than one whistleblower that they are protected. and given that we already have the call record, we don't need the whistleblower who wasn't on the call. >> expect republican lawmakers to push back hard on that and also making the case and expressing concern about all these interviews happening behind closed doors. >> if adam schiff wants to have it behind closed doors my job is to pick the lock and open it up and say

. >> you mentioned iran and russia being empowered. house speaker nancy pelosi told trump in that contentious white house face-to-face all roads lead to putin. turkey and russia are meeting this week. what is likely to be forged or perhaps even solidified? >> more than anything else, what i think these countries want is greater influence and, you know, kind of unilateral ability to be involved and dominate the middle east. the biggest obstacle has been the united states. so by america withdrawing, what it means is it gives russia a free hand, it gives turkey a free hand, and many of these places have interests in the united states. the united states will have to get comfortable with the middle east. it looks a lot less amenable to the middle east, israel's security to stability of air flows and such. they have always been able to shape the geopolitical balance in the mideast to make sure those things have been taken care of. now we'll be a spectator. >> fareed zakaria, host of "fareed zakaria gps," thank you so much. >>> this breaking news o

is here with our report. >> a source familiar with the matter tells fox news that former white house russia advisor fiona hill told investigators that she and other white house officials grew so alarmed by rudy giuliani's efforts for a ukraine investigation that they went to national security lawyer john eisenberg. "the new york times" and associated press went for the reporting the national security advisor john bolton called giuliani a hand grenade that was going to blow everybody up. in a statement to fox, giuliani said to bolton i'm disappointed in john, i'm not sure he realizes i've received all of this evidence as part of my representation of the president. it was all part of suppression of evidence involving ukrainian collusion. giuliani also tells fox news he has no plans to comply with a congressional subpoena. with congress back in session, house democrats scheduled a full week of depositions, including senior official george can't you's expected to address whether giuliani pushed for the removal of the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. they plan to press kent on the biden corrup

candidate was actually being groomed by moscow she added to that russia has launched an online campaign to support a bid for the white house remarks came after russia came up in the latest democratic debate with certain rights topics now being branded as kremlin talking points as a prank or explains. what you're about to see probably means it's time for someone to go and we get pedia and come up with the page for one new yet already well established concept talking points that really came out of the kremlin from the talking point kremlin talking points of russia talking points kremlin talking points of kremlin's talking points of kremlin talking points is what i was talking about so why waste time on pronouncing the full 3 words if the kremlin talking points are really everywhere couldn't we just say katie p's that would probably save white house candidates a few seconds of their debating time anyway speaking of the democrat debates even saying something like this we have to let russia know look we get it we've tampered with the elections you've tempered with our elections and now it has to stop and if it does not stop we

vindman's account of the meeting matches the account from the white house russia expert fiona hill that testified two weeks ago. but vindman contradicts gordon sondland. we have a lot to dig into here. hans nichols at the white house, lieutenant colonel vindman is going to be witness number ten. >> stephanie, the 10th williams but the first current white house official to appear here. i'm trying to stone wall this entire probe. lieutenant colonel vindman. he is the first witness who listened to that call between the president of the united states and the president of ukraine on the 25th of july and he says in his opening statement that like any good military officer he followed the chain of command with his concerns and he raised concerns about the national security council. the current ambassador to the eu appear and they say that sandins to the ukraine. suggesting that this is not a one off from the president, this was a policy that he says ran count tore what the official u.s. policy was on ukraine and the third box he checks he says it was a risk to national security and that is why

sources telling shin when a top white house russia and europe adviser from the national security council before house impeachment investigators, he's going to corroborate key elements of william taylor's testimony. this could be the first such testimony from directly inside the west wing and could bring this all that much closer to the president himself. cnn's manu raju joins us with the late details. this is national security adviser matthew morrison. >> we expect tim morrison will cooperate and will appear before house investigators next week. he is asking for a subpoena. he will get a subpoena undoubtedly and he will testify. what we are told, our team is told from multiple sources that he is expected to corroborate a key elements of bill taylor's testimony from earlier this week when the top diplomat from ukraine had testified that the president had withheld vital military aid in exchange for pushing for an investigation or for the ukrainians to publicly announce an investigation into the bidens. morrison's name is important, because he is cited about 15 times throughout that opening

aid was tied to ukraine's cooperation with the probe into the origins of the 2016 fbi russia collusion case. house intelligence chairman adam schiff piled on. >> things just went from very bad too much worse. a phenomenal breach of the president's duty to defend our national security. >> as mulvaney spoke, gordon sondland gave a closed-door deposition on capitol hill. in his prepared testimony, sondland said the president was "skeptical that ukraine was serious about anticorruption reforms" adding "mr. trump told diplomats to work through rudy giuliani." sondland said the diplomatic team was disappointed, our view is that the men and women of the state department, not the president's personal lawyer should take responsibility for all aspects of u.s. foreign policy toward ukraine. >> you might not like the fact that giuliani was involved. it's not illegal, it's not impeachable, the president gets to use who he wants to use. >> sondland told investigators giuliani's focus where hunter biden sat on the board came into focus over time, saying "i did not understand until much later that mr. giuliani's