and trey there had the right sort of comments for the moment. probably the right comments for today. and as joe points out, trey gowdy's committee spent longer investigating benghazi than congress investigated 9/11. he got 100,000 documents -- he didn't get. the obama administration gave him 100,000 documents, 50 witnesses. they complied with, by my count, 102 requests for documents or subpoenas. complied with by the obama

former republican congressman trey gowdy now on team trump.osecutor will be working as counsel for the president. kaitlan is out front. kaitlan, tell me what you know. >> so basically, erin, what we're hearing from sources is that in recent days and weeks trump allies had reached out to trey gowdy asking him if he would be able to help the president with this impeachment fight and that is what brought him to the white house today where we are told by sources he had a meeting with the chief of staff mick mulvaney and what he'll be doing helping with the president -- helping the president with his impeachment strategy from the outside, serving as a general counsel role and the public aspects of this and this comes as you're seeing this fight inside the administration over how they're going proceed going forward with this impeachment defense strategy because initially we reported last week the president had been resistant to changes like that. not only setting up a war room, but also this idea of hiring additional lawyers. we are learning that tr

trey gowdy is not no congress. she a private lawyer practicing in south carolina, a state that has a 7% approval rating for donald trump. if you put yourself, trump is doing very well. if you are a private lawyer practicing in south carolina with the credentials he has, the white house says the president would like a fair defense, will you be a part of his legal team, there is no reason as a private lawyer you wouldn't defend the presidency. john adams defended the british red coats. if you believe that everybody deserves a fair defense. just try not to draw it out. >> okay. strategy. >> seriously, trey gowdy has good reason to defend the president to join the president's legal team as a private practicing lawyer in south carolina. who is familiar, who is -- do you believe that people are fought entitled to a fair defense, even the president of the united states? >> of course. he's going no get a lot of it. the problem is it's a hackish defense that doesn't represent any continuity between what they said now and li

they put trey on. i don't mean to tell you your job.ble to answer any of this? how is he going to be able to get past his long record of congressional oversight, which i think was very excessive, but it was complied with. how does he get past that? how does he ever talk about what he wants to talk about with trump? >> he's a very skilled litigator. >> he better be. >> so we may see those abilities on display shortly. paul, joe, thank you very much. >>> we have breaking news we're following very closely. there's been a shooting outside a synagogue. this, of course, on yom kippur. we'll have new details for you, next. ♪ the amount of student loan debt i have i'm embarrassed to even say i felt like i was going to spend my whole adult life paying this off thanks to sofi, i can see the light at the end of the tunnel as of 12pm today, i am debt free ♪ not owing anyone anything is the best feeling in the world, i cannot stop smiling about it ♪ we're oscar mayer deli fresh your very first sandwich,m... your mammoth masterpiece. and...whatever t

>> i think it will be really hard to say, you have trey gowdy being hired by this white house and itit inincreacreasin becoming something they have to deal with at a higher level. they were buying ads on facebook, making this all about caulking through to the american people. and he is someone that will have to reverse himself in a lot of this. they're saying we don't have to provide any documents or witnesses. and i know they said they wanted to be in this, but i pressed officials about whether or not they would comply once that house vote happens. he is no going to have to come up with a whole plan and strategy for whether or not the house votes or not. this is a house that does not want to provide any more information. and the president is increasingly paranoid when you think about how he does not trust a lot of the people around him. he wants to prove they were pressuring y pressuring ukraine. >> but then hold on one second, isn't it interested that the president would choose trey gowdy. he bowed out and said you know what? i'm going to step aside, i don't want to do this any mor

i do think that trey gowdy can expect a lot of those played back to him. if he is helping this legal team on a number of shows. i think one of the things that the trump folks have been trying to avoid is allies and surrogates who become their own distraction. i'm not sure trey gowdy gets them there. >> thank you very much for the inside scoop. >>> all right. there's important news in the democratic race for president. senator bernie sanders has announced he will scale back his campaign events after suffering a heart attack. what does that mean for his campaign and the future of the 2020 race? >> vo: my car is my after-work decompression zone. ♪ music >> vo: so when my windshield broke... i found the experts at safelite autoglass. they have exclusive technology and service i can trust. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ you wanna see something thatamazing?ing. go to hilton instead of a travel site and you'll experience a whole new range of emotions like... the relaxing feeling of knowing you're getting the best price. these'll work. the utte

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you mentioned trey gowdy.hing that comes to my mind is hillary clinton testifying for i think about 11 hours, although frankly the longer she sat in that witness chair, the more i think it was to her benefit. this is not going to be pleasant. this is going to be partisan warfare. >> republicans who are not condemning president trump on this, they are though avoiding talking about the substance of it. instead they're steering the conversation back toward the troops getting pulled out of syria. this is what they would rather engage on, even criticizing the president, than talking about this phone call with ukraine's president. what do you make of that, that they'll criticize him on this one front and not the other? >> the contrast could not be more stunning in terms of the willingness to say things about syria and what's going on relative to turkey as we speak and then the stone cold silence. i think frankly they have their fingers to the wind on the impeachment situation, are really not sure exactly how far it

former congressman and current fox news contributor trey gowdy.he white house expectedly as outside counsel. here to discuss, alice stewart and keith boykin. glad to have both of you here. alice, let me start with you because trey gowdy oversaw the house's multiple benghazi investigations, which we know lasted over 2 1/2 years and ended in no convictions. in fact, back in 2015, here's gowdy. >> our country is strong enough to handle the truth, and our fellow citizens expect us to pursue the truth wherever the facts take us. so this committee is going to do what we pledged to do and what should have been done frankly a long time ago, which is interview all relevant witnesses, examine all relevant evidence, and access all relevant documents. and we're going to pursue the truth in a manner worthy of the memory of the four people who lost their lives and worthy of the respect of our fellow citizens. >> so, alice, it's hard to hear that and say he's going to be the guy who helps the white house potentially stonewall congress? >> i expect him to come in

attorney, although he just said that trey gowdy can't begin until january. what's going on? >> reporter: that's right. well, we're still sorting through this and reporting it out, chuck. i do have a little bit more information. jay sekulow says the reason for that is because there's a one-year prohibition for congressmen interfacing with other members. his prohibition expires on january 3rd. the president said it a little bit differently. he said there are lobbying rules, which i think confused some people, but that's sort of the official statement that's being sent out by jay sekulow. the question, though, is how is he going to be helpful in the president's legal team if he can't start until january 3rd. because, presumably, the impeachment inquiry thereby well underway -- >> possibly over, if you believe some of the democrats. >> possibly over at that point in time. exactly. my question is, is he going to be in an advisory role until january 23rd? it speaks to the fact that they're bracing, chuck, potentially, for this to be drawn out, to extend beyond jan

chris: trey yingst reporting from the middle east. trey, thank you. joining us now here in studio, the vice president of the united states, mike pence. mr. vice president, thank you so much for coming in today to talk to us. >> thank you, chris. it's a great day for america. al-baghdadi, the most wanted man in the world, is dead. and it is a tribute to the courage of our armed forces and to the decisiveness of our commander or in chief, the president of the united states. chris: take us in -- i know you said you were in the situation room, the president said that for several hours. take us into the tichtion room. a -- the situation room. a couple of points. first of all, i remember when the u.s. took out bin laden, most accounts was there was only about a 50/50 likelihood that he was in that compound. what were the odds that, in fact, it was baghdadi on the ground, and what kind of, what intelligence did we have, how good was it, and take us through that time? you said it was several hours in the situation room. >> well, you heard the president this m

this is trey gowdy.hen the house was in the majority, he wanted documents from the attorney general eric holder and the obama administration was resisting that. trey gowdy taking a bold stand for the house. >> the notion that you can withhold information and documents from congress no matter whether you're the party in power or not in power is wrong. respect for the rule of law must mean something irrespective of the vicissitudes of political cycles. >> i agree. >> there's so many great clips. we've seen lindsey graham clips. >> pompeo as secretary of state, gowdy on the legal team. it's the benghazi team back together again. they of course argue there are nuances that make this very different. >> this is republican. there's the nuance. >> the one thing is that gowdy does know the house and he knows how to craft a legal argument that's compelling. he's not a slouch when it comes to what he does. he's a formidable guy to put on that team. >> he has access because of his member privileges. he's there as a

i think trey gowdy joining the president's team is a reminder of how closely the president watches foxthat his allies should come from this network. trey gowdy has not demonstrated anything that should suggest to the president that he would be the best person for this position. but he has demonstrated the thing that matters most to the president and that is loyalty. and that's what the president will lean on in this moment. >> performance and loyalty. eugene scott, thank you very much. we will see you again in mojz in just a bit. don't go too far, my friend. >>> new details in a deadly shooting at a german synagogue and what kept the gunman from carrying out a more massive attack. >> plus, more than half a millions in california are in the dark after officials there cut power to areas. why spheres of potential wildfires prompted the move. bill karins is back with another check on your forecast. the first look at "morning joe," is back in a moment. first look " is back ain moment. ok i'll admit. i didn't keep my place as clean as i would like 'cuz i'm way too busy. who's got the time to

. >> pamela, i know you have new reporting that trey gowdy is going to assist the counsel. >> it makespeachment process but illegitimate. they are bringing in outside counsel, including trey gowdy, the former republican congressman from south carolina. he was at the white house today and met with chief of staff mick mulvaney i and my colleague are told that he is expected to help president trump in a private capacity as counsel. he is expected to work with jay sec low other outside lawyers as well. if you look back what he said in the past it's interesting, because you'll recall in 2012 during the house oversight hearing with eric holder when doj didn't turn over documents, trey gowdy criticized doj saying they should hand over documents in the proceeding. here is what he said. >> the notion that you can withhold documents and information from congress no matter whether the party in power or not in power is wrong. respect for the rule of law must mean something, irrespective of the vicissitudes of political cycles. >> so now. >> wow. >> he is expectsed to help the white house and their

what i will say is i hope with tray gowdy, their new lawyer there, trey gowdy used to be on the oversight committee in congress. he has advocated for transparency in the past and has said congress is owed documents and witnesses. hopefully he'll be able to provide that advice and i think it's in the administration's interests to level with congress and get the facts out there. >> just this moment, two associates of rudy giuliani have been arrested to for campaign finance violations. these two men have been on the radar as manu is reporting of the house's impeachment investigation. now they are going to be before a federal judge in virginia today. what does that mean for you guys? >> it's very concerning. usually what happens when you have people arrested, prosecutors will tell you that they often talk. they want to get some leniency on their sentencing, so it will be interesting what they have to share. and what giuliani's involvement

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recruiting trey gowdy to help from the outside.gressman led the benghazi probe and once held this view on stonewalling. >> the notion that you can withhold information and documents from congress no matter whether you're the party in power or not in power is wrong. respect for the rule of law must mean something irrespective of the advice is tudes of political cycles. >> reporter: sources say the white house wants another voice in the impeachment battle a job left to his personal attorney rudy giuliani until now. >> i went back to read two books about that salem witch trials, they required witnesses to face the width and some witches were acquitted. >> the witches had it better in other words. >> they had more rights. >> reporter: cnn learned as early as last may trump directed rick perry and other top officials to deal with giuliani on ukraine and go around official channels. now, pam, the president was just speaking with reporters during an event here at the white house and during that time he predicted that this fight with democ

does trey gowdy pretend he never thought or said that? >> yeah.n expect. he will pretend he never thought or said that just like senator graham is pretending that he never said and thought the things that he clearly said. there's plenty of videotape evidence during the clinton impeachment where he vehemently argued that the obstruction of an by the white house, by the president was in and of itself grounds for impeachment. the other thing i would point out if we listen to graham's comments and they're not going to empeach, ask putting semantics aside. he's basically saying we're not willing to listen to the evidence. we're not willing to have a fair trial. what he ought to be saying to the speaker is madam speaker if you send us articles of impeachment, this is a very serious matter. we will do our best to put politics aside and listen to the evidence. i can't guarantee you that the votes to convict may be there. they may not be there, they may not be there, but we will listen and take it seriously. >> not at all what he's saying. >> thank you ver

arthel: russia has stood by assad the entire time, trey yngst thank you.ric: defending president trump's decision to pull those troops out of the northern region amid bipartisan outrage over that decision. says top priority is protecting our service members and u.s. forces will be trapped between the turkish army that's moving south and russian-backed fighters moving north. garrett tenney has more from washington. >> last night president trump ordered all u.s. troops to be removed from northern syria this after ordered u.s. forces to pull out of specific areas of the region which opened the door for turkish offensive without the protection of american troops u.s. officials say the kurdish fighters in the area are cutting a deal with the russian-backed syrian government forces to help push back turkey and prevent mass slaughter, on fox news sunday defense secretary mark defended president trump's decision. >> what we are facing u.s. forces trapped between a syrian russian army moving north to take on the turkish army moving south, puts us in a terrible posi

trey is a prosecutor and can get point. and elijah turned to him and said, not a government employee. family and she has children. ou can be a little softer next time. and that hit on his heart. a world todayr in hat when they look at us, they get this persona through cameras social media, but it doesn't show our character. there the only ones who get window into one another's character of how we act. ones who should share the message. was so strong in his beliefs, i am afraid some people what type won't know of character he actually had. as a member of congress and not as a political figure but as a person. because that's how i knew elijah. fighter. so many times in his life people old him no and he'd say, he could. a was a leader, but not in sense that america probably thinks as a member of congress. is entire life he wanted to overturn racial injustice. a member shared with me the him time he got to know was on a codel down in mexico. ost of the bus people were asleep because it's one of those long trips. himelijah sat a

trey yingst is reporting on the ground. trey? >> trace, good afternoon. new clashes erupted in northern syria hours after the cease fire went into effect. there's reports of new civilian casualties today. president trump said he spoke over the phone with turkish president erdogan that assured him in a pause in fighting despite the facts on if ground. the president fired off tweets this afternoon about the situation. many of them echoing talking points of the turkish government. in one tweet trump said somecountries will take back isis fighters. another he said defeat terrorism. the difference here is that erdogan was referring to u.s. allies, the kurds, over u.s. allies earlier this month. it's unclear who the president was referring to in that tweet, trace. >> trace: what about our allies in europe, trey? how are they responding to this? >> well, a lot of countries in europe under the president's decision to hand over the kurds and the isis fighters. with saw a statement released by the foreign affairs committees of the united kingdom and the european pa

the question is what trey is going to have to work with?legitimate points. the white house as he had not even taken out a vote of the entire house to start impeachment investigation. they are right about that, the constitution does not require that type of boat, but tradition does. it is going to undermine the house representatives a negative quite, because they have an immaculate impeachment. they went into a press conference and said ok, this is now an impeachment enquiry to stop they have a point there, but not one which would justify this obstruction. what about the point they have been making that democrats need to take a vote, that the house needs a takeover to? that is the issue of whether the house as a body should vote and i agree with them, they should vote. if you're going to proceed against a sitting president, the house as a body should speak to that. the white house is also making some good points in objecting to the due process problems here. the democrats have, in fact, denied procedural and substantive process. they insist

. >> pamela, i know you have some new reporting that former congressman trey gowdy is going to assisthe president as an outside counsel. >> it's really interesting, anderson, because in this letter the white house released, it makes the case that this isn't a formal impeachment process. it's illegitimate. but the white house is gearing up for an impeachment fight, bringing in outside counsel, including trey gowdy, the former republican congressman from south carolina. he was at the white house today and met with chief of staff mick mulvaney, and we're told he is expected to help president trump in a private capacity as counsel. he's expected to work with jay sekulow, other outside lawyers as well. but i you look back at what he has said in the past in similar situations, it's very interesting because you'll recall in 2012 during the house oversight hearing with eric holder when doj didn't turn over documents, trey gowdy criticized doj saying that they should hand over documents in that proceeding. here's what he said. >> the notion that you can withhold information and documents from

trey yingst picks up that part of the story from our jerusalem bureau. trey? good evening. many leaders around the world were waiting for president trump to address the nation this morning from washington about the death of isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi. we are getting reaction in israel, benjamin netanyahu congratulating president trump, calling this an incredible achievement for the president. also reaction from the french president, emmanuel macron, who said this was a major blow to daish, but he went on to say this is not the final step. also the iranians reacting, really downplaying the efforts of the americans. not unexpected, but they basically said you just killed your creature, referring to someone they believe was created by the united states. now, moving forward it's important to note this larger global perspective in the fight against isis. remember the u.s.-led coalition had more than ten countries operating in both iraq and syria with airstrikes and ground operations to try to rid this area of the islamic state. and baghdadi was a symbol for i

trey gowdy, you know, i barely know.relentless investigation of benghazi, which found, just like the previous investigations, that i did not to persimislead american people. i'm frankly surprised he would want to be a part of this. >> in your book "tough love," you recount how you went on the sunday shows including "meet the press" and, according to the cia-drafted guidance which was the administration's position, because there were covert secrets involved, and your testimony then blew up, but your mother pressed you, your late mother. >> before i went on the show. >> before you went on the shows, and you write about that. you say, she said, why do you have to go on the shows, where is hillary, the secretary of state, of course? she was unrelenting. i smell a rat. can't you get out of it? >> got to love your mother, i miss her mightily. she had an intuition that i didn't have. my mom was really smart. and in some ways rather prescient, not just about this but about a number of things. she had just come off her fourth or

trey gowdy. wouldn't he be able to argue, if you have nancy pelosi talking about not following procedure, that this is against the constitution, is he someone set up in a position to refute that with authority? >> absolutely, because he knows the process and procedures on the hill. you have precedent from previous impeachment of republican and democratic presidents that there would be a formal vote of an inquiry, number one. number two, what does that mean? give subpoena power to both sides. one reason nancy pelosi doesn't want to have this what you were talking about at the top is that all of the sudden, if the republicans the house have subpoena power, what are they going to do? this is not just going to be about diplomats and their text messages. it's going to be about hunter biden. would he be subpoenaed to testify? what did he know about what was going on in ukraine? will that give fodder for the president and his team, trey gowdy, and others to say, "i am on a second, when the president was

and they'll come up with this thing, the trey gowdy, and they just pushed that aside now with trey gowdyaying the secret hearings are the way to get good testimony. >> of course, during the russia investigation when republicans controlled the house intelligence committee they had dozens of depositions of jared kushner and others they did secretly and never had public hearings. at least the house intelligence committee now says we will get the public hearings. and the key thing here and it's coming from nancy pelosi, she has the kiss strategy, keep it simple stupid. she wants the impeachment case to be based just on what you said, chris. a very straightforward narrative. she doesn't want a lot of sideshows but what's happening and natasha knows this because she's been reporting on this, as the committees investigate and more and more witnesses and see more and more documents they're finding more and more wrongdoing and more and more investigative leads to follow. so they have to have the discipline per nancy pelosi to say we're not going to go down there, we don't want this to be as compl

trey yingst, where it is already sunday night, thank you, sir.ense secretary mark esper saying this morning on "fox news sunday" that president trump has authorized a, quote, deliberate withdrawal of u.s. forces from northern syria. garrett tenney with more on exactly what that might mean on the ground. hi, garrett. >> reporter: well, lee p land, this is a step beyond what the president already did when he ordered u.s. troops to pull out of specific areas in northern syria. now they are leaving the area altogether and heading to the southern part of the country as the turkish military moves in. and according to video that we're seeing today, slaughters the kurds who have been our staunchest allies in the region in the fight against isis. president trump has received a lot of criticism for his decision including members of his own party, but on fox news sunday, secretary esper tried to defend the move saying the u.s. was not going to get caught up in a fight between two of its allies. >> we didn't sign up to fight turkey, a longstanding nato ally,

trey gowdy, of course, went on to chair the benghazi committee. remember the multiple investigations that went into benghazi that ultimately turned up nothing. remember those? and the millions of dollars that were spent turned up nothing. and then there's another familiar face from those hearings. then-congressman mike pompeo, who sure had a lot of complaints about not getting documents from then-secretary of state hillary clinton. >> i will tell you the record we've received today does not reflect that. it simply doesn't. we've read the emails. we've read everything we could get our hands on. i will tell you, you just described all this information that you relied upon, and it doesn't comport with the record that this committee has been able to establish today. we don't know exactly who -- >> well, it would be helpful -- >> it would have been one of your state department employees, madam secretary. i don't know which one. perhaps you could enlighten us, or we could get the records we need to do so. >> where is that mike pompeo? hmm. but when it c

actually, i would echo what trey was saying.he and i, just thinking over the last couple of days, he and i were on a phone call last friday and asking ourselves, hey, have we made -- do we have the policy in place so that the folks that need to take action, you know, over the weekend or on a holiday, that they have the authorities, they have the policy, they have the guidance to do what they need to do. and it's making sure we've thought through those and that we, you know, i'm a policy wean any up in osd, but providing that frame and guidance to them so they can go off and do what they do best. >> coming down the line now. one last chance to talk to industry. top one, two, priorities, what do you think industry could do to help? start with carrie. >> helping us modernize our very manual labor intensive linear processes. and the more i see -- the more i uncover in this community, there are a lot of them that we've just fine-tuned and are bespoke that we need help on. so that. i'd say helping us evolve in areas like a.i., maven,

they're now saying trey gowdy's words should hold still.y gowdy said the rules should be followed and no exceptions made. democrats are pointing to those words and saying replicans should be listening to the words of trey gowdy. >> woodruff: yamiche, a completely separate thing happened today, two of president trump's attorney rudy giuliani, two of his associates were in court today accused of illegal campaign contributions. they are pleading not guilty. one of them spoke about having some of the evidence covered by executive privilege. that obviously refers to the president. what is the white house saying and how do iney see the significance of this? >> well, this could be really problematic for president trump, when you have an associate of rudy giuliani bringing up executive privilege as it relates to a campaign violation, campaign finance violation case here. the lawyer who was an associate of rudy giuliani said his client never actually worked for president trump but that he worked for rudy giuliani and did actually employ him at times

actually, trey reference this. fighters in syria plus 11,000 soldiers fighting against isis. if there is a civilian bloodbath, if there is a bloodbath with the kurds, and what does this mean also for a resurgence of isis? >> marie: there is a reason, dagen, that over the past few days you've seen republicans and democrats almost across the board criticizing this. everyone from mitch mcconnell to nancy pelosi. people who agree on nothing else agree this is a very bad move, to abandon our kurdish allies. i think we should have a serious conversation about what the right footprint should be in syria. how long should he be there? how long should we be supporting people like our kurdish allies who fought alongside us, it took so many casualties, as you mentioned, against isis? that's a conversation we should be having. the way to make the decision is not calling the president of turkey, who has for decades had so much animosity toward the kurds, has wanted to move against the kurds, to collect the president of turkey an

trey gowdy, who was a member of this body. let me ask the gentleman, mr. speaker, does he believe it appropriate that the congress help ties $391 million to i ally confront russia, which understand mr. putin probably wasn't for, does he believe that the president should have withheld that money from ukraine to defend itself on its eastern front? mr. scalise: would the gentleman yield. as we have this conversation, the law requires the president to verify that there is not corruption involved with the taxpayer money that's in question. that's a law we passed. i believe the gentleman from maryland voted as i did, voted for that law. it's a good law. if we are going to send taxpayer money to a foreign country, we ought to make sure there are no corruption. a lot of the interference in our election by the russians went through ukraine in 2016. president trump wasn't the president back then when this country was allowing, but he is looking into it as he should be. mr. hoyer: that is a bald-faced assertion that he has no way to back it up. it is not true and no

. >> a former fox news contributor former congressman trey gowdy is helping the president's legal team going forward. he's also the head of the benghazi select committee and also a former federal prosecutor who will help the president fight impeachment. >> unfortunately i think they made a decision before they even looked at the evidence because there is no evidence to support this. whether they do the formal inquiry and start the process the way they are supposed to, i don't know. they continue to make the rules of as i go along. >> a presidential candidate and member of the senate intelligence committee said the intelligence must be held accountable. >> he remembered the day he walked into the white house, he is above the law. he's going to slow us down that he's going to delay us but in the end he won't stop us from doing the people's business he here. >> it's not entirely clear how much they will get done. >> mike emanuel live on capitol hill. right now the justice department announcing the arrest of a defense intelligence agency employee accused of leaking classified information.

trey yingst reporting live from our middle east newsroom. trey? >> shep, these iranian linked hackers attacked 241 microsoft accounts. they were successful four occasions to gaining access to information. but no presidential candidate was affected, although the attempts were made. here's what we know so far. between august and september of this year, a hacking group linked to iran targeted government officials, media figures and one candidate. microsoft's vice president for security said the hackers used password reset and account recovery features to breach the normal security features. according to microsoft, the owners of the accounts that were hacked have been notified. for the presidential campaigns, the dnc sent out a notice warning candidates of possible cyber attacks by the iranians. you saw the iranians shoot down a drone and attack tankers. what the iranians attempted to do here according to reports was to infiltrate a u.s. presidential campaign, this is significant because you look at the larger picture and the broader efforts by the ru

trey yngst with all details.ch of what is happening we can't show you, the images are too graphic but there's evidence today of war crimes being committed, civilians being targeted and isis prisoners escaping, all of this after the trump administration made a decision to withdraw a group of american forces meant to deter such an invasion from occurring, today the u.s. secretary of defense marked full u.s. withdrawal from northern syria is underway. >> last night he directed that we begin a withdrawal of u.s. forces from northern part of syria. chris: how many people are we talking about and how quickly are they going to move out? >> less than a thousand, i can't give you a timeline because it changes hourly. >> president trump tweeted multiple times about the situation, he's dealing with congress about imposing sanctions on turkey, turkish president erdoga information claims that more than 20 kurdish villages have been taken over by his forces, as turkish air strikes consider to come -- bombard kurdish towns. syr

to trey gowdy who at one point was going to run the president's impeachment defense. what trey gowdy says about the utility of holding these closed door depositions. >> i could just tell you that of the 50-some-odd interviews we have done thus far, the vast majority of them have been private and you don't see the bickering among the members of congress in private interviews. the private ones always produce better results. >> so there you go. joe, let's move on then to the actual substance of this and how it will be laid out. it is interesting, "the post" reports, this will be in front of the public in weeks. what do you think the strategy will be to bring this to the american people? >> i agree with trey gowdy and i can't believe i just said that. but there you go, it's early. i think what the democrats knead to figure out is how to present this very simply. and it's, you know, the old joe friday. just the facts, ma'am. and they have to decide who are the best witnesses to bring this forward and they have to keep in mind that the republicans will try to make this a ci

. >> brennan: we go now to former republican congressman trey gowdy, he used to lead the main investigative committee in the house of representatives, and he joins us this morning from greenville, south carolina. good to have you back on "face the nation." >> yes, ma'am. thank you. >> brennan: you told me earlier that you had agreed to work for the white house earlier this month as outside counsel to the president on the impeachment proceeding, but you didn't, and that's because, as you describe it, a restriction on former members of congress in firms of communicating with an intent to influence for about a year after leaving office. >> yes, ma'am. >> brennan: so when that year ends, will you be joining the white house fight? >> i have no idea. i don't represent the president as of today. i don't know what if anything will exist in january. it may be over. my sense is the president needs folks that can represent him now, before the house, the senate, and indirectly through television shows and print media, but one year, i can't talk to the house or senate, and my reading of that statute, an

and i'm going deliver it from one trey gowdy who ran the benghazi hearings. here was his rationale three years ago. >> i could just tell you that of the 50-some-odd interviews we have done thus far, the vast majority of them have been private and you don't see the bickering among the members of congress in private interviews. the private ones always produce better results. >> the private ones always produce better results because they're not a spectacle. >> that may be, but i don't buy that you can hold weeks and weeks of private hearings. especially when immediately afterwards, members of the committee come out and focus on or distort the message that was inside. and i just think let people see it themselves. >> your wish is their command. they're about to do that. as john just reported, by mid-november, there are going to be public hearings. so it's a very axccelerated -- >> because i get results. i said it yesterday and then it happened. >> don't put me in the middle of your fight, by the way. if you got a beef with toobin, you just handle it. leave me out

trump: trey gowdy is a terrific guy. 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 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 si

hi, trey.hat is right, turkish president erdogan saying his forces will soon launch an air and ground operation in northern syria as turkish military personnel and equipment was spotted over the weekend along the syrian border. there are u.s. backed curish forces near the turkish border. they said any unprovoked attack by turkey could lead an all-out war. kurds helped united states fight isis but still remains tense relations with turkey. turkey and the united states agreed to create a safe zone for millions in northern syria. millions displaced following the defeat of isis and the ongoing syrian civil war it appeared to be a positive sign for the warring region. turkey and the united states started working on the project carrying out six air missions and three land patrols, ankara says washington is taking too long. the situation is difficult because the kurdish forces that turkey plans to launch the assault is backing united states. they are fighting the kurds with american weapons as the uni

part of that story from the middle east newsroom trey ying trey yingst. >> 16 fighter jets, pound villages in northern syria. the turkish military begins its operation against kurdish forces. turkish tanks and artillery units gathered at the border between turkey and syria awaiting orders to invade. the action, deemed operation piece spring pipe turkish president tayyip erdogan hitting 30 miles into syria. >> the other commander, to break down the core door. we are determined our combat is not against civilians. no steps will be taken against civilians. >> is hearing democratic forces have multiple casualties just hours after the operation got underway. two days ago, these kurdish forces stood shoulder to shoulder with u.s. troops after president trump decided to pull out u.s. soldiers meant to prevent kurdish attack in the kurds left alone to protect families and territory. it is the latest stepped in a complicated relationship between the u.s. and the kurds. one that includes alliances of necessity and the consequences of political realities dating back to the end of world war i. the new

theer: trey gowdy said this other day, you need to have it closed initially to get the facts.his is a fact-finding mission .nd then you go to trial all i have to do is sit here and listen to the people that support trump and you want to know why this country is in trouble. we are in trouble. host: michelle from michigan, on the republican line. caller: how are you? host: i am well, how about yourself? caller: i could not be better other than the facts of these attempts to impeach the president. by theduly elected majority of the people. that frankly, i cannot see there are any of these items listed that he has actually done other than the fact that he did check on the biden situation in ukraine which was right in the long run because of all the money his son has been receiving not only from ukraine, but other foreign countries as well. the people who, heard testimony from the nfc --icial and heard the call he expressed concerns about the call itself. caller: they don't like the fact that he is not a politician. politiciansaren't expressed themselves more straightforward rather