the twilight zone. >> trevor: i've been particularly interested about what's happening in the trump white house of whistleblowers, but the leaks. some people say the leaks are holding trump back from being a president, because a white house cannot function effectively if you're leaking every step of what is happening along the way. do you think the leaks are a good thing? do you think they're a bad thing? do you think people should have blind loyalty? how do you think it should work when you're working with a president in the white house? >> well, first of all, if you talk to journalists-- and i have a number of friends who cover the white house-- they'll tell you that trump is the leaker in chief. he's the one putting out a lot of this stuff. but what's also so depressing about the trump white house as somebody who's worked in the white house. these are hard jobs. and, yet, everybody there is stabbing everybody else in the back. nobody can trust the guy in the office or the woman down the hall not to be screwing them to the press. and that-- there's this sort of sense of, you know, everybody t

. >>> trade talks obviously set to resume in washington this week the trump white house widening the trade blacklist, 20 entities including china startups added to the list which restricts organizations doing business with american firms.

support and public shows of support, things like meetings with the white house, invitations to the white house. these are things the trump white house has actively withheld from ukraine repeatedly since trump took office. but ukraine is further weakened by these now public indications that their new ukrainian president is a sort of is up plikant to the president of the united states and trying to get that support. that makes him look weak too. so the united states in multiple ways has weakened ukraine, put them in a weaker negotiating position than they used to be in vis-a-vis the united states. while russia has been putting increasing pressure on ukraine to come to the table right now to do a deal right now. well, today, the other big surprise news of the day, today the ukrainian government took a major step toward doing a deal with moscow, to settle the war that started when russia invaded their country. ukraine today signed accords that will allow the russian-occupied areas in eastern ukraine to hold elections and potentially be granted a special status so that they're different from the rest of ukraine and presumably

president trump's white house up subpoena. house democrats issuing a subpoena to the white house moments ago. this is part of the impeachment inquiry. they say they're left with, quote, no choice after the white house refused to hand over documents related to trump and ukraine. this as congress this hour has obtained now documents in the whistle-blower complaint against president trump. the intelligence community inspector general deemed it both urgent and credible today, spent nearly seven hours behind closed doors on capitol hill. he gave documents showing how he worked to corroborate the whistle-blower complaint which, of course, alleges trump tried to get ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden while he held up aid to the country. the story is moving at this hour. the big question now will trump order his team to defy a subpoena? because the president himself is defiant saying that all of this had nothing to do with joe biden. >> i don't care about biden's campaign, but i do care about corruption. his campaign, that's up to him

you might remember earlier this month the white house said officially in writing that the trump white house refuses to recognize the legitimacy of impeachment. as "the new york times" succinctly put it in their headline the day the white house tried to pull this off -- "white house declares war on impeachment." i mean, the basis of this claim from the trump white house was the sort of astonishing letter signed by the white house counsel, pat cipollone -- a letter to congress telling congress that the entire ad strar administration, the executive branch, would be carrying on as if impeachment wasn't happening. they would not be responding to any document requests. they would not be allowing any witness from any part of the administration to come forward and cooperate with the impeachment inquiry because the impeachment is illegal. it's unconstitutional or illegal or very bad or something. i mean, the letter was nutball. it started off -- "i write on behalf of president donald j. trump in response to your numerous legally unsupported demands made as part of what you have labeled, contra

trump attacked lieutenant colonel alexander vindman this morning just as he was beginning his testimony to the house impeachment investigation. donald trump launched the attack against the decorated combat veteran who works in the trump whiteonal security council the same way donald trump launches most of his attacks, on twitter. donald trump tweeted supposedly to the corrupt media today's never-trumper witness, was he on the same call i was, can't be possible. please ask him to read the transcript of the call which colonel vindman did read the transcript of the call. and he testified today under oath that the transcript is wrong, the transcript is inaccurate. colonel vindman testified that more of donald trump's incriminating language about joe biden was eliminated from that transcript. and donald trump's attack on colonel vindman and the completely predictable fox news attacks on colonel vindman, even some republicans after that had to step forward and say enough, stop attacking the colonel. many republicans in the house and senate know how damaging donald trump is not just to republican hopes of holding onto the white house but to any hopes the republicans have in the house and senate elections. axios is reporting tonig

this is the trump white house. would you be interested to know how long he keep this is job and so he could have bullet points and pictures to explain it and we'll be furious. the phone call summary established a quid pro quo and we're back filling and making clear how it worked out and what amount of money was at stake, who said what where but it is clear from the beginning that this is impeachment offense and there was a quid pro quo and even without a quid pro quo asking someone to investigate your political rival is outrageous. >> i want to put this in context. to the average american voter out there thinking if this is not impeachable or if this is accepted, let's put it that way, what does the united states look like in a future where it is okay for the president, or the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee or the chairman of the senate foreign policy to push foreign governments to do things like that. what does that look like. >> in the last few days silicon valley said we're seeing iranian and ru

white house would like cuccinelli in that post. he's a hard-line immigration activist, policymaker, just like the trump administration. we've learned that the white house has been advised that cuccinelli actually wouldn't be eligible for this acting dhs secretary post, because it doesn't fall in line with the federal vacancies act and we've found out the white house found a loophole allowing him to be named something else first and then slide into this role. so that potentially is why democrats particularly the congresswoman there might be taking particular aim at cuccinelli. of course, cuccinelli is this hard-line immigration policy person that falls in line with the president, of course, and we've seen the administration make it harder for asylum claims. in fact, just yesterday we saw something that really falls in line with the trump administration wanting to limit the refugees who come here to this country. we've learned that we're on track this october, this month, not to admit any refugees and the state department hasn't admitted any in the month of october and of course president trump has wanted to limit the re

. >>> 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 pull o

materials to congress including at least some version of the fbi with don mcgahn, the former white house counsel. the trump white house tried to block that from happening from the very beginning. they continue to try to block all witnesses from testifying in all congressional investigations including the impeachment proceedings. we're now learning they may be trying to block the woman you see on the right side of your screen here, the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. she was expected to give a deposition to the impeachment committees on friday morning. our suggestions now that the white house is going to try to block her from making that appearance. the white house refusing to hand over documents, refusing to acknowledge or respond to subpoenas that and refusing to allow witnesses to testify and the white house making weird assertions of privilege that don't exist in the law is a point of contention between the white house and congress all along. but in light of this impeachment inquiry, it will be much more than that. the house of representatives now appears to be moving quickly towards drawing up the d

white house. this is an odd strategy. it's all odd strategy. this is the trump white house asserting the impeachment inquiry doesn't exist. it's illegal and unconstitutional, so we're not going to allow you to use the word. it's one thing for the white house to assert that. it's another thing for the white house counsel to assert that. but now we are seeing that crazy argument cited in writing as the basis for other government agencies telling their own officials that they shouldn't show up and testify because the white house says the impeachment isn't real. it's a little bit nuts. i should say, federal agencies have not had great luck in trying to stop their officials from testifying to the impeachment proceedings. we've already seen eight witnesses that we know of show up to give depositions or transcribe testimony including a bunch of current administration officials who went and gave that testimony despite the stern letters from the white house saying, no, we said this doesn't exist. but here's the other part of this. the justice department, led by bill barr

she didn't necessarily leave on the best of terms with the trump white house and i don't like to use the short-hand terms but considered a russia hawk in trump world, that means you disagree with donald trump on just about everything involving russia. >> and, you know, the relationship of her sort of per view under the trump administration and what's happened with this ukraine proceeding, an interesting ask to ask the russia advisor to come in and talk about this ukraine scandal. i would love to hear what she has to say about this. i don't know what sort of leverage that will have to block her but we'll see. >> legally, they don't have any but we'll see what they do. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thanks, rachel. >>> donald trump has crossed a line in polling that no president running for reelection has ever crossed. no president running for reelection has ever had a majority of the american people say in a poll that that president should be impeached and removed from office. donald trump achieved that today in a stunning new fox news poll which shows that 51% of registered voters now believ

trump said it was time that someone else fight over this blood stained sand white house correspondent complete health that reports he promised a withdrawal but on wednesday u.s. president donald trump announced that some american troops will remain in syria trump says a u.s. brokered cease fire between turkey and kurdish fighters known as the s.d.f. was a success as a result u.s. sanctions opposed on turkey earlier this month are no war so the sanctions will be lifted or less something happens that we're not happy with. trump left open the possibility there could still be new sanctions and tariffs on steel exports from turkey to the united states the invitation for president recha tie of error to one to visit the white house next month is also still on for now trump says it may happen in the meantime he says america's work in syria is mostly done we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out let someone else fight over this long blood stayed and sand truck fired back at critics abroad pushing them to pick up where america has le

trump and president putin. here is another important thing. by all accounts hill was not the most natural fit at the white house. e particularly well around him famously firing rex tillerson on the phone and obviously famously trashing former national security advisor john bolton on the way out who knows his relationship with fiona hill. there are a lot of people on the outside of the white house who know things. if i'm the democrat, the people i'm looking to talk to are the people that have left and who might feel compelled to come forward and have for pre free co -- more freedom to share information and careered foreign service people that know they want to be there after the trump administration. don't want to g the ship. we've seen in this extraordinary letter yesterday them trying to stonewall the whole inquiry. there are pockets of people that democrats can get to, like fiona hill. >> what might fiona hill know about what donald trump has said to vladimir putin about syria and how that might be relevant to where we are tonight. >> she might know -- of course, even fiona doesn't know a lot. she wasn't in hel

house democrats are answering trump's rage by the threat of a white house subpoena if they don't comply by tomorrow. house democrats eager to begin depositions as president trump appears increasingly furious over their impeachment inquiry. in just hours, kurt volker special envoy to ukraine will be deposed ed about the whistle-br complaint. >> i hope that he will be truthful and i hope that he will give those questioners and investigators the tools that they need to get to the bottom of this pressing matter. >> reporter: intelligence community inspector general michael atkinson will appear at a closed door meeting tomorrow. which was also the democrat given to the white house. >> we're not from around here though. we don't want this to drag on months and months a and months which appears to be the administration's strategy. >> reporter: it comes after the state department inspector general gave dozens of pages of documents that make the same unproven claims about the bidens that trump allies were making. >> it's essentially a packet of propaganda and disinformation spreading conspiracy

statements written by the least competent white house staff in white house history, the number of written mistakes by donald trump and the people working for him in the white house is now something close to the number of stars in the sky and in a trip call presidency, you can spend a year looking for a typo in an official white house document and not find one. these mistakes mean a lot from donald trump and the people working for him. they just don't care about details. they don't know how to care about details. and that explains his constant refusal to care about details. he doesn't know how. explains everything about donald trump's presidency, from his deadly decision about the kurds in syria, to his alleged criminal conduct described in the mueller report and revealed in his own words in his phone call with the president of ukraine. he does not know how to care about details. and so we'll take some time at the end of the hour tonight to consider in all seriousness the clear and present danger of having a president of the united states who might or might not have thought for a few hours yesterday before the whi

governing everything the white house is doing these days so eventually they'll have to come in and speak to congress. >> jennifer rodgers, thank you very much for that. >>> and president trumped out at the white house to sign a trade agreement with japan. we're watching all of this to see if he answers questions from reporters. so keep an eye on that. i'm brooke baldwin, thank you for being with me. in the meantime, let's throw it to washington. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> president trump changes the focus from ukraine by abandoning u.s. allies in syria. "the lead" starts right now. breaking today, the impeachment investigation expanding, the new subpoenas targeting the pentagon as house democrats try to get the full story on president trump leaning on ukraine for election help. the sounds of silence. why so many republicans are refusing to step up and say that the president is asking foreign powers to investigate his domestic political opponents is just wrong. but the president's biggest defender in the senate is slamming his decision today to pull troops out of northern syria. top republicans now fearing the move is going to leave allies to die and i

white house and the impeachment inquiry. the ukraine scandal now engulfing the trump white house and it's moving rapidly on multiple fronts. re are the latest developments. house democrats have subpoenaed the white house to turn over documents and other records related to ukraine, after the administration ignored a request to do so voluntarily. >> and the vice president of the united states, mike pence, he's in the mix now. his meetings in poland with ukraine's new leader have prompted a request for documents. >> u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo missed a friday deadline to provide lawmakers with ukraine documents and records. the house foreign affairs committee says it is hopeful that information will be handed over soon. >> and then there's this from the "the new york times." the "times" reporting a second possible whistle-blower is considering filing a formal complaint against the president. the "times" says this person is an intelligence official with first hand knowledge of some key events regarding the white house and ukraine. all of this comes as activity on the heels of an explosive congressional testimony from th

point. >> thank you for the report. >>> up next here, we're back to the scandal rocking the trump white house. we will take you live to both beijing and kiev to get reaction there to how this is playing out in washington. >>> plus, u.s. presidential hopeful bernie sanders released from the hospital and doctors reveal he had a heart attack. stay with us. >>> welcome back to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm george howell. the white house has been subpoenaed by u.s. democrats for documents related to ukraine. a request for documents was made to the vice president of the u.s., mike pence. in the meantime, the "new york times" is reporting a second whistle-blower may come forward with firsthand knowledge of the events related to ukraine. >>> protesters just finished a march in hong kong. many wearing masks defying the government's new emergency ban on face coverings. hundreds of shops and subways are closed. the city's chief executive says the measure is justified because of the violence. on pri, protesters attacked train s

the trump white house released the rough transcript of the controversial july 25th phone call between president trump and ukraine's president where mr. trump said, and i quote, "i would like you to do us a favor, though, because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it." the president referring to that debunked conspiracy theory that he won't let go of. that it was ukraine, not russia, that hacked into the dnc server before the 2016 election and leaked e-mails. that it was ukraine that did that, it wasn't russia. the transcript also shows, at least that's what he says, the transcript also shows that the president brought up the bidens. "the other thing, there's a lot of talk about biden's son, that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me." and despite president trump insisting there was never a quid pro quo, means you do a favor for me, i'll do a favor for you, or i'm not going to give you what you need. this is what he said out in the open in broad daylight at the white

trump over. so the white house is totally following its own self interest. attorneys to put up is instructing his attorneys to put up every conceivable barrier to prevent those documents from being handed over. moving on to the reaction, we heard earlierfrom mitt romney, pretty outspoken, criticising the president. but many other republicans not doing so. yeah, this is a long—running pattern in washington in that many republican senators and congressmen, they are worried about their bases in terms of back home and their states and districts and don't want to be criticised from president trump. romney is independently wealthy so he can finance his campaigns. he is less worried about that prospect. he's already served a long career, he's been a multiple presidential candidate, has been the governor of massachusetts. he doesn't need thisjob. governor of massachusetts. he doesn't need this job. he's governor of massachusetts. he doesn't need thisjob. he's more independent thinking. most republican senators have forgotten their traditional republican... they woul

"white house lawyer moved transcript of trump call to ou classified server." where have we heard that expression before? "after ukraine adviser raised alarms." so we all know the broad outlines of this story. lieutenant colonel vindman testified yesterday he hears the president on the phone with the president of ukraine. and in places later replaced by ellipses, three dots, he hears the president talking about things that weren't reflected on the transcript or the summary that besaw. this now alleges that the lawyew at the nsc is the one who made the call to put it in a more secure place. does this, by your reading, andrew, imply any guilty or innocence or any conclusion? >> well, my first thought is that it corroborates the whistle-blower's complaint even further.t you'll recall that the third most central point that the whistle-blower complaint was making was that there was an as effort to shield the contents of the president's conversation with president zelensky by putting it onto a classified si server that usually these transcripts do not go on. and yest

call, click or visit a store today. >>> the trump white house is drawing a line against house democratspresident's lawyer sending a letter to mr. pelosi declaring mr. trump will not participate in the impeachecachment inquiry arguing the probe is ill legitimate. i want to see what you think about a key part of this letter. this is a key part. given your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation or even the most elementary due process protections, the executive branch cannot be expected to participate in it because participates in this inquiry would inflict lasting institutional harm on the executive branch and lasting damage to the separation of powers. you have left the president no choice. consistent with the duties of the president of the united states and his obligation to preserve the rights of future occupants of his office. president trump cannot permit his administration to participate in this partisan inquiry under these circumstances. laura coats, explain sort of what this is. this is like an accused dictating the terms of their investigation. >> it's absurd in a

how necessary is this vote, and does the white house really need it to comply with the inquiry? >> well, look, that letter is the trumpfor an epic battle between the white house and congress. i mean, you know, we're looking now at, you know, the stonewalling of the white house, that congress is going to have to fight back with subpoenas. we're into an election cycle with 2020 going on right now. we're in a full-bore mess. but i think what helps the democrats right now is the evidence is on the table. the fact of the matter is trump's conversation with zelensky is of public record. the transcript is the equivalent of the tapes during the nixon era. it's trump in his own words making the quid pro quo deal. and so the congress now is just trying to figure out when they should act, how much information to get, how much cooperation they can get from state department, cia, and the white house, and other branches of government. but in the end here right now, we're heading in for impeachment, you know, is on the horizon, i'd say, in the next four weeks, congress has to act. >> has to act. you're not sure which way they're goi

trump left open the possibility there could still be new sanctions and tariffs on steel exports from turkey to the united states the invitation for president wretch of thai of error to one to visit the white housenext month is also still on for now trump says it may happen in the meantime he says america's work in syria is mostly done we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out let someone else fight over this long blood stayed and sand truck fired back at critics abroad pushing them to pick up where america has left off he wants washington's allies to help detain eisel fighters and repatriate them to their home countries. but trump syria policy faces domestic criticism in the u.s. congress even from within his own republican party senator mitch mcconnell is promising bipartisan legislation to push trump to cancel air to ones white house visit and halt the u.s. troop drawdown. the senate needs to speak up we cannot effectively support our partners on the ground without a military presence the democratic senate leader fears u.s. actions will have grave consequences for kurdish fighters fought alongside u.s. forces to defeat eisel he's pa

white house engagement. according to catherine croft's opening statement she first learned of the trump white house's plan to hold up ukrainian -- military assistance to ukraine during a july 18th office of budget and management meeting and she listened in by videoconference. an omb official told the group that white house chief of staff mick mulvaney has placed what she called an informal hold on the aid to ukraine. catherine croft testified that the reason given then for the hold on ukraine, the hold on ukraine aide was that the order came at the direction of the president. catherine croft testified under subpoena today according to an official working on the impeachment inquiry in light of an attempt by the white house and state department to direct catherine croft not to appear for her scheduled deposition. nbc news has learned more about lieutenant colonel vindman's deposition yesterday. nbc news is reporting colonel vindman told house impeachment investigators on tuesday that a white house meeting between president donald trump and ukrainian president zelensky as well as nearly $400 million on security

the trump white house, president trump himself and, we are increasingly learning, members of the trump administration are trying to muddy that, trying to essentially undo that declaration by the u.s. government that russia interfered in favor of president trump. bill barr and the president contacting world leaders to get them to participate in a justice department inquiry that the white house is hoping might essentially exonerate russia for the 2016 election attack. it would undermine the u.s. intelligence community's conclusion that russia carried out that attack. yesterday we got that stunning report from "the washington post" that attorney general bill barr is handling this personally. that's how independent this is from the president's appointees, right? the president's hand-picked attorney general is personally traveling the globe, trying to get foreign governments to give him help into this inquiry into the origins of the russia investigation which the white house hopes will discredit the intelligence agency's determinations about russia's interference in the 2016 election. what

america needa and four more years of president donald trump in the white house. all of you, i am here because i stand with president donald trump. when this president stands up for american workers from the range, i the iron stand with president donald trump. when this president stands up for faith and freedom, and the american flag, i stand with president donald trump. when this president stands up to the radical democrats in congress trying to overturn the will of the american people with endless investigations and partisan politics, we stand with president donald trump. [applause] what began four years ago has grown into a movement. a movement of everyday americans from every walk of life. all of you believe we could be strong again. you believe we could be prosperous again. said yes to president donald trump in 2016. minnesota, i know you will say yes to four more years of president donald trump in 2020. when you think of the last three , it has been three years of action. it has been three years of results. it has been three years of promises made and kept.

-- or the white house officials at president trump's behest explicitly linked the white house deliverables and a demand for investigations into burriss m of burisma. the same quid pro quo that mick mulvaney admitted to before trying to walk it back a day later with willie. >> all right. nbc's geoff bennett and garrett haake, thank you guys both so much for your reporting. it was written yesterday, everybody knows. republicans know. the white house knows. there was a quid pro quo, it was there. so the more the president denies that quid pro quo, the more he assures himself that he's going to be impeached. now, the president, of course, and republicans were talking about how unpopular this impeachment inquiry would be several weeks ago, a month or so ago saying that americans wouldn't support it. it is interesting today that as we move toward the vote the overwhelming majority of americans in poll after poll after poll. >> they don't like it. >> -- support this impeachment inquiry. and, really, they agree with nancy pelosi and the democrats. so we'll see what republicans w

it's no secret that the white house, president trump himself, and his employees here have tried to wedge a campaign to out the whistleblower. the committee, which is made up of three committees, are determined to protect the anonymity of the whistleblower. there is a statutory reason for doing that, and there is a practical reason for doing that, that he or she not be put in any kind of physical danger. >> do you now have to -- i know one of the pledges i thought you guys made was to release as much of these depositions publicly as you can at some point. do you have to redact these transcripts due to these attempts to out the whistleblower? >> there will be redactions. most of them will be to try to protect innocent names that may have come up in eight or nine hours of testimony. but i don't expect material redactions other than, as i said, to protect certain identiti identities, and the whistleblower might be one of them. those transcripts we're going to be voting soon on a resolution that pledges to release those transcripts to the public. >> i want to play for you a couple sound bites

today, fiona hill was expected to confirm that there was a quid pro quo being demanded by the trump white house, that the ukrainian government was told by the trump administration they wouldn't get a white house meeting unless they made a commitment for some kind of investigations that the administration wanted, and we know that what the president wanted investigated was joe biden. but while we've had a bunch of reporting as to what fiona hill was expected to have said today, she only emerged from her deposition immediately before i got on the air tonight, after ten hours of questioning. and so we sort of are still waiting to find out what may have happened, what may have transpired over the course of those ten hours. again, as you know, it was behind closed doors. we expect that her deposition will eventually be made public. but as to what she said today, well we have only the barest sense. republicans have complained that the witnesses in the impeachment proceedings thus far haven't been testifying in public. they say they want public testimony. they don't like that these things are happening

donald trump committed the crime again to give us an audio-visual version on the south lawn of the white house. donald trump is blocking all the witnesses to the crime from going before congress because donald trump is guilty. every piece of evidence that donald trump's white house has put out corroborates a whistle-blower account. >> right. >> not one fact is in dispute. people just have to decide if they want a president who can't win all on his own and needs to strongarm and manipulate and basically blackmail an enemy of russia to win. >> right. democrats on capitol hill have said all along don't underestimate the ability of donald trump to self-impeach. that is what nancy pelosi said, and that is exactly what happened as we are mentioning the day after the mueller hearing where he felt exonerated is where he picked up the phone and called the ukrainian president. something else democrats have said is when nancy pelosi announces a formal inquiry, the public will follow. and we have seen that in the polling as you said it was remarkable how much it has picked up in such little time because t

white house will not cooperate with the democrats and their endless subpoenas. the president's attorney rudy giuliani is here with his first reaction to this news. good evening, i'm trish regan. president trump'shite house lawyers sending a scathing letter to speaker pelosi and adam schiff. saying you seek to overturn the results of the 2016 election and deprive the american people of the president they have freely chosen. and saying there is no valid consciouconstitutionally valid r your impeachment inquiry. joining me, andy biggs who is leading an effort to censure adam schiff for his conduct. 94 members of congress are on board with that one. what do you think of this letter? >> i thought you can't be harsh enough to people who know no shame. so you have to be very direct, blurnt and forceful. i loved the letter. i am so frustrated with the way mr. schiff is acting, nancy pelosi is acting, and the entire democrat group. they are just literally trying to take await election of 2016 and subvert the 2020 election with this basic focus. they are focused in such a way that they ignore the realities of all the facts that surround them. trish: what's most of puzzling to me is why there is no vote.

trump and zelensky in july. there's reports that the white house is holding back the funds. the funds weren't going to be us yoked till october until zelensky made a public declaration. which never happened. the funds did go there. i have questions when it comes to the quid pro quo. unfortunately the lack of transparency my questions are not being answered. adam schiff is righting a tight ship with the closed door policy that he's allowing the leaks, allowing this narrative to build up like inflated verbiage and it continues to divide the country. that is their number 1 goal, massive division nor 2020 election. i'm tired of this posturing just for election purposes. >> jesse: i think, juan, after a while, if you're going to continue to do this in the dark in secret so the country cannot why the president is being impeached, people will be fed up with it. i think this is going to do long-term damage here. >> you don't know why the president is being impeached? >> jesse: you can't have any even seen by republicans. they can't see transcripts. near threatening to withhold check

we always say it is a remarkable day at the trump white house. friction. but today was especially contentious, with the revelation of this letter, and also the conflict with the senior leadership of the democrats walking out from this meeting with the president in the cabinet room at the president in the cabinet room at the white house. it is particularly extraordinary, isn't it? as one a nalyst extraordinary, isn't it? as one analyst put it, he was not the only one to make this point but he put it there is white house official turkey policy, just recently, first of all turkey can go ahead and invade syria, then turkey should not invade syria, then turkey should not invade syria, then turkey is being sanctioned for invading syria, and now who cares if turkey invades syria? yes, that's one way to sum it up, and the president was asked directly at a news conference that he held with the italian president today in the east room about him green lighting this invasion as a result of that phone call with president erdogan. trump took umbrage with that,

territory previously patrolled by american soldiers donald trump says it's time for someone else to fight over this bloodstain sand our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. he promised a withdrawal but on wednesday u.s. president donald trump announced that some of their troops will remain in syria trump says a u.s. brokered cease fire between turkey and kurdish fighters known as the s.d.f. was a success as a result u.s. sanctions opposed on turkey earlier this month or so the sanctions will be lifted. orla something happens that we're not happy with trump left open the possibility there could still be new sanctions and tariffs on steel exports from turkey to the united states the invitation for president recha tie of error to one to visit the white house next month is also still on for now trump says it may happen in the meantime he says america's work in syria is mostly done we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out let someone else fight over this long blood stayed and sand truck fired back at critics abroad pushing them to pick up where america has le

trump says that it's time that someone else fight over this bloodstained land white house correspondent kimberly healthcare to reports. he promised a withdrawal but on wednesday u.s. president donald trump announced that some american troops will remain in syria. trump says a u.s. brokered cease fire between turkey and kurdish fighters known as the s.d.f. was a success as a result u.s. sanctions imposed on turkey earlier this month are no more so the sanctions will be lifted or less something happens that we're not happy with trump left open the possibility there could still be new sanctions and tariffs on steel exports from turkey to the united states the invitation for president wretch of thai of error to one to visit the white house next month is also still on for now trump says it may happen in the meantime he says america's work in syria is mostly done we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out let someone else fight over this long blood stayed and sand truck fired back at critics abroad pushing them to pick up where ameri

trump left open the possibility there could still be new sanctions and tariffs on steel exports from turkey to the united states the invitation for president ratchet tie of error to one to visit the white house next month is also still on for now trump says it may happen in the meantime he says america's work in syria is mostly done we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out let someone else fight over this long blood stayed sand. truck fired back at critics abroad pushing them to pick up where america has left off he wants washington's allies to help detain eisel fighters and repatriate them to their home countries. but trump syria policy faces domestic criticism in the u.s. congress even from within his own republican party senator mitch mcconnell is promising bipartisan legislation to push trump to cancel air to ones white house visit and halt the u.s. troop drawdown should it need to speak up we cannot effectively support our partners on the ground without a military presence the democratic senate leader fears u.s. actions will have grave consequences for kurdish fighters fata alongside u.s. forces to defeat eisel he's particula