Another key witness. Former National Security adviser john bolton. The New York Times reporting that impeachment investigators are negotiate with boltons attorneys for him to testify as well in private. And as the impeachment inquiry continues, centered on a request by the president for a foreign country to investigate his political opponents here at home, we are learning that attorney general bill barrs investigation of the origins of the 2016 russian probe has now become a criminal one. Lets begin with the impeachment inquiry. A lot of developments there. Sunlen serfaty is on capitol hill to explain. And were expecting another in a line of witnesses that in effect corroborates the core of the whistleblower complaint on ukraine. Thats right, jim. This is Significant Development for the House Democrats and their impeachment probe. Tim morrison has been lined up to appear at some point on capitol hill next week. And he really is a key player on this. Hes one of President Trumps top advisers on the National Security council. And his testimony notably marks two significant firsts here. And when were talking about the line of witnesses who have appeared up here on capitol hill, he will be the First Official from inside the white house to testify in this probe. He also will be the first person who was actually on that nowinfamous call between President Trump and the ukrainian president on july 25th. So potentially providing some insider accounts of what he heard on that call. His name also notably appeared 15 times in the Opening Statement of bill taylor. The president s top diplomat in the ukraine who testified up here earlier this week who essentially laid out the quid pro quo. And sources tell cnn that morrison is expected to corroborate a lot of those claims that bill taylor made. But he is also expected to say that he did not see anything wrong with what the administration was doing. And that important to note there also negotiations in the works right now for potential testimony for former National Security adviser john bolton to appear on capitol hill. That would be big for many democrats, jim and poppy. For sure. You wonder if they get him to testify, is that something theyd take into public hearings as well . For more on how the white house is handling this, lets bring in our White House Correspondent jeremy diamond. So a lot of the focus in the last 24 hours has been on even Lindsey Graham talking about this. What is your strategy . Are you going to have a strategy like the Clinton White house did during impeachment proceedings . Is there a united one this morning . United, not quite yet, poppy. Theres an effort at the white house to develop a strategy to respond to this impeachment inquiry. And part of that is centering around whether or not the white house should be hiring somebody new to handle the impeachment messaging at the white house. Im now being told by three sources familiar with the matter that tony sayeg is the leading contender to be hired as to lead this impeachment messaging effort here at the white house. There is this desire among some officials, including the president s soninlaw Jared Kushner to bolster the messaging operations at the white house in the face of complaints from some republicans that the white house has not been kind of active enough in terms of pushing back on this impeachment inquiry. Im told that kushner does support the high hire of not on anybody but for tony sayak. He was the spokesman at the Treasure Department and rumored to be a potential hire for White House Communications director after the president s close aide hope hicks left the white house last year. Now im being told the president has not yet signed off on this pick and there are some white house officials who oppose his hire already. But again, this is the latest that were seeing so far from the white house as they look to develop this kind of impeachment messaging strategy. Jim, poppy . Perhaps a war room by another name. Jeremy diamond at the white house. Lets speak more about this with political analyst sabrina sadiki for the wall street journal and cnn national and security legal analyst susan hennessy, a former nsa attorney. Democrats are now saying that they may not need to call the whistleblower to testify that they have enough from the complaint, plus they have concerns as expressed by adam schiff about exposing this whistleblower to attacks, et cetera. Is that legitimate in your view as democrats are proceeding in a formal impeachment inquiry . So i dont think theres that much sort of substantive value at this point of bringing the whistleblower in. Again, as republicans were claiming this was all secondhand knowledge, all hearsay by the whistleblower, what weve seen is that complaint sparked off a series of primary source testimony. People like bill taylor and next week, tim morrison who are actually going to be able to speak to what happened. So the idea that the whistleblower is now going to come in and provide Additional Information is probably relatively unlikely. Now the whistleblower might be in a position to point to other individuals who might be able to testify, right, who told this person about what was going on. How wide ranging was it . Did they hear anything else . But ultimately, this is going to become essentially a question of political optics. Because republicans had been unwilling to defend the president s substantively on what he did, theyve really been focused on the process. So, of course, the process surrounding the formal vote of informal impeachment inquiry and surrounding this whistleblower complaint. So were going to see very strong calls from republicans wanting to get the whistleblower in. Not because they want to find out more information about what happened, but because they are going to want to find out potential communications with House Democrats, potential political bias. Theyre essentially going to want to use this as a distractionary tactic to impeach the overall story this person set off. Sabrina, to you. Theres some really intriguing Washington Post reporting this morning that at the same time that that military aid was being withheld from ukraine, robert lighthizer, the white house key trade representative was told by john bolton that he may not want to go to the president s desk with a proposal to restore some of the trade privileges to ukraine. I should note its an important caveat. Its not clear if there was ever a conversation between the president and bolton and thats why it went to lighthizer. We just dont know. But what is the significance of that, if it does come out there were other things being withheld. Not just the white house meeting, not just military aid but aushllso, you know, differe trade levers being pulled here. Thats precisely it. This raises the first possibility that the Trump Administration was willing to leverage other policy outside of the congressionally appropriated military aid to ukraine in order to try and build pressure on the Ukrainian Government to launch these investigations that the president sought. We dont yet know what conversations if any may have transpired with the president and who was behind this decision but it certainly would fit into a pattern of really trying to amplify pressure on the new Ukrainian Government to heed the president s calls. And i think it does reinforce that for republicans were so focused on the process because they cant defend the president on the substance. They dont know what else might come out in the coming weeks. So thats why i think youve seen this very aggressive move by members of the president s party to try and take some kind of control of this narrative and blast the process as tainted or biased, even if there isnt any evidence to support that claim because all of the evidence that has come forward on capitol hill so far has been very damning for the president and his allies. Its essentially painted a picture, pretty clear picture from people who are career public servants, detailing the ways in which the president sought to withhold military aid to ukraine because he wanted an investigation into his political opponent as well as investigation to undermine the origins of the russia investigation. And i think that more and more might come out in the coming weeks in this Washington Post report suggests there may be more to this Pressure Campaign against ukraine than was already known. True. But as you know, susan hennessy, and as sabrina was noting here, attacking the process, those attacks are resonating among republicans. We can see it in the polling. And if you look at opinion on this, its kind of stabilized, almost right in line with President Trumps approval and disapproval ratings. I wonder, based on what youve seen, what more needs to be discovered, right, or established to move that dial . Or have we kind of reached the ultimate point here . The ultimate split in terms hough not only lawmakers see this but how the public sees this . Yes, i think this is a difficult question for House Democrats. They already have enough evidence confirmed evidence, not just the testimony of people like Gordon Sondland and bill taylor, but actually that call transcript that the white house itself has released. They have enough evidence and enough of a record to move forward and actually go to an Impeachment Vote itself. Now as sabrina mentioned, theres indications there may be a much wider ranging wrongdoing going on here. And so theres a lot more facts out there to be discovered. And so the balance that the House Democrats have to make is, how much are they losing sort of the legitimacy and how much has the public essentially losing focus on what exactly is going on here that really clear messaging by extending this out against, you know, the obligation they have to do the work on behalf of the American People to really find out the whole truth and to go into this very, very solemn decision of whether to impeach the president armed with all the facts. So weve seen them move very, very kwuk quickly. Its only been a few weeks since we heard the early allegations of this inappropriate phone call with president zelensky. So i do think that were going to see them wrap up in relatively quick order now. All right. Sabrina and susan, that will be quite a spectacle. Formal Impeachment Vote, perhaps a trial in the senate. Of course, well be covering it. New this morning, investigators in indonesia have released their final report on the lion air crash. It killed 189 people last year. The report blames several factors for that disaster, including pilot error, but also design flaws in the boeing 737 max jet. Now boeing is promising to change the aircraft software. Richard quest is with me on the latest. Sdwhat what does it tell us . Its a long report, 322 pages. It lays out numerous proximate causes that led to this. Pilots were young and inexperienced. They hadnt been properly trained. Didnt even know about this new mcas system onboard the aircraft. Too many noises. Too many bells and whistles when the incident happened. They were overwhelmed. But, of course, the proximate cause was the activation of mcas. This boeing installed software that pushed the nose down. 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It allows prosecutors to subpoena witnesses and potentially file criminal charges. Jerry nadler says this raises profound concerns that the Justice Department has lost its independence and is being used for President Trumps political advantage. Lets bring back former nsa attorney susan hennessy. Lets set aside the timing here of the leak of this. Thats possibly material as a distraction with other bad news this week, but at the substance, because john durham, lets set aside barr for the moment, hes respected by both sides. He presumably would need to be on board, would he not, for the expansion of this in a criminal direction. How substantive, how significant do you think this development is . Well, so we dont know. The news reports that appeared in the New York Times said this had become a criminal investigation. So there is some kind of criminal predicate. But it doesnt say into who or for what. We dont know whether this is something that may be related to the opening of the investigation in line with the president s accusations or Something Else related. We do know that attorney general jeff sessions, then cia director mike pompeo, the Senate Select intelligence committee, they have all looked at the origins of this investigation and none of them found any sense of wrongdoing. So it does remain to be seen what exactly happened here that would make john durham think theres reasonable indication a crime had occurred. This is the next step you take to give you the power to subpoena witnesses, et cetera. You tweeted this was barrs plan all along. What do you mean . This really is the crux of the issue, whether or not an investigation is properly predicated or not. You cant open an investigation just because you dont like somebody. One of the concerns about barr early on opening this administrate uf review is it looks like there was no criminal predicate and doj was essentially going out with this administrative review attempting to find something that could be a reasonable indication of a crime in order to open the review. So the idea that its moving sort of on this time frame and now appears that the durham has found something, you know, because of barrs very intense and unusual personal involvement of the case, it really does raise the specter that theres political interference from the attorney general on this case. Susan, thank you. Always good to have your legal mind on this stuff. We appreciate it. Ahead for us, the u. S. May be sending hundreds of troops into syria. A source says the pentagon is considering also tanks to help protect troops near syrian oil fields. Well discuss, next. Of 1 2 3 medicines with trelegy. The only fdaapproved 3in1 copd treatment. Trelegy. The power of 123. Trelegy 123 trelegy. 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At the same time, we heard the president in the last 24 hours suggest the syrian kurds should consider moving closer to the oil fields for protection. Relocating hundreds of miles away from their homes and ancestral lands. Gail is back with us. Shes not only an adjunct senior fellow but also the author of an upcoming book about northeastern syria. Gail, youve spent so much time in the region. You talked to people on all sides of this conflict. What is their reaction to the president saying, well, maybe you should just move hundreds of miles away so you can be closer to this protection . You know there has been a lot of discussion about what comes next. Last week, or the week before, while the incursion was happening, i was talking to moms and dads who had no idea how theyd get through the day. Now people are trying to figure out what is washington intending . Will troops stay . Can the counterisis Mission Continue and what does that mean for people trying to eke out a normal life. Thats a largely arab area, but the people in towns like kobani which are largely kurdish, now see things much quieter and they very much welcome that. As you know, this is the second it appears flip flop by the president on the u. S. Presence in syria. Last year he tweeted a withdrawal that led to mattis resignation. Now he appears to be sending troops back in. How do americas allies and adversaries in the region view the president s back and forth reversals on syria . Well, i think its interesting. The head of the sdf, who i interviewed a couple of times over the last few years and a lot recently was talking about how the counterisis operations have restarted. And are continuing right now. He also, i think, three things to watch for. One is, does he come to the United States . As is now being discussed. Two, what is going to happen with this nato defense minister meeting right now . And is it possible that youll have an International Force as germany has advanced and the u. S. Has welcomed. And, three, what happens with this russia turkey deal that got us to this point. Theres a sense on the ground that russia is telling the sdf and others, if you dont follow us and do what we russia and turkey agreed to then well send turkey back in to launch a fresh offensive and send tens of thousands of more out much their homes. If you weaponize that agreement, what happens next . Defense secretary mark esper said earlier this week in this fascinating interview he did with Christiane Amanpour that there may be war crimes that have been committed by turkey in the region. The day after that and also the day before the u. S. Special envoy for syria and the Global Coalition to defeat isis told a House Foreign Affairs panel just as much about the war crimes concern. The president lifted all of those sanctions on turkey. Erdogan is still supposed to come to the white house as far as we know on november 13th. And the u. N. Says turkeys actions have meant 180,000 people and 80,000 children displaced. Is the white house doing enough to make turkey actually believe that they will hold it to account if it acts like this again . Yeah, all along, for years, this has been this real challenge of, how do you keep a nato ally, turkey, on board while fighting with what the white house saw across two administrations as the most effective force against isis. And so now this is all come to a head. And, really, i was having people sending me videos, poppy and jim, of horrendous things, including a female politician taken from her car and murdered. It was all captured on video. Watch what happens with the nato defense minister going on right now. The u. S. Has hard harsh words for turkey. Congress is still considering sanctions, and everybody is trying to find this goldilocks between keeping a nato ally on side and calling into account. In the simplest terms, by pulling out summarily, would the u. S. Be held responsible . Should the u. S. Be held responsible for allowing turkey in effect to carry out those war crimes . I mean, i do think the u. S. Did not allow in the sense of people were trying very hard to mitigate. I was talking to folks on the ground trying hard to keep the worst of this from happening. I was talking to dads who had no idea they were going to get through the day when all of this were happening. Dads who fled and be the came back and were terrified that turkishbacked forces were going to get there first. Whom holds who accountable and for what, i think were going to say play out. Gayle, thanks very much. A white house official who listened to President Trumps controversial call with the ukrainian president is now set to testify before impeachment investigators next week. Well speak to a republican lawmaker who once referred to himself as a firewall against impeachment about the applications coming up. Le clouds for your business. 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At the same time were learning impeachment investigators learning a private deposition date with attorneys for the former National Security adviser john bolton. Please are all significant witnesses. Pleased to be joined by don bacon, who is a veteran as well. We appreciate you taking the time this morning. Thank you, jim. Good to be with you. I want to start on the process of the impeachment inquiry. You have said the process is unfair. Your colleagues in particular in the gop zero in on the private nature of these initial depositions and interviews. I just want to play a comment from trey gowdy last year regarding house hearings with former fbi officials, peter strzok and lisa page. Have a listen. Well, our private hearing was much more constructive than the public hearing. Public hearings are a circus. Thats why i dont like to do them. I dont do many of them. I mean, its a freak show. Why was it okay to do private hearings then but not okay to do them now as an initial step in an investigation . Well, i think investigations are one thing but youll do an impeachment inquiry. I think the American People want to know whats going on, whats being said. 75 of the house members today have no access to the transcripts. The only thing that i read is whats leaked. And so people ask me, whats your view on ambassador taylors comments or this or that comment. All im getting is leaked material from the chairman of the committee. Investigations are one thing. This is an impeachment inquiry according to the speaker that we never voted on. And to have secret hearings where the president cannot bring in his attorney like president clinton was able to and we cant bring in our minority witnesses, i think its a unfair process. There are republicans in the room, one, and, two, the rules of these inquiries have changed since the clinton and nixon impeachments, giving the opposing party rights that they didnt have prior. I am just wondering if republicans are, you know, in effect creating a sense of secrecy that doesnt actually exist. There are republicans in the room after all. Able to ask as many questions as they want. So 25 of the house is able to go to these meetings but theyre not allowed to share, by agreement, theyre not allowed to share what was said. But we are reading some targeted excerpts that chairman schiff is putting out there. So hes taking the worst material they can hear and leaking it out. And im hearing that its not very it doesnt represent the real basis of the hear,s themselves, that there are a lot more favorable toward trump. You dont get that. In the end, i cant make a judgment because 75 of us are not allowed to read whats going on. It would be better to release the transcripts and be much more transparent. I think americans want fairness. In our district, about 62 do not want impeachment but many of those think the president did act right. Its not impeachable. But without the information, how can you make that determination . I think we need to hear the information. You have said that you are a firewall against impeachment if there is no law broken. Is your mind still open to a law having been broken here if you learn more . Im just curious. Are you comfortable with, and we do have, even based on Opening Statements that weve seen, corroboration of the whistleblowers core complaint, which was that the president held not only military aid over the ukrainians head as he pressured them to investigate the bidens but also a president ial visit. And now according to the Washington Post story, favored trade status. If that is corroborated via public testimony, is your mind open to impeachment under those circumstances . If someone can prove to me and show me that a law was broken which i have not seen, theres been no credible evidence that an actual law is broken, i dont condone the judgment of asking the ukrainian leader about biden. I dont think that was right. I think the president should have foresaw that its going to cause problems. But there was no law broken. And what i do hear is that ive read the transcript of the conversation from between trump and the ukrainian leader. There was no quid pro quo in that conversation and were hearing the ukrainian president didnt think he was being pressured to do it or didnt think there was a quid pro quo for aid and i dont know if thats true, congressman. With respect, its our reporting and other outlets reporting that, in fact, ukrainian officials were struggling with how to respond to the president s pressure here. They felt as you know, you are a veteran, you served in europe. Ukraun in the midst of this is at war with russia. A war thats killed 13,000 ukrainians. And as this pressure is coming in, ukrainians are scrambling like, how do we respond to this while we wait for the essential aid to fight a russian invasion. Is that a position youd want to be in . There was roughly a week and a half where the ukrainian leader knew the aid was stalled and then a week and a half later it was turned back on. So even though that period was longer, he only knew about a short period. And he did nothing new to get that aid. In other words, people are saying theres quid quo pro. There was no quo. The ukrainian leader did nothing different to get the aids. So i think the other side of the aisle has a very hard time proving a quid pro quo case because there was none. And but i would say this. I favored aid to ukraine. I think, you know, the previous president did not provide lethal aid. He was providing meals ready to eat. You know, non thats fair criticism. We need to provide we should have provided aid to ukraine. We need to help them because they are a target of aggression from russia, and i didnt favor the delay. I wrote a letter to the president. I hear theres a delay. And it should it should not have happened. Fair enough. And folks, probably many folks dont know it as well as you having served in europe. Youre aware of the russia threat to europe. We appreciate you joining the program and thank you for your service to the country. Thank you, sir. Tonight, Cnns Fareed Zakaria investigates impeachment and its impact on our democracy. On the brink when a president faces impeachment at 9 00 on cnn. Alleged details of some of President Trumps private conversations about to go public in the anonymous Trump Administration officials new book. Well have more on that next. Welcome to fowler, indiana. Home to three of bps wind farms. Which, every day, generate enough electricity to power over 150,000 homes. And of course, fowler. At bp, we see possibilities everywhere. And of course, fowler. 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Already on the top ten on amazon. People started preordering it. And the back cover has just been shared for the first time this morning. And this is what the back cover says. Interesting details shared for the first time on the back cover of the book as obtained by jake tapper. We can read it to you and describe what it is saying. Quoting from the writer, it says, i realize that writing this, while the president is still in office is extraordinary stuff. Some will find it disloyal. But too many people have confused loyalty to the man with loyalty to the country. The truth about the president must be spoken. Not after americans have voted or after hes departed office. They anonymous author goes on to say the following about their own experiences working with the president. Hopefully others will remedy the error of silence and choose to speak out. In these pages, in this book, you will not just hear from me, you will hear a great deal from for there is no better witness to his character than his own words and no better evidence of the danger he poses than his own conduct. So thats a pretty clear hint about who this person is, that this person was in the room, maybe still in the room with the president. Its notable that the publisher is not saying if this persons still working for the white house or not. I know some people are saying hes a coward, he or she is a coward by staying anonymous. I think whats most important is whats actually in the book. Yeah. Lets judge the contents when it comes out november 19th. True, although you could probably guess the white house pushback might involve the anonymity of the author, which is a tactic theyve used before. Good point, yeah. Brian stelter, thanks very much. Thanks, bri. 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Were the envy of the developed, and frankly, the underdeveloped world in terms of our system. Theres no doubt in my mind, it has always needed to be tinkered with. There is no purity of classical capitalism. There needs to be regulation. You have people striving. They shouldnt be allowed to win and monopolize. There has to be a lot of treatments and a lot of tinkering and a lot of potentially redistribution and making things fairer always, always, always, but capitalism is not dead. Do you want to pay more taxes . Should you . Do i want to pay more . No. Id like to pay no taxes. But i would like to live in a civilized world where people arent coming with torches and rakes, you know, trying to kill each other. Should you pay more taxes . Should people that have made as much money as Lloyd Blankfein and the way that you make money pay more in taxes . Should i pay more tax . I sure as heck would be willing to pay more tax if i could buy a happier and less polarized society, for sure. Would that help . Would it help . Yes. I think it would help the mood of the country and i think it would get some focus on real initiatives that we should be doing and grappling with real problems and real opportunities instead of everybody hacking at each other all the time. Do you think that President Trumps temperament is a net positive for the country right now . No, its not a net positive. I dont think anybody thinks his temperament is okay, so how much is it hurting this country on the world stage . Christine lagarde just told 60 minutes the u. S. Is at serious risk of losing its leadership position, its reputation in the world. Is she right . And if she is, is it because of President Trump . Well, Christine Lagarde and a lot of other influentials in europe, if they are not showing followership, then of course, were losing our leadership, you know, by definition. So, the answer is yes. Id say that and im not putting words in the president s lit. He says it himself, he has a nationalist agenda, ranks america first, and i dont think number two i think number two is way behind number one in terms of his ranking. I think we get a lot of benefits from our leadership position in the influence we have and our ability to have everybody exceed to our wants because we display that leadership, both politically, culturally. The dollar is the instrument of reserve currency. Were huge beneficiaries of that. And i think we get great benefits from that. I wouldnt want to lose that. And i realize that everybody in the world our enemies and our friends are trying to figure out how they can be less susceptible to the whims of the United States. So thats not a good thing. President trump says if hes impeached, the stock market will crash. Will it . This is not the be all and end all. Im not saying the stock price should guide everything in our lives, but i guess if there was a lever that was pulled im sure this would unfold over a period of time but if there was a sudden removal of trump, my bet is that the stock market will go down. What happens to the stock market under a president warren . Im not entirely sure. I know she that he probably thinks more of cataclysmic change to the Economic System as opposed to tinkering. Its riskier, particularly risky since, frankly, our Economic System is probably im sure is the envy of the world. All right, you can hear that full conversation from citizen by cnn. Its on my cnn podcast boss files, and today its our 100th episode. It is the top of the hour. Happy friday, everyone. Im poppy harlow in new york. And im jim sciutto in washington. He was on the ukraine call, and he works inside the white house. Next week, tim morrison, a tom adviser on the National Security council, is scheduled to speak under oath with congress. Sources say he will back up top diplomat bill taylors explosive testimony from earlier this week. Democrats called it damning for the white house because taylor said in his view there was a quid pro quo with ukraine, and now white house official morrison could testify to corroborate that claim. But it could get worse for the Trump Administration. A source telling us that lawyers for former National Security adviser john bolton if you remember his exit from the white house . Well, they have talked with impeachment investigators negotiating a possible deposition of bolton in private. And as the impeachment inquiry continues, centered on a request by the president for ukraine to investigate his political enemies, were learning that attorney general bill barrs investigation of the origins of the russia probe