anchor named hannah storm having to break in suddenly to the network s coverage of a saturday afternoon golf match in order to announce president clinton was being impeached on the 19th of december. hello, everyone. hannah storm in new york. we will be returning to our coverage of the lexus challenge after a report from nbc news. a historic day for our country and for the latest on the impeachment 06 president clinton we go to tom brokaw. it was december 19th, the saturday before christmas, 1998. now, this timing that the republican party now apparently believes was just conscionable, it s at least now unfair to pursue these impeachment proceedings against this president given the holiday proceedings and the objections
he joins us now live. how likely is it that u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo there in the region trying to clear up all the mixed messages from the trump administration when it comes to u.s. foreign policy in the region, is he going to be able to do this? reporter: it would be very difficult when you consider that one single tweet can sort of turn the table upside down. this tweet from president trump threatening to devastate turkey, a nato ally, economically certainly isn t what one would describe as diplomatic. really that has been the problem going back quite some time. on the 19th of december seemingly out of the blue, he tweeted that the united states is pulling out its forces out of syria now. and since then, really the entire sort of middle east policy of the united states has
u.s. position, well, if you think about it, there is not much contradiction between what president trump said on the 19th of december when he said he wanted usz tro.s. troops out of, and now this morning we re getting word from a spokesman from the u.s.-led coalition that u.s. forces have begun their withdraw from syria. but in the meantime there have been contradictory messages from u.s. officials traveling in the region. earlier this week u.s. national security adviser john bolton said that pre-condition for the u.s. withdrawal of troops was a guarantee from turkey that it wouldn t attack u.s.-backed kurdish rebels in the northeastern part of the country. but nonetheless, it appears that withdrawal is going ahead. it has septembera sent a message of uncertainty for allies who are in talks with the government of damascus to restore syrian sovereignty over
the winner. judge moore s side has said there was massive voter fraud evident. did you find any evidence of that? look, jon, people are entitled to their own opinion but not their own facts. by the time i got here today, we had 118 instances of irregularities that had occurred in this election. we have adjudicated 85 of those, which means that 33 are still outstanding. two complaints have come from outside the state of alabama. the other 31 have come from alabama residents. we will investigate each and every one of those as we have the others that have been introduced to us and we will follow-through until they have been all properly adjudicated. jon: what about the military ballots and provisional ballots? yes, sir. all of those were counted on the 19th of december. one week after the election as prescribed by alabama state law. we had 500 or so military
i am told that at least in the prepared remarks, he is going to go over a number of themes. we ll put them up on the screen. there is going to be a year in review, he will talk about a tax reform, which the republican members of congress told me last night that they hope to have on his desk in the afternoon of the 19th of december. they will also talk about a strong economy, jobs created last month, unemployment and now down to 4.1%. he will talk about economic and border security, trade, north korea, and isis, and then get into his 2018 agenda. this is something we haven t written a whole lot about. there is a need it to redevelop the infrastructure. he will be talking about a welfare reform, the va reform, and immigration, which the president of course has talked at length about. the president also plans on hitting the democrats and hitting them pretty hard,