she no longer works in the administration. administration has no control over her and fiona hill will show up. right. i think that s actually good news. she s seen a lot in her time as the senior director for russia and the whole chunk of europe working for president trump. we do know, though, that she wasn t there when the phone call was made to the ukrainian president but it doesn t matter, she was there when every other phone call was made between president trump and president putin. those are important calls. we also have reason to believe that some of those calls perhaps with other officials like turkey, which she may, may or may not have been privy to, she may have been privy to not because she had direct responsibility for turkey, although i think she did but touched upon russia, russia, syria. so it will be interesting, i think, for folks on the hill to hear what she has to say about whether she was concerned about
putin. although she may have spoken to the interpreter i believe she speaks russian fluently so she could have been privy to a little more information on that. but certainly on syria. again, i wonder what did vladimir putin ask president trump to do with regard to syria? because you might not have notice this had, lawrence, but on the day our president announced that we were going to withdraw from syria, it was actually vladimir putin s birthday. it was, in a weird way kind of a gift to vladimir putin and i think it was making good on some kind of conversation they had about syria because trump always said right from the beginning, trump said we re getting out of syria. clearly, russia stands to benefit from that as does assad, syria and iran. make a note of that, future historians. it was vladimir putin s birthday. evelyn farkas, ben rhodes, thank you for joining us, enlightening us. appreciate t when we come back,
trump to do with regard to syria? because you might not have notice this had, lawrence, but on the day our president announced that we were going to withdraw from syria, it was actually vladimir putin s birthday. it was, in a weird way kind of a gift to vladimir putin and i think it was making good on some kind of conversation they had about syria because trump always said right from the beginning, trump said we re getting out of syria. clearly, russia stands to benefit from that as does assad, syria and iran. make a note of that, future historians. it was vladimir putin s birthday. evelyn farkas, ben rhodes, thank you for joining us, enlightening us. appreciate t when we come back, michael cohen yes, that michael cohen, the fixer, is reportedly cooperating now with the manhattan district attorney and he is a central figure in an investigation that is closing in on donald trump s personal tax returns, his corporate tax
private u.s. citizen and these relationships are important because erdogan was able to call up trump one authoritarian leader to another and get him to abandon the kurds that fought with the united states to defeat isis and syria and know he s granted this kind of extraordinary role to giuliani and engages as if he s an official and he s not and all of the comments he seems to presents himself as above the law. that s what this is about. a president and people around him who think they are above the laws of the nation. rex tillerson said in a public interview last year about donald trump asking him to do illegal things and it sounds like it happened way more than just once. when the president would say here is what i want to do and here is how i want to do it and i d have to say to him, well, mr. president, i understand what
reporting that as the manhattan district attorney closes in on donald trump s person and business tax returns, a key witness is donald trump s former lawyer, fixer, michael cohen who has been reporting with the manhattan district attorney. we ll be guided through that story later in this hour. and the biggest conflict donald trump has ever had with republican members of congress, republican members of the senate is not over his possibly impeachment conduct but over his very sudden shift on syria policy at the request of the president of turkey in one of those very peculiar trump phone calls with the president of a foreign country. we ll consider the sudden switch in syria and how it affects his grip on republican senators and republican voters when he needs their support the most to survive the impeachment process. they will bring foreign policy