on one sweeping charge as a framework for their impeachment case against the president. abuse of power. and a new poll shows support for the inquiry now out paces operation for the first time. half of americans say donald trump should be impeached and removed from office. joining me from capitol hill, msnbc correspondent garrett hague and political contributor, jake sherman. jeff mason, also with me, former state department senior adviser and former white house senior director, everybody, welcome. garrett, wow. that was quite a statement from that congressman about what he s heard so r far. what are you hearing about ta r ltaylor s testimony? testimony someone told not to talk about the specifics of what goes
asked. i m saying is it fair for you to come out and call the testimony trouble iing and disturbing and give the impression that s what it s going to be like before the american public has a chance to read the transcript for themselves or hear from bill taylor directly. when you re not going to divulge what you re doing, i wonder if you re charactizie characterizi the public has a chance to see it. to me as a dually elected member of congress, i found it to be troubling and disturbing and i will you know when we re finished, hopefully soon, we will present to the american people our argument and i m sure they will feel confident that we were in a process that we can all feel proud of. is it far beyond what we ve seen publicly? we ve seen the president s phone call with the president of ukraine. the read out that the white house handed out made public. we ve seen the text messages
fence about i think what he wants to do. it s very unclear to me what he wants to do. what is the message that s being sent to the pentagon, to congress, about what he intended to do with those troops? nobody knows. i would say since this decision to withdraw all u.s. troops out of northeast syria, every single day we have gotten a different answer about what this looks like. remember the original white house statement said a that they were going to be move d reappropriated within the region. people were telling us then that would be iraq. potentially lly more of the ira kurdistan area so you wouldn t have an issue with the total amount of troops allowed to be in iraq. some would probably be moved into kuwait. then the secretary said they ll go into western iraq. then trump says they re going to be moved home. every single day, we have gotten a different answer to what this looks like. what we know is that as of now, the troops who are inside of
the cease fire in northern syria expires in less than an hour. president erdogan met with put nn sochi today where they announced they plan to take joint control over the territory. it s forced thousands of kurds from their homes. matt bradley joins us. matt, what are you hearing? yeah, there s some 300,000 people who have been displaced from their homes f since this fighting started last week. of those, probably 7,000 have arrived here in iraqi kurdistan and i was at the refugee camp just yesterday. it s a really pitiful sight there. the place is filled with children. there s some 2,000 children who have made it here to kurdish iraq and for them, it s a
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