of a free for all and the turks are firing on the kurds, should the american troops be in the middle? no. but the point is we created this conflict by signaling to the turks we would turkey has wanted to do this for five years. ashkarta, the former defense secretary said on my program we used to get these calls all the time from everyone and we would just manage it. you d get both sides to kind of agree to stay in their corners. erdogan, the turkish president must not have believed his luck. he did one of these routine phone calls badgering the americans and the president says, all right, we will withdraw all troops. what if he said, listen, without the conflict that happened over the last couple of days we could not have reached this deal, the lives needed to be lost. for five years you had had more stability than you have in that part of syria. you had an american presence to
a state which i am sure you are aware does not border mexico. and this is unbelievable. remember when then-candidate trump said he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and not lose any votes? well, now one of the president s attorneys arguing in court that he could kill somebody and not be charged. we ve got more on that. plus, new questions about the president s trip to his golf resort this summer and who picked up the tab. but we are going to begin with the anger in washington. and republicans storming a closed-door deposition today. here s what they were saying just before it all went down. it should be the people of this country who decide who s going to be the president trump, not nancy pelosi and not adam schiff behind closed doors. the millions of americans that want to see this congress working for them and not obsessed with the attacking of the president who we believe has not done anything to deserve impeachment. it is a sham and it s time for it to end. what is happenin
used to get these calls all the time from everyone and we would just manage it. you d get both sides to kind of agree to stay in their corners. erdogan, the turkish president must not have believed his luck. he did one of these routine phone calls badgering the americans and the president says, all right, we will withdraw all troops. what if he said, listen, without the conflict that happened over the last couple of days we could not have reached this deal, the lives needed to be lost. for five years you had had more stability than you have in that part of syria. you had an american presence to be able to fight isis, all at virtually no cost. so, yes, it s true that you can only get a ceasefire after you ve had fighting. but what was the fighting? he said that he did this because he wants to stop endless wars. and i am just wondering the fact of the matter will be, maybe, people will hear this and they will say, oh, it s a promise
the united states tends to be target number one. so it s quite likely that in the future in one of these ungoverned spaces since we have withdrawn, you are going to get some group of bad guys who are going to have plans to attack america or americans. and here is the problem. we won t be able to use the kurds to do the fighting. american men and women will have to go in because we had this great infantry that we used in combination with our air power and intelligence. they would do the fighting which it made a lot of sense because they knew the lay of the land, they spoke the language. they were not seen as occupiers. but we can t use them anymore. so the next time this happens because of what trump did, look at the last 20 years. because of what donald trump has gone, it s likely, it s more likely that american men and women will have to go and do the hand to hand fighting. wow. thank you. always a pleasure.
not nancy pelosi and not adam schiff behind closed doors. the millions of americans that want to see this congress working for them and not obsessed with the attacking of the president who we believe has not done anything to deserve impeachment. it is a sham and it s time for it to end. what is happening here is not fair. and it s a total political hit job on the president of the united states. well, i want to bring in now catherine rampell, wajahat ali and jack. appreciate all of you joining us. everything is heating up. the impeachment inquiry has more steam than ever after bill taylor s testimony. let s look at this video. house republicans storming this closed-door hearing today. you say this is only a sneak preview of what s to come? yeah.