testimony and in the end he decided he wasn t willing to do what one of those people in the justice department urged him to do. he wanted them to send letters to all the state legislativers, reactivate your state legislativers and get a whole new set of delegates for the electoral ballots. and maybe you can overthrow this election. he wants to get the justice department to go to the states. like so many other things, this has been vastly overstated. that s just wrong. grassley is trying to paint trump as a victim of the attempted coup when in fact, it was trump deriving it. here are some things he may have missed in his report. trump asked nine times to
jim. this is not a talking point. it s a fact. i m on house judiciary committee with appropriate jurisdiction. i m the ranking member on the constitution subcommittee, and i, as a duly elected member of congress, cannot i don t have access to all this evidence supposedly that they ve been deriving down in the basement. this is a sham impeachment process. ultimately the american people lose faith in the institution if they can t trust the process. so on substance and on process, we have a lot of problems with this. to be fair now, everybody has access to those transcripts because they re posted on the website but you voted against the rules for the inquiry as did all republicans and two democrats. i just want and those rules for the inquiry going forward include public testimony from these witnesses with an opportunity for republicans in public to cross-examine them and challenge them. i wonder if your goal here is transparency, why not vote for those rules that would give you
towards the united states. he s being diplomatic in his choice of language. president trump seemed please with his phone call. and he suggested that the kurds should move towards the oil. in his understanding of syria, that s a sweet spot that the kurds could move to the oil and the americans could protect the oil and the kurds. that s not necessarily a traditional kurdish area. that s an area that s seen total upheaval. it s shocking seeing a stop in violence and a reassignment of the map that the focus remains on the oil reserves. christine? deriving strategy from the situation. nick paton walsh, live for us in iraq. thanks. mike pence blasted u.s. businesses for siding with china. pence s speech closely watched as president trump works to complete a partial trade deal. the u.s. wants to engage and not