first off, he should call erdogan, second, he should not call erdogan and request, she should call and insert himself and say we are putting our forces back there, back your forces off. now, there s a danger to that. i m not naive. turkey is a nato partner. we would be, you know, backing off a nato partner. but he s got to make erdogan understand that this is important to us as a nation, it s part of our national security. erdogan is very concerned about his own national security. we are concerned about ours. and this needs to be a shared responsibility. we need to find a way to get both outcomes met, but we re not going to get both outcomes met with this reaction we have going on now. eric: perspective and insight from general vinnie boles. again, thank you for your thoughts and service. it s a great country to serve again, and thank you all very much. eric: of course.
third overeffects of things. he tends to be immediate as they affect him and how they affect what he thinks immediate functions. not the long-term second and third-over effects. then you ve got to ask then what, then what, then what. not done in this case, and the result s what we re seeing. secretary s per sees we haven t boomedded the kurds. abandoned the kurds. can ask the kurds, i believe they have a different view. eric: special ops in syria called her, quote, it was one of the hardest phone calls i ve ever taken. i m ashamed for the first time in my career, the soldier said, and he went on to say about the president, quote: he doesn t understand the problem. he doesn t understand the repercussions of this. it s a shame, the kurds are standing by us, no other partner i ve ever dealt with would stand by us x there s the rest of the tweet from jennifer s terrific reporting right now. what do you say to our allies, general? i mean, look, my father was a
ukrainian questions says he will testify next cree week despite objections from the state department. arthel: president trump going on the war path against the impeachment inquiry, at his second rally in two days. the radical democrats policies are crazy. their politicians are corrupt. their candidates are terrible. and they know they can t win an election day so they re pursuing an illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional [bleep] impeachment. eric: democrats say that is certainly not so. we have full coverage for you. kevin cork is sanding by on the north lawn, as you can see. lucas tomlinson is live in the washington bureau with the latest. reporter: despite the state department s attempts to block her testimony, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch stepped forward and told investigators the president had pressured the state department to fire her because she would not help investigate
wiggle room to get out of it? you know, it s hard to say because he is not part of the administration. so they can t claim executive privilege the way they can with other people who work for the administration. so he would if he defies it though, i m not sure what penalties that congress can actually impose on him. that would be a test going forward. but executive privilege would not seem to apply to him since he does not officially work for the government. ann: jonathan, thank you very much. we have to leave it there. thank you for having me. arthel: of course. eric: and there s been another high-level shake-up in washington. kevin mcaleenan stepping down as acting secretary of homeland security. border security remains a top priority for the trump administration. garrett tenny has more from washington. reporter: the sources familiar with the situation tell us this was mcaleenan s dix he was not fired. last night in a call with senior dhs leaders, he said he was
house vote to formalize the impeachment investigation. some democrats are talking about doing just that. do you think we ll see it soon? i don t think that s very likely. obviously the president and the white house was described as going to war on this, this week, with this letter from the white house counsel s office saying the president wasn t going to take part in this, given the process. they re arguing it s an unfair process, happening behind closed doors. they don t get a chance to have a counsel in the room, all sorts of arguments. i guess the reality of this is that democrats can run this however they want constitutionally. obviously there s a political argument here too and i think that republicans will continue to argue that this is an unfair process and in so far as democrats don t budge on that, that will be the argument from the white house and hill republicans. eric: the house speaker say it is legal and within her purview, to run it this way without having a full forma