A fair trial with witnesses and documents. Right now the republican leader and i have very different visions about what it means to conduct a fair trial. Democrats believe that a fair trial means that all of the relevant facts come out and witnesses and documents are part of that trial. Whoever heard of a trial that went out witnesses and documents. It is unprecedented. But if you are afraid of the fact, if you are afraid of what would come out, if you want to cover it up even in something as weighty and serious as impeachment, you state no witnesses and no documents. We say, witnesses and documents fair trial. No witnesses and no documents, cover up. That simple sentence describes it all. We always knew the leader mcconnell would not be for a fair trial. He said them from the beginning. Would on right wing talk radio to break about no fair trial. And just listening to the white house. Many of his colleagues are very worried about going home and sank there are not four witnesses and do
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Underway in a couple of minutes. Right now congress is back in session this week. Here is a look at what is ahead. Bob we are going to have a number of people. Fiona hale is one. She used to be a diplomat for the Trump Administration. She will testify. That is of concern because she knows what is going on in europe and it follows on the heels of Marie Yovanovich testifying today. We are just learning the state department, the Trump Administration tried to block her. She is a Current State Department employee. She clearly wanted to testify. She was subpoenaed and now House Democrats say the subpoena forced her to testify but it seems like clearly, she wanted to testify. So the testimony Going Forward of hill and sondlund, another one whose texts were releasinged recently, he was a trump donor and the state department blocked his testimony, but it looks like he will testify next week. Host are we getting a timeline from House Democratic leadership on an Impeachment Vote . Bob no, great q
You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Michael we begin with york host we begin with your thoughts. The last of the u. S. Forces have left syria as fighting between turkey and the kurds escalate over the weekend. Your reaction to the president s decisions. We will get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with mark esper, the defense secretary on the sunday shows. He was on face the nation, and here is what he had to say about the decision to withdraw these troops. [indiscernible] a deliberate [video clip] a deliberate withdraw from the entire country . From Northern Syria. 1000 troops. How long and over what time period . It will be a deliberate withdraw and we want to conduct it as safely as possible. We want to make sure we deconflict a pullback of forces and dont leave equipment behind. I am not prepared to put a timeline on it. You said you are doing this for u. S. Force protection. The armies are advancing after the u. S. Pulled back, after the u. S. Air force,
Its going to be the case this year too as much as we all like to talk about the changing world order the americans are still commanding everybodys attention and our enemy well absolutely that the us for the us domestic politics the. Stalemate that exists there is i think one of the most important problems of International Relations because it paralyzes us for informal so big a signal it becomes the result of the domestic fight. You know these jewel provides this other global problems because the u. S. Is still the most powerful country in the world but instead of fixing other problems. Its approach towards this problems becomes the result of the domestic interplay which of course does nords contributes to the stability will govern the bill. See in the world speaking about this interview and others you believe that not much will come on from this impeachment proceedings in terms of the intended goal then and likely to take down but do you think they may actually work the other way aroun