this will be a betrayal of the present presidential oath of office as well as abuse of power and of course the big question remaining here is how will this impact the public opinion of the american voter so this was a very important launch of these public hearings how are people particularly lawmakers reacting to what they heard. well i was able to follow the hearing today and i have to say that the republicans are under enormous pressure at this point you could really tell this by their strategy of defense they said the president s conduct here might not have been perfect but the that the phone call in fact was not impeachable and they re also trying to question the legitimacy of the investigation they re essentially saying the democrats are trying to undo a democratically held election but at the same time it s really worth pointing out here that there were 2 career diplomats testifying on capitol hill they work for
latest relationship is also under strain right now because of the battle for terror train syria. thank you. ignoring trumps objections turkey has now moved into the northern syrian border regions taking territory once controlled by the could with american backing and despite be could show opposition everyone is not backing down he says he too is fighting terror. community we don t have problems with the kids we have problems with the terrorists that it is that we re just fighting terrorists period. banker is still worried about the presence of u.s. troops so close to its knees on the northern syrian border even after the pullback they remain kilometers from turkey s battle front with the could in some areas but trump says they have a new mission that we re keeping the well we have the oil the oil is secure we left
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all over thank you very much that was our washington correspondent oliver stop it there. and as that impeachment hearing was underway in capitol hill on capitol hill president trump was meeting with the turkish president at a typewriter one of the white house trump is facing criticism for hosting out of one after turkey s recent incursion into northern syria but despite strained relations trump declares himself a big fan of the turkish leader. impeachment what impeachment that was the message from the white house while much of washington watch the hearings riveted donald trump was hosting he s took his count of pot it was a chance to reset the agenda for the president towards what he sees as a foreign policy victory and i became president isis was all over the place and we took over 100 percent of the caliphate and last week as you know we killed its leader and its founder trump sees that one is playing a supporting role in the fight against the side of quote islamic state but the 2
the government in the case of bill taylor he was actually even children and deployed by the president so he was they were impartial and they have a high level of credibility and the democrats are certainly trying to capitalize on that now this is just the beginning of the public hearings what else can we expect from the inquiry this week right so the hearings are to be continued on friday and we will then hear from vinyl bij who it was the former ambassador to ukraine was removed in spring and she says that rudy giuliani president trump s private lawyer held a campaign against her that rudy giuliani believed she would stand in the way of potential investigations against joe biden and that s of course another damning account against president trump because it highlights the role of president trump s private lawyer doing essentially a government job so all of this is not shedding any good light on president trump