witness yet will take the stand this morning and cnn has learned republicans are worried ambassador sondland will turn on president trump somehow. last night another key witness they thought could make their case changed his tune acknowledging military aid and the investigation of biden were linked. that s kurt volker. in hindsight i now understand others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption involving the ukrainian company bur reese ta. i saw the former but remarkable, the latter being expectable. had i done so, i would have raised my own objections. okay. so that s him basically saying he was very late to the game of putting pieces together. whether or not you believe that, he now is saying that any investigation into the bidens was inappropriate and he also spoke up for joe bide whon he had met and worked with and said
i didn t do so bad, either. she did a great job on television. thank you, everybody. bill: she in reference to abc from friday night. back to saudi arabia. mike pompeo goes there and perhaps he goes to turkey after that. he left open the possibility that could or would be the case. who knows? rogue killers, a flat denial from the king. the president said the world is watching in order to figure this out. with regard to sears, what a shame, he said, it s very sad with the filing of bankruptcy last night. the changing economy continues. heather: we ll talk more about that coming up. in the meantime as bill was talking about, you heard the president there discussing pastor andrew brunson, the north carolina pastor. the man who accompanied pastor brunson on his journey home tony perkins for international religious freedom. thank you for joining us. it was quite a scene in the
i know you have been engaged and secretary of state pompeo was very engaged and fought for us and vice president pence. we re very grateful. bill: quite a moment. tony perkins is with the international commission of religious freedom. he was at the trial and flew back with pastor brunson. back to the 60 minutes interview from last night another headline. president trump was asked about his first 20 months in office and his answer came like this. president trump: i m not saying i trust everybody in the white house. i m not a baby. it s a tough business. this is a vicious place. washington, d.c. is a vicious, vicious place. the attacks, the badmouthing, the speaking behind your back. my way i feel very comfortable here. bill: byron york watched the interview last night. good morning to you.
shame. sears was a big deal when i grew up. it is very sad what happened. if you look at the filing they did last night, to me it s very sad. somebody that is of my generation, sears was a big deal. i will say, with that being said, i would imagine some of those it will be put to good use. sears has been dying for many years. it s been obviously improperly run for many years. it is a shame. [inaudible question] president trump: we re going to try to find out. no, no, look. i m just explaining very easily, i think, what was told to me a half hour ago. and the denial was not only a
and clearing a lot of space to make fire lines around homes, and that is working, only 11 structures have burned so far. there in guarantee with fire. but, we have a good plan and if we didn t think we had a decent chance of success, we would not be putting the people and the man power and energy into it. reporter: there is a lot of manpower on the fire, 2,500 on the fire lines from all over the country and, unfortunately, more hot, dry weather today. maybe a little break in the weather tomorrow. but we will see. shepard: and the latest on evacuation efforts? reporter: last night another 2,000-plus residents were evacuated from the town you mentioned because the flames were coming two miles from the town but now, all of those homes were kept safe because of the efforts of the firefighters but if the weather was not enough officials now suspect that the fire is to blame for rolling power outages, and there are reports of gasoline short