On Thursday the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to condemn Trump s actions in Syria and what the New York Times described as quote the most significant bipartisan repudiation of Mr Trump since he took office shortly after the vote Trump met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders and had what Palosi called a meltdown I think that both the size of the boat more than 2 to one of the Republicans voted to uphold is what the president probably got to the president because he was shaken by it and that s why we couldn t continue in the meeting because it was just not relating to the reality of it it was on the part of the president was a meltdown sad to say Trump later said Pelosi was the one who had the meltdown during the meeting Trump also distributed a copy of a letter he sent to the Turkish president. They are due on October 9th the day of Turkey s invasion in the letter Trump wrote quote let s work out a deal you don t want to be responsible for sl
To try to negotiate a ceasefire in Syria N.P.R. s Frank or don t you as reports President Trump is warning the Turkish government to stop the violence the vice president and secretary of state will issue a stern warning to Turkish leaders that the United States will take stronger steps after imposing financial sanctions on top leaders if the military s advancement into northern Syria is not stopped or asking for a cease fire we put the strongest sanctions that you can imagine but they get a lot we have a lot in store if they don t if they don t have an impact including massive tariffs on steel trumpets threatened 50 percent tariffs on steel imports from Turkey a Turkish military advanced against allied Kurdish forces after Trump announced he would be pulling u.s. Forces from the region Franco or Donya as n.p.r. News the White House automaker Volkswagen is postponing construction of a car plant in Turkey based on international criticism of the country s military operations in Syria N.P
The news is 1st live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Lakshmi saying the House committees leading an impeachment probe against President Trump are hearing today from a career diplomat with long experience in Ukraine Here s N.P.R. s Michele Kelemen deputy assistant secretary George Kent was the number 2 at the u.s. Embassy in Kiev until last year he was also a leading figure in u.s. Anti corruption efforts for the region before that in leaked e-mails he s shown defending the u.s. Ambassador Marie Yvon of edge who was withdrawn after facing a smear campaign according to those e-mails can t describes one of the allegations against the ambassador as quote poppycock a day after his deposition another career diplomat Michael McKinley has been called to appear he resigned as a top aide to Secretary of State might just last week Michele Kelemen n.p.r. News the State Department the inquiry stems from allegations of President Trump leaned on a foreign government to investigate a domestic poli
And a damn fine for the common. Hi Sam Hi Dan I have a very excited to be here with you tonight your book as I said you backstage was a beautiful beautifully written and you re going to share a bit of it with us here tonight I am and 1st let me thank everybody for being here this is. Just feels very warm and a bit electric and it s very moving to me that you all came out and it s so moving that Dan who is basically a cult. Iconic hero David Young rush Coulter you know. But who has such has done so much since leaving office to motivate and to activate the constituents that we need in order to retake and reclaim our country and our values and so thank you Dan Thank you. So I did want to read just you know we were going to get into whatever Dan wants to get into but. Just because I think part part of what happens when Obama lums see each other is there s the memories of what was. But there s also the personal bonds because whether it was the campaign or Dan served as I guess deputy commu
Since it s called the 3 tier the 3 t. Structure the classic 3 part format in which most successful speeches and presentations are based tell him what you re going to tell him tell him tell him what you just told him today I will do that I m going to state the obvious you see there s really nothing complex about the conflict in the Middle East I have occasionally quoted the 1900 centuries Danish philosopher Kirkegaard who once said there are 2 ways to be fooled one is to believe what isn t true and the other is to refuse to accept what is true most political pundits who vention an opinion on Middle East affairs indifferent to the realities fall into both categories simultaneously the myth that is perpetrated by the Arab states is the core issue that underscores the Arab Israeli conflict is the Palestinian issue that is a lie it s a convenient lie that lie is a carefully manufactured justification for the ongoing state of war and the guys for the Arab rejection of any peace with Israel