it is a tremendously successful job. it is called trump towers. reporter: the truth is donald trump doesn t own trump towers istanbul, he owned a licensing deal and in 2008 a turkish developer agreed to pay trump to use his name to build two towers, a residential and an office building along with a shopping mall underneath. trump s daughter ivanka helped with design, picking out the finishes as trump said at the opening in 2012 but that is pretty much it. trump towers istanbul is not own or developed or sold by the trump administration or any of their current or former principals or affiliates. it is a trump property in name only and that name continues to pay him. during the presidential campaign financial disclosures by the trump campaign stated income from trump istanbul between $1 million and $5 million and last year the president s financial disclosure brought that figure down to 100,000 to a
endorsed him and in some ways trump wants to copy that model in u.s. politics but they are both strong men and want to make their nations strong. reporter: it is a relationship that dates back to at least 2012 when then prime minister erdogan attended the launch of trump towers istanbul and ivanka trump made sure to publicly thank him. since taking office, trump has hosted erdogan and met him in japan and they share son-in-laws who participate in governing decisions. in february trump sent his son-in-law jared kushner to turkey to discuss middle east strategy. in march erdogan admitted my son-in-law has a working bridge to kushner and dussed how his son-in-law and kushner text each other. last week the white house announced erdogan will visit the white house again next month. that was before the current backlash over trump s decision to pull troops out of syria.
could we have reality here. even if the filibuster is abolished, which is a big if. and the idea there could be 50 votes for abolishing all private health insurance in the united states seems extremely unlikely. so the idea that elizabeth warren is going to be inaugurated next january 20th and then the next day everybody is going to lose private health insurance, come on she s running on it. i understand that. but i think theme atticly we need to sort of have a little recognition that none of the plans will go into effect. you know who will not have the transition is trump. they are swimming in money that they are preparing to spend if well whom the nominee but particularly on her to nail her on this issue because they they think it is the best issue and obviously so many of her competitors agree because that is why they went after her. i was told before the debate that she was preparing for this. she knew she was a
i think lindsey should focus on judiciary like the do-nothing democrats. reporter: now republicans and democrats are alike are alarmed by the president s language. he s comparing the kurds saying they are no angels and using some of the talking points that is being employed by the turkish president erdogan about the kurts but we re learning from a letter that president trump wrote to erdogan to deliver a sharp message saying don t be a tough guy. don t be a fool. encouraging him to not continue with the military operation in syria and whether it will work we don t know. in a few hours mike pence and mike pompeo are heading to turkey to try to broker a ceasefire and their job made more difficult tonight by the president s own words today, wolf. abby phillip at the white house. more now on the other breaking news. the newly-revealed counterintelligence investigation of president
and insults the democrats. i see a pattern of behavior with speaker nancy pelosi. she storms out of another meeting. trying to make it unproductive. the other democrats stayed and had a very productive meeting. speaker pelosi said the president had a meltdown. our coverage on cnn continues right now. happening now, breaking news. walk-out. congressional democratic leaders abruptly leave a white house meeting on syria after what they say was an insulting tirade against them by president trump that included calling the house speaker speaker pelosi and i m quoting now, a third-rate politicians. giuliani investigation. new details of the federal probe into president trump s potential lawyer. sources are now telling cnn that it includes a counterintelligence investigation of giuliani s ukraine business ties. taking heat. elizabeth warren comes under