military as turkey continues their invasion into northern syria. these developments do come just hours after fox news obtained a letter written by president trump to turkish president erdogan on the day the offensive began. in the letter trump writes that erdogan doesn t want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people. today erdogan said he threw that letter in the trash. and already dozens of civilians have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. in washington yesterday, president trump made a number of statements about the unfolding violence that started after he made a decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria. we have a situation where turkey is taking land from syria. syria is not happy about it. let them work it out. we shouldn t be over there. it doesn t appear the president is letting them work it out alone as his delegation did just arrive in ankara. overnight president trump tweeted he was the only person who could bring u.s. troops home from the midd
a very rare move, and the decision does not mean the house will ultimately vote to charge the president with high crimes and misdemeanors. so, let s bring in abc s terry moran, live in washington. he covered the last impeachment involving bill clinton, and terry, still so many unknowns here, but take us through this. what happens next? reporter: well, david, this is an historic day, no doubt about it. a momentous step by speaker pelosi. but we re a long way from any kind of vote to impeach president trump or remove him from office. here s how it will go down. facts and evidence. speaker pelosi has instructed the six committees that are already investigating president trump to, quote, proceed under that umbrella of an impeachment inquiry. depending on the facts and evidence they develop, articles of impeachment could be drafted then. on bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors, that sort of thing. and then perhaps voted on. as i say, we re a long way from that. this is a momentous step
stage at the same time for a debate. rob? rob: molly, thank you very much. tens of thousands of protesters take to the streets of hong kong and march to the u.s. consulate. demonstrators are pleading for support from washington and calling on congress to pass a bill supporting democracy. jonathan hunt is joining us live from hong kong with the very latest. jonathan? rob, it was a sobering day for the hong kong authorities who may have thought and certainly hoped that this protest movement was waning, but what was expected to be a relatively small rally on sunday turned into something else entirely. up to 100,000 protesters taking their message directly to the u.s. consulate, asking president trump to, quote, liberate hong kong and asking that the u.s.
when it comes to threatening annihilation of another country, attention must be paid. here s what trump threatened overnights in a tweet. if iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of iran. never threaten the united states again. iran s foreign minister has been meeting the president tweet for tweet on this one, telling trump to, quote, never threaten an iranian. try respect, it works. what appears to be president trump s fire and fury 2.0 comes as officials in washington are debating the nature of the threat posed by iranians sparking the administration to move assets to the region. let s figure out what is going here or try to. let s get to abby phillip at the white house for us. this is also the same president who told fox news in a taped interview this weekend he doesn t want to go to war. what are you hearing? that s right. this is in many ways reminiscent of the fire and fury when it came to north korea. president trump issuing these tweets on social media that seem
o rourke announced he has made up his mind, and leyla santiago is outfront. when will you make that announcement? soon. reporter: former congressman beto o rourke says he s reached a decision about a run for the white house after setting a timeline during an interview with oprah winfrey. have you given yourself a deadline? i m serious about that. have you given yourself? and the serious answer is really soon. it is really soon, before the end of this month. weeks later, with a big smile, he tells us i m going to be making an announcement soon. i m going to be making the same announcement to everyone at the same time. i m going to want to do it the right way. so that s what we re going to do. last night he told me he was waiting to make the announcement to do it, quote, the right way. you know him. what does that mean? what is the right way for him to announce? well, i think that all his family would have to be there. reporter: his sister charlotte o rourke tells