camerota and john berman. good morning. welcome to your new day. tuesday, october 15th. 8:00 in the east. breaking overnight, major new developments in the impeachment investigation. a former white house insider describing what she calls a shadow foreign policy. a rogue effort to personally benefit president trump. overnight, cnn learned that former russia adviser fiona hill called congress she witnessed wrongdoing. witnessed wrongdoing inside the white house regarding ukraine. in fact, hill and former national security adviser john bolton were so alarmed they reported their concerns to a white house lawyer. bolton compared the push to get ukraine to investigate democrats to, quote, a drug deal. hill also told lawmakers bolton was furious about rudy giuliani s politically motivated activities in ukraine, referring to him as a hand grenade that s going to blow everybody up. pretty vivid language there. the washington post reports investigators are weighing whether to question john
tuesday october 15th, amid the chaos, russian troops start to pop up, flying their flag over joint russian syrian government patrols a few days into the turkish offensive. much of the fighting centers around the kurdish held border city where shelling, air raids and constant battling forced thousands of civilians to flee another round of violence. thursday, october 17th, as criticism of trump s decision mounts in washington and syria, vice president mike pence flies to ankara to negotiate a five day long cease-fire with turkish president erdogan. that involves carving out a no kurd buffer zone along the turkish syrian border our administration has already been in contact with syrian defense forces and we have already begun to facilitate their safe withdrawal from the nearly 20 mile wide safe zone area. molly: reports from the ground indicate that fighting in that safe zone area as the vice president mentioned is still
know, he s ready to do it. we have great concerns about civilian populations. we have spent tremendous amounts of money on helping the kurds. the president is very concerned about instability in the region. you know, they re there and we re here. we re many miles away. think, we have concern about isis fighters. we took care of isis. we captured 100%. spoke to president macron ofness fr today. many of them should go back to europe, germany and france. we will be engaging around the world. our alliances have taken tremendous advantage of us. president trump and vice president pence in their own words less than one week apart. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is tuesday, october 15th and editor with the washington post, david ignacious. nbc news correspondent julia
kurds. president is very concerned bin stability in the region. they re there and we re here, many miles away. we have concern about isis fighters. we took care of isis. we captured 100% spoke to president macron of france today. they should go back to europe. many of them came from europe, but they should go back to germany, to france. we re going to be engaging allies around the world. our alliances in many cases have taken tremendous advantage of us. wow. president trump and vice president pence in their own words less than one week apart. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, october 15th. along with joe and me near washington we have david ignatius. nbc news correspondent julia ainsley. u.s. national editor at the financial times, edward loose. and ron fournier, he s president
the market closed, but the bigger thing is what this isn t. this is an indication that the president is not going to increase tariffs, remember, $250 billion of goods. he threatened to take the tariff from 25% to 30%. that would have been tuesday, october 15th. we need to figure out here the overall thresholds and schedules for different tariffs because there can be promises, there can be sort of assurances given, but until we see the actual numbers, i m not certain we declare this political victory for the president, even though as you hinted he is clearly indicating he is ready to make a deal and he is ready to take credit for it. the language is interesting, fairly substantial phase one. so it is something, we don t know what the details are. cnbc is reporting it has not been fully written out, may take a few weeks to get to the details of it. it seems the president is setting the table for a couple of days about the fact something was going to happen. that s what we ve got.