resurge if the u.s. fails to keep pressure on it. trump called mattis, quote, the world s most overrated general. the white house responded to the democrats portrayal of the meeting saying in a statement, quote, the president was measured, factual and decisive in the meeting. i m joined now by jonathan lemire, white house reporter for associated press and shar lei sykes, editor at large for the bullwork. this meeting set the scene here, pelosi, schumer, hoyer, there were some other democrats there meeting with the white house. the subject here was syria, was foreign policy and what happened? well, we ve now had a few rather eventful meetings between the president and speaker pelosi and leader schumer at the white house. some of it ended rather abruptly like this one. yes, you re right, the topic was syria. but as they got in there the president sort of bitterly started complaining about the impeachment proceedings and that is something that s really come to light in recent weeks.
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so robert costa, again, it is very similar it seems every day what you re hearing here in terms of what comes out. what is it the picture to you that emerges in terms of specifically rudy giuliani and the role he was playing here? based on my reporting this is a portrait of an administration that has enabled a freelance foreign policy orchestrated by mr. giuliani, his business associates and those within the administration working at times against the foreign service officers, the national security apparatus with the blessing at times of the trump white house. and we ve seen it in this new testimony from official after official, new implications about the chief of staff, the acting chief of staff mick mulvaney and others within the white house. and we re also learning fiona hill, she told congress she viewed gordon sondland who was carrying out trump s agenda in ukraine quote as a potential national security risk because
america in the world and you wonder whether what trump voters signed up for and whether this is something that republicans are going to be comfortable with going forward because imagine where they re sitting right now arguing for five more years of this kind of behavior and this kind of decision. we re also getting more details about the president s meeting on syria, at least ostensibly on syria with congressional leaders. three sources tell the washington post the president mentioned several times he s not concerned about terrorists 7,000 miles away after democrats left republican congressman liz cheney reminded the terrorists responsible for 9/11, quote came from 7,000 miles away and minority leader chuck schumer told the president fewer than a hundred isis prisoners escaped after his turkey decision and
is there new hope from an america s prisoner of war? they are floating an offer to release five detainees from gitmo. the white house isn t c confirming. we are not in active negotiations with the taliban. clearly if we start to talk to them, we will talk about the safe return of our prisoner. a fox news alert. the white house is calling the escalating violence in ukraine quote completely outrageous and it has no place in the 21st