these impeachment hearings. that s where the president is. we haven t seen him today since that video teleconference i should say with troops. it s something he has done at christmas and ever since he s been in office here either with the troops in person or doing those sort of video chats with them online. halle, who do you and your colleagues do on christmas eve in west palm beach? like do you have to work all the time or all get together and share some food? what do you do? reporter: you are watching it, dude. this is, we re locked and loaded right here. you ask questions to which there isn t an obvious answer. my friend, merry christmas to you. good to see you again. reporter: thanks, buddy, same to you. that is our chief white house correspondent halle jackson in west palm beach. up next, reports the pentagon is considering a major troop reduction in affect, possibly the wider reorganization of deployments in latin america.
people of hong kong. they are being enacted in the hope that the leaders and representatives of china and hong kong will be able to amicably settle their differences, leading to long-term peace. and prosperity for all. as is often the case, we get little bits of information here and there, and our producer today is here at fox. she tell us we might get a picture of the president as he conducts that video teleconference with american service personnel serving abroad. if we get pictures, i promise you i will share them. for now, back to you. rick: we will be looking for that. thanks very much, kevin corke. the winter white house, the winter home of the president down in florida. we will talk to you soon. julie: let s bring in jimmy weinstein how most of the jimmy weinstein show podcast and founding partner at jay mw strategies. thank you for talking to us. let s talk first about this hong kong bill. was the significance of it? i think it s largely symbolic. the past obviously
text messages. july 18th, 2019. 10:19 a.m. text from bill taylor to gordon sondland. omb, the office of management and budget at the white house, on a secure video teleconference just now said that all security assistance to ukraine is frozen, per a conversation with mulvaney and potus. and then bill taylor completes his text, over to you, gordon. whereupon gordon sondland responds, all over it. so here he is notified in writing and he responds in mid july that per potus, per the president of the united states, all security assistance to ukraine is being withheld. and even now with revised testimony trying to say, hmm, i still don t know when, why, or by whom the aid was suspended, we ve simultaneously got the evidence that shows he knows exactly who suspended that aid.
and in a tweet yesterday, the president writing we may be in the process of leaving syria, but in no way have we abandoned the kurds who are special people and wonderful fighters. but on the ground in syria, the wall street journal reports a very different story. the video teleconference on monday with the commander of the kurdish-led syrian democratic forces, u.s. officials were left scrambling to defuse situations is there. one commanders reportedly yelled, quote, you sold us before storming outside of the room. while another said we have become accustomed by being betrayed by foreign partners. still ahead, we just mentioned we re going to have much more on lindsey graham s offer for rudy giuliani to testify before the senate judiciary committee. ellen is responding after
encounter they had met top executives and had met before hand, they made a plan for comey to right down the memory of everything he had said. he began typing on his secure laptop in the car as it moves. they had set up a prearranged a secure video teleconference when comey reaches the fbi field office and they go and he meets with his top executives via teleconference and the cross fire hurricane people. at this meeting, he says he told the president-elect we are not investigating you. then he left immediately and went to meet with his investigators. shannon: there s a piece today that spells it all out that you wrote, if people haven t read the whole report they should read this so they should get the rest of that story. in the meantime we are waiting for the rest of the inspector general reports that will be a separate portion that looks into the fisa applications that were used to get government