Someone. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead, the number two republican in senator john thune of south dakota delivered a devastating assessment of the house impeachment inquiry of President Trump. Senator thune telling reporters that the picture being painted of the trump ukraine scandal by the top diplomat in ukraine is, quote, not a good one. Bill taylor testified he was told President Trump was going to withhold, quote, everything, from ukraine, everything, including badly needed military aid that is until ukraines president publicly announced investigations into joe biden and his son hunter as well as ukraines alleged role in the 2016 election. And as Cnns Kaitlan Collins now reports for us, this all comes as President Trump is trying to spin capitulation to turkey in syria as a win for the United States. This was an outcome created by us, the United States. And nobody else. Reporter today President Trump took credit for a ceasefire in syria. While