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Everything up to the american people. be transparent with them and they have a right to soo this. what s happening is you have a secret proceeding that then we tried in the court of public opinion. we talk about it on tv on the evidence that we don t have because we weren t in the room. and that s wrong. if we re going to talk about it on tv, we re going to leak evidence out. let s let the american people see it for themselves instead of the bits and pieces that have been brought to us. that s not the right way we do things in america. is 15 pages of the opening statement unedited for the american public to see on cnn.com. congressman dent? again, the president of the united states seems to be advancing vladimir putin s foreign policy interests. he never believed in this policy providing a lethal military assistance to the ukrainians. even though sean and i both did and president obama didn t want to do it either. president didn t support it. he s taking putin s side on that issue. ....
Northern syria a couple weeks ago. while he was harshly criticized for pulling american forces away from the border region which many people believed if not giving a green light to turkey advance certainly set the conditions for them to be able to invade. the president said if it weren t for the intense fighting for a number of days between turkey and the kurds, this permanent cease-fire would never have happened. by getting the cease-fire to stick, moved on something that s very, very special. troops are safe. the pain and suffering of the three-day fight that occurred was directly responsible for our ability to make an agreement with turkey and the kurds that could never have been made without this short-term outburst. democratic senator bob menendez accusing the president of kowtowing to turkey and russia, abandoning the kurds and opening the door to an isis resurgence. menendez sang the only question ....
Scheduled to meet in a matter of hours. turkey calls all forces terrorists. and erdogan says he is ready to take necessary further steps. freddie pleitgen joins us now. reporter: both leaders are aware of the fact that president trump has taken the united states out of the equation, as far as that is concerned, by abandoning the kurds, as well. president trump pulled the forces back out and abandoned the u.s. allies. he has moved the russian forces and the syrian government forces up to the border between turkey and syria. the russians want they don t want the turks to continue their offensive in northeastern syria. they want to integrate some of the kurdish forces into the security forces and have bashar ....
Lo and behold, a guy like rooney says he s retiring and he loves to come on tv and unburden himself like a confession. it only happens with people who are either in a modern district, swing district or they re leaving office. one of the things that s interesting, i want to hear what you said. you used to be a spokeswoman for the obama state department. for a lot of these people, the bridge too far was doral. for a lot of them it was syria. and the rash decision and aban doning the kurds, that s when we heard from people like lindsey graham. that s right, and it became kind of the straw that broke the camel s back for lack of a better term. it may make way for republicans to differ with donald trump, put their political ambitions and political worries aside. what was so striking to me about what rooney said is that it was very clearly spoken. he wasn t arguing ukraine and ....
Of generals. we saw the fall out from the president s sudden decision to pull u.s. troops from northern syria. the invasion by turkey, the killing of kurds, the escape of isis prisoners, and a land grab by syria s dictator bashir al assad and his enablers russia and iran. we saw a president who wanted us to believe everything was fine. i view the situation on the turkish border with syria to be for the united states strategically brilliant. we saw the extraordinary letter he sent three days after his fateful call with the president of turkey telling him not to do the very thing he made possible by abandoning the kurds, a letter that includes lines like let s work out a good deal. don t be a tough guy. don t be a fool. i will call you later. such an adolescent quality to it. i read it and immediately called ....