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Manhattan district attorney. we ll be guided through that story later in this hour. and the biggest conflict donald trump has ever had with republican members of congress, republican members of the senate is not over his possibly impeachment conduct but over his very sudden shift on syria policy at the request of the president of turkey in one of those very peculiar trump phone calls with the president of a foreign country. we ll consider the sudden switch in syria and how it affects his grip on republican senators and republican voters when he needs their support the most to survive the impeachment process. they will bring foreign policy expertise to that question at the end of this hour. president trump s desire to please turkey s president erdogan has been a consistent phenomenon throughout the trump presidency. donald trump does business in turkey at trump tower in is t ....
Obviously famously trashing former national security advisor john bolton on the way out who knows his relationship with fiona hill. there are a lot of people on the outside of the white house who know things. if i m the democrat, the people i m looking to talk to are the people that have left and who might feel compelled to come forward and have for pre free more freedom to share information and careered foreign service people that know they want to be there after the trump administration. don t want to go the ship. we ve seen in this extraordinary letter yesterday them trying to stonewall the whole inquiry. there are pockets of people that democrats can get to, like fiona hill. what might fiona hill know about what donald trump has said to vladimir putin about syria and how that might be relevant to where we are tonight. she might know of course, even fiona doesn t know a lot. she wasn t in helsinki in the room when the president had the conversation with with president ....
People that have left and who might feel compelled to come forward and have for pre free co more freedom to share information and careered foreign service people that know they want to be there after the trump administration. don t want to g the ship. we ve seen in this extraordinary letter yesterday them trying to stonewall the whole inquiry. there are pockets of people that democrats can get to, like fiona hill. what might fiona hill know about what donald trump has said to vladimir putin about syria and how that might be relevant to where we are tonight. she might know of course, even fiona doesn t know a lot. she wasn t in helsinki in the room when the president had the conversation with with president putin. although she may have spoken to the interpreter i believe she speaks russian fluently so she could have been privy to a little more information on that. but certainly on syria. again, i wonder what did vladimir putin ask president ....
End of the evening at the g 20 summit with no translator or note taker from the u.s. tied to record the dialogue between the leaders. that s according to people who had direct knowledge. there was a russian translator there and apparently the ft is learning from russian sources that some of the things were discussed were syria, a poll? i ukraine, a number of foreign policy issues. well, i just answered my previous question, which is where does the president get intelligence and foreign policy advice from? essentially from vladimir putin who he s treating as his shadow national security adviser in this case. he s spending more time alone with him talking about sensitive issues and getting insights from him and giving information to the russian government that his team may not have that he may be spending with john bolton or the intelligence chiefs. what this tells us is that the president really does not engage in the most basic counterintelligence hygiene. this g 20 meeting came well ....
Putin who s an adversary before the president told allies like the turks. that is retold an enemy what we were doing in syria before he told a friend. not good business right there. and remember just a few weeks later we changed our policy. yeah. he said we re getting out of syria. and by all accounts, the defense secretary didn t know that we changed our policy. the against communi intelligence community didn t know. or suggested it. bottom line is we don t know. we don t know. we don t know because there was no other u.s. person present. i can make these statements that vladimir putin did, but we should know. the public should have the confident that the entire apparatus of our government is working in the same direction, not at odds with the president. joe, sam, phil, thank you all very much. all right. ....