Subpoena. Hill left her job on the National Security council before the president s infamous call with the ukrainian president a source says she plans to testify she didnt know about the aspects of the ukraine scan distal. Her appearance today kicks off a pivotal week of testimony. The wlus stopped sunderland from testifying last week. Lets go straight to our Senior Congress Ap Correspondent manu raju keeping a close eye on that closed door. She came to testify voluntarily, why the subpoena . Democrats say this was necessary because the white house has moved to limit testimony from witnesses on a number of other occasions. Theyre doing this to compel her testimony. Republicans say this is not a necessary move, saying she was willing to do so voluntarily. When i asked for information, why the white house blocked her testimony. They referred to hills lawyer who is also behind closed doors right now, we have not gotten clarity on that. This is a bit of a rocky start, one republican congre
And the president was on offense so, watch this. Democrats are trying to rip our nations apart. First it was the russia hoax, a total hoax. And, think of this. Impeachment. A witch hunt, the as before. They are pushing that impeachment and a lot of bad things are happening. Everybody said, thats really [bleep]. The radical democrats are trying to overturn the last election because they know they cant win the next election. Its very simple. Jason the president s right, the democrats witch hunt is turning to a Major Political disaster. Yet another poll come this one from quinnipiac shows support for impeachment declining. Some democrats and others in the media are starting to see the writing on the wall. Take a look. Talked to some democratic voters as i have and, they are talking about, its not this. They dont believe this is a winner for them in november. This is sort of a warning sign for them. If they are not able to move public sentiment at all with those five hearings with a dozen
The Turkish Backed offensive in Northern Syria is escalating as the u. S. Announces a further pullback from the county. About 1,000 troops are expected to exit the country leaving Kurdish Forces to turn to Bashar Al Assad and Vladimir Putin for help trying to strike a deal to bring reinforcements in in an effort to repel the ongoing turkish incursion. This morning the Trump Administration and coming are promising crippling sanctions on turkey. I think you know it is an evolving situation, were monitoring the situation carefully. The sanctions are ready to go. Well be updating the president this morning. Theres going to be crippling sanctions imposed by the congress to supplement what president Trumps Administration has done. Were going to send a signal to turkey that is unmistakable in the world and well break his economy until he stops the bloodshed. The turkishled offensive shows no sign of slowing down. Over the weekend turkey claimed it captured at least one border town on the syri
Committee, oversight, intelligence and Foreign Affairs have given the white house until october 18 to provide documents related to their impeachment inquiry and in a letter to acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney, the Top Democrats warned, failure or refusal to comply with the subpoena shall constitute evidence of obstruction of the houses impeachment inquiry and may be used as an adverse inference against you and the president. On friday, those same committees also requested documents from Vice President mike pence regarding reports he was involved in efforts to pressure ukraine to investigate the biden s. On friday, those committees, they sent that request and they gave him until just middle of this month, to provide those, and house democrats, they are continuing to warn the white house about refusing to cooperate with their impeachment inquiries. We dont want, you know, to have mob justice or a rush to an outcome here, and we want to give them a fair process but that als
Its quickly deter orriteing inside of syria. I blame turkey. Kipling sanctions imposed by the to supplement what the Trump Administration has done. Well send a signal to turkey thats unmistakable in the eyes of erdogan and the world and we are going to break his economy until he stops the blood shed. Bill watch that story from the hill. Steve harrigan is on the ground in northEastern Syria. Steve. In the past 24 hours the entire battleground here has changed. Put it simply things have simply gotten just a lot bigger. This started out according to turkey as an antiterror operation. What we might be seeing now is the start of a war. A war between two nations. One a member of nato, the other backed by russia. Overnight Kurdish Forces who say they have been abandoned by the u. S. Made a deal with the Assad Government in damascus, a russianbacked Syrian Government for help. Syrian Government Forces are already on the way entering the battlefield here in northEastern Syria. So the battle jus