Compared hitler to Bashar Al Assad. Is that enough to stop calls for him being fired . In the drivers seat. My one on one sit down with fords ceo mark fields. His message to the president and his vision for the future of the auto industry. Good morning, everybody. Im ali velshi at Msnbc Headquarters in new york. Rex tillerson and Sergey Lavrov have ended a high stakes meeting in moscow. The two are scheduled to emerge at the top of the next hour and hold a News Conference. We know that there has been tense talk over syria. Todays meeting comes on the heels of a newly declassified white house Intelligence Report that accuses russia of helping cover up that chemical attack in syria last week. President Vladimir Putin saying in an interview today, quote, wheres the proof of Syrian Forces using Chemical Weapons . There is none. End quote. Putin also says relations with the u. S. Have, quote, degraded since President Trump took office. President trump had his own criticisms of Vladimir Puti
Card witness. Has already revised his initial testimony in the president s dealings with ukraine. Sondland has arrived and will be before the committee in a moment. Late yesterday we had a hearing that lasted deep into the night. Well see how far we go today. Welcome back to continuing coverage on the fox news channel. Im bill hemmer. Good morning, bill. Im sandra smith. Lawmakers are expected to double down on a phone call with the president. Team fox coverage back with us now. Chris wallace, bret baier, Martha Maccallum and bret baier. Well be with you guys throughout the entire day. Ken, we have an oping statement from Gordon Sondland. There are a lot of skipped areas in 23 pages. Opening statement will last at
least 10 minutes. From what youve been able to glean off of this, in a quick speed read what do you see as critical for sondland . Right. It looks as if there may be a bombshell or two in this. Thats what were looking for. Lets see what he says. He could revise this up to the
Concerning the allegations, i stressed that no one in the new team governing ukraine had anything to do with anything that may have happened in 2016. They were making Television Shows at the time. I also said that it is not credible to me that former Vice President biden would have been influenced in any way by financial or personal motives in carrying out his duties as Vice President. A different issue is whether some individual ukrainians may have attempted to influence the 2016 election or thought they would buy influence. That is at least plausible given ukraines reputation for corruption. But the accusation that Vice President biden acted inappropriately did not seem at all credible to me. After that meeting, i connected mayor giuliani and mr. Yermak by text and later by phone. They met in person on august 2nd, 2019. In conversations with me following that meeting, which i
did not attend, mr. Giuliani said that he had stressed the importance of ukraine conducting investigations in
territory. president biden has had to play a pretty careful and calculated game here. he has been balancing on one hand the desire to support ukraine, but on the other, the need to stop this spiralling into a bigger confrontation between the west and russia. he has been nervous about what moscow, with its nuclear weapons, might do in response to such a move. the kremlin today has accused the us and nato of ratcheting up the us and nato of ratcheting up tensions. but despite its many threats that there will be consequences, moscow has yet to retaliate. i consequences, moscow has yet to retaliate. , ,., ~ consequences, moscow has yet to retaliate. , ., ., , ., retaliate. i spoke to a senior adviser for retaliate. i spoke to a senior adviser for the retaliate. i spoke to a senior adviser for the centre - retaliate. i spoke to a senior adviser for the centre for i adviser for the centre for eurasian, russian and eastern european studies. this really was a big decision by president bide