. >> what is erdogan's approval rating? >> before the operation it was around 30, 35% and he lost the municipality in the election and it was a huge blow to his operation but after the operation in northern syria -- >> doing what he is doing in syria is wanting and acting against the kurdish militia and repatriating sunni refugees and setting them back to the country is one thing but at the end of the day i believe that turkey citizens care about the economy and the money they have in their pockets and how is president erdogan delivered on that front? >> from his early 2010 he made sure that there was a base and [inaudible] he resolves to use $15 million a year to help people and what they think is erdogan they will not get different types of -- one reason he lost the municipality elections in a sample was because the mayors disobeyed and from using the cities richest to distribute it. >> i want to circle back to syria. there have been that we played on ti j and the connotations of turkey's actions against supporting she ho

this is what erdogan is doing in syria. the problem for erdogan is domestic. after the coup in 2016, erdogan turn turkey into a giant blog, systematic denial of rights -- who log -- using article threes are one of the penal code which makes it a crime to denigrate turkish is, to arrest political opponents. 100,000 civil servants were suspended. more than 50,000 people were arrested. turkey has more journalists in jail today than any of the country in the world. turkey has serious economic problems under the leadership of erdogan. i looked this morning, the turkish leader is trading at 5.7 to the u.s. dollar. a couple of years get it was just a little bit above two. foreign direct investment in turkey has all but evaporated. there's widespread corruption, and erdogan has found the best way to distract turks from this reality is demonizing and killing kurds. the setback that it the akp experienced in local elections in march and june is a measure of the fact that turks are growing disaffected with erdogan, with his obfuscation and his policies, creating a confli

president erdogan said no. so the united states, at greater risk to our own forces, had to air drop weapons and supplies into iraq from u.s. aircraft, and with that help, our syrian-kurdish forces were able to stop isis from taking over kabani and began to push them out. and, again, with our help primarily from the air, pushed them out, and in that fight over the last five years, the syrian kurds have lost over 11,000 men and women, soldiers and others. that's what they've lost in the fight with us for isis. turkey, on the other hand, not only did not lift a finger in that fight, but for the past five years, and even more the years before, they had turned a blind eye to isis fighters transiting through turkey so isis was growing stronger as a result of that negligence. madam president, i just want to close by responding to those who say, well, you know what, turkey is a nato ally and so we should invite president erdogan over to the white house. and i see on the floor my friend and colleague, senator durbin fro

how do you feel about president erdogan being here in the white house? a betrayal of kurdish americans that our president invites someone who knows there is an invasion going on. it is a disgrace. unfortunately he is being appeased which is a policy that we as kurds do not approve of. erdogan in his current form should not be allowed to further his destabilising agenda in the region. but president erdogan stood by the turkish operations into syria, even reiterating his aim to use the invaded areas to rehouse refugees. translation: i launched an appeal to establish a safe zone in syria but because of the delay, tens of thousands of civilian lives were lost. this problem cannot continue for ever and ever. there are many here who feel that not only is turkey not been punished for starting its operation in northern syria but that in fact president erdogan is now being rewarded just for limiting an offensive he should never have started and has already done irreparable damage. more palestinians have been killed by israeli air strikes in gaza, as a flare—up

erdogan: thank you. contrary, christian area we ares an especially sensitive about, and we have certain different plans. whether it be the ones remaining on the side of syria whose aries have been destroyed, whose churches have been destroyed, will see their sanctuaries revived, and their churches will be reconstructed so they can start praying there again, and these are the plans we are making there for them. as i said before, the christian ones who arehe living on our side of the border have no problems whatsoever, but the ones remaining on the side of the syrian territory will see worshiping practices restored and revived in a special manner. they are receiving health care. they are receiving humanitarian aid in every aspect possible. thank you. pres. trump: thank you very much. would you like to pick somebody? a friendly person from turkey, please. only friendly reporters. there aren't many of them around. thank you. reporter: you inherited the burden of obama's flawed foreign and -- allowing the pkk

cnn said that graham was aggressive and direct with erdogan. members of both sides of congress have threatened sanctions if he doesn't back off. they invited the senators in to demonstrate to erdogan the force on capitol hill. the president has been complimentary of erdogan in the past. but the relationship has become strained. >> joe johns, thank you for explaining all of that. >>> day one of the public impeachment hearings had viewers glued to their tvs. what did swing voters in one key swing state think? that's next. blood to the body. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. ♪la-di-la-di-dah don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto. ♪the beat goes on yeah! ♪ even though ♪ i find you so captivating ♪ and i'm done with hesitating let's see where this goes? save on a gift that says it all. ♪ jare

he wanted to be there talking to erdogan. that happened all this in a split screen what is going on with the house on impeachment. >> right. well look, the president is still the president. there is a lot of business. turkey in an important part of the world but impeachment is the drama of the day and we know, again, we know where this is going. i think a lot of this is pretense. do we think, does anyone really think that today's hearings really changed anyone's vote up there? each side knows where they will go with this. we think it, looks very stage managed. i think possibly because they leaked so much before, we didn't really have the great drama today that i thought we might get. melissa: democrats claim that they think they're going to sway senate republicans. we'll see. bill mcgurn. thank you for sticking around doing that. >> you're welcome. connell: fox news alert. shares of cisco systems are lower after-hours after reporting first quarter results. gerri willis what do we see in the numbers? >> we're looking at the wo

. >> welcome to united nations, his excellency, recep tayyip erdogan. >> reporter: but erdogan had a very specific goal in mind. he just briefed the united nations about his plan to invade northern syria. he wanted to clear out kurdish fighters from a strip of syrian territory along the turkish border. he said the kurdish fighters there were just terrorists. the land turkey wanted to take over and resettle with a new population was rojaban. many considered erdogan's plan a blueprint to ethnically cleanse the kurds. on their fateful phone call, president trump opened the door for erdogan to invade. and ordered u.s. troops to get out of the way. an apparently off-the-cuff decision that set off shock waves. >> president trump clearly gave a green light to this intervention, and i don't -- maybe he didn't fully understand what this meant, who would be crossing the border, who are these people, maybe he didn't ask his experts. it's pretty clear to me he was not prepared for that phone call. it just demonstrated no knowledge from the commander in chief from the oval office level of the sit

this country will be around after erdogan leaves the scene. it is opinion to try to get along. >> this is liz peek. what is our national interest in turkey? what to we want from turkey? president trump made is clear that is what drives our foreign policy. what is it we're asking of turkey at-this-point. >> what asking curtail some things we think are unhelpful like purchasing russia air defense system that would com compromise some of our more sophisticated air equipment. but more broadly, u.s.in -- usiy as a counter weight. it say country that has not thrown in the towel on history unlike a lot of other members of nato. >> i was exploring who was angering people after the press conference, one of the comment is president shaking hands with erdogan saying you are doing a fantastic job for your people of turkey. second thing, i would like to commend fox roberts of fox news, asking erdogan about letter that president sent to him, was not being a tough guy. and attacking the kurds, christian, if you could comment on that relationship right now, t

. -- erdogan. we had a great relationship with the curzon pot very successfully with them against ices. we have great generals and... —— kurds. we captured, as i said before, 100%. when we are at 97%1 was going to say well, that sounds pretty high to me. i was thinking about stopping it then and a lot of people said please go to 100. very quickly, very rapidly the military got the 100. i wanted to have that. but we have a great relationship with the kurds. we get along with them andl with the kurds. we get along with them and i think the president may have some factions within the kurds, but i think the president has a great relationship with the cards. many kurds live currently in turkey and they are happy and taking care of. including health care and education and other things, so that isa education and other things, so that is a misnomer, but our relationship with the kurds has been a very good one. first we have to make a distinction. between two things. we have no problems with the kurds,

it is a great honor to be with president erdogan. decision to withdraw u.stroopsom orthern syria in effect give president erdogan the gaden light to i pres. trump: the relationship we have had is good, and i have heard all the pundits three or four or five weeks ago, they were against what i did. now all of a sudden they are saying, wow, that is really working well. aleem: tell that tsyrian kurds who have been left reeling by recentvents and are still burying their dead. they feel they sacrificed so much in the fight against the islamic state group, only to be abandoned by their ameri.n al at the mercy of turkey, and leaving i.s. to start to assert itself again. the group once more carrying out attacks that kill civilians. the kurds, feeling forgotten, have been trying to me their voice heard in washington. a protest ght outside the white house as the two leaders met. how do you feel about president erdogan being at the white house today? >> honestly, the trail -- betrayal. as a kurdish american for our president inviting someone tha

why are you inviting erdogan? in a time you've seen what took place in syria where they went in and they're accused of war crimes including chemical weapons attacks against syrians. there's a big question to be answered about whether or not they knew where al baghdadi was located. why did the u.s. have to fly through iraq to -- for that raid opposed to going through next door turkey? and of course they bought that antidefense missile system from russia. so there's a lot on the table here. there were sanctions on the table as well. there's a huge disconnect between where the u.s. military stands, the defense secretary said that turkey will be held accountable. how are they being held accountable? he's being held with a visit here. to put this in perspective, we still haven't seen a visit from president zelensky who had been begging for one. it's one of the reasons we're in an impeachment hearing right now and yet you've invited somebody who has violated so many agreements to the united states. there's a lot of issu

erdogan. i argued that we were ceding american leadership in syria and the region to leaders and countries whose policies were intrinsically at odds with our own. unfortunately today we are seeing the terrible consequences of this abdication of leadership. erdogan's warm relationship with putin should ring alarm bells across the nato alliance, raising concerns about nato's ex-piece our at incirlik. it raises concerns about how erdogan and putin may be working together to counter u.s. interests across the middle east in the balkans and around the world. nato is an alliance of shared values. none of those values are respected, none of them, by the current occupant of the kremlin or in ankara. second, provided with a green light from the trump administration, president erdogan's invasion of syria to attack our kurdish partners is an unconscionable act of brutality that has caused death and untold suffering among our kurdish friends and partners. tens of thousands have fled the area, creating an e

it is a great honour to be here with president erdogan. it was president trump's decision to withdraw us troops from northern syria that that, in effect, gave president erdogan the green light to invade. the relationship we have had has been good and i've heard democrats and pundits three, four, five weeks ago against what i did and now, all of a sudden they say "wow, that is working well!" tell that to syrian kurds, who have been left reeling by recent events and are still burying their dead. they feel they sacrificed so much in the fight against the islamic state group, only to be abandoned by their american ally, at the mercy of turkey and leaving is to start to assert itself again. the group once more carrying out attacks that kill civilians. the kurds, feeling forgotten, have been trying to make their voice heard here in washington. with a the protest right outside the white house as the two leaders met. how do you feel about president erdogan being here in the white house? a betrayal of kurdish americans that our president invites so

jay was saying, turkey's president erdogan is in town for a white house visit tomorrow. some members of congress are urging president trump to uninvitehe leader. they say that turkey's invasion of northern syria was a national security and hunitarian disaster. congresswoman susan wild is on the house foreign affairs committee, and i spoke to her earlier from capitol hill. ted by asking if president trump should have gotten a commitment to a cease-fire by before granting this visit. rep. wild: i think we should have gotten the commitment before president erdogan was invited to the white house for a visit.ho it is a grear to be invited to the white house, and i don't think that it should have been done in this order. i would've liked to see the least get a commitment frommp at president erdogan to stop buying russian missile defense systems? rep. wild: words only means much. actions are far more important. i'm very concerned that we will heps maybe a command, or per -- maybe a commitmenla or perhapuage that is somewhat softer than a commitment, that will not be lived up to

president trump and turkish president erdogan held a joint news conference talking about terrorism in the middle east and renewed trade talks and president trump announced that they'll release a turkish-american and the news conference was held in the east room of the white house. [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and the president of the republic of turkey. >> thank you very much, everybody. please. i want to begin by welcoming the first lady with us today and the first lady of turkey. thank you very much for being here. this is a great honor to have you. and we had a wonderful and very productive meeting. before we start, i would like to thank president erdogan for releasing detainee golga who was in detention, in different forms of detention and i appreciate that very much. that was a very nice tribute and he'll be coming back at some point in the not too distant future. so that's very good news for the united states and also very good news for turkey. turkey, as everyone knows, is a great nato ally and a strategic partner of the

we understand white president erdogan -- why president erdogan wants this. who was on president trump's side at this point, because republicans and democrats are not as enthusiastic. terry: that is the right question to ask. it runs into the russian problem. what you have is a situation where the trump administration has done a very poor job of explaining exactly why the change in policy and the potential benefits for the united states. what it sounds like at first blush is a different and a little bit more of a united states disengagement from an area in the middle east that is not a prime concern of united states policy overall. there is an awful lot of dissension in the congress and beyond, even the middle east itself, about whether that is the case. they have a lot of explaining to do and there is a lot of pressure coming from congress to sanction turkey over at least one or more of the issues. david: let's go back to jay powell's testimony, the fed chair. he did not say much about monetary policy saying if things keep going well, then we are in a good p

>> the invitation to erdogan, the avoidance of any sanctions for erdogan buying russian missile, the green light to erdogan to invade northern syria and slaughter our allies, the kurds, as you mentioned earlier, all of these actions in effect raise the specter of a payoff to erdogan. but it's part of a pattern, and that's why the dealings with the ukrainian president are part of that pattern as well. bribery is certainly a very plausible and powerful charge supported by very convincing evidence in the case of the ukraine. and all around the world donald trump is profiting from the presidency by putting his personal financial interests potentially at the priority compared to the nations. >> the trump administration has claimed they were attempting to fight corruption in ukraine. do you believe that donald trump and his administration are corrupt or that he himself is corrupt? >> this administration is the most corrupt in my lifetime, maybe the most corrupt in american history and certainly in recent history. and all of the evidence that has been disclosed by the mueller report, by the

general assembly when trump snubbed erdogan completely. he saw a dozen other leaders, couldn't find the time to see erdogan. erdogan insisted on having a phone call, and in that phone call said, i'm going to invade northern syria, and you can't do anything about it. and trump said, okay. and he's been trying to make up for that disastrous decision ever since. >> there you are in europe where we just marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. give us a status report on what trump and the trump presidency has done to the atlantic alliance and what has become of the u.s./russia relationship. >> well, you have to remember that the atlantic alliance originally was formed to confront the soviet union. and we're now in a position where vladimir putin is trying to revive if not the soviet union, at least the old russian empire and presents himself as a major threat over the long term to the security of europe. but his buddy, donald trump, is doing everything he can to dismantle the north atlantic alliance to the extent where presi

where we're expecting president trump and the turkish president erdogan to speak momentarily. the president yesterday, we saw him get up and sort of tackle trade and while he did not promise anything new on the front, he also threatened to hike tariffs again josh, when we're looking at these trade headlines, we've been in this a long time and it still manages to move the market. >> it's really important not to buy and sell based on what donald trump says about the economy or the market. he also claimed ivanka trump created 14 million jobs. so take it for what the source is. >> it was 13 million. >> my apologies. that's probably true so i think the big picture, if you've been reacting to any of that stuff, you probably have not done well this year. if you've ignored it, here is your prize 10% in bonds, 25% u.s. stocks. you made double digits in emerging markets, europe, japan, junk bonds that's really been the big picture, to not pay too much attention. >> paul, really quickly, what do you feel about valuations in the market >> let me preface it by saying it's a terrible timing

an oval office meeting yesterday with president trump and turkey's president erdogan took a dark turn when mr erdogan pulled out his ipad and made a group of senators watch a propaganda video that depicted kurds as terrorists. the meeting is reported to have involved five republican senators including lindsay graham who've been among the most vocal critics of turkey's recent invasion of syria and attacks on america's long—time kurdish allies in the fight against islamic state. president erdogan is trying to avoid sanctions over the purchase of a russian missile defense system. with me is our north america reporter aleem maqbool. talk us through this, you have the senators who we understand were upset by mr erdogan bringing out this video, where was president trump and all of this? it was an extraordinary meeting in the first place. it was added to the schedule very late. of course we saw all day yesterday, donald trump standing by mr erdogan and the actions he had taken in northern syria against the kurds. but there has been pushed backin kurds. but there has been pushed back in rec

erdogan are going in terms of a relationship with russia. is it they're going to buy from russia, what they will buy from us, that is the biggest issue in terms of money. having a good relationship with this government, that is representing turkey a member of nato. but there are other fires that are so heavy the president needs to discuss them with president erdogan. as you mentioned in washington you have two groups opposing president erdogan's policies. on one hand democrats who are doing so because of solidarity with the left-wing in turkey, but also, many, many republicans are concerned about something else, the attack against the kurds, the minorities and mostly this, these jihadi militias deploying in northern syria. so the president the is trying to get from president erdogan as much as he can concessions, when the meetings take place with the senators, the president will have something new at the table. charles: president trump tossed out numbers on potential economic impact we could have if we increased our trading but john roberts

>> and in just a minute we're going to live to where the president and turkish president erdogan have started a press conference. i want to let you know after this we will be taking your phone calls on the impeachment inquiry. >> i want to say i appreciate you all being here. you're doing a fantastic job for the payment eople of turkey. to advance the vital interests of our people and the abiding friendship between our nations. we have a great relationship both personally and with the great country of turkey. and we look forward to moving that forward and making it an even bigger and better relationship. thank you very much. thank you. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> translator: mr. president, my dear friend. distinguished ministers, secretaries, distinguished members of the press, i would like to at the onset salute you with my most heartfelt emotions on behalf of myself and my nation. first and foremost, i would like to thank my dear friend president trump and the first lady of the united states for being such gracious hosts today. we've managed to comprehensively discus

it is a big deal for president erdogan. just look at how this press conference is viewed today in saudi arabia or united arab emirates or israel or iran and russia. all these countries that deal with or have issues with turkey or with turkey's policies in syria or turkey's role as a regional power are looking with a bit of cautiousness, because president erdogan has just been empowered by the superpower president trump in a sense of saying we are with you in the war on terror in your policy on the middle east and you are a senior partner of ours in the middle east. likewill echo in places korea and the philippines. >> thanks. you're watching al jazeera live from london. bolivia's new interim leader denies former ,resident was ousted in a coup deploying security forces to keep the peace. hong kong police claim universities have become refuges for criminals as violent crashes -- clashes with pro-democracy protesters escalate. ♪ >> the wind has swung around now . in some places that helps with the fires, in sums it doesn't.

i am told that lindsey graham got into it a little bit with erdogan. there was a pretty tense moments. the senators were not only giving him grief about syria and the kurds come but also about purchasing russian -- the as 400. what i understand from talking to the white house official about this, president trump president trump wanted erdogan to see with his own eyes the prt he has in washington. this is really real. if he doesn't back off, he is going to face sanctions and this is not just a presidential -- the pressure from congress is overwhelming against turkey. >> bret: here is lindsey graham on this. >> the purpose of this meeting is to have an american question for our friends in turkey. there is a pony in there somewhere if we can find it. >> my colleagues, president erdogan honored senator whitehouse. i would urge this body to remain clear about our nations vital interests in the middle east and the fact that advancing them will mean strengthening our relationship with this nato ally. not weakening it further. >> bret: the question, ben, is th

at the time trump sent erdogan a letter threatening to destroy the turkish economy and calling on erdogan to not be a tough guy or a fool or else history will quote look upon you forever as the devil. the last time erdogan visited the white house back in may of 2017, you remember this. just minutes after a meeting, with the president, in the oval office, erdogan was caught on camera ordering his security detail to assault a group of peaceful protesters on embassy row, in the nation's capital. charges against the turkish assailants were later quietly dropped and trump hasn't commented on that, however he has heavily praised erdogan. >> i want to thank president erdogan, on behalf of the united states, i want to thank turkey, i want to thank and congratulate president erdogan, he's a friend of mine, frankly, he's a hell of a leader, and he's a tough man, he's a strong man, and i have great respect for the president. he did a terrific thing, he's a leader, he's a leader. >> and president trump has accepted an invitation to kick off new york city's 100th annual veterans day parade, making him

president erdogan needs $25 billion to pay for this resettlement. he will get support from his close allies. the key countries are europe. they will, everyone realizes, need -- resident erdogan realizes, need legitimacy. if the u.n. signs off, it will make his task getting funding more easy. the u.n. seems to be sympathy -- sympathetic. they are facing three have -- three and a half million refugees in turkey, destabilizing for turkey and the rest of the region. earn a one has warned -- president erdogan said he would open his borders and trigger another crisis. if he doesn't get funding. phil: turkey's offensive against kurdish militias has created a dilemma for countries like germany. what should they do about citizens who joined the islamic state and are being held in kurdish prisons? authorities regard people as dangerous terrorists who pose a threat if they came home but leaving them in syria is risky as you are about to hear. reporter: more and more mass graves and people killed by islamic state are found in syria. thousands of soldiers and ci

. >> then if i may, on syria and piece in the middle east, president erdogan talked about repatriating syrian refugees back to their homeland. have you had those discussions with european leaders -- >> he think that frankly europe should be paying for this. as of this moment turkey has been paying for most of it and the president said they've spent over $40 billion on the cost of that. $40 billion. >> how much? 13 -- >> 40. >> that is what i said. whatever. he spent a lot, okay. throwing out all of the different numbers. i heard it was $40 billion. is that $40 billion correct. so $40 billion and i've heard that number from others and that is a lot. europe has contributed about $3 and a lot of these people would go throughout europe. it would be a devastating situation for europe because he has 4 million people. he has a lot of kurds, too, that they're helping and taking care of. so i have spoken to europe about it. i think they should help us with isis because many of them left france and they left germany and they left u.k. they left different countries. and these countries should hel

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and, in fact, erdogan, you know, after the president gave the order to withdraw most u.s. troops from syria, turkey moved in with real violence and hundreds of kurds are believed to have been killed. this is the president though, you know, looking -- prioritizing tactics over strategy. short-term wins, short-term attempts to change the headlines. we saw that yesterday. he was trying to draw away from the impeachment proceedings. it's sort of surprising in a way that he was as restrained as he was commenting about them. but as he discussed earlier, he tried to project this idea that he was too busy conducting the people's business when certainly he caught up with the footage of the impeachment hearings later that night from the white house residence and we certainly expect to hear from him at any moment here in the white house when he departs. and, nicole, i will just add he was supposed to leave for this white house more than a half an hour ago. but the pool that's on the south lawn right now, he seen the president in the oval office having an animated conversation with at

on this blockbuster wednesday, donald trump is meeting president erdogan of turkey at the white house. i'm too busy to watch it. it's a witch—hunt, it's a hoax. i'm too busy to watch it, so i'm sure i'll get a report. donald trump has railed against the unfairness of the process, and has insisted repeatedly he has done nothing wrong. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. 0ur washington correspondent chris bucklerjoins me now. where do we go from here, chris? yes, simply more impeachment hearings. and you got a real sense today of what you can expect, and thatis today of what you can expect, and that is republicans and democrats drawing lines and trying to put out their own message about exactly what donald trump did with ukraine. they may have been questioned here today by american politicians, but all of this was for the benefit of the american public. actually, we didn't learn that much new. instead, what we saw were democrats and republicans trying to use the facts, what there is known, into their way of thinking. democrats saying very clearly that the president was abusing his powers

so shortly here, i think, we'll get president trump, president erdogan. two and two, as you mentioned. liz: blake, really quickly, you know how this works, right? nobody's going the waste their question -- at least not the american press -- on, you know, something going on in syria. and i don't mean that in a rude way, i just mean that there's impeachment, we've got the federal reserve, we had jay powell smacking back and saying no negative rates like the president asked for yesterday. and then, of course, the trade deal. how's this going to work, and do we know who he's going to call upon? >> reporter: we don't know who he's going to call upon. it's always a crap shoot, liz, when we walk in here. liz: could be you. >> reporter: could be me. anything in particular? shoot me an e-mail, maybe? liz: yes, the trade deal. >> reporter: no, no, no, and ily if -- i will if we get that chance. there's half a dozen topics that anyone could ask. of course, trade, powell, you know, there are a couple, turkey and what's going on there, clearly, as well at the top of t

what do you think of erdogan's comments? >> unfortunately he is right, those troops are going to be there for some period of time. president trump ceded the safe zone so erdogan a month ago. the only player with real leverage to get erdogan out, probably vladmir putin, not donald trump. connell: they have more troops there certainly as we showed you. the meet next week at the white house, what should we expect? there are two parts. is it a good idea to meet with president trump to meet with president erdogan at white house and what should we expect? what should he say? >> i have a real problem with it, erdogan even though he a nato ally he has been on a tear hurting u.s. interests. we had the crisis in northeastern syria where he said his troops were going in regardless whether the u.s. liked it or not. he has bought a very advanced russian air defense system against u.s. wishes. hamas, the palestinian terrorist group, has got an operational hub that works out of, out of turkey. we've got all kinds of problems with the turks

the turkish president erdogan came in and made quite a bold gesture. he gave back the letter that president trump had sent him last month, which got a lot of attention. this letter warned of the turkish leader history will look up on you favorably if you get this done in a right and humane way. to look upon you forever as the devil of good things don't happen. don't be a tough guy, don't be a fool, and it ended with i will call upon you later. here with us, general jack kea jack keane. strange meeting. what did you make of it? >> very difference in the sense those five senators were there, really to represent -- the president wanted erdogan to feel u.s. congressional pressure and how determined it was to the pressure he was getting as president in terms of his own policy decisions as it pertains to syria and turkey, but also lets erdogan feel it, also. erdogan is testing the waters a bit. there's a couple of issues he's got. one, he bought the missile-defense from the russians. congress wants to impose sanctions on him for that. and the president hasn'

battle isis, but erdogan considers them kurdish separatistdee with turkey. mr. trump warned erdogan peatedly to restrain his operation, even writing him a blunt letter telling him, "don't be a fool." erdogan ignored him, but the two nations did reach an agreement, announcedy vice presidegrtoeairsyriawat sae turkey, a na this aernoon, erdogan stood by his policy at a white house news conference. >> ( translated ): we're just fighting terrorists, period. they don't have a nationality. if you don't fight back, then tomorrow you will have to pay a very hefty price. >> nawaz: the two leaders alsoou spoke abturkey sendingpt caed islamic state fighters back to their home countries-- further straining ties with nato partners. >> i have spoken to europe about it, i think they should help us fight isis. >> it's important foreig d fighters should be accep countries of origin. >> nawaz: also on the agenda today, turkey purchasing russian missile defense systs, and the s. canceling sales of f-35 stealth fighter jets to ankara as a result. mr. trump said today, "i expect we w

instead of erdogan coming to the u.s. and perhaps at least acquiescing to some of the demands that are coming from the u.s. and republican senators, he comes in and what gumption to come in with this ipad and show the kurds in a negative light. clearly his government views the kurds as terrorists. that's not how the u.s. sees them. this is just a month after the one phone call the president allowed erdoga to come in and invade syria and disperse so many of these syrian kurds. many of them were killed as well. there are accusations of genocide and human rights violations. and for erdogan to come in with this doctored video to try to convince u.s. senators and good for u.s. senators. many of them stood up to erdogan and said why are you showing this to us? we have a lot of evidence to show you, you know, what atrocities you've committed as well. so once again, it's just this situation where a few years ago no one would have believed you have a dictator come into the united states and instead of coming in as a u.s. guest and

. >>> two miles away from the hearings, president trump played host to turkish president erdogan at the white house. why some of the president's allies raised concerns involving russia during that meeting. >>> and duval patrick for president? the former massachusetts governor is reportedly considering joining the crowded democratic field. democratic field. ♪ captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. >>> we begin with extraordinary testimony in the impeachment inquiry. the first public hearings detail president trump's alleged effort to pressure ukraine to investigate joe biden. yesterday two career diplomats, bill taylor and george kent, testified on capitol hill. taylor said a member of his staff overheard a july phone call between president trump and u.s. ambassador to the eu, gordon sondland. after the call sondland told the staffer the president cared more about the investigations of the bidens than ukraine. president trump denies any knowledge of the call and said the impe

earlier, president erdogan received a warm welcome to the white house despite tensions over the war in syria. i'm maryam moshiri in london. also in the programme: a breakthrough in the war against ebola, the world health organization approves the first vaccine. and venice underwater — the highest tide in 50 years causes severe flooding in the italian tourist city. voiceover: live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 9am in singapore, iam in london and 8pm in washington, where president trump has again denounced the impeachment inquiry into him as the first public hearings got under way. it started with testimony from the acting us ambassador to ukraine. bill taylor said it was clear to him the white house was making both military aid and a visit to washington by the ukrainian president conditional on ukraine launching an investigation into mr trump's democratic rival joe biden and his son. our north america editor jon sopel has the latest. history in the house... this is like the super bowl for politics, the day the impeac

erdogan has a deeply divided turkey, and we will speak with the mayor of istanbul, a territory erdogan lost recently. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ >> i see the level of the policy rate right now as appropriate for the economy we have, which is good consumer spending, good domestic momentum, but facing these headwinds. we are in the moderately accommodative stance and that is more than appropriate. we have been consistently surprised at how low unemployment can go without spurring wage price inflation. tom: our kathleen hays with mary daly. i strongly urge you to look at mary daly's path at the fed and the interviews she has given over the last number of months. citigroupting with and in berlin, stephanie flanders, in charge of bloomberg appropriate economics. it is the word du jour. describe appropriate economics. stephanie: it is appropriately data-driven. appropriate is the new data-driven. we have seen a pretty consistent theme out of fed policymakers over the last few weeks as we have a bit more optimism around the survey data on global manufacturing and the markets want to take that

trump sent erdogan a letter saying don't be a tough guy, don't be a fool. there was outcry about that in turkey. and erdogan said he returned the letter back to trump. we don't know what that means. and out of this meeting, there's been no public breakthrough. but it's opened up venues of dialogue and discussion between the two countries. whether that can improve the relationship between the two allies, we'll have to wait and see. >>> ahead for the second time, a court rules the president has to hand over his tax returns. another big case before the supreme court, right before the election. if you have medicare, listen up. the medicare enrollment deadline is only weeks away. with so many changes, do you know if your plan is still the right fit? having the wrong plan may cost you thousands of dollars out of pocket. and that's why i love healthmarkets, your insurance marketplace. with their new fitscore, they compare thousands of plans from national insurance companies to find the right medicare plan that fits you. call or visit health markets to find your fi

he spent the day meeting the visiting turkish president recep tayyip erdogan. mr trump told him that they understand each other‘s countries, despite tensions over the war in syria and russian missiles. at an initial meeting in the oval office in washington, mr trump said they would discuss mr erdogan‘s decision to buy s—400 missile batteries from russia. i look forward to continuing to find a common ground and common purpose and to advance the interests of our people and the abiding friendship between our nations. we have a great relationship both personally and with the great country of turkey and we look forward to moving that forward and making it an even bigger and better relationship. translation: we all believe that we need to further cement our relationship and that it should be erected upon a strong and healthy relation. we should remain resolved in order to open a new chapter in our relations, in full compliance with our deeply rooted alliance. also making news today: more palestinians have been killed by israeli air strikes in gaza as a flare—

we are grateful to president erdogan and the citizens of turkey for their cooperation. and the constant struggle against terrorism, he fights it like we do. they key to our security, collaboration is our trade defense and military equipment program. american foreign military sales to the turkey total many billions of dollars. and turkey supplies component parts to many american defense programs. they make parts of the frame, as an example for the f-35. turkey's acquisition of sophisticated equipment such as the as/400 creates a very serious challenge for us. and we are talking about it constantly. we talk about it today. we are talking about it in the future. hopefully we will be able to resolve that situation. we've asked our secretary of state a minister of foreign affairs and respective national security advisors to me work on resolving the as/400 issue. we've also recently agreed to work toward a $100 billion two-way trade agreement. secretary ross is here. and i think we've made tremendous progress on that. we have a lot of trade with turkey, but it could be many t

president trump hosted turkish president erdogan at the white house. a group of republican senators only, they didn't invite any of the democrats to deal with turkey. all of them voiced concern about turk turkey's -- also met with erdogan. joining me here in studio are richard engel. kelly, lay out what happened. he brought the press in with what looked like the president was mediating a debate between republican senators and erdogan. >> and it was an unscheduled added event in the oval office, and you're right. the tension is running deep between those particular republican senators who are very frustrated by turkey's actions in syria and especially with respect to the kurds. frustrated at the president too over this issue and, president trump acknowledged today that there are real serious tension points in the relationship between u.s. and turkey, even though he was so effusive in his praise of president erdogan and welcoming him to the white house. it really is a stark thing when you think about turkey acquiring buying russian made military equipmen

members and his close circles, erdogan realized he cannot -- if he leaves power. his understanding he has to stay in power regarding of what works in the past people were believing or claiming erdogan was doing whatever he was doing for the good of the islam and the country, for the good of the religion and turkey however, in 2014 or after 2014 it became obvious that his main concern is himself. he basically uses his politics, the religion to make sure that he is going to be in power for a long time. that's reason he amended the constitution, that's the he's investing in different groups to guarantee future. >> so we are about one month after turkey launched a military operation in the north of syria. the war focus on what's happening in the northeast right now while also the oil is located. but we want to zoom in and talk a bit about the northwest, the idlib province. people recognize the name idlib thanks to the operation to kill al-baghdadi pick some people recognize idlib duty meeting headlines on russian shelling on civilians. but turkey's influence and contr

erdogan has put more journalists and generals in jail than anybody else in jail. of course, he's imported a russian air defense system right in the heart of a nato air defense system, and his invasion over northern siri over the last 30 days has caused a lot of people to be killed, brought about a lot of refugees. americans' lives were in peril there. sometimes the president has to push back, even turkey. they're the most difficult ally we have in the world. for the president to embrace him and say i'm a fan of yours was unpresidential and didn't meet american interests. >> i want to read this. turkey remains an important part of the united states but the day the united states aspires to a model country are over. what is the relationship with turkey like at this point given the history and what happened over northern syria over the last few weeks? >> well, what's happened is turkey has become an authoritarian state. democracy is being snuffed out. he's also brought islam into the heart of the government and turkey historically going all the way back had been secul