laura: ron christie, thanks so much for joining us. ron: good to see you. laura: turkey has stepped up its military presence on the border with syria tonight, saying that forces are ready to advance after the u.s. began pulling troops out of tharea. the northeast of syria is controlled by the kurdish-led sdf forces who played a leading role in the fight against islamic state. there are fears of a new conflict between turkey and the kurds. all this as president erdogan is due to visit the white house next month. fr the border, our international correspondent orla guerin reports. orla: a noisy reception for turkish forces on the move. ambulances and armored personnel carriers close to the syrian border. we filmed this convoy tonight heading to a military base. the first evidence, perhaps, of the buildup to a turkish invasion of syria. earlier, being bussed to the border, syrian rebel fighters backed by turkey. they could be extra manpower for the planned offensive, which is causing havoc internationall ev before it begins. in washington, president trump has b

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ron: no,is idding to the swamp. the perception that people letting their profits in the administration, the perception is good to be that the president could profit from this. laura: ron christie, thank you for being with us. for all the fighting capitolel hill l there was a moment of unity today as both parties came together to mark the passing of congressman elijah cummings. the civil rights leader and chair of the powerful oversit and reform committee has died at the age of 68. cummings was first elected in 1996, son of sharecroppers. while the maryland democrat wasr known as a h critic of president trump's policies, he had very deep trenches across -- friendships across the aisle. as nancy pelosi said in her statement, congress will miss his wisdom and warm friendship angreat humanity. he was a terrific orator, and h is life spanned american history. you can find much more of all the day's news on our website. i'laura trevelyan. --thank you so much for joining wahing "bbc world news america." announcer: funding

ron: it doesn't. the national security council staff had desks for each co wtry around tld and they would have a senior person go to the president and say, mr. president, here are the ramifications of you taking said action. from everything i heard, the president did this on a whi, after having a phone conversation with president turkey and not consulting senior staff. lswhatmight he do to undercut american foreign-policy? laura: that the president is falling out with key allies like lindsey graham while the impeachment inquiry is going on and potentially twhre are people could be jurors in his trial. how does that strike you strategically? ron: the grahamuote we listened to was very strategic. lindsey graham is your number-one supporter in the senate. if you have lindsey grah saying thing like you broke it, it will be your fault if isis comes back, what are other republicans going to do are not as close to the president? laur but the presi tnt did campaifinish endless wars and he is bringing u.s. tro

ron: we are expanding. we announced last week, on a tober 29, we will be in toronto with a great partnership with rogers. the leading carrier for the canadian market. we now serve over 60% of the households in the u.k. three partnership with -- through a partnership with british telecom. we are expanding to new countries, new products and it has been a lot of fun. taylor: you brought up apple several times. i would be remiss if i didn't mention the current concerns. how do you respond to that? ron: that has not been my experience. two weeks ago on a sunday, i walked into my local apple store, knocked on the door, did i know the employees. i was able to get a new iphone, activated on the spot. great accessories. last friday in new york city, i got up early and went to the new fifth avenue apple store. the nicest door i have ever been to. apple is doing really great. retail is hard though. when you have busy stores, you are not going to be perfect. i don't apple is doing their best to deliver a great experien

i already told you, ron, he says they're corrupt. where the hella merkel and germany lets them provide them with support, never discussed with you any quid pro quo, correct? >> correct. i am the one that raised issue from my phone call with gordon sondland, i was not sure what in was works it is nebulous, i described it enough he got ticked off, he did not like hearing that and denied it. mark: not until, my recollection, september 9, give or take, it could have been leyter, we learn about the so-called whistleblower with leaking out of capitol hill, and document sent to them on 9th and inteligent committee according to timeline, not the president coming up with an after the fact explanation for what took place. it is the president of the united states doing what the president has said since. which is, now, they go the support, but i need to make sure they were not basically run away with the money. abuses money, also we want surplus are on thsupport from o. >> there a fair road of u.s. support -- fair record of u.s. support getting

he said ron you know how corrupt it is. he made that point and he really hammered on the lack of european support he talked about angela merkel and i asked angela why are you funding this thing and angela tells me because you are. said ron, we are schmuck's. that was the reason he gave me. i've been brought up this rumor i've heard is there something in the works? does zelensky have to do something or does ukraine have to show you something in order for this support to be released and that is where he made the adamant vehement denial. again i describe it as expletives deleted, no way. i would never do that. who he told me that at which point i felt guilty. well gordon. i was a conversation. and went on the record lastt friday with "the wall street journal" laying that out after the text between gordon sondland and curt volcker became of -- and public. when i spoke to the president well below thet whistleblower complaint was made public out of the blue and he didn't know i was going to raise that issue. his immediate reactio

ron baron. first, we want to take a quick check on the markets futures at this hour, dow looking to open 25 points up nasdaq looking to open 37 points down s&p 500 looking like it is going to open down as well, off by 2.5 points right now, the 10-year at 1.775. >> so close to 1776. >> a huge line up. in the next hour, tesla chair will join us live. congressman kevin brady will be with us at 8:00. >> for on hour on set. >> we have united ceo who will join us at 8:30 a.m. before all of that, we have two hours. >> we have a big show today. a lot of special guests. ron baron. i think this is the 11th year "squawk box" has joined you live you bring together the investors and ceos and talk to top managers, you also entertain them big guest you'vecli included inh past have included rod stewart, and more the star front and center has to be the companies you are vested in let's take about your theme. why what's next? >> we are looking at faster growth in the future >> for the economy, stock market, what

cascade platinum. >>> detective ron goodwyn believed that ron castro was involved in the deaths of six people. he didn't know how or why. now lou castro had slipped away, left wichita. it happened suddenly. a few months after their mother's death in the 2008 car crash, emily and sara were traumatized when lou announced a move to tennessee. how was that approached to the family, we're moving to tennessee. >> he said we really needed to go. we were angry with him for wanting to move. i didn't want to go. i wanted to stay. lou said, emily, we are doing this for you. >> reporter: for you? >> yep, he said we were going to be closer to vanderbilt, which was the college i wanted to go to. and he said this whole move was for me. >> that's kind of flattering to hear. >> yeah, well -- and also, how do you say no when the entire thing is about you? >> so you were still the princess? >> right. >> reporter: emily was 17, but sara was nearly 24 and edging away from the smothering nest. >> i moved out. >> how'd you do that? that's a huge step. >> they were leaving to go to tennessee and i didn't wann

this is the bit ron can't do. you see, ron can't move this hand. and it's like a lead weight. after a career as a police officer, in 2012, he became durham's crime and victims commissioner. and, after a lifetime of upholding and enforcing the law, he now wants to see a change. what i tried to do through my career is make sure people can live their lives in safety and dignity and have a quality of life. and i think those same arguments apply to death. signed by 19 other police commissioners, he's written a letter to thejustice secretary calling for the law to be reviewed. the current operational side of it policewise isn't working and we are penalising the very, very, very vulnerable individuals and that can't be right. many oppose changes to the assisted dying laws, citing religious or moral objections and a fear that vulnerable people may be taken advantage of. i do recognise the counterarguments. i do recognise and respect the views of those who hold a different opinion to me but what i'm saying is we should allow individuals to have that choice with safeguards. for instance

so there's a very wait and see. >> so david, you have ron johnson, we talked about, talked about ron johnson earlier, but the gymnastics that is required here to stand with the president is something to see. it's now, what we saw yesterday was don't believe what you see and don't believe what you're actually hearing from folks. >> right. when jamie's saying they don't know what's next, true, but they do know what is already in the public domain. >> right. absolutely. >> they can read the transcript of the call, and -- it's as mike turner, the republican of ohio said, this is not okay, mr. president. now he may not be on board with impeachment, but at least he's saying this is not okay. we're not even hearing that from many republicans. in fact, the defense is a little bit all over the map. >> right. >> you know, there's not one clear road. whether marco rubio suggests something is a joke or roy blunt suggests something as a joke, or as you said, ron johnson going a bit more into the conspiracy hole. what is -- what i think republicans are facing, and you are right, mitch mcconnell's

here is ron allen. >> reporter: cuba gooding jr. in handcuffs arriving in court today to face more charges of sexual misconduct and abuse. in new court documents, a second unidentified woman told investigators the hollywood star pinched her buttocks last fall at a new york nightclub after he earlier made what prosecutors call a sexually suggestive remark gooding had already been indicted in connection with an incident from june involving a different woman at a new york bar. the surveillance video obtained by tmz gooding, with his girlfriend next to him, allegedly placed his hand on the other woman's left breast and squeezed it. and prosecutors gave the judge a list of a dozen other uncharged incidents of alleged sexual misconduct dating from 2001 to 2018 gooding has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and his attorney denied all allegations. >> we are shocked, outraged, and absolutely dumbfounded that the district attorney's office has wasted the taxpayers' money, resources and time >> reporter: the judge will rule whether a jury eve

i actually agree with ron on that. the reason i pointed to gatt article 21 was not to say that that was germane to whether or not there was some illegal, something wrong with respect to the domestic law. gatt article one was pointed to specific because the question arises by which people unilaterally retaliate and the answer is measures taken by the unitede states did not conformo gatt article 21. even close. not so i agree, with respect to whether or not the u.s. law is or is not a good thing, that's the reason we have a constitutional challenge that is pending for the court. this is not an action against the actions of the administration. this is an action against the law itself that was just passed in 1962. the provision itself, if you look at it, basically say that in order to define it you can first of all, a secretary should give great consideration, give consideration to domestic production needed for national defense requirements which of course the secretary of defense said everything was okay. but section d s

ron brownstein and matt lewis are back with me. matt, what do you think is going on at camp david right now? how tense are those conversations? >> well, you know, the president is putting congressional republicans in an extremely difficult position. first of all, you know, we saw in gallup polling this week support for impeachment and removal reach 52%. it never got remotely that high in gallup polling during the entire bill clinton impeachment saga. never got above a third of the country and in nixon impeachment only reached the level that it did for donald trump last week once in the very final poll before he resigned in august 1974. republicans in any kind of competitive district are dealing with a reality that now you have a substantial portion of the country who believe the president committed acts not deserve not only an impeachment inquiry but a removal from office. the trump card is that the numbers are not moving very much among republicans. in gallup, 6% of republicans said he should be removes. he believes he has them ov

the second we are learning today was republican senator ron johnson who told the "wall street journal" he heard accounts of a potential quid pro quo from that journal report. quote, in an interview senator ron johnson said he learned of a potential quid pro quo from the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. gordon sondland who told him that aid to ukraine was tied to the desire by mr. trump and his allies to have kiev undertake investigations that the president has sought. that right there, the connection of military aid for ukraine to donald trump's political operations is what lies at the center of this fast-moving scandal that has ensnared the president and his cabinet including multiple diplomats. one such dip mart is former envoy to the ukraine kurt volker who at this hour yesterday was behind closed doors in the first deposition of the house impeachment investigation. his nine and a half hours of testimony yielding a treasure trove of what may come to be known as the 2019 version of the nixon tapes, encrypted messages and texts including this one which volker sent to a ukrainian official

. >> my guest this morning the senate pair leading advocates of aid to ukraine, republican ron johnson of wisconsin and democrat chris murphy of connecticut and former cia director john brennan. >>> plus, the bernie sanders heart attack his health, how it could impact the race and it's a reminder that all leading candidates are in their 70s joining me for inside analysis of nbc white house correspondent kristen welker, rich lowry, o. kay henderson and rick stengel welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press". >> from nbc news washington, the longest running television show in history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd >> good sunday morning i made the point earlier this week that a national nightmare is upon us it's not something i said lightly or say it now. but the stability of our democracy is at stake. it's a moment that so many other people, including president trump's primary opponents predicted what happened. now it's upon us in less than three weeks, we moved from a simple "washington post" story said he was pressuring ukraine to investigate biden. to this thursday, when pre

right over here, ron. [ cheering and applause ] thank you, ron. because when the kids said we wanted a new playground, we hired ron. he is one of the top playground designers in the world. he's done a lot of amazing things. he came over here and he said, my vision of a school playground is just a big pile of dirt that kids can play in and create whatever they want, that i admire the creativity of kids. and i thought maybe that wasn't going to go over very well. but ron is still after that idea. then we came up with a huge vision for what the playground could be. then the kids who were here before you said we don't like that. that's not a very good idea. we said, fine, why don't we work together. so we created a class where those kids could work with us and ron. for a year they designed the playground you now have. so this playground is designed by the students of the middle school. that is pretty cool. if you're liking it and feeling like they made the right decisions, you should really congratulate them. if you don't like the decisions they made,

republican ron johnson of wisconsin and democrat chrisoh murphysi of connecticut. >> also, former cia director john brennan. plus, the bernie sanders heartlu attack. his health, how it could impact the race, and it's a reminder that all of the leading candidates are in their 70s. joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker, rich lowry, editor of national review, o. kaye henderson, director of the iowa radio network, and rick stengel. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longestc running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. i made the point earlier this week thatoi a national nightmar is upon us. it's not something i said lightly or say it now. but the stability of our democracy is at stake. it's ay moment that so many people, t including donald trums republican primary opponents, predicted would happen, and now it's upon us. in less than threew weeks we movedee from a simple "washingt post" story in which a complaint by a whistleblower said pr

it's not just like sources close to ron johnson it's ron johnson himself. that denial from the president, senator johnson says he directly asked the president about it. it happened right at the end of august. this was really just, you know, not that long ago. august 31st, it was, that johnson asked the president about it. it was something that as you point out he and others on the hill have been very involved in as it relates to the military aid that the u.s. had committed or was looking to give to ukraine. that is one of the lines we're following here too. >> ken, hallie, and geoff, thank you, all. this is becoming i think a routine of how we're going to have to start each show every day finding out what the heck happened in the last ten minutes. thank you to the three of you. joining me now is former acting solicitor general under president obama and msnbc legal analyst. he says those text messages about ukraine make impeaching president trump, quote, constitutionally required. and former deputy assistant for russia, ukraine, and an msnbc analyst. welcome

ron desantis. also, helping ron and casey, jeanette nunez, your lieutenant governor. thank you. thank you. thanks, jeanette. great job. florida attorney general ashley moody. i saw you down there. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. a few warriors with us. ron was in congress and he was fighting the russian hoax. that was the russian witchhunt hoax. it was so impressive. he said i would like to run for governor. i said i would rather keep you where you are because they have come up with another crazy idea. i'm glad i didn't. it worked out well but we have warriors back in washington. you have five of them right here. bill -- gus? where is gus? the legendary neil dunn. thank you. these guys are warriors. ross spano. thanks, ross. michael waltz. michael. great job he does on television. all of them do a great job in defending us. they are not defending me. they are defending us, because i was the greatest election victory maybe in history and they are defending us. and admin with one of the best names in the history of politics. daniel webster. [cheers] pres. trump: what a

go ahead, ron. >> just one point. if you look at the overview of the last few weeks you have to ask yourself is the president making it harder or easier for house democrats to unify on a vote on impeachment? certainly as usual he has been focused on mobilizing his base and may be mobilizing his base in a way that will discourage or intimidate house republicans from voting but really there has been nothing that has happened since nancy pelosi announced the inquiry that would make it less likely the democrats feel comfortable doing this. in fact, most things would make them feel more comfortable including the way the president has reacted. >> could be short-sighted politically. we have to leave it there. thank you very much. we are going to be talking about one of fox's leading anchors who is out. the question is, is it because of reporting like this? >> our reporting begins this monday with president trump's latest misleading and zdeno phobic eruption of distraction and division. ved background the technology that they

i want to bring in ron paul from the liberty report. thanks for joining us. you have talked about the inherent dangers and bureaucracies of these large agencies. how could we get 737 into the air with a agency with multibillion-dollar budget and this vaping epidemic happened under our knows despite the role of the fda? >> it is not going to be easy. everybody in washington works from a basic assumption that the government's responsibility to make us safe and secure. that is where they go wrong because they're not capable of doing it. they make up their own decisions on what you should do with your property and your life and they're bureaucrat i can and they grow. one thing i recognized in washington, if it was rigs, fda, usually drug companies were very much involved getting regulations written. ifed that to do with banking regulations guess what, banks were very much involved writing regulation. that is what the problem is. airline inspections are the same way, a mixture of companies doing something and then worrying about budgets and vary are you things. so

i agreed with ron on that. the reason i pointed to gap article 21 was not to say that was germane as to whether or not that there was something wrong with respect todomestic law . article 21 pointed to and the answer to that question is because measures that were taken by the united statesdid not conform to get article 21. they're not even close . so i agree. the respect to whether or not the us law is or is not a good thing, that's the reason we have a constitutional challenge pending for the courts . this is not an action against the actions of the administration, it's an action against the law itself . the provisions itself say that in order to define it, the secretary should give consideration to domestic production needed for national defense requirements which of coursethe secretary of defense said everything was okay but the section , section d is so broad that it says at the end and then it says without excluding other factors. in other words, anything can be used to make a decision here and the point t

charles: ron in. >> that pmi was a shock. that's the largest drop in nearly 40 year, and i think you're starting to see trade really weigh in on business owners and decisions they're going to make because you look at the backlog in new orders, it's caused that to plummet. one data point isn't going to tank the market, but if we're starting to import some of the weakness into the u.s. shores from the rest of the countries, it's been immune to it. charles: the irony, of course, in this morning's chicago pmi numbers, employment actually went up. keith, i've got to tell you, and avp number, all the goods-producing numbers were lower. mining down, construction down, manufacturing down, and i love them. i talk about them as dirty finger nail jobs, right? sort of the main proxies for the heartland. and so it really makes this a nail-biter going into tomorrow morning. >> well, it does. you know, i share your opinion. i spend a lot of time on my motorcycle, in the car going around the country looking for the dirty fingernails because

if you look at who was on and you showed us the clip of ron johnson. these guys don't know what to say. none of the usual suspects are on. they don't have their story straight. they are not prepared for what's to come. >> a difficult two sundays if you had to select somebody to come on to the sundays. one of the questions coming from the white house and those who support this president are saying why isn't the house having a vote to move forward with this impeachment inquiry as has been done in the past? there are two precedents with president nixon as well as president clinton. >> as a republican who has always been against president trump, this is definitely the natural progression for me to the trump presidency ending in impeachment. i think as you talked about, a lot of republicans are still trying to exert influence in trying to slow down the process. i think democrats, also, are trying to be very careful in how they handle this to make sure everything is done above board, making sure all the rules are followed. so i feel like everybody is trying

when ron johnson heard from sondland that the money's release was contingent upon an investigation, he said he called president trump on august 31st who told him, expletive, no way. i would never do that. who told you that? >> all this talk of the president about corruption comes from the most corrupt president we have had in modern history. >> most congressional republicans so far have been supportive of the president, been silent or simply deflected. >> i don't know needlingkning y outraged by it. >> i was saying yea, ney, whatever. the president is going to say whatever the president is going to say. >> he tweeted by all appearances e president's brazen and unprecedented appeal to china and the ukraine to investigate joe biden is wrong and appalling. >> i'm now joined by members of the senate foreign relations wheat who were spent a lot of time working together, senator ron johnson and senator chris murphy. senator johnson, welcome back to "meet the press", sir. >> good morning, chuck. >> let me start with something you told "the wall street journal" late last week. you had said whe

we have mayor ron -- of san ntonio, and our co-executive director of the center for new ar democracy based in york city. for those of you joining us via live stream you can also follow twitter rsation on #tribunestats19. some of the stuffer we'll be we'll discuss the impact on the aftermath of the in this ass shooting state. president trump rhetoric, his rhetoric, his use of border politics and racial identity in his re-election we're also going to cover the immigration plans eing proposed by the democrats running for the white house, and whether or not ruby red texas

one of those defending the president was republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin. in a heated interview on sunday, the chairman of the committee on homeland security stated that he had no trust in us intelligence agencies, such as the fbi and cia: ijust want the truth. the american people want the truth. so do you not trust the american...? do you not trust the fbi? you don't trust the cia? no — no, i don't. i'm just very confused here. absolutely not. you don't trust either of those agencies? after obstructing lisa page? 0k. joining us now from washington is former cia operative lindsey moran. good to have you with us. you had the chair of the homeland security committee, someone who is tasked with keeping america safe, does not

and now chuck todd interviewing representative ron johnson and why he winced when there was a implied quid pro quo. >> this is why i am sympathetic for what he has gone through, and what did peter strzok mean when he texted -- >> sir, the propaganda stuff popping up here, i have no idea. >> that is exactly. >> i am asking why -- >> this is underlying why the president is upset and the supporters are upset. >> and senator johnson, can we please answer the question that i asked you an instead of making donald trump feel better of criticizing him, but this is a simple question. >> there is potential interference in the 2016 -- >> i am sorry that you chose to come on this way, senator. >> kudos, chuck. and chris murphy who met with senator johnson and the ukrainian president. >> ron is a good friend, but i am deeply scared by the positioning that republicans have chosen to take. that interview was just a giant green light to the president of the united states to continue to solicit foreign interference in the elections and he telegraphed to ask china to do the same thing that he asked thi

—— when ron asks his wife. we asked for a statement on this story, and a ministry ofjustice spokesperson told us it was a matter of individual conscience, and any change in the law was for parliament rather than government to decide. he said he is touching on a lot of issues and this is where you get thoughts among many of us are watching this morning. this gentleman has a living will and they do not resuscitate direct of the when his time comes you want to be in control, does not want to find himself a new position where he is right on other people for the most intimate of actions. we had when they are saying it's not being cleaned and getting up, getting dressed. this gentleman said nobody should be made to ensure such a loss of dignity so it is getting many of you thinking this morning. 7:45am. here's carol with a look at this morning's weather. good morning. if you'rejust stepping out, worth mentioning the patchy fog we have this morning. parts of south—west england, the midlands, north—west england, ar

navarro's co-author was unaware of ron varas' fictional status. ron varas is quoted in "seeds of destruction" which was written in 2010 by navarro and glenn hubbard, a professor of finance and economics at columbia university. asked via email whether he knew peter thnavarro inserted a fictional character into their book and whether doing so was okay with him, professor hubbard replied, "no and no." as in, no, i didn't know he was making up sources for our book, and no, i'm not okay with it. and that's just bizarre. i mean, it's just funny and it's weird and it's -- but in the trump administration, with their hiring policies and their excellent vetting, that is who you're going to get as the top china adviser to the president. right? get me the "death by china" guy. and he has now become the actual architect of a real trade war that our country is waging with china and as a result of that, u.s. manufacturing is in an actual recession for the first time in years and the federal government is giving direct bailout payments to u.s. farmers to compensa

ron johnson, all. other senators who said the president was joking when he said china should investigate joe biden, these things are going to live forever. this is history. we are living through a particularly turbulent and dangerous period in american history unlike we've ever encountered before. and these people are going to be held accountable by history at some point starting now. >>> coming up on "morning joe," we topped the show with the news of president trump turning his back on the kurds in syria. we're going to bring in nbc's richard engel who's been reporting from the front lines there for years. "morning joe" is back in a moment. (engines rev) the only thing better than horsepower... ...is more horsepower. (engines rev) if we were for everyone, we'd be for no one. with dodge power dollars, more power means more cash allowance. purchase now and get $10 per horsepower. that's $7,970 on the srt challenger hellcat redeye. goldi knows to never compromise. too shabby! too much! too perfect! i can

. >> he offers no evidence for that support, ron. his latest approval rating with black voters is 10%. last month, 9% of black voters approve of the president's handling of race relations. the needle is not moving. >> the economy is the argument he will want to make. and there may be a slice of an audience, among black men in particular, there could be a gender gap between black men and black women. his standing with afric african-american women is as low as you can go. among men, there may be a piece. there's no real movement toward him. and in fact, this is the challenge that he faces, the groups that he is relying on the most, you know, the noncollege white voters, particularly the men, where he has the most support. they are shrinking. they have been shrinking for a long time. he's not able to reverse the long-term pattern. and the groups that face the most resistance, are different minority groups and college-educated whites. they are growing in the electorate and all of that comes to a head again in 2020. >> tonight, kamala har

power and their spending power is deteriorating basically well there are clearly a lot of issues and ron i'm going to come to you now because these protests that are dealing with some of these issues while all of these issues are leaderless it's a social movement by my understanding so far so how unified are the protesters and how concrete are the demands of all these protesters and i understand that this is about calling for an end to the entire political system but but is there a suggestion about what an alternative would be. so i think what what unites the protestors and this is very important is the general of the suffering of all of lebanon and this is very important what we are seeing is there was a gravitation of the different sectarian political leaders the people have been very clement to try this new deal that brought president on to the presidency between hezbollah between heavy between our own and other parties as well it's not working the gap is getting bigger and bigger they're only getting richer they're only getting more oppressive towards the people and the people are ge

joining me are marisa, and npr senior editor ron joining us from wantd.c. ron, let me begin with you. let's talk about the niecec revelation with reto vice president pence. what do we wknow and where is this going? >> the house leaders have sent notice to the vice president ng sahey want to see every development that might exist, that might pertain mtings that mike pence that mmight ver with the ukrainian president, perhaps with others in ukraine. they want to know everything that he knows about the interchanges between our government at the highest levels, that is to say presiden ukrainian president with úrespect to iestigations of the bidens, and also with respect to what the president has been saying, and we saw this in those envoy messages that you referred to a moment ago, the quid pro quo, which seemto bequite explicit at least in the minds of those , envoose people in our state department delegation there in key everybody that the president wasaying if you want this aid that congress has appropriated and everyone seems to be for,you have to give me