and it horrified washington. the letter he would write to arnold about this initially he said i heard this was a situation i cannot believe it's true but believe me if it is i will do everything for you. he would try but this began arnold's real problems with the continental congress. he had a point and others for example john stark from new hampshire sure the same thing what happened to him and he quit. he would raise his own state army nd arnold could have done that but he hung in there. and in typical arnold fashion he is in new haven kind of upset over all of this. his though widower is 36, he better 16-year-old girl in boston that he fell in love with. he wrote for the most awful letter you ever read it she turned him down flat. so he's in new haven and it's not looking good. and he hears that royal governor william tyrone t british occupied new york is leading a raid on danbury connecticut where the americans have a lot of military -- it's very much like the raid on concord that would start revolution. so h

here is washington's headquarters. isaac potts was a wealthy quaker who lived in philadelphia must the time. this is a summer house. it only has one working fireplace in the main part of the house. washington and his family of aids and secretaries, not literally his biological family, but those who are living with him day in and day out working together. they will live at this house for quite some time. december 1777 to june of 7078. -- 1778. it is cozy. you can see the marble fireplace and the beautiful wood paneling. everyone has to pack in their -- there. there re-organizing the army is often overlooked. he drafted in the bleak midwinter. january of 1778. he composes a massive document of 16,000 words. that is quite a lot of writing. hamilton was verbose in speech and writing. the detailed the necessary steps by congress to completely reorganize the army. congress was in shambles. the army was in shambles. we have plenty of historic precedent to draw from. there were ideas contributed by various generals, including

washington has grown accustomed to this method of voicing dissent. though larger than most, this was an organized demonstration with parade permits, marshalls, and responsible leadership. the demonstrators' position on the war and racial discrimination and other issues were made known. officers of the metropolitan police were directed to maintain a low visibility profile. their role was, as always, to protect the constitutional rights of citizens, intervening only to meet emergency situations. there were few laws broken, few arrests. most who came in the name of peace returned to their jobs and schools. but some who came to break the peace stayed on in west potomac park. for them, the april 24 rally was only a prelude to mayday, an opportunity to advance their own well-defined aim, to shut down the federal government. >> the country should respond from coast to coast with demonstrations across this country. narrator: these militant and violence-prone members of the new left decided the discipline and tactics of peaceful assembly were no longer accept

all of this happened on embassy road and washington, d.c. on that morning, september 21, 1976, orlando letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute of policy studies. he was driving his car to work. he lived in that direction. he came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. in the car with him were runnin -- ronni moffitt and her husband michael. they turned the corner here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a great sit in. in that great sedan were two cuban-americans who had helped put a bomb underneath the driver seat -- the driver's seat in the chevelle orlando letelier was driving. the order was given by the secret police of chile, ruled at the time by pinochet, a dictator who did not like the political activity that orlando letelier, a former ambassador to the united states from chile, was taking on in washington, so we know now that it was the dictator who ordered the secret police to assassinate him, so they did this partly through an american chilean who came to wa

when george washington -- we talked a lot about george washington today. when he ordered suits from his london taylor, he included the language, delivered suits must with -- must be delivered with measures taken of men of similar size that you judge. these are simple instructions that were essential communications to a tailor, if you are expecting him to construct a handsewn fitted garment. until the very recent past, handsome clothing was not a luxury item, it is a simple fact of clothing restriction -- clothing construction. handsewn remained the standard mode for production for any garment. whether it was a middling artisan or slave. the men and women in the 18th century weren't familiar with needle and thread and they can make simple repairs on household items. fuller garments required the knowledge and skills of men and women who learned their trade through apprenticeship. coats and waistcoats, they sit closely and precisely to the body. they require the skills of a tailor to construct. a tailor skill lay in his ability to fit, to measure and cut garm

high-level talks resumed today in washington. is jenny the latest leonard who is with us from washington. there has been this question of a partial deal. what might be on the table as we go into this. there haveigns that been backwards negotiating going on? >> it definitely feels like a. if you think back 12 hours ago, the chinesesure if delegation was only going to stay through the whole week. now we know president trump confirmed there will be a meeting between him and the vice premier in the oval office. when you think to previous rounds or that concluded with a meeting between the two men and their teams in the oval office, it was usually a good sign. speaking to our sources, we are hearing president trump was only going to agree to the meeting if the chinese are actually coming with an offer he finds attractive. in recent weeks, we have seen a lot more back room negotiating on a more realistic level. going back from the big deal president trump maintained he wanted to have, to something that is more partial. something you ca

for more let's bring in correspondent published foley alias in washington d.c. public even by donald trump standards the last 24 hours have been fairly wild who was in the firing line hi anthony yeah it was a pretty interesting day today here in washington d.c. much of the anger that we saw coming from president trump. it was geared towards the democrats and like you mentioned before in particular to the chair of the house intelligence committee adam schiff and also the have speaker nancy pelosi and he also went on the attack joe biden on his son who he described as crooks and also attacked the media and some in several angry exchanges in fact and he described what they were providing to the american people as fake news but of course what was quite interesting was to see the finished president standing there rather perplexed at times but of course president trump is appearing as a little bit rattled by this ongoing at impeachment inquiry which every day appears to be gathering more and more pace anthony. yes in the middle of that secretary of state mike pompeo c

was our texas side washington d.c. is united for the 1st time in franchise history the washington nationals have claimed their title as the best in the world series. used to win the game started well for the houston astros in a winner take all final time the team are at home and put up the 1st 2 run suchi. thank god they ended up being their only. 176 against the nationals answered back how we can jerk an anthony ran don't both hit a home run in the 7th any was when it all came down to this point to you was the washington nationals beating the houston astros 62 years to our side in franchise history was i was overjoyed i guess that that like the 1st 5 your team wins it is amazing the nationals are the 1st team in the world series to win all 4 of their away games disappointing this houston crowd this year. i can honestly say nothing would have surprised me i mean for more we started saurashtra a travelling booze i mean you name it we've been through a lot but like i said before these guys we stuck together if you want t

give washington, d.c., some breathing room. with that comes the ability for more union foraging parties to go to outlying areas, gather more intelligence, get more foraging parties. that gets us back to the town of dranesville. this is a map done by bradley godfrey. this map atlas is his. here is the map. they are moving west toward leesburg to get more food. remember at the beginning, i mentioned these civilians in dranesville were not too happy to have them in the area. it's a story where i cannot go into too many details, but the union army would go to dranesville three times, and on those three journeys, they are arrest three dozen people, send them back to prison to washington, d.c. rumors are circulating that some of the dranesville citizens have heads of decapitated union soldiers on their signposts. it's false, but that will get the attention of washington officials. decapitated heads on signposts . they are also noticing there's a andof fertile territory lots of hay and grain. it's essentially a no man's land. who ever

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, lobbying in washington. the wall street journal reporting they have stepped up efforts since mr. trump took office, spending more than $34 million last year, up from $16 million in 2017, according to the center of responsive politics, while other companies cut ties after jamal khashoggi's killing. saudi arabia continues to spend millions on lobbying. what is driving that, martin smith? guest: since the murder of jamal khashoggi, which opened this window on a pretty ugly situation, vis-a-vis the human rights record of saudi arabia, they needed a lot of help, they needed cpr quickly. they had been working on that and of the crown prince himself has tried to make efforts to come to terms with this, although his understanding of transparency is quite different from yours or mine. they are spending a lot of money , they've always spent a lot of money in washington. the u.s. is anonymously important to them. they live in a dangerous neighborhood and they are depending on u.s. support for their military. it didn't

camp april 1776 in washington said that he bought in battles of canada he was on washington's side from brandywine and as a general but we think of these men who won this battle or that that all we forget what the american revolution is about the only thing anthony wayne new is what he read so he drove washington mad he kept saying if we do this is just like the british and caesar and it never worked so what people said about him it came to attention he could retreat better than anybody that washington needed a lot he had a complete physical and mental breakdown and had a ruined life after that he cannot go back to his family he said i cannot settle back into the routine of living. he had a plantation in georgia that was failure that almost bankrupted his family and incomplete disgrace was thrown out of congress to have his friend stuffed ballot boxes to get him elected. this was 1781 his life was ruined his wife didn't feel anything for him in washington was desperate for a general come out to the ohio country so against the wishes of his cabinet, he picked anthony wayn wayne. we had w

death and i think you have to go back to maybe how strategic thinkers and practitioners in washington view the middle east yes of course oil as you said has always been important but the real fear in my career about the middle east was there would be a breakdown in stability open warfare which would lead to the closing of course of the strait of hormuz but much worse where you've got a nuclear capable israel we've got iran pursuing nuclear weapons iran iraq war was a catastrophe for everybody so in my time in the white house believe it or not when planning was happening for the iraq war what i felt people were thinking about was what's what's the biggest point of fairly what could be the worst thing that it could happen it would be that they thought saddam hussein acquired weapons of mass destruction and so then everything kind of trickled down from that so similarly now saudi arabia is seen by president trump as the centerpiece of his middle east strategy such as it is israel saudi relations are good better than they've been ever. the crown prince and your cushion are our special fri

still, letelier ended up working against pinochet in washington. his work coincided with a golden age of human rights activism in the 1990's. more than 200 groups in the united states worked on human rights. over 50 lobbied congress and about 15 concentrated on latin america. thel rights icon became first assistant for democracy, human rights, and labor under the jimmy carter administration. just a few months after the letelier assassination, mark schneider, who had worked for kennedy in massachusetts on several issues. in congress, representative don fraser chaired the first congressional hearings on human rights in 1970 three. helping him were among others harrington,michael all democrats. on china, congress's greatest achievement was the 1975 harken amendment, which cut off aid to any government that grossly violated human rights. unless the president determine such aid would directly benefit the needy. the following year, teddy chiley directly targeted . one chilean magazine called kennedy the most angers for an adversary of the pinochet regime

washington, and commander of -- chaplain of the uss george washington. you all for joining us. [applause] now i suspect if washington were with us today i suspect would eartily -- when george washington took over command of the american army back in 1775, chaos.iterally was the opposing force, the british army, was the largest in the world. in the 13 colonies, there was no real american army. there was nothing more than a rag tad band of civilians undisciplined, with no uniforms and few supplies. painstaking work, dedication and perseverance. from mount away vernon to win that war and to hen go on to create the american nation. and in that time, washington in a way that has few equals in the history of mankind. why we're so pleased and i am so honored today to guest, e our special general james mattis, the 26th defense, to share with us his remarkable story of from 18-year-old recruit in the marine corps reserve to four star general. especially like his subtitle, learning to lead, because we mount vernon are helping others learn to lead, sharing washington's leadership skills w

chris buckler, bbc news, washington. let's brief you on some of the other stories making the news: here in the uk, an inquiry into the deadly blaze at the grenfell tower apartment block in london two years ago has issued a damning report. it has concluded more lives could have been saved if the building had been evacuated sooner, and found systemic failures in the london fire brigade response. relatives and survivors have called it heartbreaking. a second earthquake has struck the southern philippines on the island of mindanao. the 6.5—magnitude quake hit in the same area as the stong tremor that killed at least seven people on tuesday. the us geological survey says there is no threat of a tsunami. officials in the philippines, however, have warned there are many injured from tuesday's quake, and that the death toll may climb. it has been a hugely busy 2a hours in the business world. the federal reserve has cut the cost of borrowing for the third time in four months, citing concerns about the global economy and the tra

climaxing the demonstration is a rally at the washington monument. many observing the demonstration from the sidelines are probably members of that silent majority referred to by their present. demonstrations here still attract audiences, even though protests and tickets have been and continue to be a common sight in washington. almost every day, there are some americans who come from around the country to express their views because this is the seat of the federal government for all 50 states. [chanting] >> not all come to protest. some come to promote a cause. but no matter how worthwhile or meaningless the issue, how popular or unpowered, sound or foolish the cause, demonstrations are part of the american edition. -- tradition. [chanting] >> realized that what is happening right here and right now with all of the demonstrations. >> according to many people including president nixon, this demonstration does not reflect the views of 200 million american people. on the contrary, some observers say these demonstrators beat only for a minority while th

in regards to getting information to washington. i have been in touch with the white house and we are working closely with the state. the cooperation is very impressive. every level of government is cooperating well. the people in our area. the number of volunteers is unbelievably impressive. right down to food preparation. we had three of california pot best chefs yesterday in the kitchen facility located at the fairgrounds in sonoma cooking food for people. that is a nonprofit organization to feed people when there is a disaster. we have chris and tyler here. i am here to make sure that folks in washington and congress and the white house know exactly what we need and how we needed area so far everything has worked smoothly. the federal government has come forward with the fire grants to help california deal with the cost of fighting the fire. as we get out of the firefighting component of this disaster and move into the recovery there will be a need for more resources. the role that the company pg and he plays in this, what do yo

i want to ask that the washington from washington rebels come up now and they asked that we stand as we all saying lift every voice and sing and for those who may not know, as an insert here in you're program how. >> we have some many songs today to tell stories. and two brothers wrote a poem in the other set it and he's 120 years ago who told our story and lift every voice and sing. there was first some by 500 schoolchildren on february 12th, 1900 at the segregated school where james weld in johnson was principle. so many stories are a part of the americans story and seeing and lift every voice and sing pop. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (applause) >> thank you again. we wanted to thank everyone of your and our crowd continues to grow. now from here the field is already crowded with the children waiting for our cannon fire. for those who don't know we fire a cannon five years ago on the 150th anniversary of the bottle ford stevens and the first time a cannon had been fired in the nation's capital since 1864. today, were going to

will be decided in washington by washington over the next weeks. the harassment of 4 african-american schoolgirls in new jersey. the harassment of 4 african-american school girls in new jersey has raised the issue of racism again this time in a whole new form to young man allegedly as he has raised the issue of racism again this time in a whole new form to young man allegedly using racial slurs against girls in your innate it reportedly on one of the new york times g.'s racial slurs against girls in your innate it reportedly on one of the new york times journalist believes that the boys were in acting american whiteness that despite the fact they themselves were earnest believes that the boys were an acting american whiteness that despite the fact they themselves were of indian descent. in the new jersey incident the heritage or skin color of the boy suspected of the salt does not matter what matters indian descent. in the new jersey incident the heritage or skin color of the boy suspected of the salt does not matter what matters is that they were

for many years turkey exercise a veto here in washington d.c. preventing members of congress from voting their conscience on the armenian genocide members of congress essentially overrode that veto and let members vote up or down and 405 of them voted yes only 11 voted no and that's basically what happened the patient's right out with turkey to say that we're not going to force your gag rule here in washington and we're going to let legislators vote their conscience the thing is this right in turkey it's illegal to talk about the armenian genocide and that's it's a terrible law but that's turkey's law they have no right to export that here to washington and especially america as we're not going to outsource our policy to you we're going to have our own policy which is a healthy thing where you say that the patient has run out but you know i know that this is the lobby by armenians in the united states is that this is been going on for at least 2 decades and now all of a sudden we're getting this decision yes. are you telling me that what we've s

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now we go to washington. now we get -- if we had any doubt on what the white house strategy was dealing with the impeachment think, we got that question answered. anna: we got a letter from the white house counsel to nancy pelosi saying there will be no cooperation with the house impeachment inquiry until there is a formal vote on the house floor. they are pushing house democrats to have a vote on the floor to open the inquiry. even before they get the articles of impeachment. nancy pelosi has resisted that step, but is unclear whether she sees it as a political reliability as republican say it would be for her vulnerable democrats. nancy pelosi went forward with a formal impeachment inquiry. why wouldn't she ask for a vote on a formal resolution? she might. one argument is she does not want to be seen as responding to pressure from president trump. there is no prescription for how this process should play out. impeachment is a political process, not a judicial process. the arguments made in the letter do not

amin jampacked day in washington. yamiche alcindor and nick schifrin, thanks to you both. ♪ >> time stephanie sy with the latest headlines. general motors and united auto workers reached a tentative yield today. terms of the four year contract were not released, but uaw said it won major gains for workers. union had demanded higher wages, better pay for new hires, and a promise to build more vehicles in the u.s. s union leadet tomorrow. while autoworkers were ending their strike, teachers in chicago are getting ready to go on strike after failing to reach a deal on a contract. some5,000 teachers are expected to participate. classes are canceled tomorrow. one of california's largest hospital system has reached an emagt to settle a lawsuit related to high prices. in a cas watch nationwide, sutter abusing its market power to overcharge patients. tails are pending its final approval in february or march. sadbo news in the world ong. patrick day died today four days after sustaining head injuries in a fight. conwell wrot

washington made marshall washington's -- martha washington's. they really needed to utilize the skills of a tailor at some point. even the virginia company included a tailor in the first expedition to jamestown and sent six more tailors to the colony 1608, making it second only to carpenter's. that their predominant preoccupation was that we need more tailors, that says a lot. , but not to eating look good. all right. upthat trend actually holds throughout the 18th century. in the virginia gazette, tailors advertisement makes up total trade man's advertisements from extant copies of the gazette. and third behind tutors doctors put in alexandria, a distribution of the cities tour occupations began from the mean 64 to 1800 and reveals 20% of local artisans were involved in the clothing craft, and just like in 17th century jamestown, it is second to those employed in the construction trade, so again, this is an important part of our everyday life and society, and this overwhelming number of tailors on the landscape speaks to their necessity in a so

and yet, washington always wins. talking about grinding people to the, you know, their political bones to dust, if you think that you can win in washington without knowing how washington works, washington will destroy you. >> we're still in the fifth inning here. i mean, whether washington's going to win here, i've been struck by the way that trump came to town. elbows -- >> i'm not talking about impeachment, i'm just talking about people who are actually patriots who come here to serve, whether it's in state department or the dod, they're not going to let some -- some reality host from new york city come down and change the rules. >> well, as you often say on this program, republicans have let him to do just that. >> yes. >> this big, loud, elbows out, new york whatever he is, republican, democrat, came to town and blew away an entire political party. they just became supine. now maybe washington, meaning decent people who want to serve their country, people who work in the military, people who work in dcongress, ma

they said, we thought he would .o and blow up washington well, he did go and blow up washington. it is unlawful and it has been unlawful for ages in the constitution. host: we will continue on "washington journal" with a focus on the impeachment process. we will be joined by "national tornal's" josh kraushaar talk about that. this weekend, or c-span cities tour will be exploring the history and literary life of rapid city, south dakota. [video clip] i think rapid city is everybody's hometown. sometimes it's more like a big town and we have become known as the city of president -- residents --presidents. mount20 minutes from rushmore, the largest president monument in the world. where we havecity former president's on our street corners. so it's very interesting. downtown there are some monuments that are very important. , there is the fear of discussing and being seen as patronizing -- the fear of inaging with this population a real open and honest way. you do not want to accidentally offend someone and i think that's not just unique around the city. i think our whole nation's of

they said washington post. obviously it is fake because everything the washington post does is fake. it is done by a rich guy for the purposes of giving him power in washington. i call it the lobbyist washington post for amazon. he ought to be ashamed of himself. what they did to his reputation i think is no good anyway, but what they did to his reputation with the washington post is a disgrace. these reporters wrote this book. they said i want a moat with alligators, snakes, electrified fences so people get electrocuted if they touch the fence, and spikes on top. never said it, never thought of it. i put out something on social media today. i said i am tough on the border but not that tough. it was a lie. you asked the question. it was a total lie. it was corrupt reporting. i don't even use fake anymore. i called the fake news corrupt news because fake is not tough enough. i am the one that came up with the term. i am very proud of it. i think i will switch it to corrupt news. the media in this country -- not

attack as turkey prepares to sweep away kurdish fighters from the syrian border kurdish groups say washington is abandoning them. also coming up environmental activists staging drastic action to fraud tension to the climate crisis in cities around the world members of the group extinctions were valiant aim to paralyze traffic in occupied buildings to get their message across. and the nobel prize for medicine goes to a trio of scientists for their groundbreaking work on oxygen bottles and cells discoveries that lead to new strategies to fight cancer and other to. i'm serious almost gone it's good to have you with us turkey is set to launch its long planned offensive against kurdish fighters in northern syria the u.s. has reportedly started withdrawing troops from the area clearing the way for the incursion to go ahead now u.s. troops were stationed close to the border with turkey where they supported kurdish forces in the fight against the so-called islamic state turkey sees these kurdish militias as terrorists on sunday kurdish groups in the region held a mass demonstration against the turkis

of the aisle in washington d.c. senior congressional politicians democrats and republicans are calling on president trump to reverse his decision to withdraw u.s. troops from northern syria the pullout with turkey to launch a long planned offensive against kurdish fighters in the region fighters that have been loyal allies of the united states in its fight against a so-called islamic state leaving in a hurry american troops started pulling out of syria within hours of the official announcement. they leave behind them empty bases near the turkish border bases that had been a guarantee of safety for kurdish forces us president on the trump abruptly canceled that guarantee by tweet the kurds fought with us but were paid massive amounts of money and equipment to do so they have been fighting turkey for decades it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous endless wars many of them tribal and bring our soldiers home u.s. troops were in syria to support kurdish forces in the fight against the so-called islamic state bu

let's speak to our washington correspondent chris buckler. chris, donald trump has made this china plea in public, does it change oui’ china plea in public, does it change our people will see those private ukraine phone calls was yellow it feels like donald trump is trying to make normal what the democrats say is simply extraordinary. a us president, essentially asking a foreign government, or as it is now, two foreign governments for help in digging dirt on a political opponent. and that is how democrats see it. president trump is trying with the strategy to say hi am doing nothing wrong. the question should all be aboutjoe biden and his son, hunter. but what is is throwing a lot of dirt at the bidens and the reality is none of it is substantiated. he has not provided any evidence. he is simply putting out a lot of allegations and encouraging other governments to look into their actions. and as a result you have got president trump, in some ways, looking at times angry and unsettled. but it is a great change of strategy if you consider tha

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so, washington head east with a two—game series lead. knowing other halfway to winning a world series for the first time. what i believe in is hard work, being consistent in what we do, and sticking to our process and we did that. i said it all along, when this team was down, i felt like we had starting pitching that could keep us in the ball games and once we got healthy that things would change. and we are here because the boys never gave up. tennis now, roger federer is into the semi—finals of the swiss indoors in basel, without hitting a ball. that's because his quarterfinal opponent, stan wawrinka, has pulled out of the tournament. the 34—year—old beat american frances tiafoe in three sets taking just over two and half hours but later withdrew with a back injury. it means swiss compatriot federer receives a walkover to the final four with the top seed still on to win a tenth title basel. he could end up meeting stefanos tsitsipas in final four. the greek player came from a set down, to seal his place in the quarters. he lost t

as a washington lawyer. george conway tweets almost as much as donald trump, but it has been about a year, a little less than a year since we have heard him make a public comment in his own voice. he finally did speak yesterday on preet bharara's podcast, and this is what he had to say about the man his wife works for. >> he can't take into account the interests of the country. he can't take into account the interests of the constitution. he can't take into account his duties, and he put s his self, his own interest above the country's in almost any circumstance. and that's exemplified by the most recent scandal, the ukraine scandal, where he's essentially using his office, he is using his office, using the power of potentially withholding funds or even simply the power of the presidency to extort a smaller nation to try to get that nation to issue some kind of a statement against trump's principle political rival. >> one thing george conway is mystified by is why republicans in congress and republicans work

washington really respected him for that. washington was wired. he had an aggressive temperament by nature. he would learn to tame it for the good of his country. arnold, i think he saw a kindred spirit to a certain extent. washington had been 10 years saddled with the crushing responsibilities of command. he could have been on the battlefield winning the kinds of victories that benedict arnold was racking up. he had been a seagoing merchant band. he had a small group of ships that went down to the caribbean and up the coast to the st. lawrence river to quebec and montreal. he knows all about this corridor of water. he says we need to take ticonderoga at the southern end of they champlain. it is a key to maintaining control of this vital portion of our country. ethernet and and some others had the same idea. and and and benedict arnold who stormed for ticonderoga. fort ticonderoga. washington is mired in boston, he sends benedict arnold on an oberland exhibition to get to quebec. expedition to get to quebec. the british had been caught by surprise

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zach wolf in washington. u.s. diplomat william taylor told investigators the president withheld military aid and refused to meet with ukraine's president. listen to the vice president evade giving a yes or no when he was asked if he had knowledge of the president's efforts. >> i can only tell you what i know. and what i know is that the transcript of the president's call with president zelensky, showed there was no quid pro quo and he did nothing wrong. >> were you aware of the deal that the oath existed? >> i can tell you about my interactions with president zelensky. we focused entirely on his agenda. >> the president denies withholding aid for investigations. that denial has been contradicted from several officials. >>> a candid warning from the president's former chief of staff. >> whatever you do, don't hire a yes man. >> the white house's stinging reputle to john kelly, next. >>> all right. california is under a statewide emergency as wind-whipped wildfires spread, destroying homes and forcing almost 200,000

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good night from washington. sean hannity takes the reins right now from new york city. >> sean: one swamp to the other. welcome to "hannity." today is day 35 of the democrats secret, soviet style, impeachment coup attempt, although it's really been their goal, think about it, from the day that you, we the people, elected donald trump as president. breaking just moments ago, the democratic party may be starting to fracture. look at this, at least one democratic congresswoman now reportedly planning to oppose his party's latest, unfair -- which we will explain -- impeachment measure.st we will have a full report tonight from capitol hill, but first, another day, secret meeting, secret hearing, secret transcripts, secret whistle-blower, non whistle-blower, here say whistle-blower, all because of a phone call between president trump and the president of

. >> live in washington with how republicans are making sure democrats play by the rules. >> washington nationals world champions for the first time in history. >> district of champions, fans erupting at the washington nationals the houston astros in a historic game 7. we are live in houston, fox and friends first starts right now. >> the district of champions with a long night for a lot of folks that if you're nationals and you're pretty happy. astros fans not so much. good morning, you are watching fox and friends first this thursday morning. happy halloween to you. thank you as always for starting your day with us even if you stayed up late and watched the game. the pentagon releasing video showing the us-led raid that killed isis leader abca9. todd pyro joins us live with that dramatic switches democrats demand the trump administration reveal its full plan of taking down isis in syria. good morning. this was something else to see. >> the might of the us military on full display. a series of videos show how the raid went down. us ground troops approaching the compound where abca9 abc

good night from washington. sean hannity takes the reins were not from new york city. >> sean: one swamp to the other paired welcome to "hannity." today is day 3 35 of the democrs secret soviet style impeachment coup attempts. although it's really been our goal, think about it, from the day that you come up we the people, elected donald trump as president. breaking just moments ago, the democratic party may be starting to infection at least one democratic congress woman now reporting to oppose the parties latest unfair impeachment measure. we will have a full report tonight from capitol hill but first, another day, secret meeting, secret hearing, secret transcripts, secret whistle-blower in on whistle-blower, here's a whistle-blower, all because of a

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well there is news from washington just days ago the u.s. . treasury there is news from washington just days ago the u.s. . treasury department made a statement on this topic which is very rare exactly a response to our department made a statement on this topic which is very rare exactly a response to our report since the statement was published 4 days before release a report the statement might have a report since the statement was published 4 days before release a report the statement might have been an attempt to preempt a backlash from all reports so what does the statement saying it's going to attempt to preempt a backlash from all reports so what does the statement saying it says that the u.s. with for its commitment to i quote unfettered flow of clean but it says that the u.s. with for its commitment to i quote unfettered flow of the military aid to the iranian people but again theories one thing and practice is another thing aid to the iranian people but again theories one thing and practice is another thing the announcement is a prett

turkey prepares to draw in kurdish fighters away from the syrian kurdish border the kurds are accusing washington of abandoning the heroes against isis and then forgotten against erda was also coming up environmental activists returning to the streets to draw attention to the climate crisis extinction rebellion is taking action in cities around the world paralyzing traffic and occupying building and the nobel prize for medicine goes to a trio of scientists for their groundbreaking work on oxygen levels in silt their research has changed the way humans are able to find cancer and other disease. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with the pull out and with the arrival turkey is getting ready to launch a long planned offensive against kurdish fighters in northern syria it comes after the united states reportedly started withdrawing troops from the area today clearing the way for that turkish incursion u.s. troop. worst station close to the border with turkey where they supported kurdish forces in the fight against the so-called islamic state turkey however regards the kurdi

backers washington says it will not get involved in turkey's plans. and let's get the latest on the story day that is really is in istanbul for us hi yulia why is this happening now. well this is basically u.s. president donald trump suddenly making way for turkey's military operation in the north and syria this definitely comes as a surprise and it follows developments late last night a phone call between trump and turkey's president. to which the white house published a statement saying that turkey will soon move forward with its long planned military operation in north east syria and that u.s. forces will not support or be involved in it and what we are seeing on the ground is that u.s. troops have started in the morning withdrawing from areas in the north and syria areas that are so far controlled by syrian kurdish militia and this is actually you know a major shift a stunning reversal of u.s. policy in syria because washington had so far significantly supported these syrian kurdish militia and considered them the most effective group in the fight

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live for us in washington d.c. . in other world news a migrant boat trying to reach italy has capsized killing at least 13 women it overturned in bad weather near the island of lampedusa as a patrol vessel arrived to rescue those onboard it was carrying around 50 people from tunisia 22 have been saved this is a native in a long line of sea disasters to hit migrants trying to cross the mediterranean and reach europe let's speak to hashem my bar in tunis for is so hush him a number of boats were deployed to try to rescue survivors do we know how many people were on this vessel that capsized. well fully local n.g.o.s here in today's yes say that there were men it's in is ian's on board the boat and but they don't know whether they were among those of the work that rescued of those are still missing or lost their lives the united nations migration agency is saying about the boat sailed from tunisia which has been for quite some time a transit point for some migrants from sub-saharan also from libya most are trying to fle

well for more let's bring in correspondent pablo foley alias in washington d.c. public even by donald trump's standards the last 24 hours have been fairly wild who was in the firing line today. hi anthony well it was an unseasonably hot day here in washington and you could feel it down in the white has no of course before we even saw president trump he was tweeting angrily in fact he even used a profanity to describe this inquiry that's taking place at the moment and you know like we have just been mentioning there the house intelligence chair and adam schiff was definitely in the firing line in fact he even said that he was the co-author of the whistle blower's complaint he also had some very angry words for the speaker of the house nancy pelosi of course of democrats he said that she hands subpoenas like cookies and he also was very angry towards the media he once again described them as the fake news media and sometimes quite am i right exchanges with that members of the media and he almost demanded that they ask questions to the finish president who at times

in washington recall martin. >>a southern california that are in continues his push to change a rule that prevents that to suffer malpractice at a v a hospital from getting compensation former marine sergeant brian tally was miss diagnosed at loma linda v a hospital in san bernardino county. and now suffers long-term health problems, however, because the misdiagnosis came from a doctor who was an independent contractor working at the v a hospital current law prevents tally and others like him from holding the v 8 liable for the malpractice talley has spent the past several years trying to get that law change. this week he's back on capitol hill trying to gain support from members of congress. >>this and it has become my calling in life to change this 73 year legal loophole that has the flooded liability away from the v a and it's put it on the backs of an identified independent contractors. and that's not right. i am urging senators to help be. the champion of me in the champion for all veterans to get a companio