thanks for joining us, i'm dana perino, see you on "the five." trace, i do not have purple nail polish, not coming over. >> in time for spirit day, thursday. dana perino, thank you. >> dana: have a good show. >> coming up, more women accusing ascoscar winning actor sex crimes and diners find metal in their meal. first, fox news begins with another key witness in impeachment inquiry answering lawmakers questions behind closed doors. here is career diplomat, could have crucial information about why the trump administration abruptly removed ambassador to ukraine. it comes after bombshell testimony yesterday from the president's former russia advisor. fiona hill says she and other white house officials were alarmed by rudy giuliani effort to get ukraine to investigate president trump's political rival joe biden and his son. former national security advisor john bolton was apparently one

of the officials who had concerned about the president's personal attorney. according to the "new york times," hill testified that bolton called giuliani a hand grenade who is going to blow everybody up. giuliani insists he did nothing wrong. it comes after the arrest of his two or two of his soviet-born associates and reports federal investigators are looking into giuliani's dealings in ukraine. and breaking right now, fox news has learned giuliani will not comply with the subpoena. john roberts with the scoop in a moment. congress is back after a two-week recess, live look at the senate floor, where they have plenty to talk about, including ukraine controversy and turkey ark tacking allies in syria. we have team fox coverage, john roberts. first to catherine herridge reporting live on capitol hill. >> complex week, testimony on capitol hill and to simplify what you have here are two

drafts, one is an official traditional tracking ukraine and the other was a back channel investigation led by the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani. the witness who arrived today on capitol hill is george kent, a current senior state department official. the reason kent matters, he was in ukraine between 2015 and 2018, so this overlapped with the obama administration, trump administration and he worked alongside with the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, maria yovanovitch, removed early by the trump administration. here is congressman eric fal l falwell. >> we sought witnesses who may have seen this going on and every arrow continues to point in the same direction, which corrobora corroborates what the witness said and what the president said. >> on the way into the hearing this morning, we had republicans who addressed reporters at the

table behind me. they feel kent is an important witness, he can talk to corruption allegations against burisma, the energy company hunter biden sat on the board. here is congressman lee zeldon. >> what did he know about burisma? an investigation going on not just against burisma, but can't an oligarch, the sitting vice president's son with no energy experience and no ukraine experience gets hired at $50,000 a month at least. >> kent has been behind closed doors for six hours, trace, taking some breaks, but for the most part, a steady hours long deposition. >> catherine herridge, more crucial testimony lined up this week. >> that is right. with return of congress, they have key witnesses, house democra

democrats everyday of the week, mike pompeo is coming in, he resigned last week. they have a witness later in the week, who is part of the defense department who can speak to this issue of ukraine aid and perhaps one of the most significant witnesses is gordon sondland, current ambassador to european union, one who was sending text messages defending mr. trump's decision in ukraine saying there was no quid quo pro, though he is being questioned by other career diplomats on that issue. the point of context, these are now being called depositions. it may seem in the weeds, the reason it matters, a house attorney told us depositions are more strictly controlled by the -- those who have control of the committee and not as likely to be released in the short term to the public. >> catherine herridge, thank you. back to the breaking news. fox news learning rudy giuliani will not comply with the

subpoena from congress. our chief white house correspondent john roberts breaking the news in the last five minutes and reporting live from the north lawn. john. >> good afternoon, trace, spoke to rudy a couple minutes ago. i was on my way out here. i lost count of how many times i've spoken with him today. he told me he will not comply with the subpoena sent to me by three house committees, who are looking into the impeachment inquiry. he said there is number of reasons why he will not, a lot follows along the same lines as the letter that pat sent up to nancy pelosi and the chairs of the three house committees conducting the inquiry. in addition, items of executive privilege and whether or not the house committee had the authority to do it. he says there is issue of attorney-client privilege, as well. get to what you were talking about earlier, what fiona hill said yesterday in the deposition she gave to the house impeachment inquiry regarding

what john bolton told her about rudy giuliani. according to fiona hill, at some point, john bolton said that rudy giuliani was a "hand grenade, who was going to blow everybody up," and my first conversation with giuliani today, he told me "i am disappointed in john, not sure he realizes i received all of this evidence as part of my representation of the president, it was all part of the evidence and suppression of evidence involving ukrainian collusion and origin of false information against the president." on giuliani's business dealings with the ukrainian-born american, giuliani says he has no indication his business dealings with parniss, and igo are under investigation or under scrutiny by federal prosecutors, he did knowledge giuliani partners was paid $500,000 retainer by company founded by

fraud guarantee, the company selling technology that detected fraudulent activity. parnis was indicted last week and has another court appearance thursday. giuliani told me $500,000 was for eight months work he did for fraud guarantee on technology and regulatory issues. he said it was paid in two installments, one early september of 2018 and the other late october of 2018. he insists that the moncame from the united states and did not come from foreign sources. he seemed to indicate while $500,000 seems like significant amount of money, he has clients that pay his company more than that, this was not a particularly big deal for him. trace. >> the president announcing sanctions. >> yeah, sanctions against turkey scheduled to go into effect some right away, some soon. let's go over first of all what the president said, will go into effect right away.

increasing tariffs on steel back up to 50% tariff that just came off turkey not too long ago after pastor brunson was released and the president would delay $100 billion trade deal. in addition, the president auth rising broad range of sanctions against current and former members of turkish government and others involved in obstructing cease-fire and threatening peace and stability in syria. those sanctions include financial sanctions, blocking of property and barring entry of turkish individuals into the united states. some question whether the sanctions will have crippling effect on the turkish economy the president claims they will. senators lindsey graham and chris van hollen will introduce into the senate a companion set of sanctions, they believe working together with what the white house is proposing will have effect on turkey.

yesterday senator lindsey graham had two hour and 15-minute meeting with the president here at the white house. here is what graham said about that this morning. listen here. >> we have our differences, i support the president. i hope he will make adjustments that make sense. culprit is erdogan, we got to fix it. we cannot let iran be the biggest winner of this debacle and we're getting there, had a good meeting with the president yesterday. >> very soon we expect to hear about the timing of vice president pence's trip to turkey to negotiate cease-fire. he announced that yesterday when he came oidz of the west wing after graham was meeting with the president that he and robert o'brian, national security advisor will be traveling there to meet with erdogan and other officials to dial down the increasing in escalating tensions there. trace. >> busy day, john roberts, live in the white house. thank you. fox news reporting live from syria ahead.

first, joe biden's son hunter talking for the first time about the ukraine controversy and president trump's accusations of corruption. hunter biden denying he did anything unethical in his dealings with the ukrainian company, but we'll tell you what he is admitting ahead. from all the journalists of fox news, this is fox news reporting. saturdays happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong.

>> trace: live look at the white house, president trump is set to congratulate this year's stanley cup champs, st. louis blues. we will show it to you. for now, hunter biden responding after president trump accused him of improper business dealings in ukraine. the son of democratic presidential candidate and former vice president joe biden told abc news, it was poor judgment to take a seat on the board of a ukrainian gas company while his father was vp, but he

says he did nothing wrong and does not regret joining the board. >> what is regret is not taking into account that there would be a rudy giuliani and a president of the united states that would be listening to this ridiculous conspiracy idea, which has again, been completely debunked by everyone. >> trace: this ahead of tonight's democratic debate in ohio. hunter biden said he is stepping down from the board of a chinese equity fund. president trump called on ukraine to investigate joe and hunter biden. ukrainian officials say there is no evidence at this point that either biden did anything illegal. peter doocy reporting live from westerville, ohio, democrats are set to take the stage tonight. peter. >> trace, hunter biden admits he probably would not have sat on the high-paying board if his last name was not biden, but he

says he doesn't know who other than president trump has a problem with that. the >> what do you say to people who believe this is exactly why people hate washington? a vice president's son can make money -- >> who says -- >> by the way -- >> i don't know what to tell you, i made mistake in retrospect as related to creating any perception that was wrong. therefore, taking it off the table. >> trace: biden basically says the only thing wrong with his business dealings at any point was they gave president trump and rudy giuliani something to hit his father the candidate with. the trace. >> trace: peter, does hunter biden say he plans to share more about his history or interactions with his dad? >> no. he basically admits he made a lot of money overseas, but does not plan to say how much.

>> look, i'm a private citizen, one thing i don't have to do, sit here and open as relates to how much i make or did or didn't. it has all been reported. >> if your last name wasn't biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of burisma? >> i don't know, i don't know, probably not. >> trace: hunter biden insists he is not hiding from anyone and he's aware of the attacks from president trump and his allies, but he's living his life and working out in l.a. trace. >> trace: peter doocy live in westerville, ohio, the site of tonight's debate. thank you. los angeles lakers superstar lebron james facing backlash after weighing in on the n.b.a. china controversy. while speaking with reporters, james says houston rockets gm daryl morey was misinformed, before posting a tweet about hong kong. >> i believe he wasn't educated on the situation at hand and he

spoke. and so many people could have been harmed, not only financially, but physically, emotionally, spiritually, so just be careful what we treat and we say and what we do. even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negative that comes with that, too. >> trace: tweet just days before the n.b.a. kicked off the china tour, now james is facing criticism from players, fans and lawmakers, some accusing him of putting profit before human rights. the basketball star is not backing down. he tweeted, my team and this league just went through a difficult week, i think people need to understand what a tweet or statement can do to others. i believe nobody stopped and considered what would happen, could have waited a week to send it. in syria, the aftermath of invasion, we are live in northeastern part of the country after turkish forces went on the attack. we'll take you to the pentagon for more on the american troops who pulled out and the forces

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>> trace: breaking news, fox news pentagon team reporting turkish backed forces came close to u.s. troops in syria. so close that american jets and attack helicopters were called up as approaching forces closed in. we'll go live to jennifer griffin with the scoop in a moment. last week president trump announced he was pulling soldiers out of the region, they and the kurds had been fighting together against the islamic state. president trump said we are not abandoning the kurds. we are seeing the effects of

that invasion now. according to a kurdish news agency, these children were hurt when turkish troops fired mortars at a village. united nation officials say 160,000 people are trying to escape the increasing violence. team fox coverage, jennifer griffin reporting live at the pentagon with the breaking news and word of a close call for american forces in syria, but first let's go live to the danger zone. steve harrigan reporting in northeastern syria, it is just past 10:15 p.m. steve. >> trace, we are hearing helicopters fly overhead and can see a building burning, not sure what caused that, this has gotten more complicated in the last 24 hours. two new players joined, syrian government forces, as well as their ally russian forces. russian forces are on the move in key strategic town along the border, they are actually

patrolling in between syrian government forces and turkish forces, also talking to both sides, negotiating between both sides. we'll see if anything comes out of the talks. the u.s. pressing hard for cease-fire. president trump calling president erdogan on monday and sending vice president mike pence to the region, both sides are racing for a hopeful cease-fire, trace. >> trace: what do you hear from kurds on the ground there? >> trace, emotions here are running very high, the kurds don't have air power and they need help, that is why they have gone to the syrian government and the russians for some kind of help. we were at a mass funeral today of six people killed in the turkish air strike. fighters and one was a civilian woman. the entire village comes out, it is an emotional affair. you saw agony of family members,

mothers shrieking about lost sons and bitterness and anger and resentment toward turkey, people screaming out turkey was against us before we were born, turkey will be against us after we are dead. this animosity is deep seeded. >> trace: steve harrigan, be safe. breaking now, talking about china, he was talking about turkey. let's go to the president right now. >> pres. trump: you are not playing very well today. come on. so the good old ages. would have been -- we're going to be selling to china about $50 billion worth of farm agricultural products and it is amazing. china has been great. china has been great in this. we have phase two and we are doing a lot with banking and financial services in phase one.

phase one is massive, actually. probably the simpler stuff, but in some ways maybe the most complicated, very big numbers. i hear the most the farmers did was -- >> you can see the president congratulating the blues. earlier he talked about syria, we will rerack the tape and play what he mentioned what is happening there. watch this. >> pres. trump: they are the greatest warriors in the world, they are policing, they are not a police force, a different kind of force. we want to bring our soldiers back home and we're being very tough on turkey and a lot of others after maintained their own properties now, they have to maintain peace and safety and we'll see what happens, the delegation, asking for a cease-fire. we put the strongest sanctions that you can imagine, they get a lot, we have a lot in store if they don't have an impact, including massive tariffs on

steel, they ship a lot of steel to the united states. they make a lot of money shipping steel, won't be making so much money. i want to tell you that stock market is way up today because of -- >> you hear the president saying bring the troops home and imposing sanctions on turkey on president erdogan, that continues our team fox coverage. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is reporting live from the pentagon. >> we just learned the u.s. military had to use a show of force to disrupt turkish backed forces who got too close to base in northern syria. the u.s. military had to use ap ache ship and f-16s to deter the forces. undergoing hasty withdrawal of nearly all of the 1000 troops to help stabilize northern syria. russian backed syrian forces, as steve mentioned, have taken over abandoned u.s. base. other video from inside the abandoned base in manbij, syria,

taped by russian reporter traveling with russian-backed forces shows how quickly u.s. troops abandoned the base. in fact, russian mercenaries appear to be using the videos as propaganda to show the american retreat. the significance of that american base now effectively under russian control. in 2016 u.s.-backed syrian kurds captured the city from isis, whose fighters used it to ferry fighters in and out of turkey and smuggle looted artifacts out of syria to fund their insurgency 6789 vice president mike pence was tapped last night to lead a delegation to turkey to end ethnic cleansing. >> the united states of america simply not going to tolerate turkey's invasion of syria any further. we are calling on syria to stand down, to end the violence and

come to the negotiating table. >> recently retired army major malcolm frost says it is too late. >> the deed has been done. so what happened, we've lost our reputation. we have abandoned an ally and thirdly, those isis prisoners are going to escape. >> many already have. u.s. officials tell me turkish artillery units are firing on kurdish-run isis prisons in syria. turkey is responsible for any isis resurgence. observers note turkey used joint patrol with the u.s. military in the past few weeks to essentially map the kurdish positions before reneging on the agreement after dunford stepped down. dunford spent most time negotiating with the turkish military to keep it from invading northern syria and interfering with the anti-isis

fight. trace. >> trace: jennifer griffin live in the pentagon, thank you. go back and look, you can see the president there again with the st. louis blues celebrating stanley cup victory. the president was talking about china and syria and heard mike pence say they will not tolerate going in after the kurds. president trump says he is imposing sanctions against turkey. what damage they might have. a lot up in the air. the president talked about china. if he goes into discussion about either of the subjects, we will dip back in. meantime, desperate housewives actress felicity huffman in the big house. according to her representative, huffman reported to prison in dublin, california, just outside of san francisco, this afternoon. she is set to serve two weeks behind bars for her role in the college admission scandal. huffman admitted paying $15,000 to rig her daughter's sat score.

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million pounds of seasoned beef because of an unexpected ingredient that launched a consumer complaint. knowledgeable about taco bell, she might have worked there 10 years ago, what happened? explain that. >> that mysterious ingredient was metal. they found it in the meat, in seasoned beef, one of their most popular go-to items, standard unless you upgrade to chicken or steak. the recall affecting 21 states. mostly central midwest, east coast, 21 states. no reports of anybody hurt from this, three customers did find metal in the meat. >> did they eat the stuff? >> not that i know reports of that, no consumption. >> just recall the safety measure? >> it is sparking a lot of talk on twitter. this person writes, apparently shortage of beef at taco bell, you should just close. they do have other meat options besides the seasoned beef.

i've never seen 26-year-old man have a bigger meltdown because taco bell was out of beef. no one hurt, just frustrated, i think. this one is funny. garrett, ernie and i pull up to taco bell and guy tells us they are out of beef and we are like okay, he proceeds to say besides that, we are taco tastic, what a man. >> sounds like sesame street. >> statement, no one hurt and anyone concerned give them a call at 800-taco-bell. >> taco about it. taco bell. they had a problem years ago, they said the meat was 35%, got sued and it was 88% beef. >> breaking news. >> breaking news, lawmakers speaking on capitol hill. go to mitch mcconnell on the senate floor. >> president trump qualified nominees for starters later this

afternoon, advance nomination of barbara barrett, president's choice to be secretary of the air force. speaking of our armed forces, congress can waste no more time getting appropriate process back on track and delivering the funding our service members need. just two months ago, the president and speaker of the house produced an agreement to guide the appropriates process. the white house set top line funding target for defense and nondefense. and agreed to forego bills. last month unfortunately, democratic colleague went back on the deal, routine funding negotiations were subject to poison pill threats and urgent resources for operation of the pentagon were withheld for the sake of politics. look, we need to put political games aside. democrats need to stop filibustering pay raise for

troops and the funding commanders need. we need to get our funding process back on track for the entire federal government. and house democrats need to stop slow walking the u.s. mca, the landmark trade agreement that stands to create 176,000 new american jobs. mexico is ready. canada is ready. and majority here in the senate is ready. entire continent is just waiting on speaker pelosi to stop blocking this win for the united states and stop blocking these new jobs. i don't care how much my democratic colleagues in the house may dislike the president, they shouldn't throw 176,000 new american jobs on the scrap heap. on all these fronts, i hope sincerely our democratic colleagues will be able to separate vital business from their an ymous toward the

administration and join republicans moving forward with the work of the american people. one final matter, i speak for many colleagues on both sides of the aisle expressing grave concern at events that unfolds in syria in recent days. turkey is our nato ally. yes, it hosts millions of syrian refugees and as legitimate security concern about the situation in syria. but turkey escalation of hostility, is completely and totally unacceptable. this violence needs to end. syrian and kurdish forces have stood proudly alongside u.s. forces in the fight against isis. over years of joint effort, shared sacrifices that put isis on its heels and rendered its physical califate nonexistent.

the door is wide open for resurgence of the islamic state. creating power vacuum begging for the meddling influence of russia. leaving northeastern syria wide open iran to extend reach unimpeded all the way from tehran to the door step of our friends in israel. and destroying the leverage we currently have to compel by bashar al assad to stop slaughter of syrian people and negotiate end to terrible conflict and humanitarian catastrophe. madam president, i want to make something clear, the united states has taken the fight to syria and afghanistan because that is where our enemies are, that is why we're there. fighting terrorists, exercising leadership and trouble regions and advancing u.s. interest around the world does not make us an evil empire or the world's

policeman. we are prudent and responsible world power that stands up for our own security and the freedom of others. alongside the 80 coalition partners u.s. forces have led and counter isis coalition, that is what we must continue to do. we must continue to provide support to local forces that carry the lion share of the responsibility to defend their homeland. this effort must continue to include our allies and partners. even the imperfect ones who sometimes behave irrationally and dangerous as both saudi arabia and turkey have recently. when it looked like president trump would withdraw from syria at beginning of the year, 70 senators joined in warning of the risk of precipitously withdrawing from syria or afghanistan. the veto proved majority vote for my amendment to s-1 strengthening american security in the middle east act,

demonstrated strong and bipartisan appreciation for security interest in the region. the senate spoke clearly and said we must ensure we have set the conditions for an enduring defeat of the terrorists before any withdrawal. regrettably, many of the democratic senators running for president, along with my friend the democratic leader, parted with this bipartisan consensus and voted against this amendment. so i hope those aspiring commanders-in-chief asked to reconcile criticism of the administration today with their vote just a few months ago. maybe they will even be asked on the debate stage this very evening. i'm heartened to hear vice president mike pence will lead delegation to begin talks with turkey to end this violence.

i expect turkish allies listen. welcome our vice president and take steps to repair our important relationship. it would be tragedy for both nations if turkey's escalation in syria and perils common fight against isis and embolden traditional adversaries like iran and russia. this would be bad for u.s. interest, but terrible for turkey. and i look forward to discussing with members on both sides and with administration how the u.s. can stand with our partners and provide strong principled and consistent global leadership. madam president, i understand there is a bill at the desk due a second reading.

>> clerk will read the title of the bill for the second time. >> as 2593, bill to amend title 31, united states -- >> we'll get out of this and mitch mcconnell, you heard, mitch mcconnell making couple points, taking swipes at the president for pulling troops out of syria saying look, the syrian and kurds fought side by side with us and we need to keep fighting with them. removing u.s. troops from syria will cause vacuum filled by iran and isis among others. we should note breaking news, as mitch mcconnell was talking, we learned vice president mike pence as senate majority leader referred to is going to turkey tomorrow to meet with president erdogan and will take with him secretary of state mike pompeo, couple of national security advisor team members and go to turkey tomorrow. we are supposed to hear, we believe, from nancy pelosi at some point in time, the senate

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>> trace: you heard from mitch mcconnell, new schumer talking about impeachment, let's listen. >> sondland was heavily involved with mr. giuliani. we continue to receive more information about mr. sondland participation. his scheduled testimony in the coming days will be relevant and important. amidst all this, the white house is engaged in stonewalling and outright defiance of congressional peing r-- prerogatives. state department not comply with congressional subpoenas. the white house refused to cooperate with the house impeachment inquiry and the president publicly sought to bully and intimidate the

whistleblower. additional facts were unearthed and are unearthed, we have a responsibility to consider them with best interest of our country in mind. the whistleblower was doing a courageous and patriotic act and must be protected, must be protected. institution made congress co-equal branch of government, that role must be respected. the matter at the heart of the inquiry concerns the very integrity of our democratic elections and must be investigated thoroughly, completely and in a nonport can manner. our founding fathers, feared foreign interference in our elections and considered it one of the greatest threats facing our fledgling republic. the wisdom of the founding fathers shines through. if a foreign country can meddle

in or affect elections, americans will quickly lose faith in democracy if it russia controls our election or china or iran, what the heck do we vote for? the alleged offense is serious enough to warrant an investigation by congress. and that is exactly what the house of representatives is doing in impeachment inquiry and must continue. we can do two things. and must do them. we can protect the constitution and take action to help average working families at the same time. we here in the senate can do both. protect the constitution and help average working families. it is not either or, it is not one or the other. from the very beginning, democrats have been committed to doing the people's business. democratic majority and house of

representatives passed hundreds of bills dealing with infrastructure, gun violence, climate change and more, leader mcconnell has turned our chamber into legislative graveyard. not one of these bills has received vote in the senate, no vote to save protection for people with pre-existing conditions, although the american people are pleading with us to do it. no vote on bipartisan background checks, although more people die from gun violence admitted by people who shouldn't have guns. no vote on bipartisan election security as russia threatens us. no vote on the violence against women act, when abuse of women continues. president trump over the course of his presidency, also failed to offer proposals to address any of these pressing issues. in many cases, his policies, his

executive actions have made things worse. so as congress comes back into session, senate democrats will force our republican colleagues to vote during this work period on three measures that are important to millions of americans. these votes will occur under the procedures of the congressional review act. the congressional review act, i know the public is not football with the archain parts is rare instance where minority can force a vote. we want to debate the other issues. >> trace: mitch mcconnell, now chuck schumer, blasting the white house, saying they are stonewalling the impeachment process saying they are trying to bully the whistleblower and chuck schumer took a switch at mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell said he believes democrats need to get off the impeachment bandwagon and get to work and on the flip side, chuck

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