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US withdrawing troops from northern Syria - CBS This Morning
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2019-10-07 11:29:49Z
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Live updates: More whistleblowers emerge in Ukraine probe — latest today - CBS News
Key facts and latest news
- "Multiple whistleblowers" have come forward, according to the attorneys representing the original whistleblower.
- On a July call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mr. Trump urged Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden.
- Soon after the July call, White House officials moved a record of the call to a highly classified computer system, severely restricting who could access it.
Washington -- The attorneys representing the whistleblower who filed a complaint about President Trump's dealings with Ukraine said they are representing "multiple whistleblowers" in connection to the case, including one with "first hand knowledge" of events.
"I can confirm that my firm and my team represent multiple whistleblowers in connection to the underlying August 12, 2019, disclosure to the Intelligence Community Inspector General," attorney Andrew Bakaj tweeted Sunday. "No further comment at this time."
Mark Zaid, another member of the first whistleblower's legal team, also said the team is representing a second official with first-hand knowledge of events, as first reported by ABC News. The original whistleblower had not heard or seen a transcript of the phone call between Mr. Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the center of the August 12 complaint.
"I can confirm this report of a second #whistleblower being represented by our legal team," Zaid tweeted. "They also made a protected disclosure under the law and cannot be retaliated against. This WBer has first hand knowledge." -- Stefan Becket
Defending Trump against impeachment is getting harder for GOP
7:12 a.m. If the House does move to impeach President Trump, it would be up to the Republican-controlled Senate to hold his trial.
Just a handful of Republicans have raised concerns over the president's contacts with foreign leaders but there does not seem to be a unified defense of the president. Privately, some Republicans say it just isn't worth it to take him on, even if they disapprove of his actions, reports CBS News' Nancy Cordes.
One reason why? The president hits back, and his approval rating within the Republican Party is strong. The latest Gallup Poll - which was taken as reports of the president's call to Ukraine unfolded - came in at 87%.
Maine Senator Susan Collins is one of the few Republicans willing to call the president out, also telling the Bangor Daily News, "I thought the president made a big mistake by asking China to get involved in investigating a political opponent."
Nebraska Republican Ben Sasse responded "Americans don't look to Chinese commies for truth" and Utah's Mitt Romney called the president's plea "wrong and appalling."
Still, most Republicans have downplayed Mr. Trump's actions or stayed silent, but defending him has gotten more difficult."I doubt if the China comment was serious, to tell you the truth," Republican Sen. Roy Blunt said on "Face the Nation" this Sunday.
Asked if he doesn't take the president at his word, Blunt said, "The president was--no, the president loves to go out on the--on the White House driveway. I haven't talked to him about this. I don't know what the president was thinking. But I know he loves to bait the press."
-- Nancy Cordes
New whisleblower doesn't change White House strategy, Trump attorney says
6:20 a.m. President Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow told CBS News that the latest whistleblower in the Ukraine call controversy does not change the president's legal strategy going forward.
"We already released the transcript of the call. So this person has an opinion that they don't like what the President said?" Sekulow told CBS.
He went on to say that he believes the fact that the second whistleblower is represented by the same law firm as the original whistleblower helps the president's political strategy because it "shows this firm is in the business of attacking the President."
"60 Minutes" on the impeachment probe
Last week, members of Congress went home to hear from their constituents. "60 Minutes" traveled with two members who are now facing some of the most consequential decisions of their careers.
Their congressional districts are 1,700 miles and worlds apart. New Jersey's 11th Congressional District is white, suburban and wealthy. Texas' 23rd Congressional District is wide open and 70% Latino.
Read more here.
Pompeo not complying with probe, Dem chairman says
New York Congressman Eliot Engel, one of the high-ranking House Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry into Mr. Trump's dealings with the Ukrainian government, said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is not cooperating with the congressional investigation.
"He is not complying with the inquiry so far," Engel said on "Face the Nation" Sunday. "There are discussions that are ongoing and we're hoping that he will comply."
Engel, a longtime congressman from the Bronx, is chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, which has oversight over the State Department. The panel is one of several high-profile committees -- including the Intelligence, Oversight and Judiciary panels -- spearheading the impeachment probe into Mr. Trump's efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government to conduct politically motivated investigations, including one into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
Read more here.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/donald-trump-impeachment-inquiry-latest-updates-today-2019-10-07/
2019-10-07 11:12:00Z
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US withdraws from Turkey's border along Syria before expected invasion; Trump wants Pelosi, Schiff impeached - Fox News
In this image provided by Hawar News Agency, ANHA, U.S. military vehicles travel down a main road in northeast Syria, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces in Syria said American troops began withdrawing Monday from their positions along Turkey's border in northeastern Syria, ahead of an anticipated Turkish invasion. (ANHA via AP)
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Turkey announces incursion of northeast Syria, Kurds vow 'all-out' war as US troops are moved from area
The White House announced late Sunday that Turkey will soon move forward with its planned military operation in northeast Syria in an area where U.S. troops have been deployed and operating with Kurdish-led forces. The U.S. will not be involved in the operation, the White House said. President Trump spoke with Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan by telephone. U.S. troops will be moved from the area. Hours after the announcement, Kurdish-led forces in Syria reported that American troops have begun withdrawing from areas along Turkey's border. Click here to read more on our top story.
Trump calls for Pelosi, Schiff impeachment over whistleblower actions
President Trump on Sunday tweeted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., should be impeached over their handling of the whistleblower investigation. Trump said "Nervous Nancy" was aware of "Shifty Adam Schiff" and his "massive frauds perpetrated upon Congress and the American people.” Trump pointed to Schiff's recent “parody” speech in Congress where he read a dramatization of the president's July 25 call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire's hearing.
Trump has been under an impeachment investigation over his interaction Zelensky after it was revealed that he requested that Ukraine government officials investigate the Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, improvised parts of the transcript for effect and framed it as satire. Trump was also apparently eluding to reports that Schiff's false earlier claim that the unnamed whistleblower did not speak to his committee. Click here for more on our other top story.
House Dems believe they have enough votes to pass articles of impeachment
Trump's tweets on Pelosi and Schiff came as a senior member of the House Democratic Caucus told Fox News that House Democrats believe they have the required 217 votes needed to pass articles of impeachment against the president stemming from his controversial Ukraine call and send articles to the Senate -- even before the completion of their formal inquiry and planned hearings.
The senior House Democrat said it's unlikely Pelosi will give in to the president's demand for an "inquiry vote." The source said that while leadership hasn't officially whipped or nose-counted a vote to "impeach," they believed the numbers were there based on the 227 votes already on record for an inquiry and were working under that assumption. Click here for more on this story.
In other developments in the formal Trump impeachment inquiry: Meanwhile, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday vowed to expose the anonymous whistleblowers against Trump if Democrats move forward with impeachment. A second unidentified whistleblower was confirmed Sunday morning, reportedly with firsthand information to support some of the allegations made by the first whistleblower who sparked the impeachment inquiry on Trump. Graham said that if Democrats follow through on their desire to impeach Trump, he will make sure that the whistleblowers will have to come forward and testify.
File- In this Sept. 30, 2019, file photo a UAW flag flies near strikers outside the General Motors Orion Assembly plant in Orion Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
GM-UAW talks take turn for worse; settlement not near
It was a rough weekend for settlement talks in the now four-week-old strike by UAW workers against General Motors. Talks took a turn for the worse, hitting a big snag over product commitments for U.S. factories, a union official wrote in an email to members. The letter from UAW Vice President Terry Dittes casts doubt on whether there will be a quick settlement in the contract dispute, which sent 49,000 workers to the picket lines on Sept. 16, crippling GM's factories.
FILE - (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Supreme Court kicks off election-year agenda with hot-button immigration, guns and abortion cases
U.S. Supreme Court will launch its new term Monday, and a 5-4 conservative majority could be poised to provide the White House with significant legal and political victories -- or setbacks. Such are the unusual dynamics now percolating from the nation's highest court. The justices' election-year agenda includes cases dealing with Trump's executive power over immigration, along with LGBTQ workplace discrimination, gun rights and abortion regulations. All are teed up to be argued this term, with religious liberty and health-care appeals good bets to be added to the docket. All will likely be decided in a presidential election year.
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2019-10-07 08:57:05Z
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Nobel Prize for Medicine jointly awarded to William Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza - CNN
Announcing the prize at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Monday, the Nobel committee said that the trio's discoveries have paved the way for "promising new strategies to fight anaemia, cancer and many other diseases."
The 2019 medicine laureates, the committee added, have identified molecular machinery that regulates the activity of genes in response to varying levels of oxygen.
The importance of oxygen has long been established, the committee explained, but how cells adapt to changes in its levels remained unknown.
Randall Johnson, prize committee member, described the trio's work as a "textbook discovery."
"This is something basic biology students will be learning about when they study, at aged 12 or 13, or younger, biology and learn the fundamental ways cells work. This is a basic aspect of how a cell works and, from that standpoint alone, it's a very exciting thing."
The winners
New York-born Kaelin established his own research laboratory at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and became a full professor at Harvard Medical School in 2002.
Semenza, also born in New York, became a full-time professor at Johns Hopkins University in 1999 and since 2003 has been the Director of the Vascular Research Program at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering.
Ratcliffe, who was born in Lancashire, England, studied medicine at Cambridge University and established an independent research group at Oxford University, becoming a full professor in 1996.
This is a breaking news story, more to follow.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/07/health/nobel-prize-for-medicine-2019-intl/index.html
2019-10-07 10:20:00Z
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U.S. forces will not defend Kurdish forces in Syria: U.S. official - Reuters
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The United States informed the commander of the Kurdish-led SDF forces in Syria on Monday morning that U.S. forces will not defend them from Turkish attacks anywhere, a U.S. official told Reuters ahead of an expected Turkish offensive.
The official said U.S. forces had evacuated two observation posts at Tel Abyad and Ras al Ain in northeast Syria, along the Turkish border. The other U.S. forces in the region were still in position for now, the official said.
Reporting by Dominic Evans; Editing by Daren Butler
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-usa-official/us-forces-will-not-defend-kurdish-forces-in-syria-us-official-idUSKBN1WM0K6
2019-10-07 07:44:00Z
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Britons Demand Return of American Woman Who Fled After Fatal Crash - The New York Times
The mother of a British teenager who was killed in a crash in August has appealed to President Trump for help after the main suspect in the investigation, an American citizen, left Britain despite telling the police that she had no plans to do so.
Harry Dunn, 19, was killed after his motorcycle collided with a car traveling in the opposite direction in Brackley, a town in the East Midlands, on Aug. 27.
The police said their investigation into the crash had been complicated when the 42-year-old American woman who is the main suspect recently left the country. Sky News reported that the British police believe that the American was driving on the wrong side of the road when the crash occurred.
The woman is the wife of an American diplomat, and thus has diplomatic immunity, according to local media reports.
“Harry Dunn’s family deserves justice, and in order to achieve this, a full and thorough investigation, with the assistance of all parties involved, needs to take place,” Superintendent Sarah Johnson, head of operations for the Northamptonshire police, said in a statement on Saturday. She added that the police had sought documentation “to allow for the arrest and formal interview of the subject.”
The police are also working closely with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ms. Johnson said, adding that they are “exploring all opportunities through diplomatic channels” to ensure the investigation’s progress.
Harry Dunn’s mother, Charlotte Charles, has been pushing the efforts to have the American woman’s immunity waived and have her come back to Britain.
“President Trump, please listen,” Ms. Charles told Sky News, the media outlet that first reported on the identity of the 42-year-old woman. “We’re a family in ruin. We’re broken.”
“We can’t grieve,” she said, adding of the woman, “Please, please let her get back on a plane.”
Though the Foreign Office did not formally confirm the identity of the American woman, Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, offered his condolences to the victim’s family and released a statement addressing the matter.
Britain transmitted a formal request for a waiver of immunity to the American Embassy in London on Sept. 5. The embassy declined the waiver eight days later.
“I have called the U.S. ambassador to express the U.K.’s disappointment with their decision, and to urge the embassy to reconsider it,” Mr. Raab said. The American Embassy could not be reached for comment.
After news of the woman’s flight from Britain emerged, the news media, the British government and social media users stepped up pressure on the American government to reconsider her immunity and allow the police to resume questioning her in Britain.
“We have to get proper justice for Harry and closure for his family,” Andrea Leadsom, the secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy, wrote on Twitter on Saturday. A day earlier, she had met Harry Dunn’s family, who, she wrote, is “heartbroken.”
“Harry & his family have been wronged,” Angela Rayner, a member of Parliament for the opposition Labour Party, said in a tweet.
The victim’s parents said they would continue fighting to get justice for their son’s death.
“We are not going to be swept under the carpet,” Ms. Charles told ITV, a British news channel. “If that becomes his legacy, then we are going to carry on fighting, we’re not going to give up, we’re not going to go away,” she said.
“We can’t let our son die and nothing be answered for,” Tim Dunn, his father, said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/world/europe/harry-dunn-crash-us-suspect.html
2019-10-07 06:05:00Z
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Trump’s decision to make way for Turkey in Syria seen by critics as a Kurds betrayal - Fox News
FILE 2018: President Donald Trump, left, talks with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as they arrive together for a family photo at a summit of heads of state and government at NATO headquarters in Brussels. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
President Trump faced swift criticism early Monday after the White House announced its decision to move U.S. troops from northern Syria and give way for Turkey’s planned military incursion in the region.
Kurdish forces bore the brunt of the ground campaign against Islamic State militants but are considered terrorists by the Turkish government.
In December, Trump announced he was withdrawing American troops from Syria but was met with widespread condemnation for abandoning Kurdish allies to the Turkish assault.
The announcement prompted the resignation in protest of then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, and a coordinated campaign by then-national security adviser John Bolton to try to protect the Kurds.
As recently as January, Trump warned Ankara not to target the group, saying the U.S. would "devastate" Turkey economically if "they hurt the Kurds."
It was not immediately clear if Trump mentioned the Kurds in his Sunday phone call with Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan.
“Allowing Turkey to move into Northern Syria is one of the most destabilizing moves we can do in the Middle East,” tweeted former Iraq War veteran Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona. “The Kurds will never trust America again. They will look for new alliances or Independence to protect themselves. Pompeo has failed again.”
Turkey views the People's Protection Units, or YPG, as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has waged an insurgency against Turkey for 35 years.
“The Kurds betrayed by the US --- again,” wrote New York Times contributing writer Wajahat Ali. “Turkey has a brutal history of oppressing Kurds. Erdogan wants nothing more than to crack down on an entire group he sees as a ‘threat’ and whom he routinely refers to as ‘terrorists,’” he added. “Kurds are US allies fighting ISIS. This is a win for extremists and authoritarians. Shameful.”
TURKEY ANNOUNCES INCURSION OF NORTHEAST SYRIA, US-BACKED KURDS HAVE VOWED 'ALL-OUT' WAR
Following the late Sunday announcement, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which has worked alongside U.S. troops to combat ISIS, warned against Turkey’s imminent incursion in a lengthy series of tweets.
“Based on our confidence in the #US efforts in the Security Mechanism agreement, we implemented all our commitments to remove military fortifications between Tal Abyad & SereKaniye, withdraw combat forces with heavy weapons, risking a security vacuum as a result of the agreement,” the group tweeted.
“But Erdogan's threats are aimed to change the security mechanism into a mechanism of death, displace our people & change the stable & secure region into a zone of conflict and permanent war.”
SDF officials argued Turkey’s presence in the region would result in the return of ISIS leaders, reversing successful efforts to defeat the terrorist organization, and lead to “long-term war in the region making #Syria a permanent conflict area.”
ERDOGAN THREATENS MILITARY ACTION IN SYRIA, US-BACKED GROUP VOVWS 'ALL-OUT WAR'
Erdogan said his country has given enough warning and has “acted with enough patience.” Erdogan has expressed frustration with Washington’s support for Kurdish groups in Syria.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said it is committed to the agreement between Turkey and the U.S. to preserve stability in the region.
"However, we will not hesitate to turn any unprovoked attack by Turkey into an all-out war on the entire border to DEFEND ourselves and our people," SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali tweeted a day earlier.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-turkey-military-syria-criticism
2019-10-07 06:32:49Z
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