over. it will be a long few hours for the people who live in this area. >> good luck to all of them. ryan young on the scene for us, thank you very much and to our viewers, thank you very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." erin burnett "out front" starts right now. "out front" next, breaking news, cnn learning president trump pressed a foreign government president to investigate joe biden's son not just once, but about eight times. biden goes all in ramping up resources in iowa. his campaign insists it's not a must win, but can he win the nominati nomination without it? the pentagon just announcing the u.s. is sending more troops to the middle east after an attack on saudi arabia's oil. let's go out front. >> good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news. trump asking a foreign leader for joe biden. the whistle-blower complaint about an urgent threat to national security involved a

phone call between trump and the president of ukraine. on that call trump asked the ukrainian leader to investigate joe biden owe s's son. not just once. trump asked the ukrainian president about eight times on that call to investigate. eight times. one phone call. all this because hunter biden was doing business in ukraine when his father was vice president. we'll get to the details on that shortly. just a short time ago, joe biden responded saying, quote, there is truly no bottom to president trump's willingness to abuse his power and abase our country. this behavior is particularly abhorrent because it exploits the foreign policy of our country and undermines our national security for political purposes. since this major development broke that we now know who the phone call was with and we now know how many times trump asked for his -- for joe biden's son to be investigated trump has been silent. he first talked. he tried to blow off reports

that the whistle-blower complaint even involved this phone call. >> did you discuss joe biden, his son or his family. >> it doesn't matter what i discussed. >> of course, again, then we found out eight times asked for an investigation. it does matter. it matters a lot and not just to americans, but it matters to the president himself. >> i'm hearing it's a major scandal, major problem. look at joe biden. he calls them and says don't you dare prosecute. if you don't fire the prosecutor. the prosecutor was after his son. >> you can hear from trump, right? he cared a lot about connecting joe biden to corruption and ukraine. enough to go against what his own fbi director says is the de facto law of the land. >> if a campaign staffer or a senator or someone working around them gets an offer of foreign government assistance to defeat its opponent do you agree the right thing to do is to

promptly notify the fbi? >> senator, i would hope that anyone who is aware of an effort to -- or an attempt to interfere with our elections would report that to the appropriate authorities. >> it's clear what trump did is wrong on this call. one senior republican source told cnn months ago that if a president took information from a foreign government that would be impeachable. so on one level you might say, look, trump's willingness to defy the fbi and political norms is not surprising. you might say, remember this? >> your campaign this time would add foreigners, if china or russia would offer information on an opponent should they accept it or call the fbi? >> i think you'd do both. i think you might want to listen. nothing wrong with listening. if somebody called from a country, norway, we have information on your opponent.

oh, i think i'd want to hear it. >> you want that kind of interference in our elections? >> it's not an interference. >> let's just be clear. now we have this new reporting on the whistle blower complaint. trump is willing to not only accept information from a foreign power, a passive recipient, but he is willing to seek it out about eight times in one phone call alone, and at this hour there is more we don't know that could matter to american security. tonight, as the president hosts his second formal state dinner, congress people in the room confirm that the intelligence inspector general told them that this threat which he deemed both urgent and credible when he investigated it back in august still is urgent right now. >> i don't know, but i do know that the inspector general thought this was a matter that could not wait. >> caitlyn collins is out front in the white house. the focus as the president is having the state dinner is whether there was quid pro quo

here from president trump to the president of ukraine. >> reporter: yeah, and what would that look like did the president threaten the aid package in exchange for pressuring the ukrainian package into joe biden and his family. that's that package, you'll remember that was languishing in the standstill for the last several weeks with the white house saying they were reviewing it with some aides fighting for them to release the military aid package because it's to help protect ukraine against russia and that was only released by the white house after the house democrat, at least three democrat committees launched investigations into rudy giuliani and the president's ally's conversations with ukrainian officials about this specific aspect. now this comes as a new cnn reporting shows that over the last several months you've seen the president develop an interest in ukraine that was not there before. before,ier in, he tuned them out and didn't see much of an opportunity there and had already essentially dismissed

them after the way their relationship had gone with the obama administration and as officials inside the white house were trying to encourage the president to not only have a relationship with them and that's at the same time that rudy giuliani was pursuing these investigations including a representative for the president. you started to see the president talk about this privately, we are told and also, you've seen him talk about it publicly as he did today, and i am told by multiple sources he was bringing it up not only in person, but also on the phone with multiple people discussing this and so that is going to raise questions that we should note, we do have a source telling us right now that during the july 25th phone call, the last time that president trump and the ukrainian president spoke, we were told the aid package wasn't discussed then and there would be questions going forward that whether or not this was something hanging over ukraine. >> thank you very much, caitlyn. a quid pro quo could take many form, some explicit and some implicit. what is president trump accusing joe biden of doing?

alex marquardt is out front. >> reporter: what should have been a routine call between world leaders was anything but. on a july 25th call between president trump and his ukrainian counterpart trump pressed president zelinski to work with rudy giuliani on digging up dirt on joe biden's son. the white house said the two presidents discussed strengthening the relationship without specifics. ukraine talked about the investigation of corruption cases which inhibited the interaction between ukraine and the usa. in may, the president's lawyer rudy giuliani said he was going to ukraine to push the new president to investigate joe biden and his son's links to a gas company and he met with an aide to talk about biden. ukraine's prosecutor general was supposed to be looking into. but in 2016 joe biden as vice president played a prominent

role in getting the prosecutor fired because he'd been ignoring corruption. biden joining other countries and groups in the widespread push to get ukraine to clean up its act. fast forward to 2019 and president trump, his lawyer and many supporters pounced, accusing biden of helping out his son. now there are questions about whether that push by trump and giuliani is tied to the late august move by the white house to put a hold on $250 million in military aid for ukraine which was later released. on september 1st, vice president mike pence met with szalinski, the vice president danced around it. >> as president trump made clear we have great concerns about issues of corruption. >> reporter: whatever the alleged promise that the whistle-blower says the president reportedly made, democrats in congress are vowing to get to the bottom of those claims. >> they deserve a thorough investigation. that's what we're intent on

doing and come hell or high water that's what we're going to do. >> chairman adam schiff also heads up one of the three committees that was already investigating that call between trump and the ukrainian president. now erin, we know that that call is part of the whistle-blower complaint as well which schiff has a real sense of urgency. he's exploring legal actions in court it if they're not given access to the complaint, we know joseph maguire who blocked the complaint from congress is due to testify in front of schiff's house intelligence committee next thursday. >> alex, thank you very much. i want to go now to the democratic congressman adriana, and you've heard from the inspector general and you're investigating as well what is going on between rudy giuliani and the president of ukraine. if this reporting is true, right, what we understand here that there were at least eight times on one phone call where the president pressured the

ukraini ukrainian president to investigate joe biden and his son. do you see a crime there? >> if that is the case, that is another troubling behavior by this president. whether it is a crime or not we'll have to get to the bottom of this which is why we need to get to the complaint brought forward by the whistle-blower. for the first time and since 2010 when the ig's office and the inspector general's office was created, a complaint of this nature is withheld from congress, even when the complaint is not deemed urgent or even credible, they're sent over to congress anyway. this is the first time since 2010 when the office was created that it was deemed credible has been withheld. >> we understand from this call that trump did not explicitly discuss the aid package, right? so he's saying to the guy about eight times investigate,

investigate, investigate, right? okay. but he's not saying or i will, but then he delays the aid and he delays the aid and he doesn't release it until you and other committees launch your investigation into the phone call. >> that's correct. >> could that be a quid pro quo? >> it could be abuse of power if it's determined that in fact it was put in that fashion to ukraine, but we are concerned about how this whistle-blower is being treated. there's retaliation against him or her. we don't know who the whistle-blower is. >> you don't know the gender? >> we don't know the gender? >> and so this person feels compelled with a complaint before congress. it has to do with a phone call that was made to the ukrainian president. so this is troubling. >> have you found anything, obviously, you've been investigating rudy giuliani, the president's investigation.

trump himself and the ukrainian president -- have you found anything potentially criminal or could be. >> i don't want to categorize his behavior as criminal. certainly having rudy giuliani fly out to madrid and meet with high-level officials from the ukraine, we really don't know if he's acting as his personal lawyer or someone from the state department so this is troubling, as well, the role that rudy giuliani is planning all of this. >> i appreciate your time, congressman. thank you very much, as always. as i said, i heard the inspector general speak and part of the investigation. out front now our breaking news coverage continues. president trump says the whistle-blower is a partisan. so how does he explain this? >> do you know the identity -- >> i don't know the identity of the whistle-blower. >> plus joe biden joining the other 2020 candidates to take on elizabeth warren and today millions take to the streets. they are marching about climate

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breaking news. cnn reporting that president trump pressed ukraine's president to investigate joe biden's son. and this is part of the whistle-blower's complaint to the intelligence community's inspect or general. house speaker nancy pelosi says this about the allegations and team trump's, forts to keep the complaint hidden. if president trump has done what is alleged he's stepping into a dangerous minefield for serious repercussions for his administration and our democracy. jim sciutto and former assistant secretary under president obama julianne kayyem and harry

sandick. so, jim, let me start here with some basic, one of the things that goes to the heart of this. we are learning there was no explicit quid pro quo on this particular phone call, right? it was on july 25th, but we know the president, president trump asked for an investigation into joe biden's family eight times on that call and then delayed the aid to ukraine and didn't release the aid until three committees started investigating that call and his and rudy giuliani's ties to ukraine. could there be a quid pro quo that we don't yet know about, jim? >> the timing is indicative here. we don't know. what we do know, though, is substantive enough, right? remember, during the 2016 campaign as a candidate, president trump welcomed from a foreign government dirt on his political opponent. so here we have in 2019 as president with all of the powers that that brings, he pressured a

foreign government to dig up dirt on an opponent's son. that's a qualitative use of the office for political gain. listen, there's a lot more to learn about this and to your question, erin, we don't know if there was an explicit connection between that demand eight times in one phone call, and a few days later the delay of that aid -- i mean, the timing is suspicious. >> yeah. >> but even if you don't get to that point, using the pressure of the office with the intent of going after a political opponent is something that at a minimum should cause pause. >> yeah. >> listen, folks at home have to decide if that's something that they're comfortable with their president doing. >> harry, could what trump did be illegal? >> yes, it could be. there are a number of different theories, extortion, campaign finance violations, they all require quid pro quo. it doesn't have to be express, a signed contract or a handshake. it could be implicit taken from

an understanding from what is going on and as jim just said, the common thread of the criminal law here is you may not use a public office for private gain and by a number of different theories that is against the law and that seems to be what's happening here. >> juliette, what is interesting what harry said it doesn't have to be an explicit quid pro quo and the read out of that call, they said they talked about the investigation of corruption cases which inhibited the interaction between ukraine and the usa. we now know that on that call they were asked eight times to do an investigation into a corruption situation, okay? and their take away is it was inhintii inhibiting the relationship with the usa. >> the ukrainians knew exactly what they were hearing and it's been such a bizarre 48 hours in terms of all of this information

coming in and just to try to make it simple for people and in the mueller report there were two pieces, right? there was the collusion side and the obstruction side. we have a similar parallelism going on right now. you have the collusion side which is president trump directing to do something against a political enemy someone going to run against him and the obstruction side which is the whistle-blower side. those are different stories and both of them, are i would say, disconcerting. the difference with where we are today is it's in real time and it's about an election that has not taken place and it involves the power of the precedence toe direct other countries to harm his political opponents. in many way, for years, you wanted collusion? i've got your collusion. at this stage, that's where we are. >> so, that irrharry, there is rudy giuliani role in this. to understand it will be very significant. so last night rudy giuliani talked to chris cuomo, and he said he had no knowledge about

trump asking the ukrainian president to investigate joe biden's son eight times. here's the exchange. >> did the president talk to the ukrainian president about what he wanted done with joe biden and what he wanted done with paul manafort? >> i have no idea. i never asked him that. i don't know if he did, and i wouldn't care if he did. he had every right to do it as the president of the united states. he had every right to say to the ukrainian president we have two outstanding allegations of massive corruption -- >> did he ask you to do what you were doing? >> no. i did what i did on my own. >> really. >> >> and i told him about it afterwards because i'm his lawyer and i know how to investigate. >> do you buy that that rudy giuliani would be going sniffing around on a ukraine story without telling the president? >> it seems very unlikely and one of the reasons it seems unlikely is that the reporting today has indicated that the request by the president to the president of ukraine wasn't

provide information to our department of justice. work with us on global anti-corruption. it was provide information to my lawyer, rudy giuliani. >> about my 2020 rival and his son. it was not some generalized thing. it doesn't add up if the president saying work wigiulian and how much i had to say and something's going on. >> it comes as the president is saying the whistle-blower. they don't even know the gender of this person, but the president says this person is a partisan. here he is. >> it's just another political hack job. that's all it is. i don't know the identity of the whistle-blower. i just hear it's a partisan person. >> now, jim, just to be clear, right? the inspector general has said that this was not political. that's what we do understand, but how can the president say the person is a partisan when he doesn't have any idea who the person is. >> like many things the

president says he has nothing to back it up, right? it's a charge that he levels at many critics with no basis and as you said, the inspector general who was appointed by this president looked at the complaint from this whistle-blower, deemed it credible and not just credible, but of urgent concern based on the content of that. so it's a charge the president makes as he often makes charges and is contradicted by an appointee by the president who makes a different judgment that this is, in fact, a substantive concern, complaint from this whistle-blower. >> juliette? >> i absolutely agree with jim. what's important to remember is that the -- the sort of veracity of the whistle-blower and their access to information and what they may know or not know is already assessed by the ag. so the process has already vetted sort of a political opponent concern, right? it's determined that this person isn't just in the room spewing off. so that assessment has been made and trump does this all of the

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>> in a state like iowa where voters value their face time with candidates, relationships are key. state lawmaker bruce hunter and betty brim-hunter met biden in 2007 and more than a decade later endorsed his 2020 run. >> the ground game is a lot different than it was back in '07 and '08. the history of joe building those relationships in iowa and across the country has been a big plus for him. he puts family and friendship above everything else. >> it's something money can't buy. >> joe biden has led here consistently in iowa since he entered the 2020 race. he's closely trailed by bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. tomorrow night cnn and the des moines register will be releasing a new iowa poll which will give us the latest snapshot into the current state of play in iowa less than nine months before the caucuses. >> the national political dress

cress for the new york times, the host of iowa public television's iowa press and he has covered presidential campaigns in iowa since 1976. thanks to you both, jonathan, 110 paid campaign staffers for joe biden in iowa, just to lay it out, that is more than any other democrat has and what does that tell you about how biden campaign sees iowa no matter what they say. >> they recognize that he almost certainly has to win that state, and no small part, erin, to stop senator warren. look, it's very simple math. primaries are like physics in this sense. if you win, the winning gets easier and winning begets winning and that motion is hard to stop. if she wins iowa and new hampshire and then she's 3 and 0 and then the biden fair wall in south carolina kraum bells soed bien has to stop herself somewhere and given she's from

next door from new hampshire. therein, biden going strong in iowa to stop warner, get a win there early and keep the fire wall up in south carolina. >> witchen you know how crucial it is and you know it's crucial, who do you think has the momentum in iowa? >> i think elizabeth warren does. i think biden has been ahead, but i think he's a weak front-runner. if he's looking at 25% in the polls, that means 75% of iowa democrats are for somebody else or they're undecided. most iowa democrats right now are leaning one way or another and they say they could be undecided. i think the rate of gain. biden has been here and warren is coming up and you can see a race that's within the statistical dead heat and margin of error. the second thing is it's very early. the campaign has four months to

go. you can ask president howard dean about the power of peaking early in iowa. >> that's certainly true, but you have to say, jonathan, not only do the numbers show that joe biden believes he has to win the state, but history shows, right? when you've done badly before and you're the front-runner, you can't do badly before and it's just not going to work and he knows it and he knows elizabeth warren is the one gaining momentum. he had a voter who support the medicare for all concept which he's taken on and here's what he said today. >> so if you're willing to pay, and i respect you, if you're willing to pay the extra taxes and you think you'll get much more for that then that's good. that's good, but let's at least acknowledge and tell elizabeth that it will cost a lot of money and she'll raise people's taxes doing it. >> yeah. >> that's not afraid to say it and by the way, he's know the only one. pete buttigieg is calling her out for that. she's going to raise your taxes and he's going right there.

>> absolutely. a sign of the candidate that is moving and he or she is being attacked and senator warren is being attacked which is a good indicator for her politically. i think biden, right there in that moment, erin, right there in that moment is trying to stake his claim on the moderate turf of the democratic party. david will know the exact number and recent iowa polls show 50% of caucusgoers call themselves moderate or conservative democrats so you have basically half the party that is looking for a candidate, and i think what biden is trying to say to those voters is i'm your guy, and to your point, erin, that's also how you see candidates like pete buttigieg, and klobuchar, that's half the caucus electorate. >> to that point, david, how significant is it when you have joe biden around and 25% and we'll see the latest polling when the half of the people voting are moderate or

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>> you're entitled to your own opinion. that's great. we're a free country, but you're not entitled to your own facts. >> facts, science happening at places like this. a patchwork of green in the heartland of the united states. one of the most robust producers of corn and soybeans on the planet. 21 million acres here in illinois alone. >> this is your lab, huh? >> yes. yeah. >> we're lucky to have it. >> it's what drew scientist andrew leaky from his home country of scotland to illinois. >> this is why i moved here, actually. >> but the climate is changing this most fundamental way of life, as well. it's what lou has been sounding the alarm about. the carbon in the air is now changing the food coming from the ground. >> so we are essentially going into your time machine as you say. >> absolutely. you step from 2019 into the

mid-century in terms of co2 concentration. >> within this outlined space, she's plants are getting gassed with 25% more carbon dioxide. why? that's the level scientists project it will be in 2050. >> i just heard hissing sound. >> if you reach out you with probably feel some of the co2 coming out the back side there. >> we humans need oxygen, as you know but plants like carbon dioxide. they use it in a process called photosynthesis. definitely can help plants grow bigger but not better. that carbon gets turned into carbs or sugar.

it also makings it so the plants have less of the good stuff. it's turning some of the best foods we have into junkier food. >> it sounds like a significant problem if some of staples of our diet, some of the most commonly grown crops on the face of the earth are changing. >> i think those of us in the developed world have the luxury of being able to take a supplement or just what we buy in the supermarket. there's people who are iron and zinc deficient and about two billion people who depend on the grains they eat for their suppliers. sflp it >> it's one of the ways the world will first experience the impact of climate change. it was so shocking to learn the usda wouldn't let thhim talk tos about his study. >> we tried to sit down with you

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>> he's now at columbia university. he resigned from the usda. he's one of handful of scientist who is have been leaving federal government. the scientists leaving because they don't feel supported. just yesterday senate democrats released a list of 38 different times the trump administration tried to quote suppress science across the federal government. it's tough for the message from the scientists who work for the federal government to get out. >> what you just presented add fascinating. it's an angle no one had thought of. thank you for sharing it with us. next, as the candidates come to iowa, it means there's going be a lot of babies. here what's happens when presidential candidates and babies collide. ♪

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when candidates interact with babies it usually makes you say aww. sometimes instead of inspiring aww, they inspire irritation. >> we could keep that down a little bit. okay, thanks. >> reporter: babies don't take or orders even from potential presidents. this one kept fussing. babies are born with immunity to dirty looks. one day bernie sanders is kid friendly. >> oh, my goodness. >> reporter: the next day he's literally waving them off. >> has bernie just looked like this his entire life. i bet when he was born the doctor was like congratulations, mrs. sanders it's a beautiful healthy old man. well done. >> reporter: bernie doesn't believe in babying cry babies. >> we could keep that down

little bit. >> reporter: he was almost nurturing compared to a certain someone. >> you can get the baby out of here. >> reporter: the baby's mom was already headed out since then candidate trump had called attention to the crying a minute or two earlier. >> don't worry about that baby. i love babies. i love babies. >> reporter: president trump has gone so far as the sign a baby. >> look at that baby. he's so cute. give me that baby. >> reporter: sometimes a crying baby can be a political asset back in 2012. >> i don't blame that baby for crying. she just realizes what it means if romney gets elected. >> reporter: now in 2019 joe biden still zeroes in on a well placed baby. >> pregnancy is no longer a pre-existing condition. >> reporter: dad popped up for a selfie. even when they grow up, this kid desperately wanted to hug the

president. he flexed his hugging mus cles went in for the kill but pulled back until finally the politicians are hoping some of that cuteness rubs off on them. cnn. >> he's just charming me. >> reporter: new york. >> thanks for watching. ac 360 starts now. thanks for joining us. cnn has learned that the president of the united states pressed a foreign head of state to work with his counsel. there's one point to this story that first broke in the wall street journal late today. in a july 25th phone call president trump in his official capacity asked the president of ukraine to do something in his official capacity that would benefit not this country but president trump himself both po