complaint which sparked impeachment proceedings against president trump is really about the whistleblower admits being a direct witness to. this crime. for blood or sticking to their goals. we were presented with the most graphic evidence. of the present the united states has betrayed his oath of office. betrayed to the national security and betrayed his oath to defend our constitution. rates his the zire for kiev to investigate the alleged corrupt activities of former us vice president joe biden which claims

well. we look into the allegations. also and on the program a court finds the woman behind the french. should have accused of sexual. british business men aren't buying his lead. paint are cleared of receiving millions in funding from overseas including from russia the national crime agency stating there was no evidence that any criminal offenses being committed. in the world this is r t international pleasure to have your company i mean and only our top story a whistleblower's complaint about a controversial phone call between the u.s. and ukrainian leaders hound's been declassified democrats are insisting the

documents alongside a summary of the conversation released by the white house shows that donald trump likely committed a crime the director of national intelligence is currently testifying in congress on the allegations of the all named whistleblower. to new york and across the story for us. david the much anticipated whistleblowers complaint show really what the democrats had been so vigorously awaiting. well this complaint the full text of it has now been on classified and if you take a look at the complaint it's from an unnamed whistleblower and this whistleblower essentially argues that they are working in the interest of the united states they heard about trump's conversation with the ukrainian leader they were outraged about it and they had to speak up now what's interesting is the whistleblower admits they never actually heard the conversation but they heard about it from

a reliable source now the democrats are rallying around this whistle blowers complaint let's take a listen i was not a direct witness to most of the events described however i found my colleague's accounts of these events to be credible because in almost all cases officials recounted fact pontin's that were consistent with one another in addition a variety of information consistent with these private accounts has been reported publicly and therefore filling my g.-t. to report this information through pro police channels to the rather than foresees we were presented with the most graphic evidence yet that the present united states has betrayed his oath of office betrayed his oath to defend our national security and betrayed his oath to defend our constitution sacrificed our national security. and our constitution for his personal political benefit.

now the office of the director of national intelligence or the national intelligence director is currently testifying he says he fully stands behind this whistleblower you don't believe the whistleblower is a political hack do you director i believe that that as i said before mr chairman i believe the whistle blowers are operating in good faith well then that has money in the law they couldn't be in good faith if they were acting as a political hack could they. mr chairman my job is to support and leave the entire intelligence community that individual works for me therefore it is my job to make sure that i support and defend that person you don't have any reason to use them of disloyalty to our country or suggest that beholden to some other country i'm sure absolutely not i believe that the whistleblower followed the steps every step of the way. now the white house has released the full transcript of the phone call in question between president trump of the united

states and the ukrainian leader and as that transcript shows trump did indeed bring up joe biden his son hunter biden the issue of the firing of the prosecutor however there was no mention of a threat to withdraw military aid from ukraine as was alleged by democrats additionally and that transcript is available on the entire conversation and when they were at the united nations speaking together trump and the ukrainian leader reiterated that there was never any pressure or threat placed on the ukrainian leader of this is trump and the ukrainian leader at the u.n. . and. i think good point cole was normal and we spoke about many and the so i think you will read it is that nobody bullshit bush and me yes no great you know there was no pressure and you have to do it is one of the call but you know that you could ask

the question and i appreciate the attention and i think that somebody if you look at what he did it is so bad for his son he goes to china he walks away with a video they have dollars he goes to ukraine to do you walk away with $50000.00 a month and a lot of money in addition to that and the whole thing with the prosecutor in ukraine and he's ok this isn't like maybe he did it maybe he is he's on his way of doing it is. now at this point the democrats have opened a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump now the way the us constitution lays things out the house of representatives decides to begin impeachment proceedings that would be the house judiciary committee that would write up articles of impeachment but it's the u.s. senate that would then convene an impeachment trial and vote on whether or not to remove the president so at this point we have the democrats in the house of representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against us president donald trump

in response to this phone call and the whistleblowers complained about it however at this point of the senate is controlled pretty solidly by republicans so they could very easily vote not to convene an impeachment trial so the next move will be quite interesting to see but regardless of what we now have with the transcript of ala ball that says that the whistleblower didn't actually hear the conversation the complaint that is now available from the whistleblower to the transcript of the conversation that is now available it'll be quite interesting to see what happens next but the impeachment ball is rolling in washington d.c. you know it certainly will live in new york this hour kill up and thank you. let's go live to london where andree walker political commentator and new york observer columnist is standing by to give us his take on very good to see you so there we have it the whistle blowers complaint released just looking through some of it is single site mr trump's lawyer in the claims and that the white house tried to

restrict access to details of the controversial call according again to this all named whistleblower. is this going to be for the trump administration if at all. well look it's important that the allegation of wrongdoing is properly investigated but i would make a couple of points i mean 1st of all i thought the introduction by chairman sheriff was frankly ludicrous it made allegations that simply were baseless and were not involved in the whistle blowers complaint look whether the whistleblower is genuine or not and i have no reason to believe that the whistleblower is not genuine this is not somebody who is directly party to the calls so that could be significant but i'd also make another point we have just got to the end of a process in which the democrats to spend significant amounts of time telling us that donald trump is a russian spy or is colluded with a lot of say or is in some way you know working outside the interests the united

states with russia now we've started with ukraine and selenski now putin selenski hate each other so evil of lot of is on one side or is on the other or pops neither of these allegations are true look i think it is reasonable for the american president to discuss issues of corruption in eastern europe we know that there are significant problems particularly with all the galaxy and corruption and indeed with westerners making money illicitly in these countries and ukraine is all not laced and donald trump has never been dishonest about the fact that he believes that there are it's a coach who people within the democrat party who have behaved in the criminal fashion you know 50000. month from ukraine to the son of joe biden and it's hard to explain where all these come from it certainly was not such a thing as i was that it was the pushing for more information on joe biden no 100 not it is the point does the summary transcript indicate that donald trump did

commit a crime how strong is the argument that he was in breach of campaign finance laws as is what is being talked about well look i don't not the exact details of u.s. law but it would seem only reasonable to me to make the following points firstly the whistleblower who no doubt is a credible person has not said i personally so this is the start of an investigation rather than the end of it similarly i think if anybody was in any doubts that donald trump was firstly going to support ukraine in terms of offering them the job for the missile system everybody knew that also was double trump complaining about russia's relationship with ukraine yes he was also was donald trump demanding that the europeans put more money into ukraine because he felt that america was being overly supportive we knew that as well and finally we knew that donald trump was always saying that there's a coach tree of democrats who want to be investigated for corruption so so none of

the it's none of these to me is a surprise now of course the $64000.00 question days has he technically breached u.s. law without the if they say i don't know about that but i think that's something that will emerge in the coming weeks and months being talked about currently in washington of course we've got the acting director of national insurance joseph mcguire's testimony we've got a lot of people asking questions including republican devin nunez we can just take a listen to gather under it. yes it is normal for the president and states to have their conversations leak out. and it's the 3rd time ranking member of the allegation in the whistleblower complaint was that there were about 12 people who listened in on the conversation so there were a number of people that from the white house briefed on the call this would not be something that i'm quite i'm quite sure this white house probably didn't leak this out i wouldn't say the white house but there are individuals within the white house

that may or may not i don't know but it would not be from an intelligence intercept i will say that. the situation isn't at this white house. yeah funnily enough i'm glad you raised i thought that was a critical moment obviously you can only put in so much into the clip but what they were talking about at that point was that we had the conversation with the australian prime minister leaked we had the conversation with the president of mexico late and now a leak about the president of ukraine there is a significant problem with people working against donald trump and the question that we're all going to ask ourselves is look in the cold light of day these phone calls may sound incriminating but we don't know what barack obama said to world leaders we don't know what george bush said to world leaders we don't know what bill clinton said to world leaders and so we've got nothing necessarily to compare this to and i think that that is where it is on 1st one of the things i would say as an important point and anybody watching this i think would have the intelligence

to recognize that you cannot run a foreign affairs operation if the confidential conversations your having with both supportive and hostile regimes a cult see being leaked to the washington post that is something that is deeply and helpful and it's something that continually options and only to donald trump just briefly on a topic you talked about joe biden his son he so far there's no charge against them of course but it's there isn't it there will be people looking into it investigations will be happening he was the front runner or at least among the top for the democratic nod for the 2020 presidential election do you think his reputation is going to be damaged by this. well joe biden i don't think is go reputation to protect creepy joe but but i do think that he's got a lot of support and he has got a lot of support but then again that's all because hillary clinton's the other option but look i think of

a serious note here is the important issue that we are commentators and viewers need to work out is donald trump helping ukraine to deal with the corruption issue or. bullying ukraine they central obligation that we have always made. is that countries like ukraine do not feel able to investigate these sorts of you know american political royalty for fear of reprisals i just think we need to be very careful in jumping to conclusions because it may well be that double talk was helping. in the past a significant problem with corruption all right thanks for your time this hour under walker political commentator new york observer columnist well life on the program. well donald trump has reiterated he still wants alleged corruption claims involving his potential election rival joe biden and ukrainian company investigated the u.s. president's i can extend beyond just more than country as ortiz on the quarter reports. and trump's doing something there's

a naysaying liberal media following close behind despite president trump and rudy giuliani's repeated allegations against the bidens no evidence of wrongdoing tied to his son hunter biden's ukraine business has actually been found the allegations against him which which have indeed been been proven baseless at least to this point these are proven claims that the president is making about bud right well he's making up to the allegations against the vice president i think that's really important to understand so does biden and his family have a squeaky clean track record let's look at the facts in 2014 biden was in charge of washington's policy stance for ukraine and for some reason his son was put on a ukrainian oil company's board of directors around that same time when a prosecutor launched an inquiry into that weird coincidence biden had this to say and i went over. the $1230.00 time key event and i was goose supposed to

announce that there is another $1000000000.00 loan guarantee and i got a commitment from poroshenko and from. you know that they would take action against the state prosecutor and they did so that they're walking out. and i'm not going to we're not going to give you $2000000000.00 shortly after the prosecutor was fired and the inquiry dropped biden said neither had to do with one another just another coincidence but let's go back to biden's 2013 trip to china for talks with president cheesing paying 10 days after that a subsidiary of the bank of china cut a deal with joe son hunter to form a $1000000000.00 joint investment fund another $1000000000.00 coincidence then there was 2011 when he oversaw u.s. troop withdrawal from iraq that same year joe's younger brother sealed a $1500000000.00 deal to build homes in you guessed. it iraq there's

plenty of money for everyone if this project goes through and that mountain of benjamin's 2 was only a coincidence it seems when you're related to the former vice president things just tend to work out and joe scott no problem with it mr vice president your take on that was a conflict of interest there was a clear conflict of interest but you heard him people move along nothing to see here i'm not seeing now questions about well it could also be distracting us from what joe biden has done and others have been involved because there really is something there that's a question that's not coming through really the questions that are being asked in the hope i think for those who are were answered from this and this leads into really great. leaked information or juicy information not about joe biden but about donald trump. people who are upset with his politics and this could be a way to move us away from when joe biden might be involved in if anything we came

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executives who she said had sexually harassed her now she is known as being the leader of the start of the meaty movement here in france which is called paul which means rotten you'll pay them back in 2017 she had tweeted about an incident for many years before in which she. it said it the executive who she went on to name and shame had made inappropriate advances to her but the t.v. executive in question says as a result of this he was labeled as a sex offender he received a huge parish of criticism on social media and he was unhappy he said even more so when she rejected his advances which he admits actually happened he then went on to apologize effectively i did make misplaced comments to sandra during a drunken cocktail party very late one night but only ones i later i told her was so heavy handedly and only once i must point out i don't want to exonerate myself

from my boorishness of the time i retreat my apologies well sundram isn't happy with this verdict in the court neither is her lawyer and both say that they will now look to appeal it by going on i didn't win the other woman won i lost here today but in any case we win it all genders have started talking this decision doesn't take away from the fact that women's voices have been liberated that he must continue to speak out that he must continue to do now is reprehensible acts of any kind fear must not when fear must not change sides well this isn't perhaps the 1st embarrassment for the b. 2 movement to think about the italian actress an activist asieh our center who is one of the 4 bearers of the me too movement across the globe and also new york professor vito ronald both who talked about being victims of sexually inappropriate

behavior in the past but both women were later accused by a young man of making them the victims of sexually inappropriate behavior and many people have long questioned this idea of naming and shaming people who are being accused. of being sexual offenders or sexual predators given that in a public space such as social media there's often little to no evidence to back up that those allegations those claims have got a real grain of truth to them and many people saying why didn't you take them to the courts in the 1st place and some saying as a result of that their careers have also been growing their personal lives have also being ruined so some people question now whether this defamation case marks a real reversal in the fortunes of the me to not perhaps just here in france but across the globe with many other people perhaps looking at this case and wondering if they too now could bring their own defamation case. another big story

we want to bring you today the u.k.'s national crime agency has found no proof of wrongdoing by the braggs a campaign group leave dot one of its fundraisers are in bikes it cleared him of receiving donations for the breadth of campaign from a foreign source namely russia with more on the story here's kate partridge. britain's national crime agency says it's dropping an investigation into our and banks one of the biggest donors behind the referendum campaign the n.c.a.a. looked into potential offenses concerning $8000000.00 pounds worth of funding it was claimed banks wasn't the true source but the inquiry found banks illegally took out a loan from a company he owned and so he could give the money to the british that campaign the n.c.a.a. investigation has concluded that mr banks was legally entitled in his capacity as an individual to release these funds to the better for the country limited by

instructing another of his company's rock services ltd to make the transactions on his behalf but it's worth noting the n.c.a.a. felt the need to highlight the hype surrounding the case the investigation has been subject to press and social media. commentry the n.c.a.a. has not received any evidence to suggest that mr banks and his companies received funding from any 3rd party to fund the loans or that he acted as an agent on behalf of a 3rd party why is this important because our in banks with the russian ambassador to the u.k. a few times as well as russian businessmen as is often assumed by associating with russians you must be a russian agent something banks. that crimea you know what the police are going to investigate lunch with the russian ambassador butler university gate but the media seems eager to find a russian connection or exit is now being pinned on russian interference baron

banks has been dogged by repeated accusations of close links with russia the parallels between the russian intervention and brags and the russian intervention in the trump campaign appear to be extraordinary so we travel to south africa to find one they also filled russian opposition figures with no knowledge of the case as they brought up his russian wife mr banks is a perfectly good reason to visit russia whenever he wants his family he has 3 children by his russian wife in 2015 aaron banks tried to raise money in russia to invest in his mines here in south africa and surprisingly they try to connect banks with donald trump and felt it was newsworthy to discuss banks some time visit to transcribe and publish pictures of it too controversial backers of the brakes movement were guests last year at donald trump's mar a lago club or in banks and the wigmore known as the bad boys a break visited the palm beach club in april according to a review by the palm beach post of instagram post tagged at the spot mainstream

politicians also pushed him on the issue so much so banks walked out of a select committee meeting as m.p.'s questions on the exit and russia ran late because you're too this is the system. that is. it was it is it is it was the n.c.a.a. found no evidence banks had committed any criminal offenses he says the allegations against him were part of a political witch hunt as with claims of trump russia collusion reports of banks in russia collusion were apparently founded and perpetuated on fear rather than proof the decision to leave the european union was something so monumental that it impacted the elites in britain both in the politics in civil service and in business and media that they needed to find the enemies they needed to find a way of discrediting the whole campaign and so the 1st thing they did was start to

attack the donors to the campaign to leave and of course mr our own banks and the leave means leave movement came into the firing line of their anger without a doubt this was a witch hunt it was a witch hunt against those who campaigned for brix it like myself and the leaders of the movement it was a campaign to discredit those who donated it and they also tried to discredit it by saying that there was collusion from other nations such as russia that there was russian money behind mr r. and banks and all of this was to discredit the movement discredit the referendum it was a disgrace and should be something that's looked into by a royal commission in my view in the way that we look after our elections in the future the bolshoi has only one overseas school and it's about as far from russia as you can get brazil in moments we take a look at some amazing stories of talent and also the of those inside the academy

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