trump references crowd strike, a cyber security firm the tra democratic national committee hired to investigate. the cloud strike public apply blamed the russian government as was confirmed by robert mueller's investigation. trump and giuliani have floated another conspiracy theory, that ukraine invented the idea that russia was meddling in the 2016 election. >> several people in ukraine knew about a tremendous amount of collusion between ukrainian officials and hillary clinton and the democratic national committee. >> on the july call, zelensky says the issue is an important one, and trump resolves to have barr and giuliani follow up with zelensky. the justice department says trump never asked barr to contact ukraine, and barr has not communicated with ukraine on this or any other subject. giuliani has been in contact with ukrainian official sfw. >> throughout the call, you see the ukrainian president say over and over again, he thinks the areas are corruption he's going to look over hall im. taking pains to say he does not want to be at the center of the u.s. democratic process. back to you.

. >> it was bought and paid for, done by hillary clinton, the democratic national committee.ld me the person that was the intermediary, i've interviewed -- maria: but if you are president trump's personal attorney, why are you having all of these meetings with ukrainian officials? >> because they had an alternative explanation that cleared my client. that's what you do as a defense attorney. did you ever watch perry mason? let's say i was representing someone for murder and someone came to me and said we really know who did the murder, but the police won't listen to us. maria: yeah. >> i would have to go investigate it myself. because -- and they were also telling me they didn't trust the fbi, which is a shame -- maria: well, congressman devin nuÑes joined me on friday on "mornings with maria a" on fox business, and he connected the dots in terms of why the president was so interested in getting to the bottom of what went on in ukraine. listen to devin nuÑes, he joined me on friday. >> that's number one. number two, people have to understand that the origins of the russia inv

you are totally biased and your network is a creature of a democratic national committee. >> i appreciate your take, as always. >> you should be embarrassed to be on that network. >> i'm the one that should be embarrassed. >> absolutely. >> i'm embarrassed. i'm embarrassed. for you. have a good night. >> you shouldn't be embarrassed for me. that's garbage. >> have a good night. somebody needs to because you're not aware of what you're doing. good night. >> of course i'm aware of what i'm saying. >> have a good night. >> well, you shouldn't have a good night because what you're doing is very bad for the country. >> i've got to go. with respect, i've got to go. we're going to try to digest what to pull out of that with former general counsel to the fbi about how this complaint system should have worked, what has actually happened here and what are the questions going forward. jim baker says he doesn't think that this whistleblower scandal is going to end well. why? next. i switched to miralax for my constipation. stimulant laxatives forcefully stimulate the nerves in your colon. miralax wor

it was a tool of the democratic national committee and clinton campaign and steele was also paid by the fbi at the time and fusion gps may have had a desk over at the justice department given all the documents we have showing that one who worked for fusion gps was communicating with doj and giving them the dossier to smear trump. why isn't fusion gps more in the news and more the focus of criminal prosecution is beyond me because in my view they knowingly moved the early that they knew was false to the fbi and the justice department officials and all the behest of hilary clinton and the democratic national committee. lou: yeah, the co funders of the dossier -- the christopher steele efforts in that fraudulent dossier. as you say, no accountability. we have financier bill browder and an activist going to the courts as is devin nunes. at least there's some life within some elements of the republican party that could be -- you could construe as defense of the president. in general, this president has simply to rely on his own devices to defend himself. i have never seen a circumstance wher

intelligence oversight committee during 911 and after 911 when they created the office of the director of national intelligence. the bill happen to be written by my mother and then ranking democrat on the intelligence committee and now speaker nancy pelosi so i know this very well i lived it the whole point of having a director of national intelligence the united states is because in the attacks of 9111 of the things that we learned in 2001 was that there was a bit of information that the cia might have there's a bit of information the f.b.i. might have but the 2 couldn't talk so what you needed was one director of national intelligence who could take all the information from defense from justice from state from various agencies and put it all together and present it to the president and say this is the composite picture of what's happening and so is somebody in that office of the director of national intelligence saw all those agencies saw all those pieces of evidence being put together if you will with respect to ukraine and made a whistleblower report saying the law has been broken the constitutional duty has been breached there is nothing more serious than that so we have to

. >>> the democratic national committee announced the new threshold candidates. candidates have to receive votes from 165,000 donors up for 135,000 needed for the debate next month. they must meet one of two polling requirements. 3% support in four national or early state polls or five percent support in in polls. >>> 4: 07. a new memoir written by the woman sexual assaulted by a former stanford university swimmer will be available today. several stanford students will hold a rally at the stanford bookstore at 10:00 this morning. janell miller recently revealed her name during an interview with 60 minutes and talked about how she got drunk at a frat party and woke up at a hospital not knowing what happened. swimmer brock turner was convicted of three felonies on sexual assault. he was sentenced to six months in jail and out in ninety days. >>> rape is not a punishment for getting drunk. we have this sick mindset in our culture that if you deserve rape, if you drink to excess you deserve a hangover. >>> outrage over brock turner's sentence prompted many people to

and to his former communications director for the democratic national committee and he joins us now from washington d.c. mr nifong to democrats especially nancy pelosi were very reticent about pushing for impeachment for quite some time and when you look at the electoral math heading into 2020 you can see why so what's changed now what's pushed the democrats over the edge. yeah it's a great question i think this is such a clear fact pattern in a way that with robert muller and the investigation over russia there are lots and lots of damning behavior there that i found but the way that worked out was the time the the outrage had sort of worn off by the time that the report actually came out and then mr miller was very understated about the whole thing so i think it was clear that there was some obstruction of justice there but then there's a question is there an underlying crime so it all became a big muddle now what we see is literally the day after testifies before congress and it seems like well that was kind of you know from a theatrical. perspective it wasn't that exciting so people

climate activists have been pushing for a dedebate on the crisis but the democratic national committee rejected the proposal. in one of the night's most memorable moments, vice president joe biden was asked about his plans to attend a fundraiser hosted by fossil fuel goodman todayew despite signing the no fossil fuel money pledge. >> there is a fundraiser tomorrow night given by andrew goldman. he does hedge funds and stuff but he also has a covenant called western lng. and the biggest project is a floating liquefied facility for natural gas from also because of british columbia, i'm going to provide canadian guest reports of northern asia. what andrew is saying is if you're going to do a fundraiser given apart by this guy who is a pulling upt is natural gas, are you the right guy to go after this? >> i did not realize he does that. if you look at the sec filings, he is not listed as onone of the executives. that is s what we look at, the c filings, who are the executives. amy: later in the evening, elizabeth warren was questioned by cnn chris cuomo about whether she would mandate the

. >>> "the new york times" says the democratic national committee is tightening the rules for candidates to qualify for november's primary debate. candidates must receive donations from at least 165,000 donors and have 600 unique donors in at least 20 states, washts, washington, d.c., or u.s. territories. they must also receive 3% in four national or early state polls or 5% in two polls in four early primary states. the date and location of the debate has not been announced yet. >>> "the kansas city star" reports the university of kansas received an ncaa notice of allegations about possible major rules violations against the school's storied men's basketball program and coach bill south. the alleged violations are tied primarily to recruiting and lack of institutional control. a former adidas eloyee said he made donations. the school has a multi-million-dollar apparel deal with the school. the coach and school dispute the allegations. >>> and kreb cbsnews.com reports wide receiver nelson agholor is responding to a man who criticized his catching skills. hakim law said he was walking in t

tremendous amount of collusion between ukrainian officials and hillary clinton and the democratic national committee on the july calls alinsky says the issue is an important one interim 1000 have bar and giuliani follow up with the lewinsky. the justice department says trump never asked barr to contact ukraine in bars not communicated with ukraine on this or any other subject. giuliani meanwhile has already been in contact with ukrainian officials. >>that was sara murray reporting houseimpeachment inqu president trump yesterday. >>but this little congresswoman jackie spear is speaking out on today's events tonight. she said she was in disbelief after reading the whistleblower complaint. >>i describe it as explosive and john dropping. could not believe what i was reading and while i can't refer to whether or not the phone call was included in this whistleblower complaint. i can tell you the totality of that complaint is. so disconcerting that a president the united states. conduct himself in a matter that was so illegal. >>democratic presidential candidate, julian castro says he also supports impeach

noticed in my "columbus dispatch" this morning, that the is looking into the hacking of the democratic national committeeore the last presidential election. , i am watching this program because i was informed we are going to hear about what the relationship is between the united states government and the ukrainian government as far as information about corruption. and here i am. i am watching the wilson center whose current director and previous director were nothing or peoplecal hacks not interested in our relationship between the ukrainian government and the u.s. government so far as anding into corruption actually what happened between the biden family and the money exchanged to their advantage. host: quick response? guest: the wilson center is a nonpartisan institution. it is a research-based institution. i lived in ukraine for over a year and reported on the presidential elections from the ground. that is what informs my understanding of ukraine. it is not motivated by any political biases. run callinggo to from maryland on the democratic line. caller: that is michigan. host: ok, go ahead. caller: i

buying more american-made weapons, the president asks for a favor, to investigate whether a democratic national committeever that was hacked during the 2016 election ended up in ukraine. >> where did it start? how come it started? it was all nonsense. it was a hoax. >> o'donnell: weijia jiang joins us now, and she's been following the president all day here in new york, as he's been doing those meetings. and weijia, let me ask you, what's the explanation from the president about why it's appropriate to involve his personal attorney in a foreign policy issue like this? >> reporter: well, president trump avoided answering why giuliani would be allowed to have anything to do with ukraine investigating biden, and gave an alternative explanation to why he mentioned giuliani to zelensky at all, claiming it was to find out the origins of the russia investigation. norah, the president added, the former mayor of this city is a great lawyer. >> o'donnell: all right, weijia, thank you. we go now to capitol hill, where members of congress have been reviewing the whistleblower's complaint, and nancy cordes has some l

trump in return said i would like a favor, and that favor was or, g into the hacking of the democrat national committee president's pe interest the but in the national interest of the united states, and that has been misreported. a lot of people are saying the favor ngs looking to joe biden. the joe biden portion was not mentioned in the transcript. i know it gets a little complicated and nuanced, but it is important to have the facts. laura: well, if the president has done nothing wrong as you say, won't the impeachment inquiry prove him right? >> i think it will prove him right, and the american people are well aware of that. as the facts emerge, the american people will continue to stand against impeachment.and poll after poll shows a small 30% of americans support this impeachment inquiry. but ultimately, the house does get to vote. d the use isocrat majority. hipimately i think partisa will win outbut removal has to be done by the senate with a o-thir majority, and i think republicans will be the rational minds and agree with the rest of america and say thhis is unmerited. whether the house impeac

a specific request that the ukrainian leader locate and turn over servers used by the democratic national committee and examined by the u.s. cyber security firm crowd strike. i would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it and would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine they say crowd strike the server they say ukraine has it whatever you can do it's very important that you do it if that's possible the president also praised ukraine's prosecutor general. and suggested that mr lansky might want to keep him in his position. i heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that's really unfair a lot of people are talking about that the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved they these in gentleman we have front row seats as we watch the noble human all noble title of whistleblower sally my deed bipartisan politics in the accuracy and bias over the intelligence community inspector general's preliminary review identified some indi

labeled a clank no matter how much the public likes you the democratic party run by the democratic national committee have a vested interest in keeping this nation the war they want to fund the pentagon war machine they want to fund the different conflicts the united states is in a president. ensures that contracts for munitions for uniforms with boots with planes with drones and said so to continue so you have a strong own vested interest in maintaining the current military conflicts the united states currently in so they would like to get rid of the different candidates who or do not oppose much of a threat you know most of those showing the polls you know most political support behind them they don't want to give the national visibility at this point. ok that's your news for now more great altie programs on the way in your part of the world meantime check out the user that's on the go on your device your next level up that here is in just about half an hour to see that. centuries traced to. this or that the british and the bill of books had out into the world to. stop the show so here she didn't t

labeled a clank no matter how much the public likes you the democratic party run by the democratic national committee have a vested interest in keeping this nation the war they want to fund the pentagon war machine they want to from the different conflicts united states is in a prison. ensures that contracts for munitions for uniforms with boots for planes with rooms etc so to continue so you have a strong own vested interest in maintaining the current military conflicts the united states currently in so they would like to get rid of the different candidates who or do not pose much of a threat you know most of those showing the goals you know most political support behind them they don't want to give the national visibility at this point. that's it for now midday 25 moscow time so much more of course at r.t. dot com check it out if you have got a minute do it so far today stand by for mr kaiser and co he's on the kinds report just a minute or 2 here most of this. and so watching. the big pain years since crossed i started 10 years i think it's time to shake things up maybe change the branding maybe t

labeled a clank no matter how much the public likes you the democratic party run by the democratic national committee have a vested interest in keeping this nation the war they want to fund the pentagon war machine they want to from the different conflicts united states is in a prison. ensures that contracts for munitions for uniforms with boots with planes with rooms etc so to continue so you have a strong own vested interest in maintaining the current military conflicts the united states currently in so they would like to get rid of the different candidates who are or do not pose much of a threat you know most. polls have no much political support behind them they don't want to give the nest more visibility at this point. funny from how to read an academic that now lives in germany has spoken out against the racism and she says she's experienced the institutions where she's studying sort of he says she's being made to focus on topics related to a cultural background is that of those she's interested in. and the past 10 years that i've been living in berlin i have either been subjected to racism or

labeled a clank no matter how much the public likes you the democratic party run by the democratic national committee have a vested interest in keeping this nation the war they want to fund the pentagon war machine they want to from the different come flukes the united states is in a prison. ensures that contracts for munitions for uniforms with boots with planes with brooms and said so to continue so you have a strong own vested interest in maintaining the current military conflicts the united states currently in so they would like to get rid of the different candidates or do not pose much of a threat you know most of us showing the polls you know most political support behind them they don't want to give the national visibility at this point. 23 past the hour if you know what she was smiling know next to united states the ambassador to mexico is facing a backlash over comments about a mexican national hero cristobal and those sworn in last month lashed out at frida kahlo are now owned painter of mexico who died in 954 slamming her passion for marxism leninism and stalin this. i don't think my ethni

the first time in the 2020 democratic primary, every candidate who has qualified for the democratic national committeee will share the stage, same stage, tomorrow. >> a lot of people. they will all be in houston for a debate you can watch right here on abc 7. this is a time lapse video of the stage being set up for the ten candidates. >> here are the candidates who qualified. joe biden, cory booker, pete buttigieg, julian castro, kamala harris, amy klobuchar, beto o'rourke, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, and andrew yang. >> now tomorrow debate coverage begins after abc 7 news at 4:00 and is expected to run from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. we'll have a special edition of abc 7 news immediately following that debate. >> health officials say six people have died and hundreds have been hospitalized because of a vaping related illness. >> the steps the trump administration wants to take now in the hopes of stopping this growing epidemic. >> they were promised a bed and food, but instead, authorities say dozens of homeless people were taken advantage of by leaders of a church. >> flames shooting out of an airplane

the democratic national committee have a vested interest in keeping this nation the war they want to fund the pentagon war machine they want to fund the different come flix the united states is in a present and there ensures that contracts for munitions for uniforms are good for planes with brooms etc etc etc continued so you have a strong own vested interest in maintaining the current military conflicts the united states is currently in so they would like to get rid of the different candidates who are or do not pose much of a threat you know most showing the poles would not have much political support behind them they don't want to give them national visibility at this point we turning our eyes to the east after the break where key leaders from asia join the russian president just over an hour ago to talk about everything from trade to taking the heat out of a looming arms race it's our next story on r.t. international. you know so many people referenced the. let them eat cake and then you know historians have gone back and they said you know it's actually not cake it's. real so i b

a specific request that the ukrainian leader locate and turn over service used by the democratic national committee and examined by the u.s. cyber security firm strike. i would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot in ukraine knows a lot about it and would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine they say crowd strike the server they say ukraine has it whatever you can do it's very important that you do it if that's possible whistle blew is now essentially a 5050 anonymous source you get on c.n.n. for example fun to listen to but as practice shows as taken with a dose of salt source tells n.b.c. news anonymous sources you're basing all these allegations of one or maybe 2 sources which c.n.n. isis not receiving any reports it's washington post new york times wall street journal c.n.n. a.b.c. elihu resources all because they're hiding behind this in anonymity commonality we're seeing this do you want me to you're just going to attack sources all of us who have been involved in national security and have reported on waste fraud abu

wednesday to do was to look into meddling in the us campaign he mentioned crowd strike the democrat national committee a company that managed their server and whether the information was there presumably both parties would like to know would like to get ahold of that server and find out exactly what happened to the server that's the only thing he asked specifically for help with and let's not forget also he did not mention money at all it name didn't even mention that the us funds ukraine he did say we spent a lot of time on ukraine and did of course there is a congressional committees and are going to look into these allegations the whistleblower whoever he or she may be may well speak before the committee as well do you think there's a chance we might find out directly from the whistleblower when they do get something we don't already know what and what 'd impact could that have. well anything is possible but let's not forget that the whistleblower went through called whistleblower went through the procedures he went to inspector general intelligence committee intelligence committee inspector genera

>> well, at this point the democratic national committee has said that they're not going to have a single issue debate about anything, a little bit too late to include that, to their point we haven't ever seen that but to the activists climate change touches all aspects of life, in fact, the economy it affects your health, it affects the home you live in, so they feel that this is an issue that's not getting enough attention that touches every single little thing and needs to be brought to light and what candidates want to do and make sure it's first order priority of whoever the democratic nominee is because there's just not enough time left. >> and dnc as you noted, last week about not having that specific debate, cnn looking to hold a 7-hour climate change town hall next week, ten democratic candidates expect today -- expected to show up for that event. steve in st. louis, missouri, you're next. >> hello, i would love to talk about -- the discussion of different ideas on what can be done to help in the issue of climate change but as i listen on these conversations, first of all, i love

corruption allegations involving joe biden's son according to ukrainian officials the democratic national committee contractor alexander alexandra chalupa tried to get ukrainian officials to provide dirt on trump associates and tried to get the former ukrainian president to comment publicly on alleged ties to russia ukrainian official survey a shrink 0 was a source for nellie or wife of department of justice official bruce or a she worked on the anti trump operation conducted by fusion g.p.s. and funded by the democrats and of course democrats on this very committee negotiated with people who they thought were ukrainians in order to obtain nude pictures of trump people can reasonably ask why the democrats are so determined to impeach this president when in just a year they'll have a chance. in fact one democratic congressman one of the 1st to call for trump's impeachment. gave us the answer when he said quote i'm concerned that if we don't impeach the president he will get reelected unquote winning elections is hard and when you compete you have no guarantee you'll win but the american people do ha

by a former british intelligence -- >> this was concocted by hillary clinton funded the democratic national committee-- >> o yes. >> and fbi funded fiction writing on the part of christopher steele. >> this leak was absolutely critical because it gave the news hook to report dossier, really. >> can i -- >> i'm sorry. >> the intelligence officials think so important they have to brief president-elect then why should not public know about it there it all came out. >> there it all came out one question never asked nor answered, if our intelligence agencies so well funded so well staffed, so cleverly led worth one wit what have we spend on them why couldn't they have picked up the phone called moscow station, of the cia and said was donald trump there on date xx, andy? >> this is preposterous leadership preposterous treacherous leaders of institution and agencies upon sch this nation's security the depends. it is frightening to the bone isn't it byron. >> earlier in the show i think you said top intel leaders believed or pretend to do believe, in this dossier, the fact is we know now that they had meticu

confirming that episode happened and the ukraine embassy was disturbed by the request from the democratic national committeethese are facts and the media is turning it around and misreporting things time and time again. lou: it does have all the echoes and indelible traces. "the washington post" went after you this weekend. if you would say -- that your reporting was part of the reason that the former ambassador to the ukraine yukonovich was recalled from the he bass i in may. and take you to task for your reporting. i think in the eyes of every other reader and listener to you, i think they find everything you are doing exemplary and often at the forefront of the reporting nationally. >> it's funny to watch "the washington post" call my reporting faulty after the narrative they created on russia. the theory is i wrote a faulty story and that caused the ambassador to be fired. it's just the opposite. i was hearing president trump was trying to get her fired and i reportedut why. a house committee chairman raised concerns that the ambassador was bad mouthing donald trump to foreign leaders. then a group of u