there was no quid pro quo the allegation trump pressured selenski to look into dealings by his political rival joe biden and his son hunter trumpet hoped by releasing this memo of the call the problem would go away but phrases like do us a favor appear to back up the allegation that there's no mention of military aid being dependent on an investigation trump discusses corruption crimes involving biden's son he says joe biden quote stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that the man who's on wishing we walked into a political storm had this to say for himself you sure that we had. i think good phone call it was normal we spoke about many seeing such and say that so i think and you read it is that nobody bullshit bush me yes and no great. no pressure on sense he may be but the impeachment inquiry launched by democrats has put trump under the microscope. that tact is that the president of the united states. in picture of his constitutional responsibilities has asked a fine government to help him in his political campaign that cannot stand he will be held accountable no one

joe biden said about his son. joe biden, it's a very dishonest he did. >> a separate source told fox news that it weakens the complaint, but does not necessarily undercut all the complaints. >> all right. tonight, we will be joined by mark levin, trey gowdy, mike pence all weighing in tonight, alongpe with john solomon and peter schweizer. they have written and investigated this extensively. it's pretty clear, the media's four day anti-trump binge was yet another false, totally misguided, and as usual, they got it all wrong moment. but, despite so much terribleres and misplaced his officer i can't, we got a big thanks to the media mob. they've highlighted joe biden and the country of ukraine. biden's conduct is now rightly in the spotlight.as comeman devs weekend,d, this may be the end of joe biden's campaign. let's take a look. >> the left knows that biden's sonn is a problem for him. this is why when hillary clinton was running, these stories first originated back one hillary clinton was trying to make sure that

president trump frames his conversation with his ukrainian counterpart concerning joe biden and his son as a corruption issue, not a political one with no print." elizabeth warren overtakes biden in a new poll in the 2020 democratic presidential nomination and climate activists and traffic to a standstill here in washington. to call attention to a global summit at the united nations. this is "special report" ." ♪ good evening, welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. no quid pro quo, that's the word today from president trump about his july phone call with ukraine's new leader, framing the call in terms of corruption, not politics, the president saying he wants to ensure people like joe biden and his son hunter do not contribute to the corruption problem in ukraine. the former vice president, meantime, says it is a baseless political smear and likely an abuse of power on that call. congressional democrats are demanding a transcript of the phone call and access to the whistle-blower complaints that started this controversy. and that summer making a renewed push toward impeachment proceedin

the president abused his power by urging ukraine to open a corruption investigation into his political rival joe biden and his son. not for the 1st time on a difficult day in new york donald trump was forced to defend his conversation with ukraine's fellow to me it's a lengthy using a familiar line which continues but they're getting hit hard in this which aren't because when they look at the information it's a joke. impeachment that i didn't do it to take a look at that call it was perfect i didn't do it there was no quid pro quo the allegation trump pressured selenski to look into dealings by his political rival joe biden and his son hunter trumpet hoped by releasing this memo of the call the problem would go away but phrases like do us a favor appear to back up the allegation that there's no mention of military aid being dependent on an investigation from discusses corruption crimes involving biden's son he says joe biden quote stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that the man who's on wittingly walks into a political storm had this to say for himself you sure th

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joe, what's your secret? in the last year, and 2015 announcing his candidacy, joe biden has made $15 million more money than he wife made in the previous 19 years. now, most of that money is in the form of a book advance. we are all aspiring novelist, aspiring writers. i'd like to know what joe has done to write a book that is worth $15 million. now, a or as the public hasn't sold all that well. he said it works out to $33 a copy. joe's pockets, even though on amazon right now it's 1399. if there's a suspicion that joe may be paid more for his potential as the next president then his skill as an author. maybe some tips for us, tucker. >> tucker: that's an amazing accounting job. a little forensic accounting. >> joe's -- of the next question would be for higher education costs is that a serious issue in the 2020 campaign. i guess, you might be a little cheek and asked you how these contribute to raising the cost of higher education. rephrase that, joe whose worth $200,000 to listen to? he made $3 million speaking at college universities, church and close to $200,000 each time for a 20 minute speech. that's quit

during the conversation trump is reported to have asked him for help in investigating his rival joe biden and his son who has business interests in ukraine hundreds of protesters have defied a security clampdown for a 2nd successive friday in egypt and joined demonstrations calling for the president to step down. and seen some of corruption and destroying the economy well the former government contractor whose videos helped spark those protests has issued a new message on social media calling on sisi to resign or what is the how that harkened back some c.c. you swear that you will leave power if the people don't want you so please be a man of your word don't let your offices upset the people let them walk in the streets freely you promise the people freedom so please stop being a liar a major border crossing between iraq and syria is due to be reopened on monday they are crossing has been closed since 2012 to all but government or military traffic. a protest as of looted shops and set fire to police cars in haiti's capital of a threw down fuel shortages of news for protesters have been ki

continues during a conversation trump is reported to have asked him for help in investigating his rival joe biden and his son that's business interests in ukraine. hundreds of protesters have defied a security clampdown for a 2nd successive friday in egypt and joined demonstrations one of the president to step down that he was out of touch and sisi of corruption and destroying the economy. and polls are open in afghanistan for the 4th president of the election since the fall of the taliban in 2001 an extra 100000 security personnel are on standby following threats of attacks on the taliban the front burner remains the incumbent president ashraf ghani. pakistan's prime minister has used his speech at the un general assembly to deliver an extraordinary attack on india's crackdown in indian administered kashmir. yeah imran khan one of a bloodbath in the disputed region last month india revoke the semi autonomous status of kashmir a territory under its control and his speech earlier india's prime minister made no mention of kashmir journal reports from the un as a nod to the mini draw another b

chris cuomo on cnn and what you appear to first say you didn't ask ukraine to investigate joe biden and/or his then you seem to change her mind. listen here. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> no, actually i didn't -- >> you never ask anything about hunter biden, never asked anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked a bunch of varnish to get to the bottom of how it was -- he was appointed, dismissed the case against -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden. >> corseted ex-lax because you just said you didn't. spirited you ask the ukraine to look into it? >> rudy: said to me did i ever talk about joe biden, i said no. then i said i did say you should investigate joe biden and hunter biden. i corrected it immediately. i corrected it before he corrected it. the reality is the distinction is this, what they are trying to say as i went there for a political mission to kind of get joe biden in trouble. it ridiculous. i went there as a lawyer defending his client. i've known about this for five months. i've been trying to get people to cover this for five mon

his political opponent. that political opponent is joe biden. ged president trump withheld aid from a foreign country, all to pressure a foreign want country to investigate and open up inquiries about his political opponent. that is not just unpresident's, brooke, that's unamerica. it's no who we are and what's different about this moment and we should all keep the focus here. one last thing. these allegations under president trump have introduced into the mainstream of political press, these are smears, brooke. as you noted in your opening, unfounded claims. it's important we all keep the focus on that. this is a national security issue. frankly, dponald trump is puttig our foreign policy at rick. we hope the president will comply with congress and stop obstructing their investigations and he complies with any new investigations that come forward and also previous investigation other committees opened. if president trump does not comply, there's no other option but initiate impeachment inquiries at president trump's own doing. >> and listening t

biden it's because of his deep concern that joe biden is the strongest opponent he couldace in the general election. it's pretty extraordinary that using his office, in the oval office f the reports are accurate and pressuring not once, not twice, not three times a foreign leader, it tells you something about his concerns in facing joe biden in a general election. >> thank you as always. coming up next, show of force. president trump sending troops to saudi arabia to deter iran from more aggressive behavior. will it work? our military experts are here next. are here next so much more than i could have imagined. my grandfather was born in a shack in pennsylvania, his father was a miner, they were immigrants from italy and somewhere along the way that man changed his name and transformed himself into a successful mid-century american man. he had a whole life that i didn't know anything about. he was just my beloved grandpa. bring your family history to life like never before. get started for free at ancestry.com for a restless night's sleep. lipain settleer before. there's

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 f

. >> reporter: president trump is accused of setting his sights on joe biden and his son's involved inkraine. it wasn't all that long ago that castro aggressively went after biden himself on a national stage during the democratic debate in houston. >> do you have any concerns about accusations against joe biden and his son? you came out strongly against him in the last debate. >> joe biden is an honest man. he and his family do not deserve these accusations from donald trump. >> reporter: he may have backed off biden, but not trump. in his phone conversation with the president of ukraine. >> he talked about the need to get american weapons and donald trump asked for a favor. >> reporter: the purpose of the visit here to oakland was actually to survey the city's growing homeless problem. >> we are human beings. >> reporter: the former secretary of housing and urban development, he toured one of the largest homeless encampments adjacent to a home depot. he pledged to create 3 million housing units over the united states over the next ten years. abc 7 news. >>> the man currently in the wh

joe biden and his son are corrupt. all right? e fake news doesn't want to report it because they're democrats. if that ever happened, if a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they would be getting the electric chair right now. look at the double standards. you people ought to be ashamed of yourself. not all. we have great journalists around. we have a lot of crooked journalists. you're crooked as hell. thank you very much. charles: president trump blasting joe biden and said that he did raise concerns about biden and his son in a july phone call with the ukraine's new leader. for more i want to bring in the political panel, roland martin, host of roland martin unfiltered, fox news contributor doug schoen. here's the thing, guys. here is another one of those he said/she said for a moment. what i'm reading about roland, now democrats are saying we have another reason to go down the old impeachment road. i wonder if they're jumping on this again too soon, it could backfire. >> keep i

day in which is to a list the aid of a foreign power against his political opponent at the time and the phone call 'd i thought it would be joe biden maybe it will be but his elizabeth warren or somebody else will do the same thing so. he never got a page what he did in 2006 date or for the obstruction of justice even though the motor report is a very clear road map for a basement and so he designed it was i could do it again i get away with it so there's a very serious situation do you think the house proceedings are going to focus solely on the ukrainian controversy or is that going to include all those other investigations that you think should be happening. well include the other investigations the house judiciary committee has been moving full speed ahead under chairman adler they've already been looking into the obstruction of justice and the other charges that could be brought against the president president has refused to comply with congressional subpoenas that is obstruction of congress as i said next and was a paid for that so they're ready to go on multiple fronts even before the ukraine call became public and so

. >> president donald trump is accused of setting his sights on former vice president joe biden and his son, hunter's, alleged involvement in eukraine. >> are you forgetting what you said? >> but it wasn't all that long ago that castro aggressively went after biden himself on the national stage during the democratic debate in houston. >> do you have any concerns about accusations against b joe biden and his son? you came out pretty strongly against mr. biden at the last debate. >> joe biden is an honest man. he and his family do not deserve these kinds of baseless accusations from donald trump. >> castro may have backed off biden, but not trump and his phone conversation with a phone conversation with the ukraine. >> he talks about need to get american weapons then in the next sentence, donald trump asks for a favor. >> the visit here to oak labd was to survey the city's growing homeless problem. >> to know that we are -- >> the former secretary of housing and urban development castro toured one of oakoakland largest homeless encampments. if elected president, he pledged to create 3 mil

inquiry into trump the president reportedly asked ukraine's leader to help him best to gating his rival joe biden and his son. hundreds of protesters have defied a security clampdown for a 2nd successive friday in egypt they join rallies calling for the president to resign they accuse abdel fattah el-sisi of corruption and destroying the economy. 1st pakistan's prime minister has used his speech at the un general assembly to attack india's crackdown in indian administered kashmir imran khan warned of a bloodbath in the disputed region last month india revokes the semi autonomous status of kashmiri territory under its control india's prime minister also addressed this summit but made no mention of kashmir jonah hall reports from the un and the north of the middle of the. un general assembly was drawing to a close in new york when suddenly it burst grimly back into life pakistan's prime minister imran khan decried india's decision to revoke self rule in majority muslim populated indian administered kashmir it was part of a policy he said of hindu nationalism and ethnic cleansing what is going

even and so much of his problems now come down to a real crisis of trust you pointed out their job joe johns and his brother stepping down today that's a gift to the labor party who were able to say look not even his brother trusts him but we know how much the labor party were damaged by the fact that people suspected that david miliband didn't trust brother edward on the leadership relation now we've actually got joe johnson saying i'm going to stand down to spend less time with my family because i don't trust my own brother know that he a negative character reference and there's nothing better than the somebodies in their own family saying i don't trust that man trust used to be the issue that corbett had a problem is no circling round horse johnson and in the end i think what we're dealing with is truth which is that since 2017. we've had a minority government and every time on the trains in may when she tried to x. so she had a majority she was humiliated boris johnson comes and says it's different with me he still likes things got majority he hasn't and he looks humiliated and tha

reiterated his desire for to investigate the alleged corrupt activities of former u.s. vice president joe biden and his son which claims that go well beyond ukraine. british businessman banks and his leaving e.u. campaign are cleared of receiving millions in funding from overseas including from russia the u.k. national crime agency stating there was no evidence that any criminal offenses were committed. and the court finds that the woman behind the french need to movement for defaming a man she had accused of sexual. broadcasting live studio this is international i'm certainly glad to have you with us a controversy is growing in washington over a july phone call between the presidents of the u.s. and ukraine. whistleblower's complaint against the donald trump was declassified on thursday it alleges that the white house attempted to keep the details of the 2 leaders conversation secret democrats say that during his discussions with white americans alinsky mr trump likely committed a crime by urging his counterpart to investigate democratic 2020 hopeful joe biden's activities you knew crane

trump reiterated his desire for 2 years to investigate alleged corrupt activities of former u.s. vice president joe biden and his son claims goes well beyond ukraine we look into those allegations. of paris court finds the woman behind the french me to move money for defaming a man she had accused of sexual harassment. and british businessman and banks on his leave you can buy in the cleared of receiving millions in funding from overseas including from russia the national crime agency states there was no evidence that any criminal offenses had been committed. from moscow thanks for joining us on all things and i shall die with you tonight's welcome to the program. a controversy is growing in washington over a july phone call between the presidents of the u.s. and ukraine that's off whistleblowers complain. against that donald trump was declassified on thursday it alleges that the white house attempted to keep the details of the 2 leaders conversation secret democrats say that during his discussions with that i mean the lenski was the trump likely committed a crime by urging his counterpart to inves

joe biden. and then hunter went with his father and joe biden and introduced his father, the vice president, tohis asian partner who ultimately was arrested for corruption. and the partner's soash dwrait waassociate wasarrested for cor. this is dirty, dirty, dirty. in the end when everything comes up, if biden did play a central role in the energy policy in the ukraine and he's not going to try to turn the this around on donald trump, that's the biggest mistake of his life right now. >> judge, here's the interesting thing. i don't want to improperly accuse people of improper behavior. but adam schiff and his colleagues continue to spin the narrative over and over again of which they're guilty of. they'll accuse the president of colluding with rawsh sha. the only people that worked with with the russians was the dnc. i would think that the only people that actually worked with the ukrainians is that same group, the democrats and the hillary clinton campaign. and i think you'll see that. i welcome us looking at it. hopefully adam schiff and i can bring in and subpoena so people to really get to t

minister boris johnson's plans to break the deadlock over break that are facing more headwinds his brother joe johnson announced his resignation as education minister becoming the latest casualty in the political crisis and britain's high court is deciding whether to hear a case backed by former prime minister john major he says johnson suspension of columns is unlawful m.p.'s voted down his attempts on wednesday to trigger a snap election but also back to bill blocking the possibility of a no deal exit from the european union so let's bring in our correspondent now who joins us from westminster in london so lawrence what bring us up to date with what's been happening this thursday after the dramatic developments on wednesday. well up there i mean at the moment boris johnson is from simply trying to get back on the front foot off this absolute torrents of bad news that he's had over the last 2 days since parliament came back he just met mike pence the american vice president at downing street there was a post of a news conference which was cancelled without any proper explanation mike pence sa

he goes on later to bring up his political opponent, joe biden. all of it with hundreds of millions of u.s. military aid being held. the white house released that scantr ptri president repeatedly urged the cr ukrainian president to investigate his political rival. the president saying "i'd like to have the attorney general call you." and that rudy jewgiuliani would in touch. today, the two presidents side-by-side in new york. president trump and the ukrainian president, who said he felt no pressure from president trump. speaker nancy pelosi saying the transcript and the justice department acting in a rogue fashion confirmed the need tonight for an impeachment inquiry. and this evening, president trump before the cameras just moments ago, angrily denouncing pelosi's move, using familiar words, calling it a hoax and a witch hunt. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl leading us off. >> reporter: president trump and zelensky all smiles today in ne. but tonight, all attention is on their phone call nine weeks ago. according to the white h

i want you to find the high season this is happening i would have had on she owns a she says hi joe the holiday now wishing only. fall down to sort of this. this happens in the week i was all here he combines mushrooms prawns and fried thai rice to make a delicious soup. this is a dish with a taste that's hard to resist and it's only one highlight among many on my colon neary journey through taipei. it's hard to pinpoint just one favorite national dish because it seems the time they're very proud of everything that they are everything that i've been presented is a little work of art in the south and then the different taste and station not one dish tastes like the on the other it's all very diverse thank you for coming in that's how long it's been a wonderful experience thank you for introducing the tyrolese cuisine i am a fan. thank you since in this is. my last diary entry my colleague mary journey to taipei is coming to an end now before i arrived i had heard that this place is a foodie's paradise and after spending a couple of days here i can definitely agree with that assessment fr

his role? it seems to be oppo, get me the dirt on the guy i may have to run against, joe biden? seems to me the number one job for the number one guy? >> yes, his explanation is he's acting in capacity as president trump's personal lawyer, and he says that he started looking at ukraine because he was looking for exculpatory information about the origins of the mueller probe. believing somehow it got its start because of a ukrainian investigation of paul manafort, donald trump's campaign chairman for a time. and that that's why rudy giuliani started looking at ukraine. in the course of looking at ukraine and pushing the ukrainians to investigate that, he says he stumbled upon this potential investigation or this matter involving joe biden, and joe biden's diplomacy in ukraine and how that intersected with joe biden's son hunter and his work in ukraine for a ukrainian owned oligarch gas company, i used the air quote stumble there because we had written about that back in 2015. it wasn't like he discovered anything new. what he say doing more was to push the ukrainians to investiga

is joe biden going to release his conversations. i would like to demand that joe biden now release all of his conversations that he had when he was vice president with ukraine. especially now in light of what we learned about joe biden bragging on tape about how he leveraged a billion u.s. dollars. why would a vice president of the united states ever want a prosecutor in ukraine fired? the guy that was investigating his own son and he was tipped off by "the new york times" that his own son was being investigated. there is a lot more to thisstors at this moment. >> it's being scrutinized by what he's done. you are right. isthere are a lot of people raising questions about the president. you playeded the clip. he boasted about getting that prosecutor fired at a time when the obama administration, not the trump administration, was holding aid and loans over the head of the ukrainian government at that time, sean. >> sean: yeah. $1 billion. whoyou fire him in , well, you're not getting the money. same prosecutor investigatingbu. that's t

donald trump over allegations that he pressured the president of ukraine to investigate his political rival, joeminister, borisjohnson, has defended his decision to suspend parliament but said he would respect a ruling from the uk supreme court that he had broken the law in doing so. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. let's begin with the japan times and it's focusing on its environmental policy, whether it's falling behind the rest of the world. the paper asks why the country continues to push for what it calls clean coal energy. it also reports on criticism the country's new environment minister has faced for his comments at the un climate summit. meanwhile, the south china morning post reports on the cheapest sg phone to hit the market. someone at phone maker xiaomi was certainly listening, it says, when consumers called for cheaper phones. you can snap up the latest for around $500. and it was all smiles between the us and singapore, according to the straits times. they've just renewed a key defence pact to allow american forces to use the city state's bases. it's b

to reiterate his desire to investigate the alleged corrupt activities of former us vice president joe biden and his son now claims go well beyond ukraine we go into the allegations. of paris court finds the woman behind the french meeting movement for defaming a man she accused of sexual harassment. british businessman and banks and his leave daughter you campaign are cleared of receiving millions in funding from overseas including from russia the u.k.'s national crime agency stating there was no evidence that any criminal offenses were committed. from a mosque in use h.q. thanks for joining us and r.t. international i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program. is growing in washington over a july phone call between the presidents of the us and ukraine so after whistleblowers complaint against donald trump was declassified on thursday alleges that the white house attempted to keep the details of the 2 leaders conversation secret democrats say that during his discussions with a lot of his alleged scheme mr trump likely committed a crime urging his counterpart to investigate democratic 20

biden did. >> joe biden and his son are corrupt. can ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they'd be getting the electric chair by right now. >> all right, that comes as trump continues to defend pressuring the ukrainian president to investigate biden on a phone call, even though, we should be very clear, there's no evidence of any wrongdoing by joe biden in something that has been extensively litigated and covered. "outfront" gloria borger, political, politics editor for "the new york times," patrick heal healey. the electric chair? >> you know, this is trump hyperbole at its best or worst. the reality is president trump has been spreading this what looks like pretty clear misinformation for awhile now in terms of these unsubstantiated allegations about joe biden. and the reality is this is how president trump plans to run his re-election campaign, whether it's joe biden or frankly any other democrat who comes out. what we've seen is the president being willing to basically say whatever he think

election both read eulogies at his funeral his joe biden currently under 5 a fossil fuel campaign financing driver say it doesn't just feel like the loss of a leader. if you like a death in the family well biden remains the pro-war u.s. democratic stablish from choice for 2020 but binyamin netanyahu ahead of his october corruption trial may not even be prime minister after tomorrow's vote count which takes place even in occupied land palestine's ambassador to the united nations riyad months or joins me now from the turkish capital ankara where presidents do on putin and rouhani had today meeting for talks ambassador thanks for coming on the show there is this meeting in ankara what have you made of the russian presidency of the u.n. security council this month well 1st of all you know thank you for inviting me to be on this show this month is going to be a very active month at the united nations particularly the last 10 days because we would have the on go week and we have on the margin 5. summit's about very important issues such as climate change of finance for development and so on and s

for another extension for now the country's drama has become a family one with his brother joe resigning from his government 1st day saying he's leaving politics for good mr johnson had been a campaigner for the u.k. to remain in the e.u. and with parliament seeking to block a no deal brett said things look bad for the committed pro bracks a prime minister but many british voters are with him in wanting to get out. the pro europeans are out in force and they are a choice and. for the moment it looks like the prime minister needs to bow to their will but in a sea of blue you flags outside parliament read prolife signs show that greg city is too are fighting for that cause susan nicholson has a retired teacher for yorkshire she has never protested before in her life but now she fears that britain might not leave the e.u. after all where the silent majority we don't demonstrate we've heard to me didn't expect people to ignore our so that's been a bit of a surprise for us but what hoping for a general election because then we convert again and we can get rid of the remain m.p.'s who have blo

phone call with the ukrainian leader trump his accuser pressuring ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden. a former british prime minister from boss johnson's own policy has attacked the government's position on bret's it may just be his prime minister johnson could use what he called political chicanery to force britain to leave the european union without a deal those headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside stories stay with us. our hopes for a nuclear free world realistic it's the international day for the total elimination of nuclear weapons but many are worried a new arms race has begun so is there the political will to abolish these weapons this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm homage i'm jew i'm 74 years ago 2 nuclear bombs were detonated over hiroshima and nagasaki killing tens of thousands of people since then whenever a conflict between major powers rises so does the threat of nuclear war various treaties have attempted to suppress that threat yet today there are nearly $14000.00 nuclear weapons based around the world thursday marks

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

days after the president acknowledged he had asked the president of ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden and his son, hunter. today, the president admitted that days before the conversation, he ordered his chief of staff to halt nearly $400 million in foreign aid to ukraine. but he insists holding that money was not an attempt to pressure the ukrainian president. >> and there was never any quid pro quo. >> reporter: but the president has offered shifting reasons for why he stopped those payments. just 24 hours ago, he said he withheld the money because he wanted to get ukraine to address corruption. >> why would you give money to a country that you think is -- is corrupt? >> reporter: but today, he said he withheld those hundreds of millions for a different reason. >> i want other countries to put up money. i think it's unfair that we put up the money. then people called me and said, let it go and i let it go. but we paid the money. the money was paid. >> reporter: there is no evidence joe biden or his son acted improperly with regard to ukraine. today, the candidate fired back at

were overshadowed by his attacks on joe biden and also his anger at nancy pelosi over impeachment. he seemed to have a different, a higher level of nervousness than in the past than what we've seen before, and it raises questions about what's to come. >> andrea and chuck, thanks to both of you. >>> another major headline tonight, the explosion in vaping-related illnesses the cdc reporting at least 12 deaths in 805 cases in 46 states and the virgin islands hundreds more than last week tonight for the first time we are hearing from someone who lost a loved one to the growing epidemic here's nbc anne thompson. >> reporter: maggie davis says her mother mary should be added to vaping's growing death toll. >> she sent me a picture of her in the er on wednesday, two days before she died. she said i have pneumonia and i texted her, mom, i hope it's not the vaping disease. >> reporter: even though there is no official cause of death, maggie says her mom vaped nicotine for a decade and for the past year thc. >> it was this idea that e-cigarettes were healthier for you is what she bought. >>

it's on a videotape session of joe biden. >> it's his political self-interest which is writing on this dismissal of that prosecutor, that is demanded by every other major western country. the world bank. >> would also happen to involve hunter biden. >> and if were being done -- >> it just so happens that when joe biden came he was acting on behalf of the president and do you think was only doing it because his son, there is no such national interest going on here with donald trump. in fact it is contrary to national interests as embodied -- >> that is saying way more than we know. >> the reporting started with a "washington post" report saying there have been a promise the president made. if you look at "the wall street journal" today, they said specifically there wasn't one. really, it's clear we don't know what went on in this conversation. who brought up what? who said what? >> bret: that is the key point and that is what we just went through for the past two years. >> there's also this issue of not wanting the president to be the president and have conversations with foreign leader

just a short time ago. >> joe biden and his son are corrupt. if a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they would be getting the electric chair by now. >> again, the ukranian prosecutor has said he knows of no evidence of any misconduct by the bidens. as opposed to the intelligence community whistleblower whose complaint about the president's phone call and more, the trump administration is blocking from congress a complaint that the inspector general of the intelligence community appointed by trump called credible and urgent. consider, however, how much of this is playing out in front of our eyes and ears. in may, the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani, told the "new york times" that he was going to ukraine to push for this investigation into the bidens to do so, in fact, to help his client, president trump. quote, i'm asking them to do an investigation that they're doing already and that other people are telling them to stop, giuliani told the times. and i'm going to give them reasons why they s

. >> jim jordan focused on the alleged corruption by joe biden and his son, hunter. he uses that as the allegation for which there is no evidence. >> then, when the company that's paying him that money is under investigation, guess what? daddy comes running to the rescue. the vice president of the united states. >> that's not what happened, sir. sir, that's not what happened. the european union, the obama administration, the international monetary fund, pro-clean government activists in ukraine, thought the prosecutor was not prosecuting corruption? >> you don't think joe biden said not to fire that prosecutor? >> he did. but the guy was not prosecuting thinking. >> kevin mccarthy tangled with scott pelley over his use of the word though. >> president trump, i would like you to do us a favor, though. >> you just added another word. >> no. it's in the transcript. >> i would like you to do a favor, though. >> it's in the white house transcript. >>> meanwhile, president trump's first homeland security adviser says he is deeply disturbed by the president's actions in the