>> white, white, white, white, white. >> and then came the immigration act of 1965. >> e . >> i now declareach of you to be a citizen of the united states. >> america's doors opened to immigrants from new countries. nonwestern lands. by the 1980s, the whites percentage was down about 10 points. immigrants kept coming even as the white birth date rates decl. by the 2000s, census bureau had news for us. >> minority groups will become the majority in the united states by the year 2043. >> many americans celebrated the new diversity. ♪ 2000 o but for one group, it was a five alarm fire. >> white power! >> we have to understand a sense of emergency as animated in this movement because all of this is about an immediate and apocalyptic danger to the future. >> there are still plenty of white people, they deserve a future. not to be simply melted away this this multiracial mish mash that they did not choose. >>> jared taylor does noted a stroe cat violence but he does wants to create a whites only version of america. >> i'm not talking about the entire united states becoming white, just simply a po

house involving white house lures and other white house officials so essentially submarine evidenceesident's behavior by hiding it in a secret server that wasn't designed to hold that kind of information, when you look at the balance of that actual allegation and the continuing evolving story we have got about how the whistleblower's allegation was handled at all levels of government in the intelligence agencies by the intelligence community inspector general, by the dni, the involvement of the justice department, the involvement of the white house council's office, are you equally concerned about those two things? how do you feel about the handling of the complaint vis-a-vis the overall serious about what he or she is alleging. >> some of these actors acted credibly. i think his legal analysis on its face appears sound. there could be potentially, you know, reasonable disagreement by lawyers parsing the words of a statute, but i'd have to say that the department of justice's interpretation seemed a little contorted to determine that disclosure to congress was not mandated. but in a

>>> a cover-up at the white house. a whistleblower says officials tried to hide damaging details about the president. and it was not the first time. what's next as the impeachment inquiry marches on. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. it is 4:00 a.m. big questions for this white house, following a gripping day on grill. the whistleblower claims as why cover-up. yefr night, cnn learned the justice department knew about the allegations, soon after the july 25th call with the ukrainian president. the whistleblower informed a general counsel, who informed the justice department as required. the d.o.j., saying the timing of all of this, raising more questions about the handling of the complaint and effort to keep the details from congress. >> overnight, t"the washington post" says the white house is take steps to keep the moves secret. among them, reducing the number of aides allowed to listen in on calls. and some officials who

the white house itself stands as the centerpiece of a grand 18.7 acre site which we know is the whiteouse grounds. 1890, been established in the grounds constitute the oldest continually maintained landscape in the nation. the grounds are older than the mansion itself and george washington is famously the only president to have never lived in the white house. every single u.s. president including washington has walked upon the grounds. this right here is what the grounds look like today. a verdant greenery with sloping lawns and groves of trees. this is definitely not what the grounds look like in 1790. thing, the grounds originally stopped here. basically where this roadway is. it stopped here for about the first eight decades of the grounds existence. notitself grounds were added until 1872 under president grant. this southerly addition -- addition was to compensate for by thece it in up expansion of the offices. that's now called the eisenhower executive office. as i was saying, the white house grounds did not always look quite as nice as they do today. to completet rush it, the la

that is the business of the executive branch of the white house and the office of the white house. >> corruption is not the business, or it shouldn't be, of the white house or anyone in it. >> the white house decides to do with their privileged communication is the business of the white house. >> do you believe that's true even if that communication involves crime or fraud? i'm sure you're aware that there is an exception to any claim of privilege. the privilege can't be used to conceal crime or fraud? >> this is before any crime or fraud that should be referred to the justice department for investigation. as i did. >> the whistleblower further alleges that white house officials told the whistleblower they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript, that is, of the call from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored. and instead it was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. one white house official described this act as an abuse

white house officials told me, this is the whistle-blower, they were directed by white house lawyerselectronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for finalization and distribution to cabinet level officials. the whistle-blower goes on to write, instead this transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. >> this raises -- the president said this call was perfect in his words. why then the extraordinary step of removing the records of this call from the normal record keeping system long established by this white house? we have jeffrey toobin as well as our panel. jeffrey, you read this complaint. it backs up a lot of the smoke signals that we have heard coming out about the whistle-blower to this point. >> more than that is that, remember, this was written before the transcript or partial transcript that was released yesterday. the whistle-blower is completely corroborated in his or her assertions about that phone call. >> right.

this white house.his very, very different. i think what pelosi and the democrats have to do is, one, tamp down the rhetoric and say to the president and the white house, we're willing to give you an open and fair hearing. we're willing to keep open mights on this. but we are going to insist on access to every single witness and every single piece of paper and document and if we don't get it within two weeks, say, we will draw a negative inference on all of the information that is already public and plenty to draw negative inferences and criminal inferences on and we will move to impeachment right away on the basis of obstruction of justice if you don't cooperate. and i think the white house i think a lot of people around the president are tremoring in their boots right now. i think they're very scared, that this is different from before and the white house buckled on the question of the ig, releasing the ig information and the transcript. i think the white house will be likely to buckle if pelosi has t

quoting again, white house officials told me that they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for coordination, finalization and distribution to cabinet level officials. the whistle-blower continues, quote, instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwised use to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. one white house official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective. allegations do not come more serious than that. the president is back, we should point out, in washington now. our jim acosta joins us right now. jim, what's going on inside the white house? what are you hearing? >> anderson, the president is acting like his back is up against the wall. he didn't really take many questions from reporters today. he made that statement as he got off of air force one, called this a witch hunt again, and

white house. >> corruption is not the business or it shouldn't be of the white house or anyone in it. >> the white house decides to do what their privileged communications and information is i believe the business of the white house. >> do you believe that's true even if that communication involves crime or fraud? i'm sure you're aware there's an exception to any claim of privilege. privilege can't be used to conceal crime or fraud. >> any crime or fraud or instances of wrongdoing should be referred to the justice department for investigation, as i did. >> the whistle-blower further alleges that white house officials told the whistle-blower they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript of the call from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored and instead it was loaded into a separate electronic system that is used, otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. one white house official described

joining me tonightyamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for the pbs nehour philip rucker, white bureau chief for the washiton post. ncy cordes, chief congressional correspondent for orcbs news.it and n collins, white house correspondent for cnn. let's begin with spea pelosi's decision. here isaihat she sd thursday. >> it's a sad week for our country. very prayerfully andate oticly, we had t-- pat patriotically, we had to come to a decision to move forward with an impeachment inquiry of the president of tf united states. this is notng that w take lightly. we wante o have a fuller understanding of the facts. >> why was this complaint the democrats?oint for house nancy, you've been on pitolpi hill all week. i've seen you in the hallways. why now? for speake pelosi? >> a couple of reasons. number one, this complaint, this ise, democrats feel, is easier for the ameri public to unrstandhan the russia issue. it g os to the heartf thert president's actions, wreas the mueller investigigion that we all lived tough for two years had to do with a lot of people around t president, lers remov

at this point there is a lot of leads pointing at the white house and specifically at the white house council's office in terms of how this bad behavior has been trying -- has been covered up so far. if they are going to try to stop them from further covering it up, it seems like we will have to act fast. all right. we'll be back. stay with us. (classical music playing throughout) wow! that's ensure max protein, (classical music playing throughout) with high protein and 1 gram sugar. it's a sit-up, banana! bend at the waist! i'm tryin'! keep it up. you'll get there. whoa-hoa-hoa! 30 grams of protein, and one gram of sugar. ensure max protein. the ncome on.y glc. [ cars honking ] it's so late. yay. it fights traffic. no parking. -i told you. oh, a spot! hold on. it fights tension. seriously, did you take my phone? passenger light on. it even fights...fighting. innovation that keeps people together. the 2020 glc. lease the glc 300 suv for just $479 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. (groans) hmph... (food grunting menacingly) when the food you love doesn't love you back, stay s

a cnn white house official said, quote, nfc meeting financial security lawyers directed the white house document be handled appropriately. what you could read into that is there is a national security council luawyer who instriktuct his staff to move this transcript to an area where they're not normally kept, because even though the president is on twitter this morning questioning the credibility of this whistleblower, this backs up a key part of the complaint from the whistleblower. look at the complaint. the white has been dismissing it, saying he's imparting inaccurate information. the whistleblower said, quote, one of the officials said they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically scored for coordination, finalization and distribution to cabinet-level officials. so it is significant. even though the president is doubting this person's credibility, behind the scenes white house officials on background, meaning not using their name, are confirming, yes, white house lawyers did direct staf

the white house also needs to be concerned.nt has been paranoid about the intelligence committee and this is going to play into that. that should be concerning to all of us if the president doesn't think he can trust the intelligence community. what should keep the white house up at night are the 18 or so republicans night how who aren't up for reelection and don't particularly care for them and they may give the democrats the legitimacy to moved forward to probe this stuff. >> do you see the possibility of republicans breaking away? we haven't seen that. >> not yet. but give this some time. the democrats aren't in formal impeachment now. the problem for the white house is the whistle-blower clearly has names of people who can be subpoenaed and documents that can be requested. he's provided essentially a path to impeachment. i talked to a republican senator who said the worst part about this is that the democrats now are able to focus their probe on a limited number of people and documents they want to begin to build a case, an

i spent three years at the white house, i was the white house staff secretary. this is not code word classification. and by the way, it's improper and prohibited by executive order to classify things to avoid embarrassment. they did it to hide it. >> the whistle-blower alleges this isn't the first time they did something like this. do you have evidence to show where there were some other occasions? >> we're just getting started. we need to hear from the whistle-blower. we need to run down all the elements of the whistle-blower's complaint. we shouldn't take it at face value, by the way. we need to make sure we're getting the facts in a fair way. it needs to be expeditious and thorough. what you have here is wrongdoing at the very highest levels of the united states government and an effort to cover it up. we can't let that happen. >> will you be subpoenaing some of the people mentioned in the whistle-blower complaint and others who are not mentioned, are you looking to bring them before your committee? >> i'm going to did he ever to the chairman for that, mr. bl

it's not just the white house. it's not just the white house. look at how the justice department, it appears, has been corrupted by their involvement with this presidency. look at how they became part of the coverup of this process. >> to your point, the question about quid pro quo -- how could holding back on a presidential visit, one, but at the saum tmee withholding military assistance in light of what the president wanted from ukraine, how can that -- >> it's a willful ll lly obtuse reading of the complaint. it's right there. they are talking about aid. then he says, do me a favor. you don't get more quid pro quo than that. there was an understanding. i think we cannot get caught in the trap of unless it says only if you investigate the bidens will i give you the money. if that phrase isn't spoken that somehow it's not there, we need to look at the common understanding. >> what you are seeing -- we will keep this going until they gavel in. you see members of the house intelligence committee. they are getting seated to begin this critically i

as the average white southerner in the 1920 census identifies him as a white man. as the descendent tells a story over the years, they have families and the children come out different colors sometimes the light-skinned children would move to the suburbs and mary white's and lead a life from the african-american siblings in the city. may be the most painful way they can work. i want to close with this man who i think is well known in this community reverend richard kane the founder of the mother of immanuel church after the civil war. i don't know if everyone in the community is aware of ancestry he is the son of a father born in africa and a cherokee mother who presumably is half african and half native american and is elected to the united states congress and offers this benediction on the floor 1874. i believe god is not designed us to live here together to develop the great idea that all men are the children of one father we are here for the grand experiment of that homogeneity. it is a beautiful sentiment and with his own background is even more moving. at thi

the clinton white house did.own into chaos with a new team is incredibly challenging. at the same time there can be no question that releasing the transcript was the correct thing to do because they were going to have to turn over the whistle-blower complaint. if you turned over the whistle-blower complaint without the transcript i think they would be in a lot worse shape than they are today. i think the president gets frustrated when things aren't going well without ever considering this is still the best option he could be in. >> i want to get your reaction to what former republican senator jeff flake is quoted as saying. he thinks at least 35 republicans senators would vote to impeach trump if the vote were private. what do you think? the vote is not going to be private. >> an interesting interview with mitt romney this week with "the atlantic" and i thought he was pretty forthcoming. whether he represents all senators or not it is hard to say but i think over the course of history to your point when push real

dressed up in white face to play the characters in the white chicks movie and then goes on to say so someone can paint their body blue or green or purple but if you match your skin tones for trey the character or costume to be more real then it's offensive so the law gives this one to you what would you say back to a man. well that's just it makes me think about when people are doing blackface and they are in situations where they are most likely the only. there are any other black people in the room right and so the idea of when someone says why is it offensive has to do for me with this question of like if you were were a white person in a room full of black people would you still be doing blackface. and i don't i don't think i think the answer is no i'm mean people do blackface because they are trying to be funny as and at some point it's just it's not humorous so i think that when people say i don't get it you know we can all laugh at that you know i think the sad thing is it's basically people that are and spaces where there aren't any black people around that are basically poki

they have the summary that the white house put out.ve the whistle-blower complaint deemed credible by the acting director of national intelligence. they have the intelligence general inspector, inspector general, rather, they have his memo. they also have the president's comments about all of this, now all in the public record. adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee is going to run point on this investigation and in the last couple of hours we were able to catch up with him and ask him about the timeline and also about the next steps in the inquiry. here he is. >> we've already begun reaching out to witnesses. we're going to be noticing depositions or interviews as soon as next week. we're going to hold hearings as soon as we can. we expect subpoenas to go out, more subpoenas to go out first thing next week as well. so we're moving with all speed. >> so even though congress begins a two-week break starting today, in fact, members of the house intelligence committee are expected to return back here to washington.

not the white rhinos. no i mean it's exciting the the fact that they've managed to produce embryos is very exciting that we need to call it a qualified success we're a long way from getting a lot of ryan is on the ground because they still have to perfect that perfect the technique of getting the embryos into surrogate mothers as their produce viable pregnancies that will produce cobbs and so we need to get a lot more embryos we need to develop that technique and hopefully in the next one to 2 years i'm not sure exactly of the timeline we'll be able to see cops says an exciting moment in the process but we have a long way to go now we had the only 2 female north and white rhinos left not feeling well how are they doing now i think that feeling ok they're just getting older one is actually still compares and the young one is one is quite old now she has problems with have feet but they're in good health. but they are they have reproductive issues which means they can't. reproduce naturally and so the reason

there's a white house florist and a lovely shop on the ground floor of the white house.e social secretary taking the lead in this, and bringing in everyone. bringing in the white house florist, bringing in the white house chef, who is an extraordinary and visual. -- individual. chris comerford i got to know very well and she was an assistant chef when i first worked at the white house. she was promoted during the president bush years. it was wonderful to see her in this lead position as the white house chef. -once she hasther an understanding of what the goal is for the evening, then the presentation of the menu, and how she brings together the first course, the second course, and of course the wonderful dessert. themeit right within that and plan of the first lady. host: we are showing our viewers what the table looks like. you see the gold and the china. a mix i believe of ... capricia: this axle he was china selected for 200th anniversary this actually-- was selected for the 200 anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the white house it was selected by mrs. cl

their hope is what the white house hope is, democrats will over reach. they're looking for the silver lining of some kind of chaos on the democrat side and they will be picking on every obviously questionable part of this process. you saw the criticism today of chairman schiff because he opened with a parody of what that conversation was between president zelensky and president trump and there was a lot of criticism of that. they're going to do what they can to not talk about the substance of this as long as they can stick to the process and wait until findings have been found. >> while we're at it let's talk about this. think of who we didn't see on television today. oh, that would be jerry nadler. do you think the emphasis on schiff is a happy accident for the speaker where chairmen of these committees go? >> this is the part i don't think is decided. we hear they want to act with speed. they don't want the public to think they rushed to judgment. there is a conflict there. they hear that -- we hear that adam schiff is going to be sort of the lead on t

white supremacy is not new. we know that just because it is simmering and buried does not mean it is gone in a real continuing way. >> it is very important that we don't talk about the phenomenon as it is frozen in time. and that is one of the surprises of reconstruction we had anti- black racism to justify the claims that were genetically to justify slavery in the 17th century at least enlightenment but during the civil war as racism morphed into something else because white a people had all this power. there are p very few claims black man raped white women before the end of the civil war and frederick douglass and ida b wells would use that as an example. how come they didn't do it during the civil war when the white men were away? they didn't. there are virtually none that i can even think of. but it becomes the claim we have to protect white women hood from the black predators who are genetically. who saw birth of a nation? and the rollback of reconstruction. and after eating chicken wings thaten it is lega

this isn't a northern white rhinos and they must pass on their knowledge of how a northern white rhino behaves to the offspring and. that's the time pressure where on the talk. the researchers are still working on the implantation procedure for the southern white rhinos but they hope to bring a small northern white rhino baby to life in the next 3 years. let's get more on this from susie ellis executive director of the international rhino foundation in strasburg virginia in the united states welcome to day doubly so this this sounds like i.b.s. for rhinos how significant is this scientifically. well it's a huge accomplishment scientifically and. as importantly it's it's heuristic science i mean it furthers assisted reproductive technology it's as you mentioned it's a long long road ahead recovery may exist difficult the next day states the bank you're injecting them a sperm and getting them to develop 2 embryos is also a huge challenge and they met that challenge now. getting the embryos into a rhino getting the embryo and it implant and then developing into a viable pregnancy with a c

and tt -- the white house hadn't commentedn it.oday the whistle-blower's complaint said white lawyers directed sff to move it there. today we got a statement from the white house sayg it was a national security council lawyer who told officials to move ite. th what that tells you is the white house council's office wants to say didn't have anything to do with this. it was a national security council lawyer w it. that's something people are going to be payayg attention to. >> we learned thatou the foreign affairs committee has subpoenaed the secretary of state, mikeul pompeo. we learn more about this whole operation if he's called to capitol hill?el >> absol what they reallyutant from pompeo is documen. they want to know more about foreign affairs officers a the embassy, in ukraine, who apparently expressed concern freelancing in that country as a sort of quasi diplomat. d, you know, what exactly the concerns were that they were they want to know more about, you know, giuliani is arguing that hell did this at the behest of the state

quote, white house officials told me they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored. instead it was loaded into a separate system otherwise used to store classified information of an especially sensitive nature. one white house official described this act as an abuse of the electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective. the reason they're now in so much trouble because they got caught red handed but there's also more. because this was not just contained in the white house. according to the whistle-blower a state department official listened in. and, quote, multiple state department community intelligence officials were also briefed on the content of the call outlined above. and it gets even worse from there because after the whistle-blower is talking to all these people who are all pretty torn up about this, they think they've watched the president violate his oath, abuse his power and he makes the complaint, takes t

white privilege. for we have to understand whether you did it 30 years old or not at the moment he did it he heard some people and i do think that he got caught not once not twice but 3 times why didn't he made it front like ok i was stupid i was green beast is causing the middlemost a lot of people are now it's preston that the rich who celebrated. when they reach to black up lexie now they won't do it anymore cause it think it's offensive but they didn't get called before they made that apology so i do think that for someone to be such a pussy since he should know better and he changes facebook i think it's twitter profile with a black person next to him and i was like oh so nitrites at their lives you have black friends something is wrong and also i think if it was anti semitic behavior. so why should be put up with it was fun and everyone is doing it no i don't think everyone is doing it i think they are people doing it we should know better and he should know better and he should up forward with

you went to the white house first. so you went to the subject of the complaint for advice first about whether you should provide the complaint to congress? >> there were issues with this, a couple of things. one, it did appear that it has executive privilege. if it does have executive privilege, it is the white house that determines that. i cannot determine that as director of national intelligence. >> but in this case the white house, the president, is the subject of the complaint. he's the subject of the wrongdoing. were you aware when you went to the white house for advice about werther evidence of wrongdoing by the white house should be provided 0 to the congress? were you aware the white house counsel taken an unprecedented position the privilege applied to communications involving the president when he was president involving the president when he wasn't president, involving people who never served in the administration and people who never served in the administration even when not talking to the president? were

and you can bet, alisyn, there are people out there that worked in the white house or work in the white now that know about this. we already know it from the whistle-blower complaint that they know about this. and that's the kind of evidence they're going to need to really make that strong case. because our senate colleagues, our republican colleagues are going to be key here. i think they have to put their country in front of partisanship. >> behind the scenes, are you hearing anything from your republican colleagues in the senate? >> yes. i mean, anyone that allegedly cares about national security has to care about this. >> what are they saying? >> we have long stood with our allies against russia. and the fact that he has crossed that line so many times, i'm shocked they haven't come out earlier. you had publicly senator romney coming out voicing concern. >> there's a handf fudidful -- >> and you have governors that are -- >> but are they talking to you and the scenes about this? >> people are concerned about this. i will leave it at that. and it depends on the case from the house. a

an absolute cover-up by the white house. mr. lewandowski is here and has vital information about presidential obstruction of justice. the white house wants to limit our ability to hear it all. mr. lewandowski was called alone, one-on-one, into the oval office on june 19, 2017, and again on july 19, 2017, and the president did something i find startling. he dictated the speech to mr. lewandowski, not for mr. lewandowski, but for then attorney general mister sessions. he told mr. lewandowski to put the following words in the a.g.'s mouth. quote, i am going to meet with the special prosecutor to explain this is very unfair and let the special prosecutor move forward with investigating election meddling in future elections, so nothing can happen in future elections. the quote is from volume 2, page 91 of the mueller report. as the report found, limiting the investigation to future elections would've cut off any past conduct. it would've ended the investigation of the president's conduct. the evidence found by the special counsel met

>> the inability for white people to admit to white privilege.y to those who have had it feels like a loss. if you admit you're a beneficiary of white privilege, that means to people i have to start sacrifices and give something up. that stuck with me. and i thought what would i be able to give up? would i give away my house and my money and give away everything in the name of equality. it made me think of what i've done with my career that were not that thoughtful, just cashed check. how did i get where i am? what is responsible for that? does my color of skin have to play a part and it absolutely does. i thought white privilege was something over there for rich families, legacy families that went to harvard and yale, the rockefellers and that type of thing. i didn't think it applied to me because my father was a used car dealer. it does apply to me. >> very poignant story in the documentary about your own life and your boyfriend. he got mixed up with drugs, you would be stopped by police. you would have the drugs, he would take the collar. >> h

he was not a white house aide. usually executive privilege is asserted when it pertains to information people in the white house are giving the president. two, communications he had with the president even before he became attorney in the transition could also fall under executive privilege. that is a really extreme interpretation. and to the questions that laura raises are all the questions we would want to know from corwin lewandowski, and the big question is, is he going to answer any of them? if he follows to the letter the instructions that have been given to him by the white house counsel, he's not going to answer some of these most important questions about what the president told him to do. >> all right, everyone stand by. we're going to continue this conversation. right now we're looking at live pictures from capitol hill. you can see corwin lewandowski there in the judiciary committee room. this hearing set to get underway. we're expecting opening remarks here any moment. >>> also developing, a cnn source

that's the defense of the white house.will have to respond to matters of impeachment from capitol hill but not trying to take a hunkered down approach but more on offense, if you will, semantics can matter in those ways. that's part of what we're hearing from people we've been talking to. >> do you know what rapid is and what might not be rapid? have responses so far in the context of the years you've been reporting been fast or slower? this is hard to say because we're facing an impeachment inquiry which is very unique. >> we looked to what the president said. he thought the impeachment issue was over. it was unlikely to move forward and nancy pe lolosi had been signaling that as well. the events of the whistle-blower complaint and ukraine call have happened very rapidly. it's only been fewer than two weeks that this has been publicly known and we're now in a very different posture where more than 225 democrats on capitol hill are for an impeachment inquiry. that's a different situation and it's happened very quickly. the

it was a white house memorandum. here you have the leader of republicans in the house of representatives who hasn't even read the transcript, who hasn't even read that memorandum, because everybody that read it said the most important line, the most germane line was the one that scott pelly read him, i'm going to need something from you, though, and kevin m he did know it was in the transcript. >> it's a stunning moment. we've got the transcript in front of me. the president, i would like you to do us a favor, though. nobody in the white house seems to have understood that the information in the transcript itself put together with the facts that are known about what was happening in that period paint a picture of a president requesting the most personal political advantage from a new ukrainian president who was at that time facing a u.s. arms embargo. the commander of the ukrainian army on the ground who needed weapons we had promised them, congress had voted to give them were waiting for their arrival. they were hel

or the kind of white nationalism that citizen was for whites only. mentioned, my new book is coming out next week on one of the enduring legacies of the reconstruction era, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments of the constitution. one to briefly talk about them, even though professor will also delve more deeply into the legal history of reconstruction. the 13th amendment, of course, irrevocably abolished the institution of slavery and introduced the word slavery for the first time into our constitution. the founders had protected slavery in some ways, but used certain locations to describe, persons held to labor or other persons, et cetera. the 13th amendment was only the beginning of the reconstruction process. abolitionists saw a and many republicans also as what you might call to use a modern phrase, the beginning of regime change. that is one way we might think about reconstruction, an attempt change, the transformation of a proslavery regime that dominated the united states from the revolution until the civil war 10 anti-slavery regime, grounded

continues, the white house officials told me they were directed, directed again, a quote, by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for coordination, finalization and distribution to cabinet-level officials and the complaint then takes it even further saying instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate system used to store classified information of an especially sensitive nature. one white house official described this act as abuse because the call did not contain anything from a national security perspective. it was sensitive from a political perspective and it was sensitive in that the president of the united states broke the law and apparently it was wanot the first time this happened. the whistle-blower says and this is a crucial line. according to white house officials, this was not the first time under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into this code-word level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than security-sensitive info

so i do think the white house will open that. that is where congress is going to have to push back strongly, and where i think we saw a change this week all republicans in the senate voted that the administration needed to provide the whistle-blower complaint to the house and senate intelligence committees. i think that was a huge vote, a real indication that a particularly in the senate they are not going to permit this white house to obstruct the intelligence committees' investigation. >> it's a thing, poppy, right, when the things move, they don't necessarily move in a watershed moment, but over time -- though i would say the pace of this one is faster than anyone expected. we're going to keep covering it. >> carrie makes a great point, for sure, on that point. thank you guys very, very much. >>> more than 300 national security officials are blasting the president's action around ukraine, calling it a, quote, profound national security concern. we will speak with one of those officials, former ambassador nick lars bergs. >>> a

was there a coverup in the white house? the acting director of national intelligence grilled today, asked why he held onto the whistle-blower's complaint. why he went to the white house first and not congress. he acknowledged the whistle-blower did the right thing. and tonight, what the whistle-blower's complaint now public reveals. he says white house officials were alarmed by that phone call with the ukrainian president and that some allegedly tried to lock down the transcript on a separate computer system to keep it from view. >>> meanwhile, as this was playing out today, president trump behind closed doors here in new york city, and a recording now surfacing of what he said. furious and unloading, comparing the whistle-blower and white house sources to spies. and telling people in the room, "you know what we used to do with spies and treason." some in the room shocked. >>> the first major snowstorm set to hit. the winter storm warning tonight. several feet of snow. rob marciano with the track. >>> the stunning new numbe

the white house in crisis. i'm jake tapper and what has been a nonstop and truly unprecedented day of news. president trump apparently furious about the whistle-blower who's allegations now threaten to bring about his impeachment. sources tell cnn mr. trump behind closed doors earlier today said he wanted to know who in his administration spoke with the whistle-blower and according to the "new york times" which first reported the story president trump then said "because that's close to a spy. you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right? we used to handle it a little different than we do now." apparent reference to excuses as well as a misuse of the term treason, but the president's overthe top response comes in context, comes after a key moment in the trump impeachment inquiry. today we got our first look at the full whistle-blower complaint about the president. the one that sparked this whole impeachment investigation. this whistle-blower sournding te alarm abou

since i was white house counsel, the ethics rules have changed, and now the client of the white housenald trump, it's the office of the president. so i think he should be in there protecting that office. that particular conversation that you had the video on was actually an hour and 50 minutes, don. it was -- i actually tried everything i could to turn the president and failed. >> interesting. caitlyn, you know, this afternoon the president pushed to another conversation with ukraine president to be made public. listen to this. >> i think you should ask for vp pence's conversation because he had a couple conversations, also. i could save you a lot of time. they were all perfect. one or two of them. they were all perfect. >> what can you tell us about the vice president's involvement here? >> that was something that really caught white house officials off guard. the president was suddenly bringing the vice president back into this because you'll remember when trump cancelled his schedule trip to poland, that's when he was going to sit down with the ukrainian president and instead, penc

he never worked for the white house. he was an outside adviser, don mcgahn, john kelly, under subpoena by this committee have been blocked by a white house who say they have absolute immunity lewandowski doesn't get to assert that. so the question really is here, what do they expect to accomplish here. as a political matter, ali, you know, you can make a case anybody who cares about this has already made up their mind about whether or not the president obstructed justice but there's another issue here which is for history we have a special counsel report that suggested that the president of the united states obstructed justice and that lewandowski was a witness to some of that but it doesn't come out and say that here's a chance to get him on the record, under oath, describing that episode where he was ordered by the president, according to the mueller report, to make this go away to tell the attorney general to not investigate and only future appearances. guess what, he never carried that out and a great question would

the ok symbols white power meaning was initially part of an online prank exposé but apparently whitesupremacist like what they saw and started using it that way in earnest among them the christ church terrorist during a court appearance the i.d.l. says that cases like that warrant its inclusion on the list of hate symbols adding though that context is always important to former white house staffer was accused of making the white power side but her defenders pointed out she's mexican american and a descendant of holocaust survivors we put the issue up for debate. i think it's pretty ridiculous to label a thing like a bull or the ok symbol as a symbol of white supremacy i feel like races do do certain things but i mean at a certain point they do everything or people do mean races have to eat food they have to drink water they have to breathe air so at what point do we label eating food as racist drinking water as received in breathing air is very soused it's just really can of started his particular point sounds a little some of these things that have been in his ear things were very l

why white household is about 105,230 40,000. despite the growth of white wealth they have slightly declined about three 4000 to 82,000. showing the wealth divide as the american middle class as a whole. similar to the divide there's been a racial equality for the assets in the portfolio. this is ownership and for the last 40 years homeownership is below 50% and white homeownership is about 70%. the second quarter of 2019 brings about 73% of latino homeownership which that 47% and it's about 41% were black homeowners. according to business ownership, 30% of the u.s. population and 10% of african americans are business owners and 2% of businesses were employees as black owners. spanish a 17% of the population and only 6% of small businesses are employees. as was done to jump start white american middle class, significant investment capital but we invested to african american, latino a native life. to encourage the wealth divide, we have brought proposals to economic inequality as a whole and racial wealth divide. this report was c

i mentioned the white house notes today that were released by the white house. notes from the president's call with the president of ukraine. i mean it's right there in black and white that president trump in fact did what democrats are accusing him of doing and why they have brought impeachment proceedings against him. in the notes released by the white house, the president overtly does ask ukraine for help digging up dirt against president trump's potential 2020 democratic rival, joe biden. there's a lot of talk about biden's son. that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that, so whatever you can do with the attorney general, meaning with bill barr, that would be great. at this point i feel like i need to apologize. i hereby apologize. last night on this show i said somewhat cavalierly that while we were expecting the white house to release notes of this phone call today, there was no reason to expect that the trump white house would allow for the release of any notes from this call that implicated the president and the beh

the white house you went to for advice about whether you should turn over a complaint regarding the white house? >> mr. chairman, as i said in my opening statement, i believed that everything here in this matter is totally unprecedented. that individual works for me, therefore, it is my job to make sure that i support and defend that person. >> dana: one of the biggest take aways, it accuses the white house of putting the transcript of that call in a separate computer system mostly used for classified information. it reads in part, quote, in the days following the phone call, i learned from multiple u.s. officials that senior white house officials had intervened to, quote, lock down, unquote, all records of the phone call, especially the official word for word transcript of the call that was produced as is customary by the white house situation room. this set of actions under scored to me that white house officials understood the gravity of what had transpired in the call. and president trump firing back after arriving back in washington in just the last hour, insisting again he did nothi

and, white house history. so welcome to the podium, rebecca and ann can have a conversation at the end. >> let's set the record straight, i actually read-- not to brag but the twins have a little brother. the suffrage movement really dates from seneca falls and through ratification of the 19th amendment. in the interest of brevity and focus i'm not going to cover all 72 years. i'm going to more or less ignore the 19th century and really just focus on the final push for the amendment. if you have questions about other parts of the movement or other players i'll be more than happy to answer them when we go to q and a. i like to start with this image from the 1913 suffrage march. i'd like to use it because it's the only imaging color. the great thing about 20th- century history is the photographs but they are of course black-and-white. this program shows you how extraordinarily colorful everything was. all of the contemporary accounts talk about that as well. but also the colors are deliberate. almost everything