the complaint surely they can't all be rotten this is adam adam has a much friendlier face than kurt adams seems genuinely concerned about ukraine alas adam doesn't seem to be any better see among adams sponsors is a fellow named igor pasternak who makes a lot of money on military contracts with ukraine is the pasternak recently hosted a fundraiser for adam after which the congressman began all but the mounding that the us said money and arms to ukraine which would allow his generous sponsor to real the entire ukrainian military just last year the m 16 project was conceived some time ago as ukrainian own forces border guards and national guard we time switch to nato standards honus to you could probably film sin city 3 with characters based and these guys but even if you don't sell guns and don't get kickbacks or donations from mama's manufacturers you can still use ukraine here for example as ukraine's national and t. corruption bureau chief sit nick recorded bragging about how he helped hillary clinton during the 2016 election yes yes i don't know trump but hillary i helped hillary belon

. >> martha: this is what happened between adam schiff and kurt volker. f pressed to the united states special representative, volker to testify that ukrainian officials felt pressured to investigate former vice president joe biden's son as a result of president trumps don mike trump with holding that information he denied that was the case and he noticed that ukrainian leaders did know that it was being withheld and they believe their relationship with united states was moving along just fine. when he repeatedly declined to agree with adam schiff characterization, schiff said ambassador, you are making this much more complicated than it has to me. as of the practice of attorneys in a deposition to try and press the people who show up to explain their understanding of what happened into a different assessment than what they believe it to be? is that the normal practice? >> i don't agree that's what happened. nothing that the ambassador volker had contradicted what president trumps that. we have a crime extortion, we all agree that if you use that -- >> mar

. >> laura: your colleague called out adam schiff for keeping former ukraine envoy kurt volker's testimony under lock and key. >> adam schiff, release the transcript so they can see what ambassador vogler spent nine hours telling us where he said there was no quid pro quo, no linkage whatsoever between assistance dollars for ukraine and any type of investigation into anyone in the ukraine or the bidens. instead, there were 67 pages of text messages. adam schiff took a few of those text messages and release them, release them all. statement do you have confidence congressmen that you will see the full transcripts from secret hearings? >> gosh, i sure hope so. i was in the room for that transcribed interview and it was a marathon session of the american public would learn a lot of facts that adam schiff isn't telling us. what adam schiff chooses to cherry pick texts, not disclose key facts, he is depriving the american public from getting the ability to form their own independent judgment on important things. for example, adam schiff says that donald trump demanded that president zelensky ma

kurt volker was involved -- >> i said, adam schiff is selecting certain information to put out there. not putting full truth out there. put it all out there or restrict access. >> harris: here is what the president says or wrote on twitter. unfortunately, sondland would be testifying before a compromised kangaroo court where republicans voice have been taken away. >> great. that is what is happening. >> harris: i'll scoot. we mentioned, lindsey graham inviting president trump's lawyer, "rule britannia: brexit and the end of empire" giuliani to meet. i have heard about corruption in ukraine from giuliani. given the house of representative behavior, time for the senate to inquire about corruption and other improprietys, involving ukraine. melis melissa. >> melissa: they are saying you were talking before about how they want to get into the joe biden side of this and this is lindsey graham saying, you know what, we're not going to wait for invitation or let you set the time table, we'll jump right in right there. obviously, a lot of danger in there. we've heard rudy giuliani testify on t

this comes after former ukrainian special envoy kurt volcker testified behind closed doors. adam't talking after that marathon session. >> what did you learn today? >> we won't have any comments about the interview until it's concluded. >> reporter: this revelation, in a series of text message as, we are learning senior diplomats discussed the administration's suspension of military aid to ukraine. this is bill taylor, ambassador to ukraine, who is texting gordon sunland the u.s. am a bass door to the eu. this is what they said. i think it's crazy to help with the political campaign, sunland, saying i think you're incorrect about president trump's intentions, the president has been he very clear, no idea he o quo of any time. i suggest we stop the back and forth texts. here's the real point. it's unclear whether either ambassador will be called to testify in light of the texts. the hearings will continue today. ithe inspector is back on the hill, testifying behind closed doors. we may get developments perhaps he later today or over the weekend. cheryl: we'll follow all of it. gri

just to confirm, i asked mark meadows on the commercial break, adam schiff has not release the transcript of kurt, which i think speaks to the process and the concerns there. not just the way adam schiff has ran this thing. in addition, the way the whistleblower has handled it. as you noted, he went -- he or she -- went to adam shift prior to filing the complaint. there is an 18 day window between that july 25th call and august 12th when the complaint was filed. further, did not disclose to the inspector general that these conversations had happened with adam schiff. so i think the way the whistleblower has handled this certainly calls into question the motives. then when you add on the element of the fact the individual had to declare bias against the president, that's concerning. >> melissa: dagen, we were talking on the break. they were riding in the dash somebody not generally sympathetic to the right -- talking about how he doesn't think this whistleblower will turn out to be natural to support. one of the points he made was that whistleblowers are totally alone. that's why they have the who

this after ukrainian envoy kurt volcker testified for 9 hours behind closed doors. adamchiff wasn't talking. >> any comments about the interview? >> reporter: in a series of encrypted text messages obtained by fox's mike emanuel we have learned senior diplomats discussing the suspension of military aid to ukraine topped us diplomat to ukraine ambassador bill taylor texts to the eu and here is what bill says, quote, as i said on the phone i think it is crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. he says bill, i believe you are incorrect about donald trump's intentions, the president has been crystal-clear no quid pro quos of any kind and added the president is trying to evaluate whether ukraine is truly going to adopt the transparency and reforms president volodymyr zelinsky promised during the campaign, i suggest we stop the back-and-forth texts. it is not clear if either ambassador will be called to testify but we are also seeing in the new york times reports that they drafted a statement for the ukrainian president committing them to inves

same thing for kurt volker, sources say he was pressed by adam schiff to say that the administration was pressuring ukraine, pressuring them to investigate hunter biden. we are told tonight, he denied that. more interesting times to come. >> shannon: every day a new development. every hour around here, we got one of those coming up. breaking tonight, just -- the republican chairman of the senate finance and homeland security committees are looking for answers, they want information about the so-called fbi counterintelligence briefing from the 2016 campaign. those briefings were given to the candidates at the time. if the senators note the fbi had an open counterintelligence probe against the trump campaign's, so they want to know how the fbi plans to provide those briefings and use them with respect to 2020 contenders. they write, there are significant questions regarding the similarity of those briefings to the 2016 candidates and whether those briefings were provided in a manner consistent with past practice. president trump and a democratic house leader each claiming the other suf

former special envoy to ukraine kurt volker testifying behind closed doors. meanwhile, house intelligence chair adamchiff saying he is facing new scrutiny after it was revealed the whistle-blower had contact with the house intelligence committee before filing the complaint. here is the president's latest attack on schiff and biden. >> schiff has been proven to be a liar. we have known it for three years because they've been trying to impeach for three years. he's a stone cold liar. if they were honest about it, start a major investigations of the bidens. likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens. what happened to china is just about as bad as what happened with ukraine. >> juan: biden is fighting back against prompt attacks but raising new questions by admitting he talked to his son about ukraine. >> this special interest funding his attacks against me. i'm not going anywhere. they're not going to destroy me. they're not going to destroy my family. i talked to my son. we have communicated. he lives in california. we communicated a couple times. look, there is zero, zero, zero, ze

kurt volcker testified behind closed doors for more than nine hours until chairman adam chief wasn'ts with what the democrats are saying with their whole impeachment narrative. >> any allegation that president trump was trying to get president trump zelensky to manufacture dirt on the bidens is just not true. >> in a big revelation we are learning these senior diplomats discussed the administration's suspension of military aid via text. you see here ukrainian message bill taylor texting gordon sond land i think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. >> bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trump's intentions. the president has been crystal clear no quid pro quos of any kind. unclear if either of those ambassadors will be called to testify. we will see the inspector general for the intelligence community, michael attkisson back on the hill behind closed doors testifying today. guys, news outs of ukraine this morning. the prosecutor general is announcing he had a press conference in kiev that he will be reviewing all cases closed by h

happening as an important week plays out for house intel chairman adam schiffer and his committee, high-profile appearances including kurt volker, the former ukraine special envoy who quit the day after that whistle-blower complaint went public along with president trump's hand-picked intelligence community inspector general. and we should note that the intelligence community ig's office issued a sharp rebuke to conspiracy theories that it was spouned e spawned by his allies that it's hearsay and laws were changed over the last year to allow secondhand information to be used. in a statement the ig debunked the all of that saying that the whistle-blower had direct knowledge of some of the alleged conduct and that is just as important secondhand knowledge is permitted as part of any complaint. just finally, the ig said no laws were changed to accommodate the report. turn now to cnn jessica schneider to talk about all the president's men. jessica, seems each new development in this ukraine firestorm engulfed yet another person in trump's inner orbit? >> reporter: and all seem to garner questions, brooke and sharing center s

former special envoy to ukraine kurt volker testifying behind closed doors. meanwhile, house intelligence chair adamfacing new scrutiny after it was revealed the whistle-blower had contact with the house

from the testimony today, we saw selective leaks with text messages with kurt walker along with other people from last week and adamefuses to release the full transcript and testimony of what happened. so i think democrats should bring the information to light and allow the american people to decide. and i also think if you are trump, there are questions about the whistle-blower motive as well particularly now that it is being reported that they only want to have an exchange with congress. >> it's going to have to cut you off, breaking news. amy stoddard and lisa boothe. and we will be right back. with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost. unfortunately, it can't do anything about that. now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? pain happens. saturdays happen. aleve it. aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. that's ensure max protein, with high protein and 1 gram sugar. it's a sit-up, banana! bend at the waist! i'm tryin'! keep it

that happened today, same thing for kurt voelker, special rep to ukraine. sources say he was pressed by adam schiff to say the administration was pressuring ukraine to investigate hunter biden. we are told tonight he denied that. more interesting times to come. shannon: every day a new development, every hour. one of those coming up. live from the white house today. breaking tonight the republican chairman of the homeland security committee looking for answers, they want information about the counterintelligence briefing from the 2016 campaign and moving forward. those briefings at the time, hillary clinton and donald trump. senators know that the fbi had a counterintelligence probe against the trump campaign. they want to know how the fbi plans to do so with respect to 2020 and there are significant questions regarding a similarity of briefings for 2016 candidates and whether those briefings were provided in a manner consistent with practice. donald trump and the democratic house leader nancy pelosi each claiming the other suffered a meltdown at the white house today. the speaker not backin

kurt volcker testified for 9 hours behind closed doors after the marathon session until adam schiff wasn't talking. >> we don't have any comments. >> republicans were sounding off. >> have said nothing, nothing that coincides with what democrats are saying with their impeachment narrative. >> in a series of encrypted text messages we are learning senior diplomats discuss the suspension of military aid to ukraine, bill taylor, ambassador to ukraine texted the ambassador to the eu saying as i said on the phone it is crazy to get help in a political campaign, someone responded bill, i believe you were incorrect about donald trump's intentions, he has been crystal clear no quid pro quo of any kind adding the president is trying to evaluate whether ukraine is going to adopt the transparency and reforms president volodymyr zelinsky promised. i suggest we stop the back-and-forth texts. it is unclear whether either ambassador will call in light of the text but hearings continue today. michael atkinson is testifying behind closed doors. jillian: congressman doug collins, nancy pelosi throwing house

the room and they said that they had watched former ambassador kurt volker's testimony and they believe that nothing he said comports to adam schiff's theory of the case. and they were also asked about the president's comments there in the south lawn where he invited china to interfere in our election. and both of those republican congressmen said that they weren't aware. which is plausible because they were in a secure area where they have to sur writtrender their cellphones. but what happened was the reporter who asked the question then repeated the president's comments and the two republican congressmen chose not to even gauge. since then we've heard from adam schiff who makes clear that the president inviting a foreign power to interfere in our election is a breach of the oath of office that not only endangers national security but undermines our election. so what is not yet clear about the impeachment investigation is as it moves forward, as these investigators potentially find morism proper ce improper condu right there in the open, does the impeachment inquiry then include that or does it stay focused on the specific

kurt volker the u.s. envoy to ukraine said there was no quid pro quo and adam schiff correction.assador, you are making this more complicated than it has to be. no he is not, he is stating a fact. there was no quid pro quo. deal with it. the democrats need to snap out of their delusional and dangerous game, there was no quid pro quo. you had noisier there was even a holdup of military aid so how could there be one. >> jim and i have been in over 40 hours of deposition and what we are finding that adam shift only wants to have witnesses who will give the respond that he hopes they will give an even at that it's a swing and a miss. we need to have that whistleblower and we call it a whistleblower but it's more an anonymous informant and we need to have them come in so we can say how often did you cordate with adam schiff. jeanine: that my friend is a question we will probably never get an answer to. they startled the nation with the claim that there was a whistleblower with information and our president was engaging in illegal acts on international phone calls with the president of

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adam schiff in particular has run this inquiry so far. they say he hasn't been fair. he's only released portions of kurt volker's text messages, hasn't released the whole transcript that was a big beef this morning. well, one little wrinkle, and a gop lawmaker pointed me to this. an ethics complaint has been filed against adam schiff by an outside republican leaning group, the tea party group of america against adam schiff saying that he essentially has put forward misleading statements about his contacts with the whistleblower. they list a whole host of issues. the reason this is important, this republican lawmaker said is because back in 2017, democrats were saying the same thing essentially about then house intel chairman devin nunes and his contacts with the white house. and the only reason really that nunes stepped aside and recused himself as head of the russian investigation into election interference is because of an ethics complaint that he was dealing with in the house. so that's why this republican lawmaker said look to that. but again, to jonathan's point, republicans are arguing on process

kurt volker. volker resigned last week. giuliani defiant, slamming house democrats and congressman adam schiff. >> i would really love to challenge the illegitimacy of this committee. i can't see how you can have a committee run by a guy who has judged the case already. >> thanks to kirsten welker for that report. >>> joining us on the set, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. let's talk about the subpoenaing of giuliani and all documents basically pertaining to his contacts with ukrainian officials. what do you make of it? >> it raises the same question i've had for several weeks now, which is who or what is rudy giuliani. what is his role? he is a private citizen who is apparently advising or providing some kind of legal services to the president. but each his own statements contradict the idea that he is providing exclusively legal services because he said and i'm pair phasing at some point i was communicating with these foreign governments not as a lawyer but essentially as an arm of the government. but he's not a member of the government. so first, i wonder, does executive privilege apply? traditionally, executive privilege a

late last night democratic congressman adam schiff, elijah cummings raised a trough of cherry picked text messages from kurtulgar. without a complete transcript of the testimony, these partisan are arsonists knew darn well these texts were out of context and by looking at them in isolation they would paint the most damning picture imaginable and they watched the deep state sharks circle. >> text messages between themselves and others who were aware of them. that is essential corroboration to improve in time. speak these text messages advance the story quite a bit. >> the text messages do a very good job of showing that there was a quid pro quo. >> you don't even need the whistle-blower once you have these texts. >> laura: it's just all over. thanks. so what did happen in the testimony? sources are already telling fox it completely upends the left's narrative here. first, he testified that ukraine wasn't pressure to investigate the bidens. they never raised the issue of a quid pro quo and they didn't see trump's july 25th call as inappropriate. "i know time was i pressured to take part with ukraine to invest

and jim jordan, two republicans, they make the case that kurt volker they say did not give anything in terms of testimony that comports to adam schiff's theory of the case. i have to use the caveat that this deposition is still on going and we likely won't now the results potentially for some days. but you also have mike you were ite e -- turner who also makes the point that he believes that volker did not participate in nor would have allowed anything improper to happen. and it actually tracks with our own reporting. i've talked to people who know the former ambassador, his thinking, the role that they played. and they will at the me that he is adamant that he did not participate, had no role in the decision to hold up ukranian military aid in this overall interaction with president trump and the ukranian leader and that when the whistleblower complaint outlines that he had a role, what i'm told is that volker made clear to those ukranian officials that they should not in any way play a role in the 2020 elections. >> ross, what do you make of the president now calling on china to investigate the bidens? he may be skilled whe

he talked about intelligence chairman adam schiff, saying "it's a scam," the whistleblower complaint, that is. we hear from the first witness today, kurt former u.k. and envoy. the president continues to speak -- the former ukraine envoy. the president continues to speak. we will bring you any updates. the s&p 500 is down 0.25% after having fallen a full percentage point. the dow is down 0.4%. the nasdaq is down 0.2%. the 10 year yield is at 1.53%. money going into treasuries. jardenup, why co-founder martin franklin thanks -- this is bloomberg. ♪ this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ vonnie: live from new york, i'm vonnie quinn. guy: from london, i'm guy johnson. this is "bloomberg markets." vonnie: setbacks have startups looking at alternatives to the divisional ipo. ipo. the traditional >> companies are staying private longer. private markets, private equity, and private credit are becoming more flexible in what they can do for a private company. that is obviously impacting what is going on in the public market. when you look at what is happening in public markets, fewer public companies than we ever had, higher market cap in the hands of very few

. >> a short time ago, adam schiff and elliot engle and elijah cummings september a letter to mike pence saying -- >> yesterday kurtolcker spent 9 1/2 hours behind closed doors with three house committees. fox news has obtained the opening 11 pages of his testimony, including page 5. the president was skeptical given the his of corruption. he said the ukraine was full of terrible people. that ride to take me down. in the course of that conversation, he referenced conversations with mayor guliani. >> we have evidence of text messages between state department officials expressing concern as early as may that rudy guliani -- there was a guliani-biden thing going on that had concerned a state department official. >> these are very tense times between house democrats and the white house. neil? >> neil: thanks very much. greg is we me from florida. very important guy here. a lot of things and people will go through him. where is this going, congressman? what is your sense? >> well, the democrats will stop at nothing to impeach this president. that's very clear. started with the russian collusion hoax. the mainstream medi

nic let's talk about kurt volker he had an important job as special envoy to ukraine for the united states until he resigned last week last year i interviewed him here and he was adamant in his defense of trump's commitment to ukraine take a listen to what he said i can imagine your job is very difficult if there was one thing that you. could get from the trip administration that you don't have right now what would it be i think i do have what i need from the trump administration i think we have very strong support all the way through about putting pressure on russia to get their attention to create a negotiation support for ukraine partnership with our european allies and a negotiating proposition on the table that we would be prepared to facilitate a u.n. peacekeeping mission to go into eastern ukraine create security create the conditions where there can be elections and then minsk agreements can be implemented and then see the territory restored so i think everything is in place but we need is not from the trunk administration what we need is from russia and that is a serious effort by russia to end the war all right so nick is that the image there that we saw is