our chief white house correspondent jim acosta has the latest for us. jim, a top trump adviser is coming to the president's defense. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. white house officials are digging in their heels over president trump's use of altered map to justify false statements that hurricane dorian posed a threat to alabama. the white house put out a carefully worded statement saying his comments were based on briefings from officials, aides won't say if it was mr. trump that changed the map in what's become a game of cones for the president. leading what may become an indelible mark on the trump presidency, it was hardly a master stroke. now the white house is dragging its feet, admitting who altered the weather map held up by the president in the oval office, false falsely showing alabama in the path of the hurricane. >> that was the original chart,

jim acosta over at the white house, thanks very much. we're also following a rather tense standoff right now, pitting america's top intelligence official against congress. the acting director of national intelligence defying a subpoena to hand over a secret whistleblower complaint. let's go to our senior congressional correspondent, manu raju, who's up on capitol hill. manu, the refusal to turn over the complaint is raising some serious questions. >> reporter: no question about it, wolf. there have been discussions ongoing between the house intelligence committee chairman, adam schiff, and his staff, and the director of national intelligence's office about a potential appearance thursday by joe maguire, tacting director to appear. his office has already balked and said he would not appear behind closed doors for testimony about this whistle-blower complaint. but i just asked adam schiff directly whether he would subpoena maguire. schiff declined to comment, saying he would issue a statement later tonight. i also asked schiff, what about

let's begin with jim acosta with the breaking news. so what are you learning about president possible release of the whistle-blower complaint itself? >> reporter: deranderson, we understand white house officials are looking at this right now. it could come out as soon as tomorrow. my colleagues are reporting that the president weighed in on this and decided ultimately on his own that he wanted to see this whistle-blower complaint released. we're not sure what form it will come in, whether we will see all of it. but it is a curious change of events. the white house essentially blinked in all of this if we do see all of it. we're not sure if we're going to see all of it, but recall last week when the inspector general for the intelligence community went up on capitol hill, talked to the house intelligence committee and was essentially telling those lawmakers, we can't show you what's in this complaint. so this is a major reversal for the white house, no question about it, anderson. >> what about the release of the transcript of the presi

but as jim acosta reports-- democrats hardly sound united on the issue.ken) that was jim acosta reporting. top trump advisers indicate... and democratic strategists worry a push for impeachment could play right into trump's hands-- by pitting the democratic field of contenders against each other on the issue-- just in time for election year. (pam) two childcare workers in ohio are behind bars tonight -- accused of abusing a five- year-old girl. authorities say, one of those employees was caught on camera ... we should warn you the picture may be graphic to some viewers. this happened august 13th at a learning center in ohio... and now this man and another daycare worker are out of a job -- and in custody. but police say, this is just part of what happened.. they say, video shows the two employees... allowing that little girl to be physically bullied by other children -- quote - "as a form of discipline." they say, you can see the workers just sitting back, watching the child get hurt. (pam) he is the man convicted of breaking into homes and raping women -

(justine) that was jim acosta reporting for us tonight. top trump advisers and democratic strategists worry a push for impeachment could play right into trump's hands-- by pitting the democratic field of contenders against each other on the issue-- just in time foel. (grant)the third democratic presidential debate is in the books - as ten candidates faced off in houston, hoping to gain an edge in a tight race.(justine) steve nannes has a look at how the frontrunner former vice president joe biden fared, as well as those trying to catch him. george stephanopoulos, (grant) two daycare workers put the children's safety at risk.... how police say they caught up with them. (justine) and -- after months of testimony , and deliberating for 10- days we are now hearing from one member of the jury from the ghost ship fire trial. the u-s budget deficit has topped a jaw-dropping one trillion dollars for the first time in seven years, and the year isn't even over yet.(grant) the treant reported thursday that the deficit grew to one point-zero-six-seven

it's a farce. >> sean: i know acosta is a psycho. i never knew he wasn't proud of his heritage. >> his name is abilio. >> sean: a lot of people change their names. do you think my name is really sean hannity? dan, he gave me an autographed copy of his book. i just got a copy. great book. congratulations. look, media and lo and behold, there is nothing here. the democrats, they vote to go forward with impeachment. they live in the what's in it. then there is nothing in it. but there is something with biden. were gonna blow this out of the water right here on the show tomorrow night. there is something with durbin, leahy, manila does. and murphy also. >> you know it's funny when they report the news, it's fake. the acting dni story is a total fabrication as per the acting dan acting dni himself but when they report real news, they reporting in violation of what they say in their own principle principles. they are saying this conversation with the ukrainian leader which i see nothing wrong with. we can see the transcript. that that it's

jim acosta breaking news from the white house, my source tells me. this is not a joke. my source tells me president trump doesn't want to be impeached. i mean, it's a farce.it's a cir. >> sean: the thing i take issue why, i know acosta is a psycho. i never knew he wasn't proud of his heritage. >> his name is abilio. he was born abilio. >> sean: a lot of people change their names. do you think my name is really sean hannity?it actually is. dan, he gave me an autographed copy of his book. i just got a copy. great book. congratulations. look, media and lo and behold there is nothing here. the democrats, they vote to go forward with impeachment. they don't even know what's in it. then there is nothing in it. but there is something with biden. we're going to blow this out of the water right here on the show tomorrow night. there is something with durbin leahy, menendez. and murphy also. >> you know it's funny when they report the news, it's fake. the acting dni story is a total fabrication as per the acting dni himself. but when they actually report real

jim acosta reports the president, he doesn't want this.e idea of being impeached. sources tell kaitlan collins the president spoke to house speaker nancy pelosi to try to cool things down before she even announced the impeachment inquiry. that gets to his state of mind. there are developments we're waiting on at this moment, just how important remains to be seen. remember, this all centers around accusations that the president and his personal attorney pressured a foreign country to

after acosta resigned because of this the president brought him out on the white house lawn to try tod of solidarity. someone asked trump if acosta was a democrat and trump passed that question along. >> are you a democrat? >> i'm not, no. >> i have no idea. you know what i know? you know what i know about alex? he was a great student at harvard. he's hispanic, which i -- which i so admire. >> jimmy: yes indeed. it takes a lot of guts to be hispanic. it really does. [ laughter ] one of the things i admire about you, guillermo. [ cheers and applause ] vice president pence on friday took a tour of two detention centers in texas, where he questioned a group of children who were being kept very humanely locked up in cells. and if you watch very closely here, you can see the exact -- the moment mike pence realizes maybe he's not getting into heaven. >> are they taking good care of you here? >> si. >> si? okay. how long did it take you to get here? >> [ speaking foreign language ] >> it took two months to get here and three months to get here. okay. did you walk the whole way? >> si. >> [ s

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enchts cnn jim acosta called it a major reversal.es telling us the bho us is preparing to release the mcmahon that pushed house speaker pelosi to start the impeachment inquiry. one source asaying the complaint is going through declassification and cop rowe could be released within hours of the release tomorrow of the president's conversation with the president of the ukraine. or at least one conversation. in the meantime acting director of national intelligence joseph ma choir mo failed to reveal details under administration orders and did not move it forward to congress is scheduled to testify before the house intelligence committee, happening on thursday. tonight he issued a statement. reading i have sworn an oath to the constitution 11 times in my 36 years of public service and few views it a a covenant with every american that will well and faithfully zmarj duties of my office in light of recent reporting i want to make clear that i have upheld my responsibility to follow the law every step of the way. the statement continues as

our jim acosta is at the white house. he has some new reporting on it. jim, what have you learned from sources? >> reporter: anderson, we know that one of the reasons why the president decided to fire the national security adviser, john bolton, was because both he and the vice president were upset with this idea that john bolton and some on his team were spreading this story around that the vice president was joining up with john bolton in opposing this idea of peace talks at camp david with the taliban. but just this evening, anderson, i talked to a source close to the white house who said that the president has been complaining about john bolton wanting to, quote, start a war since the beginning of his tenure as national security adviser. the source also close to the white house shed some light on bolton's thinking in all of this, saying that bolton is very concerned about the president's desire to have a meeting with the iranian president, hassan rouhani. according to this source close to the white house, john bolton is worried that the president, quo

epstein when acosta was an attorney in florida.president jacques chirac is dead, serving from 1995 to 2007, led his country into europe's common currency and spearheaded opposition to the u.s. invasion of iraq. he was found guilty of misusing funds during his time as the mayor of paris after leaving office. he received a suspended prison sentence. he was 86 years old. global news 24 hours a day on air and at tictoc on twitter powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. as markets grapple with rising political uncertainty and , possibility for recession in the u.s. continues to be thrown around. ideaext guest believes the of a brief recession is not so crazy. he joins us now. ian, great to have you on set. how plausible is a recession right now? how close are we to one in the next few quarters? >> it will take a few things to fall into line. the manufacturing sector is in recession. we need broad weakness and spending come exports, and the consumer, which hasn

jim acosta, cnn, the white house. >> all right. >>> back to what really matters here, of course, the devastation that so many people are dealing with. if you would like to help the victims of this hurricane, dorian, head over to our special impact your world website. that's where you will find a list of organizations that are helping to reach those who are in need. that address is cnn.com/impact. thanks for watching cnn newsroom. i'm george howell at the cnn center in atlanta. stay with us as we continue to follow the breaking news. hurricane dorian on the east coast and the death of the former president of zimbabwe, robert mougabmugabe. growing odors. hes sit arod that's why we graduated to tide pods sport. finally something more powerful than the funk. tide sport removes even week-old sweat odor. it's got to be tide. because there's always another team looking to punch one in. a spectacular touchdown grab with nfl redzone from nfl network on xfinity, you get every touchdown from every game on sunday afternoons, all season long. watch every breakout star, every heart-pounding runnin

jim acosta at the white house, thank you. tonight, joe biden is responding to president trump's call for an investigation of his family's connections to ukraine. biden denying any wrong doing and slamming the president. >> wait, wait a second, wait a second. not one single credible outlet has given any credibility to his assertion. not one single one. and so i have no comment except the president should start to be president. >> let's dig deeper into president trump's interest in the biden family's ukraine connections. our political correspondent, sara murray, is here in "the situation room." this goes back to when joe biden was vice president. >> that's right, wolf, and essentially what the president and his allies are saying that they believe as vice president, joe biden tried to use his political influence to help his son's business interests. now, there's not a lot of evidence that actually backs that up, but that's not stopping the president from pushing ukrainian officials to keep investigating. years after joe biden ou

jim acosta said was one example. they announced this rather than wait less than 24 hours to read the transcript and see if there is a reason for this. and miss pelosi came on and unequivocally said this president has broken his oath of office. he has betrayed national security. how in the world does she know that? this inquiry hasn't even begun. for her to make a statement as definitive as that, that's why the american people are going to view this and roll their eyes because it's going to sound to them like much of the same thing they've been hearing for the last three years. >> well, if the president did what's been alleged, congressman, if he pressured ukraine's new president to investigate for damaging information on a political rival, namely former vice president biden, and withheld aid to ukraine at the same time, do you believe that would be impeachable conduct? >> i don't know but i'll tell you, wolf, i do want to find out the answer to that question. and i said last week to members of the media. i said, look

it was actually the announcement of the resignation of secretary of labor, alex acosta. got to watch the president depart on marine one. so i guess that was a pretty cool once in a lifetime experience. this is my fourth straight summer in d.c. for some sort of fellowship so i really got a chance to kind of go find those things kind of off the beaten path. this is my first time getting to go to the zoo myself, which i reference-- >> the national zoo. >> the national zoo. kind of going back and spending time places i've been. for instance the african-american history museum, got to spend a couple of hours. it wasn't too terribly crowded. got to go to the apollo 11 up on washington monument, which was very, very cool. >> 50th anniversary. >> 50th anniversary, yeah, just kind of getting into more detailed focus on what washington d.c. has to offer. >> of the-- when students come to class and their big political things happening, president trump, et cetera, says something or congress does something, what is the number one thing you sort of hear from your students in terms of

. >> we go to jim acosta. it was only five days ago, the president was calling this story fake news. he has evolved, shall we say, over the course of the last few days. >> getting more real. >> admitting it and justifying it. that was a new justification. europe is not paying up. >> that's right. and the justifications keep moving. the president is saying, now, he is holding up the money and he would do it again. we were able to confirm "the washington post" reporting last night, that he instructed the chief of staff, mick mulvaney, to do this. and whether this was leverage to investigate joe biden and his son, hunter biden. there's no evidence that they did anything wrong, talking about the bidens. but talking to trump advisers, there is concern inside the president's team, circle, advisers, this could have legs. the story could be harmful to the president, legally, potentially, down the road. one adviser said to me yesterday, this is the president admitting he did this, talking about pressuring the ukrainian

june 2017, secretary acosta withdraw the guidance. in june of this year, the comment period closed for a new rule which we hope will bring stability and then a second way the administration has sought to create more certainty for employees and employers has been to raise the salary threshold for overtime pay in a reasonable way. in 2014 the obama administration more than doubled that threshold. there was bipartisan opposition from congress. the department has proposed a much more reasonable rule, the department's proposal would require input from workers and employees prior to future changes. i'm glad to see these steps. as i mentioned earlier, the senate confirmed john king as united states secretary of education about a month after president obama said he wanted mr. king to serve as secretary. in this case, it's been about two months since president trump announced that he would in a nominate mr. scalia to be the next labor secretary and the committee had has all of mr. scalia's paperwork and had an opportunity to meet with him for

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chief white house correspondent jim acosta. the president insists there's nothing to see in this whic whistleblower complaint but the white house doesn't want law marks to see it. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. simply put the administration is once again stonewalling congress, that time over the whistleblower complaint that manu was talking about, some possibly involving the president. inspector general for the intelligence community expressed to lawmakers during that briefing today he did not agree with the decision by the trump administration to withhold that information from congress. it all amounts to taking the whistle from the whistleblower. the president is digging in his heels as the white house is blocking the release of a whistleblower complaint to congress, apparently about a conversation mr. trump had with a foreign leader that raised red flags with an administration official. president trump insists there's nothing to see here, tweeting virtually any time i speak on the phone to the foreign leader i understand ma

northbound 680 at acosta.n the crash on left hand shoulder hopefully that gets cleared quickly. taking a look elsewhere in the east bay. this is been a rough commute for people who take westbound 80 from el sobrante all the way down to the macarthur maze in emeryville. a series of crashes, the latest one and westbound 80 at san pablo san road. we have a new report of a collision on the richmond set for fail bridge but it is not keeping things set up too much, your drive from the carquinez bridge to macarthur maze will take you 33 minutes. this has improved to what we saw on the strive just about 15 minutes ago. commute is improving as the crashes on the westbound 80 quarter cleared out of the way but give yourself some extra time. once you make it here to the bay bridge toll plaza those cash lanes are nice and open. same with the carpool lanes, a little bit of stop and go traffic heading into san francisco. >>> we are staying on top of a developing story near the central coast. one person was killed and severa

everybody remembers that case last november when acosta's pass was revoked and cnn had to go to courto get it back. so is this the same or is this different? are the arguments you made this week the same for being a costa or different? >> many of the arguments are the same.a costa or different? >> many of the arguments are the same. white house out of the blue suspended karem's press pass with no notice of what the standards of conduct would be. so a lot of the same arguments. they tried to paper over the problems with issuing a 13 page letter after giving us one business letter to respond. but it is the same first amendment problem. this is part of a war by president and his new press secretary ms. grisham to try to intimidate reporters from asking tough questions. that is all it is. it i violates the first amendment and due process. and they are trying to send a message to other reporters there in the rose garden, watch out, we'll do this to you. and that is why we felt it was important not just for brian karem's case, but for all reporters so reporters can stand there and sometimes

our jim acosta is at the white house. jim, tell us what more are you hearing? >> reporter: the president just wrapped up that press conference with prime minister morrison. the president did not have more to say about this whistleblower matter. i did ask the president as he was walking out of the east room, could he talk about his personal attorney rudy giuliani and what went on with ukraine? i'm not even sure he heard the question as he left the east room. but in the oval office when he was sitting down with the prime minister, he did not really answer the question whether or not he spoke with the ukranian prime minister about former vice president joe biden, at one point saying it doesn't matter what he discussed. but there are plenty of contradictions here that the president offered up to reporters when he was sitting down in the oval office, at one point describing the whistleblower has being partisan and part of a hack job, but at the same time saying he doesn't know who the whistleblower is. the white house is not saying at this point whether or not they

d 680 near acosta boulevard, brand-new crash involved. not serious but it looks like the paramedic teams are out there just to check. northbound 880. an accident there. it has not affected the freeway too much. the coliseum traffic looks good, bay bridge is light. for-two. >>> the protesters are hitting the street around the world for the second friday in a row. in new zealand thousands of demonstrators have flooded the street. this followed last week's demonstrations that were called a climate strike. in montreal 16-year-old, greta turned bird, is expected to speak at the rally. former california t with his electric car. they called on world leaders to do more to reduce carbon emissions. they are planning to rally outside the chevron station. they demand that chevron stop using fossil fuel fuels by the year 20 25. other rallies outside wells fargo in santa cruz. and in the consulate in los angeles. >>> the whistleblower accusing president trump of pressuring ukraine and embarrassing information on joe biden and his son hunter. the new yo

. >>> first let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. president trump is dodging questions about this call with the ukrainian leader. >> reporter: that is right, wolf. and the white house is still not commenting on the "wall street journal" report that president trump pressured the president of ukraine about eight times to investigate joe biden during a phone call over the summer pressed on that call earlier in the day the president did not deny that biden came up during that phone conversation. all of this is raising questions for democrats as to whether the president attempted to collude with a foreign power this time ukraine to impact the 2020 election. sitting in the oval office with australia prime minister the president struggled to give straight answers about the mystery government official trying to blow the whistle on his ain't action with a foreign leader. first he was described as partisan. >> it is a partisan whistleblower. shouldn't even have information. >> reporter: then mr. trump said he didn't know the whistleblower. >>

our jim acosta has this. >> reporter: brushing off talk of impeachment coming from the house tweetingou don't impeach presidents for doing a good, great job. president trump is spoiling for a fight with the democratic contenders for 2020. >> more than 130 democrats in congress have signed up for the bernie sanders total takeover of the health care. crazy bernie. he is a crazy guy. >> reporter: slamming his democratic rivals in a speech in baltimore as they were holding their debate in houston, the president once again resorted to racially loaded attacks as he blasted massachusetts senator elizabeth warren and raised questions about vice president joe biden's physical fitness. >> i hit pokcahontas way who early. and now it can be sleepy joe. >> reporter: and mr. trump had one of his own. >> sat around chuck grassley was there, joni ernst. john thune. mike pounds, a whole group of great people. >> reporter: the white house said that the president minute to refer to senator mike rounds. and then taking a dim view on energy efficient light bulbs because of how they make him look. >> the b

. >> jim acosta, thank you very much. he was basically saying everybody does this, senators, this is normal behavior accused without any evidence whatsoever that the obama administration had done this against him. that's just not -- this is not normal. >> no, and u.s. senators pushing ukraine to cooperate with justice department investigations is not the same thing as a president privately trying to get a foreign country to specifically start an investigation of its own into his political rivals. let's chew over all this with our experts. joining us now we have cnn chief political correspondent dana bash with me erin the studio and van jones and cnn political analysts david gergen and carl bernstein. dana, let me start with you. it really does seem that president trump thinks he did not do anything wrong here and he doesn't understand why anybody is objecting to this. >> yeah, which i think is classic trump, vintage trump, right, that this is the way he operates. and he has been doing so for so many years. it is the code

i don't believe it now. >> alex acosta has said the u.s.eys office he headed in florida handled the case appropriately. virginia first heard about the deal in 2008. she was in australia, far away from epstein when she got a letter from law enforcement saying she had been identified as a victim in the now closed case. as she learned more, she started to get angry. she felt cheated. >> i don't get to court? why am i not going to court? they said, no, there has been a deal arranged with the government between him. i was so mind boggled by it. i didn't understand it. >> in the aftermath of that deal, epstein's victims filed a slew of civil suits against him. virginia filed her own suit and received a financial settlement from epstein. virginia sued. in 2011 virginia decided to talk to a british newspaper and got $160,000 for her story and that photo of her with prince andrew. >> you sold a story to a tabloid story and received a payout. you have a book manuscript that some say you want to sell. what do you say to those who today say this is som

brianna. >> jim acosta, thank you so much. joining me now to discuss all of this is democratic congresswoman katie hill of california. she serves on the oversight and armed services committees. congresswoman, thank you for joining us. >> thanks so much for having me. glad to be here. >> so let's talk about this race. you've endorsed senator kamala harris. she had, i think, a performance that people would agree keeps her in the race last night. what does she need to do moving forward to stand out? >> well, one of the things that we know about senator harris is the more people get to know her, the more that they come to recognize that she is such a strong contender and that what she will fight for is the american people and the things that they care about, you know, the things that they worry about in the middle of the night. and so really making sure that we're showing that story, telling her story and that people get a chance to know her and her policies. i hope just generally speaking with these debates as we move forward, we

let's go to the chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. the president has been on a twitter tirade over this. >> he certainly has, wolf. president trump is continuing to lash out over the whistle-blower complaint that's launched these impeachment maneuverings on capitol hill. the president was behind closed doors most of the day as the white house wrestles with whether it is time to beef things up in terms of its team for the fight that's coming up on capitol hill. one source close to the white house told me this afternoon a lot of people in the president's orbit believe the ukraine investigation is worse than usual for the president. taking cover in a social media bunker, president trump is painting the mysterious whistle-blower as a turn coat that can't be trusted, sounding more and more like the so-called whistle-blower isn't a whistle-blower at all. in addition, all secondhand information that proved to be so inaccurate, there may not have been somebody else, a leak error s -- leaker or spy. the white house acknowledged its own nationa

but first to jim acosta. the administration is looking at having the flavored e-cigarettes completely removed from the market. >> reporter: that is right, wolf. president talked about that and president trump is still justifying his decision to fire john bolton. saying the former national security adviser made some, quote, big mistakes before he was kicked out of the administration. president trump trashed bolton in front of the cameras saying even kim jong-un wanted nothing to do with him. the president made these comments just as he was announcing his administration is considering a sweeping ban on flavored e-cigarettes. vowing to tackle the epidemic of teen vaping, president trump announced his administration is finalizing a new policy to crack down on flavored e-cigarettes. noting even the first lady is urging federal regulators to take action. >> we can't allow people to get sick and we can't have our youth be so affected and i'm hearing it and that is how the first lady got involved. >> reporter: but th

jim acosta at the white house. also tonight, the house judiciary committee just hours away from a very key vote, setting ground rules for its impeachment investigation. our senior congressional correspondent manu raju is joining us from capitol hill right now. manu, as democrats head into that committee vote, are they on the same page when it comes to impeachment? >> well, wolf, it's more about democrats say that the house judiciary committee is currently conducting an impeachment inquiry. top democratic leaders do not have the same message. house speaker nancy pelosi earlier this week on multiple occasions, when i asked her whether or not she believes they are in an impeachment inquiry, she said it's simply a continuation of the investigation that already has been ongoing. and today, house majority leader steny hoyer said "no" when he was asked whether or not the committee is actually conducting an impeachment investigation. now, he later issued a statement, saying he supports what the house judiciary committee is

dorian yup the situation escalated after he showed reporters a altered map to back up his claims jim acosta has more. >>leaving what may become an indelible mark on the trump presidency, it was hardly a masterstroke now the white house is dragging its feet admitting just to alter the weather map held up by the president in the oval office falsely showing alabama and the path of hurricane dorian aides refused to say whether was doctored by the president that was the original. >>you see it was going to hit. not only florida georgia could have a was going toward the gulf that was what we. >>the president is defiant. he's been right all along. alabama was going to be hit or grazed and then hurricane dorian took a different path up along the east coast that this tweet from mister trump. this was the originally projected path of the hurricane and its early stages as you can see almost all models predicted to go through florida also hitting georgia and alabama. but hold on zoom in on that spaghetti lined map it's from august 28 roughly 4 days before the tweet that got the president in trouble in t

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first to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta.im, i understand we may be hearing from the president fairly soon? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. the president will be depart for baltimore in about half an hour from now. the bred, by the way, and gop are all but daring house democrats to begin impeaching mr. trump. the democrats hardly sound united on this issue. the president may choose to weigh in on impeachment as he leaves the white house shortly, a short while from now, about half an hour from where we are at this point for his speech in baltimore. the president, earlier this year, you'll recall, referred to baltimore as a rat-infested city earlier this year. talking top house democrats are setting the ground rules for an impeachment investigation into the president, accusing mr. trump of behavior that endangers american democracy. >> understand investigation poses a threat to our democracy. we have an obligation to respond to this threat and we are doing so. >> reporter: the president was all but tweeting bring it on, charac

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let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. the president just won't let go of this. >> that's right, he has not penned an apology letter yet, and president trump is still obsessed with proving he was right about hurricane dorian, but while the president is fixated on the hurricane, white house officials may be ignoring other possible problems creeping up on them including the economy ask mr. trump's quest for a wall that has his fellow republicans nervous, potentially pitting the president against the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and other gop lawmakers. >> with the carolinas and the bahamas picking up the pieces after hurricane dorian, president trump is still defending his magic marker meteorology tweeting the fake news media was fixated on the fact that i properly said at the beginnings of hurricane dorian that in addition to florida and other states, alabama may also be grazed or hit. they went crazy hoping against hope that i made a mistake, which i didn't. despite a week's worth of fact checks showing that's no

cnn chief white house correspondent jim acosta has more. and jim, the president appears eager to take them on. >> president trump and his team are blasting democrats after last night's debate. today vice president pence went after joe biden and former texas congressman beto o'rourke. that followed the president who was lashing out at the democratic contenders with personal attacks as they were debating the issues. >> reporter: brushing off talk of impeachment from the house tweeting you don't impeach presidents for doing a good job, president trump is spoiling for a fight with the democratic contenders for 2020. >> more than 130 democrats in congress have signed up for the bernie sanders total government takeover of health care. crazy bernie. he's a crazy guy. >> reporter: slamming his democratic rivals in a speech in baltimore as they were holding their debate in houston, the president resorted to racially loaded attacks as he blasted elizabeth warren and raised questions about former vice president joe biden's mental competence. >> i thou

chief correspondent jim acosta is live outside the white house. what is the president saying here, jim? >> reporter: brianna, as you might have mentioned, the white house isn't saying much right now in terms of officials here, but the president did weigh in early this morning. he posted a series of tweets about all of this, essentially saying there is nothing to see here. we can put this up on screen and show you what we're talking about. the president is describing this story as another fake news story out there. it never ends. virtually every time i speak on the phone to a foreign leader, i understand there may be many people listening from various u.s. agencies not to mention those from the other country itself. no problem. knowing all this, is anybody dumb enough to believe that i would say anything or something inappropriate to a foreign leader while on such a potentially heavily populated call? i would only do what is right, anyway, only do good for the usa. brianna, as we've been trying to take a look at this, going back to the time frame t

cnn chief white house correspondent jim acosta has the laft f -- the latest for us. and the president talked about the whistle-blower a short time ago. >> reporter: that is right. president trump suggested to reporters the white house is trying to discover the identity of the whistle-blower whose complaint launched the ukraine investigation and the president is on the attack warning the chairman of the house intelligence committee could be arrested for treason and that the country could be drawn into a civil war if he's impeached. i'm told aides to the president have cautioned him in the last few days that he faces the real likelihood of impeachment. in a sign of growing frustration that he faces the real prospect of impeachment, president trump is demanding to find out the identity of the administration official who blew the whistle on his phone call with the leader of ukraine about joe biden. >> we're trying to find out about a whistle-blower. when you have a whistle-blower that reports things that were incorrect. as you know, and you probably now have figured it o

first to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. you're getting new information from your sources about john bolton's departure. >> reporter: that is right. president trump is searching for a new national security adviser after he abruptly announced -- john bolton had been fired and he gave him the boot in a tweet after they clashed over foreign policy decisions after trump wanted to invite taliban to camep david and he was upset that bolton tried to create the impression that vice president mike pence was opposed to those meetings but as one top administration official insists, it is not amess despite an obvious clean-up job. for now former national security adviser john bolton it was an unceremonious firing by tweet. standing outside of the west wing just hours before he was scheduled to join secretary of state mike pompeo and treasury secretary steve mnuchin to answer questions from reporters, bol -- boltan was suddenly gone with his former administration rivals all smiles. >> i'm never surprised. the president is entitled to the

brianna. >> jim acosta, thank you so much. we have more breaking news tonight. cnn has learned that president trump also leaned on australia prime minister for assistance. a source telling our evan perez the president wanted the australians to help with the justice department probe into the origins of the mueller investigation. and evan, you are joining us now. we talk about the ukraine call. that is about a future election. this is about discrediting the origins of the mueller report which looked into the past election. >> right. exactly. and this is why the justice department now is openly acknowledging this happened. they say this has to do with the attorney general's investigation that is being done to look at what happened in 2016. and they look at it as certainly looking at what may have been foreign election interference in the 2016 election and that includes intelligence that may have come from ukraine and from other countries that was used essentially against candidate trump and that became the mueller investigation. and so we're told that the attorney

joining us now is cnn chief white house correspondent jim acosta and cnn chief legal analyst.jeffrey, movie ining communicat with foreign leaders to a different computer network that they're not normally stored on, is it time to page hillary clinton's server? i mean, how is this possible that they could be doing that in the white house? >> well, this is an ill trags of the complexity of this investigation. because in order to know whether there was anything untord in the moving of the records, first you need to know whether that took place, whether the records were moved. and you need to know what the procedures are. and if the procedures were not followed, why? all of that gets complicated especially if ur yo going to be investigating a white house. i mean, just this one little corner about the moving of the records if it took place could take weeks if not months to untangle. and i think that's just a good metaphor, an illustration of how complicated this inquiry could become quickly. >> i went to the toobin law school. moving something to make it less discoverable could refl

a source tells our jim acosta that president trump does not want to be impeached and is worried about he has been for a year since the democrats won the house. >> also, new reporting from "the washington post" that directly puts rudy giuliani at the center of all of this. t"the post" reports that he inserted himself into the relationship. one official remarked, quote, rudy, he did all of

>>that was acosta reporting a source familiar with what the inspector general told lawmakers said the briefing was contentious but very little information was revealed. >>democratic donor ed buck appeared in federal court toder bftng charged in connection with the deadly drug overdose at his los angeles area home at bucca is facing 3 felony charges, including maintaining a drug house and administering methamphetamine 2 black men in less than 2 years died of drug overdoses in the influential democratic donors home. the 3rd man overdose, but he survived the black lgbtq community and black lives matter in la say that bucks arrest is a victory after fighting to hold him accountable for more than 2 years but the attorney for spoke to reporters today. he says the case has nothing to do with race. what it's been filed. >>and that is the most important thing here. >>the judge today said a detention hearing. 4 september 26th, buck will remain in custody until then. up next deadly flooding in southeast texas after slams i was some theories soaking the houston region an update on the storm's pat