and worse the association for democratic reform compared the numbers of indicted l.p.s. elected to the lower house in the last 2 general elections and the increase has been spectacular 201434 percent of them face declared criminal cases by 2019 has it increased by almost 10 percent to 43 percent the proportion of those facing serious charges have also shot up from 21 to 29 percent so you obviously are not aware of the loads no i am aware i think you are not aware of something else several employees have been disqualified from parliament because of getting convicted this was of the result of the campaign that many of us carried on now regarding those who have allegations against them you call them indictments we have our system is a little more complex it's taken from the british for many decades the goal of the election commission has got tighter and tighter and forcing declarations earlier many of these facts were not being declared so i don't think there has been actually an increase of criminal m.p.'s it has in fact been a decrease ok well that's your supposition but

for a free guide. >>> now, house democrats are warning they will subpoena three associates of rudy giuliani if they dopoenas. i suppose this is all about adding that pressure for rudy giuliani why? >> the democrats sent a letter to three associates asking them to turn over documents by today and calling for their depositions to occur this week and next week. we are told from an official that they have not gotten compliance yet, and democrats are warning they will subpoena for their appearance if they do not get compliance. a source tells me that while we have engaged in councils for these witnesses, they have so far refused to testify or turn over the relevant documents, they continue to fail to comply. of course, this is the latest escalation. the office of white house management budget, also the more documents related to the ukraine you can see where this is headed. the question is, will they get compliance? democrats and the trump administration continue to fight over these subpoenas, we'll see if they get anything turned over. if they don't have compliance, it may be an article of impeachment in i

associates have been of high interest to democrats about what was happening with ukraine. including the two rudy giuliani associates indicted last week and hit with speubpoenas by democrats to ask for documents and one associate had not been hit with a subpoena and that is sam kissling and i'm told he's being cooperative with the committee. what is he ultimately turning over and he has nothing that will bolster the democrats' impeachment push but trying to convince the committee that he doesn't need to be deposed. he was supposed to come and talk today but, wolf, this is just one part of the broad investigation that is moving rapidly. where a number of witnesses are being asked to come in, documents are being asked to be turned over ahead of some high-profile testimony, including on thursday with gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the european union so ape lot of questions democrats have as they return after two-week recess and decide how quickly to move to whether or not to impeach this president. >> manu, thanks very much. manu raju up on capitol hill into we're joined now by democratic congressman eric swalwell serving on the house intelligence and judiciary committee. cong

for people to re -- it's widely seen as a direct shot at mr. trump. several of his fomer associates are in prison for facing potential legal troubles in new york >>> democratsnd republicans may not be able to agree on anything, except syria the chaos in the middle east is not winning can any votes in the congress of 354-60, house republicans joined democrats with 129 republicans turning against the president. vice president mike pence y of o are expected to meet with the president of turkey to broker a ceasefire. good morning >> reporter: good morning. an intense battle continues at the turkey/syria boarder. you can see the boarder as well as the kurdishing city. you can see smoke rising in the distance we've heard heavy clashes all morning, mortar fire, turkish artillery rounds reports of turkish air strike as well all of this a sign that president erdogan is not stopping his push intoe arrives try and broker a ceasefire those efforts seemingly undermined by president trump himself who said yesterday that evhi >> our soldiar harm's way, as they shouldn't be as countries fight over land that has nothing to do with us and the kurds are much safer right now b

respect for the rule of law must mean something irrespective of of the visitude of opolitical silence. >> reporter: democrats are threatening to subpoena associates of rudy giuliani and considering impeachment for state department officials. >> they will ignore those subpoenas at their parlal. >> reporter: and a small group of democrats are saying it may be time for the impeachment vote they're demanding. s >> a resolution for the inquiry, structured in such a way that it can move forward with full power of televise the cohe congress b. >> reporter: some democrats believe it can derail the white house line if the impeachment inquiry isn't valid. as trump keeps up his drum beat of attacks. >> we could have oo spy. >> reporter: whistleblower's attorneys put out a statement defending the apolitical nature. saying our client has never worked for or advised a political candidate, campaign or party and adding the whistleblower is not the storitty. and sarah, you have late-breaking news on the latest trump administration official to be called before congress. >> the congressional committees are going to speak to fiona hail. she was the president's top r

democrats are preparing for the next phase of the impeachment push, including a new wave of subpoenas compelling people to testify. expect three of rudy giuliani's associates to be subpoenaed to come before congress because they have yet to comply to democratic demands, to turn over records and to come in for interviews. some democrats i'm talking to, says, what's the point of voluntary interviews? we're not getting compliance. this could pertain to state department officials. including on friday, when an important witness is scheduled to come in, the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. she's a current state department employee. and there's questions about whether she will appear on friday. democrats are suggesting that, perhaps, she, too, will need a subpoena. at the moment, she is expected to come and testify. now, behind the scenes, dallas discussions happens with the whistleblower himself or herself. there's extreme measures being secured for this person's testimony, including testifying in complete secrecy, so no one will have idea that it took place until after the fact. democrats are having this debate, whether to formalize an impeachment inquiry. th

congressional democrats have issued subpoenas for 2 businessmen charged with campaign finance violations ukrainian that potus and better russian ego for men are associates of president personally noire verde giuliani they were involved in giuliani's efforts to get ukraine to investigate democratic presidential hopeful joe biden according to the indictment both men funneled foreign money to u.s. political candidates at least 5 people have been killed in ecuador following a week of violent protests. many angry at new austerity measures introduced by president lenin moreno which led to higher fuel prices but moreno says he won't step down now electricity has been cut to more than a 1000000 people in california as the stage tries to prevent fires from breaking out pacific gas and electric announced the deliberate outage to avoid a repeat of last year when their power cables were determined as the cause of the state's deadliest ever wildfire that left 85 people dead and destroyed thousands of properties authorities believe the company is responsible for dozens of other wildfires in recent years now the chief executive of tech giant apple has defended the com

sources telling cnn democrats are now threatening subpoenas for associates for president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani and debating subpoenas for current state department officials. plus new reporting on a growing fracture in the democratic party of whether they should hold a formal vote on the impeachment inquiry. i'll go straight to correspondent manu raju live on capitol hill. and manu, let's start with the new impeachment push. >> reporter: expect three rudy giuliani associates to be hit with subpoenas very soon after they defied requests for information from these committees that are pushing forward on the impeachment probe. they are almost certain to get hit with the subpoenas in a matter of days but also current state department officials, people asked to come in and testify expected to be served with subpoenas because of this white house and state department effort to resist the impeachment investigation and at all costs. that could include marie yovanovitch, the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. she has already been scheduled for an interview on friday. but we are told f

for some time. now, at the same time there are threats about subpoenaing rudy giuliani's business associates because they have not turned over the documents or agreed to testify as democrats have demand. also, there's outstanding subpoenas for rudy giuliani to turn over documents by next week. also for the state department to turn over records as well. also questions about how they can pursue this in the days ahead, whether they can get that whistleblower, him or herself to come before the house intelligence committee. i'm told they're interesting a range of measures, extreme measures to protect the identity of that individual if he does agree to come and testify. a lot of moving parts in this rapidly moving investigation. but a key witness today, we'll be seeing what republicans and democrats sitting in on this day-long hearing ultimately learn. back to you. >>> energy secretary rick perry speaking out in his role in the call between president trump and president zelensky. perry says his focus was on energy issues, not bidens. we're live in lithuania where perry made those remarks. nina, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, dave. he had these meetings over the

for any democrat. with me now is associate chair of the dnc jimmy harrison, who is running against lindsey graham for u.s. senate. jamie, biden seems to have south carolina in his court. who do you think is his biggest threat in that state? >> well, listen, s.e., it's still very, very early in this primary here in south carolina. the candidates are doing what they're supposed to do. it's about building an operation here, putting boots on the ground, but about going into these communiies. >> who is doing that really well? who should biden be worried about? >> there are a number of them doing it really well. kamala harris, corey booker, who are in the state quite often. pete buttigieg had a rally today with 1700 folks, elizabeth warren and bernie sanders have had a number of large rallies, so again it's anybody's game. i think what they have to do is model the behavior we are doing on our senate campaign. it's not good enough to just have great plans and fancy words. it's also important that you demonstrate through your actions what your values are. that's what the voters in south carolina are really going

democratic freedoms. the english football association has called for an investigation after england's euro 2020 qualifierouncements were made to fans that the game could be suspended if offensive chanting continued. england went on to win the match 6—0. our sports correspondent joe wilson is in sofia with the latest. even that have experienced before so what has changed? do they have the confidence and determination to report racism there was a response, the protocol should, could have evolved the game being suspended. it could be argued that england is about to be jerry is could be argued that england is about to bejerry is the best possible response. the english manager has said, admitted that england has its own issues of racism in football to address that this kind of thing he cannot stand. the response from the committee is of the utmost importance 70, a few thousand seats gustave made a difference. a new international study suggests that a cheap and widely available drug could save hundreds of thousands of people from traumatic brain injuries. the research suggests tran—examic acid, or txa, can sig

documents still underway but it now becomes much harder with that vote to for the white house to associate obstruct as the democrats allege no longer will they be able to instruct witnesses that they cannot testify or not provide documents now all of that will become much harder ok let's just take it susan live pictures we're getting here of a story we're tracking for you on al-jazeera looking at live pictures of the wildfires raging pretty much out of control in southern california semi valley close to los angeles and what you're looking at right now quite close shouldn't know there to look at to seeing smoke there in the aftermath of the flames quite close to the ronald reagan presidential library the staff there they have been told to evacuate the area both ends north and south the state of california struggling to tackle the blazes really strong winds fanning the flames and the local electricity supplies they are bringing in deliberately electricity blackouts so there are power outages going on that is deliberate to lessen the risk of more fires and to lessen the risk of the fires therefore being fueled and spr

congressional democrats have issued subpoenas for 2 businessmen charged with campaign finance violations. parnassum better russian eagle for a man who were arrested in florida or associates of president on a trans person a lawyer rudy giuliani they were involved in giuliani's efforts to get ukraine to investigate one of the leading democratic presidential hopefuls joe biden according to the indictment both men funnel foreign money to u.s. political candidates trump is currently facing an impeachment inquiry into whether he withheld military aid to ukraine for personal political gain. also following the situation in ecuador very closely where human rights organization defense soria del pueblo has confirmed 5 people have died as part of a national strike against present and marino's austerity measures at least one indigenous protest that was among those killed in the unrest in the capital quito though there have been protests taking place in other parts of the country as well . we'll have more news for you in about 25 minutes time techno is the program coming up next focusing on the problem with plastic they without as they're up. i have the ok and you're in the string get

it's all over hunter biden's ukrainian business associations that led to the democrats call for impeachment inquiry against president trump. >>where's hunter looking to get get to where is hunter. i want to see hunter s hunter, you know nothing about energy, you know nothing about you know nothing about anything frankly. hunter you're a loser why did you get 1.5 billion in dollars hunt. was never considered smart. he was never considered a good senator. good vice president because he understood. >>how to kiss the rock obama's. >>tonight's rally was the president's first since the house of representatives move toward impeachment over his handling of july phone call with ukraine's president at the rally the president called that phone call beautiful and casual. >>president trump's reelection campaign owes nearly million to 6 us cities for security services, one of claire wisconsin has been waiting for $47,000 since april of 2016. cities typically do provide public safety services for campaign events when they are asked by the secret service but the secret service says there's no funding mecha

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that indictment centers on ties between those associates and other foreigners, including a russian national. as took to the stage in ohio for the democratic presidential debate and now some important voters are weighing in on who they feel will come out on top in the primary election plus a man is in jail after he walked into a police department and confessed to murder. >>we'll hear from the >>authorities say this man are about to show you 53 year-old shankar hang good mood has confessed to killing 4 people police in roseville say the victims are 2 adults and 2 juveniles all believed to be the suspect family members marissa perlman has details. >>police officers here saying this is perhaps the biggest investigation to hit the small community of mount shasta maybe ever you can imagine the surprise on the dispatch officers face when the suspect walked through the front doors of the police department here and admitted to killing 4 people. people who live in this town want answers. why did the suspect end up here in this community. >>going to you know communities and you for that. >>not just chief of police parish cross hasn't seen anything l

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,nd why is it ok for a democrat president, vice president, or associate to be able to make ofands of a country because policy that when a republican does the same thing, it's corruption? biden stills hunter on the board? no, he stepped down earlier this year. question, the key distinction of what he is alleged to have done versus what trump has done is what i was doing was very much in line with u.s. policy. cool for other members of the obama administration had passed the same message on to ukraine. what trump is alleged to have sought in ukraine was material information which could be politically beneficial to him personally going into the 2020 what couldnd that is potentially be seen as soliciting aid from a foreign power in an election. host: albert in chicago, democratic caller. caller: good morning, everybody. listen, i'm glad that that color tom brought up what he did about biden's video because i wanted to go back to that video as well. every time that video is shown there are two critical points that biden makes that get totally overlooked. the first he says is that he has g

congressional democrats have a shit subpoenas for 2 business men arrested and charged with campaign finance. ukranian left us and better russian eagle for him and our associates of president donald trump's lawyer rudy giuliani they were involved in giuliani's efforts to get ukraine to investigate one of the leading democratic presidential hopefuls joe biden according to the indictment both men funneled foreign money to u.s. political candidates trump is currently facing an impeachment inquiry into whether he withheld military aid to ukraine for political gain when john hendren is live for us now from minneapolis where president trump is about to hold a rally just tell us what's happening where you are at the moment. well thousands of people have gathered many of them an hour and if you look many of them are wearing whistles like the gentleman behind me. they are being whistleblowers calling for impeachment of the president if you look down this aisle here that is the gauntlet that trump the fans enough to walk down in order to get to where they're going to see the president speak and they're being a geordie all along the way initialing is happening increasing

associates lev parnas and igor fruman of breaking campaign finance laws. p they were part of the efforts to push ukraine for an inquiry into democrats. ficials were not aware of any investigation until giuliani's associates in the southern district of new york and would not have met with him had they known. >> president trump's lawyer rudy giuliani attempted to secure a visa from the state department for ousted ukraine prosecutor viktor shokin. that's according to two people familiar with diplomat george kent eets testimo kent's testimony last week. it is unclear when giuliani requested shokin's visa. he and two of his associates who were recently indicted for campaign finance violations interviewed the former ukrainian prosecutor by phone this past january. according to documents given to congress by the intelligence community inspector general and obtained by nbc news, two days later giuliani and his associates interviewed shokin's successor in person at giuliani's manhattan office. giuliani's interest in speaking to ukrainian officials revolves around the unproven claim that former vice president joe biden attempted to shield his s

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democrats portrayal of the meeting saying in a statement, quote, the president was measured, factual and decisive in the meeting. i'm joined now by jonathan lemire, white house reporter for associated press and shar lei sykes, editor at large for the bullwork. this meeting set the scene here, pelosi, schumer, hoyer, there were some other democrats there meeting with the white house. the subject here was syria, was foreign policy and what happened? >> well, we've now had a few rather eventful meetings between the president and speaker pelosi and leader schumer at the white house. some of it ended rather abruptly like this one. yes, you're right, the topic was syria. but as they got in there the president sort of bitterly started complaining about the impeachment proceedings and that is something that's really come to light in recent weeks. we've seen the president's rage on this topic. there's a political calculation here being made pie the white house and republicans close to the president and they think impeachment could be a winner for him. they think the public doesn't want this although we are seeing polls trending in the other direction. the president doesn't want this. howeve

democratic party they want this president impeached. they are supportive of impeachment. and i think the enthusiasm for that is not going to change. actually if democrats were to associatedress bandon impeachment that would really hurt them with enthusiasm with the base. looking ahead to the general election, listen. i don't think any of us really knows how something is going to play a year from now. we live in a news cycle that changes every other day that never ends and the idea that any of us can sit here and tell us that 12 months from now something happening in december or january will play a certain way is pure folly. >> the president is certainly calling this a witch hunt. let's listen to something he said last night in south carolina. it has tweaked some people. >> we'll never let up on our efforts to ensure that our justice system is fair for every single american. and i have my own experience. you know that. you see what is going on with the witch hunt. it is an investigation in search of a crime. it's been going on for longer than i'm in office. it's true. and we're working to put an end for everybody, to horrible injustice and horrible practices we've seen. i

association. for what looks like the first time in recent history. democrats in all corners of the party appear to be united on one front, the impeachment inquiry into president trump and even the president seems to have taken notice. >> the fake moderates on the left are telling the same lies they did under the last administration, but the last administration, frankly, was moderate compared to the maniacs you're hearing from today. these are maniacs. that's why they do the impeachment crap because they know they can't beat us fairly. >> joining me now montana's governor, steve bullock, who joining the ranks of his democrats by calling for impeachment. i want to talk to you about that. you heard the conversation with tony, you're from montana, an agricultural state. talk to me about the state of farmers in the trade war. >> you see in iowa every acre of soy bean folks are planning they're losing money off of, and some payment from the federal government isn't going to handle it. at the end of the day, like this guy said, he would have, you know, folks that are

democrat saying they'll subpoena rudy giuliani associates. the president's former lawyer representing two of those associates. giuliani has already been subpoenaed. the deadline for him to turn over documents is next tuesday and the subpoenas just keep rolling in. democrats expanding the impeachment inquiry into brand new corn ofers of the federal government. congress demanding information on the it decision to freeze foen aid to ukrain. and in the face of all this with the impeachment inquiry looming at time when any other president would be a little more careful about what he or she says or puts in writing, this president tweets this about his abrupt decision to pull u.s. troops ahead of the turkish invasion. quote if turkey does anything that i, in my great and unmatched wisdom, considerer to be off limits i will totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey. in his great and unmatched wisdom. he actually tweeted those words. and remember this white house has told us that the president's tweets are official statements. great and unmatched wisdom. where have i heard something like that before? >> i am the chosen one. >> what you're seeing and what you're

for those who repeat "discredited lies." dreamy is scott bolden, former d.c. democratic party chairman and former chair of the national bar associationnk you for talking to us. you were a politician, running for the office of the president of united states. is that a no-holds-barred, or do you actually get to choose what questions are asked to review you by not only the moderator we are competitors are allowed to hold you on? >> well, you can't do anything about the moderators, but you can certainly do with the best interest of the democratic party. there is no upside to the candidates who are running against joe biden to bring up ukraine or hunter biden. we know there's lots of challenges in regard to doing that but donald trump is the target. the author and the narrator of these allegations that he wants investigated. remember, biden and other western countries did not want this prosecutor in place, not because he was prosecuting burisma, but because he wasn't pair that's a story with donald trump and ukraine breaks down. i don't anticipate that the other candidates in the debate to raise it, they can stick with policy. the most i'

pointed out a career prosecutor and investigator who has also worked for the obama and bush administrations, democrats today by association with the attorney general basically dismissed him as a partisan schill. adam schiff and nancy pelosi say these reports if true raise profound concerns that william barr has lost its independence and become a vehicle for the president's political revenge. don't forget, durham is the guy that eric holder, obama's first attorney general entrusted to look into possible abuses of terror suspects at the hands of the cia. a couple of reasons why this investigation has gone criminal we're told is because of evidence that durham and barr developed in a visit to rome and some of the contents of the upcoming inspector general for the doj horowitz report. when horowitz report will be released, this will be made clear. >> meanwhile, democrats playing down the investigation. my next guest says some of these former intelligence officials should be concerned. doug burns is a former prosecutor and joins me now. doug, before we start about who should be concerned or not. how did this morph into this --

. >> well, i do think that big is a target for democrats, and to the extent tech gets associated withig, that's something they'll go after i do think as kayla indicated sort of significant that you had beto o'rourke, andrew yang, cory booker all saying that breaking up big tech was not necessarily the answer they agree on antitrust enforcement, but they're not saying that is the solution to economic problems. more broadly, what elizabeth warren found last night was having set the pace on policy ideas for months now and seeing other candidates chase her, now that she's gotten to the front of the pack, they're challenging her on whether her ideas are practical, whether they can be passed, whether they'll work, and i think that's a new place for her to be. we're going to have to see how voters process how well she defended herself on that you know, andrew yang made the point about bing and microsoft and said that even though microsoft is huge, their product failed because it wasn't a very good product you can make an argument that the size of tech companies isn't the issue as much as the

association. we signed a nonbinding letter of intent as expression of interest because we share facebook's mission to democratize financial services forerserved around the world we're very much aligned there. our decision to pull out or not go forward with the association is based solely upon our focus and decision to focus on priorities at paypal >> let me ask you the quarter. the full year guide that you guys adjusted is still below what analysts hoped for. what changed in this period of time, could it adjust higher depending how overall conditions improve? >> john, did we lose you it appears we lost john for the moment we'll try to get him back. paypal had a solid quarter on the back end back in july, the stock tumbled when they not only missed but guided lower for the full year part of what's happening here, they talked about their checkout button having improved ebay exposure that they've had isn't hurting them as much questions also about the overall ecosystem, names like apple which we see they're surging when you're looking at transactions that are done at retail, they're pushing now with the credit card. bumping up against ve

these are business and political associates of rudy giuliani who were already on the radar for house democrats and are linked to not only ukraine but to giuliani's plot to shape ukraine policy for president trump, and that's not all. the feds indicting these people for among other things allegedly illegal donations to a trump pac. so right there you have a lot. let's take a few of these facts individually. this is quite a development for this whole story tonight. before you get into any details, consider that these are pretty dramatic arrests of two key witnesses in the trump impeachment probe. they have been working with rudy giuliani partly because of their strong ties to ukraine, so right there tonight before we get any further, the basic story line of this arrest is out of the spy movie. they were headed to board a one-way flight out of the country when the fbi apprehended them last night. now house democrats had been demanding they appear before investigators on the impeachment probe today and tomorrow. now, while the feds are not saying these men were necessarily fleeing arrest, the time

for him. are rudy giuliani's days in mr. trump's inner circled number after his associates were indicted? >>> accelerating impeachment, house democratsore crucial testimony is in the works as the former ambassador to ukraine appears before congress and blames the president and giuliani for pushing her out. >>> impeachment investigators score a win against white house stole walling. an appeals court, the way to president trump's tax returns. >>> a wildfire raging through los angeles, 100,000 people under orders to evacuate. we'll go live to the unfolding fire disaster. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news tonight, president trump is refusing to say whether rudy giuliani

for some time. at the same time there are threats about subpoenaing rudy giuliani's business associates because they have not turned over the documents or agreed to testify as democrats have demanded. also there's outstanding subpoenas for rudy guiliani to turn over documents by next week. also for the state department to turn over records as well. also questions about how they can pursue this in the days ahead, whether they can get that whistle-blower him or herself to come before the house intelligence committee. i'm told they're considering a range of measures, extreme measures, to protect the identity of the whistle-blower if that individual does agree to ultimately come and testify. a lot of moving parts in this rapidly moving investigation. a key witness today. we'll see what democrats and republicans sitting in on this day-long hearing ultimately learn. >>> president trump's tax returns are a step closer to landing in front of a new york grand jury. a federal judge dismissing the president's lawsuit seeking to block a subpoena filed by the manhattan district attorney. the judge rejected mr. trump's effort to keep his returns under wraps saying he was making a

for investigations into the biden family. house democrats threaten to subpoena three associates of giuliani after they missed a deadline to provide documents. two of them, ukrainian american businessman and his business partner responded by attorney. the same john doud who represented president trump. he said a response would take time. >> request for documents and communication is overly broad. this in combination with requiring immediate responses leads me to the conclusion that the democratic committee members is harass, intimidate and embarrass my clients. >> joining me now. gordon the u.s. ambassador to european union is going to testify tomorrow in front of three committees. house, intelligence, foreign affairs and oversight. we all saw his name pop up in the damming texts. why is he so significant? he's going to have the attention of three congressional committees tomorrow. >> that's right. he'll be interesting for a number of reasons. he was heavily involved in the run up of the call between president trump and the ukrainian president. trying to get it off the ground at a time when ukraine was pressing for face to face me

for investigations into the biden family. house democrats threaten to subpoena three associates of giuliani after they missed a deadline to provide documents. two of them, ukrainian american businessman and his business partner responded by attorney. the same john doud who represented president trump. he said a response would take time. >> request for documents kp communication is overly broad. this in combination with requiring immediate responses leads me to the conclusion that the democratic committee members is harass, intimidate and embarrass my clients. >> joining me now. gordon the u.s. ambassador to european union is going to testify tomorrow in front of three committees. house, intelligence, foreign affairs and oversight. we all saw his name pop up in the damming texts. why is he so significant? he's going to have the attention of three congressional committees tomorrow. >> that's right. he'll be interesting for a number of reasons. he was heavily involved in the run up of the call between president trump and the ukrainian president. trying to get it off the ground at a time when ukraine was pressing for face to face mee

for house democrats. the subpoenas ordered to florida businessman to testify the impeachment probe investigating president trump. they are foreign born associatesy were in federal court charged with anti-finance violation after being arrested last night at dulles international airport. >> the defendants broke the law to gain political influence by avoiding disclosure of who was making the donations and where the money was coming from. >> reporter: lawmakers want to question the pair about the reported involvement and julie honors giuliani's efforts. >> giuliani has been involved up to his neck in this entire mess. >> the house proceeding is not illegal when it is political. we have a legal proceeding. >> reporter: this comes as republican lawmakers maintains the president has done nothing wrong. they are demanding democrats release the closed-door interview with the special envoy to ukraine. >> this is about adam schiff making sure donald trump doesn't get reelected. >> reporter: no word yet on whether the white house plans to block the appearance and the administration said it will not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry until there is a fu

associated press, thank you so much for being with us today. >> tha you. >> thompson: it's a busy week in politics, including the upcoming democratic debate on.uesday in oh jeff greenfield joins me now analysis. fara for some so we heard this news this morning about hunter biden, he's now stepping down from the board of a chinese y company, how think that is going to play out this week. >> st an issue that dmrats raise all the time about 'spresident truamily. who are still actively involved in tens of millions of dollars of businesses. and i could see some of joe biden's opponents saying well, was that a case of goos judgment. how come you didn't raise this with your son when he was beginning to sign on with some of these companies. >> what else do you think we will hear on tuesday from theid caes. >> i think two things are going to come up. one, i think the, intergato the panel are going to ask these candidates how much they identify with some of the more controversial positions that some have taken.' beto orourke, for example, suggested churches that oppose same sex marrie be deprived of their tax status which is widely-- of the first amendment noarks

associated press. house democrats have just requested ukraine documents from the vice president, mike pence for the impeachmentry. back to chris. not unexpected. you think all of those that have been named will get a similar request at one point or another. >> absolutely. the breaking news to me, today, is that the -- fox has gotten ahold of the 11-page statement, opening statement by kurt volcker yesterday in a closed session. he was the special envoy from the administration to ukraine. he was very involved in all of this. this 11-page opening statement is quite devastating to the president and rudy guliani's case. it basically says that volcker, who all sides agree was an honest broker in this whole thing, was very disturbed by the information, he thought disinformation that various ukrainian officials were sending to rudy guliani, the president's private lawyer and that rudy guliani was then spreading that information in washington and that might be a reason why the president was so reluctant to meet with zelensky and also to, of course, push zelensky to investigate in that july 25th phone call both potenti

responsibility in the eyes of the united states for turkey to deal with any associated humanitarian issues now on capitol hill there is deep concern not only from democrats but also members of the president's own republican party the top republican in the u.s. senate mitch mcconnell warning the president against a precipitous withdrawal and in fact the senator lindsey graham going even a step further with the support of democrats democrats suggesting that there will be legislation introduced to register displeasure with the president's shift in syria policy the problem with this legislation is even if passed it would be non-binding. the trumpet ministration has barred the u.s. ambassador to the european union from giving testimony to the ongoing impeachment inquiry ambassador gordon voluntarily agreed to answer questions behind closed doors his attorney says he's obliged to comply with the u.s. state department's request not to testify text messages provided to congress revealed sunland as a central figure in allegations the us president tried to pressure ukraine to dig dirt on his democratic rival so trump is defending the decision to block appearance o