brooke? >> thank you for going through each and every one of those, jes jessica. james clapper once served as the director of national intelligence. a pleasure as always, sir. we just ran through some of those texts. do you see a quid pro quo here? >> well, i certainly do and the reason, brooke, is in the context of the discussions that were going on, the three corner discussions here, indicate clearly there was a quid pro quo. a lot of discretion back and forth about do the ukrainians make a statement first or set a date for a visit first and there's a lot of back and forth over that. and i thought the ambassador to the eu's statement was so out of context. it's almost like he realized that these texts are on the record and he needed to say something and this was after the apparent phone call he had, he needed to say something about no quid pro quo. that struck me as very out of context. >> to that point again, when you have the acting ambassador saying, quote, i think it's crazy to withhold

>> a great question, brooke. it's not one we know the answer to, but i think it is undeniable that the attorney general's personal involvement in this investigation, his prioritization of it, indicated by his own travel, is entirely consistent with the president's obsession of undermining the root cause and the impact of the russia investigation. so we can't say right now exactly why the attorney general's doing what he's doing, but we do know what he's doing is entirely consistent with the president's goals. >> and you think about how many times the president brought up the ag in that phone conversation with zelensky. barr has not recused himself at this point. we know how well that went with jeff sessions. what would have to happen for him to do so and who would make him? >> well, there's nobody that can make the attorney general recuse himself from any matter. that is a decision that's entirely up to him. he usually would make a decision like that based upon his consulting with professional ethics professional

>> reporter: brooke, they are indeed. joe biden today essentially in dis, dropped any caveat around this impeachment inquiry. just three weeks ago today when he said he supports the inquiry but he was gaoing to wait and se where the facts went but today called out in the most forceful manner for impeachment. you heard him there in rockford, new hampshire. a couple things going on. joining where other democrats are, other presidential candidates, elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, others, much more forceful than him. joe biden tied into all of this the last three weeks and's he was calling out the president on a variety of fronts there. and at the same time defending hunter biden his son and defending his family's name and character. he accused president again and again of lying about him and essentially said, we just heard, shooting holes in the constitution. what joe biden is trying to do here, brooke, build the argument for impeachment, but it is significant he dropped any hesitancy towards this. the question is, what ef

brooke? >> that's right. the lead counsel and the incons. not just july 10th but later after the phone call, july 25th. thank you very much. analyze this. dana bash is cnn's chief political correspondent and also the served on the bush and obama national counsel and ladies, dig in and start with you, i want you to underscore vindman's character may be unparalleled so far in this whole inquiry. talk to me more about his background and how that speaks to who he is. >> yeah. i mean, he is a military officer, and he not only is that, he was an infantry man, in the army and was serving in the iraq war when he was injured because of a roadside bomb. and he got the purple heart after that incident. after that, he worked, started to work in the national security space, in suppospolicy. worked for the joint chiefs and most recently at the white house in the national security council. he is, it's not unusual in that way. a lot of people who work in the national security council are members of the milit

i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me. breaking news this afternoon involving rudy giuliani and his push to investigate joe biden in ukraine. any minute now two men accused of helping giuliani in those efforts are expected to appear in a virginia federal courtroom after being arrested and indicted for pouring foreign money into a u.s. election. the charges all relate to donations made by these two men. this is igor fruman and lev parnas, two former texas congressmen pete sessions, congressmen, allegedly asked to help get the former ambassador to ukraine fired. hang on. straight to the southern district of new york. listen in to these prosecutors. >> -- indictment charge of lev parnas, igor fruman and two co-defendants alleged participation in schemes to violate the federal campaign finance laws by repeatedly using straw donors and foreign money. parnas and fruman were arrested around 6:00 p.m. last night at dulles airport as they were about to board and international flight

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. good news for house republicans outraged at the closed door hearings taking place of the impeachment inquiry into president trump because soon all americans could only see what lawmakers have up to this point. they could begin holding public hearings by mid-november and the lineup, witnesses that poked serious holes in the white house's argument there was nothing wrong with president trump's ukrainian counter part. like marie yovanovitch and top u.s. diplomat bill taylor. that news coming a day after the u.s. government looked, you see this? more like a circus after about two dozen republicans barged into this deposition. they argue, everything should be out in the open. even though republicans sit on every single one of the committees involved in those hearings. keep that in mind. while republicans are angry how democrats are handling this investigation they were totally fine with the process when it came to the former secreta state hillary clinton. you d

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for beak with me. this is cnn. jaw-dropping revelations happening on a day that has plenty of potential for more big headlines to drop. what we know on capitol hill. members of congress returned to work after some faced testy town halls during recess. rudy giuliani and defense secretary esper facing subpoena deadlines to produce documents and going for house committees conducting impeachment inquiries. what's more, kent is testifying despite a direct attempt by the white house to stop him from doing so. this is happening as we learn more about the explosive testimony from another key witness in the impeachment inquiry. president trump's former top adviser on russia fiona hill detailed a shadowed foreign policy run by rudy giuliani and others accord togz a source. a source says hill described how president trump's then national security adviser john bolton was so alarmed what was going on he pushed for an attorney to get involved. start there with cnn's political corresponden

brooke?your last point about the supreme court and precedent siding with congress is so, so important. and good enough to stay on a little more friday with me. thank you, and our legal analyst is back also. surface level, how big of a legal blow is this? >> significant ruling and at the circuit level which is the appellate level 2-1. a significant employblow for th administration. >> they have seven days to file an appeal and one of the president's attorneys tells cnn, "we continue to believe this subpoena is not a legitimate exercise of congress' legislative authority". >> it's important the kocourt ruling says two centuries of precedent, case after case upholding congress' pouper to do what they've done to issue a subpoena as part of its legislative function. part of a legislative investigation. the opinion is strongly written citing all of these years of precedent saying congress does have this authority. the second point on the appeal is i think an important one which is that i would expe

i'm brooke baldwbaldwin.o jake tapper with "the lead." >>> far more often than world series wins. "the lead" starts now. breaking today, house of representatives officially votes to proceed with the impeachment inquiry into president trump, historic vote sending the investigation into a whole new phase, and president trump deeper into crisis. senator mitch mcconnell has a message for president trump, stop attacking your fellow republicans because your presidency could depend on them. whether key witnesses close to president trump can keep their secret conversations secret.

i'm brooke baldwin. al raising flags among diplomats, republicans and conger and staffer as the pentagon and the white house budget office. the question, why was president trump blocking nearly $400 million in aid to ukraine? while that decision was ultimately reversed, the weeks leading up to it are now at the heart of the democrats' impeachment inquiry, and today president trump once again defended his phone call with hi counterpart in ukraine repeatedly asked his former counterpart to invest gays joe biden sparking that whistle-blower complaint about trump's behavior and the allegations of quid pro quo. >> that's a level of unfairness for a perfect conversation with the president of ukraine. this was a perfect conversation, and, frankly, had they known what the conversation was, they couldn't have even wasted everybody's time. president of ukraine and the foreign minister came out and said there was no anything. there was no -- he used the word no blackmail. they said there was no pressure. there was

i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. thank you for being here. a shocking scene today on capitol hill. one that some democrats say resembled a mob and the closest thing to "civil unrest" they have ever seen since joining congress. congressional republicans outraged is what they say is a sham, impeachment inquiry launched by colleagues across the aisle stormed this closed-door deposition in a secure room and disrupted the testimony of the deputy assistant defense secretary. they claimed that the process and not the actual testimony regarding president trump and his behavior on ukraine is the issue. >> it should be the people of this country who decide who's going to be the president, not nancy pelosi, and not adam schiff in secret behind closed doors. >> the millions of americans that we represent that want to see this congress working for them and not obsessed with an attacking a president who we believe has not done anything to deserve impeachment. it is a sham and time for it to end what is happeni

i'm brooke baldwin, thanks for being with me.s now. >>> a source said the white house is done, quote, playing nice with democrats. so the past three years they were being polite? "the lead" starts right now. >>> breaking news. new details on the scramble inside the white house right after the president pushed the leader of ukraine to investigate joe biden. as cnn learns that impeachment could go far beyond just the ukraine scandal. >>> a new twist. trump allies in congress now want a vote on the impeachment inquiry in the house and speaker nancy pelosi does not. why. >> and plus the supreme court debating the meaning of sex and a case

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i'm brooke baldwin. thank for being here. it may be joe biden's second bid for the white house but he went somewhere never gone before. he called for the current president donald trump to be impeached. >> his words, and his actions, president trump has indicted himself by obstructing justice, refusing to comply with the congressional inquiry. he's already convicted himself in full view of the world and the american people. donald trump violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation and committed impeachable acts. >> to preserve our constitution, our democracy, our bake sic integrity, she ho be impeached. that's not only because of what he's done, to answer whether he's committed acts of sufficient to warrant impeachment is obvious. he believes he can and will get away with anything he does. we all laughed when he said he could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot someone and get away with it. it's no joke. he's shooting holes in the constitution, and we cannot let him get away with it. >> biden's comments just tod

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i'm brooke baldwin.d there was in fact a quid pro quo between millions of dollars of military aid to ukraine and president trump's pressuring them to conduct specific investigations. the president's acting chief of staff undercut trump's claims there has been no quid pro quo. mulvaney said this was tied to the wish for the investigation into the 2016 election's in essence the white house defense has gone from no quid pro quo to get over it. we do this all the time. here was mick mulvaney. >> described as a quid pro quo. funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democrat server happens as well. >> we do that all the time with foreign policy. we were holding money at the same time for, what was it? the northern triangle countries. holding northern triangle countries to change their policies on immigration. mckinny said yesterday he was really upset with political influence in foreign policy. one. reasons he was so upset

i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn on this friday afternoon. thank you for being here. we have breaking news out of washington, d.c. where a month now into this impeachment inquiry president trump is sounding a familiar tune when it comes to that july 25th phone call with ukraine's leader defending his actions while blasting the democrats. >> the level of unfairness for a perfect conversation with the president of ukraine. this was a perfect conversation, and, frankly, had they known what the conversation was they wouldn't have even wasted everybody's time. president of ukraine and the foreign minister came out, said there was no -- anything. there was no -- he used the word no blackmail. they said there was no pressure. there was nothing done wrong. this is a hoax. >> we just heard the president saying there was no pressure on ukraine despite testimony from multiple diplomats to that country but cnn is just now learning when it came to his decision to block the millions of dollars in critical aid t

brooke?ple don't know katie hill's name, she was part of that huge women wave that really just won so many seats in the midterms in 2018. i know you followed her from the early days. how shocking this, syung? >> she is a formidable fund-raiser, one of the youngest women to enter congress, to be elected. first-time candidate. we followed her from citizen to candidate to congresswoman. this is somebody who is absolutely a rising star, who swung a purple district, who has been very comfortable about identifying as bisexual. so an extraordinary person. really has a bright future ahead of her. this is something that was certainly unexpected that for someone who has followed her for months it certainly seems out of character. >> we'll follow it with you, kyung lah, on congresswoman katie hill. >>> president trump is thanking republicans who disrupted testimony in the impeachment hearing. public hearings could come as soon as next month. we are live on capitol hill ahead. full of flavor. color. full

hers was the best, of course. >> brooke: oh, of course. >> hope: but it wore her out. mean, she was asleep before we even got her in the car seat. >> brooke: so you're still going over to eric's? >> hope: i have to keep thomas from having sole legal custody of douglas, especially after knowing motion,'s capable of. if he suspects that you're conning him... >> hope: well, then i will just have to make sure that he doesn't. >> brooke: oh, god, honey, i don't like it. i mean, what if he figures this out? if he knows that you're manipulating him, th

>> reporter: right, brooke. behind closed doors adam schiff chairman of the house intelligence committee stopped a line of questions from republicans who democrats said were trying to get to the bottomed of who this whistle-blower was. trying to use both front door and back door means according to debbie wasserman schultz, a democrat behind closed doors in this deposition trying to figure out who the whistle-blower was. republicans are saying they have a right to know who this person is, even as some of them including menno said that was not his intention, but things got tense with mark meadows getting into a shouting match with one of the democrats behind closed doors and i think that just shows the tension that is existing at this moment. as you know, republicans have been arguing for some time now that this process is unfair, and the fact it's all happening behind closed doors isn't fair. the fact there hasn't been that formal vote on the floor to open an impeachment inquiry is unfair but all spilling over to

i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me. breaking news out of washington for days we've heard president trump shrug and say nothing to see here when it comes to the july 25th call with ukrainian president zelensky. >> that call was a great call. it was a perfect call. a perfect call. >> that call was perfect. couldn't have been nicer. >> impeachment for that? when you have a wonderful meeting or you have a wonderful phone conversation? >> absolutely perfect phone call. >> the conversation was perfect. it couldn't have been nicer. >> if you look at that call, perfect call. it's congenial. there was no pressure. >> so it turns out that maybe that call wasn't so perfect after all. at least not for some of the highest officials in the trump administration. cnn has now learned that in the moments after the two leaders hung up the phone, the concerns set in, and multiple people, national security officials among them, worried that the president had cross add lied a d how to limit t

brooke? >> jessica, thank you.peaking of the fights playing out in the courts, paul cowen is back with me. first on the point of tax returns what did white house counsel do? roll straight to the supreme court? >> two choices. roll directly to the supreme court. they might want to do that because of a 5-4 majority there. if they really want to stall things normally would go for what's called an on-bond hearing before the d.c. circuit. all judges in the circuit get together in a room and make a decision. but there's one thing that might cause them to hesitate. guess who the presiding judge of the d.c. circuit? >> who? >> merrick garland. >> right. >> the person appointed to the supreme court by president obama, but congress wouldn't give him a hearing, and justice gorsuch ultimate got the seat. so i'm wondering -- how friendly the ruling would be with merrick overseeing the court? >> karma? >> what comes around goes around. >> the ruling on border funding. blocking the use of those funds. where does it go next? >> sa

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i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being here. we just reported a federal judge said to release documents including mike pompeo and the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani and they have 30 days to do so. harry litman is back with us. harry, can officials of the state department put a stop to it? say, nope, we're just not giving you the records? >> they certainly can't, although that hasn't stopped the department of justice from stonewalling in the past. there's a pending order. it will be appealed. this district court in massachusetts. it will be appealed above. even if they comply it may be riddled with extensions, it's under the freedom of information act brought by a non-partisan watchdog, but it's just another way, they really zero in on giuliani here and trump's use of his personal lawyers s and two others, and another way in which this giuliani feature is an achilles' heel for the administration. there's going to be many weak links trying to exert executive privilege and the like since they

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i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being here.iry from behind closed doors. the house rules committee is set to meet this hour to discuss how the public impeachment proceeding will work two witnesses are adding to the impeachment story based upon what they're learning from their opening statements what we're learning. the same job as special adviser to ukraine negotiations, anderson just arrived moments ago on capitol hill, he said then national security adviser john bolton "cautioned that mr. giuliani -- the president's personal attorney -- was a key voice with the president on ukraine which could an an obstacle to engagement with ukraine" and croft said millions of aid being withheld from ukraine said the budget office "reported that the white house chief of staff mick mulvaney placed an informal hold on security assistance to ukraine, the only reason given was that the order came at the direction of the president." so we start on capitol hill with manu rauch nhu and manu, what

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brooke? >> jessica schneider, thank you very much. >>> michael smerconish, you've read his opening statements. talking to john dean last hour. he referred to the delicate dance that sondland must be doing right now in front of these committees. which jumps out at you what he's saying and what he's saying specifically about what trump told him to do? >> the inconsistency. the inconsistency as to it wasn't a quid pro quo, it was a quid pro quo. i can't even say the word straight i've said it so much. and public corruption in ukraine, oh, it wasn't about the bidens. he didn't get the mulvaney memo but i'm telling you within a matter of days they will all be reading from the same hymnal and the line they didn't want american tax dollars squandered in a corrupt country and why they were holding up a meeting with the president, holding up the monies, et cetera, et cetera until some assurance our tax dollars would be protected is the only avenue available to them that i see given that the diplomatic

i'm brooke baldwin.ate in ohio starts right now. >>> how much will impeachment be discussed during the debate tonight in ohio. "the lead" starts now. key testimony on capitol hill as the house decides whether to impeach president trump as cnn learns that president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani is expected to defy a congressional subpoena for documents and he's not the only one. and breaking today, president trump sending vice president pence to try and clean up the lethal mess made by pulling back u.s. troops in syria as russians begin to fill that void. and the main event, it is debate night on cnn. now with an impeachment inquiry, a virtual tie at the top of the group and a can

>>> it is monday afternoon, i'm brooke baldwin, thank you for being here. an impeachment witness was a know show in court today. kupperman served as deputy national security adviser as john bolton's number two. past witnesses have testified the former national security adviser john bolton was greatly alarmed over the pressure ukraine was under to conduct these political investigations. kupperman was also listening in on that critical july 25th phone call between president trump and his ukrainian counterpart. instead of revealing what he knows today in front of these committees up on capitol hill, his lawyer filed suit asking a judge to figure out how he should get out of this historic rock and a hard place. should he follow a congressional subpoena ordering his testimony or follow the white house directive to stand down? here was the president today as he compared his case to the one involving jesse smollett, the actor accused of faking being the target of a hate crime. >> then you have the case of this wise guy, jesse smollett, and he said maga country did

>> brooke, they had an uneasy piece that was working out there.nited states had minimal troops on the ground. erdogan called president trump on a sunday when he knew there weren't many around. the pentagon and the state department were in favor of keeping those troops there and keeping an img pedestripediment turks to go into this territory. the turks made an imhe tuous decision to go in. if you go in, i'm getting my people out of the way, for everything he can hear, he did not threaten economic sanctions which were threatened last friday by the administration. he did nothing else that we've heard of to discourage this, and many in his camp had told him exactly what the result would be. i think the only surprise is, that it has benefited the russians, it's benefited isis, it's benefited the iranians, and bashar al assad so quickly. >> so to your final point there, play this forward for us, what kind of power shift would we now see in the region for russia, for syria and iran. how does that impact the united states of america? >> well, the united s

>> brooke: this isn't a warning, shauna. i'm telling you. >> shauna: you don't tell me a damn thing. who do you think you are, barging into my house, slapping me across the face, and giving me orders? >> brooke: i'm ridge's wife, and don't you forget it. the fultons have brought our family so much pain already, and ridge and i are doing whatever we can to repair the damage from your lies. he's moved in with steffy, and he's trying to work things out with thomas. >> shaun: wait. ridge moved out? >> brooke: [ scoffs ] >> ridge: we need to find a way. need to come together and move forward. >> steffy: dad, my child was ripped away from me.

. >> brooke: [ singsongy ] hi. >> ridge: did you check in at the hospital at all?> brooke: bill and will practically camped out in katie's hospital room the last few days, so i'm gonna go over there in a bit. >> ridge: now you have to admit, past mistakes aside, flo really stepped up. >> brooke: they released her from the hospital. she should have gone back to prison instead of back to her apartment. >> ridge: i saw you laying into shauna. what was that all about? >> brooke: ridge, i just don't want them creeping back into our lives. >> ridge: creeping back in?

for more, let's welcome brooke sutherland.hat exactly did they say, are they being too optimistic? it is not up to them to fly the planes this year. they said they expect a plane to return to service by the fourth quarter, which would have been october, but they continue to say fourth-quarter but we are looking at a delayed timeline. this remains contingent on the faa approving the plane to fly again. it is unclear where we stand with that. bolland said on the call that the reviews of its software updates and other materials are taking longer than planned, and that the faa is being very diligent, making sure boeing gets this right. i also wonder if there might be political couplet k she for the faa running this plane back in the sky after the release of those instant messages that are at least struggling. boeing has pushed back about windows messages are about, but i would expect that to be a key question when the ceo testifies to congress next week. saw a interesting that we management reshuffle less than 24 hours before the

i am the president of the brookings. today glad to welcome you to this event entitled impeachment what happens now? extraordinary moment for america. as for the fourth time in our history, u.s. house leadership has launched a formal impeachment inquiry into the president of the united states. fors also a great moment the stakes are undoubtedly hide. not just for this country but for the world as well. constitution of the united states vests in the house of representatives the sole power to impeach a public official. while a further vest the constid states senate the sole power to try all impeachments. of roles wasn vital in the minds of the framers of our current tuition to ensure that the enormity of the power to remove from public office, to impeach, was not concentrated in the hands of a small politically partisan this is only the fourth time a sitting president has experienced the impeachment process. the process is been employed by the congress several score times throughout our history and of that number, the senat

. >> brooke: oh, were you looking for these? >> hope: you folded them?> brooke: margaret had the morning off. >> hope: yeah, i forgot to get douglas' clothes out of the laundry before ridge and thomas took him away. actually, i think he might be getting home from school right about now. >> brooke: i wonder how it went, his first night away from home. >> hope: yeah. >> brooke: i just hope he didn't cry himself to sleep. >> hope: did you? a mistake: could have been taking my ring off.

i am going to bring in anthony, scott and brooke here. the beto o'rourke thing is interesting.t guy who said that. in other words, someone else emerges who is not in the top sort of league of candidates. >> yeah. i don't necessarily see beto as the dark horse that others might. i haven't really seen a lot of him i'm impressed by. i don't see him doing well as much in the polls. dark horses, buttigieg, maybe, although he started disappearing out of the public eye as well. he hasn't gotten as much media attention as he did during the first part of his campaign. kamala potentially. a lot of people who we thought like cory booker who we thought in the beginning were impressive are falling back. it remains to be seen. i'm not sure if it's beto. >> i don't get that. scott martin, by the way. love your tie. i don't know where you shop. nice work. can you explain that, as far as the dark horse with beto? or maybe even buttigieg or kamala or cory? first name basis, i guess. how could they reemerge because it feels like to brooke's point, they are so far behind, they have almost been com

i'm brooke baldwin. podiums in the white house, we are awaiting to see president trump and his counterpart from finland step behind the podiums taking questions answers of course we'll be listening. continuing this conversation until we see them with you, gloria borger. talk to you. in the commercial break i was handed this piece of paper, and this is the deal. from abc news that speaker nancy pelosi tells george stephanopoulos president trump is quote/unquote scared of the impeachment inquiry. you think she's trying to get under his skin? >> i think she's succeeded getting under his skin if you look atimpromptu presser earlier. live tweeting responding to her then his presser, both laced with profanity. seems to be in kind of a tailspin and honestly from a source i taspoke to from the whe house says, look, there's nobody in the white house who can say no to the president. they all kind of get out of his way. nobody to stop him, put the brakes on, tell him, you can't do that. you should not tweet that. t

let's bring in brooke sutherland. she has more. brooke, something that stood out to me, the c.f.o.aid, this was in an interview, our customers aren't facing financial difficulties, it's more that they seem to be waiting to see what happens with the economic outlook. are the issues plaguing caterpillar, is this more of a broad issue? brooke: this is certainly more of a broad issue, and that's the concern. can we worry ourselves into a recession? is there so much uncertainty, so much keeping people on the sidelines that you can really see a recession? we've already started to see some signs of that in the manufacturing sector. caterpillar's results today just adding to that sign of bleakness. the question is, can this be turned around? when you talk to c.e.o.'s, in the second quarter, they were still holding out hope the trade deal could turn this around if, in fact, we could get one, bring us back from the brink of recession. of course, that's easier said than done, but does seem to be we're still in this sort of stalling period where you are seeing a slowdown, but parts of the econ

how did that make you feel, then, brooke? it is really ha rd feel, then, brooke?e courtroom and you are going through the trial, everyday is really challenging and it is actually a really scary thing, there, with the person who took your loved one's life, even saying their name is really difficult to cope with. it is quite, again, it is close to home, especially when he mentions my mum's name in the interview, and the appeals. it makes you feel quite angry as well that someone you feel quite angry as well that someone who has been on the run for three and half years is actually sitting there, watching us on tv. yeah, it is quite a surreal feeling, really. how did you feel about it, tracey? before he said that, he kept on referring to josh tracey? before he said that, he kept on referring tojosh by his name which i found really difficult to ta ke which i found really difficult to take on board. i much preferred him to refer to my son as mr hansen, he was not his friend, he did not know him, they had never met before, and then to lead with that and to mention me as

brooke? >> okay. lauren, thank you. up know, guy, part of what lauren is reporting, justice handed this. bottom line, with regard to this luncheon, members are viewing rudy giuliani as a wild card and no one knows what is coming next from these depositions. >> exactly right. we don't know what rudy giuliani will go on tv and say. talking about trump may throw rudy under the bus. rudy may throw trump under the bus. because we just don't know. that sounds crazy, but anybody that's watched three seconds of rudy giuliani tape, like, with chris the other week, within 30 seconds switched his position. what's he going to do tonight? >> i ask you. what's it like having been sort of in the bunker for clinton impeachment and now being just an observer of all of this? >> in the clinton era when we had to deal with impeachment there was a very satisfied impeachment team that just dealt with impeachment. everybody else ran the government. including the president. the president didn't run his mouth all the time like we saw, we're see

this was hosted by the brookings institution. it is one hour and 10 minutes. john: good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i'm john allen, the president of brookings and on behalf of the institution and our partners at service year alliance, i want to welcome you all to this important event today. i want to welcome those coming in over the webcast and of course we always welcome the media. this morning you'll be hearing from a distinguished group of leaders and volunteers on the matter of national service. let me make a few brief comments to begin with. in such divided and turbulent times, we must look for ways to bridge society, to bridge the divides and to restore a sense of community. in recent years, much has been done, sadly, to burn rather than to build the bridges in our civic nation, leading to a growing culture of fear and distrust, incivility, and a reflex to retreat into the safety of tribalism. our trusted institutions and our trust in each other has taken a beating and has in fact declined , and that decline makes it harder for us to solve some of the

brooke has the support of lauer's former "today" show co-host, ann curry. she tweeted, i believe she is telling the truth. >> and matt's ex-wife annette roque is breaking her silence. she was spotted out today grocery shopping in the hamptons. her attorney says quote, now that the parties are officially divorced, her priority and only concern is for their wonderful children. and there's another angle -- is jennifer aniston's new tv show really about the lauer scandal? >> it's hard for me to believe when i watch the first two episodes that this is not based on what happened to matt lauer on the "today" show. >> on "the morning show," aniston plays an anchor whose co-host is fired over sexual misconduct allegations. >> good morning. i am bringing you some sad and upsetting news. >> this is a sad morning here at "today" and nbc new those, unfortunately, many men who were -- it was more than just matt.ks like matt lauer a bit, doe >> there is an uncanny resemblance. >> there really is. that's why people are going to say that. not. also a development in the sexu