mike, it's yours >> for the call to action, a call spread risk reversal. like in situations like this one. we have a catalyst earnings we have a fed decision and trade issues going on. plenty of things that could affect the stock here. the options premiums are relatively elevated. we are selling more options than we're buying and then we're looking at fedex. it's experienced more than a 15% bounce off the bottom in the last couple of weeks the trade structure i was looking at was the january 160, 180200 call spread sell the 1.60 puts at 6.25 sell the 200 calls for 3 bucks net/net you're laying out no premium and if the stock goes higher or experience some delay, you'll see profits in that case, the worst case would be if fedex drops below the 1.60 put we'd own the stock there the one year lows of 150, not too far off the bottom the stock is trading cheap i understand there of good reasons why that's true but i think this is an opportunity to look at one of the stocks that is probably relatively underpriced relative to the market right now >> questions for

it his call to action.rs. >> yup for the call to action looking a call spread risk reversal this is a strategy we like in indications like in catalyst earnings obviously fed decision, another. trade issues going on. there is plenty of things that could affect the stock here. the other thing is the options premiums are relatively elevated we like structures like this where with he sell more than we're buying then of course finally looking at fedex it's experienced more than a 15% bounz bounce on off the bottom in the last couple weeks to the centuria i looked at was the january 160180200 call spread risk reversal sell the puts at 6.25 buy the 180 calls for 9.25 and sell the 200 calls at 3 bucks. net-net laying out know presume yum if the stock goes liar or experience decay you see rofts in this case the worst case would be if fedex drops below the 160 put we would own the stock there. looking at 1-year lows of 150 that's not far off the bottom. uts trieding cheap i understand there are reasons for that but a

he said iran wants to do something, they know who to call. will you call president trump? >> reporter: mr. trump would be wiser to go back to the commi m commitments given by the united states of america in 2015 and live up to that fully. once that happens, if there is a need for telephone contact, we will certainly establish that contact and talk to one another. >> so, mr. president, given the current situation, are you interested in sitting down with president trump? >> translator: what is important for us is for everyone to assist and aid in resolving today's intertwined and complicated regional around world problems. seeing one another, speaking on the phone, does not go to the root cause and resolve the issues. >> so, the answer is no, you're not interested? >> translator: under the current conditions, i do not see it as productive or positive. not for the united states or iran. what is positive for us to sincerely show our efforts, sincerely tell one another that in the benefit of our people and to the benefit of the world community, we seek to strive. if america tak

call.his is the chairman of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff at the atlantic event held late last night giving his opinion about what is in that memo. [video clip] out, i wascame shocked at how bad it was, how blatant it was and i can only think that either they were just so terribly misled by the president's own sense that he can persuade anybody of any alternate reality -- they have their alternate facts, triggers, and truth and can spin this anyway they want -- either they fully bought into that or they were convinced somebody else had this record, somebody else was going to release that record and better they do it early because what advantage they had in the mueller investigation is the facts came out drip by drip. if the facts we knew at the end of the mueller investigation came out in a single day, if we learned about the illicit meetings and the emails where dirt was promised to help the trump campaign, we would've had a different reaction from the country. i don't know

records of the phone call.l word for word transcript of the call. according to multiple white house officials the transcript was placed into a file. i have a good group of people to explain all this. you dealt with this document, handling this a lot with the cia. explain the idea that's there's a lockdown server. >> at the director of intelligence programs, they have an enclave able to protect the most sensitive secret city intelligence community. this includes covert action programs. detailed information about things like the bin laden raid. some of the spooky satellites we have or collection platforms. it is not a good place to put telephone calls unless they involved one of those calls. >> that's about the only time you can envision a phone call between two leaders showing up in that database? >> with one exception. the very, very secret initiative in the obama administration where senator kerry was talking with barack obama and the omani leadership in the beginning that led to the iran nuclear agreement. th

the phone call establishes it. the timing of the phone call establishes it. it's a gross abuse of power by donald trump. >> this call is only part of the whistleblower complaint. are you expecting to see the whistleblower complaint? >> absolutely. you had the republican controlled senate yesterday go on record saying that they want the whistleblower complaint to go to congress. it's required by law. right now the odni acting director is violating the law. he's supposed to have provided this whistleblower complaint to congress weeks ago. there's no reason that we don't get the full complaint. >> have you heard anything on timing about -- have you heard any confirmation that that is going to be coming? >> i have not. but with every passing day they continue to be in violation of a law that requires congress to see this whistleblower complaint. >> it's still possible that this now broadened impeachment inquiry goes forward. you have these six committees investigating. this gives them more leeway to get information but in the end there's not a house-wide vote on

then the person called me the night before called. by now you are probably thinking why is this her favorite story? she called and said the french press have just reported that bandar has been assassinated. so if you haven't told president bush, you need to tell him. president bush, this is right before he went to the wheelchair. he would come to the office in a golf court. we were in kennebunkport. he would want me to sit on the golf cart with him and do our business there. it was hard for him to walk around. we had a phone on a long cord that came out from the office. i don't know why we didn't use a cell phone. [laughter] i break the news to him. he said have you tried calling him? and i said no. that really had not occurred to me. to call him. he said let's try to get him on the phone. so we are sitting outside. i holler upstairs and one of his assistants, jim applebee. i said jimmy, could you see if you could get prince bandar on the phone? (whispering) he said have you told him? i said yes i have. two seconds later he leans back

that call was perfect. it couldn't have been nicer, and even the ukrainian government put out a statement that that was a perfect call, there was no pressure put on them whatsoever. but there was pressure put on with respect to joe biden. what joe biden did for his son, that's something they should be looking at. talking simultaneously] reporter: -- [indiscernible] -- president trump: because very important, very important, i want other countries to put up money. i think it's unfair that we put up the money. then people call me and say, oh, let it go. i let it go. but we paid the money. the money was paid. but very importantly, germany, france, other countries should put up money. and that's been my complaint from the beginning. talking simultaneously] -- it r: [indiscernible] seems like a lot of advisors -- [indiscernible] -- president trump: we're going to see what happens. but i think iran is coming along well. regardless of what happens, we're in very good shape with respect to iraq. [talking simultaneo

those phone calls. he is also former chief of staff to the director of the cia. and analyst and director and spokesperson in the obama administration, an msnbc national security contributor. larry, let me start with you. we got your read of the so-called transcript. the record of the phone call last night. it all made sense to you. it looked like the kind of thing you've seen before. what about what you've learned from the whistleblower's report? that was released this morning. >> so the whistleblower's report, it looks like something written by someone with a pretty strong analytic mind. someone trained in the analytic craft. it is well sourced, well written, it is logically, it lays out this compelling story. unlike a lot of whistleblower complaints, this person does not appear to be a crack pot or a lunatic or a whack-a-doodle. this is someone leading a group of people who were involved in inagency review of the ukrainian policy. and perhaps drew the short straw. perhaps volunteered to represent the

that call.hey didn't trust him over here. they thought he was a political operator and was too soft on corruption. on that call, president trump asked for a resotarting of the investigation. and he said, i heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down. and that's really unfair. that's what president trump said to president zelensky, advocating for lutsenko, who his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, had been in contact with. zelensky didn't bow to that pressure. he got rid of him in a month. it could have been a point of contention between the ukraini n ukrainians and americans. >>> it goes without saying or showing, this is front page news on every paper here, and talked about, and the people are aware of it. how much is it covered there locally? and how much are the people aware of the story? >> reporter: it's top news here, as well. this is a massive story. not the same angle you're getting over there. the story here, is how does this affect ukraine. they're fighting a war in

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btoe able to call up individual u.s. attorneys and not say, hey, could you spend more time going after drug traffickers, but saying specifically, investigate a particular person who might be a particular harm to me. that's extraordinary. if that's the argument that lawyers who support the president are going to be making, i think we're in a lot of trouble. >> let's do this. let's see where the facts lead us. slee let -- look at that. preet had to go. then we'll see what choices the democrats make. preet, wherever are, thank you. robert ray, thank you. we'll be doing it again for sure. that's all for us tonight. it is a big night. let's get to "cnn tonight with don lemon" right now. >>> preet knows how busy a news night it is so he's trying to make room for me so i can get all my stuff in. you know, chris, i've heard people say all day two things that have bothered me. one, this is a political rorschach test or it's just a rorschach test. the other thing is there's no quid pro quo. okay. if you read this thing, this isn't

we have the transcript of the phone call. the phone call is not in dispute. we have a rough transcript. that is -- the president is going to have to figure out a way to deal with that. >> and corroborated. >> and corroborated. that's out there, and, you know, established as a factual matter. the democrats, if they want to do this in a serious way, now have to take the whistle-blower's report and see how much they can corroborate. it's incredibly serious to anything that there was a coverup in the white house of the relationship with ukraine, but it's not proven yet. >> phil mudd, you worked at the fbi, at the cia. what stands out in your mind in the list of allegations i just discussed? >> the idea of corroboration that jeffrey was talking about, the person who wrote this refers to getting secondhand and third hand information. but there's a couple of pieces that are surprising. there's a ton of names in there and there are other people unnamed like the intel guys at the white house who could tell you how the safe was used that you could corroborate in two we

, calling the phone call perfect. but it's more than just that call. will congress see the whistleblower's complaint that triggered all of this? and tonight, word of a phone call between president trump and speaker pelosi just today. abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl with what he's learned tonight. >> reporter: today, president trump announced he will release the full and unredacted transcript of his phone call with the president of ukraine, saying it will prove he did nothing wrong. >> when you see the call, when you see the readout of the call, which i assume you'll see at some point, you'll understand. that call was perfect. there was no pressure put on them whatsoever. >> reporter: but speaker of the house nancy pelosi has made it clear, she wants more. she wants the president to elli community's inspector general said was "credible" and of "urgent concern." pelosi revealed the president actually called her this morning. >> yeah, well, he called to talk about gun violence and it segued into other

president we need a roll call. go ahead. [roll call] [please stand by] .stand by] >> >> supervisor mandelman: -- to implement ab 1784, so i'd like to make a motion to add that language. >> president yee: okay. there's a motion to amend. is there a second? seconded by supervisor peskin. if there's no objection, then we'll take these amendments outlined. [gavel]. >> president yee: colleagues, can we take this item, same house, same call, as amended? seeing no objection, then, this resolution passes unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: number 62. >> clerk: 62 is a resolution to support the rights of san francisco veterinary specialists. >> president yee: supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: yes. i am so proud to have the cosponsorship of every single colleague on this board. thank you so much for standing by these workers. as i stated last week, sfvs is owned by v.c.a., a company that owns 800 animal hospital. in 2018, v.c.a. was purchased by mars, the candy company. the next step is for the company and union to negotiate a contract. that started 14 mont

call for the president.nt zelensky to investigate joe biden, so there is some political ramifications there, not national security ramifications there. but i also think it's important to note as you've noted, i mean national security adviser john bolton left the white house just weeks ago, and so he has not been talking to the press very much, but there are a lot of questions he needs to answer now. >> kylie, you say political, not necessarily political ramifications, however, in that complaint, you know, the whistle-blower, the author of that complaint says i was also concerned that these actions imposed risks to u.s. national security and undermine the u.s. government's evidences to deter and counter foreign interference in u.s. elections. so at least according to that all right, thank you so much to both of you, i appreciate it, we'll be right back. get all the shrimp you want, any way you want 'em. like new sriracha-honey shrimp, savory grilled teriyaki shrimp, classic shrimp scampi and more! red lobster

it certainly is an accurate description of that call record. but also it's not always the case that there is a recording of a call or a word for word -- i mean not in the sort of term of art sense but actually a verbatim transcript. it's more often i think a summary, as this is. so i don't know that that indicates that there is in fact a separate recording or transcript of that recording. but of course that's one of the things we want to find out. >> the complaint also says that all records of that call including what we think is this document that's now been released as notes to that call were locked down in the words of the whistleblower, that they were essentially migrated on to a special server system that is usually reserved for the most highly classified information inside the national security council. what is your reaction to that and does your committee have the authority, have the jurisdiction to investigate that further? >> we certainly have the authority. and we have the jurisdiction to investigate that. here is another irony today.

sell the 185 put, buy the 200 calls and sell the 220 calls against it that whole trade will cost you. basically the risk here is that if the stock should fall back to 185 or lower you will own it at that level this, of course, is approximately where the stock was trading before they announced earnings if it continues higher, you will get about 10% participation to the upside, and i would point out this stock is moving around quite sharply. it moved a lot today so if the stock is lower on monday, you might even be able to adjust the strike of that lower strike, put that earlier today you could have done the 180/200/220 for even here. that's the objective, to avoid the down side but get the first 10% of upside. another point i would quickly make is this will capture november earnings. that's one of the reasons the options are slightly elevated here this stock is expensive on valuation. they're hitting on all cylinders essentially. where macy's is trading six times full 2021 earnings, this stock is trading full 2021 on sales. people are expecting a lot of good things and getting them fo

giuliani give you a call and i'll also have attorney general barr call and we will get to the bottom of it. and under the heading of the coverup is worse than the crime part, the whistle-blower goes on to say that in the days following the president's ukraine call, senior white house officials intervened to lock down all records of the call, including a word-for-word transcript, moving that into a system for especially sensitive information, what you might call a coverup server. here's the quote. one white house official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective. speaker of the house nancy pelosi now. >> this is a coverup. this is a coverup. >> just look at all of high-level people in this administration who are tied to this story, whether in the complaint, the transcript, the congressional testimony or mentioned in news reports or by the president and mr. giuliani. of course at the center of it all is none other than the president. then there is the vice president, mike p

the phone call. get it? the headline of this column, he is guilty but impeachment is a mistake. focusing on the politics of it for a second, one thing david brooks writes is that democrats are playing president trump's game. he has no policy agenda, he is incompetent of improving people's lives but he is good at tv warsg, waging against political elites. he get to have a personality war against nancy pelosi and jerry nadler. this is what democracy is supposed to look like. why they would want to distract from that is beyond reason. trump against nadler is the contrast trump wants to drop. if we dohave no idea articles of impeachment if it would help trump, hurt trump or be neutral. my belief is we should not to impeachment for political reasons. not dold also not impeachment for political reasons. it should be based on facts. we need to look at the evidence and it should be our last option. but if we conclude the president of the united states halted political aide to a critical ally at a critical ti

being on the call for the sole responsibility of taking accurate notes of what was said on the call. typically there were at least two people transcribing so they could compare notes. once that draft transcript was put together, it was shared with the suite, where i used to work, national security adviser office, to go over the draft, see if there were errors. the national security adviser was often on the call, he or she could tell if anything was inaccurate, and whoever else was on the call, perhaps another nsc individual would double check the accuracy. the final transcript would be sent to the situation room for distribution with a specific list of who was authorized to see it. typically, secretary of state, dni, director of the cia and small group at the national security council. it was also sent, the final official copy to the executive secretary to be filed in line with the presidential records act. while we wait to see the transcript of the call tomorrow, there are people that were on the line with president trump and with president zelensky that can vouch for the accuracy o

. >> in days following the phone call i learned from multiple u.s. senior white house officials had intervened to, quote, lockdown all records of the phone call, especially the official word for word transcript of the call that was produced as it customary by the white house situation room. this set of actions underscored to me that white house officials understood the gravity of what had transpired in that call. >> white house officials told me they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for coordination and finalization and distribution to cabinet-level officials. instead the transcript was loaded on to a separate electronic system otherwised use to store and handle classified information in a specially sensitive nature. one white house official described this act as an abuse of the electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective. >> well, let's just stop there. that is -- that

call read out or meeting read out and the document itself is stored on what we call the high side the top-secret level system. unless there is code word material that is a higher level classification in the document to the best of my knowledge, fred, never once did we store a meeting read out on the code word system unless there was code word content. >> thank you so much. >>> still to come as the impeachment inquiry circles president trump some state republican parties are still refusing to hold primary elections. are they rethinking that decision? we'll ask the gop chairman from alaska next. with only one mission in mind. to be the best. in the category, in the industry...in the world. lease the gla 250 suv for just $329 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. here! here! here! here! being here matters but the cold and flu keeps some students from being here up to 60 million days every year. introducing 'here for healthy schools' a new program from lysol, dedicated to curbing the spread of illness in classrooms by teaching healthy habits and p

pamela, we heard the president describing this call, what he called a perfect call. that's what he just said, right, a perfect call. >> yeah. >> but there are these allegations in this complaint of something happening to this, quote, unquote perfect call that would make you think, maybe this wasn't a perfect call, and if the president thinks it's a perfect call, there is a lot of people around him who do not. the whistleblower says officials told him white house lawyers directed officials to remove the electronic transcript from the normal computer system where it's housed and move it to this highly classified system. how significant is this? >> well, it's very significant because the big point here is there wasn't classified information in the transcript. it could be politically damaging, as we now know, to the president. so the fact that, according to this complaint, white house lawyers reviewed the transcript and tlahought, this is going to make the president look bad and put it in this secured classification raises questions and sounds the alarm bells on this. an

now, he is mentioned in the call. multiple times the president says i want you to talk to my attorney general, in addition to rudy guilliani, his personal attorney. according to the justice department no such communication ever happened. bill barr never talked to the ukrainians, never talked to the president about this. the first time he learned about this was when the referral came over to the justice department. there was no recusal by the attorney general. there was no consideration of a recusal. so he was overseeing all of this. we know that under the rules the final determination here was made by brian benjakowsky, the head of the criminal division according to the justice department. now, of course, the questions will continue. the president -- i'm sorry. i'm sure the democrats on the hill will be asking questions about bill barr and whether or not he should have played a role overseeing any of this given the fact that his name is raised in the call by the president of the united states. >> this transcript, if y

the transcript of his call with the ukrainian call coming out. target time for that is 10:00 this morning. so be watching carefully for that. the president insisting yesterday that he said nothing inappropriate in that phone call and that house speaker nancy pelosi is blindly going down the road to impeachment. listen here. >> president trump: she is talking impeachment. so i think that -- by the way, she hasn't even seen the phone call. the phone call was perfect. the call that wasn't perfect and the words that weren't perfect were joe biden with respect to his son. the son takes away millions of dollars out of ukraine and million else of dollars out of china. and you don't talk about that. it is a real disgrace. >> bill: a senior administration official tells fox news, you mentioned a little bit of this at the beginning of this bill and sandra, they'll likely release a document from the intelligence community inspector general that describes the whistle-blower as having a political bias in favor of another political candidate. there is no word

the way you had that built up, that call, it was going to be the call from hell. it turned out to be a nothing call other than a lot of people said i never knew you could be so nice. >> reporter: i've been talking to the president's republican allies on capitol hill, congressman peter king who just underscored that republican talking point, essentially saying there's nothing to see here, this was a nothing call. politically speaking, craig, i go back to this point. this could be problematic for president trump. on the one hand, you have democrats saying, okay, fine, we've now seen some of the contents of this call. but we want to see the whistle-blower's complaint. there's going to be an ongoing battle for that. remember, there's reporting that there are a number of other potentially troubling instances laid out in that complaint. we expect that the administration and the campaign, quite frankly, will aim to capitalize on this, will paint democrats as being obsessed with impeachment, not getting anything done on capitol hill. but how does the president feel, craig

these calls like end up sounding more like the way he used to sunday on business calls from the 26thf trump tower. it's just trump being trump. we all have some sense of what that's like at this point. but the process is an nfc process that hasn't really changed. what has changed is after a few of these calls were leaked at the beginning of the administration, his call with the mexican leader and the australian prime minister leaked and were pretty embarrassing to him, the effort to really shrink the circle of people who have access to this transcript that's released afterwards or who listen in on the call, they've tried to limit the number of people on these calls. for instance, the this transcript of the call will be sent over to the state department and the defense department has an eyes only document for the secretary of state or the defense secretary, not something they get to keep or copy and pass around to their deputies, but something they can read and send back to the white house. that's to avoid leaks. >> so, clint, all of those precautions the white house is taking to try

of that call. person most likely to face off against donald trump in the 2020 election. and when gary says "look intojoe biden" he means president trump urged the ukranians to launch an investigation into the man who is potentially his chief political rival. we'll get into exactly what donald trump is accusing joe biden of a little later, but for now let's stick with the case being made against the president. democrats say the memorandum shows president trump leaning on the ukraine with an explicit quid pro quo. here's an excert from the notes. at one point the ukranian president volodymyr zelensky says to president trump "i would also like to thank you for your great javelins are a type of american missile. donald trump then replies: "i would like you to do the president then goes on to make his request to investigate joe biden. this was president trump response shortly after the notes were released. it's a disgraceful thing. the letter was a great letter, meaning the letter revealing the call, th

i don't believe it's just about the call or two calls. i believe that it is about a series of choices and directives made by the president and his lawyer over about a year. what questions do you want to know going forward that will inform how significant a potential abuse of power this is? >> yeah. i want to know the answers to all the facts with respect to what conversations were had. but, you know, i didn't get a chance to respond. >> please, go ahead. >> you let mr. ray go on for quite a bit. i think it's an extraordinary thing to hear a lawyer come on a program and even while he's speaking, trying to backtrack from what it seemed like he was saying, that there is a justification for a sitting president of the united states to be able to call up individual u.s. attorneys and not say, hey, could you spend more time going after drug traffickers, but saying specifically, investigate a particular person who might be a particular harm to me. that's extraordinary. if that's the argument that lawyers who support the president are going to be

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the president has a way of not only performing what i would call ugly deeds -- some call dastardly deeds -- performing these deeds and then he confesses. he has indicated that he talked to the president. he has indicated the conversation was about biden. and we know that he was withholding funds. he did this right after mr. mueller's gave his testimony on the hill. he is testing us. he continually tests to see how far we will allow him to go. >> at some point we have to stand up to him and let him know that a line has been drawn and you will go no further. amy: thank you for being with us, he's doing conga's member al green, texas democrat, and john nichols, political writer for the nation. he has written a book about impeachment. this is democracy now! when we come back, president trump calls for intensifying tension with iran. we will speak with vijay prashad . then the british rocker, singer/songwriter billy bragg on brexit and what is happening in the british parliament as we broadcast. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "ripple" by the grateful dead. the bands longtime lyricist robe

calling it. we've seen what's in the call. is there more than in this complaint than that that would tend to corroborate the central allegation here, which is that the president misused his office to try to get political dirt on an opponent by asking a foreign country to intervene? >> yes. for example, one of the things, savannah, that the whistle-blower mentions is that on august 2nd, a week after that phone call between president trump and president zelensky rudy giuliani held a follow-up meeting to have direct follow-up from that phone call. there was an effort under way launched by president trump to have rudy giuliani serve as that go between. this whistle-blower complaint is detailed. it's fairly comprehensive. it shows this whistle-blower was concerned about this going all the way back to the mid-may time frame. this person carefully, meticulously assembled facts and talked to multiple officials. it's obvious the white house is going to try to destroy this personal's credibility but the ot

just call bill barr. you can use our justice department to manufacture dirt on an opponent, that that's what democracy is. you can use foreign assistance, military assistance, vital assistance as a lever to get another country to do something unethical. the idea that a fellow democracy, struggling democracy, would hear those messages from the president of the united states, i just want to say to the people of ukraine, we support you in your fight with russia. we support you in your struggle for democracy, we support you in your efforts to root out corruption, and what you are witnessing and what you are seeing in the actions of this president is not democracy. it is the very negation of democracy. this is democracy. what you saw in this committee is democracy, as ugly as it can be, as personal as it can be, as infuriating as it can be. this is democracy. this is democracy. i thank you, director. we are adjourned. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. >>> welcome to our special coverage. i'm john king in w

that call was a great call. it was a perfect call, a perfect call. it was a beautiful, warm, nice conversation. the conversation, by the way, was absolutely perfect. i said absolutely nothing wrong. it was perfect. we had a great conversation. it was a warm and friendly conversation. it was a totally appropriate conversation. it was a beautiful conversation. we had a great call. it's a very honorable call. it's a nice call. by the way, the conversation was absolutely perfect. absolutely appropriate. it was a perfect conversation. everything we said on that call was perfect. there was a very, very fine conversation. an absolutely perfect conversation. but what i said was so good. it was a great conversation. it was a really great conversation. and everybody will say that. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. he's right. it was pretty great. it was a perfect phone call. pleasantries were exchanged. crimes were committed. i have no notes. i give him five stars, and he seems to have no idea how bad it is. who would believe vladimir zelinsky would be his monica le

the call itself does not call for that sort of treatment. not classified at the level, it's certainly not compartmented information that would require it being put in that system. >> jim, what do you believe are the big boxes that need to be checked going forward for this to rise to the level of something that might be impeachable? >> i am not sure that we're not there already. i mean, i think that transcript is quite alarming. it's not actually a literal transcript, right? but the substance of the call, that's alarming enough. if that kind of activity is acceptable, then i don't really know where we are as a country. of course, the congress has to conduct some amount of logical investigation, figure out who else might be willing to come forward, whether there's data and facts and circumstances that might corroborate that. but they're going to be investigating the president directly and trying to get information from the white house. that's going to be pretty tough. so i'm not really sure where they're going to go. i think the question is wh

call for a vote. call jerry nadler and adam schiff. call for a vote.uration secretary perry to send a message? >> i am not going to opine on what the decision was between the president, the vice president, the secretary of state, about the attending the ukraine -- the president of ukraine's inauguration. i will say this. this is a well-known issue. the issue of corruption in the ukraine while they were getting aid to the united states is well documented it was a serious problem. but, at the end of the day, the aid was given it was given in september of this year. so it happened this month. brian: gotcha. >> the important part here is, look, don't feel good, american people. i mean, it was fine that the white house decided to make this release of the transcript. but that should have everybody concerned. brian: jay sekulow, thanks so much. coming up next tom homan joins us live after his epic battle on capitol hill. we talk immigration in a moment. dawn is for more than just dishes. with 3x more grease cleaning power per drop, it tackles tough grease on

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election" in his july 25th phone call with the newly elected president of ukraine. >> my call was perfect the president yesterday of ukraine said there was no pressure putm atsoer, netsr. >> reporter:he whistleblower was not on the call, but relied on reports from "multiple white house officials with direct knowledge." the whistleblower alleges that senior white house officials "understood the gravity of what had transpired in the call" and proceeded "to 'lock down' all records of the phone call," including the transcript. >> it outlines a concerted effort by white house officials to conceal the contents of that transcript of that phone call in a way that was unprecedented. by one way of looking at that, that is a cover up beginning right after the phone call. that is evidence of consciousness of the president's t gu wrong on the phone call that they right away wanted to shift to another place where it might be harder to find. >> reporter: the whistleblower calls the president's lawyer rudy giuliani a central figure in the alleged plot to influence the election with more than 30 reference

which was a very innocent call. very, very innocent, very nice call. and as he said, i wasn't pushed. i wasn't pushed. meaning pressured. he wasn't pressured at all. but i don't like the concept of releasing calls because when a president or a prime minister or a king or a queen calls the united states, you don't like to say, gee, we're going to release your call to the fake news media and they're going to make you look like a fool. what happens is it is hard to do business that way. you wouldn't -- you want to have people feel comfortable so i hated it. but you folks were saying such lies. such horrible things about a call that was so innocent and so nice. in fact, lindsey graham said to me when he read it, very interesting, it is a good man, he's a smart man, he said i can't believe it. i never knew you could be this really nice to a person. he said, i cannot believe it. you were so -- i didn't think you had that in you to be so nice. i was nice. i'm nice to a lot of people. people don't understand that. but i was. but he was shocked that it was such

it's called you're dead. treason. it's treason.re a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things. very bad things. i would say treasonous things against our country. if you look at comey, look at mccabe, look at probably people higher than that. if you look at strook, look at his lover lisa paige. >> it was treason. really treason. >> that's what it is. it was treason. >> this is actually treason. you're just lucky i happen to be the president because a lot of other presidents would have reacted much differently than i reacted. they have unsuccessfully tried to take down the wrong person. that's treason. that's treason. treasonous. okay? thank you very much, everybody. >> our president on the subject of treason. and with that from one of the very few places on earth with politics as completely broken down and full on crazy as they are back home, that is our broadcast for tonight. thank you for being here with us and good night from our nbc news bureau here in london. >>> panics administration officials try to

but the call faded out.'t hear a thing. >> scott said that it sounded like she was on the road. >> he thought nothing of it then, he said. but now was it a distress call? no way to know. but there was one thing that call certainly cleared up for investigators. scott could not have killed teresa. he was something like 30 miles away up near tuscaloosa, had a breakfast receipt to prove it. >> he stopped at hardees and had a receipt showing he was there. >> so he rejoined his family. caught up in the terrible business of grieving. >> i kept wondering, why was it happening to our family. >> it was awful. who would ever imagine you'd have a murder in your family? >> investigators tried with the help of friends to fill in the gaps of teresa's last hours. they talked to their friend dawn lavender. she had plans to go shopping with teresa the morning of the murder. >> i'm sure dawn was upset and shocked by what happened. >> she did cry during the interview. she was at her house waiting on teresa to come pick her up b

but these attempts to conceal phone call s calls.'m told this practice went into practice more than a year ago after there were conversations leaked between the leaders of mexico and trump as well as australia. we should note the white house did not comment about the limiting of access to calls with the russian and saudi leaders. pamela brown, cnn, washington. >>> all right. lynn sweet back with me now. so we heard there it was because of leaks about a year, year and a half ago that that was their reasoning for switching some of these conversations to a different server. good enough excuse, lynn? >> no. no, because if you just want to tell the story of what happened, it could be that the president wanted to -- if all this was about was a story that the president wanted to crack down on leaks, we wouldn't be here this morning talking about this if it was just that routine or crackdown of a leaky white house. we're talking about conversations where we know in the case of the ukraine conversation that had potential massive impeach nnlt

some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed.le some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money management. lou: joining us tonight, we're pleased to say the treasury secretary the, stephen my knew chip. great to have you with us. >> great to be here with you, thank you. lou: let's start with china and the united states and where we are in the negotiations, if they can still be called that that. >> well, i think, you know, ambassador lighthizer and i have been at this now for a while under the president's direction, and the president has been very clear. if we can get the right deal, he wants to do a deal. if we can't get the right deal, he's happy with the tariffs. lou: and the chinese position does not seem to have migrated toward anything approaching an end to the theft of hundreds of billions with of dollars in intellect

to call for one without having a transcript of the call, hearing from the whistleblower, that is a rush to judgment and i think it is a disgrace to the constitution. host: what was your reading of the conversation? did you think what was said was perfect and appropriate? guest: this is donald trump we are talking about and he is not politically correct and he does things outside the box. i did not see anything wrong. the president asked about a potential act of corruption between the biden family and a -- itially you corrupt think the president had every right to ask that question and democrats say that his collusion with ukraine, we have heard this conversation before with collusion with russia. if the democrats had not already cried wolf so many times with respect to president trump in the past, i think this complaint might have more credibility with me. until i say something that strikes me as impeachable, i am going to consider this another -- took off her call -- tout -- took call for inquiry without anything pertaining to the campaign and michael cohen, this is a new thing that po

call today and find out more. i'm proud to be a part of aag, i trust em, i think you can too. >>> we do -- it doesn't have to drag on. it's no use to say by such and such a date. but looking at the, shall we say, the material that the administration is giving us, they are actually speeding up the process. >> nancy pelosi on "morning joe" today outlining a very rapid impeachment process focusing on the whistle-blower's revelations. the house intelligence committee will be working through next week's congressional recess and may be holding another hearing as it negotiates to try to talk to the whistle-blower him or herself. joining me now, former democratic congressman joe crowley, former chair of the house democratic caucus, and michael steel, former senior adviser to jeb bush and former spokesman to house speaker john boehner. welcome, both. to you, michael steel, we see the president, he's been reacting with fury on twitter and at every photo opportunity while he was in new york at the united nations. what do you

do you believe that this call was okay? >> i don't see anything wrong with the call.ead the transcript. several times. it appears to me that president trump simply asked his counterpart in ukraine to possibly look into potential corruption from the biden family, and i don't think that's anything irregular, and my question would be, if president trump is not the appropriate person to ask that question, then who is? >> let me ask you a question though, let's read directly from the transcript. here is how the president brought this up. he said the united states has been very good to ukraine. i wouldn't say it is reciprocal necessarily because things are happening that are not good, but the united states has been very, very good to ukraine. you see president zelensky's response there bringing up u.s. military assistance, and then trump immediately saying i would like you to do us a favor though. when you read that, citing us aid, saying that the ukrainians have not been reciprocal, how is that not pressuring a foreign leader to do what you want? >> i don't think any count