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i love you for who you are, don lemon. >>> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. we have some breaking news for you tonight on the president's attempts to put together a defense as the impeachment investigation heats up. "the washington post" is reporting tonight that he wanted the attorney general bill barr to hold a news conference declaring that he hadn't broken any laws with that infamous ukraine phone call. here's what sources are saying. they're saying that barr declined. we've got a lot more on this story. you want to stay tuned for that because it's very interesting once we put it all out there for you. and it comes as the president is speaking in louisiana tonight, my home state, at one of his increasingly frequent campaign rallies. we're getting reports that large numbers of people are leaving the rally as the president keeps talking. and he sure seems to have elections on his mind in the wake of gop defeats in kentucky and virginia last night. >> i didn't run in 2018, but people forget. we picked up two seats in the senate. they never want to talk about

i said yes, i'm dressed as don lemon tonight. i was laughing when you came to me because i had the picture of air force one backing up over rudy. if someone said to me, hey, don, is chris still your friend? and he said, i don't know. i haven't spoken to him. what does that mean? >> i don't know. that doesn't mean anything good. >> can i say something? people will get mad at me. can we please have a fireside chat? i want a fireside chat. >> what is the president's ability to read the whole transcript without pausing to comment? >> you're reading my mind. it would be so amazing. >> and i say, i would like you to do us a favor. a favor. let me go up. >> what i men, when i wrote this book, by the way, i wrote 12 books and they were all great. it would be really amazing when fdr did it, they would talk about fascism and all that. >> it was about galvanizing the country and the collective pursuit of justice. >> this is where we are right now. it's crazy. >> i can hear it now. they all love me. they hated obama. they love me. and he sai

. >>> still to come, cnn's don lemon sits down and speaks with joe biden on impeachment.t he has to say about the gop's claims against him and his strong words for senator lindsey graham. but, first, in this week's start small think big we visit daredevil tattoo. >> this neighborhood was the birth place of modern tattooing. i've known my business partner brad since high school. he was always like, they've legalized tattooing, let's open up the shop. we opened up in 1997 when tattooing was legalized again in new york city. >> we didn't know what we were doing but we were both determined to make it work. >> you want somebody who is capable of applying a good da too but you also want somebody that is able to put you at ease. >> got to hang in there, buddy. >> because there's a pain factor in tattooing. >> i tattooed whoopie goldberg with a big dragon on her shoulder. we never thought there would be something embraced by modern culture. >> why we did the museum is to share these artifacts that we've collected throughout the years. >> thomas edison invented the first perforati

let's turn it over to don lemon and "cnn tonight." >> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. thanks for joining us. big day tomorrow. this is the eve of live tv testimony from the former ambassador to the ukraine, her name is marie yovanovitch. tomorrow morning, 9:00 a.m. news of testimony from another official. and this is someone we haven't heard from before. mark sandy. an attorney for the omb says that he'll testify behind closed doors on saturday if he is subpoenaed. breaking ranks with the acting director and two others who have refused to testify. this is all new information. and this is a big deal. let me tell you why, because omb is responsible for releasing that $400 million in aid for ukraine. aid that multiple officials say was held up to pressure ukraine into giving the president investigations that would benefit him politically here at home. that as he is holding a rally in alabama tonight. you can almost set your watch by it. he feels threatened then he holds a rallied. the president's republican defenders grasping at some pretty flimsy straws right now. they w

2020 democratic primary and hearing exclusively from former vice president and 2020 hopeful from don lemone's losing his step. >> i've watched you today when you officially put your name on the ballot here hopping across chairs, something i couldn't do in a way i couldn't do it, but people love you here. people love you here. especially the black folks here. right? you said in the debate that you come from the black community. the support that you have, that you're ahead in the polls is largely in part for the black community. people say when they hear that, they say, wait, wait. is joe biden black? >> i understand that. what i meant politically i come from the black community and i really do. it's the reason why i ran in the first place. it's how i got engaged. i didn't plan on running. i got engaged because what was happening in my community. trying to put public housing, where i almost lost my seat. seeing children in cages at the border nap can't be true. >> a certain degree of comfort you have with black folk. does it come from that? >> i've never been uncomfortable. for real. yeah it

i'm don lemon. and again, we have breaking news. it comes quickly and often. the president is speaking out tonight in a new interview on a day congress held a vote on his impeachment inquiry. he's talking about his infamous ukraine call. the one he says was so perfect. he has a new proposal about the transcript of that call. you'll remember, that's when the call transcript was first released. he thought it would be clear -- it would clear him of accusations that he held off aid to a u.s. ally in exchange for accusations of his political opponents. instead, that whistleblower complaint and the release of the transcript, it kicked off a series of very damaging revelations and testimony from his own administration officials and aides. so the president is proposing a fireside chat. i'm serious. a fireside chat on live television. please. can this happen? where he will read the transcript of the call. that's according to an interview in "the washington examiner." he says, quote, at some point i'm going to sit down, perhaps as a fireside chat on live television and

look, you got zandana and the t davids, a rose between two thorns. >> what are you in that mix, don lemonou got dana, david, don, and there you go, all ds. just another "d." thank you, guys. i appreciate it. >>> tonight a big night for elections and it's got a lot of people looking ahead to one year from now. i'm going to talk about the 2020 presidential race, and i'm going to talk with the 2020 presidential candidate, senator cory booker, on the other side of this break. ♪ hey. hey. you must be steven's phone. now you can take control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network... only with xfinity xfi. download the xfi app today. >>> here's our breaking news tonight. democrat andy beshear declares victory over republican matt bevin in the ruby red state of kentucky, a key race as we are one year out from the biggest election in our lifetimes. so joining me now to discuss is new jersey senator cory booker, also a presidential candidate. thank you, sir. thanks for joining us. >> good to be here. >> are you holding up? can we get you some water? >> y

i'm don lemon. you just watched the cnn presidential town hall with the former vice president joe biden answering question after question from the audience, arguing that if the evidence is convincing, the senate should vote to remove the president from office, warning that the future of our democracy is at stake. talking very personally about the family tragedies he's faced and how he found meaning. explaining why he doesn't support medicare for all. and talking about what he would do to fight the climate crisis. so did he make his case to voters? that's the question. let's bring in david chalian, kirsten powers as well. good evening to both of you. it was a big night for the vice president, david -- for the former vice president, i should say. give me your main takeaways, please. >> yeah. well, i think this is one of the stronger performances we've seen from vice president biden. i would say in the entirety of this campaign, don. i think you pointed out at the top there in your remarks, this is cer

i'm don lemon. what a week, what a week, what a week. a huge week in impeachment. witness after witness testifying under oath about the shakedown to force ukraine to give the president what he wanted, an investigation into the political rival, his political rival, the one he seems to fear most, and that is joe biden. well, tonight we have got an exclusive with joe biden. i got the chance to go out on the campaign trail with the democratic front-runner and former vice president today in south carolina. talking to black voters at a restaurant in abbieville, taking selfies. there he is right there, officially putting his name on south carolina's democratic primary ballot. >> you're officially on the ballot. >> all right. yay. [ applause ] >> and by the way, making a surprise visit to a firehouse in town, something he told me that he does every time he gets a chance in gratitude to the firefighters who responded when his family suffered tragedies over the years. we also talked about his feelings of personal betrayal by lindsey graham, who is doing the president's biddi

let's turn things over to don lemon and "cnn tonight." >>> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon.ase the closed door testimony from two big witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. well, the former ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, who was abruptly recalled in may, and michael mckinley, a former top adviser to secretary of state mike pompeo who quit last month, and what they have to say tells a story of the ambassador -- how she got booted from her job, because she was getting in the way of what the president wanted. that was a deliverable, a public announcement by ukraine of investigations of the bidens and

. >>> "cnn tonight with don lemon" starts right now, and that bolo is gordon sondland, don. >> i wasoing to say, what happened to the bolo? >> that's where it is. that's the bolo. >> he's on the hot seat tomorrow. i think of all the witnesses and out of everyone here -- well, besides rudy giuliani and the president, he's the one that's most in peril because either he gets perjury, you know, if he doesn't change and then there is evidence to the contrary, or if he changes he's going to get attacked by republicans. and if he doesn't, he may get attacked by democrats. so he's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. but i think he can't have a -- perjury is the most serious, so i think he's probably going to tell the truth, or he should at least. he have learned from, you know, roger stone, on and on. >> the question is what did he -- i agree with you, but what did he learn from roger stone? roger stone arguably -- you know, look, i've known stone a long time. he calls himself a dirty trickster. he knew they were going to get his communications. arguably he knew what would come out to b

. >> what are you in that mix, don lemon? >> you got dana, david, don, and there you go, all ds.t another "d." thank you, guys. i appreciate it. >>> tonight a big night for elections and it's got a lot of people looking ahead to one year from now. i'm going to talk about the 2020 presidential race, and i'm going to talk with the 2020 presidential candidate, senator cory booker, on the other side of this break. it'll ruin your house. so get allstate and be better protected from mayhem, like meow. dad! dad!! can you drive me to jessica's house? ♪ at northwestern mutual, this is what our version of financial planning looks like. tomorrow is important, but so is making the most of the house before they're out of the house. spend your life living. find an advisor at northwesternmutual.com. so, you bought those "good enough" paper towels? [daughter laughs] not such a bargain. there's only one quicker picker upper. bounty, the quicker picker upper. >>> here's our breaking news tonight. democrat andy beshear declares victory over republican matt bevin in the ruby red state of kentucky, a

i'm don lemon. and we are less than 12 hours away from an event -- are you listening to me? this will change american history. and that is no overstatement. the biggest moment of the impeachment inquiry so far. the first public testimony from witnesses tying the president of the united states to the effort to shake down ukraine, to force them into investigations that could help him politically here and at home -- here at home, i should say. a blockbuster live tv event with millions of people hanging on every word. and here's the irony right here. the master showman, the first reality tv president, who spends hours and hours every day in executive time, watching tv, can't control what happens. he cannot produce it. he cannot script it. he can only watch along with the rest of us. so here's what to watch for. stay close. it all kicks off at 10:00 a.m. in the grandest hearing room in the house, the chambers of the ways and means committee. the hearing take is place before the 13 democrats and 9 republicans on the intel committee, surrounded by tv cameras, broadcasting the whole

i'm don lemon. for the next two hours, think of this as the view from 30,000 feet.he avalanche of news, and there has been a lot of it, tonight we'll tell you exactly where we are in the impeachment process. a big week behind us, a big week ahead. we'll tell you what this all means and what happens next. it has been a whirlwind week. 2,677 pages of testimony from eight witnesses, one after another. and page after page tying the

listen to the former vice president with cnn's don lemon. >> let me ask you because lindsey graham nowd with who was a friend. i know there's video of him saying you're the nicest person he's ever met. you're the greatest man. and now, he's asking the state department for documents for you and your son. what do you say to lindsey graham and folks like him? >> they're asking lindsey graham. they have him under their thumb right now. they know he knows if he comes out against trump, he's got a real tough road for re-election. number one. i am disappointed and, quite frankly, i'm angered by the fact. he knows me. he knows my son. he knows there's nothing to this. trump is now essentially holding power over him that even the ukrainians wouldn't yield to. ukrainians would not yield. to quote investigate biden. there's nothing to investigate about biden or his son. and -- and lindsey is about to go down in a way that i think he's gonna regret his whole life. >> what do you say to him? >> i say, lindsey, i -- i -- i just -- i -- i -- i'm just embarrassed by what you're doing. for you. i mean,

>>> "cnn tonight with don lemon" starts right now, and that bolo is gordon sondland, don. >> i was going to say, what happened to the bolo? >> that's where it is. that's the bolo. >> he's on the hot seat tomorrow. i think with all the witnesses and out of everyone here -- well, besides rudy giuliani and the president, he's the one that's most in peril because either he gets perjury, you know, if he doesn't change and then there is evidence to the contrary, or if he changes, he's going to get attacked by republicans. and if he doesn't, he may get attacked by democrats. so he's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. but i think he can't have a -- perjury is the most serious, so i think he's probably going to tell the truth, or he should at least. she have learned from, you know, roger stone, on and on. >> the question is what did he -- i agree with you, but what did he learn from roger stone? roger stone arguably -- you know, look, i've known stone a long time. he called himself a dirty trickster. he knew they were going to get his communications. arguably he knew what would come out to

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i'm don lemon. a big show. we are now -- count them -- just five days away, five days, are you ready, from public televised hearings in the impeachment investigation into president trump's shakedown of ukraine's president, the unfreezing of nearly $400 million in military aid in return for an investigation into joe biden and the 2016 election. and today in the run-up to those historic hearings, house investigators releasing more transcripts of testimony by key witnesses, who testified behind closed doors. testimony from fiona hill, the former white house expert on russia. lieutenant concern alexander vindman, the national security council expert on ukraine, who still works inside the west wing. can you imagine having testified and still having to work there? that testimony was damaging, especially to the acting white house chief of staff. i'm talking about mick mulvaney, one of the president's top aides. and to gord sondland as well, the u.s. ambassador for the european union. both testifying that sondland told

let's turn things over to don lemon and "cnn tonight." >>> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. thank you so much for joining us. tonight house democrats are handing republicans exactly what they claim that they wanted publicly, to publicly release the closed door testimony from two big witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. well, the former ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, who was abruptly recalled in may, and michael mckinley, a former top adviser to secretary of state mike pompeo who quit last month, and what they have to say tells a story of the ambassador -- how she got booted from her job, because she was getting in the way of what the president wanted. that was a deliverable, a public announcement by ukraine of investigations of the bidens and the dnc. at times the testimony sounds like what you'd hear in an organized crime case honestly. the ambassador asked what the president meant when he said, on that infamous ukraine call, she's going to go through some things. quote, i don't know what it meant. i was very concerned. i still am. question: did you feel threate

i mean, my lord. >> joe biden there with don lemon. president trump routinely denounced the mueller investigation to russian meddling at the political witch hunt without merit. the origins of the investigation that started it all are now the subject of a lengthy official review by the u.s. justice department. and as the so-called horowitz report is expected to show, mistakes were made. cnn's evan perez has the details. >> reporter: the justice department is investigating a former fbi lawyer who allegedly altered an internal document used to prepare the 2016 surveillance war application on a former trump campaign adviser. the altered document is among a number of mistakes that are expected to be cited in an upcoming report by justice department inspector general michael horowitz. despite the mistakes, horwitz's report is expected to find that the court-ordered investigation of carter page was valid. and the report is also expected to conclude that the fbi improperly opened investigations between trump campaign figures and russia in 2016

hearing more from former vice president joe biden in this exclusive interview with cnn's don lemon. >president says his former senate colleague lindsey graham "should be embarrassed." after graham announced intention to launch an investigation into the biden family. >> i want to talk to you about impeachment. >> yes. >> do you think democrats have made their case? do you see an impeachable offense? >> i think it's clear on the record that donald trump went in in addition to the violations that have been uncovered relative to the mueller report, i think donald trump has no doubt, has asked foreign countries to interfere in our electoral process, period. it's been established. now, republicans are trying to make it that has nothing to do with anything. the truth is, it's a violation of the constitution to do that. so i think the case has been made clear. what the republicans do when it gets over to the senate or the actual trial begins, impeachment, indictment. that means an indictment. i believe he should be impeached and have the senate try whether or not they are high crimes and misd

. >>> this is "cnn tonight" i'm don lemon. so the president is speaking at a rally in mississippi tonight, and it should probably be no surprise, as i just mentioned, he's back to his old tricks again. he's up to his old tricks, slamming democrats, making sure to refer to his predecessor as barack hussein obama. >> but think of it. i've just beaten with no political experience the clinton dynasty, the bush dynasty, the president barack hussein obama dynasty [ audience booing ] and president obama worked harder at defeating me than crooked hillary clinton did, right? he was all over the place. it's the only time i've actually seen him work hard, when he came to trying to beat trump. >> two things he should be telling that audience. they should be thankful and he should be as well that barack obama pulled the economy from the brink of disaster, and he inherited a really good economy that he tries to claim is his own all the time, his own making. he didn't run against president obama. but what else do you expect from the man who

i'm don lemon. for the next two hours, think of this as the view from 30,000 feet. if you were feeling overwhelmed by the avalanche of news, and there has been a lot of it, tonight we'll tell you exactly where we are in the impeachment process. a big week behind us, a big week ahead. we'll tell you what this all means and what happens next. it has been a whirlwind week. 2,677 pages of testimony from eight witnesses, one after another. and page after page tying the president of the united states to efforts to shake down ukraine, to force them into investigations that could help him politically here at home. the testimony devastating to the president. but in the week ahead, we're going to hear from three of the most important witnesses answering questions on live tv with millions of people across this country hanging on every single word. first we have bill taylor, a top diplomat in the ukraine. we have state department official george kent. and former ambassador marie yovanovitch. what they say will

don lemon spoke with biden exclusively about that. >> reporter: i want to talk at you about staying inpe. there are folks who have recently gotten in the race, they don't think you're in shape. they don't think you're in shape, one of them is maybe bloomberg. >> come on. >> go on. >> no, come on. i'm -- i welcome the competition. >> reporter: someone in his campaign said, someone said specifically he has specific concerns about your ability to carry this through to the finish line. what do you say about that? >> watch me. watch me. the idea that i'm not in better shape than mayor bloomberg physically and otherwise -- l k look, trump is so bad as a president and so corrupt as a president that everybody in america who's ever been involved with politics, especially if they have a billion dollars, thinks they can beat trump. maybe they could. and so what do you have to do? i'm the guy sitting at the top of the pyramid. i get it. i'm a big boy. never complain, never explain. >> duval patrick, he doesn't have $1 billion -- >> he doesn't, but i noticed -- they showed me the other day he went

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i'm don lemon. really the hits keep on coming for this president. it is the eve of a huge week of impeachment testimony. we just talked about it, and this is our breaking news right now. transcripts released just tonight from the closed-door testimony of bill taylor's aide. his name is david holmes. and state department official, another david, who's name is david hale. we're going to dig into both of them. we just got it a little while ago. chris had some of it. phil mattingly is up on capitol hill. he's going to go through it a little bit more with you. but just stay tuned. but i want you to listen to this from holmes, talking about the call that he apparently overheard sondland and the president and why it was so shocking. this was an extremely distinctive experience in my foreign service career, he says. i've never seen anything like this. someone calling the president from a mobile phone at a restaurant and then having a conversation of this level of candor, colorful language. there's just so much about the call that was so remarkable, that i r

i'm laura coates sitting in for don lemon. we're learning a whole lot more tonight about the shakedown on ukraine and how all these dots are now connecting. "the new york times" reporting that the president already knew about the whistleblower complaint, that complaint that set off the impeachment inquiry before he ever released the aid to ukraine. that's right around the time the president told ambassador gordon sondland there was no quid pro quo, using that term, before people started using that phrase even publicly. it's been one of his favorite talking points ever since. he brought it up at his campaign rally in florida this evening. the crowd chanting "no quid pro quo" along with him. >> i want nothing. this is a quote. i want no quid pro quo. i want nothing. >> we're also getting brand-new information tonight from never-before-seen transcripts including this new detail. the white house never actually asked its own budget office about other countries contributing aid to ukraine until september, which doesn't exactly jive

let's turn it over to don lemon and "cnn tonight." >> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon.e of live tv testimony from the former ambassador to the ukraine, her name is marie yovanovitch. tomorrow morning, 9:00 a.m. news of testimony from another official. and this is someone we haven't heard from before. mark sandy. an ay

. >>> this is "cnn tonight" and i'm don lemon. what a day this has been. the fist day of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry. nearly noo5 and a 1/2 hours of testimony. did you watch? and this is without the spin. this is just the beginning. there's still at least nine witnesses to come, maybe more, maybe even more. if you hear about what happened today, nine more in a process that's only come three times before in our entire nation's history. and if you weren't able to watch it all live, we've got the big moments for you right he tonight. this is a public service so you can see. i want you to take a look at this. the first two witnesses are side by side, each swearing to tell the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth, which is a very important point. there are -- they have decades of public service between them. and george kent is a senior state department official who was so disturbed by what he learned about president trump's pressure campaign that he put out a memo calling it injurious to the rule of law. bill taylor is a top diplomat in u

republican senator lindsey graham asked the state department for documents involving the bidens and don lemon, our friend don, sat down with former vice president biden, joe biden, and asked about that. so listen to this. >> let me ask you. because lindsey graham now, who you've worked with, who was a friend. i know this, video of him saying, oh, you are the nicest person he's ever metened the greatest man and now asking the state department for documents for you and your son. what do you say to lindsey graham and folks like him? >> they're asking lindsey graham, they have him under their thumb right now, they know he knows if he comes out against trump he's got a real tough road for re-election. number one. i am disappointed, and quite frankly i'm angered by the fact he knows me. he knows my son. he knows there's nothing to this. trump is now essentially holding power over him that even the ukrainians wound yield to. the ukrainians would not yield to "investigate bidens." there's nothing to investigate about biden or his son, and lindsey is about to go down in a way i think he's going to reg

>>> this is "cnn tonight" i'm don lemon. we're hows away from key moment in american history. the opening of public hearings in the impeachment proceeding. the proceedings will gavel at 10:00 a.m. eastern. the witness withes, bill taylor who has already given bomb shell testimony hind closed door george kent who overseas all u.s. policy in ukrain he called rudy giuliani's attacks on the ousted ambassador to ukrain outright lies. what iech brings to the table for democrats and republicans. and i'm going to ask the ambassador nicolas burn what he's expecting to learn in the testimony. all vocal supporters of the president, we're going to look at their influence on trump was foreign policy, plus the state of play in the democratic election. we're going to begin with breaking news from the "washington post." they're reporting rudy giuliani associate who president trump claims not to know says he discussed ukrain with the president in 2018. joining me now is a national security reporter for the post. thank you so much. let's talk about giuliani associates recently eindicted for all

joe biden is coming out taking on deval patrick and in an interview with don lemon, just listen to this and no one showed up. >> yeah. >> so, look, i like deval. i really do. he's a good guy and he's a solid guy. >> all right. biden is not wrong about morehouse. that is the image of the empty room at morehouse college where patrick was supposed to speak. the event was canceled after only two people showed up and the event was scheduled with almost no notice an hour before the democratic debate. keith boynkin and former clinton white house secretary joe lockhar lockhart. >> appeal is he brings people together. he ended up complimenting deval. they know each other well and it's kind of a cheap shot and the bigger picture for biden as he goes around and talks about how much support he has in the african-american community which is true, but he's -- he's got to earn that support, and you know, taking a shot at deval, i think, was off brand. >> off brand, keith. here's the thing to his point about the black vote, he is giving this interview with don in south carolina and 50% of the voters ar

i'm don lemon. shocking revelations that we need to tell you about. it's about the overheard phone call between the president and gordon sondland, what we first heard about in the testimony of bill taylor. cnn has a copy of the openings. david holmes overheard the eu ambassador, a million dollar trump donor, gordon sondland's phone calls with president trump. okay? we're going to tell you how it all went down. it is full of evidence, evidence that is devastating for this president. let me set the scene. holmes describes a lunch on july 26th, the day after the infamous phone call. sondland, holmes, two staffers sitting on a terrace in kiev, sharing a bottle of wine. someone calls the president to give him an update. this is from page 6 of holmes' opening statement, and i quote here -- while ambassador sondland's phone was not on speakerphone i could hear the president's voice. the president's voice was very loud and recognizable, and ambassador sondland held the phone a earp from his ear for a period of time, presumably because of the loud volume. okay

>>> this is cnn teeonight, i am don lemon. the president's chief of staff directed the quid pro quo is there any way mulvaney was not following the president's order. rudy giuliani arguing the defending donald trump. is the president's personal attorney is helping or hurting his client. and we are not now just days away from the public televised hearings into president trump. we'll break down what to expect. plus, the president courting african-american voters today. he claims democrats are fighting harder for illegal immigrants. the anonymous author behind a new book calls "a warning," ultimately, they decided against it. we have a lot to get to in the hour ahead. i want to begin with brian and susan. susan, you first, what do you do without instructions from the presidents? >> it is whathard to imagine. he refused the subpoena from capitol hill. we have not heard his story. one former came forward and did testify on capitol hill, we reviewed their testimony, they repeated mulvaney multiple times. he was the contact for sondl

i'm don lemon. we're talking about the contentious interview that don junior, i think hits fair to say his girlfriend, the former fox news host kimberley -- >> when he was whining about the whistle-blower and how it was unfair the way people are responding to outing the whistle-blower, which the outrage is justified versus what he had, the issue to his family, something very different than anybody else, he has secret service protection because he's the son of the president. this whistle-blower doesn't have that same luxury, and that's why we have protections for whistle blowers and because they are in the intelligence community. there's a separate set of rules and laws that protect their identity as well. it's a despicable thing and complete distraction anyway because the whistle-blower complaint doesn't matter anyway -- >> as the president's son he should have -- he should be held to a higher standard. >> i want to make something very clear. joy did not wear blackface. that is one of the many, many

i'm don lemon. we're talking about the contentious interview that don jr. -- i think it's fair to say his girlfriend, the former fox news host, they were on "the view." >> she calls herself mamacita. >> okay. go ahead, tara. >> when he was whining about the whistleblower and how it was unfair the way people are responding to outing the whistleblower, which is outrage is justified versus his issues with the powdery substance sent to his family, something that's very different than anybody else, he has secret service protection because he's the son of the president. this whistleblower doesn't have that same luxury. and because they are in the intelligence community, there is a separate set of rules and laws. it is a despicable thing. the whistleblower complaint doesn't even matter at this point with the cascading evidence coming out. >> and it doesn't matter that someone else printed it. as the president's son, he should have -- right? he should be held to a higher standard. >> i want to make something

anybody who doesn't watch cnn, all of america who plugged their ears at the new york bar to avoid don lemonswhen they can't explain to themselves why they are still losing. many supporters have many passionate meat i remind you that 90% of trump media coverage is against him for its lockstep journalism. one that had demands adherence. >> it's like a cult of personality. >> cultish devotion. >> a destructive clut. >> the president using mind control. >> becoming a clut. it's frightening that you are a clut expert and you see all the signs in american politics. >> greg: what does that sound? looks like your programming could use some deprogramming. that's a good one. not aihara krishna. i give that on one to dana. i'm going to tell you that i have used this cheap shot before when i was describing the media under obama, but i wasn't describing supporters, how like there was an eight year coma. i wouldn't go after half the country who loved him. >> dana: especially if you want to win again. do you remember after the 2016 election, there was a series of articles for 18 months where reporters went

>>> this is "cnn tonight" i'm don lemon. we're now just hours away from a key moment in american history. the opening of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry. the proceedings will be gavelled to order at 10:00 a.m. eastern and you can see every moment live right here on cnn. first witnesses bill taylor. diplomat in ukraine. already given bomb shell testimony behind choesed doors and george kent the top state department official who over sees all u.s. policy in ukraine. he called rudy giuliani attacks on the ousted u.s. ambassador to ukraine a campaign of lies. we'll look at the background and experience of the two key questioners of the witnesses and what each brings to the table for both democrats and republicans. i'll ask the ambassador what he is expecting to learn in the public testimony. the names of prominent figures and conservative media vocal supporters of the president are pep pepered throughout the closed door testimony. the state of play in the democratic race for the nomination. what a new poll is telling

>>> this is "cnn tonight" i'm don lemon. we're hours away from the next round of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry and we have breaking news. new transcripts released testimony from a u.s. diplomat in ukraine who told investigators he had never seen anything like the phone call between president trump and ambassador sondland. that was heard publicly in a kiev restaurant. more hon that. a big week tht impeacment hearings nine people scheduled to testify on live tv. the president has been consistently dishonest about ukraine. and the impeachment inquiry. making 45 separate false claims on those who subjects. we're fact checking. new poll numbers in the fight for the democratic nomination candidates try to appeal to black voters. leaked e-mails from steven miller the top white house official who holds hard line views on immigration, they show he privately promoted stories from white nationalists and fringe media organizations. we'll look at that. president trump relationship with putin is raised eyebrows since day one.

>>> this is "cnn tonight" i'm don lemon. there's a lot going on. we'll catch you up on five big headlines. a momentous day in the impeachment inquiry. testimony by a trump aid. and arguments in federal court on whether a former white house official must answer a congressional subpoena to testify. major step the house aremoving that resolution. along party lines. that advances the impeachment inquiry setting the stage for public hearings and possible articles of impeachment against president trump. what history tells us about that. if the president is eventually impeached by acquitted in the senate and the trial. would that em bolden him for reelection? we'll talk about that. rudy giuliani role in ukraine scandal is extensive and he's said to be shopping for an attorney. how much of a liability is he for president trump? congresswoman hill giving her final speech on the floor as she resigns amidallegations with a relationship with a staffer. she says she's been forced to give up her seat due to a double standard. straight to the historic day. joinin