i'm jake tapper. and we begin this hour with breaking news.se democrats are accusing secretary of state mike pompeo of intimidating witnesses in an effort to protect himself and president trump. secretary of state pompeo said he is refusing to honor democrats' requests for depositions of five state department officials and he accused democrats of bullying secretary pompeo, we should know, was on the call in question with president trump and ukraine's president and as abby phillip reports, president trump is also keeping up his attacks. he's also going after democrats as well as the media and the whistle-blower. >> reporter: while president trump continues to attack the whistle-blower behind his impeachment inquiry, both on twitter and on camera -- >> we have a whistle-blower that reports things that were incorrect. >> reporter: his secretary of state today is pushing back on house democrats looking to question some of his employees. in a letter mike pompeo saying democrats are trying to intimidate, bullying and treat improperly the distinguish

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jake. >> interesting legal argument. evan perez, thank you so much. >>> a number of major developments in the house impeachment inquiry into president trump over just of the last 24 hours cnn confirmed the office of management and budget also does not plan to clie with the congressional subpoena. that deadline was today. and this is just hours after president trump's one-time adviser on russia fiona hill testified behind closed door at congress that the security adviser at the time john bolton viewed rudy giuliani as a quote, hand grenade going to, quote, blow everybody up. cnn's alex marquardt joins me live. alex. >> reporter: we have gotten word from the omb they do not plan to hand over documents and saying they view this impeachment inquiry as constitutionally illegitimate and it is not clear whether the omb has sent any notice officially to the impeachment inquiry. they have requested documents from the pentagon and vice president mike pence's office and they have not received those documents. jake, as you mentioned

>> reporter: well that is right, jake.of incidents that have really raised people's concerns. the first took place in a family -- i should say a camp for isis prisoners it is called al hal and family members of isis and many radicalized and it appears that dozens of them essentially tries to escape or prison break on the chaos and confusion that is raining at this time in northern syria. kurd. >> security forces were able to put a stop to that but nonetheless it is raising eyebrows. here in the very city that i'm standing in, jake, near the turkish border, a car bomb today and four people killed. quite a significant blast. isis has come out and claimed responsibility for that bombing. we should say we can't confirm that. isis is on or opportunityistic and try to claim credit for attacks even if they are not the perpetrators. but when you have a power vacuum or a security vacuum you create a space for a group like isis to reform, coalesce and strike again. >> and you spoke with u.s. special operators in syria and what are t

i'm jake tapper.uiry already raising issues of an abuse of power. president trump today continued to shock the political system by openly pushing both ukraine and now china to open investigations into joe biden and his son, despite their being no evidence of wrongdoing, which the former ukrainian prosecutor and president have said publicly. one need not have whistle-blowers for today's story. president trump said this in front of tv cameras today, standing on the south lawn of the white house. and the reaction from republican lawmakers, to further evidence that president trump is clearly using his office to push foreign governments to investigate his domestic political rivals either are in defense of the president's conduct or the fate sound of crickets chirping. kaitlan collins starts off our coverage from the white house. >> china should start an investigation into the bidens. >> reporter: in his own words, president trump called on another foreign power to investigate his political rival. >> i thin

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>> i've heard that argument, but here is the thing, jake.which is what twitter is, does not have the -- has obligations. in this case, twitter has terms of use policy. and their terms of use dictate who receives the prifl of speak i ing on that platform and who does not and donald trump has clearly violated the terms of use. not to mention he has used his platform, president of the united states, in a way that's been about inciting fear and potentially inciting harm against a witness to what might be a crime against our country and our democracy. and for that reason, i do believe that it's clear that he has violated the terms of use. and i'm asking that twitter does what it has done in previous locations, which is to revoke someone's privilege because they've not lived up to the advantages of the privilege. >> there is a new poll out in california, your home state, showing your approval, your support numbers have dropped from 19% in july to just 8% now in terms of your presidential race. are you concerned at all if you're in single digits in

>> it is a red herring, jake. the truth of the matter is that whistle-blowers often come directly to the committee. they come to the minority and to the majority to the democrats and the republicans. and seek guidance. we are one of the means by which a whistle-blower can come forward. it is then always referred to the inspector general to make sure that it is properly reviewed and classified. so it is much ado about nothing and once again just kind of grasping at straws. because the fact of the matter is if you go to the corpus, what actually happened, you have the president of the united states seeking to have dirt from a foreign national, from a foreign leader, on his opponent. so there is no -- there is no subject here other than the president. and those of us who are in the intelligence committee are in a position to receive complaints but then they're always referred to the inspector general. >> republicans on your committee are also complaining that they are being shut out of the process and not allowed to

>> reporter: we're getting a blessed break right now, jake. down a bit. blue skies out again, giving firefighters a bit of a break but not too much. they want to knock them down while they can, before the winds come back. we're in the inland empire in the hills above san bernardino. those are the scorch marks of last night's firestorm. if you live in florida and a hurricane is coming, you get a few days notice but these tragedies in california come in the middle of the night. maybe this family got knocked out of bed just before dawn to evacuate. by the end of the day, this is all that's left. one of six homes in this community destroyed. given the strength of those winds, that's actually a pretty blessedly low number. this is what folks are worried about. even if an ember from here were to cast a mile away, it could start this whole thing all over again. >> bill, californians are saying that it sure seems that fire seasons are getting much worse. is there any proof of that? >> reporter: absolutely. i'll date myself. i graduate from college sou

"the lead," i'm jake tapper. we begin with breaking news. moments ago house democratic leadership announced that the full house of representatives will vote on thursday on the process by which they will conduct the impeachment inquiry into donald trump. house democrats making a move that appears in part at least to aimed to shut down republican talking points complaint the inquiry is not been on the house floor and the due process rights for president trump and more. a senior aide telling me the resolution will be introduced tomorrow, tuesday, and then voted on the floor on thursday. cnn's manu raju is on capitol hill with this breaking news. manu, what are you learning? what are the details here? >> reporter: this is significant because it signals the next phase of the impeachment inquiry is about to take shape. that next phase being the open hearings. now what this essentially does is how they release public transcripts and ensuring that this intelligence, the evidence that they have gained through the house in

vienna's epic meltdown with jake. >> you don't talk to people like that, jake. geez. thought we had tears on "this is us." >> right. but now vienna is moving past all the heart break in her life in this exclusive interview with our lauren zima. >> you were known for being this personality on "the bachelor" maybe painted in a certain, let's say, villainous light at some moments. >> i think that a lot of people changed their perception after jake and i's break-up. >> i'm so disgusted with you. >> you are a fame whore is what you are. i'm not a villain. i'm just someone that tells the truth, sometimes a little too much. >> vienna says she hasn't spoken to jake since that brutal break up almost ten years ago. and while she's happy with her boyfriend of two years, the 33-year-old is still healing from a heart-wrenching loss. >> a couple years ago i had my miscarriage. i lost my twin girls at five months and it was really difficult for me. >> who during all that in your life was there for you? >> my mom. my mom is here in the studio now. i'm getting emotional. my mom hersel

all day strong. >>> welcome back to "state of the union," i'm jake tapper. former vice president joe biden is taking on president calling him wholly unfit to lead in a washington post op-ed biden writes trump is frantically pushing flat out lies and debunked conspiracy theories and smears against my family no doubt hoping to undermine my candicy for my presidency and it won't work because the american people know me and they know him. the prosecutor general has seen no evidence of any wrongdoing by hunter biden, the vice president's son. joining me now 2020 presidential candidate and a member of the senate judiciary committee senator amy klobuchar. thank you for joining us. >> thanks, jake. >> your fellow democratic senator and 2020 opponent elizabeth warren said on friday that she had seen enough evidence to convict president trump at an impeachment trial in the senate. >> you've seen enough evidence to convict yourself? >> yes. >> so you would vote right now to -- >> i think the evidence is clear. when donald trump released the transcript in which he solic

jake? >> back on the program, sunlen serfaty, thank you so much. >>> this just in. "the new york times" has obtained a letter that one witness testifying on capitol hill received from the trump administration. the letter addressed to the counsel of laura cooper, pentagon official in charge of russia and ukraine policy makes note of administration wide direction that executive branch personnel cannot participate in the impeachment inquiry under the current circumstances, signed by the deputy secretary of defense david norquist. cooper testified wednesday under subpoena. let's chew overall of this with our experts. it seems people in the administration who have been subpoenaed even though they're being told by the trump administration not to participate are participating anyway. >> they have a lot to say. clearly what we've been hearing over the past week and a half all sounds somewhat along the same lines, right? they lay out a chain of events that take place ever since president zelensky wa

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jake. lauren fox on capitol hill. now is democratic congresswoman from the commonwealth of pennsylvania madeleine dean. thank you for join us. your reaction to the resolution that just posted within the hour. >> i'm pleased with it. i think it is the right step forward. the very first line of the resolution it directs the committees, the over sight committee, i happen to be on the judiciary, to continue our investigation as to whether sufficient grounds exist to bring to bear our constitutional authority of impeachment. so i think it is -- it is an excellent step forward and a matter of process and due process as your report just laid out. >> what kind of evidence will you need to vote to impeach the president, do you think? >> well that is a question down the road. that is why again i like the opening statement of this. what we will need is the evidence from the witnesses that are being collected now. i look forward to the public hearings that we will have. i look forward to the transfer of the report to the judiciar

>> that's right, jake.nes and fruman, the federal prosecutors southern district of new york according to law officials who have been briefed and cnn's evan perez have been told that specifically one of the things they are looking at is the financial dealings between these two individuals and rudy giuliani. of course, the ukraine matter in the mind of a lot of the federal investigators and prosecutors and they want to know what this relationship was about. perhaps they're looking at the money. who was funding some of this? was rudy giuliani in any way making money off of this? financial dealings are one of the things that the fbi and prosecutors are looking at, as well as the overall relationship here, jake. >> shimon prokupecz, thank you very much. >>> president trump suggests that the hard core isis fighters are someone else's problem. stay with us. we'll go right there. in the workforce that's waiting for them. since verizon innovative learning, students have hardware, connectivity, and quality curriculum

i'm jake tapper. joe biden is taking on president trump directly this morning calling him wholly unfit to lead. he writes trump is pushing debunked conspiracy theories and smears hoping to undermine my running for the american presidency. the american people know me and they know him. to be clear the ukrainian prosecutor general says he's seen no ed of hunter biden. joining me now a member of the senate judiciary committee, senator amy klobuchar. thank you for joining us. our fellow democratic senator elizabeth warren said on friday she had seen enough evidence to convict president trump in an impeachment trial in the senate. take a listen. >> you have seen enough evidence to convict yourself? >> yes. >> you would vote right now to -- >> look, i think the evidence is clear. when donald trump released the transcript in which he solicited a foreign government to interfere in the 2020 elections, he broke the law. >> senator, would you vote to convict president trump right now? >> jake, i have been very c

>> well, jake, i wish had it been different. i could tell you that.d a lo-- a lot of choices. we like to oversimplify the complicated relationships but the logical question is were we prepped to stay there and fight the turks given they were committed to come across the border and establishing this militarized zone with or without our staying there. so i think the president at that point has -- not so much a binary choice as a decision to make as to which -- which friend if you will do we stand with in the circumstance. clearly the turks are not the type of ally that the kurds are but they are a nato ally and it is never quite as simple as a binary choice. >> i'm not sure that turkey would have attacked if the u.s. had remained there. think wanted to attack for years and they haven't done so. beyond that, what you are saying is accurate, you are voicing support for the united states military retreating, surrendering in the face of the turks. >> sure. we are re treating from that particular area and i think, again, the turks, while they are not the kur

look, jake, i respect your opinion.ust telling you how i see it and i think how the average fair-minded american sees this, not the well-intentioned crazies on each wing. i think the average american is looking at this and they're saying, look, we're going to annul an american election and impeach a president of the united states and we're going to do it in total secret and not let the american people see the evidence. >> sir, thos not what is happening. >> can i finish this thought? >> sure. yes, it is. yes, it is. yes, it is. how many members of congress suffer from mental illness? none. they seem to enjoy it. that is what the average american is thinking. well this is going to annul a presidential election and behind closed doors. what happened to democracy dies in darkness. >> so just two points and i have to bid you farewell, one this is the beginning of the process. >> sure. >> there is a public part of this and then there will be a public vote on impeachment and then it goes -- assuming the impeachment passes the

"the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> welcome to the lead, i'm jake tapper. and we begin with breaking news. two sources present at the tuesday deposition of white house national security counsel staffer lieutenant colonel vindman tell me that he told congressional investigators that he became convinced that president trump personally was ordering the with holding of $400 million in aid for ukraine as a way of forcing ukrainian president zelensky to publicly announce an investigation into the bidens. he said the existence of a quid pro quo had been clear to him by july 10th when the ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland, a point mant on ukraine situation, told ukrainian officials they need to deliver, quote, specific investigations in order to secure the white house meeting they so desired with president trump. that is according to vindman's opening start reported yesterday. but the fact that the $400 million in aid including the desperately needed military assistance to beat back the russians, that was also being used by the president, that didn'

>>> welcome to "the lead," i'm jiha -- i'm jake tapper. the white house working overtime after the act of the center of the impeachment inquiry mick mulvaney denying saying that trump withhold security aid to pressure the country to conduct an investigation to help president trump political denying it but that is clearly what mick mulvaney said yesterday. take a listen. >> to be clear, what you described is a quid pro quo. it is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened as well? >> we do -- we do that all of the time with foreign policy. and i have news for everybody, get over it. there is going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> that admission or confession if you will shocked the nation's capitol including individuals in the white house and mulvaney was quickly ordered to clean it up. he issued a statement claiming he had not said what he very clearly said. congressman francis rooney of florida, a former diplomat said in response to the attempted walk-back, quote, it is not an etch-a-

>> very concerned, jake.graphic, a narrowing demographic of elderly people and rural people. >> are you still a republican, do you ever think about leaving the party? >> i don't know. i am a republican. i believe we have the better argument in the area of economic and business relation but not the better argument on gun violence and the environment. >> that is florida republican congressman francis rooney telling me this morning about his concerns about his own party. rooney is not ruling out backing an impeachment inquiry and he announced his retirement just yesterday. let's discuss. amanda, what do you think? this is a problem that we hear from other republicans that there is very little room in the party right now for any independence from president trump. >> yeah. and you see that playing out not with syria, which i think we've reached a breaking point in people feeling comfortable in able to criticize the president because congress does have a role to play in these decisions. and president trump made thi

i'm jake tapper. we start with the politics lead and the strategy of the white house and allies of spinning, dismissing and outright lying to the american people on full display today as the impeachment investigation expands. democrats slap brand-new subpoenas on the trump administration. today the three house committees leading the charge on impeachment, intelligence, oversight and foreign affairs subpoenaed both the president's defense secretary and his budget chief, not only demanding documents about his interactions with ukraine and his with holding of hundreds of million dollars in military aid for ukraine and also information on the rudy giuliani and the ways in which giuliani pressured ukrainian officials to investigate joe and hunter biden on behalf of president trump. kaitlan collins kicks off our coverage from the white house. >> reporter: as house democrats ramped up peach tod-- the impeachment inquiry today, president trump tried to turn the fire storm around on them. accusing house speake

jake. >> principles.chneider, thank you so much. >>> president trump's lawyer rudy giuliani is in a showdown with house democrats over a subpoena. our next guest is on the house committee leading the impeachment inquiry. you're watching aspecial edition of "the lead, the white house in crisis." stay with us. anyone can deliver pizza. only marco's can deliver america's most loved pizza. hot and fresh, and right to your door. every day, get two medium, one-topping pizzas for just $6.99 each. hello to america's most loved pizza. hello marco's. (past them because she didn't sknow they were talking to her.g and she would just walk right (deborah) i just could not hear. i was hesitant to get the hearing aids because of my short hair, but nobody even sees them. (avo) our nearly invisible hearing aids are just one reason we've been the brand leader for over 70 years. (deborah) when i finally could hear for the first time, i started crying. i could hear everything. (avo) get special anniversary savings and your ch

>> very concerned, jake.e self-sorting for a declining demographic. a narrowing demographic of elderly people, world people. you seen statistics about the economic, social economics of our party, how it changed in the last 20 years. we have to reach out to young people and suburban people and we've got to get back to being the party of proeconomics, procapitalism and reduced spending and not all this kind of populism stuff. >> are you still a republican? do you ever think about leaving the party? >> i don't know. i am a republican. i believe we have the better argument in the area of economic and business regulation but i don't think we have a better argue the on gun violence and the environment. >> what's your message to your fellow house republicans as they face this impeachment inquiry situation the same way you do? you seem to have a different -- you're not looking to reelection. you're not worried about your political career. you were a successful businessman before this anyway. it seems like you are loo

jake, you can't overstate his devotion to balt more and baltimore's devotion to him. as you said, when he would go home and speak to his constituents, it was the driving force of what he did there on capitol hill. >> reporter: it was. remember this is somebody who could have had -- was close to barack obama, close to many leading political figures since he was elected to congress 20-something years ago, could have had other opportunities. by the way, was always mentioned as a candidate for statewide office, governor, senator most notably, someone who would have really given a challenge for a senate seat when it opened up. in his mind, in his telling throughout the year when i spoke with him, had this laser focus on his community in baltimore and also an unfailingly nice guy. a lot of people on capitol hill, who aren't reporters on capitol hill don't realize this, but as reporters we get to know members of congress quite well, and get to know them and what they care about. elijah cummings would comment on my tv appearances as an avid consumer of political news. sometim

jake. >> sara murray, thanks so much. >>> let's chew over this. and phil mudd, let me start with you. is this testimony significant? if so, why? >> yeah, for a couple of reasons. the big ticket item is, we knew at the phone call, the president was squeezing the ukrainians for opposition research and the question was fuzzy but this gets us more than one step closer and i think mr. sondland has more questions to answer based on my quick read and that is direct linkage between our taxpayer dollars and the request for ukraines to do opposition research and this names a lot of names. gives the democrats on the hill a lot of potential to say i want to talk to other people to corroborate this. this is rough. >> and lara, from the top diplomat in the u.s. ambassador in ukraine describing a call with ambassador sondland running the point when it comes to the president's push for this and said ambassador sondland tried to explain that president trump is a businessman and when a business man is about to sign a check to something that owes him something, the

>> well there, jake. but republicans are arguing and the top republican in the house kevin mccarthy told me just a short time ago that he needs more transparency. they were elected and they have the right to understand what is going on in this secure room and arguing that when impeachment comes to the floor of the house of the representatives they have to know what is going on. and democrats are arguing, slow down, this is the beginning of the investigation but behind closed doors this went on for five hours. now laura cooper is now testifying behind closed doors. but it went on so long that this afternoon they had to bring in snacks and pizza for members who were in the room. ultimately they had to leave to go vote. and now it appears that the testimony is underway. but i will tell you, a very chaotic scene this morning. and it turns out president trump knew that republicans have planned this about a week ago. >> lauren fox, thank you so much. let's chew over all of this. and jackie, let me start with yo

>> reporter: that is right, jake. essentially it could happen any moment now.ing is in place to begin. they are calling it operation peace spring and make no mistake, this is going to be a major operation. you're talking about 300 miles of border area. they want to cut a swath 30 miles deep and cover that entire area. so this is not going to be something that happens overnight. we have heard reports of military personnel, how and other military machines along the turkish/syrian border and it appears the turks are not paying attention to trump who did something of a pedaling back by saying listen if you hit the kurds too hard, your economy will pay a very dear price and the turks responding by saying we will not bow down to any threats and are determined to go ahead. >> and president trump tried to defend his position but it didn't seem like even his closest allies are convinced it is the right move. >> it is interesting. it doesn't matter who you talk to, whether it is his allies in the republican party, as you say, who see this as handing a victim to russia, t

>> i would say this much, jake.ate that we have a president who is very transparent about his opinions and he's very clear about them. he doesn't try to do it co vertly. is he pushing them to do it? i don't get the sense he's pushing them to do it at all. he talks out loud, he expresses what's on his mind and people can take that and twist it any way they want to, but the new precedent for impeachment is we don't like this president that just got elected, so we're going to spend too much of our time to tm see us have aly. . these problems where we're surrounded by allies, we need to fix it. whether that comes from the top down, i suspect it's more than likely to come from the bottom up, and i hope that's what happens. >> carl wentz is a good football player. we appreciate you coming here today. >> yes, he is. >>> i'm going to ask if his swing state could flip in 2020. that's coming next. get all the shrimp you want, any way you want 'em. like new sriracha-honey shrimp... ...savory grilled teriyaki shrimp,... ...clas

we just put our first ad out, jake.buchar.com. >> with a c.h.a.r. thank you so much. and we'll see the senator and 11 of her opponents on the debate stage soon. we just got the stage lineup. once again joe biden is center stage with elizabeth warren because they lead in the polls on the left side of the stage tulsi gabbard, tom steyer the billionaire for his first debate, senator cory booker and kamala harris and bernie sanders and plus mayor pete buttigieg, businessman andrew yang and beto o'rourke and senator klobuchar and former hud secretary julian castro here on cnn october 15th at 8:00 p.m. eastern. coming up, new reporting about the mystery surrounding president trump's decision to halt that military aid to ukraine. why months later his own administration is quite confused. stay with us. anyone can deliver pizza. only marco's can deliver america's most loved pizza. hot and fresh, and right to your door. every day, get two medium, one-topping pizzas for just $6.99 each. hello to america's most loved pizza. hello m

the only question is, as jake said, how far does this reach.ecause mike pompeo could also be impeached as the secretary of state of the united states and that's where this investigation may go. the flailing we are seeing is because though he likes to convince people with superlatives how great he is, he's already convinced himself. donald trump believes that he is the best president to ever serve in the united states. so he doesn't understand why he could be impeached. but for somebody who likes superlatives like greatness, he is likely to be part of the greatest impeachment since richard nixon. >> let me put up the tape of mike pompeo because as david accurately says, the question is how far did this cover-up go. and mike pompeo's on tape. we played it yesterday, urging the president almost through television which we all know he watches, not to release the tapes. he plays like he doesn't know -- here's some of that conflicting sound. >> the "wall street journal" is reporting that president trump pressed the president of ukraine eight times to

jake. >> one wonders why the president made this decision about pulling the u.s. service members from

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the senate trial which could take several weeks, jake? >> thank you so much. appreciate it. >>> also today, we have breaking news, brand new reporting about the key witness in the impeachment earn inquiry who is set to testify tomorrow, bill taylor, the top american diplomat in ukraine, taylor, you might remember sent text messages suggesting he was owe poised to the -- what he saw as a direct quid pro quo. military aid for the u.s. in change for conducting political investigations to help president trump. taylor was concerned about taking this job to be begin with. kylie, why was taylor so concerned and worried about taking this job with the trump administration. >> he was pulled out of retirement to take this job, right? >> he came in at a very tenuous moment, because the former ambassador had been ousted early, she was kicked out of her job, we now know for political reasons, because trump wanted her ousted. when he was asked to take the job, the folks who came to him included pompeo, volker, they had a meeting with him at the state department, in which the

>> what's important about it is this, jake, and i say this as a former prosecutor. you have to take seriously witness intimidation. you have to take seriously an attempt to obstruct justice. you have to take seriously a threat to a witness and really to their safety and potentially

and, jake, this is only the first part of the impeachment investigation.ward they have public hearings and write a report making recommendations and then at that point the house judiciary committee would have to vote and any articles of impeachment and the full house would vote so you could see this taking a while and getting it done in the next month now seems increasingly unlikely, jake. >> manu raju on capitol hill. >>> breaking news about a key witness in the impeachment inquiry. bill taylor is the name you'll hear a lot tomorrow. he is the diplomat who sent the text message writing, i think it is crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. that is the quid pro quo. taylor who is the acting ambassador to ukraine was hesitant to take the role. cnn's kylie atwood has the breaking news. and taylor had reservations heading into his new position. >> he's heading into the position right after ambassador yovanovitch had been ousted. at the time we didn't foe why she left that role. and now we know because she told lawmakers becau

the second thing is, this is directed by jake scott who doe5 this is directed by jake scott who does very good job of backing off exactly when you think the drama is going to overplay its hand. what you get is film that is very, very convincing about a lengthy period on somebody's life in which something i5 somebody's life in which something is hanging over them. the thing it reminded me of slightly i5 things like the sweet hereafter or exotica. he is very good at making films that exist in the aftermath of something. i definitely got that feeling from this. upsetting? her central character is indomitable and has a vibrant spirit. yes, she is shouldering a huge burden but the film is about, 0k, shouldering a huge burden but the film is about, ok, this is the situation and life has to move on. you know it will keep returning to this central motif about this absence and what happened and how it happened but the film is actually about her. when they were shooting it it was originally called burning woman. i'm not sure american woman i5 woman. i'm not sure american woman is the right tit

i'm jake tapper.eaction coming now from president trump's morning announcement that abu bakr al-baghdadi is dead after a u.s. raid overnight in syria. mitch mcconnell calling the raid a significant step, a warning that the fight against isis will not end with this significant victory. nancy pelosi tweeting the death of al-baghdadi is significant. it does not mean the death of isis. let's discuss this with our experts. we have cnn contributor andrew mccabe and admiral john kirby. admiral, let me start with you. there's almost a belief after there's a successful military raid, of course, he did that raid which was successful. it's a tough decision for any president no matter what. >> very tough. we should not take for granted the success is going to be inevitable. obviously very well done and well executed. there's high risk when you're putting troops on the ground going after someone like al-baghdadi. the president deserves enormous credit. he was putting men in harm's way. big decision. very risky. >>

i'm jake tapper. we have breaking news. president trump just now said he will cooperate with house democrats in their impeachment inquiry. they are warning the white house they will subpoena the white house for documents on friday. we should note the president also called the impeachment inquiry, the greatest hoax and called it a fraudulent crime. you can take his impression of willingness to cooperate as you will. president trump also just accused congressman adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, a democrat from california, of helping to write the whistle-blower complaint. we should point out that one of the whistle-blower's lawyers who i just contacted, just asked him, is there any truth that schiff or the committee helped the whistle-blower write the complaint in any way? and the lawyer said, "absolutely not." that was a response to a "new york times" story on how the whistle-blower reached out to congressman schiff before filing the complaint. there's a lot that the president just said i could s

jake sherman, you always have your finger on everything that's going on there. i thank all of you for being with us today. coming up, another day, another revelation about just how far rudy giuliani reportedly went in his efforts to dig up dirt on the president's political rivals. >>> plus new warning signs for the president. polls starting to show he could be losing ground with a key group he eel need to win the white house again, all coming as some house democrats would won in trump districts this year are going back home to tell impeachment to their constituents including congresswoman elise slotkin who attracted a much larger than expected crowd yesterday. >> i did this not lightly, i did this out of judicious and thoughtful reflection and i did it because i believed it was the right thing to do based on my ineggity and oath of office. i appreciate your understanding. . there's a better choice. aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid and the 12-hour pain-relieving strength of aleve that dares to last into the morning. so you feel refreshed. aleve

>> jake sherman, i see you shaking your head. i'm guessing your answer -- but then could you also address whether or not bill taylor, this u.s. diplomat who i think went on to write in more texts that were released that he would quit if it turned out that the military aid, taylor, the nightmare is they give the interview and don't get the security assistance. the russians love it, and i quit. this would seem like an important witness for the democrats to have before their committees investigating this. >> you'd have to assume that, yes, if they haven't been in touch with him, and i have no reporting to suggest that they will. i understand you need 20. could we name four that are going to vote against the president at this point? it's news when one comes out. mitt romney came out today and spoke out against the president, and it was big news. i don't see at this point -- we don't know what's going to come out next. i don't see any senate republicans more than -- and i'm not even sure what romney's going to do. so i don't see that

>> you read jake's 11 prepping hillary to lie to the senator. that statement was a lie.visit what happened in ben garvey, four americans were killed and an american ambassador and security official and two guys from the global resource staff who were there to protect people were killed because hillary clinton and barack obama told the military forces that were ready to rescue them to stand down and she was covering up for barack obama and herself for her failures. they did all of this with this private email server. this is evidence of obstruction of justice and perjury by officials who testified before congress under oath that they were unaware of the private email server. they are using the private e to the american people. investi found there was no systemic or deliberate mishandling of classified information, what the fbi was saying. what is your reaction to that? >> another bald-faced blatant lie. supposedly all the deleted emails were about yoga classes, they were about things like this and god bless judicial watch for being persistent and ferreting this out and th

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jake, what about you?” back and forth, back and forth. jake, what about you?n't go through and it didn't happen today because in this divorce of leaving the european union, i am happy that we decided to go, actually, let see if we can work this out and work out a better way instead of saying no, ex partner, i will then down the house so partner, i will then down the house so that you don't have it. and what about you ? so that you don't have it. and what about you? it isjust really sad, to be honest. you are sad we are not leaving? i am sad about the state of our politics because this was the third brexit day. the politicians, the eu and the supreme court have givena bit the eu and the supreme court have given a bit to the british public who want to leave and we will probably have another delay in january and we are going into our third christmas since we voted for brexit without leaving and it makes a farce of democracy. what about you? iam a farce of democracy. what about you? i am delighted that we are staying. unlike claire, i don't think the general elect

that was jake tapper, our very own jake tapper, not letting the congressman get away with lies. and i think that is really important. if the president's defenders cannot stick to the facts, if they can't tell the truth, then we have to say so. we have to demand the truth. we have got to. the facts. like we always say around here, facts first. and it matters now more than ever. do not fall for the okey-doke. giuliani's subpoena, pompeo's revelations. what is next in this fast-moving impeachment inquiry? that's a good question. john dean, michael isikoff, max boot, they'll answer next. take prilosec otc and take control of heartburn. so you don't have to stash antacids here... here... or, here. kick your antacid habit with prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. so much more than i could have imagined. my grandfather was born in a shack in pennsylvania, his father was a miner, they were immigrants from italy and somewhere along the way that man changed his name and transformed himself into a successful mid-century american man. he had a whole life that i didn't kno

thank you very much, jake.pared to impose "crippling sanctions" if it continues to take military action against kurdish forces in northern syria. last night it was revealed that us troops had come underfire from turkish positions, but turkey has denied deliberately targeting american soldiers. 0ur middle east correspondent martin patience is following all the developments — i spoke to him a short while ago from sanliurfa on the turkey—syria border. the latest we are getting is from the turkish defence ministry, and they say they have retaken a town from kurdish control. that town is one of the key targets of this offensive. we've seen fierce fighting inside that town between kurdish fighters, the turkish military, as well as turkish backed syrian forces. that gives you an indication of how complex the battle field is. from turkey's point of view, this offensive is continuing and it is achieving its objectives. we are also hearing reports that turkey has pushed up to a main highway which is about 20 miles from w

a source telling my colleague jake tapper that also this has been in the works for weeks.leenan felt like he couldn't run his own department because there were other players within the department who had the president's ear. they would go around him. he felt like he didn't have full control. that was seen to many as a sign he wouldn't be in his position much longer. according to sources tonight, he is leaving on his own terms, turning in the resignation letter to the president. the president just announcing this on twitter moments ago. >> pamela, thank you very much. >>> next, the chief anchor of fox news says good-bye on the air. completely shocking everybody he works with, not just viewers. what does trump have to do with it? performance comes in lots of flavors. there's the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. and then there's performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. that's the kind lincoln's about. ♪ i have moderate to severe pnow, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are getting clearer, yeah i feel free ♪ ♪ to bare my skin ♪ yeah that's