digging for potentially damaging information on a political rival democratic presidential hopeful joe biden trump says democrats have launched a politically motivated witch hunt. the show is carrying on as normal at the white house president trump meeting with leaders of the hispanic community a key voter group he needs to woo for 2020. crisis what crisis was but away from the cameras the president is raging his anger is directed at the man now leading the impeachment inquiry against him on twitter trump wrote adam schefter must resign and be investigated he's been doing this for 2 years he's a sick man. chairmanships committee is now in overdrive the california democrat has signaled he's keen to hear from key witnesses as soon as possible and that from the president's. if if we know there are many other witnesses to this conduct that we need. we know that he had others involved as well including rudy giuliani giuliani the president's personal lawyer has been leading the efforts to prove unverified allegations against trump's rival joe biden for months he's met repeatedly with ukrainian officials

presidents were pressed by reporters to answer the question if president trump put pressure on the ukrainian investigation into joe biden and his son. president trump said that he did not put any pressure. let's have a listen. >> have you felt any pressure from president trump to investigate joe biden? volodymyr zelensky: i think you read everything. you read the texts. i am sorry but i don't want to be involved in democratic, open, elections of usa. i think it was a good phone call. we spoke about many things. i think that nobody pushed me. >> in other words, no pressure. brent: in other words, no pressure. both of these leaders say this is a normal phone call or at least the u.s. president is saying that. for the democrats, did this transcript showed damming evidence? -- show damming evidence? what has them so upset? >> there is no sentence saying i am going to freeze military aid for your country if you're not going to open an investigation into joe biden and his son's business dealings in ukraine. what the president said -- he suggested was that he was putting a lot of pressure on his ukrainian counterpart. he said

claim that trump had pressured ukrainian authorities to investigate the son of political rival joe biden trump says the allegations are partisan and unfounded. an unusual sight in egypt on friday night anti-government protesters taking to the streets of cairo alexandria and other cities such demonstrations have become very rare in egypt following a crackdown on dissent under president el-sisi who took power in 2013 the latest protests were prompted by allegations of corruption against l.c.c. and the military which the president has denied last night crowds gathered in cairo's tahrir square chanting nice easy police broke up the event with tear gas and made several arrests. with michaelson is a journalist covering the middle east from cairo and joins us now on the line we thanks for joining us what have you seen and heard about these protests. well we saw some evidence including video evidence of protests in downtown cairo in cairo is to hurry a square that you mentioned in the port cities of alexandria and suez and also rural areas like i'm yet to come on for hala that these protests took the

claimed that trump had pressured ukrainian authorities to investigate the son of political rival joe biden trump says the allegations are partisan and unfounded. the police in egypt have broken up anywhere anti-government protests hundreds of people gathered in cairo in one of the 1st such rallies since president abdul fattah el-sisi came to power 5 user guide the call went out online to stage protests against alleged government corruption. to the u.s. state of nevada now and a disappointment for people hoping to get a glimpse of extraterrestrial life a student had posted an event on facebook inviting people to storm the state secretive area 51 military base which is long rumored to be to house government secrets about u.f.o.'s and aliens well despite millions on facebook indicating they would join the raid the turnout didn't quite live up to the hype. there was some revelers a few outlandish costumes but just not many earthlings and definitely no flying sources at the perimeter fence of this remote military base after an overwhelming response on social media only a 100 people showed up they wer

reportedly claims trump pressured the ukrainian authorities to investigate the son of political rival joe biden trump is dismissing the allegations partisan and unfound. afghanistan's president ashraf ghani has pledged security reforms to prevent civilian casualties in the war against militants it follows the taliban truck bomb attack on a hospital and a mr record u.s. drone strike that killed civilian workers in a field rather than the intended islamic state least 69 people were killed in the incident. an international team of scientists has set sail for the arctic on a yearlong mission to gather data on the braden's warming climate the team is saving aboard a german icebreaker a ship called the polar stern it hopes that they work can give fresh insight into how the world's climate is changing the expedition of the century from marcus rex it starts with him leaving his family after setting sail from the norwegian pool to the post and will be at sea for 12 months some $300.00 scientists from 17 countries will join it to learn more about climate change and. the arctic is the region we least understand

claim that trump had pressured ukrainian authorities to investigate the son of political rival joe biden trump says the allegations are partisan and unfounded. afghanistan's president ghani has pledged security reforms to prevent civilian casualties in the war against militants it follows a taliban truck bomb attack on a hospital and a mystery at the u.s. drone strike that killed civilian workers in a field rather than the intended islamic state at least 69 people were killed in the incidents. an unusual sight in egypt on friday night antigovernment protesters taking to the streets of cairo alexandria and other cities such demonstrations have become very rare in egypt following a crackdown on dissent under president a c.z. who took power in 2013 the latest protests were prompted by allegations of corruption against l.c.c. and the military which the president has denied last night crowds gathered in cairo's tahrir square chanting the c.z. police broke up the event with tear gas and made several arrests. with michael sam is a journalist covering the middle east from cairo and joins us now on the

the memo released by the white house shows president trump discussing joe biden and asking the ukrainian counterpart for a favor and begins with a congratulations on the win and zelensky is talking about reforms in his country and how much president trump says the united states does for ukraine and i would like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense, we are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps. specifically, we are almost ready to buy more javelins from the united states for defense purposes. trump immediately follows that by saying, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it. i would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine, they say, crowdstrike. now crowdstrike is the name of the company that investigated the dnc server hike. i guess you have one of your wealthy people, the server, they say, ukraine has it. there are a lot of things that went on. the whole situation. i think you're surrounding yourself with some of the same people. i would

acknowledged a phone call with ukraine's president in which he discussed democratic presidential hopeful joe biden trump admitted to withholding aid to ukraine ahead of that call but denied using it as political leverage. the actions of the trump presidency reveal its dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and fix the integrity of our elections therefore today announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and directing our 6 committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry the president must be held accountable no one is a part of the law trump reportedly wanted ukraine's president to investigate joe biden and his son for corruption he says he's authorized the release of a transcript of the phone call with not a ms lewinsky and denied any impropriety and reacting to policies announcement trump fired back on twitter calling the impeachment inquiry presidential harassment he lashed out at the democrats for quote ruining the united nations general assembly w

a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they'd be getting the electric chair by right now. >> all right, that comes as trumpo defend pressuring the ukrainian president to investigate biden on a phone call, even though, we should be very clear, there's no evidence of any wrongdoing by joe biden in something that has been extensively litigated and covered. "outfront" gloria borger, political, politics editor for "the new york times," patrick heal healey. the electric chair? >> you know, this is trump hyperbole at its best or worst. the reality is president trump has been spreading this what looks like pretty clear misinformation for awhile now in terms of these unsubstantiated allegations about joe biden. and the reality is this is how president trump plans to run his re-election campaign, whether it's joe biden or frankly any other democrat who comes out. what we've seen is the president being willing to basically say whatever he thinks. and use the office of the president, in this case a phone call with a leader of a foreign power, in which he's willing to raise the possibility of investigating one of his c

a new report said president trump pressed ukraine's president to investigate joe biden's son. but mr. trump says it doesn't matter what he discussed in the call and dismissing a whistleblower's complaint about him as partisan. even though he admits he doesn't know who the whistleblower is. >>> breaking the law, house speaker nancy pelosi said the refusal of the director of national intelligence to turn over the whistleblower complaint to congress ask illegal as the head of the house intelligence committee vows to get it, quote, come hell or high water. >>> demanding action. millions of people around the world take part in a global strike that may be the largest of its kind in history. pressuring politicians to take urgent action on climate change. >>> and car drives through mall. panicked shopered scramble for safety as an suv plows through one store and into the center of a mall in chicago. we have breaking news on this story. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. the "wall street journa

inquiry into president donald trump trump has been accused of pressuring ukrainian president vladimir selenski to investigate the son of democratic presidential hopeful joe biden supporters of trump of accuse democrats of orchestrating a witch hunt speaking on us television the house speaker nancy pelosi accuse the attorney general william barr of going rogue by supporting president trump. well ukraine has confirmed it's investigating a gas company linked to joe biden's son but not during the time he was involved the anticorruption bureau has been looking into the activities of the barista company between 20120122 biden was a director on the firm's board from 2014 until last year. heidi jocasta is live for us in washington and we're getting details of a letter from former national security officials one of the contents. well mary i'm the drafters number of more than 300 and they are former ambassadors they are high level officials in the intelligence community in the national security council most of whom served under president barack obama but also many of whom served under previous republican administrations and as a group they said that in the past they hav

joe biden. he knows that if he attacks hunter biden, it puts joe biden in a bad position. today joe biden could be if this was about anybody else, could be out on television attacking donald trumpjoe biden's not doing that today because he doesn't want to talk about his son who's had various problems, not the kind of problems donald trump has asserted but other problems. and donald trump knows that. this is a hit job on the son, the last surviving son, his brother passed away. this is the last son. part of the reason why joe biden didn't run for president in 2016, because he wanted to take care after his family after he lost beau. this is an achilles hill of joe biden psychically. and donald trump is like where can i go to get the oppo to get at this guy's heart. >> because i have no conscience, i have no morals and i don't care about using the united states government and possibly foreign aid to carry out my campaign. >> correct. and if that's ukraine or if that's utah, donald trump is going to go wherever he needs to go and do whatever he needs to do, no matter how unethical, immoral, or illegal it is. that's what this story is about more than anything. >> what did you want t

president trump in a july phone call repeatedly pressured the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden's son. urging ukraine's leader about eight times to work with juliani on a probe that could hamper his potential opponents. he report ed that is at the center of the complaint that the trump administration is now withholding from the law in violation of congress. the "new york times" quickly matched that recording going only so far as two describe that phone call as part of the clant. nbc news confirmed only that the complaint concerns a call that trump had with a foreign leader. it is also important to note that all of the reports today from the journal, the post, and the times, they all say that the president did not discuss the military aide to the ukraine being held up at that time. questions have emerged about whether mr. trump's push for an quire ri was behind a hold on the military aide for the ukraine. they suspended the aide in early july. mr. trump did not discuss the aide in the july 25 call. so yes, as the times says, questions have emerged. we know the white house held up m

it's a complicated subject, but it's got the president trump and his democratic rival, joe biden, at h on social media and in interviews with the press. and we often see this in politics, don't we? especially in us politics, don't we? especially in us politics, when donald trump is involved, the he said she said merry—go—round. do you think there's any chance that the house of representatives will do as joe any chance that the house of representatives will do asjoe biden asks, and investigate this? well, interestingly, they have subpoenaed the acting national security adviser to give evidence before them next week, and the head of the house intelligence committee, a man called adam shiv, has warned that if this complaint in its entirety is not presented to congress, then he may pursue legal action to force that situation. so that backs the white house into something of a corner, president trump of course argues, as i've mentioned, that this is all fa ke i've mentioned, that this is all fake news, and that the democrats are spoiling for something on him, following what he sees as the f

trump asking a foreign leader for joe biden. the whistle-blower complaint about an urgent threat to national security involved a phone call between trump and the president of ukraine. on that call trump asked the ukrainian leader to investigate joe biden owe s's son. not just once. trump asked the ukrainian president about eight times on that call to investigate. eight times. one phone call. all this because hunter biden was doing business in ukraine when his father was vice president. we'll get to the details on that shortly. just a short time ago, joe biden responded saying, quote, there is truly no bottom to president trump's willingness to abuse his power and abase our country. this behavior is particularly abhorrent because it exploits the foreign policy of our country and undermines our national security for political purposes. since this major development broke that we now know who the phone call was with and we now know how many times trump asked for his -- for joe biden's son to be investigated trump has been silent. he

our top stories: donald trump and joe biden trade accusations following reports that the president pressured ukraine to investigate mr biden‘s son. know trump deservt investigated. i know trump deserves to be investigated. he is violating every basic norm of a president. saudi arabia warns iran that it will respond with "necessary measures" to last week's attacks on its oil installations. cheers for the teenage activist greta thunberg as she arrives at a youth summit on climate change in new york, ahead of the un general assembly next week. 75 years on, one of the last surviving veterans of the world war ii battle of arnhem takes to the skies to remember those who died. hello, and welcome to bbc news. the us democratic presidential contender, joe biden, has accused donald trump of an overwhelming abuse of power. it follows reports he tried to pressure ukraine into opening a corruption investigation against mr biden and his son. president trump has not denied the reports, claming: "it doesn't matter what i discuss." this is what mr biden had to say about the affair a litte earlier. i know tru

democrat joe biden has long had a reputation for honesty that's one reason why he's leaving the democratic field in the 2020 rice but donald trump says some sheets have recently been accusing him of corruption and biden is now fighting to save his troops doing this because the. room is using the abuse of power every element of the presidency to try to do something to shear me 2 months from a vice president biden has been under attack from trump and he's tame to village he misused his position when he coordinated president obama's ukraine policy in 26th aine. they cues biden of trying to help out his son hunter who is doing business there trump's personal lawyer has led the charge against the family on twitter rudy giuliani wrote smart maybe has been covering up biden family blyton tried to run joe's offices for years joe is part of the protected class but democrats say rather it's trump and giuliani who have acted corruptly in the zeal to prove the un verified claims and anonymous whistleblower accuses trump of encouraging ukraine's new president the law to me selenski to investigate biden when they talked on the fall and its al

amir's alinsky instead they seem to back up claims that trump pressured zelinsky to investigate the business dealings of democratic rival joe biden's son. trump continues to deny the allegations and says democrats are harassing him. because the rhetoric was there whenever and if you take a look at the democrats they went down to see the president of ukraine and their son for all sorts of things and don't go with the republicans and stay with us and like it's a political war they should've done that it's the single greatest witch hunt in american history probably in history but it american history it's a disgraceful thing the conversation details were made public a day after house democrat leader nancy pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry into the matter a move she's defended. the president of the united states. and kept his constitutional responsibilities has asked a foreign government can help him in his political campaign that cannot stand his will be held accountable to any the top democrat had long resisted calls for impeachment hearing a backlash from voters who still support trump but unlike the rush investigation this tim

a new report said president trump pressed ukraine's president to investigate joe biden's son. t doesn't matter what he discussed in the call and dismissing a whistleblower's complaint about him as partisan. even though he admits he doesn't know who the whistleblower is. >>> breaking the law, house speaker nancy pelosi said the refusal of the director of national intelligence to turn over the whistleblower complaint to congress ask illegal as the head of the house intelligence committee vows to get it, quote, come hell or high water. >>> demanding action. millions of people around the world take part in a global strike that may be

asked ukrainian president well it was a linsky to initiate that investigation into trump's potential political rival joe biden and his son now trump has lashed out on twitter throughout the day defending that phone call in his words he said it was perfect is that it could not have been better or more honorable and he accused the media and the democrats and congress of working together to target him for what he calls a witch hunt he also called for the immediate resignation of the chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff who is now the person leading the investigation into trump's dealings with ukraine mariyam. the outrage of the reaction continues to mount president alleged conduct here was of the inquiry itself because congress is now in a 2 week recess how are the democrats pursuing their investigations. most of congress is indeed in recess but now the members of the house intelligence committee which again is spearheading the impeachment inquiry investigation they are remaining here in washington and they are reportedly already drafting possible subpoenas moving forward with plans of hearin

>> now to the firestorm surrounding president trump and the phone call with a leader believed to be ukraine's president. did the president bring up joe biden? president trump was asked about that today. here's jonathan karl. >> reporter: tonight, "the wall street journal" is reporting the president repeatedly, eight times, pressured the president of ukraine to investigate the son of leading democratic presidential candidate joe biden during a phone call in july. earlier today, the president defended that call. >> it was a totally appropriate conversation. it was actually a beautiful conversation. >> reporter: but the president refused to say whether or not he talked about joe biden. >> on that point, did you discuss joe biden, his son, or his family with the leader of ukraine? >> it doesn't matter what i discussed. >> reporter: "the wall street journal" reports president trump urged the president of ukraine to work with his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, who recently met with ukrainian officials in europe about investigating hunter biden's business dealings. last night, giuliani at first denied asking the ukrainian government to investiga

launched a formal impeachment inquiry into donald trump over alleged attempts to force he bought to investigate biden the son of former u.s. vice president joe biden trump's potential 2020 election opponent illegal and media analyst believes adam schiff has played fast and loose with the facts when it comes to that phone call. it is extremely duplicitous it is extremely misleading and very troublesome for the way adam schiff came about and basically provided a parody a unique way of looking at it and he was reading what people thought was actual transcript provisions actual statements made sentences a conversation and then later on when pressed he says well i was being. a bit loose with this i was giving you one kind of a perhaps a a parody a kind of a satirical look well that satirical look is absolutely 1st of all so necessary but it was most problematic and the cause of many many people being very very angry with what he did it was on call for duplicitous misleading and wrong in another development america's special envoys ukraine kurt volker has quit amid that phone call scandal of course there's still the corruption allegations surround

sought ukraine's help to smear the former vice president and democratic presidential nominee joe biden trump has dismissed the probe as witch hunt garbage. the president has admitted to asking the president ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically the action of the truck the actions of the trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections therefore today i'm announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and directing our 6 committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry the president must be held accountable no one is above the law. britain's prime minister boris johnson says he strongly disagrees with the supreme court ruling which found his decision to shut down parliament for 5 weeks on lawful critics had called the suspension a cynical ploy to stifle debate about breaks it and m.p.'s will now return to parliament and the crowd and calls for the prime minister

joe biden out. a candidate who is still the most likely of the democratic field to have broad appeal for the 2020 election against trump? >> well, i disagree in part. first of all, joe biden as larry indicated, has many problems aside from this issue. on the substance, there's no evidence that joe biden did anything wrong in that sense, i don't think that's likely. he has elizabeth warren coming like a freight train who is catching him in national polls and as larry said, in state polls. yes, the far left wants to beat joe biden, but i'm not sure how much help they need on that at this point i do think that it is possible that this set of circumstances is going to be damaging enough to the president that not only will he be impeached in the house, that some republicans will break with him in the senate we've seen signals of that from mitt romney saying he's deeply troubled by what he's heard. i think the strategic silence of a lot of other republicans indicates they're not sure how far to go out on that limb for this president in terms of the president, what we saw him was turn up the fog machine on full blast. hillary

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with a lot of missile and ski released by the white house reveals that donald trump did ask him to investigate rival joe biden whistleblower's complaint against trump has now been handed to congress john hendren has more from washington. as the 4th u.s. president to face an impeachment threat donald trump is scrambling to elude history it's a joke no president yet has been removed from office through impeachment on wednesday the united states' 45th president sounding unusually said dude seem to feel history's wait it's very sad what the democrats are doing to this country they're dividing they're belittling they're demeaning our country so many leaders came up to me today and they said. what you go through no president has ever gone through the white house's own account of a july phone call between president trump and ukrainian president villota mirrors alinsky was released wednesday it revealed that is trump was withholding 2 $150000000.00 in aid from ukraine he repeatedly asked vilinsky for in his words a favor investigate former vice president joe biden for trump's potential presidential rival trump asked

documents related to the president's request to ukraine to help find political dirt on trump's possible political rival joe biden meanwhile trump is stepping up his attacks again today he targeted adam schiff chairman of the house intelligence committee who had summarize the memo of a phone call between trump and ukrainian president so let's i made a call the call was perfect when the whistleblower reported he made a senator and then you had adam schiff who even worse made up my words which i think is just horrible that never even thing that they like that adam schiff representative congressman made up what i said he actually took words and made it up the reset is when he saw my call to the president of ukraine it was so good that he could because there was nothing done wrong it was perfect. a perfect phone call list bring in a washington correspondent all over zealous he's on the story for us tonight good evening to you all the birds so we've got the president now we're juicing the chairman of the house intelligence committee mr shift of. congress why is he now focusing on him. well these are essentially attack

thalz the number of public polls they say joe biden beating president trump in the next election. bedingfield saying all of what we are seeing from the president right now is about his well founded belief and fear about joe biden beating him in the general election. >> and real quick, mike. since all of this happened two polls have also in out indicating that in iowa and new hampshire elizabeth warren is either neck and neck with or slightly ahead of joe biden. any response to that from the campaign yet? >> reporter: well, it's interesting because when you put that in the context of this ukraine story line, it can tell you one of two things, ari. it can tell you that the more that the focus turns to capitol hill, the harder it's going to be for other candidates including elizabeth warren, somebody who did have some momentum in the race to sustain that momentum. because you're going to see a lot of focus still on joe biden, a lot of focus on capitol hill. but, yes, there is a real recognition of the fact that this race is indeed changing. you've seen the vice president on the fundra

joe biden and his son are corrupt. if a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they would be getting the electric chair by right now. >> trump did not specify what biden said or did. >> it's regrettable that house intelligence committee schiff. >> i would like to have the whistleblower come and talk to me so we know what the story is. >> i believe that president trump will blow you away with his willingness to disclose and be transparent about this phone call because i think he did nothing wrong. >> i don't think he should have done it. we don't know what is fact. >> house democrats will discuss the investigation in a members-only meeting this afternoon. it's reaching a tipping point, as the investigation blocks the release over the ukraine call. 139 democrats are in favor of an impeachment probe. during a flight from new york to washington, nancy pelosi read an op- op-ed. >> the speaker sharpened her rhetoric over the weekend. she is checking with house democrats whether to impeach the president. pelosi left little doubt, that the whistleblower complaint has escalated the standoff. he said, we will have no chase. >>. >>> at

call thought to me the lenski released by the white house reveals that donald trump did ask him to investigate rival joe biden and whistleblowers complaints against trump has now been handed to congress john hendren has more from washington. as the 4th u.s. president to face an impeachment threat donald trump is scrambling to elude history it's a joke no president yet has been removed from office through impeachment on wednesday the united states' 45th president sounding unusually said dude seem to feel history's wait it's very sad what the democrats are doing to this country they're dividing they're belittling they're demeaning a country so many leaders came up to me today and they said. what you go through no president has ever gotten through the white house's own account of a july phone call between president trump and ukrainian president villota mirror's alinsky was released wednesday it revealed that is trump was withholding 2 $150000000.00 in aid from ukraine he repeatedly asked vilinsky for in his words a favor investigate former vice president joe biden for trump's potential presidential rival trump a

trump admitted he discussed joe biden and his son with ukraine's president. tonight calls for impeachment are clearly growing as democrats warn mr. trump may have improperly used his office to dig up dirt on a potential 2020 opponent. >>> also breaking, a u.s. soldier just appeared in federal court charged with sending instructions to build car and cell phone bombs over social media. there were targets including a major american news network and news station. i'll get reaction from the armed services committee and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's go to our white house correspondent kaitlan collins where the president is wrapping up a day of meetings. kaitlan, while mr. trump was talking to world leaders, the scandal over his july conversation with ukraine's president was clearly intensifying. >> reporter: yeah, wolf, it was one of the first things president trump talked about as he arrived here at the united nations headquarters this morning. he's defending his actions during that phone call with the president of ukraine while

saying the president knows that if biden is the democratic nominee next november that he'd beat president trump like a drum. nbc's chris pollone reports. >> reporter: in iowa joe biden fired up and going on offense. >> this is outrageous. you have never seen anything like this of any president. >> reporter: the former vice president shifting attention back to president trump after "the wall street journal" reported the president repeatedly urged the president of ukraine in a july phone call to investigate biden's son hunter who was appointed to a lucrative seat on a ukrainian gas company's board of directors while his father was vice president. nbc news has not confirmed that report. >> everybody looked at this, and everybody's looked at it zblrt when the call took place, ukraine was waiting to receive $250 million in military aid from the u.s., which was held up. friday the president wouldn't say whether he discussed the bidens on that phone call, and the latest reports indicate trump did not talk about u.s. military aid with the ukrainian leader. >> i can say that it was a totally appropriate conversation. it was actually a beautiful conversation. >> reporte

now rallying behind their embattled president saying donald trump was judy bound to press the ukrainians to look into allegations about joe biden's son hunter and his dealings with the ukrainian energy company trumps personal lawyer rudy giuliani himself an important player in the scandal is likely to be called before house democrats if he decides that he wants him to testify course not testify even though i think adam schiff is an illegitimate chairman misty has already prejudged the case if you want fairness here we've got to put somebody in charge of that committee who has an open mind impeachment proceedings are now moving at a pace that neither the republican party nor president from can control at all of all this is a report from a so-called whistleblower deemed credible by the acting director of national intelligence it's thought he or she may appear behind closed doors soon going to ask you one today for both parties. the stakes couldn't be higher republican senator lindsey graham one of the president's closest allies says the accusations a 2nd time law yes it's all hearsay you can't get a parking ticket conviction based

call with volodymyr selenski released by the white house reveals that donald trump did ask him to investigate rival joe biden whistleblowers complaints against trump has now been handed to congress john hendren has more from washington as the 4th u.s. president to face an impeachment threat donald trump is scrambling to allude history it's a joke no president yet has been removed from office through impeachment on wednesday the united states 45th president sounding unusually said dude seemed to feel history's wait it's very sad what the democrats are doing to this country they're dividing. they're belittling their demeaning our country so many leaders came up to me today and they said. what you go through no president has ever gone through the white house's own account of a july phone call between president trump and ukrainian president villota mirrors olinsky was released wednesday it revealed that is trump was withholding 2 $150000000.00 in aid from ukraine he repeatedly asked vilinsky for in his words a favor investigate former vice president joe biden for trump's potential presidential rival trump asked

the 2 presidents joe biden who may be challenging donald trump for the white house in 2020 his son was involved with ukrainian company that was an investigation into wrongdoing with the company it's been said that joe biden wanted to stop an investigation into the company so that is what the main aspect of the conversation is about a lot of talk about european countries not helping ukraine as well as by donald trump so we'll get more of this reaction throughout the hours in deede ahead just to see them the very main points of. ok let's move on just for france has a new target in the bottle against sexism children's toys ministers are making moves to mix things up so that money factor is retailers don't automatically push doles for girls and cars for boys a new agreement signed between the french government and tory makers hopes to attract more girls toward science and it also suggests that money advertisers should remove certain color schemes unbelievably they say the aim is to broaden children's among generations so that they're not influenced by stereotypes are as they grow up where

wednesday it revealed that is trump was withholding 2 $150000000.00 in aid from ukraine he repeatedly asked vilinsky for in his words a favor investigate former vice president joe biden for trump's potential presidential rival trump asked selenski to coordinate the probe with u.s. attorney general bill barr and trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani trump without offering evidence accuses biden of ending a conflict of interest probe into his son hunter biden took a lucrative position on the board of ukraine's biggest gas company in 2014 while his father was directing u.s. policy there in the summary of the phone calls alinsky promised his top prosecutor in his words will look into this situation but with trumpet his side ukraine's leader says he did not pursue it i'm sorry but i don't want to be involved to do all. in lessons i think. anyone you know that that had a question that is the answer a whistleblower in the u.s. intelligence community alarmed by trump's apparent use of state power for political gain reported the president's call to an inspector general however the complaint was not passed on to congress under instruction from the white house and the justice d

leader to investigate one of his biggest political rivals democratic presidential candidate joe biden trump's phone conversation with rodman is a lenski in july is at the center of moves by democrats who want the president out of office and of launched an impeachment inquiry the which aren't continues but they're getting hit hard in this which are because when they look at the information it's a joke. impeachment that i didn't do it to take a look at that call it was perfect i didn't do it there was no quid pro quo but there was with biden and there was with these senators and they threatened they said you do this you do that we're not going to give you votes so that's that's the real deal so we have an honest group of people that have been maligned. in our other top stories iran's president has accused the u.s. of merciless economic terrorism saying he'll never hold talks with washington while his country is under american sanctions rouhani has addressed the u.n. general assembly while fears rise of a simmering tensions in the persian gulf iran's 2015 nuclear deal has been unraveling ever si

has now been released and it an unnamed intelligence officer alleges that mr trump ukraine's president to investigate joe biden was the trump leading democratic rival in next year's election the complaint goes on to accuse the white house of suppressing the details of a phone call. caught up in events beyond his control polygamy's lenski on his 1st visit this ukrainian president to ground 0 to form a comedian was only elected 5 months ago and now he's at the center of an impeachment inquiry. it was all triggered by whistleblowers complained accusing donald trump of soliciting interference in the 2020 u.s. election by pressuring mr is a lenski to initiate or continue an investigation into form of vice president joe biden and his son hunter biden things this man house intelligence committee chair adam schiff precipitated the release of the complaint does not 1st defend clearly this month he said painted u.s. spy chief joseph mcguire to make him explain why he hadn't passed on the letter to the committee that whistleblower by their very act of coming forward as showing more dedication to country more of an unders

president puts pressure on the ukrainian president to open and this to geisha into joe biden and his son president trump of course regenerate that he didn't put any pressure and president de craye and president also had to answer this question let's have a listen. even go. to this to be joe biden. i've read the 1st thing so you know i think you read facts. i. i'm sorry but i don't want to be involved to do a critic all. elections elections of us say no you did we had. i think good phone call it was normal we spoke about many. and. i think you read it is that nobody bullshit bullshit me yes no. you know the words no pressure. both of these leaders saying that this was a normal phone call or at least the u.s. president saying for the democrats that this transcript shows what they consider to be damning evidence what exactly is it in the transcript that has them so. well there is no sentence saying that you know i am going to freeze military aid for your country if you know it's going to open an investigation into joe biden and his sons at business dealings if you keep a train that all of what the presiden

, the uncle joe situation, it's interesting because we are living in the age of donald trump and that's changes how we p perceive and cover joe bidenut google and google changing votes and making me scared about things, and when joe biden lies, it's about he's understanding heroism. context is important. >> context and [farmers bell] (burke) at farmers insurance, we've seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. even a "three-ring fender bender." (clown 1) sorry about that... (clown 2) apologies. (clown 1) ...didn't mean it. (clown 3) whoops. (stilts) sorry! (clowns) we're sorry! (scary) hey, we're sorry! [man screams] [scary screams] (burke) quite the circus. but we covered it. at farmers, we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ on a scale of one to five? one to five? it's more like five million. there's everything from happy to extremely happy. there's also angry. i'm really angry clive! actually, really angry. thank you. but what if your business could understand what your customers are feeling... and then do something about it. turn problems

and recently, axelrod came out and said, this could potentially boost joe biden because folks are seeing that trumpoe biden because he thinks he can beat him, so he's throwing whatever he can at joe biden, which makes folks most confident that he is the democrat to beat trump. so, you know, my crystal balling here, i think it slides off of biden. >> do you agree with that, rick? how would you advise -- i know you're a republican, but how would you advise joe biden to handle this? i mean, if he's being put a bit on the ropes, so to speak, how should he handle this to be most effective? >> i think he should handle it the way he handled it, that is he's pushing back on it, but it also reinforces his message, i'm the candidate that is most likely to beat donald trump, beat him like a drum is what he said. and this -- i agree, this reinforces that message. it's his strongest message. but look, they have to understand, this isn't that complicated to understand -- hunter biden worked for a company, a gas company that was owned by a ukrainian oligarch. that oligarch was an officer in viktor yanukovych -- h

trump repeatedly urged mr zelensky to investigate the son ofjoe biden, hunter biden. he worked for a gas company in the ukraine whilejoe biden was serving as us vice president. joead threatened to withhold aid unless it withdrew a public prosecutor investigating his son's company. joe biden is currently the frontrunner for the presidential nomination, and he livid at suggestions that president trump may have tried to have the investigation reopened. you should be looking at trump. trump's doing this because he knows i will beat him like a drum, and he's using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to do something to smear me. although he is refusing to be drawn on the contents of the conversation, president trump is branding the affair "fake news". i don't want to talk about any conversation other than to say — other than to say, great conversation, totally appropriate conversation, couldn't have been better. and keep asking questions and build it up as big as possible so you can have a bigger downfall. complicating matters is the fact that mr trump's telephone conversation appears to be the subject of a whistleblower complaint from a member of t