joining the round table, hol hi are newman kroft. -- holly newman kroft. with you, what are we looking at in this week's baer ron's. >> we have a whole cover package on how to spend what you've managed to save. and we lead off looking at the role of dividends in a retirement portfolio, and we look at ways that companies which have helped employees set up 401(k)s and other ways of saving are now starting to help them withdraw money at the appropriate times whether it's through system mat ific withdrawals or adding anaughty product -- annuity product. jack: holly, you work with clients who face this or will soon. what's the big picture? what is the problem that they're trying to solve? >> i think the problem is how to manage yourself through retirement, have enough money so that you don't have to compromise your lifestyle in an environment where you have to build a portfolio that has some risk. you know, many years ago, 20 years ago you could have a portfolio that returned 7%, 100% in fixed income. you certainly can't do that today. jack: because bonds were

kroft answers, "yes, that's right." question, "now, you said the two ukrainian embassy officials, understood they had no interest in this becoming public. is that right?" answer "that's correct, that's correct." "question, why would they not want this to become public? answer, "if this were public in ukraine, it would be seen as a reversal of our policy and would, to say candidly and quoek wa cloak wally, this would be a really big deal." question, so as long as they thought they could work through what was causing the hold, they wanted this to remain out of the public attention?" answer, "exactly." so the pressure on ukraine to investigate his political rivals to help him in his re-election effort, that's what the president is being impeached for. and we will have public hearings on that subject starting the day after tomorrow. that said, the effort to put some real money into that pressure by holding up legally appropriated funds from both the state department and the defense department, those efforts appear to have b

joining the round table, hol hi are newman kroft. -- holly newman kroft.s. >> we have a whole cover package on how to spend what you've managed to save. and we lead off looking at the role of dividends in a retirement portfolio, and we look at ways that companies which have helped employees set up 401(k)s and other ways of saving are now starting to help them withdraw money at the appropriate times whether it's through system mat ific withdrawals or adding anaughty product -- annuity product. jack: holly, you work with clients who face this or will soon. what's the big picture? what is the problem that they're trying to solve? >> i think the problem is how to manage yourself through retirement, have enough money so that you don't have to compromise your lifestyle in an environment where you have to build a portfolio that has some risk. you know, many years ago, 20 years ago you could have a portfolio that returned 7%, 100% in fixed income. you certainly can't do that today. jack: because bonds were yielding 6, 7%. >> correct, yeah. jack: so, lauren, one wa

and lame glue kroft good to have you with us shocked appalled devastated that's how mary of out of it described feeling after she learned that president trump had denounced her in a july phone call with the ukrainian president the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine was abruptly removed from her post earlier this year at issue is whether that happened because trump rightfully wanted someone else or if those only to help trump's desire to investigate his political rivals which could be an impeachable offense. good morning everyone it's only the 3rd time in modern u.s. history that impeachment proceedings have got to this stage the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine mary you vanna bitch publicly testifying against the president to the house intelligence committee. even if it says trump his lawyer and his allies derided and smeared her while she was still ambassador undermining american diplomacy president appoint and remove him passages but usually done publicly criticize them as donald trump has and in real time during impeachment proceedings as we see it or testifying the president is at

over it look i'm a nothing 1st found some i know what about clubs grin on for former glories brian kroft is there are gored in the red part of north him so it's understandable clarke is so rich. visionary reenergized that crap brought back their former glories but actually father himself has said he's a tough act to follow if we look at the numbers though surprisingly and this might surprise a lot of people actually father has a better record than clumped we can see it here you know corpus had $380.00 games in charge 57 percent was his win percentage father ok and the $64.00 games had that awful and brain enjoyment but 61 percent say so when percentage i think the problem for far is it's actually been the manner of those defeats amana those draws where they just haven't convinced and the way the players have been so i can only look they just looked shaky against low opposition as you mentioned previously and clucked really never had that kind of money that father has been able to spend this summer and i think we will back him but i think they've already backed him quite a lot already i t

ratings may not tell the full picture to explain is william no a good kroft i mean look i guess in the days of twitter it's about more than just t.v. i mean viewership online matters to churn these things are interrelated i mean t.v. viewership peaked at about 14000000 on the 1st day it declined steadily but not not by much over the coming days so a lot of republicans saying the show wasn't successful for democrats the so-called show is like to say really isn't true there was actually a high amount of viewership on television and it stayed fairly steady but the on the online side is a completely different story we can actually have a graph to show you put out by a platform called news where they calculated this kind of thing looking at facebook and twitter interactions it fluctuates quite wildly from witness to witness and we see that maria von of it is the former ambassador to ukraine is way out in front with 6000000 interactions on the day. a of her testimony that's posed it's likes it's comments it's read tweets it's these kinds of things there's a few witnesses i haven't even put u

kroft testified that, "the white house office of management and budget briefly held up the weapons sale after the pentagon and state department both approved it." this is not this year, this is not the thing for which president trump is being impeached for from 2019. this was last year. apparently, when they were writing the first draft for what trump would get impeached for this year. when they appeared to have tried and succeeded at basically this exact same play. with the other ukrainian president who preceded the one who's there now. eric lipton joins us live in just a moment. we have a member of the intelligence committee joining us, too. i know there's a lot of news. today has been overwhelming in terms of the number of news stories that broke, but just take it one at a time. we'll get there. stay with us. make family-sized meals fast, and because it's a ninja foodi, it can do things no other oven can, like flip away. the ninja foodi air fry oven, the oven that crisps and flips away. ♪ do you recall, not long ago ♪ we would walk on the sidewalk ♪ ♪ all around the wind blows ♪ we w

katherine kroft was told in a special budget by mick mulvaney was put on hold to ukraine because mick mulvaney expressed concerns that, quote, russia would react negatively. that is exactly why those missiles were authorized to be transferred to ukraine, so that the missiles would have a negative impact on russia's policy in the region. catherine croft testified that the office of the budget was to transfer aid to ukraine and that all the departments, including the security council, supported the transfer. mick mulvaney surrendered to all that pressure and ukraine finally received the missiles. christopher anderson's deposition was released today. christopher anderson, a service officer who had been involved in ukraine, said john bolton made a joke about every time ukraine is mentioned, giuliani pops up and that the president is listening to giuliani about ukraine. turns out that wasn't a joke. william taylor, quote, repeatedly expressed his concern that giuliani would make his job difficult. christopher anderson testified that he agreed, quote, that if giuliani's narrative took hold

they released more transcripts of official laura cooper and katherine kroft and chris anderson cooper's october 23rd deposition was delayed for hours after republicans stormed the hearing room cooper was the only pentagon official to testify, her october 23rd deposition, as we said, was delayed for hours. according to newly released transcript when she did testify she told investigators president trump ordered a freeze on aid to ukraine. and they began to raise concerns about how this could be done in a legal fashion and there was not an understanding how it could legally play out the freeze on military aid was essential to the democrats' narrati narrative. >> reporter: even honoring the nation's veterans in new york, president trump cannot escape was literally looming over him, impeachment as those hearings go public this week three career diplomats whose testimony appears to connect the dots of a quid pro quo that president trump looked to trade military aid for ukraine for help into an investigation of joe biden. the president's critics are hoping the hearings get the american public

and malmalkin kroft saw higsar ssarocess that lid to a quarterly miss on sales but earnings beat and raised earnings guidance dn th road but shares fell 13.5% to 333. an last night, peloton posted a bigger than expected quarterly loss in the first earnings re since going public. but the fitness bicycle maker beat revenue forecasts thanks to stronger skrurk growth. and the company looking to make >> for us profitability is a managed outcome. we could pul back on growth and be profitable tomorrow. the core u.s. bike business is profitable. so the investments we're making in international andal in new ds products and content they're all smartdnvestments e are excited about them. >> surprisingly shares of peloton dropped more than 7.5% to 22.74. >> chesapeake energy rumts missedxpectations b bause sharp drop i production and lower natural gas prices. making it the third straight quarter of disappointing results. also chesapeake sees next year's capital expenditures down 30%. shares were off abo 18%. will beter than wall street ofit is expecting. the grocery chain says ite expects to more

you know to have suffered abuse link to which kroft is rising according to local government figures but since most of those who practice it come from abroad the british government is being accused of turning a blind over fears it could face like you say sions of racism or t. shirt the edwards dusty takes up the story. hidden under the guise of religion faith and belief witchcraft is an ever increasing threat in child abuse cases in britain the number of such incidents has risen by more than a 3rd in just 2 years as local council say they are housing the equivalent of 38 cases every single week the shocking research released by the u.k.'s local government association also highlights f.p.m. or female genital mutilation it puts numbers at a record high with 1000 children having already been abused or at risk of it in the last year while it's more common incessant african communities the u.k. did have its 1st conviction for f.d.m. back in february. despite that life threatening and dangerous practices like f.d.m. part as many as $60000.00 girls at risk every year there's a misconception tho

kroft with us here in studio hi william you know trump supporters we know that they haven't moved they are still 100 percent behind the president what about the rest of the country right so polls say a lot of things we were looking as in the last 2 weeks of all these public high profile public testimony that looks like support for him peter is actually going down but you have to remember polls of course trail of ends by a few days of the wait a few days to see how people are reacting to events so we finally have polls out to show what people are thinking since all of this testimony all these hearings have come out we can actually show it here now republicans are of course staying about steady about 1112 percent not a huge change in republican support for impeachment but here we're looking at democrats and independents and of course the overall numbers are actually up by quite a quite special out of 34 percent among democrats independents saying they now support impeachment proceedings against iraq not necessarily support removing him from office but support this inquiry and support pos

william no uncle kroft is following the story for us he's with us here in our studio hi william we know the trump supporters are still behind and we saw that in that piece as well but what about the rest of the country that's right trump supporters they are die hard but they're not by no means a majority in trump's going to be a lot more than just his die hard core supporters who we just saw to get him through 2020 now last week wrapped up this long series of public testimony of of career lifelong career diplomatic and intelligence military people in the u.s. government and now this week we're able to see what some of that has done to public opinion we've actually seen an increase in support especially among democrats and of course and also independents and overall there's a a few percent increase in support for impeachment and republicans of course they're they're rather disfavor both only about 1112 percent which is not surprising but we are seeing more support for impeachment which is not necessarily mean that americans want to see trump removed from office but they are in favor of t

the ukrainians wanted answer, but kroft did not have a good response. but then in late august cooper met with kurt volker with whom she had met many times in the past. during that meeting in which they were discussing the hold on security assistance, volker revealed that he was engaged in an effort to have the government to ukraine issue a statement that would, quote, commit to the prosecution of any individuals involved in election interference, end quote. cooper understood that if volker's effort were successful the hold might be lifted. unbeknownst to cooper, no such statement was forthcoming, but the aid was abruptly restored on september 11th, days after the three committees launched an investigation into the trump-ukraine scheme. and with that, i now recognize the ranking member. >> thank you. >> as we republicans have argued at these hearings, the american people are getting a skewed impression of these events. that's because the democrats assume full authority to call witnesses and they promptly reject good new witnesses the republicans kwtd. i'

kroft says she was nervous about taking the job fearing the whout would change policy to suit domestic politics. and volker told him president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani wouldn't move off pressuring ukraine to launch investigations into the president's political rival joe biden. the public hearings begin wednesday. with appearances by three diplomats who have already testified behind closed doors. we have details on what's ahead. >> lawmakers will arrive in washington that in 24 hours they will have one of the biggest hearings that happened in years. the first official impeachment laering related to trump. two witnesses testifying state department officials including william taylor. diplomat to ukraine. who has given expelolosive testimony. dlats believe he will be a central piece of the effort to draft articles of impeachment and impeach trump. one democrat said this is ran individual who is straight out of central casting. and democrats want on the stand. the strategy is not to ub earth something we haven't seen in the depositions. we have had thousands of pages. they wa

. >> katherine kroft testified mulvaney head plans in late 2017 because russia might not like it. part of the testimony. in a briefing with mr. mulvaney the question centered around the russian reaction. what was the concern about the russian reaction? the russia that russia would react negatively to the provision of javelins to ukraine. the trump administration is concerned about what russia thinks here. what gives? >> this is one of the most under appreciated aspects of this. and don't discuss often enough. when you're holding up aid to ukraine and not helping, you are helping russia. what's the aid for? aide to help them fight back russian. and that's an over arching part of this. >> you worked with daniel goldman. he'll do the questioning for democrats. you have worked with him before. what do you think he'll look to get to the witnesses? >> he's heard from all the witnesses before. this is public testimony. i think what he'll do is stay focussed. he'll want to get to the basics. this is for the american people. when did they learn national se. all of that should kevin mcaleen

this comes as you've got this role of what was rudy giuliani but also we're learning from kathryn krofting that mick mulvaney put that hold on javelin missiles going to ukraine which the governments supported because mull vaney wa concerned that russia would act negatively. greg, is there any situation in which that would be the out come that makes sense. >> does it make sense? it doesn't make sense at all. we have a foreign policy with respect to ukraine of helping russia but the president seems to have a different agenda. the president in this unholy deal with giuliani and others withholding it for no national security purpose and without telling congress. this whole thing is beginning to remind me of the rod blagojevich situation. if you remember back to illinois a few years ago when the governor blagojevich referred to his ability to appoint a successor to senator obama as ' f'ing golden. he knew he had something that was worth something and he could get something in return. i can see giuliani saying to the president we have something f'ing golden here. let's not give them the aid u

another notable point from katherine kroft's testimony i thought was interesting, she says in 2017, mick mulvaney now chief of staff, acting, put a hold on javelin assistance to ukrainians. keep in mind the javelins have been one of the key pieces of the ukrainian defense and have gone further than ever to defend them against russia. there's truth to that. they never sent the javelin missiles from the obama administration but the trump administration did. mick mulvaney alone held up that process, the rationale concerned how the russians will react. you see policy here from the person closest to the president, mick mulvaney with a real large role throughout the ukrainian story and back to 2017 and weapons assistance to ukraine involved in that as well. >> thank you. i want to bring in our senior national correspondent, alex. this impeachment comes two days before the first public televised hearing. >> that's exactly right. those are surely to be blockbuster televised events. the three officials phil was just talking about, cooper, ross and anderson have not been invited to testify on tv.

this is the testimony from catherine kroft and christopher anderson.kurt volker who was the special counsel -- rather, the special investigator in terms of the ukraine policy. they told lawmakers they had concerns about efforts to press ukraine into announcing specific investigations that would help president from politically. also testified that ukrainian officials approached her quietly about the hold on security assistance before it had been made public. these are two more officials filling in the blanks ahead of these public hearings that we are going to get on wednesday and friday. two state department officials on wednesday, the former ambassador to ukraine on friday, so what you see, the democrats in charge of these three committees in the house are basically trying to get out some of these transcripts to fill in the blanks before we get some of these people on camera to answer questions. of course, the big question will be whether the open public hearings on wednesday and friday live up to all the hype that's been building as we look ahead to t

kathryn kroft testified a couple of years ago a hold was put on javelin missiles to ukraine. why?ussian reaction. that russia would react negatively to the provision of javelins to ukraine. a clear signal of trump trying to placate vladimmir putin. >> this is a tell. he sees it laid out painly in the transcripts. trump is trying the find ways to cooperate with russia at almost any cost and with great resistance from within his government. >> reporter: ukraine got the missiles. the new transcripts reveal another instance where the president seemed worried about backlash from putin. former volker aid testified that trump saw a report from cnn in december of last year about a u.s. warship move sboog the black sea to counter russian's aggression. >> a u.s. moving a warship could be seen as pushing back on russia. >> reporter: it prompted an urgent call from trump to his national security adviser. according to christopher anderson, ambassador bolton relayed he was called at home and the president complained about the news report. the former kgb colonel will be buoyed by the transcripts

this, according to catherine kroft, a state department official who revealed this, two quotes for you. in a briefing with mr. mulvaney, acting chief of staff, the question centered around the russian reaction. mull vein nir was concerned, quote, that russia would react negatively to the provisions of javelins to ukraine javelins being missiles that were to be sent to ukraine. should russia have been a consideration at all in who -- in giving this aid? >> so i think it's fair, i don't agree with it, but i do think it's fair for the united states to consider how will russia react to us arming the ukrainians. however, given the president's seeming proclivity or willingness to work with vladimir putin, if it seems like we're working behind the scenes in order to pander to the russians, that's about the only way i could think of to make this more an explosive type of inquiry. and that's that we were doing this at the behest of the russians. i think it's fine to ask the question, how does this affect our relationship with another major nuclear power. but, wow, if there's more to come on tha

and captain kroft also released yesterday struck at the heart of the republican claim that there couldheld. cooper told lawmakers, quote, i know from my kurt volker conversation and also from sort of the alarm bells that were coming from ambassador william taylor and his team that there were ukrainians who knew about this. and kroft told lawmakers she received two separate calls over the summer from alarmed ukrainian diplomats asking why the aid had been frozen before it was publicly reported? she testified i remember being very surprised at the effectiveness of niu cran yan partners trade craft as in to say they found out very early on or much earlier than i expected them to. so, steve schmidting th, this underscores a "new york times" report that ukraine knew earlier in the summer that this military aid was on hold. one of the arguments that we expect to hear from republicans in these open hearings is on that july 25th phone call zelensky didn't know that the aid was being held. that's patently untrue based on the documents that we've seen. >> i think what we're going to see when we