mr. trump: where? >> north korea. mr. trump: i am not going to say any actions. we are getting along very well with north korea. i have a good relationship with kim jong-un. president, we would be at war with north korea, in my opinion. so, we are not looking at any actions. we have a good relationship with kim jong-un. we will see what go ahead.p: more breaking news? there's always breaking news. usually fake news. go ahead. reporter: they just landed in the green zone in baghdad. pres. trump: he just told me it is breaking news. i will have to see. i have not heard it. when did this happen? we will look into it. are you worried about the industry in baghdad? pres. trump: we will look into it. you just told me breaking. i assume it is relatively new. reporter: [indiscernible] pres. trump: yes, we will discuss that. i will be. agreement one an short-range missiles. a lot of people and a lot of countries test short range missiles. there is nothing spectacular about that. we will be discussing that, also. reporter: [indiscernible] would you like to maybe try to sto

>> pelley: when mr. trump visited america's u.n. staff, it appeared he threatened whoever revealed the call. >> president trump: i want to know who's the person who gave the whistleblower- who's the person who gave the whistleblower the information? because that's close to a spy. you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? right? these spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now. >> pelley: the president's remarks prompted the whistleblower's lawyers, this weekend, to send a letter to the acting director of national intelligence. they thank the director for activating "appropriate resources" to ensure their client's safety. they write that "certain individuals" are offering a" $50,000 bounty" for their client's identity. the president has suggested that the people behind this are spies and perhaps guilty of treason. >> schiff: it's hard to describe how dangerous and loathsome that invitation to violence is. >> pelley: adam schiff hopes to begin hearing witnesses this week. your repu

that he has to deal with it on the other hand he doesn't want to be seen as the patsy doing what mr trump is doing helping him to get reelected since he like mr dudley who said it publicly knows that mr trump is a big fat problem for the american economy let me point out that in addition to those see if those you mention some of the most important industrial association the american grocers association the american retail association publicly yesterday and today excoriated mr trump for the global trade war on china which they say is threatening their business hurting their profits and in that way contributing again to the recession that we all know is coming mr trump is trying to hold it back and putting mr powell in an impossible position so he waffles which mr powell maybe could decide for doing but wow was he under conflicting pressures in terms of wanting to maintain the credibility wanting to do what's right not wanting to appear to be mr trump's willing to all this is a very difficult position for him and reflects the gap between what's actually going on with the american economy an

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mr. trump said it looks like iran is to blame. meanwhile attacks sent oil prices surging. gas prices here at home are expected to jump 10 to 25 cents. laura podesta is here in new york. laura, what is the president saying about all of this? >> well, when asked about it yesterday, the president essentially said not to worry, that they haven't risen very much so far and the u.s. has strategic oil reserves for situations like we're in right now. he said we'll dip into those reserves if necessary. president trump downplayed the saudi oil attack last night in new mexico. >> but a few years ago they would have been in a panic. today we've got a lot of oil, we've got a lot of gas. >> earlier at the white house, the commander in chief suggested iran is behind last weekend's attack on two saudi arabian oil plants. >> it's certainly looking that way at this moment. >> and while he added that he'd like to avoid military conflict, he left the door open to an armed response. >> it could be met with an attac

president, mrs. trump. thank you, mr. president and mrs. trump, for the honor you have bestowed on my country here today with this extraordinary welcome. what jenny and i bring with us and our delegation the amity, the thanks, and respect of 25 million australians for this great country of these united states of america. 50 years ago another australian prime minister visited the white house and he said there are too many bonds between our two countries for any australian prime minister to feel he is a stranger. so once again as another prime minister returns as a friend, to celebrate with you, mr. president, one of our oldest and dearest friendships, it is wonderful to be here. australians and americans understand each other like few other people. and it is true that you and i have established a very early understanding for which i'm grateful. no two peoples in the world make better friends easier than ours. your respect for australia, mr. president, your personal encouragement, and the example afforded by

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thankesident, mrs. trump, you, again, for welcoming jen and here as true friends. may god the good peoples of the commonwealth of australia and of america. states [applause] attention. >> mr. president, this concludes today's ceremony. ♪ national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ applause]d went into the white house, president trump and the australian prime minister the oval office. they invited reporters in, and resident trump answered a few questions.

mr. trump: it is a great honor to be with the crown prince of bahrain. he is a good friend of mine and the country is a friend of ours. we will always be with them and they will always be with us. tremendous economic relationship, trade, and we will be discussing all of those things. we will be discussing what to place over the last two days in saudi arabia. we will be discussing the middle east. our relationship has never been stronger than it is right now. that is used on the relationship we have. i look forward to having a discussion. >> thank you, great pleasure. i would like to say thank you to the president for receiving me and my delegation here today. i'm here to convey the greens of his majesty and people of bahrain to strike a relationship based on shared values, where they overlap, ideals. as the president said, we will focus on discussions related to security enhancement and trade. we signed an agreement to purchase additional -- purchase our first patriot missile batteries and it c

of course mr trump denies exerting any improper pressure. president's personal lawyer in all of this? rudy giuliani has been charged by donald trump with the task of digging up dirt on joe biden, or whoever happens to be his opponent in the democratic... 0n the democratic ticket for president in 2020. that's what rudy giuliani is doing. he's working with donald trump ina is doing. he's working with donald trump in a personal and political capacity. he's built his business... the power of the presidency should not be used in this matter, and we should not be coercing foreign governments into taking sides in our elections. it also seems curious that mr trump elections. it also seems curious that mrtrump said elections. it also seems curious that mr trump said almost as an aside today that people should be investigating mike pence's dealings with the ukraine. it almost sounds like a warning to his own party, to the republicans, if you let me go you will also lose the vice president, mike pence. you will also lose the vice president, mike pencei

mr. trump did something that other republican candidates up and down the ballot refused to do and still don't do as much, which is, he didn't buy into the three words, "you can't win." this fiction of electability. i had been railing against it for years. you can are if can't win until you do or you don't. people will tell you, that's right. people will tell you jane, three years, two years, six months before an election, who can and who can't win. we weren't just being told that the trump campaign -- well, all of you are being told the same thing. we weren't just being told that he can't win, we were being told what senator obama had been told eight years earlier in the primary, which is, she has them all wrapped up, you are a joke, don't even bother. he was told that in the primaries in beat her, became a 2008, two-term president. president trump was told that in 2016, beat her, will be a two-term president. what donald trump did and what you must realize is that electability is a trap, becau

president trump has not denied the reports, claming: "it doesn't matter what i discuss." this is what mriden had to say about the affair a litte earlier. i know trump deserves to be investigated. he is violating every basic norm of a president. you should be asking him the question, why is he on the phone with a foreign leader, trying to intimidate a foreign leader, if that's what happened. but appears to be what happened. but appears to be what happened. you should be looking at trump. trump is doing this because he knows i will beat him like a drum, and he is using his abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me. that was a pretty fired up joe biden a couple of hours ago. david willis in washington has been unpacking the background to the story. what this row centres on is a telephone conversation which clearly took place during the summer between president trump and the new leader of the ukraine, and it's been reported that on a number of occasions, possibly as many as eight occasions during the course of the telephone conversation, mr trump u

i asked our north america correspondent peter bowes first about mr trump's personal lawyer.everal television interviews, especially this past weekend, and the committee chairman focused on what he said, that he has acknowledged that he went to ukraine, he has spoken to ukrainian officials, to try to get an investigation into joe biden, officials, to try to get an investigation intojoe biden, the former vice president and possible candidate for the democrats, opposite president trump, at the next presidential election. and he has indicated that he wasn't doing this alone, that there were others in the trump administration involved, and that he had text messages, documents, to prove this. so the committee chairman want that evidence. they want to see what has happened, and they have demanded, by sending him this subpoena, those text messages, e—mails, other documentation, dating back to .5 yea rs documentation, dating back to .5 years to early 2017, and they have given him until the middle of 0ctober given him until the middle of october to come up with those documents —— 2.5

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 journal" now report

mr. trump's longtime accountant. a judge delayed enforcement of the subpoena until at least next week. e manhattan district attorney is investigating the trump organization's possible role in buying the silence of two women who claim they had affairs with mr. trump. >>> "the new york times" says israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has a new chance to keep his job. yesterday israel's president asked netanyahu to form a new government. it came after last week's national election failed to give netanyahu's likud party or the main opposition party enough parliamentary seats to form a majority. netanyahu has 28 days to put together a majority. >>> "the chicago tribune" reports an illinois man seen on video confronting a woman for wearing a t-shirt with a puerto rican flag was found guilty of a hate crime. yesterday a jury convicted timothy tribas for berating and questioning the citizenship of a woman last year in a chicago park. the woman said she feared for her safety. >> you're an american citizen, you should not be wearing that in the united states of america. >> okay. >> you know,

know,mr. trump, you -- i said to mr. trump, you know, they just sent him for their first joint interview for abc news with david mayor. -- david muir. we asked if you're available, let's do it. we go to the mahoning county , kenfield county fair, that's what it was. is beingd, david muir driven down, abc is setting up, i have a picture of it. a gorgeous backdrop, the rolling hills and the two chairs, david muir, it's going to be beautiful. there, and on the way, the governor, i know my corndogs, i know my games, i know my lemon freezes, i've got this. we got there, and the secret service is not letting me out of the car. they had slept the place -- swe pt the place, they had not swept it for a makeshift rally for tens of thousands of people that came out. that was my first experience with such an event, where i really felt the only person at the fair that they was john kasich. love you, governor. i never saw so many people. i never saw so many happy people standing side-by-side. they had been there for hours, and the temp

but mr trump says withholding the funds was not done to put pressure on ukraine.his from our north america editorjon sopel. new york in september, when the leadership of the world converges on the un to speak, but one conversation is causing donald trump extreme difficulty and the heat is intensifying. injuly, he phoned the newly elected ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky and it's alleged donald trump demanded an investigation into his democratic presidential rivaljoe biden and his son's business dealings in the country as the price for receiving us military aid. no dirt, no aid is the suggestion. the president denies wrongdoing but his account of the call has changed continually as the questions have piled up. i think it's ridiculous, it's a witch—hunt. i'm leading in the polls, they have no idea how to stop me, the only way they can try is through impeachment. this has never happen to a president before, there has never been a thing like this before, it's nonsense and when you see the call, when you see the readout of the call which i assume you will see at

with you 100 percent certain you came ukraine will be your best friend sir he is desperate for help mr trump doesn't have to say anything until he's status 5 misters and alinsky understands the situation and he says i will have mr barr call you i will you will you will meet again with mr giuliani which selenski had already promised to do and so the $400000000.00 is really a side issue.

mr. trump dodges questions about his personal lawyer's involvement in urging ukraine to investigate biden. rudy giuliani, playing a central role in the newest scandal engulfing the president. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world, i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the situation room. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we are following breaking news on the ukraine scandal that launched a formal impeachment investigation against president trump, the whistleblower complaint that started it all is now in the hands of congress and it's being reviewed by lawmakers right now. one democrat telling me the details are deeply disturbing. this comes after the release of a rough transcript that shows mr. trump pushed ukraine's president to investigate joe biden, his possible 2020 poent. president trump denies he put pressure, slamming the impeachment inquiry as a hoax. saying they have damming evidence of a shocking abuse of presidential power. we have a team of correspondents, ex

mr. trump's foreign contacts were hidden to protect him politically. spies and trees ason. esident trump is lashing out, saying the sources deserve the death penalty. and the president demands his party stick together. will there be more cracks in the gop as democrats weigh impeachment? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news on the explosive whistle-blower complaint alleging not only an abuse of power by the president but a coverup within the white house. it reveals new details on allegations that mr. trump pressured ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election by pushing for investigation of joe biden and it claims white house lawyers were so worried about mr. trump's phone call with ukraine's president that they directed the transcript be put in lockdown, hiding it in a highly classified computer system. tonight president trump

a whistle—blower‘s report maintains not only that mr trump misused the office of the president for personals request for dirt on democratic rivaljoe biden, then sought to bury the evidence. president trump, seen here with mr zelensky earlier in the week, lashed out publicly and privately at a closed—door event in new york. he suggested that white house staff who spoke about the telephone conversation should be seen as traitors. who is the person who gave the whistle—blower the information? because that's close to a spy. you know what we used to do in the old days, when we were smart, with spies and treason? we use to handle it a little bit differently than we do now. laughter. democrats in the house of representatives launched a formal impeachment inquiry earlier this week. on capitol hill, the battle lines are being drawn along party lines. this phone call is a nothing burger in terms of a quid pro quo. the president of the united states did not remotely suggest to the ukraine that if you do not do my political bidding against biden, i'm going to cut your off. biden, i'm going to cut your

mr. trump is also trying to depict himself as the victim of espionage and warns there will be, quote, big consequences, some view that as a threat and there are fears someone might try to out the whistle-blower. his attorneys wrote in a letter to the acting national intelligence director, it says, in part there are, quote, serious concerns we have regarding our client's personal safety. we appreciate your office's support thus far to activate appropriate resources to ensure their safety, end quote. despite those concerns the democratic chair of the house intelligence committee says the whistle-blower is planning to testify. adam shiffrin also finds himself back in the president's crosshairs. mr. trump tweeted that he wants shiffrin questioned for fraud and treason. the president has criticized shiffrin for straying from what was the rough transcript of the call to ukraine's president when it said that he read that in a committee intercorrecting what shiffrin described himself as a parody that t

mr. trumpis terrorism. those who succeeded in syria and in iraq to bring terrorism to an end eradicate isis. with the help of the iraq he people in the syrian people, that was a country of iran, and the country that is present and flying over the airspace of and bombarding the soil of the country of syria without the permission of the government is the united states of america. and today, america unfortunately as a supporter of terrorism in our region and wherever america has gone, terrorism has expanded in their wake, wherever we have gone on the other side, we have defeated terrorism. one example is isis in our region. vis-a-vis, the nuclear issue we are committed to the nonproliferation treaty as well as the protocol, the additional protocol. so our activities are peaceful. those who are going outside of the framework of the npt is the united states of america which is against the framework of the npt conducting nuclear weapon tests. >> we will get into your contention that it is the u.s. bu

the controversy building since mr. trump chose eshowed off a b altered map. >>> cnn learned about a mission to extract a high level russian in the government. stand by for details and how it was spurred by concerns about mr. trump's handling of classified intelligence. >>> starting impeachment. the house judiciary committee is nearing a vote to set ground rules for impeachment investigation. will it ultimately lead to a formal effort to force mr. trump out of office? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> breaking news, president trump declares afghanistan peace talks are dead even as he defends his cancelled plans to host taliban leaders at camp david. mr. trump says it was his decision to call off the meeting after a u.s. soldier was killed by a taliban car bomb. sources tell cnn some of mr. trump's top advisers, including the vice president has warned him against meeting with allies of the 9/11 terrorists. >>> also breaking, more

i will expose mr. trumps the failure and fraud that he is in business, and i can expose him as the failure and fraud he is as an economic leader of the united states. his tax plan is a giveaway to the rich and corporations that is killing working families. his trade policy is causing a manufacturing recession. we have a looming recession in this country, and he knows it. that's why he is begging the fed to bail him out before the election. he is desperate. i would love to go to toe. i can take him down and win. [applause] mr. steyer: let me say this. in the four early states, including new hampshire, where i spent my time in the last seven weeks since i declared i was running, my campaign is in either fourth or fifth place. people are hearing this message. we are really on the move. [applause] mr. steyer: but i am not new to new hampshire. the organization i started was organized the last time jeanne shaheen was running for the senate. in 2018, we were on the ground, making sure with the people in this room

the wall streetjournal has claimed mr trump repeatedly urged mr zelensky to investigate the son ofjoeer biden. he worked for a gas company in the ukraine whilejoe biden was serving as us vice president. joe biden had 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

mr. trumpays fuel-efficient vehicles are too expensive and too small. >> i mean, they make them like papier-machier. somebody touches them, and the entire car collapses. when somebody hits me, i want to be in as close to an army tank as possible. >> reporter: transportation pollution is the nation's single-biggest source of planet-warming greenhouse gases. partly why 12 states and washington, d.c., follow california's higher emissions standards, accounting for about one-third of the auto market. four major automakers are siding with california saying even they don't want the federal government to aggressively weaken standards. >> it begs the question, mr. trump, what and who is this for. >> reporter: democratic governor gavin newsom accuses president trump of playing politics with blue state california. >> the perversion of this moment, pure politics. and politics that could have profound consequences. >> reporter: california says its emissions rules have prevented 29,000 premature deaths every

and they see mr. trump taking a page out of the playbook of authoritarian leaders around the world in terms of nepotism, in terms of corruption, in terms of misrepresenting the facts. that's what dictators and despots have done is to manipulate the perceptions of their public and so, again, mr. trump is doing everything possible to burnish his image and continue to play to that core constituency, his base. and by doing that, he is corrupting the u.s. government's reputation around the world which i think is very, very damaging and i think is going to have some lasting affects because people looking at if the president of the united states can do these things and get away with it for so long, what's to say that the next administrations are not going to have similar traits that cause concern to so many? >> former director brennan, thank you so much for spending some time with us. we're always grateful to have you. frank figliuzzi, i'm coming right back to you. i mean, we have spent so much time talking about

no i believe mr trump has said very early on that he is the decider in chief and that he will listen to people perhaps discuss issues in front of them but once he makes his mind up he's not going to be. swayed in any direction and he doesn't take very kindly to dissent i think mr bull in the biggest challenge is look you have national security advisors all the time where difficult relationship with this i could carry a state or the treasury secretary other senior officials in the and their administrations but i believe mr ball in relationships with senior officials in a minute in the administration became toxic going back to what the other guest said in terms of europe the european union many people don't agree with donald trump policy doesn't pertain to the european union or his support of boris johnson but you do have another a large group of americans who read the wall street journal financial times and look at what they perceive to be an unbalanced relationship in terms of the european union's. treatment of american companies whether it's american tech companies whether it's amer

a supporter of mr. trump described him as distracted and less focused than usual, not really coming to grips with what's happening. house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff brushed off the attacks. >> i'm always flattered when attacked by someone of the president's character. thank you. >> reporter: the complaint is damning, potentially for white house aides. not only did the complaint say that the president invites interference in u.s. elections, white house aides said, quote, they told me there was already a discussion ongoing with white house lawyers on how to treat the call because of the likelihood that they had witnessed the president abuse his office for personal gain. democrats are hearing echoes of watergate. >> this is a coverup. this is a coverup. >> reporter: also appearing throughout the complaint, the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani who claims the state department was fully aware of his work in ukraine on behalf of mr. trump to dig up dirt on former vice president joe biden.

mr. trump's conversation with the ukrainian president threatens to overshadow the trip. mocrats are demanding details of president trump's phone call to the ukrainian leader this summer. laura podesta's here in new york. what exactly is the president saying about this call? >> reporter: well, president trump defended his call to ukraine's president earlier this summer. he called it absolutely perfect, that it was congratulatory and focused on corruption in ukraine. but mr. trump also suggested he discussed vice president biden and biden's son in that call. democrats frame those actions as an effort to pressure ukraine to dig up damaging material on trump's potential 2020 rival. president trump arrived in new york last night ahead of the united nations general assembly. the u.n. held its first youth climate summit this weekend after millions marched around the world. >> we showed that we are united and that we young people are unstoppable. >> reporter: president trump will not attend today's session on climate change. instead he's speaking at a meeting on religious persecu

de report says mr. trumpid not want a top-level meeting with the president of ukraine until he saw "how he chose to act in office." well, ben tracy is at the white house with what the president is saying in his defense. >> reporter: mr. president! do you care if you're impeached, sir? >> reporter: president trump did tot answer questions as he returned to the white house, but at a closed door event in new york this morning, he had questions of his own. >> who's the person who gave the whistleblower the information because that's close to a spy. >> reporter: in audio obtained by the "l.a. times" the president suggested whoever spoke to the whistleblower about his phone call with the president of ukraine might be a traitor, even though the whistleblower claims they received the information through the course of official busines punishments, such as imprisonment or execution. he reporter: so far, the white louse is treating the fallout from the whistleblower complaint as a p.r. battle. sources say there is no wa

mr. trumpcribed the call as "innocent." well, our reporting team has new details on every angle of this story, and we're going to begin with weijia jiang with the president in new york. >> no push, no pressure, no nothing. it's all a hoax, folks. it's all a big hoax. >> reporter: president trump basked in his belief that the summary of his phone call with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky proves he did nothing wrong. earlier, zelensky backed that up. >> i think you read everything. i'm sorry, but i don't want to be involved to democratic elections of u.s.a. nobody pushed me. dy pushed me. >> iother words, no pressure. >> reporter: the summary of their july 25 phone call reveals that the president repeatedly asked zelensky to investigate joe biden and his son, hunter, who is on the board of a ukrainian oil company, even suggesting he work with u.s. attorney general william barr. the summary is not a verbatim transcript, but a memo, based on the notes and recollections of those listening in.

mr trump denies exerting improper pressure, but the call has triggered an impeachment inquiry againstnd evidence to congress, on thursday, from america's acting director of national intelligence. david willis reports. a beleaguered president donald trump returned to the white house last night, even by the breathless standards of his administration, the last few days have been particularly tumultuous. a whistleblower report maintains not only that mr trump misused to the office of president for personal gain but that white house officials, alarmed by his request for dirt on democratic rival joe biden, then sought to bury the evidence. in the days following the phone call, i learned from multiple us officials, that senior white house officials had intervened to lockdown all records of the phone call, the whistleblower rights, especially the official word for word transcript of the call. this underscored to me that white house officials understood the gravity of what had transpired in the call. president donald trump, seen here with mr zielinski earlier in the week, has lashed out public

of course mr trump denies exerting any improper pressure. t of president's personal lawyer in all of this? rudy giuliani has been charged by donald trump with the task of digging up dirt onjoe biden, or whoever happens to be his opponent in the democratic... on the democratic ticket for president in 2020. that's what rudy giuliani's doing. he's working for donald trump in his personal and political capacity. he has no business conducting united states diplomacy with foreign nations on behalf of our country. the power of the presidency should not be used in this manner, and we should not be coercing foreign governments into taking sides in our elections. it also seems curious, doesn't it, that mr trump said, almost as an aside today, that people should be investigating mike pence's dealings with the ukraine. it almost sounds like a warning to his own party, to the republicans, "if you let me go you will also lose the vice president, mike pence." i believe that's what's going on because there are quite a few republicans who secretly are very, v

showed unfortunately after the chinese announced what you just talked about mr trump through another tweet out there emphasizing how much they have lost how desperate they must be when in fact for the whole world what you see is desperate aggressive behavior by the trumpet administration at a very moderated response by the chinese they certainly behave as though they think in the long run this is their game to win and that mr trump has to be waited out in the hopes that something different will come either out of the election or out of the pressure from the united states even from the chamber of commerce in the united states who has a delegation in beijing right now trying to mediate this situation which is a kind of an odd situation in itself very interesting to when the chamber gets involved you know they really speak for hour here in the u.s. getting to a domestic u.s. story with some global implications the california state assembly has now passed a law that would require door dash lift and similar so-called gig economy employers to treat the drivers they clearly employ as employ

the wall street journal has claimed mr trump repeatedly urged mr vladimir the la nky repeatedly urged mr vladimir the lanky does make zelensky to investigate the son ofjoe biden. he worked for a gas company in the ukraine while joe biden worked for a gas company in the ukraine whilejoe biden was serving as vice president. joe biden threaten to withhold aid and less it withdrew a prosecutor investigating his son because my company. joe biden is currently the front runner for the presidential nomination, and he limited suggestions that president trump may have tried to have the investigation reopened. he should does make you should be looking at trump. job is doing this because he knows i will beat him, his abusing 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. conversation, president trump is branding the affair fake newslj don't want to talk about any conversation other than to say — other than to say a great conversation, totally appropria

i'm like the president of harassment. >> you got to relax, mr. trump.o worry about. nobody is going to find out about our illegal side dealings with the ukraine. >> good. >> or how we tried to cover up those side dealings. >> great. >> or how we plan to cover up the cover-up. >> rudy, where are you right now? >> i'm on cnn right now. let me put you on speaker. >> rudy, get out of there. and whatever you do, stay off the phone. >> i got another call. >> all right. >> okay. who is this? >> it's attorney general barr. >> bill, i'm really starting to worry. >> well, stay calm, mr. president. i know things look bad right now. but i got our top guy on this. >> good. let's get him on the phone, too. >> hello? >> damn it, rudy. >> hey, mr. president. >> rudy, you're not on cnn still, are you? >> of course not. >> good. >> i'm on the joe rogan podcast. >> it begs the question, is rudy doing a lot of help or harm for the president out there? >> i don't know. i love the chris cuomo signage there. >> nice plug there. >> thanks for joining us. last day of september.

towards north korea and you know mr trump likes to raise the tension to a point where he believes that this will will make things that go smooth that on the diplomatic level that's what that you know i remember the names he called the. north korean president at that time and the statements he made that were really aggressive statements and then later on we saw that he was trying to push for direct negotiations and i think the trumpet ministrations still believes that it still has a chance to kind of. exchange with iran perhaps to actually reach a deal. and that is important again for the trumpet mr shinde because it's a deal that involves a lot of investments and a lot of money and he doesn't want the european union to actually have all these contracts with iran he wants to have american companies step into iran after he has made these profit from the saudis now he wants to try to get into iran and benefit from projects in the iranian infrastructure if that is possible so he doesn't. feel that the compensation does not rule in the reaching a kind of an agreement with iran that's his wa

showed unfortunately after the chinese announced what you just talked about mr trump through another tweet out there emphasizing how much they have lost how desperate they must be when in fact for the whole world what you see is desperate aggressive behavior by the trumpet ministration and a very moderated response by the chinese they certainly behave as though they think in the long run this is their game to win and that mr trump has to be waited out in the hopes that something different will come either out of the election or out of the pressure from the united states even from the chamber of commerce in the united states who has a delegation in beijing right now trying to mediate this situation which is a kind of an odd situation in itself very interesting to when the chamber gets involved you know they really speak for our here in the u.s. getting done. story with some global implications the california state assembly has now passed a law that would require door dash lifts and similar so-called gig economy employers to treat the drivers they clearly employ as employees but this g

ukrainian counterpart lot and we were linsky it is the latest in a slew of impeachment attempts mr trump has faced since he took office in january 27th to. the walls feel like they're closing in on the trumpet ministration right now and i'm not sure they can hold them off for much longer the walls are closing in and everyone is freaking out the walls are closing the wheels are coming off. the walls are closing in on president trump the walls are closing it will trump on the walls are closing in on the trump white house. all of the walls are closing in at this point the walls are closing in fast. as you remember the democrats it was mostly dominated by a debunked russian collusion probe our senior correspondent. being taking a closer look at the moves against president. if you're a democrat the hardcore liberal type you knew in your heart the trump would be brought down the only question was how long it would take just needed a reason and come on there were plenty no people put their money on the trump russia collusion story treason collusion between the trunk team and the russians and tr