ukraine's president a lot of years olinsky looked on as his campaign promise became a reality. it's the 1st move he says towards ending the conflict with moscow. but all this is the 1st step to reopening dialogue the 1st stage to ending the war to getting all our soldiers and sailors back into reclaiming our territory not that woman that was the what you call the 1000 didn't do it. this man received special attention filmmaker sense of ukraine's most famous political prisoner he was captured in crimea in 2014 just as the territory was invaded and i nixed by russia . also released 24 sailors captured by russia last year in a name. the suits. at the same time another plane carrying prisoners released by ukraine learned in moscow among them journalist vision ski head of russian state media in ukraine who kiev had accused of treason. also transferred not only to see more of a separatist commander accused of involvement in the downing of flight m.h. 175 years ago ukraine released him despite pleas from the netherlands which lost citizens in the aircraft attack. but for russia and uk

trump's presidency a readout of a july phone call between trump and ukrainian president golda meir's olinsky shows the u.s. president urging ukraine's leader to investigate presidential candidate and put political rival joe biden now the call has prompted u.s. house democrats to launch a formal impeachment inquiry against president trump they are calling his actions and i'm quoting here an ambiguous damning and shocking abuse of the office of the presidency. these are the documents the white house released hoping to diffuse the controversy over president trump's telephone call with his ukrainian counterpart billowed 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

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the show nick in the start with you this story now has multiple components the ukraine president's olinsky at the top the whistleblower report claims that trump wanted to provide political ammunition to help win the 2020 election and that this is part of a white house cover up has there been any reaction today to all of this from president zelinsky. good evening brant no they are keeping very tight lipped here in kiev and i think probably for their purposes rightly so ukraine can only lose a situation there's nothing to gain if they seem to be too enthusiastic helping president trump in his campaign as it would seem against the biden family he will come in and ukraine will come in for criticism from the democrats the other way around as we've seen. very dependent on us aid financially and militarily so i think the real hope here is in kiev to sit this out to be as quiet as humanly possible and hope that somehow these passions and the ukraine can kind of keep itself out of this and you not be forced to choose between 2 sides yeah and what about you this is not something sure but it has real

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 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 trump it is side ukraine's leader says he did not pursue it i'm sorry but i don't want to be involved to do a critic all. elections and 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'

the controversy over president trump's telephone call with his ukrainian counterpart a lot of years olinsky instead they seem to back up claims that trump pressured selenski to investigate the business dealings of democratic rival joe biden's son trump continues to deny the allegations and says democrats are harassing him. this is a relatively minor wherever and if you take a look at the democrats they went down to see the president of ukraine and their sin 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. into each of his constitutional responsibilities has asked a fine government to help him in his political campaign that cannot stand will be held accountable top democrats had long resisted cal

also said before that he would release the full transcript of the phone call with ukraine leaders olinsky on wednesday now the whistleblower wants to testify before the house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff has announced that as well and joining me live is a political commentator john william louden thanks for being with us here on our team international as always. so. how expected was proces announcement i mean do you expect impeachment to finally pick up a momentum in this congress. well you know it took 2 years of the mueller investigation for the democratic party to look like a bunch of jack asses and this will take about 12 hours before they look like jackasses they're going to look really silly over this and i think they're doing this to run interference on a major announcement today that hasn't become really public that michael flynn general flynn's business partner was exonerated today by a judge i think they're covering up that news because it is it impugns the entire new investigation so president trump had said before post his announcement that he released the full

partially related to a collie tween president trump and ukrainian president was a lot of mirrors olinsky in which president trump urged him this to gate democratic political rival joe biden. people all right so let's go to do abuse a public figure foley ileus he is our washington correspondent good to have you with us pablo the u.s. acting u.s. director of national intelligence a joseph mcquire is still testifying i understand on the complaint of the whistleblower what did he say so far. going to break it down you're right has been testifying now for a few hours and it began very much with the focus on the humbling of the whistle blower complaints and now it seems to have moved on more to the contents that we heard from the acting director of national intelligence from the very get go and he said i'm not partisan i'm not political he also when pressed several times by democratic members of this committee he said i speak to the president and anything i say that a president is confidential when asked whether you know this have been discussed this complaint had been discussed with president

trump also said before he would release the full transcript of his phone call with ukrainian leaders olinsky on wednesday the whistleblower now wants to testify before the house intelligence committee this according to the chairman of that committee adam schiff. they're going to look really silly over this and i think they're doing this to run interference on a major announcement today that hasn't become really public that michael flynn general flynn's business partner was exonerated today by a judge i think they're covering up that news because it did it impugns the entire mueller investigation certainly taking a risk and she's caught between a rock and a hard place as we say in the u.s. she's she's stuck between the hard left flank of her party that wants to take extreme measures and block the president and obstruct him any way they can and the american people who think that this makes no sense so she's walking a fine line with this impeachment inquiry a proper process would have. the on a recorded vote that they want to impeach the president and move forward with that inquiry but this she

and go back to charles we had a prisoner exchange with russia and ukraine with the new president's olinsky in ukraine what is that significance is it a putting a marker down to move forward or is it just kind of like putting a flag up the pole and see if anybody salutes go ahead charles. that's a good way to put it peter because it's possible in a way to be both. what we've got is a situation here i think where again we've often seen in the past not just in ukraine but in other areas korea is a perhaps an example of this where once the big powers. they out of things where all the or the west particularly let's say for example when we had the minsk agreements that was largely done the behest of russia ukraine france and germany they excluded for example the u.k. and the u.s. from those negotiations and from that process and a peace agreement or cease fire not perfect but one was able to be achieved and we've got a similar situation here where russia and ukraine together have got differences put aside on this particular issue and have produced some progress which is sunny's producing humanit

responses to not pass judgment on actually the the contents of that call between trump and president's olinsky of ukraine when asked by democrats whether he thought that predicating assistance from the united states depended on the ukrainians helping to investigate trump's political rival joe biden's family the director of national intelligence would not say that it was wrong doing he said that that is in his words the president's business to conduct calls of foreign leaders as he saw fit and democrats pressed him also on why he took the whistleblower report 1st to the white house before anywhere else did you ever speak to the president about this complaint my conversations with the president because i'm the director of national intelligence are privileged and it would be inappropriate for me because it would destroy my relationship with the president in a tele just matters to divulge any of my conversations with the president of the united states but just so we can be clear for the record you are not denying that you spoke to the president about this complaint what i'm saying congressman is t

position of power during a phone conversation in july with ukraine's president for a lot of years olinsky allegedly asking him to investigate a democratic presidential opponent former vice president joe biden it doesn't matter what i discuss but i will say this somebody ought to look into joe biden statement because it was disgraceful if somebody were to look into that and you wouldn't because he's a democrat but that phone call has now become the focus of a congressional investigation following a whistleblower complaint from inside the intelligence community when the truck justice department reportedly tried to block democrats accuse the trumpet ministration of a cover up that whole purpose is being frustrated here because the director of national intelligence has made the unprecedented decision not to share the complaint with congress democrats alleged they have tried to help his presidential reelection campaign by pressuring kiev to investigate business to. between ukrainian companies and biden's son well biden was vice president. according to the ukrainian government trump expressed s

got some more information like for example the ukrainian president vladimir is olinsky is actually in you in kiev right now ready to meet the detainees as they arrive we've got live pictures. in the. see what we're seeing here. cameras punin round a bit but this is. as you see. the play just now is with the ukrainian prisoners that have come this morning as you say we saw them we think. the same people those 2 black bloc that when the bus is coming out of. a prison in moscow here is part of a big handover that president putin said was going to happen is being branded as a long awaited position this kind of thing has now 2017 is it it's ukrainian plane that. say a plane has just landed the other way just landed in port isn't it. do we know who's on the plane yet again it still has really made public we still don't know who is there yeah well you mentioned the blackout when the blacked out windows on the vehicles in the buses before we really don't know exactly who's being traded here but there is a guess there is a lot of speculation and actually we do know that one. is actually on his

has been in the making for a while and which has been high on the agenda of ukrainian presidents olinsky when he came to office a few months ago it is believed that among those prisoners going home 24 sailors from ukraine who have been detained last november in the courage traits and also a famous filmmaker from ukraine all accents of who has been jailed for 20 years here in russia the delay was apparently caused by a key witness in the team case the downer of the airliner in 2014 were killed which killed 298 people well this key witness has been released in ukraine today which now seems to have paved the way for this important prisoner exchange of for tens of prisoners which is expected very soon now and which will be the 1st step in improving the relationship between russia and ukraine. hurricane dorian could cause wreck hold levels of flooding as it moves alongside the u.s. coast tens of thousands of people are without power and many are bracing for a deadly storm this after the powerful storm flattened vast areas of the bahamas at least 20 people are confirmed dead but that number is

american politics the president is alleged by was supportive pressured ukraine's leader 14 years olinsky to investigate his political rival joe biden and to gallagher joins us now live from washington d.c. ending the impeachment inquiry is moving fast terror both sides reacting. well sunday mornings in washington d.c. are typically where all sorts of politicians and people in power take to the waves and the airwaves at the moment are just dominated by these in the church and proceedings i was listening to stephen miller a close advisor to president trump this morning one of the architects of his immigration policy talking about this all being part of some kind of deep state inside job basically saying the officials within the white house are trying to bring down the president but it's important to note that the whistleblower he or she we don't know who they are they don't know their identity the did the director of national intelligence in a hearing before the judiciary committee said that that person followed the rules that they this was a credible report that needed to be followed up s

we talk about the now right now being that phone call with the president of ukraine a lot of years olinsky. it seems that donald trump either missed or deliberately ignored a big part about what the ukrainian president was saying essentially he was very clear he said he was fighting 2 wars the 1st being corruption the 2nd being the threat of russia the fact that crimea had been annexed by russia doesn't trump seem to disregard that and instead talk about how he had been more supportive of ukraine than the previous administration that that annexation did not happen under his watch it happened under barack obama really trying to distance himself and then almost simplify the the problem that ukraine faces and that is in terms of trying to recapture that territory that he basically said i really hope new and lattimer putin the russian president can figure this out it's a really big problem and i hope you can end the whole what he called the disaster but this gets to the crux of that phone call and why democrats here in capitol hill are considering impeachment proceedings against the president

conversation between don't trump and ukraine's president trump is accused of asking those amir's olinsky to investigate his democratic rival joe biden well we have 2 correspondents in washington d.c. covering the story will speak to kimberly hall kits in just a few moments but 1st let's go to heidi jo castro who's on capitol hill where the healing hearing rather will be taking place and heidi in the last few minutes we have had breaking news regarding that whistleblower statement it's just been released what more have we learned. right all of this just happened in the last few minutes it's a 9 page report so we've been looking through it and what it details in broad part is this effort of rumi the new climbing president of ukraine since he was recently elected by trump and by his personal attorney rudy giuliani giuliani who was trying to jump start this effort to investigate joe biden who is potentially trump's after story his opponent in the upcoming presidential elections and this process apparently according to the whistleblowers point started even before the lewinsky the president of

his position of power during a phone conversation in july with ukraine's president a lot of years olinsky allegedly asking him to investigate a democratic presidential opponent former vice president joe biden it doesn't matter what i discuss but i will say this somebody ought to look into joe biden statement because it was disgraceful if somebody were to look into that and you wouldn't because he's a democrat but that phone call has now become the focus of a congressional investigation following a whistleblower complaint from inside the intelligence community one of the trump justice department reportedly tried to block democrats accuse the trumpet ministration of a cover up that whole purpose is being frustrated here because the director of national intelligence has made the unprecedented decision not to share the complaint with congress democrats alleged may have tried to help his presidential reelection campaign by pressuring kiev to investigate business deals between ukrainian companies and biden son will biden was vice president according to the ukrainian government trump expressed s