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president of the ukraine to do. now there's obviously a lot of other facts that have to be looked at. the whistle-blower's complaint. i think there has to be testimony from the inspector general. there has to be testimony from rudy giuliani. there are a lot of things that have to be looked at, but there's no question in my mind that a prima fascia case against the president was clearly laid out in that transcript. >> i still don't quite understand how with a straight face rudy giuliani can claim that's normal. he's the personal attorney for president trump. he's not working in the government. he is going allegedly investigating corruption in general in ukraine. there are plenty of ways to do this through the arms of the united states government, intelligence services. there's a lot of current corruption and that the president probably has access to intelligence on that he could have brought up to the president of ukraine. sent by marlin bran do you, he's clearly to talk about the bide dense and focus on that. >> thi

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and the ukrainian president. the fact that he was trying to pressure a foreign leader for his own personal gain in a way that was an abuse of power. today, there's a reference to that phone call which now seems to be corroborated by the transcript. but the most powerful additional red flag that most people would see here is the fact that that phone call was deemed to be so problematic and worrisome by not one, not two, but various people around the president that they decided to lock it down. further, this line is getting some attention and not enough attention, it's unproven but should be investigated, the whistle-blower says he's told that is not only time that some conversation between the president and someone else was put in lockdown. the question is is this the tip of the iceberg or is it self-contained? you want to know how many conversations like that there were. are they along the lines of this kind of thing where there was abuse of power for personal financial or political gain? that i think is the duty

that's the quote from the president. moments ago, the attorney representing the whistle-blower said that all whistle-blowers are entitled to anonymity, and being retaliated against is violation of federal law. so if the president is trying to out the whistle-blower, was indeed his intent, have to parse words carefully, already the attorney for the whistle-blower is suggesting that's a crime and violation of federal law. that's why it is so important what the president just told hallie jackson, how close he came up the line. we know he has been critical of the whistle-blower, this is part of their strategy, to attack the whistle-blower and attack adam schiff. that seems to be where the president wants to go with this. >> we were talking about polls taken in recent days. online polls, they don't have the same rigor as other polls not done that way, but a cbs news poll showed 55% of americans approve of congress opening impeachment inquiry. talk to me about whether this apparent change, shift in public support let alone con

the odds are very high that this president will continue to be the president. people of the united states of america are going to have an election now in a year. they can go ahead in the ballot box and impeach if they desire to do so. >> that's a democratic congressman. how do you respond to congressman van drew? >> the house is a separate and coequal branch of government. we work for the american people, and we have a constitutional spaubt to serve as a check and balance on out of control executive branch. we're going to do our duty and these issues are serious. the security and national safety, best interests of the american people have been subordinated by a president who has elevated his own personal political interests. we need to investigate that, get to the bottom of it and present the information to the american people. >> let me ask you, sir, in may the ukrainian prosecutor general told bloomberg, quote, we do not have any grounds to think there was any wrongdoing, unquote, by biden. kamala harris said she probably would not be comfortable with the chi

the action of the -- 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. >> the house of representatives is now committed to an up or down decision whether to pass articles of impeachment on donald trump. the house will vote to impeach him sooner or later or decide to drop all charges. speaker pelosi's decision to form a formal impeachment proceeding marks a decision -- it was triggered by last week's revelation that the president had attempted to trade the power of his office to get dirt from the president of ukraine from a political opponent, former vice president joe biden. that revelation changed everything for pelosi and seems to have led the way for many democrats. as of right now 188 house democrats back impeachment. that's more than three quarters of the democratic caucus. i'm joined now by congressman denny heck of washingt

presidency.: so many leaders came up to me today and said, sir, what you go through, no president has ever gone through, and it's so bad for your country. people laugh at the stupidity of what they asked for. lou: earlier i talked with vice president mike pence. we began our conversation with what can only be categorized now as the wide open conflict between republicans and democrats. >> the first thing, as the president said a week ago, he did nothing wrong. the transcript reveals despite reckless accusations in the media and democrats on capitol hill, the president somehow threatened aid to ukraine to dede manned a specific act. and it never happened. the transcript is here on that. the only time i'd did happen that we know about is when vice president joe biden threatens aid to you a crane in exchange for a specific act. in this case the president has been completely vindicated. i think the american people look at this in the context not just this week and month. the last 2 1/2 year. 363 milli

this president is an historic president. there is no need to create fictions.government is huge, it's getting larger and more expensive. let's say right now his appearance at the united nations, then impeachment as he's doing great things. speak to that. you have got 30 seconds. >> impeachment. i think it's possible the more people learn about this story the more they will say i am glad someone is asking ukraine to look into that bind energy deal because it smells bad it's inexplicable how joe biden's son is being paid $50,000 a month for something he doesn't appear to be qualified for. lou: and getting somebody to fire a prosecutor. he's a go-to guy as james you are in the best sense of the expression. >> likewise. lou: we'll be right back. stay with us. lou: speaker pelosi today indulging in theatrics as she announced ways a formal impeachment inquiry and not decide was the difference between that and what nadler has been doing judiciary for weeks. attorney harmeet dhillon cleared that up. >> the facts don't matter, the law doesn't matter. the will of the ame

conference about the call between president trump and the president of ukraine. he says it is a shakedown of a foreign leader. and that he betrayed his oath of office. mr. schiff: good afternoon. i now had a chance to review and detail the notes of the call between the president of the united states and the president of ukraine as well as the legal opinion drafted by the department of justice in an effort to prevent the whistleblower complaint from coming to our committee and i have to say i am shocked by both. the notes of the call reflected conversation far more damning than i or many others had imagined. it is shocking at another level that the house would release these notes and felt that somehow this would help the president's case or cause, because what those notes reflect is a classic mafia-like shakedown of a foreign leader. they reflect a ukrainian president who was desperate for u.s. support, for military support to help that country in a hot war with putin's russia, which people face a very dangerous and continuing and destabilizing action by their agg

don't impeach the president. rudy is a bad guy. >> he's not john dean and while he is an object of scorn, inside the beltway he cuts through everything outside the beltway when you go to warren, ohio, people hear him, respect him and listen to him. >> lebo? >> i think they hear him because he is everywhere he is a proxy for the president. he's his personal attorney or sometimes he's a free-range chicken as senator kennedy would say, right but he also is someone who -- the fact that he's out there so much is emblematic of the fact that a lot of republicans are not comfortable being out there very much. the defense of president trump has not come to any kind of coherent message look, whatever rudy giuliani says on a given day becomes the message and he becomes the lightning rod here. >> when you talk to rudy giuliani, the issue with that is he's also talking about other people that he says were involved he says the state department called me. >> he keeps inviting -- he basically says, here, adam schiff, here are mo

lou: vice president mike pence.ll have more with the vice president as we take the up the america first agenda of the trump administration before the, well, the globalist general assembly and how that, how that's being received by the radical left domestically. lou: we're back now with our exclusive interview with vice president mike pence. the vice president reacting to the president's strong rejection of globalism before the united nations general assembly. >> the speech at the united nations this week by the president of the united states was historic, and the important. and it was important. because in his first address to the united nations, he gave that view of america first. and remember, he received a round of applause when -- which is very rare at the u.n -- when he said we are always put the interests of america first, and we expect you to put the interests of your countries fist. lou: right. >> and it was greeted with applause. but yesterday we unpacked what we've been doing as a nation putting the intere

if the president -- the president is the person who is the public official.if we're looking at the criminal federal bribery statutes, then if the president sought a thing of value from a foreign government official in exchange for some type of official act that he could have participated in, that he could have given, then that would fall under the federal bribery statutes. and if rudy giuliani is helping him do that, then is either aiding and abetting, or there is an argument that he could be involved in some kind of conspiracy. >> but it's a tough argument to make. i mean if the president's line is, well, look, i was talking about corruption in ukraine, and my concerns over it, and i mentioned biden eight times according to "the wall street journal," but it's corruption in ukraine that i'm concerned about because, you know, we're going to potentially give a lot of money to them. >> well, this is where we start to go down the rat hole of are things that the president is doing that's a national security problem, i.e. potentially implicitly, whether or not expl

then, after the president decided to go forward, jackson helped the president and the president's illegal plan happened. he conspired with the president to violate the law. do you notice, this is a pretty minor thing, is in it? [laughter] thing.to: here is the when jackson tried to explain why he helped the president, he went outside the law to explain why he violated the law. why jackson violated the law. he said, hey, no private right was taken, we do not take anyone's property. he said, it's a no harm, no thousand two in. justified this activity in terms of if we have not done that, the united states would have been without a modern airport for world war ii. we are going to return to the reagan national airport situation. , the next little example is wiretapping. when jackson took over his attorney general, the government was wiretapping law everyone. the federal government. the department of justice was doing it. they said investigating staff and alcohol tax unit, secret service, everyone is doing it. intelligence departments of the army and navy were tapping with no apparent restrain

this is the president. secretary of state pompeo received permission from ukraine government to release the transcript of the telephone call i had with their president. they don't know either what the big deal is. a total witch hunt scam by the democrats. that's what the president tweeted. but it is interesting, alex marquardt is reporting from the u.n. is saying aid for investigation of the bidens. zelensky responded his conversations with the president are private and confidential and when secretary of defense if do you remember a time the white house releases transcripts of these conversations with world leaders? >> at the state department we deputy do that as well, you want to protect confidentiality of discussions. often times they're over sensitive issues. diplomacy best done behind the scenes. i think in this case i applaud the decision to release it. these are exceptional circumstances, now looking at impeachment inquiry. i think it is the right decision to release it. i would say two things, one, d

president trump's phone call with the president of ukraine. in that call, urging him to open an investigation connected to his political opponent, joe biden. noting in the conversation the u.s. had done a lot for ukraine. and tonight, the timing. the president and the ukrainian leader were set to meet today, even before the headlines broke. and so they did. what they said. and president trump before the cameras just moments ago, furious speaker pelosi has taken this very rare step. jon karl and mary bruce standing by. >>> also breaking tonight, the whistle-blower's report that started it all. the person within the intelligence community who was so concerned. that report has now arrived in congress. what it reveals and what we've learned. >>> also tonight, 24 hours after president trump spoke of iran's, quote, blood lust, tonight, the president of iran in front of the world at the u.n. and right after, one-on-one with us. we press him, was iran behind the saudi oil attacks? and is the u.s. and iran now headed toward a major conflict? >>> the ot

president clinton loves 42, president obama's 44. president carter never got into early nine. they all wanted to raise the money of their number. they weren't happy when we went to 45. i think they probably were. it was an amazing night. the respect that they showed for president bush touched my heart. i remember when mrs. bush found out, she said i suppose we will have to feed them? they had dinner in the apartment. this is the most stressed i have ever been. it was going to be live on television. the production people said jean becker, those five men have to be ready by 7:00 p.m. sharp. have you ever tried to tell five presidents to quit talking? particularly president clinton. they were talking, talking, talking. finally, i went into the dinner and said you have to talking. we are going live in 11 minutes. get in the car. the interesting thing is the bush's apartment is probably half a mile from where we were going. the motorcade got there before we left. the motorcade went the entire -- we were there at 6:59. this story i'm going to tell has absolutely nothing to do with t

this is the president speaking to president zelensky. i'll have mr. giuliani give you a call and i'm also going to have attorney general barr call and we will get to the bottom of it. the bottom of all of the conspiracy theories the president is leveling against the bidens, leveling against hillary clinton and the democrats. so make the case, why do you think the attorney general right now needs to recuse himself from this current investigation? >> because the heart of the accusation against donald trump from -- that has arisen in the last week is that he has had an improper, unconstitutional relationship, effort in terms of his interactions with the government of ukraine. a key part of his effort to get dirt from the government of ukraine on his political opponent joe biden is to get the government of ukraine to talk to his attorney general. to provide that information to the attorney general. how can the attorney general possibly supervise an investigation in which he's clearly a witness? >> he said he wasn't informed about it. he said he didn't kno

phone call with ukraine's president. immediately support among house democrats for impeachment proceedings exploded into a majority of the house. leaving nancy pelosi no choice but to do what progressives had demanded and she had resisted for so long, announce a formal impeachment inquiry. rather than a drip, drip, drip, there's been a gusher of bad news for the president since then. it's important to note that republicans have avoided pushing back on the substance of the whistle-blower's charges. there's a lot we don't know at this point. we don't know all the details that could emerge in an impeachment case against president trump. we don't know with any certainty that republicans will rally around mr. trump as they did so comfortably the last time. and we don't know whether president trump's baseless charges against joe biden and ukraine will make biden a more sympathetic figure or tarnish him to the benefit of another democratic candidate, like elizabeth warren. but there is something that both sides think they do kn

so here we have the president of the united states engaged in a shakedown of a foreign president, a president of the united states even as he is withholding vital military support to an ally, asking a favor of that ally to investigate his opponent. just by way of background here so we know what's at stake, in 1994 we tried to get ukraine to give up nuclear weapons it inherited from the soviet union. they were reluctant to do so because those weapons might be a guarantee against aggression by their neighbor. that is, by the soviet union. we and our allies persuaded the yukrainians to give up those weapons and we assured ukraine we would help guarantee its territorial integrity. well, russia would invade ycran. in the years since the united states has provided, albeit not enough, support to ukraine. but the most recent support to ukraine was held up by this president, hundreds of millions of dollars, for reasons that the president would not and the secretaries were not able to communicate even to leaders of their own party like mitch mcconnell, who said yesterday that he couldn't find out why t

what else about the president's behavior related to this core scandal or what else about the president's behavior more broadly might be folded into this impeachment inquiry, we still don't know. i'm not sure the democrats have yet decided, even among the key committee chairs who at this point will be steering the ship. we can hopefully get more clarity if there is any clarity to get at this early point in the process. but obviously this is going very fast. and we've had remarkable access to information since this is broken open. i mean, over the course of the past two days we have received the white house notes from president trump's call with the president of ukraine, which is the core incident that gave rise to this whistleblower complaint. we have now received a declassified version of the whistleblower complaint itself. and we have received importantly the inspector general's take on that whistleblower complaint. and that might just sound like another set of paper related to this, but that's actually really important because however the president and the white house and the conservat

the president's engaged. we have broader interest among republican senators than we have ever had. >> one quick question on iran. does the president have the authority to strike iran right now or do you believe he has to come to congress? >> so first of all, i think it's extremely unlikely we would have a unilateral strike by the united states against iran, and by the way, the sanctions are working very, very well. and this next round is likely to be devastating to the iranian economy. i do think that it's essential that we reestablish deterrents and the iranians have shown they don't feel very deterred. i would prefer it to be led by a coalition of arab gulf states and with our support, and that the president has full authority to do. >> pat toomey, much appreciate you coming on and sharing your views. >> when we come back, the two big stories of the week, the whistleblower and growing tensions with iran. panel is next. panel is next. eels. it's my after-work decompression zone. so when my windshield broke..

victory for the president. david, are they risking backlash? >> that has just been from brad. there are two theories on impeachment. one is that it's a political decision and the other theory is that impeachment is something our founding fathers put in the constitution so congress had a duty to pursue it if the president exceeded his authority is and if he committed treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors. but of course it's a standard that our founding fathers came up with. i'm not saying trump has violated that standard but congress in my view has an obligation to proceed with impeachment and there are many members of congress that view it that way. they viewed it that way before this whole ukraine controversy came forward to. that's the straw that broke the camel's back and that is what caused pelosi. that doesn't mean the house is going to impeach, but it is definitely possible. as you pointed out earlier in the show, if it he is impeached, anything can happen. >> we are going to learn more tomorro

shouldn't be president. you know, it is interesting to me that it was said that the made up rules of doj and now it is interesting that they were made up, but they were not made up when the obama administration used them. were they made up rules then? just asking for a friend. this is amazing as we come into the situation that the chairman also said that while we are doing this, and stopping the committees from searching into the issues of immigration and foreign influence, and i wanted to remind everybody watching and here to see the show today and to remind the majority, they have complete jurisdiction over jurisdiction. we have complete and total jurisdiction over immigration for the most part. so if you want to fix the border. put up a bill. you don't want to that. you like that. you like the press here and the cameras, because it makes it appear that something is happening that is not, and the real thing coming out is that the american people are starting to get it. they are starting to get it that if y

asking the president, the newly elected president, by the way, brand-new president zelensky, to do aal favor not to advance america's national interest but to advance the president's personal political interest. that's wrong and it puts president zelensky in an extremely precarious position. remember they rely on us to deter russia, which occupies part of their country right now, is helping to fight a war in eastern ukraine. so it's a very difficult conversation for the newly elected president of ukraine to say, hey, no, i don't want to do that, i want to talk about u.s./ukrainian relations. that's going to be difficult to do on the phone and difficult to do today when they meet. he's going to have to stand next to the president and say a lot of laudatory things about the ukrainian president because they need us. >> now, the president's personal lawyer has been making the rounds on tv, and we see particularly from some reporting, i think, in the "washington post" just how involved he was in the ukraine situation, virtually every step of the way. last night's interview on fox was real

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trump of pushing the ukrainian president to investigate vice president biden and his son, saying thatison, saying that is a severe issue of national security, and undue political pressure. but also, we know that the whistle—blower complaint deals with several other issues, and so congress wants to be able to have a look at it for themselves. no doubt, president trump will face more questions about this at that press conference here in new york. already, he spoke briefly to reporters, when he had a bilateral meeting with the ukrainian president earlier this afternoon. it was a very odd situation, of course, ukraine's president was a comedian before he became a politician, now he's finding himself in the middle of one of the biggest crisis as of president donald trump's ten years so president donald trump's ten years so far. he, when questioned whether he did feel pressured to investigate the bidens, said that they had a good conversation with president trump, and apologised saying he didn't want to get involved in that the us political elections. he then did say, nobody pushed me, and th

president zelensky. that meeting was said to be a follow slip on the conversation president trump had with zelenszel zelens zelensky. he defended himself on fox news saying that volcker was the one who requested he meet with ukrainians. talk a listen. >> i spoke to volcker eight times. they basically knew everything i was doing, so it was being done with the authorization and at the request, and then i have a final one in which there's a big thank-you about how my honest and straightforward discussion led to solving the problem in the relationship. i think i should get some kind of an award. >> now, the white house earlier this week released the transcript of the conversation between president trump and zelensky, and sources say mitch mcconnell urged congress to put the krpt out there as scrutiny about the president's conversation with the ukrainian leader was building this week, but they're seeking more documents about the call and the president's decision to suspend aid to ukraine. they also want to he

the president told the vice president you're not going go to the inauguration in ukraine.ad, i'm sending the energy secretary. did he tell the vice president why he was so upset? did hey tell him the real reason? i mean, these are questions that congress needs to get an answer -- >> or does the vice president live in a world of see no evil? ask about nothing and see no evil. >> does this mean again to the question of multiple and first to the cover-up and then the the fact th fact that there could be more transcripts and did someone do something that they felt was wrong and they talked to the the whistle-blower. this person researched this and went into detail. is there another john dean and a person who can turn around and say i can't do it anymore? >> you have a whistle-blower taking a courageous step and going this far. remember, what the inspector general deemed to be urgent and credible and that's important because this is an independent lawyer who is looking at all of this and protecting this process, so presumably, this inspector general may or may not have spoken t

for president trump. and democrats and the collaborators in the mob will do anything to smear, slander, besmirch president trump and anybody who likes the president. that means they're attacking you, we, the american people. make no mistake. all these holier than thou dirt bags to be obvious here, they've wanted president trump impeached pretty much the very moment he was sworn in. they haven't come up with any reason. they didn't do anything wrong. russia, russia, impeach, impeach, conclusion, conclusion. stormy, stormy. there were no high crimes, bribery, misdemeanors, no conspiracy, no obstruction of justice, no cover-up at all. tonight, nothing has changed. ukrainian story. you know what? the only person that was there shaking down ukraine for anything was sleepy creepy crazy joe 30330. coming up, the president's attorneys, jay secula, rudy giuliani, they'll be here to weigh in on all of this. we have a studio audience panel of experts. but first, let's be clear and very clear about one thing -- donal

president. here's one of the key lines. i would like you to do us a favor. the call starts with general congratulations on the ukrainian president's success in the parliamentary elections. then almost immediately president trump mentions how much the u.s. does for ukraine, especially compared to europe. he tells zelensky, quote, i would say we do a lot for ukraine. i wouldn't say it's reciprocal necessarily, but the united states has been very, very good to ukraine. zelensky responds, i'm very grateful for that because the united states is doing a lot for ukraine. i would also like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense. these are the president's very next words. 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 crowd strike. there are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. crowd strike is the amer

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that the president the united states has betrayed his oath of office . to defend our national security and betrayed his oath to defend our constitution . is the key is to investigate activities of former u.s. vice president joe biden and his son claims it goes well beyond ukraine we look into those allegations.

this is deeply damaging to president trump and to president zelensky. he is an active participant in what i see as a quid pro quo. from this point from a national security perspective we have to assume every communication the president has, all of the work the state department and others are doing on behalf of ukraine going forward will be subject to congressional scrutiny. all of the work that should be done likely will be evidence, including the meeting happening in three hours between president trump and president zelensky. you can kind of see them wanting to get in there and compare notes about how to handle it. >> i can't even believe the news some days. i can't believe it is happening on this day. >> it is happening in real-time. these two leaders are talking about investigating a rival of president trump. zelensky is asking for aid and they're getting together. let's hope a note taker is in that room in three hours. >> sam, can you gut check me on this. the dot, dot, dot, kind of that important place -- >> the ellipses. >> i call them dot, dot, d

president trump brought them up.emiconductors are taking it on the chin right now because they're caught in the crossfire. sounds like listen, maybe we don't just get a deal with greater trade deal, but the things that some people on wall street don't want the huawei deal involved. >> maybe they don't want the deal but we have to have the deal. i think the american public gets it. 60% of americans understand this regime is a economic and military threat. micron, full disclosure i own the stock is the tip of the iceberg. a lot of companies fit into that dynamic. you heard what he said in the speech, i am not going home with a bad deal. the message, the markets understand this is going the full distance. charles: big news on wework which has become a household name. it is not even public yet but their founder, adam newman will take a back seat. >> it is not ready to be public yet. charles: that is the key. i'm seeing something in this market even before today's session, these big technology names, some of them are cons

this is the i in i alone president. is it straight out of the gate because they know he is not looking for clollaborative solutions? >> america is not the premier multilateral place in the world. criticized for behaviors in the past, many crisis, bosnia and others. but he is standing on the world stage as an american firster in front of a body that believes in collective action whether they do it effectively or not, but she a complete outliar here. world leaders who are gathered are trying to figure out how to get through the trump era. the impeachment talk, and the shifting, a political. >> what is this shift about? >> growing questions regarding president trump's president with the ukrainian leader as well as questions, but why military leader. please deny to this, we're talking about 400 million in aid that had been over whemingwhemi approved. back in july, mr. trump wanted to delay the money citing officials that told mick mulvaney to pass the nice on on july 18th. it is reportedly at the center of that whistle-blow

president. let's play now the part where the president talks about the need to investigate hunter biden and his business dealings, not only in ukraine but china as well. listen. >> president trump: one biden's son walks out of china with $1.5 billion in a fund and the biggest funds in the world can't get money out of china and he's there for a quick meeting and flies and on air force 2, i think it's a horrible thing. i think it's a horrible thing but i'm going far beyond that. i know the president and i have read a lot about the ukraine. i read a lot about a lot of countries. he wants to stop correction co. he was elected number one on the basis of stopping corruption which on fort lee has plagued ukraine. if he could do that, he's doing the whole world a big favor. >> the two investigations that are going on here, the president seems fun and fairly solid ground at least he believes, -- on fairly solid ground asking to look into potential ukrainian involvement on behalf of hillary clinton in the

and the ukrainian president. according to the wall street journal which shares ownership with the fox news channel, president trump in a july phone call urged ukraine's president five times to look into joe biden's' son hunter. president trump did not deny it. >> did you discuss joe biden? >> it doesn't matter what i discussed. he talked about millions of dollars he's not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. reporter: president trump dismissed a wis whistleblower's complaint about an alleged promise president trump made to a foreign leader during a phone call. moments later the president acknowledged he didn't know who the whistleblower was. but he insisted all of his calls with world leaders had been totally appropriate. and according to the "wall street journal" there will be was no quid pro quo offered. on tv last night giuliani denied and appeared to acknowledge the request. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe sphwhiend. >> no, i asked the ukraine to investi

his is where things differ from presidency to presidency. situation with the congress, the press, and the citizens. the citizens may not be vigilant. it is up to people like you and me to bring a presidency up short and make it act under law. if the citizens do not manned that, it is hard for the organs of government to do so. susan: you wrote specifically about that in your introduction. most worrisome is that long expands has thrown down on the founders' conviction of an informed citizenship backed by robust free press and represented a by responsible congress will always or easily prevail against corruption of the highest reaches of government. james: i still believe that. they are not guaranteed to work. they work in certain situations, presidency to residency. the supreme court composition changes, congress changes. the press sometimes does not do its job. i think we have to be wary of the failure of our institutions and ourselves. susan: i'm going to invite people who are interested to find the volume and look up the earlier version. w

president, any update? president trump: nothing to report yet. we'll probably be speaking here tomorrow. maybe the next day. nothing to report. but it hasn't changed very uch. i think my thinking pretty much remains the same. we haven't learned much that we didn't know. but there is a certain guarantee factor. we are at a point now where we know very much what happened. eporter: [inaudible] president trump: we'll see what happens. you watch. reporter: president rouhani -- president trump: i really don't in a moment that's up to him. it's not up to me. it's up to him. we'll see what happens. i would let them come. if it was up to me i would let them come. i always felt the united nations is very important. i think it's got tremendous potential. i don't think it's ever lived up to the potential it has. i would certainly not want to keep people out if they want to come. that would be up to them. reporter: failure to strike iran with the summer. a sign of weakness? president trump: i think it's a ign of strength. we have the strongest military n the

are media comment at a timers saying that president pressured ukrainian president and down-playing actions of biden and son hunter. trump repeatedly asked for help repeatedly on investigating the bidens. the trump accusing fake news media on working with democrats to exploit a nothing-call, would the saga dominate the coverage for month just about everything else will be blotted out, i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ ♪ howie: one week after whistleblower report house speaker nancy pelosi dropped her opposition and announced an official impeachment inquiry. the president dismissed the allegations, ripped the whistleblower and denounced the press. >> there was no pressure, the way you had that built up, that call, it was going to be the call from hell, turned out to be a nothing call. all they are talk about is nonsense, if you look at that, it's all fake stuff that the media makes up with the dem-- democrats. howie: there's a lot of talk about biden's son, a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general, that would be great. biden went a

the president is set to meet on wednesday with the ukrainian president zelensky.t the shadow that is hanging over that meeting. the president's call in which he acknowledges or seems to acknowledge that yes, he brought up the bidens. how is that going to go? >> the ukrainians can be forgiven for not knowing what to think of the americans now. we are their most important friend. and what we've done is start ex sporting our domestic politics to our relations with ukraine. here's the problem. on the list of world crises, ukraine is won with the greatest possibility of a really good outcome for ukrainian people and for the united states. and a good outcome i define is a ukraine which is free, resisting russian aggression and most important, reforming itself and turning itself into a democratic europeanizing state. that's not inevitable but it is possible. we ought to be leaning into that because such a ukraine would be really good for us, as well as the ukrainians. we shouldn't be destroying our political capital in partisan fights that we export to them. >> there's a

the president said that. the president said that. >> and again, the trump organization is making those business decisions. >> so it was your position a moment ago that the family members shouldn't be involved when their other family members are in the white house and they have influence in a foreign country and they're doing negotiations, but it's okay if ivanka has copyrights with china, it's okay trump's sons and businesses are getting deals and approval in scotland while donald trump is president and it's okay for them to continue doing business in a place like indonesia or anywhere else around the world while donald trump is president. he's negotiating. he's doing business. he's doing negotiating deals, foreign policy, et cetera, around the world right now. it's okay for them to do it but you're saying it should be investigated when donald trump's chief political rival may or may not have done it in the past? >> i'm not aware of there being any ethical questions in terms of whether the president or the ad

trump said to president zelensky is the transcript of what president trump said to president zelensky. not casting aspersions on the wit's good faith or their intent, but a secondhand account of something someone did isn't the best evidence. and to that point despite good faith, the whistleblower is in fact wrong in numerous respects. and i know everyone won't have time to read the whistleblower's complaint, but the whistleblower says that i am deeply concerned, talking about the president, that there was a serious or flagrant problem abuse or violation of the law. whistleblower then goes on to say i was not a direct witness to the events described. however, i found my colleagues' accounts of this to be credible. and then talking about those accounts of which this whistleblower complaint is based on, the whistleblower tells us the officials that i spoke with told me and i was told that and i learned from multiple u.s. officials that and white house officials told me that and i also learned from multiple u.s. officials that. in other words, all of this is secondhand information. none o

situations, certain presidency to presidency. supreme court composition changes, congress changes. the press sometimes does not do its job. wary ofwe have to be the failure of our institutions and ourselves. susan: i'm going to invite people who are interested to find the volume and look up the earlier version. what we felt we would do for this interview is concentrate on the new set of presidents you demonstrate some of the presidential responses to the actions described. we will start with richard nixon, who was the genesis of the book. what do wetorians, know about them and their analysis? ands: they were husband wife at the university of california davis. they are experts on the presidency, they study the modern presidencies, as do all of the authors i recruited for this expanded volume. texti was reading their and when i had read it over and it was published, i must say i the accounting of nixon's presidency, which i lived through, to be dizzying. it represented a departure in the history of presidential misconduct on two gr

the president has admitted it. it is in the text of the summary of the phone call that has been released. we can now read it. we see it. they're not claiming it's not true. the white house released it. what the president is saying is that it's okay to do. and that's the fundamental issue. >> the admission from this president took place over the course of about a week. he called this fake news, and then over the weekend kind of admitted it and started defending it, frankly. that's where we are today and that's the thing. you talk about transparency and maybe debates inside the white house about whether it's transparent or not. the details themselves are damning, and the contents of the call to republicans. you had one senate congressman say, this is not okay. >> let's hear that. that's mike turner who is normally a defender of the president who was beating up on the democrats for putting impeachment on the table so early, by questioning the integrity of the acting director of national intelligence, but to jim's poin

bush who was an easy a good president to work for a serious president on policy who would who wanted. scowcroft to make connections to build a harmonious team when you have if but when you have a different kind of president who is very willful very loose and chronic is much harder obviously others have had problems as aides to try to not just the national security adviser well professor dessler we have to take a short break now but we'll be back in just a few moments stay tuned. they are 2019 when they get interest rates and multi $100000000000.00 trillion dollar venture capital unicorns are all going bust and the colossal fail out is being selfish in every corner of the global economy and that's why countries are buying gold. join me everything on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. liz. lead. the 4 lead. lead. lead. play. play play. play. play. play. place. to. live. the play. place. and a very warm welcome to you watching us in such. in 2040 you know bloody revolution to tell the demonstrat