president. >> mr. president, can you just make clear right here what do you or what did you want president zelensky to do with regard to joe and hunter biden? >> well, the president did not answer that question. instead, spending the next two minutes and 22 seconds airing grievances about the country getting ripped off on trade, corruption in ukraine, about europe not paying its fair share, everything but actually answering that important question, which jeff mason then tried to ask again. >> what did you want about biden? what did you want him to look into on biden? >> look, biden and his son are stone-cold crooked, and you know it. his son walks out with millions of dollars. the kid knows nothing. you know it, and so do we. go ahead. ask a question. >> the question, sir, was what did you want president zelensky to do about vice president biden and his son, hunter? >> are you talking to me? >> yeah, i it was just a follow-up of what i just asked you, sir. >> listen, you ready? we have the president of

president. >> and the talk about power allegations against president trump and president nixon.se of power on this issue having to do with ukraine, how did the two, how does president trump stand up when it comes to president nixon? >> both presidents wanted to undermine the very basis of american democracy. free elections. in nixon's kate,case, ex-pee ex and nix didn't not involve a foreign power in an attempt to undermine american democracy and free elections whereas trump involved several foreign powers to try and come up with dirt on the strongest or the person he perceives, trump, as strongest as an opponent to him. biden. and through this patently unlawful, unconstitutional, corrupt behavior. and if republicans, and here's the big difference between watergate and what we're seeing now. if republicans are willing to go along with this, it is going to change our history. because republicans became the heroes in watergate who finally said, we cannot tolerate a corrupt president who undermines our electoral system and this is far worse than just undermining the electoral syste

president made that very clear in his discussions and his correspondent with president president erdogan. and i believe that the candor and frankness that president trump applied to this and the strength of his relationship with president erdogan both contributed to the ability for this agreement to come about. and now, we will work together to implement this agreement. as i said, our team is already working with ypg personnel in the safe zone for an orderly withdrawal outside the 20-mile mark and we will go forward together to bring peace and security this region. i'm very confident of that. okay, i've gone to -- please. >> thank you. there are reports by some international organizations on how ypg, mainly just minorities in northern syria. christian leaders and churches are making calls to ensure peace in the region. i'm wondering your thoughts on this. >> vice president pence: let me let the secretary also address that, but i can tell you that the president erdogan and i spoke to great lengths about the importance of protecting religious minorities. in the region. president erdogan al

went to the president. the president told him there was no quid pro quo and he went back and delivered that message. is that a satisfying answer to you? >> well, it obviously raises a number of profound questions that i think the ambassador will be asked. what we're doing right now is we're putting together a lot of different details that are giving us a composite portrait of what happened. but right now, pretty much everything that the whistle-blower put in the complaint has been corroborated by objective evidence. the contemporaneous memorandum that was written about the telephone call gives us a lot of detail. the fact that the military assistance that we voted for ukraine, our besieged ally, was held up in the process of trying to extract this promise that there would be investigators unleashed on the bidens. >> to be clear, it has shown that that aid was held up. it has not, at least -- and granted, we weren't in the room for these depositions, for this testimony, but it has not proven, it seems yet, t

that's the president talking to the ukrainian president. he seemed to remember her more than two months ago. today she certainly remembered him in her opening statement during today's closed door hearing. yovanovitch said she was recalled from ukraine after, quote, a concerted campaign against me. she said the deputy secretary of state told her she had done nothing wrong but the president had, quote, lost confidence in me and the department had been under pressure from the president, unquote to remove her. she said this of rudy giuliani and the two men arrested yesterday. quote, i do not know mr. giuliani's motives for attacking me. but individuals who have been named in the press as contacts of mr. giuliani may well have believed their personal financial ambitions were stymied by our anti-corruption policy in ukraine. she actually was executing an anti-corruption policy, which is what the president claims he was really interested in when he asked the ukrainian president to go after the bidens. manu raju joins us from capitol hill. talk to

the president and the president's brother, who was trump's opponent.warm and fuzzy trump cheerleader. he is a dedicated professional. he's got an unbelievable pedigree and background. the only thing he cares about, frankly, having known him for a long, long time, is the constitution and the rule of law. >> harris: guy lewis, until the next time. thank you. president trump lashing out at democrats over their impeachment inquiry, just in the last 45 minutes or so we should do to you. we watched it together. we are awaiting now new remarks from the president of the joint news conference with the president of finland. we will bring it to you live, and the almost crisis in california is growing more severe. housing secretary ben carson is with me next. ♪ 300 miles an hour, that's where i feel normal. having an annuity tells me my retirement is protected. learn more at retire your risk dot org. >> dana: hi, everyone. i'm dana perino. president trump said to hold a joint news conference as democrats power at on impeachment. the president already attacking dem

last night, president trump had a conversation with president erdogan. issued a statement that strongly suggested if turkishallies, u.s. allies who have lost more than 10,000 people, men and women fighting alongside u.s. special operations forces, that the u.s. would have no problem that it would stand aside and allow that offensive to take place. a green light. all day today we were on kind of a war footing, even turkey thought it was about to begin. and then president trump is walking it back, there have been private briefings saying, well, if turkey goes too far, i'll destroy their economy. it went from a guilty to an amber light. all encapsulated in that impossible-to-understand statement of policy that you just played at the beginning. people here have no idea what the u.s. position is. no idea if there are any red lines f there are any green lights, or what to do. if you are a u.s. ally like the kurds whose lives depend on american friendship for your survival, i think right now you're very, very nervous. and i can tell you, we've been speaking to

if you were to add the vote totals of president trump's third party candidates, president trump wouldnd new mexico. if the president won those states he would have won 29 additional electoral votes. sorry, mrs. clinton. it doesn't add up. we should note, mcmullin is a former cia operator. so the conspiracy theorists have a readily available connection between coul today the charactea and the democratic candidates. the mystery continues. up next, president trump's historic lead in fundraising beginning to rattle the radical left as it should. stay with us. eÑ lou: welcome back. joining me trump 2020 campaign national press secretary, kayleigh mcenany. fundraising has to be unnerving the radical dimms. the ratio between your campaignen the dem hopefuls is stunning. >> the rnc outraised the dnc by four times. $300 million this year alobe. it's more than any sitting president has had on hand. the most of remarkable part, 33,000 new -- 313,000 new donors. lou: it shows his appeal is broadening and the energy and interest of the voters in support of it. >> he out raised bernie and hillary c

president. >> mr.c step. >> nothing like this has ever happened before. >> our offices have been sealed by the fbi. >> a mass firing of the men pursuing the case. the saturday night massacre. >> the news caused a sen communication and sent the press reporters scrambling to their telephones. >> a grave and profound crisis, which the president said against himself and the attorney general. >> does it have to do with the resignation of attorney general? >> it might. >> by the time it was over the attorney general, deputy attorney general, and the special prosecutor were all out. >> the bipartisan american outbreak changes the politics of the situation for richard nixon. >> tens of thousands of telegrams flooded washington. >> western union. most of them demanding impeaching richard nixon. >>ics innen was forced to appoint a new special prosecutor. as if months went on, bit by bit, he was forced to turn tover tapes. they were as damning as he had feared. white house counsel john dean's testimony turned out

look this is a president who became president, even after losing the popular vote, by a significant portionquestion about whether or not he still has support in the key battleground states. in order to be able to be selected as the president of the united states. but when you look at some of the ways that independents and swing voters are feeling about the president, they gave him a chance last time, they've had enough of him. >> scott, we had the announcement from the president on the u.s.-china trade deal, the back and forth, this might have been the second or third iteration we're on or off again. is the president looking at this strictly politically? looking over his shoulder? as he was in the midwest, in minneapolis, this week, and looking at his base, looking at the impeachment inquiry, looking at 2020, saying, hey, as i'm starting to lose some water, i better take care of my base, and i better solve this issue, when it comes to the u.s.-china relations, because it affects the jobs and the economy, in the places that like me, that love me. >> exactly right. and when you talk to some o

president. senator murphy also might be a witness because senator murphy had his own conversation with the president of ukraine and other ukrainian officials about the pressure that donald trump put on ukraine. and as donald trump fights for his life, he doesn't seem to have the energy or the focus or possibly even the awareness to fight the republicans. yes, the republicans in congress who are doing and saying things that donald trump does not like. donald trump appeared not to know today that republican senator chuck grassley came out yesterday in defense of the whistle-blower, a strong defense, and specifically criticized what president trump has said about the whistle-blower without mentioning the president's name. that is the kind of thing that we haven't seen republicans doing in congress for the last three years because they all live in fear of the wrath of donald trump. a republican house member came out in favor of an investigation into donald trump's phone call with ukraine, and that r

i called president trump directly. the president repeated no quid pro quo multiple times. address ambassadors taylor concerns. taylor says this conversation over text actually began the day before over the phone. this was how he says sondland described the president's position then. quote, on september 8th ambassador sondland tried to explain that president trump is a which is when a businessman is about to sign a check to someone owing him something he said the businessman asks that person to pay up before signing the check. jing us cnn contributor whistle-blower and former nixon whois counsel john dean. chief legal analyst and frl prosecutor jeffery toobin aen a democrats explained they wanted sondland to come back and explain differences. if he sticks to his story does it become a he said/he said. though it seems taylor has actually very careful notes. >> it seems that way. and there are also other people present, including john bolton who is, you know, very much in part of taylor's story. and bolton is one of the people who was saying stop this non-sense with giuliani

i spoke to president trump a few moment ago, i know the president is pleased that president erdogan stepping forward to a cease-fire and given a peaceful solution of conflict that commenced one week ago. i am grateful for the president's leadership. i am grateful for more than five hours of negotiations with president erdogan and his team, arriving of the solution that we believe will save lives. let me also say i am grateful for this team and to be able to have alongside secretary state of mike pompeo. our national security advise to robert o'brien and our ambassadors. each of the member of theis tea contributed equally to achieving this outcome which is a great contribution to secure this region and it is a great contribution for the strong and enduring relationship between the united states of america and turkey. i want to express my aproegs r appreciation to millions of americans, we heard from people all over the country whose hearts were heavy with the loss of lives and the conflict over the last week is brought to an end. i believe their prayers and strong leadership that president tr

where is president obama? he out there supporting the man who served as his vice president for eight years? why isn't biden on top of the polls just by saying i'm going to bring us back to the obama years, give you eight more of the obama years. he's in trouble, that's why he's calling for impeachment. and in the president's defense went he said in the call, hey, people are talking about biden and his son, they darn well were. the hill had an article on april 1st, fox news, cnn, june 12th. abc, june 20th. and may i tell everybody, three months ago the new yorker had a scathing cover story about hunter biden and said could his business dealings in the ukraine and, quote, tumultuous personal life -- maria: right. >> -- damage his father's chance at the presidency. we're talking about three months ago people in hiding now. maria: why is he still the front-runner? obviously, it doesn't look right if he's the vice president and his son getting money from the chinese while the vice president is doing official busine

president. he used to call me donald, now he calls me mr. president.laughter] president trump: 30 years he called me donald, now it's -- nobody called me donald anymore. i lost all my friends, they call me mr. president. [laughter] president trump: it's true, it's true. he said mr. president -- i said, call me donald -- he said mr. president, i did not like that call to the ukrainian president. i said really? what was wrong with it? it's terrible, the way you threatened him. it was horrible. i said, i didn't threaten him. of course you did. well where did you read it? i listened to adam schiff was reading. i assumed that was a correct statement. he called me back after reading it and said, i cannot believe it. i have never seen anything like that. a lot of people saw that. a lot of people thought it was bad, thought it was bad because they heard adam schiff, and they do not hear us talking. they do not know what we are saying. he is reading it like i said it. it is a terrible thing going on in this country. but they are using that call to impeach you a

the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: congress is returning to washington for a work period that will be filled with important to-do items, but we already know what will top the agenda over in the house of representatives. house democrats are finally indulging in their impeachment obsession. full steam ahead. many of us remember "the washington post" headline that was literally published on our ogren nation day. the campaign to impeach president trump, has begun. and sure enough, house democrats have been at it ever since. one prominent house called this presidency illegitimate before it even began. well the political share was leading and promised years ago, that if she would find a way, to impeach the president. so madam president, for starters later this afternoon will, secretary of the air force. and speaking of our horses congressmen waste no more time in getting our processes back on track. in delivering the finding that servicemembersrs need. just two months ago, the president and speaker the house, prod

president obama. did i say president trump?, don. >> it's been a long day. >> didn't sound right. >> david, thank you so much. multiple headlines are coming out of this white house at such a furious pace. sucked a lot of the oxygen out of the 2020 campaign coverage. what do candidates need to do to break through all this impeachment noise? >> it's going to be hard nationally. of course, if this heads to a trial in the senate, people running for president will be helping answer that question. i do think, though, in the early states, iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, impeachment is going to be important to those voters, but i still think you'll be able to get your message across there on the economy, on health care. even on impooepment, what's interesting, there was a story in wisconsin and pennsylvania, they've lost the two-most manufacturing jobs in the country and that should be death to a president. i think there's a way to combine this is say, thewe need a presit that's going to save our jobs, not asking a foreign governm

it's sad, not just for the president, for the presidency itself, the country.e united states. your life and mine depend on the wisdom and judgment of the president of the united states and these rants are a bad sign for all of us. >> you actually have a personal experience with that because when you say that a lot of people, maybe even some of our viewers whether say, this is just trump being trump. but you served in the military of this country. something that is at the hands and operates at the whims in some cases it seems of the president of the united states. so the implications of this from a national security perspective are serious. >> you know, when you raise your right hand and agree to serve in the united states military, you are putting yourself in a chain of command that goes all the way up to the president. and the president makes decisions that are life and death. they're life and death for every american, but especially for those in uniform. and when you think about the crises of instability that are happening around the world, instability in the

or a president?ion is as you are looking at the content and what you want to do next year, in florida in june, the climate change will be one of the issues? >> mick: no, i don't know if i president has done it and i don't know if the president has owned a property consider for g7. so i don't know the answer to that question. climate change will not be on the agenda. yes, sir. >> president trump has called for its closure of the whistle-blower on ukraine and the g7 -- >> mick: is that the collective will? i have one gentleman yes or go ahead. >> last question on g7. >> just to show the american people aboveboard to come are you going to share documents how you arrived at this decision? >> mick: no, but i would imagine we would share dollar figures with you afterwards. >by the way, you will get this answer a lot, okay, i don't talk about how this place runs on the inside. so if you ask us, if you see our paper how we did this, the answer is absolutely not, yes, sir. >> there will almost certainly be a

president. but, your honor, the issue here is not who is being investigated beyond the president. the issue is the issuance of criminal process to the president. >> well, let me ask you about the temporary absolute immunity of the president. seems as in a criminal case, the consensus seems to be, yes, there is some absolute immunity from criminal prosecution of the president. olc memos, the board brief, the decisions. but does it apply -- they all seem to say it implies once you get to the point of indictment. not before that. otherwise, united states versus nixon would be a problem. and just a subpoena was permitted in that case. how is that different from this case where it's just a grand jury subpoena, not even a trial subpoena like in the nixon tapes case? >> so we -- i definitely agree with your honor that there is a con s consensus around the core idea with immunity -- i think the consensus reaches back to at least indictment. i think certainly the story opinion that's quoted in fitzgerald

your thoughts. >> look it is good to see somebody other than the president, fighting the president fightss every day every way he can you need more organized broader approach in addition to this letter, there are now a number of republicans in congress, calling for schiff to be removed last kroubt i saw only 91 they have nearly 200 members i'm not sure why others who not stepped up lindsey graham want to go use the senate judiciary committee. >> promised he would investigate since he took over as chair of the judiciary committee. what nine months ago. i mean where has he been? >> if this is going stooeb a purely partisan fight republicans have to use the power they have, in congress. >> the senate. >> is should it be difficult to discern partisan battle. >> not to me apparently things mover slowly in washington. >> if stuck in the mud that have swamp. >> good news gone 2 1/2 weeks all back next week seem lot of activity, but i do think. >> always hasomething to cheer us up with here they come. >> reality check not coming back they got to come back be fired back the key thing if i was whit

or a president? and my second question is, as you're looking at the contents of what you want to do next year, it's probably going to be hot in florida in june, will climate change be one of the issues? mr. mulvaney: the first question is no, i don't know that another president has owned a property that was considered for g-7. so i don't know the answer to that question. climate change will not be on the agenda. reporter: thank you. president trump has called for the expo sthoifer whistle bler -- expo whistleblower on ukraine. reporter: are we done on g-7? is that the collective will? one more on g-7. reporter: to show the american people that this is above board will you share documents that show how you arrived at this decision with congress? mr. mulvaney: no, but i imagine we would share dollar figures with you afterwards. that's part of the course of business. by the way, you're going to get this answer a lot. ok? i don't talk about how this place runs on the inside. so if you ask us, see our pap

the post also reports that trump involved his vice president in efforts to pressure the president of ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden. but the paper says aides close to pence, quote, insist that he was unaware of trump's efforts. the piece goes on to say, quote, one of pence's top advisers was on the july 25th call, and the vice president should have had access to the transcript within hours. today secretary of state mike pompeo confirmed that he was listening in on that same call. first time we've heard him publicly address since the report surfaced that he had heard of trump -- heard the telephone conversation that trump had with the president of ukraine. there is also new reporting on the whistle-blower's efforts to get his concerns about trump and ukraine to congress. "the new york times" writes, house intelligence chairman adam schiff received an early account of the accusations against the president before the official whistle-blower complaint was filed. indeed, it should be pointed out whistle-blowers often come to congressional committees first. the whistle-blower in this

president trump writing up a bizarre letter to turkey's president. the date of this letter is october 9th, but he decided to leak it today amid widespread and bipartisan decision over the sudden decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria. this is one of those things where you must hear it for yourself, the whole letter and so i will read it to you. it comes on white house stationary. dear mr. president, this is written to president erdogan. let's work out a good deal, exclamation point. you don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people and i don't want to be responsible for destroying the turkish economy and i will. i'val read give vr given you a little sample with respect to pastor brunson. he was held as a political prisoner in turkey. i've worked hard to solve some of your problems. don't let the world down. you can make a great deal. general mazloum is willing to negotiate with you and he's willing to make concessions that they never would have made in the past. he's referring to a kurdish general. i am confidentially enclosing

this is the most ad-hoc presidency we've ever seen. it's least systemic presidency.protect when you have a national security process, you look at implementation, get intelligence. this is a president who's essentially dispensed with all of that. so the decision itself is uninformed. and then you surprise people in the field who are most affected. obviously the kurds and others. and this adds to the sense that american foreign policy is improvised and that we're not taking into account the stakes, our interests, or the interests of others that we're making it up on the fly and they end up being road kill. that is what we're seeing here. >> mike barnicle, seems to me that jeb bush is owed an apology, calling donald trump the chaos candidate in 2016, much like mitt romney said in 2012, that russia was going to be america's greatest geopolitical threat. they were both mocked and ridiculed and ended up being right. both of them. but you just -- for americans who don't -- who say, oh, expertise doesn't matter, we should talk to tom nichols about this and the death of exper

president of ukraine.e continues to believe there is significant need for improved regional energy security which additional options for natural gas supply will provide, and this is exactly why he is heading to lithuania to meet with nearly two dozen european energy leaders. perry is set to resign from his position next month. >>> a second whistle-blower has come forward with information. an attorney representing the original whistle-blower says their legal team is now representing the second whistle-blower who has firsthand knowledge of the events that support the first whistle-blower. this second whistle-blower has spoken to the inspector general of the intelligence community, michael atkinson, but legal sources tell nbc news he or she is not filing a separate formal complaint. the existence of a second whistle-blower could undercut pru president trump's complaints. >> president trump has denied that he did anything improper during his call with the president of ukraine, but republicans in the white hous

president trump is a wartime president.time president can do exceptg he wants to do raising the dead and only jesus can do that. the other point is, if you did , andch the president taking all the guns out of biden wants to take biden wants to take out, using a trillion dollars for a buyback, that leaves open the republic to any foreign entity that wants to invade this nation. right now we are having an amazon senate down in central and south america. businessimmigration coming up here, the reason they are having that senate is ,ecause all of south america under the organization of south which comprises all the nations of south america, including mexico and central america and the caribbean, has to thetributed one penny emigrants coming up here -- pat, talking impeachment, not immigration this hour, but appreciate your call. we have a photo of adam schiff and the speaker, nancy pelosi. considering appealing to moderate democrats and republican districts to stand with the president -- pursued at odds with fresh political att

this president is the end historic achiever a historic president and i truly believe this. what galls these radical dems the most in the rhinos is this president has already assured its place prominently in presidential history and there's nothing they can h do. if they would overthrow him he would still be a president of historic successes and achievements in three years am all go down in history for that. spent the reality is they are going to throw him out of office. they don't have the votes to do that in the bottom line the more the public gets to see the charade the more inclined they will be to support him. lou: i can't imagine a democrat anywhere in the country other than the coast thinking about running in 2020 because these fools on capitol hill, these radical dems i'm talking about pelosi and schumer and schiff and the like i think they have destroyed the party with this election. >> i agree. lou: i'm accustomed to agreement thanks so much ed rollins. up next the effect immigration is having on the country's national identity. it is having an effect. we will take

at the president did was dangerous. and again, we have not only troops there, but equipment there and the rest. i don't know if he understood the situation but i don't think that's something you can deal with in appropriations. mr. hoyer: let me just say, we worked very hard to open up the government. we were shutdown when the republicans were in charge. most of the government agencies were closed. we are prepared to cooperate with the administration and with our republican colleagues to ensure that the government is funded and serving the american people and defending the american people. as you know, we passed 96% of government funding. to the senate. the senate has not passed any appropriations bills. we're concerned about that. but we're going to work very hard between now and november 21 and thereafter if necessary, i hope it's not necessary, to get agreement so that the government can be operational. the american people expect that. that is our duty. reporter: madam speaker, did the president bring up impeachment

>> well, as the president said today, what the united states demonstrated, this president, this country will be unrelenting in our fight against isis or any terrorist organization that threatens this country. >> brennan: what does that mean for the drawdown of u.s. forces from columbia? has iraq agreed to host the majority of the presence being pulled out of syria? >> we have a military presence in iraq. we have an ongoing military presence in parts of syria, but to be clear, you know, the president looked at the deployment of american forces in between traditionally kurdish syria and the turkish border, and essentially believed that that was not the right place for our forces to be. american forces went into syria, worked with our syrian kurdish allies to destroy the isis caliphate. the last inch of territory the isis caliphate was captured in march, and the president looked at the circumstances, where we had american forces essentially providing a safe zone patrol on the turkish border. that was not the mission. i have to tell you, as the father of a united states marine, i couldn't b

now president trump at the values voters summit. president trump: great honor to be here.tor brunson, who i've gotten to know very well, that was not easy but we got him out, got him back to his family. >> [applause] president trump: and i want to thank you for that beautiful prayer. it means a lot. this evening i'm deeply honored to be back with so many pastors and leaders and friends and patriots at the 2019 values voter summit. >> [applause] president trump: you are the warriors on on the frontiers defending american freedom. we meet tonight at a crucial moment in our nation's history. our shared values are under assault like never before. extreme left wing radicals both inside and outside government are determined to shred our constitution and eradicate the beliefs we all cherish. far left socialists are trying to tear down the traditions and customs that made america the greatest nation on earth. they reject the principles of our founding fathers, principles en shrined into the declaration of independence which pro claims that our rights come from our create or. >> [a

one issued under president nixon, one issued under president clinton.under president clinton in 2000 actually contains a footnote. i'm going to nerd out on you. footnote 36, rachel, which specifically says you can investigate a sitting president. not just by a federal grand jury, but also by congress. and so the department of justice has conceded the point. mr. trump's lawyer has not. >> that, even though you're taking about a footnote there, you're making a very clear point. i was struck also listening to the hearing today that the judges and the attorneys seem to all agree that this is going to end up at the supreme court. if the point of law here is that simple, that the justice department says a president can be investigated, even if justice department policy says he can't be criminally charged, now the president's lawyers are saying no, no, no, he can't be investigated, either, that doesn't sound to me like such a hard point of law that i would assume that it may end up at the supreme court. >> it may well. one thing we have to watch for is how the

and reiterated to president erdogan today, that president erdogan, i think knows president trump's mind on this matter. very clearly today. president trump pressed him strongly in a telephone call today. to immediately embrace a ceasefire. as i said he directed me to lead a delegation, we'll be leaving as quickly as possible to travel to region to pursue a ceasefire and negotiated settlement. but t president -- look. he said from the time he was a candidate and forward, that he wanted to bring an end t end-tod less wars -- end to the endless wars and opportunities to bring forces home. out of harm's way has always been a priority, but does not mean that president in anyway in anyway, encourages violence anywhere in the world, let alone on the border between turkey and syria. and the president reiterated that point to president erdogan today, and we'll continue to stand very strongly, sanctions that have been imposed today are a beginning. president trump made it very clear that we will continue to use the strength of this economy and we will continue to engage our allies, president trum

president trump has just spoken to reporters about his call with ukraine's president and the existencer. jim acosta joins us with more. i know the president spoke to reporters late today. what's his latest pushback? >> reporter: yeah, anderson, he didn't say a whole lot about that second whistle-blower. he said that he's not concerned about it, doesn't think it's going to have any bearing on what's taking place up on capitol hill right now. we did hear one new line from the president earlier today where he said that this impeachment inquiry is making it harder for him to do his job as president. that was one of the newer lines of attack, i suppose, if you want to call it that or newer lines of defense. the president went on to say that he doesn't understand how he could be even thought of in terms of impeachment inquiries at this point when he says he's doing such a good job. that, of course, is not going to work for democrats, who are going to continue this impeachment inquiry. anderson, keep in mind one of the things we've been hearing from the white house and its defenders over the

the way to september 1st where the president of the united states dispatched vice president pence to tell zelensky you're not getting your money. this is abuse of office. you do not need a criminal code violation to impeach a president. this is exactly what the architects of the impeachment language, madison, mason, and randolph envisioned, a president using a foreign power to interfere with the integrity of our elections. this is impeachable conduct. everything else is a deflection. >> that's the case against the president. you can also talk to law professors who would say they could poke holes in that. as far as the whistle-blower, there are things in there -- >> the president can we find. >> people who were on the phone call. >> he confessed, amy. >> the point that i'm making is that there is a gray area. we have not heard a consistent, coherent defense from republicans and the president. what we've heard is a lot of pile on. >> thank you. stick around, you'll be able to talk to each other more as i can tell you are enjoying doing talking about this new report from "the new york t

i said president trump.me of another instance where president trump on a conversation, a call has public wily or privately asked for a foreign leader to investigate a specific american? >> yeah, absolutely. now look, he may have done it personally, but it doesn't matter, chris. there's no difference between the president making the call or the president saying to attorney general barr or oh of his subordinates, you make the call and investigate this -- chris: but the answer, i mean, i don't mean to interrupt, but you can't tell me a case where we have a record of the president specifically asking a foreign leader to investigate a specific american. >> i'm saying he's willingly and act a knowledged that he's doing that through his attorney general. chris: and other than joe biden, can you tell me of another -- i mean, there are millions of americans who do business overseas, all kinds of activities. do you think it's just a coincidence that the one person that he has asked a foreign leader to investigate, spe

the vice president appearing to continue a tone set by president trump today.n offense and drive hard. he leaned in when he was asked about whether that was appropriate to do on the phone call, back in july, with ukraine's president. and whether the president should have said today that ukraine and china should investigate the bidens. vice president pence said they were both put in office for many reasons. not the least of which, secure our borders, put conservatives on courts, and drain the swamp. and the president of united states simultaneously has become began speaking about health care and maybe more. he may be asked questions about this very thing, and the impeachment inquiry, as we watch him at the villages of florida. >> president trump: in my campaign for president, i made you a secret pledge that i would strengthen, protect, and defend medicare for all of our senior citizens. you see it's under siege, but it's not going to happen. [cheers and applause] today i will sign a very historic executive order that does exactly that. we are making your medicar

president erdogan.iting his trips to meet walter reed to meet service members gravely wound in combat. he insisted, it's time to bring troops home. >> if they had to go to walter reed. reporter: the president did keep up the war against the impeachment inquiry. he said he would consider cooperating with inquiry if nancy pelosi calls for a full house vote. president trump: we'll if they give us our rights. reporter: president trump also responded to fox news reporting that when robert mueller met with him in the oval office in may of 2017, he was interviewing for the fbi job, contrary to what mueller told congress and speaking to rosenstein about taking the job as special counsel. president trump: robert mueller wanted the job to be the director. the other element of your question i never heard that until recently. reporter: fox news also asked president trump if he had spoken to bill barr at all about his investigation into the origins of the russia probe or john durham's probe into that which has expan

the president insisted upon holding a meeting with president zelensky. he personally insisted on withholding $4 million in congressly approved security assistance. and there is this famous phone call. >> hold on one minute. nancy pelosi is about to do a news conference. let's listen in. >> i just said i'd be here so i'm here. so here we are. democrats have been hard at work legislating, investigating, litigating, and we're happy this week that we did something we're trying to do for a very long time, just the ottoman empire responsible for an armenian -- 403 to 16, something like that want we voted sanctions on turkey. again, reaffirming our opposition to the president's action that he took vis-a-vis syria and turkey. and, again, that was 354-60. so we've had strong bipartisan votes on these issues that relate to what happened in turkey vis-a-vis syria. and our for the people agenda, we said we were going to do first lower the health care costs by lowering the cost of prescription drugs. and that is what we are doing with hr-30 now named the elijah e. cu

today one of the president's top advisers openly admitted what he, the president and all the president'sn denying for weeks now, and now he is trying to back away what he said, what he said in great detail several times and not by accident. right now acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney is furiously backpedaling from it all, which only underscores the gravity of what he said. today presumably with the president's approval, he told the public, told lawmakers pursuing impeachment, told the world that, yes, the administration withheld military aid from an ally under rsi

this president.travel the country, lou, i'm in michigan today. people keep saying to me we want republicans to stand up for this president. democrats always stick together. we need to stick together and support our president, because he has stood up for the american people, bringing jobs back and wages up and doing everything he could to make lives better for people across this country and that's why they're giving money and that's why they recognize the democrat party for what it is, they're trying to undermine the vote of all of those 63 million people because they don't like the vote. they don't like they elected donald trump. they think they are smarter than everybody so they are saying do you know what? we're going to use our government power and abuse it and totally disen franchise the rule of law and try and impeach this president and we're not going to have it. lou: well not going to have it and yet, schiff/pelosi/schumer/nadler, you know, whatever it is, radical dems, is really commit ting a

a president. the president really went after him in a series of tweets as you see on the screen. what was the point of that? >> i mean, the president right now is trying to make an example of senator romney. romney from the beginning of his time in the senate wanted to be known as someone who would not be afraid to go out and criticize the president. in this specific situation president trump wants to show that any critics, anyone who is breaking ranks on the republican side, will immediately get a strong and stern response from the president's twitter account. >> and that's interesting, too, because were there any republicans that actually defended romney after this happened? >> no, and curiously i think what we're -- i think right now what we're seeing is that a lot of republicans want to see how this plays out. what are the consequences for someone like senator romney to at least ding the president a little bit and is it safe to do that? we know in the past that never trumpers or people who hav

abo try to contain t president. trump has never been a paragon olof self con but other chiefs of staff have tried more to keep at least a handle o who he's tae'ing to, when talking to them and how the government is actually wor wng at the president's direction. he doesn't have aef of staff doing that right now. robert: carl, a says the guard rails are gone, based on her reportie. th is one guardrail in .ashington. congress has oversight of the executive. if you're speak sakelosi, based on your reporting tonight, is she going to try to expand this impeachment probe beyond the ukrainian matter? she's hearing from the top officials testifying. we're going to hear from the e.u. ambassador gordon sonla next week. how ds hdl h this development? carl: i think there is perssure on to expand this and plus the syria situation figur in that. she wants to keep it narrowly focused and move quicklyly and t complicate things. robert: why not? carl: they need to go faster. the moree you expd it, the mor time is consumed. virtuall e

president. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator for virginia. mr. warner: thank you, mr. president. i've come to the floor to speak on a different subject, but i do want to acknowledge this is an issue that i follow as well. i actually cosponsored senator lee's bill. i do hope that what my friend, the senator from illinois, proposed in terms of a process, that that process will take place and that we can get this legislation or vacationer -- or variation thereof passed through the senate, that we can deal with this issue. this is something i hear a lot from my constituents in virginia, particularly northern virginia. and again, while no piece of legislation is perfect, i think the direction that senator lee put forward is one that i carefully considered before i cosponsored the legislation. the only way this is going to get resolved is if we go through this process. there is nobody in the senate that works harder on immigration issues with more passion and willingness to get to yes on issue after issue than the senator from illinois. i thank him for

the president's word. he made it up. >> he didn't make it up. trish: you don't know what to say to that. it's as though they are saying let's create our own fake news narrative. they were not the president's word. and good for george stephanopoulos for calling her out on that. are they trying to sell something that isn't there? >> they are tone deaf, trish. for them to outright lie with a straight face. the public deserves better than this. to adam schiff to make the comments he did, that's untrue. the mainstream media lets them get by with it. >> nancy pelosi lets him get by with it. i am just a simple girl who thinks impeachment is kind of a big deal. before you go out there and impeach someone. even fit' not going to see the light of day in the senate, even if you do it in congress. that's kind of a big thing. you are talking about reversing the will of the american voter, and you ought to have all your ducks in a row. and this should not be a political process. this should be something quite real. even

president. madam president, i ask unanimous consent that i be able to speak for -- the presiding officer: without objection. mr. tillis: -- a period of five minutes as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. tillis: thank you, madam president. madam president, and maybe for those who were watching the opening prayer, that was pastor andrew brunson from north carolina. pastor brunson this month marks a year since he was released from a turkish prison. and he and his wife were swept up and his wife far reen is in the -- norine is in the gallery as well. they were swept up in what i consider to be an overreaction by president erdogan and the turkish regime in imprisoning thousands of people after the coup attempt in turkey. i found out about this case actually first -- pastor brunson was from north carolina and then slowly but steadily, diplomacy wasn't working. and he found himself in a turkish prison at one point really in what we would consider to be despicable circ

when this president stands up for american workers from the range, i the iron stand with president donaldmp. when this president stands up for faith and freedom, and the american flag, i stand with president donald trump. when this president stands up to the radical democrats in congress trying to overturn the will of the american people with endless investigations and partisan politics, we stand with president donald trump. [applause] what began four years ago has grown into a movement. a movement of everyday americans from every walk of life. all of you believe we could be strong again. you believe we could be prosperous again. said yes to president donald trump in 2016. minnesota, i know you will say yes to four more years of president donald trump in 2020. when you think of the last three , it has been three years of action. it has been three years of results. it has been three years of promises made and kept. we are just getting started. president trump has signed the largest investment in our national defense since the days of ronald reagan. he promised to stand with our veterans an

president trump: i just spoke to president erdogan of turkey.e doing very, very well with turkey. there is a ceasefire or a pause or whatever you want to call it. there was some sniper fire this morning. there was mortar fire this morning that was eliminated quickly. they are back to the full pause. david: despite reports that turkey is already violating the brokered ceasefire, the president is insisting everything is going according to plans. but can the turks be trusted? joining me is special-ops * veteran brett velicovich. the drones were used extensively or maybe still are being used. it's kind of a dangerous development in the history of warfare, i wonder if we are prepared to deal with. what do you think? >> the turkey has been using drones unlike i have ever seen before. they have been using them in this battle. when i think about the larger ceasefire the first thing that comes to mind cities what ceasefire? hours after this ceasefire was publicly put out there you had turkish backed free syrian militias firing on kurdish civilians. the t

president. >>> and behind the health scare. new information on bernie sanders' heart and what it means for his 2020 campaign. >> we've got breaking news for you this morning. there is into you reporting of what could become a major piece of evidence in the impeachment inquiry. "the new york times" reporting overnight, that a second intelligence official is considering whether to file a whistle-blower complaint about the president. seeking foreign help from ukraine against a political opponent. the times reporting the second official has more direct information about the events detailed in the first whistle-blower complaint and that the second official is among those interviewed by the intelligence leader, inspector general, to corroborate the allegations the whistle-blower. the new reporting highlights the lengths president trump and the inner circle have gone to to investigate the bidens. and remember the president himself has already admitted to this. >> if we feel there is corruption, we have