trust america's #1 whitening brand, crest 3d whitestrips. >>> 360's randi kaye has been in iowa tryingight she tried to pin down joni ernst about it. she was met with a string of nonanswers. tonight she tried to get some questions to vice president mike pence. there are two pieces of sound you need to hear. the first is what mike pence said during the 2016 campaign about whether foreigners should interfere in american elections. >> you all need to know out there, this is basic stuff. foreign donors and governments cannot participate in the american political process. >> wow. okay. basic stuff, he said. golly gee. here's the second piece of sound, this time from the president -- from the president less than a week -- ago on the south lawn of the white house talking about ukraine. >> they should investigate the bidens because how does a company that's newly formed, and, by the way, likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens. >> you remember marco rubio said that was a joke. you had a chance to ask the vice president about all this, how did that go? >> well, anderson, i

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randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> i am chris cuomo and welcome to prime time.news a report of a second possible whistle-blower on ukraine. it's hard to know what more is needed because tonight we'll show that people put in place by this president felt what he was asking from ukraine was wrong. proof of an obvious expectation bayou crane that investigating biden would get them the relationship desired with trump. what do you say? let's get after it. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> this breaking news is from

. -- ernst was confronted by randi kaye and was careful. >> again, i think we're going to have to gooing to have to wait. all of that information is have to go back to the -- >> is it appropriate. >> again, we don't have all the facts in front of us. what we see pushed out through the media, we don't know what's accurate at this point. >> what we see pushed out through the media. we have the president's own words in the transcript of a call. what -- why are republicans being so careful about how they treat this? >> because despite the shift, he's still the leader of the party, an extremely important voice in the party. he sways the republican party. the republican base regardless of independence and more moderate republicans is totally behind him and thinks this is all a whitewash. so you don't want to -- i think if you're joni ernst -- reject trump out of hand because he is the leader of the party. but i also think it's important. what she was doing there, she wasn't condemning him, but she also wasn't defending him. i think that's important to note. while the country is moving towa

this is senator joanie arts when asked ar randi kaye whether she felt it's right for the president to ask for political assistance. check this out. >> again i think we're gorge to have to go back just as i said last week. we'll have to wait all of that information is going to go to senate intelligence. >> is it proappropriate? just the ask itself? >> we don't have all the facts in front of us and what is pushed out from the media we don't know what's accurate at this point. >> randi kept at it. kept asking the question and senator martha mcsallying echo that as well. trump admitted, already confirmed what he's done in broad daylight. >> right. i don't know that at this point there are such tremendous questions over the fact that trump has solicited now multiple times help in undermining u.s. democratic processes from foreign nations. he has now also said he's refusing to comply with a legitimate, constitutionally allowed inquiry by congress. we are in trouble. this is such a necessary moment for republicans to step up and hearing joanie ertz say they want more information to come out.

we sent randy kaye to iowa to say if she could get a good answer from senator ernst.hen are you guys going to stand up and say i'm not having any of this? >> it's up to us as members of congress to continue working with our allies, making sure that we remain strong in the face of adversity. >> that's what known as a nonanswer answer. so, randi, what happened when you caught up with the senator? >> well, we did our best to get some real answers, anderson. we tracked her down to this ground breaking ceremony in cedar rapids, iowa, dating back to the flood that happened in 2008, that's what that was about. we were hoping to ask her of course about the impeachment inquiry and about that new polling you just mentioned showing the majority of americans were in favor of that inquiry. we were hoping to get some real answers to our questions. instead it seems like we got more of those non-answer answers, as you said. here's our exchange. >> reporter: senators, while we have you, i want to ask you, is it appropriate for a president to ask a foreign power to investigate a politi

randi kaye, new york. >> we'll hand it over to chris for cuomo "primetime." >> i am chris cuomo.e." tonight we'll show that people put in place by this president thought what he was asking from ukraine was wrong. proof of an obvious expectation by ukraine that investigating biden would get them the

we asked randi kaye to gather nine independent voters and ask them at this point in the campaign aboutnvestigati. one voted for president trump in 2016, four for clinton, two didn't vote and two wrote in other candidates. >> reporter: do you think an impeachment inquiry is appropriate? >> yes. >> definitely appropriate. >> reporter: all of you agree it's appropriate? >> yes. >> i'm witnessing this president go out there and do things that are clearly following what's in the constitution about impeachment, high creimes and misdemeanors. >> reporter: you lean right. you are okay with the impeachment inquiry? >> absolutely. i also feel like we need to follow the rule of law. if something smells bad, we need to investigate it. >> reporter: why are some of you convinced this call sounded like a quid pro quo. >> they put the $319 million on hold days before. what kind of a signal is that? it wasn't on hold for two months. this was days before. >> we are looking to buy more javelins. do me a favor. it's right there. it's in the primary source released by the white house. you read it word for

randi kaye, new york. >> we'll hand it over to chris for cuomo "primetime." >> i am chris cuomo. this is "prime tootime." tonight we'll show that people put in place by this president thought what he was asking from ukraine was wrong. proof of an obvious expectation by ukraine that investigating biden would get them the relationship desired with trump. what do you say, let's get after it. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> this breaking news is from "the new york times." a report that there could be a second potential whistle-blower on ukraine. the "times" says it's a second intel official, one who is also alarmed by president trump's dealings and may have more firsthand information about the situation. however, tonight we don't have to wait. we have the truth in front of us. it comes from the president's former special envoy to ukraine. he told congress nothing anonymous, he was there in person, he is real and bona fide. you haven't even heard the president bad mouth him and he gave congress his testimony and the proof of the same, which all directed the idea of a press

cnn's randi kaye asked the fundamental question the concern that you have in this letter, asked that vice president mike pence this week. and i want you to listen to his answers. >> right, but the president himself has said that he -- >> on the board of a major ukrainian energy company. >> investigate his domestic political rival. is that okay with you? >> i don't -- i don't believe that's the case. and, again, but i know that's the way that -- >> he said it. the president said that. >> that's the way chairman schiff characterized it in his version of the transcript. >> he said it. >> the american people should read the transcript and they will see that the president did nothing wrong. there was no pressure. there was no quid pro quo. the president simply raised issues of importance and interest to the american people. >> the president literally said he wants ukraine and china to investigate a political rival. i mean, on television. when you see mike pence answering questions like that, what do you say? >> well, i think he's been cashiered. i respect vice president pence and i certai

randi kaye, cnn, new york. >>> with us now, a journalist and author whose new book on whistleblowers just hit store shelves. it's "crisis of conscious, whistleblowering in an age of fraud." tom mueller is here with us. also here our political analyst patrick healey. tom, you wrote this whole book on whistleblowers and now we have news that there are multiple whistleblowers into actions happening at the white house. does it necessarily make the accusation against the president stronger if more than one person comes forward? >> it certainly does. what we're seeing now is a community of whistleblowers coming forward. each revelation by each individual, much as a series of witnesses to a murder, will strengthen the original statements and give it more depth, more credibility. >> two whistleblowers now. the president and his allies are on the attack. let me read what lindsey graham wrote the today about this second whistleblower. when it comes to more whistleblowers come forward, more and more doesn't mean better or more reliable. i remember after the account from the first whistleblower,

we asked randi kaye to gather a group of nine independent voters and ask them at this stage, at thist and the burgeoning impeachment investigation. they range in age from 18 to 82. of the nine, one voted for president trump in 2016, four for clinton. two didn't vote, and two rwrote in other candidates. here's randi's report. >> do you think an impeachment inquiry is appropriate? >> yes. >> so all of you agree that an impeachment inquiry is appropriate? >> yes. >> i'm witnessing this president go out there and do things that are clearly, you know, following what's in the constitution about impeachment, high crimes and misdemeanors and bribery. >> and, lena, you're an independent, but you lean right. >> correct. >> but you're okay with the impeachment inquiry? >> well, absolutely because i also feel like we need to follow the rule of law. and if something smells bad, we need to investigate it. >> why are some of you convinced that this call sounded like a quid pro quo? >> they just put the material, the $392 million of aid on hold just days before. what kind of a signal is that? this w