what you considered john brood a minyan in the state department? in a pentagon? >> stephen: it's the president 'his job and sworn duty to safeguard taxpayer dollars and the united states government's foreign policy. getting to the bottom of a corruption scandal in ukraine is in the american national interest if you want to understand why that complaint is so obviously politically biased, when he says that the president is threatening national security by trying to expose corruption -- when he says, or she, that the president is hurting national security by trying to get to the bottom of a gigantic scandal that nobody has on earth, the president is the whistle-blower here. the president of the united states is the whistle-blower in this individual is a saboteur trying to undermine a democratically elected government. >> chris: saboteur, is he a spy? is a committing treason? >> stephen: i do not know -- >> chris: the president said that, you kn. >> stephen: the president correctly pointed out that the behavior of this individual is close to a spy. i don't know who t

withheld the aid, the pentagon certified to congress, certified -- a formal process -- certified to congress after a rigorous process and after consultation with the state departmentraine had made dramatic progress in fighting corruption and that the aid should be released. why did the president, if the argument is corruption, why did the president go against his own pentagon and his own state department? >> chris, i don't understand how you can ask that question while at the same time add monoyou shoulding the president for -- admonishing the president for wanting to get to the bottom of perhaps one of the biggest corruption scandals -- chris: i'm not admonishing anybody. >> chris, chris -- chris: with all due respect, this is an exercise in obfuscation. [inaudible conversations] >> there's a taupe of judgment in all of your questions so, yes, you are admonishing. chris: no, that's judgment on your part. >> and i can't speak to every single mid-level and low-level bureaucrat in the u.s. government -- chris: this is the deputy secretary of defense policy. do you consider john rood a minion in the state department? >> it's the president's job and sworn duty to safe

almost bound to take over functions that are better performed in the state department the pentagon and cetera so i think it is it was a problem so far as one can tell trump and his 2 systems have mostly dismantled the process or people's it with people with like minded ideologues at least that's the way flynn started out and that's the way bolton started out you know bringing in people who have his his views and in france you need nicer security council staff to be looking at alternative views and to present these to the president and to the cabinet too so that they can get. a sense of what the issues are and what their choices really are i mean somebody like libya as you say needed needed to rethink people need to think ahead it's not at all clear what the what the good options were if gadhafi was a mess president that i just want to add that i was on the ground in libya in benghazi in fact at that time and i think their reporting in western media hugely hugely exaggerated the threat posed for gaddafi he in fact never threatened blob out but it was very expedient for the american fore

course he didn't plan to be in russia he didn't plan to stay there it was actually the state department the pentagon that canceled his passport so he couldn't leave once he landed in russia but one of the things he said was that he actually destroyed a lot of those files that he took with him before he left hong kong so when he originally landed in hong kong and he gave this 1st round of interviews you know sat down with glenn greenwald and laura betray us and and kind of laid out the story in the beginning before he left hong kong he destroyed what he had with him he did not want to take that with him because he says he did not know where he was going to ultimately wind up which i think is a pretty interesting way of viewing it especially when again the accusations that have been made against him for so long are that well you know snowden was. an operative of russia he was trying to do this to harm the united states he was trying to get information to enemies of the united states that's been the what the intelligence community has claimed about him for a very long time and i think one of the things

cbs news learned the president ordered the state department and the pentagon to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to ukraine days ahead of that july phone call. in it, he said that he is said to have pressured the leader of the country to investigate joe biden and his son hunter. >> i said hold it up. let's get other people to pay and everybody called me saying oh please can we play. and there was never any quid pro quo. >> the controversy the fueling renewed democratic calls for impeachment. seven democratic freshmen in the house from swing districts signed an op ed says if he used taxpayer dollars as leverage for his own gain, that would be a threat to all we have sworn to protect. >> if they want to do it, go hard or go home. stop talking about it. go to amazon, buy a spine, and do it. >> house speaker nancy pelosi is reportedly planning to put a resolution on the house floor to address calls for impeachment and joe biden says he will call on congress to comply with inquiries. edings we'll have much more on this developmenting story on the kpix5 news at 5:00

trump's directive was communicated to the pentagon and state department which we're told only that the administration was looking at whether the spending was necessary the official said. so again, similar here certainly to that reporting the "washington post" came out with a couple hours ago. let me bring in tamara. we were just showing the president today seeming at moments to suggest that, hey, maybe a transcript of this call would be released at some point in the future, hey, if you heard it, you'd realize there was nothing to it when he was pinned down on that, he was not -- he would not let himself get pinned down i should say on whether he would release it. what are the odds of this white house actually releasing the record of that phone call? >> the president said that he would love to release his tax returns if only he weren't under audit, which there is never proof that he was under audit when running for president. he said that he would sit down with robert mueller, that didn't happen. so this could be one of those lucy with the football kind of things. and he did mention som

meantime one thing is clear, the state department and the pentagon are not on the same page on this. the state department raising concerns that iran was indeed behind this. the defense department not thoroughly convinced. taking a more wait and see approach until it is. retired air force general here with us. general, is it usual nor defense and state to be add odds on something this big? they were or they weren't. i read from the pentagon review that they're not 100%. perhaps the state department is. are you? >> well, to answer your last question first based on everything i've seen, there's like no doubt that these attacks originated from iran using iranian equipment under the authority of the supreme leader of iran. so we can put that aside. with respect to your first question, you know, are there differences in perspective between states and defense? yeah, you bet there are. there's differences inside state and inside defense. this is a significant issue. >> neil: but there wasn't any issue that one is not quite convinced iran is behind this and the other is and that could jeopardi

principal responsibility is to oversee a disciplined policy-making process that includes the state department, the pentagon, and intelligence agencies, and to tee up big decisions for the president. mr. bolton did not do that. instead, he sniped at initiatives undertaken by others like north korea talks and afghan negotiations and pursued long-standing pet causes of his own such as his pointless crusade against the international criminal court. he championed an attempted coup against venezuelan president nicolas maduro which fell flat. this dysfunction was of course enabled and even encouraged by mr. trump." the "washington post" editorial tonight concluding with the prospect that president trump might not even be able to find someone to say yes to this job a fourth time. mr. trump's fourth national security adviser, if he can find one, given how disastrously wrong it has gone with all the other national security advisers he has had including mr. bolton who's out as of tonight, i think it's a fair observation. that said, that said, look on the sunny side. i mean, something about this breakup with john bolt

in fact, congress approved the assistance including 141.5 billion for the state department and 250 million to the pentagon with an overwhelming bipartisan support and indeed republicans and democrats have come together to offer support to ukraine. we know with ukraine what is at stake on the front lines of a struggle that is not guided by democratic values or by the rule of law but with the oligarchs together democrats and republicans with a free and independent ukraine because together we stand behind our shared values of democracy and with the support of ukraine with their own 'sstrategic interest. that's why we came together with special forces to invade crimea in 2014 over ukrainian sovereignty. i was chairman of the foreign relations committee at the a time with bipartisan support in the era of growing political divide our free and sovereign ukraine inspired us to transcend partisanship to work together. i applaud my republican colleagues have worked on efforts, who have been strong advocates for our partners standing up against, and aggression. that's why it's all the more puzzling the - - they have

heads because if the president has conversations that impact what folks are doing at the state department or the pentagonit. so generally speaking it is circulated. what is important here as kevin was noting, it's not just as if the lockdown is happening because covert classified information was being discussed. what it appears to be at least in the case of the ukrainian call is it was a politically sensitive phone call for the president. he was pressuring president zelensky to investigate joe biden, so there is some political ramifications there, not national security ramifications there. but i also think it's important to note as you've noted, i mean national security adviser john bolton left the white house just weeks ago, and so he has not been talking to the press very much, but there are a lot of questions he needs to answer now. >> kylie, you say political, not necessarily political ramifications, however, in that complaint, you know, the whistle-blower, the author of that complaint says i was also concerned that these actions imposed risks to u.s. national security and undermine the u.s. governme

you work the state department and the pentagon. the idea that this almost came to be is what? >> a little stunning, to be honest with you. it has all the feeling of something that was very rushed, not much of an interagency process or decision making done. very little diplomacy done on the front end. it almost feels a little like annoy where the president was advised, we're not ready to sit down with kim jong-un in hanoi and he did it, anyway. clearly the conditions were not set and ready for there to be a meaningful negotiation between the taliban and stt, but that's something that has to happen pd. the taliban says americans will die because of that decision to end the negotiations and not sign a deal between thely, which you know is unworkable if you look at the situation on the ground. there's secretary of state mike pompeo. the president wants to bring those troops home. how many, how fast? >> so 14,000 is where it stays for the foreseeable future. >> i can't answer that question. >> because it was in the deal that within 135 days was going to 85 days, and the president s

and there will be briefings with a cabinet and at lunchtime they will head over to the pentagon with state department briefings as well then in the evening they return for the state dinner the second at the trial presidency then on saturday morning they will head off on air force one to look at the factory to look at this investment by a company done by a factory in ohio and it will be something the president is happy to look at because that is an investment in american jobs so australia is happy to see that because it is a significant financial commitment by not building in the southern part but to do so in north america and the us. >> and those that will be attending the state dinner quick. >> bill power is an indycar driver and will be there. there is a million bright actors in which actually will turn up >> a look at capitol hill. the house expected to gavel back in shortly. in the following order. ordering the previous question on house resolution 564, and adoption of house resolution 564, if ordered. the first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. pursuant to clause 9 of rule 2

state looks like. i know the difference between a whistle-blower and a deep state operative. this is a deep state operative pure and simple. >> the president has the state department. he's got the cia. he's got the pentagonhe's got a number of other agencies, why did he use three private lawyers to get information on biden from the -- from the ukrainian government rather than go through all of the agencies of this government? >> two different points. number one -- >> how about answering my question. >> john durham as you know -- >> wait a minute, john durham is investigating something completely different. stephen, i'm asking you a direct question. why did the president use private attorneys rather than go to the state department? if you don't know that's an acceptable answer, but let's not talk about john durham who's investigating the trump -- >> there's two issues that were brought up on the phone call. >> why did he do? >> chris, i understand. i understand that you have your question. i have my answer. there's two issues that were brought up on the phone call. >> you have your non-answer at this point. i'm simply asking a question as to why -- is adam schiff guilty of interfering in our elections. >>

spending bills for the department of labor, education, state and other foreign operations, the pentagon, epa, and water programs. they had intended on the outset of the week to tackle fiscal spending bills right away, just as things got on the ground, things fell apart. patty murphy said she would introduce an amendment for the education bill that would stop the trump administration from implementing this antiabortion title ix rule. republicans right away were like, we consider that to be a poison pill. the term is key because in the budget agreement, president trump said there is sort of a handshake agreement between house and senate lawmakers to avoid the so-called poison pills we also saw state and foreign operations bills get sidelined. it was also tabled. so right away, things got off to a rough start. the senate appropriations committee and that passing a spending bill for the pentagon and energy and water programs just yesterday. the two bills are moving forward and the senate could take them up on the floor. >> you write about aid to ukraine, your article saying trump administra

they had two spending bills for the -- the department of labor, education, state, and other foreign operations. the pentagon and epa and water programs, so they had intended at the outset of the week to tackle those fiscal 2020 spending bills, and there were going to be individual senate spending committee markups, but just as things were getting off to fallnd, they started apart. senator patty murray essentially said she was going to introduce an amendment to the education bill that would stop the trump administration from implementing this antiabortion title ix family-planning rule, and republicans right away were like , whoa, we consider that to be a poison pill, and that term is key because in the budget agreement that president trump signed last month, there was sort of this handshake agreement between house and senate lawmakers to avoid these so-called poison pills for overly partisan policy provisions. richard shelby right away said no, i'm going to pull this from subcommittee market. we are going to postpone it, so there was no action on that this week. we also saw the state and foreign operations s

briefings with members of the cabinet, about lunchtime or after he will head over to the pentagon and there will be state department briefings for the state dinner. the second of the trump presidency. after that, on saturday morning, they will head on air force one to ohio to open a factory, $2 billion worth of investment. there opening a factory in ohio. that is something the president will be happy, it is an investment in american jobs. we are still happy to celebrate because it shows a significant financial commitment. doing so in north america. >> there is plenty. plastic is a car indycar driver, he will be there. there are 1 million great actors. which ones will turn out, i do not know. i think the former world number one of multiple major winner will be there. a lot of people that are a big deal to us. those are the ones that will mean something to your viewers. >>> thank you very much. >> come down anytime you want. >>> resident trump and melania trump will host a second state dinner of the administration as he welcomes the australian prime minister, scott morrison and his wife jenny morrison. watch guest ar

state department. you'll recall the time he announced the carrier strike group heading to the middle east. that didn't come from the pentagon, the state department, the president. it came from the neural adviser. what you saw from bolton was trying to put pressure on the president, sometimes boxing him in to more bellicose positions, more hawkish positions. this has been a fundamental question throughout the trump administration and that is to what extent is he going to be a traditional republican and what extent is he going to be an isolationist. trump's impulses on this are clear. he wanted to draw down from afghanistan. he wanted to get out of certain wars. you saw that with syria as well. the president wanted to bring down troops there. even though president trump criticized president obama for what trump said at the time was withdrawing from iraq too soon. the question of the hour is how fundamental is this split within the administration now or is it clear that the isolationists have won, and are there any counterweights to this bolton/trump. mike pence was on the other side of the afghanistan decision. mike pence can

. >> reporter: cbs news has learned the president ordered the state department and pentagon to withholdundreds of millions of dollars in military aid days ahead of the july 25th phone call. the white house denies it had any quid pro quo agreement with ukraine. >> for a president who believes he's above the law, pursuing the leader of another nation to investigate a political opponent to help win his election is not the conduct of an american president. >> reporter: republicans are so far sticking with the president. >> they want to continue the witch hunt of trying to impeach the president because they don't agree with the results of the 2016 election. >> reporter: the trump administration is expected to release a transcript of the phone call today. >> it was a perfect call. >> reporter: the house and senate intelligence committees are both trying to set up interviews with the whistleblower. and right now the identity of the whistleblower is not known. president trump has called that person highly partisan. anne-marie? >> all right. so we said this is the first step that could lead to t

. >> reporter: cbs news learned the president ordered the state department and pentagon to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid days ahead of a july phone call with the ukrainian leader -- rival joe biden and his son hunter, who had business dealers there. the president tweeted he's authorized the call transcript to be released. house democrats have given the white house until thursday to hand over documents surrounding the whistle blower complaint and they could vote wednesday on a possible -- senate minority leader chuck schumer introduced a similar resolution on the senate floor. >> it is aimed at a thus far recalcitrant executive branch which has blocked the ability for the committees to see the complaint. >> reporter: the acting director of national intelligence is set to testify on capitol hill thursday. lawmakers say they are also working to hear from the whistle blower. late this evening, congressional republicans also responded accusing democrats of trying to relitigate the 2016 election. back to you. >> this is just the beginning of the process. what are the nex

after lunchtime he will head over to the pentagon and there will be some state department briefings. in the evening they will return for the state dinner. that, on saturday morning they will head off on air force factory,io to open a $2 billion worth of investment from a company and its owner. that will be something the president is happy to trumpet because it is an investment in american jobs. australia is happy to celebrate because it shows a significant financial commitment the company has made. a prominent australian american that will be attending the state dinner? >> there are plenty. ,n indycar driver will be there there are one million great actors, which ones will turn up, i don't know. norman will be there. a lot of people who are a big deal to us. >> thank you very much conversation. >> an absolute pleasure, come down anytime you want. >> president and first lady melania trump will host the second state dinner of his administration as he welcomes australian prime minister scott morrison and his wife jenny morrison. our live coverage begins today at 6:30 p.m. eastern on c-sp

. >> reporter: cbs news learned that the president ordered the state department and pentagon to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid days ahead of the july 25th phone call. the white house denies it had any quid pro quo agreement with ukraine. >> for president who believes he is above the law, pursuing the leader of another nation to investigate a political opponent to help when his election is not the conduct of an american president. >> reporter: republicans are so far sticking with the president. >> they want to continue the witchhunt because they don't agree with the results of the 2016 election. >> the trump administration expected to release a transcript of the phone call today. >> it was a perfect. >> the house and senate intelligent committees both trying to set up interviews with the whistleblowers. >>> speaker pelosi has set a thursday deadline for the trump administration to handover the whistleblower complaint to the house intelligence committee. >> >>> california lawmakers speaking at senator and presidential candidate, harris will lead the campaign trail

the secretary of state. my staff also engaged senior officials of the pentagon, at the state department, at the national security at the office of management and budget. that's the state and foreign operations subcommittee, and throughout july, august and early september, i worked hard to ensure that ukraine received this much needed assistance. that's because going back years i've urged administrations of both parties to be completely clear eyed about the dangers and intentions of putin and russia and the importance of standing with the ukraine. i sounded the alarm early and often when the president went soft on boudin. during the trump administration i've been a strong supporter of the efforts to provide t to the ukraine and georgia. russia poses a significant threat to u.s. interest in the best way to contest putin is to rebuild our defenses and work closely with our allies and partners and approve the capacity of those threatened by moscow to defend themselves. i am grateful to security assistance has finally been released and now the task falls on us. to pass the defense bill and make the necessary investme

that officials at the office of management and budget relayed trump's order to the state department and the pentag pentagon. they explained that the president has concerns and wanted to analyze whether the money needed to be spent. >> the "post" also reports that administration officials were instructed to tell lawmakers that the delays were part of an interagency process but to give them no additional information. there is a lot we still don't know about the story although the associated press, "wall street journal" and "new york times" have since confirmed a number of aspects of the story. but the reporting seems to indicate that the president's acting chief of staff directed the omb to withhold funding while concealing the reason why. >> and then there is this, the mystery of rudy giuliani, who is trump's personal lawyer, not the white house counsel, he does not work for the president of the united states, he is not employed by the taxpayers or the government of the united states, he met with an adviser to the ukranian pld innian president t to investigate hunter biden. rudy giuliani says he was sent by

relayed the order to withhold hundreds of millions in military aide to ukraine to the state department and the pentagon in july. days later president trump had a phone call with the ukrainian president where he pressured the president to investigate joe biden and his son, hunter hunter. president trump said he could have enedim to investigate >> tnk it would have been probably, possibly okay if i did. >> and seized every opportunity to go after the dbling down on his ak ccusations. >> what biden did is a disgrace. what his son did is a disgrace. >> the trump administration blocked a whistle-blower complaint from somewhering this handed over to cog. on monday, the president said that he wasn't concerned. >> how seriously are you taking the impeachment talk? >> not at all seriously. >> the president will address other world leaders here at the u.n. but it is a tough audience for him. he has disparaged organizations like the u.n. last year they laughed at his boasting. today he will focus on flashpoints like venezuela. >> several house democrats are joining the call to impeach president trump. before her

more than 300 former officials from the pentagon, state department, and intelligence community said inoint statement today the trump ukraine scandal is "a profound national security concern" and that inviting foreign alterference "would constitution an unconscionable abuse of power." weijia jiang is at the white utuse tonight with new explanations of how that controversial phone call was handled. >> reporter: a senior administration official tells cbs news national security council lawyers directed that the classified document be handled appropriately and confirmed a transcript of the july 25 call between president trump and ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky, was filed in a separate, highly classified system. counselor to the president kellyanne conway tried to pplain why. >> his calls with the leaders of mexico and australia leaked, and enen his conversation with the russian ambassador and someone else from that embassy, i believe, leaked. and so there's great concern. >> reporter: but the whistleblower said a white house tficial described moving the call log as an act of abuse

fox news has learned that the pentagon and state department and national security council were you nan mouse in support. >>> the president has betrayed his oath of office and engaged in wrongdoing. >> i intend to hold the president accountable. >> the whistleblower is set to testify in office. >>> 55% of people questioned said it is necessary and 45% it is not. 49% of independents say they approved of the in inquiry. >> investigators at the state department are targeting as many as 130 current officials on the hillary clinton probe whose emails to secretary of state clinton's unsecured in- box could add up to security violations. state department officials deny the revived probe has anything to do with the white house. clinton's use after private email server when she was secretary of state was a reoccurring issue during her run for presidential three years ago. >>> the highway patrol is investigating a crash on an east bay freeway that left two people dead and another injured. it happened before four this morning on westbound interstate 80 in richmond south of the san pablo road. the

about lunchtime or a little bit after, he'll head over to the pentagon and there will be state department briefings as well. in the evening they return for the state dinner, again, the second of the trump presidency. after that, they will on saturday morning, they will head off on air force one to how ohi open a factory. and its owner, anthony pratt, which is about opening a factory in ohio and that will be something that the president is happy to trumpet because it is an investment in american jobs. australia's happy, very happy to celebrate because it shows our significant financial commitment that private companies make to, not building in the southern part of america but doing so in north america. doing so in the u.s. >> any prominent australian-americans that will be attending the state dinner? >> there's plenty. will power is an indycar driver. he'll be there. there'll be -- look, there's a million great actors. which ones will actually turn up, i don't know. greg norman, the former world number one and multiple major winner will be there. there's, yeah, a lot of people that are a b

why did the president, if the argument is corruption, why did the president go against his own pentagon and state department>> chris, i don't understand how you can ask that question while at the same time admonishing the president for wanting to get to the bottom of perhaps one of the biggest corruption scandals concerning ukraine in the last few years. >> i'm simply asking why -- >> chris, chris, chris, i like you a lot -- >> this is an exercise in obfuscation. >> chris wallace on fox news sunday. why the fury? our white house correspondents kristin welker and jeff bennett are both reporting that the president told allies days ago he would start worrying about losing republican support if national polls showed support for impeachment topping 50%, which a major cbs online poll did just over the weekend. joining me now, kristin welker at the white house and jeff bennett or capitol hill. jeff mason as well and ben rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to president obama. krist kristin, the president has been absolutely on a twitter rage today and seems to be, shall we say, nervous. >> reporter: it'

. >> they consulted, what does the state department want, what does the pentagon say about this. that these meetings weren't held -- now, john ganz, is the process broken, do we no longer have a collaborative national security team in the aftermath of bolton? >> absolutely. i think, you know, the trump administration suggests it's not a very hard job, the history that i write about in "white house warrior" suggesting that it's n it's not an easy job. running the machinery of meetings and memoranda, to pull the information to the president and pull his decisions down to government is a full-time job, it's more than a full-time job. it's not exactly a complicated job. it's writing, thinking, debating, all those sorts of things. but it is a hard job. and what's worrying about the president's comments suggests, number one, he hasn't learned that much about government in 2 1/2 years of being in office, but his confidence has grown. this is not a man and not a president that sounds like he's really interested in a partner or really an adviser. he's looking for somebody to sort of pal a

states counterterrorism operation in the afghanistan pakistan region. with me now, retired rear admiral john kirby, former spokesperson for the state department and pentagon cnn military and diplomatic analyst, also with me, david rhode, executive editor. good to see you both. first reported hamza bin laden was killed over the summer. what's the procedure of verifying that before notice like we saw today from the white house is made public? >> a couple of things go into this, fred. one, you want to be sure that you did in fact kill the person you think you did, and you're going to usually wait awhile to string all the bits of intelligence you can get, and all of the different strands to make sure you got the target you think you've had. we made the mistake in the past of announcing certain terrorist killed here or there, finding out later maybe they were grievously injured and survived. number two, you want to extrapolate all the intelligence through conduct and execution of the operation so you can disrupt future attacks or ongoing things they might have been planning. you want to be sure you take all of that information in intelligence on board before y

house democrats are demanding answers from the white house about its moves ordering the pentagon and state department to withhold almost 400 million in aid to ukraine lawmakers want to know when the white house made that decision and why an anonymous whistleblower has accused the president of withholding the aid to improperly pressured the ukrainian government to investigate allegations that might have been politically damaging for former vice president joe biden another person has died while standing on smart train tracks in the north. but our trade officials tell kron 4 says he do in the incident. >>is the latest growing number of train related suicides. >>number of people killed on the sonoma marin area train tracks here in roland park. but rain related deaths since june 2019 for those were classified as suicides that includes the most recent incident here at golf course drive 09:25pm thursday night, the crossing arms were down and the lights were illuminated and they noticed there was a northbound train approaching the intersection that is when 2 detectives from the rohnert park department of pub

. >> the president has the state department and the cia and the pentagon and a number of other agencies. why did he use three private lawyers to get information from biden from the ukrainian government rather than going through all the agencies? >> two different points. >> how about answer my question? >> john durham is investigating something different. stephen, i am asking you a direct question. why did the president use private attorneys, if you don't know, that's an acceptable answer but let's not talk about john durham. >> there were two issues they were brought up. >> why did they do it? >> chris, i understand you have your question and i have my answer. there are two issues that were brought up. >> you are not answering it at this point. >> white house sources are telling nbc news that we are not going to get caught flat footed. there is one kcohesive coming ot of the white house. >> or answers to that question. >> we saw it across the board on the sunday's shows yesterday. every anchor was pushing back hard, realtime fact checking againand white house officials like stephen mill

meet members of the cabinet and then head over to the pentagon l and then department briefings as well then in the evening they willth return for the state dinner. after that on saturday morning of that investment and that factory in ohio and australia is very happy to celebrate because it shows the financial commitment with the southern part of america but to do so in north america. >> any prominent australian americans? there are plenty. bill power will be there for go there is a million great actors which ones will turn up i don't know but many will be there. it's a big deal to us. >> thank you very much for that conversation. >> come on down anytime you want the caliban. this is about three hours.

what's your take given your work at the state department, at the white house, the pentagon and the military about releasing this transcript? >> i think secretary mnuchin does make a good point. you don't want every transcript or every call released. it would inhibit the confidentiality of these talks. that said, this is an exceptional case. >> release the transcript! >> you never know when he's going to stop and talk. >> he did exactly the right thing. this is an exceptional case. even if they don't want to release them to the public, at least sharing them with the intelligence committees so that you can see for sure exactly what was said, as well as the whistleblower complaint. what i'm struggling with is if this was such a beautiful conversation, why not at least let the intelligence committees take a look at the whistleblower complaint and the transcript, and then you can make a follow-on decision about public release later on. so this is a very unique situation. >> can i also just add real quickly, the irony of this administration relying -- you know, making an argument based on precede

the pentagon. the state department and the various us intelligence agencies.ional security advisor to serve president trump following the departures of 3 star army generals, michael flynn and hr mcmaster and most recently ambassador john bolton. news this morning democratic donor ed buck has been arrested after another overdose at his west hollywood home. buck has been charged with operating a drug house and prove providing drugs to a 37 year-old man who suffered an overdose last week. he did survive, however, 2 other men though died when they overdosed on methamphetamine in bucks home in recent years now the attorney for the 3rd man reacted to news of bucks arrest. it's unfortunate that it's taken 3rd overdose for the la sheriff's department to finally act we believe that that would overdose could have been avoided. >>we believe that the death of timothy dean could have also been avoided had they taken the death of more seriously. buck is scheduled to be arraigned later today, we'll keep you updated on the story. >>for your health this morning, new york state