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you saw it when jim jordan went on state of the union with jake tapper. his argument just fell apart. collapsed under the weight of reality in the other universe, they're not bound by the same laws of physics. they're allowed to just put stuff out there that makes no real sense and the hosts don't press. >> it makes me wonder what it would be like to have ten minutes to interview mcconnell. just a couple questions and see how it reacts. panel, thank you so much. coming up here two of cnn's best, jake tapper and sanjay gupta join me with two different angles about the president and his credibility, and most importantly, why it matters. that's next. (bold music) now, it's like he has his own health entourage. he gets medicare's largest healthcare network, a free gym membership, vision, dental and more. there's so much to take advantage of. can't wait till i'm 65. a few more chairs, please. unitedhealthcare medicare advantage plans, including the only plans with the aarp name. free dental care and eye exams, and free designer eyewear. go ahead, take advantag

chief washington correspondent jake tapper. obviously not everyone can watch every second of this impeachment inquiry. there's a lot of information. and misinformation. coming at them. what will viewers learn tonight. >> first of all, that the president is defense is largely based on falsehoods. he says that the whistleblower complaint has been proven to be false. that's not true. a lot of witnesses have verified the essential part of the whistleblower complaint. and more broadly that the manner of the strategy this idea that it's falsehoods is part of a very widespread pattern coming from president trump. that is troubling to a lot of people who are worried about long term impacts of the lies. he lies much much more tran previous testimonies. >> if the goal oftd testimony was get this in front of the country and sway public opinion in favor of impeachment did democrats succeed? or trumps strategy worked. >> it's a little early to say right now. because we probably need to give it a week or two. it's possible that opinions on i

connolly versus tapper, whoa! watching this, i'm not sure if anyone is filming this or not, adam was nodding along joyfully. i've never seen him look so happy since the beginning of this election. this is the kind of stuff that really gets him going. but once you read all 600 pages, the main thing is that a big part of our future will be the government pursuing a trade deal with america, but also a trade deal with the eu — two blocks that look at the world in completely different ways, and how will you reconcile the two? story of our lives. it is really interesting stuff, and you can see how aggressively the us will try to push. but a point has been made by someone who was actually at one of these meetings today. very exciting, you'll be excited by this — was that the uk has not legally been allowed to say what it would like, and they know that there are, for example, uk pharma companies that are desperate to try to get a bigger slice of the american market, which some americans wouldn't like the idea of. so the i

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it was the former secretary of homeland security who told jake tapper that he was telling the president that watch of -- much of what the president alleged in that phone call about the ukrainians involvement in 2016 was just nonsense. 2016.'t want to revisit if people have relevant information we want to hear from them. no to the bidens. >> i don't see evidence that anything improper has happened and people have said these witnesses conducted themselves with integrity. >> tim morrison was on the republican list. kurt volker. is it safe to say they will be before your committee? >> we are going to handle that this week and we are going to be fair about it. processness behind the is just as important as the facts. >> i think that speaker pelosi and adam schiff's decision to prevent the witnesses is just doubling down on stupid. the american people i think are going to look at this and go, i get it. they are going to get the president of fair and impartial firing squad. that's not due process. >> you're not suggesting that the witnesses lack credibility? >> i don't know. i wasn't allowed t

next, jake tapper sat down with the chairman of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, to discussand who has made the case for why he says there is overwhelming evidence to continue the impeachment process. >> presuming you impeach the president, it goes to the senate. chief justice onroberts could compel john bolton and others to testify. i heard there's a legal merit to why you're doing it that way. >> i think there's merit that we may get a quicker ruling than going months and months on end litigating the matter. there's no guarantee of that. but i think that is entirely possible. ultimately, though, one thing is clear. because we have adduced so much evidence of guilt of this president, so much guilt of serious misconduct. any privilege the president would have would be vitiated by this crime fraud exception. that will give way. if it doesn't, to quote my colleague chairman nadler, it will mean either justice roberts or the supreme court itself is not really a conservative justice or court, merely a partisan one, and i have to hope that that's not the case for the country's sa

i'm jake tapper. we have breaking news in the house impeachment inquiry. the house of representatives released more than 300 pages of testimony in which the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine bill taylor consistently and in detail describes the trump white house pushing the ukrainians in what taylor sees as a quid pro quo. a white house meeting and hundreds of million dollars in aid for ukraine only if the ukrainian government announced investigations that trump clearly saw as helpful to him. taylor testified that president trump's point man in the administration on ukraine gordon sondland, quote, told me that president trump had told him that he wants ukraine president zelensky to investigate burisma and interference in the 2016 election. burisma is the ukrainian company on which joe biden's son hunter served on the board. he testified, that is my understanding. security assistance money would not come until the president of ukraine committed to pursue the investigation question. so if they don't do this, they won't get that. was your understanding? taylor, yes

i'll ask him this hour. >>> welcome to "the lead," i'm j jake tapper. president trump daring house democrats to impeach him and declaring he welcomes a senate trial. a process that could get underway by christmas. now we've now heard and seen 12 witnesses testifying publicly at seven hearings over five days. and while everyone is sorting through the testimony we should note that the most damning evidence came straight from the horse's mouths. fact, president trump asked the ukrainian president to investigate the bidens. we know this not only because of the rough transcript of the july 25th call that the white house released but because president trump admitted it publicly. >> what exactly did you help zelensky would do about the bidens after your phone call. >> well, i would think that if they were honest about it, they would start a major investigation into the bidens. it is a very simple answer. >> a very simple answer indeed. and what was the trump administration willing to do to secure this investigation into the bidens? were they willing to hold of

election. >>> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. we begin with the politics lead. 18 hours from now the first public televised hearings into the impeachment inquiry and the ukraine scandal, tomorrow we'll hear from two trump administration officials, bill taylor who repeatedly described in dpooe tail what he clearly saw as a quid pro quo saying he was told, quote, president trump wants ukraine president zelensky to state publicly that ukraine will investigate burisma, the company that hunter biden once worked for, and alleged ukraine interference in the 2016 u.s. election. and plus george kent who testified, quote, trump wanted nothing less than president zelensky to go to a microphone and say investigations, biden and clinton. democrats today laying out the process for the hearings they hope will convince even more of the american people of the need to impeach president trump and as cnn's alex marquardt reports for us now, republicans are preparing their defense strategy which relies in part on you believing a whole bunch of assert

i'm jake tapper. we begin with the politics lead. the house intelligence committee today released the depositions of two key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry and provided much more detail about the shadow ukraine policy that is leading to the president's likely impeachment. for his part, president trump continues to attempt to defend himself, mainly by attacking his accusers and lying about them. for instance, claiming that the whistle-blower complaint has been proven false even though it has not. multiple former and current trump administration officials who have testified have backed up the whistle-blower's allegations that american foreign policy and taxpayer dollars were being used to force ukrainian government officials to investigate former vice president joe biden and his son. in addition to his attempt to change how foreign policy is conducted in the united states, the president has not just challenging the testimony of those who are bringing the facts to the public, he's personally going after them. pushing false informa

just watch take tapper this morning. >> ukrainians desperately needed this middle aid and were dying, literally being killed between the time the money was held up in july and when it was eye released in september. steve: so outraged about this now. i don't recall any of that when president obama was stopping the aid and ukrainians were literally dying. >> i would love to see if he criticized president obama for not sending lethal aid. obama sent humanitarian aid, not lethal aid. alexander vindman said president trump was trying to subvert foreign policy. guess what, it's his policy. which is the problem we see in the trump administration. republicans and conservatives have a right to be concerned about this issue, the fact there are people who are trying to harm the president in is quite literally a book coming out by the anonymous author talking about trying to subvert the trump administration. there is an investigation by u.s. attorney john durham if the fbi and doj used their authority spying on the trump campaign. there is absolutely reasons to be concerned and be looking at this

i'm jake tapper. we begin with

i'm jake tapper. and we begin with the politics lead. it could be the most important week of the impeachment inquiry. eight current and former trump administration officials will testify publicly this week, tuesday and wednesday and thursday. testimony which could point directly to evidence that president trump not only wanted ukraine to open investigations into the bidens in 2016 but he did so under the clear threat of with holding a white house visit and hundreds of million dollars in u.s. aid that ukraine desperately wanted. potentially the most significant witness in this all will be trump donor and u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland. in testimony released over the weekend, tim morrison said that sondland told him that he told a top ukrainian official that, quote, what could help him move the aid was if the ukrainian prosecutor general would go to the microphone and announce he's opening the burisma investigation, also known as the biden investigation and ambassador sondland believed and related to me that the pres

i'm jake tapper. new transcript released minutes ago from the impeachment inquiry into president trump. george kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state who oversees u.s. policy on ukraine at the state department providing even more corroboration that those working on foreign policy regarding ukraine had been told by u.s. ambassador to the eu, gordon sondland that president trump, quote, wanted nothing less than ukrainian president zelensky to go to the microphone and say investigations, bideen and clinton. kent also referring to the snake pits of corrupt ukrainian prosecutors who worked with rudy giuliani who would then carry on a, quote, campaign for several months full of lies intestine correct information about u.s. ambassador to ukraine yovanovitch. also saying it was wrong of giuliani to conduct this shadow policy, that giuliani's efforts undermined the u.s. policy in ukraine and, quote, after giuliani attacked me as well as ambassador yovanovitch and the entire ambassador in his late may in

i'm jake tapper live in washington. we start today with breaking news. deposition testimony released this afternoon by the house of representatives suggests that ukrainian government officials were directly told by the white house that they needed to investigate joe and hunter biden if they wanted a white house meeting with president trump, and that that agreement was directed by the acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney. lieutenant corner alexander vindm vindman, top ukrainian expert in the white house described the july 10th meeting with ukrainian government officials in the basement of the white house when gordon sondland the u.s. ambassador to the european union "said that he had had a conversation with mr. mulvaney and this -- meaning investigations -- is what was required in order to get a meeting." vindman asked, "did he explain what the investigations were that were immediate needed? vindman replied, he was talking about the 2016 elections and an investigation into the bidens and burisma. this was in the leadup to the infamous july 25t

our jake tapper put that question to house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff. >> is there -now of. your committee has begun running the report. is that it? are there anymore hearings or witnesses, or are you doing? >> we don't foreclose the possibility of more depositions, more hearings. that investigative work is going to go on. what we're not prepared to do is wait months and months while the administration plays a game of rope-a-dope in an effort to stall. we're not willing to go down that road. what's more, the evidence is already overwhelming. >> analyst and former federal and state prosecutor elie honig is here to answer your questions on impeachment. several witnesses have said they believe there was a quid pro quo. the president continues to say there was not one. how do we know who to believe? >> that's the million dollar question. quid pro quo means this for that. it's important to keep in mind it's important but not necessary to impeach. all congress needs is abuse of power. you do not need somebody saying magic words. you do not need a federal crime. my advice is

jake tapper talks with the fact checkers, historians, pundits about trump's falsehoods on isis. >> whatave defeated isis essentially. >> isis was never really defeated. >> when the u.s. president lies on the world stage, he is doing more than trampling the truth -- >> we captured many, many isis fighters. most of them came from europe. >> he's upending world order. >> the united states has essentially gone from what i would describe as the principal architect and the principal general contractor of the world, the preserver of the world, to now we've become the principal disrupter. >> trump's lies are a big part of that disrupting. richard haas of the council on foreign relations believes there are two kinds of trump lies. >> one is to only present one side of a story. >> such as hailing the end to the recent turkish assault on the kurds in northern syria. >> by getting that cease-fire to stick, we've done something that's very, very special. >> instead of explaining that he helped facilitate turkey's attack by withdrawing the u.s. troops who, as part of their duties, were protecting the

i'm jake tapper live in washington. we start today with breaking news.representatives suggests that ukrainian government officials were directly told by the white house that they needed to investigate joe and hunter biden if they wanted a white house meeting with president trump, and that that agreement was directed by the acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney. lieutenant corner alexander vindm vindman, top ukrainian expert in the white house described the july 10th meeting with ukrainian government officials in the basement of the white hou

i'm jake tapperment a and break news. an admission by a top trump aide that he told the ukrainians if they wanted $400 million in aid from the u.s. they would need to publicly announce they were investigating the ukrainian firm bur he's -- burisma and as he p burisma equals biden. after two explosive transcripts, kurt volker for ukraine and gordon sondland the ambassador to the eu testified as to their discomfort as president trump pushed them to rudy giuliani and giuliani pushed them to get the ukrainians to announce an investigation into joe and hunter biden. as sondland put it, quote, it kept getting more insidious as the time line went on. that is the word that president trump's own ambassador that he appointed used. insidious. the deposition transcript was released today and he was forced to revisit his testimony from october 17th and amond -- amend and he said he informed a top agent of the quid pro quo aid for investigations and that he had that conversation with the ukrainian aide on sent 1st when the aid was stil

i'm jake tapper. my next guest has a unique perspective.t with ukraine's president over the summer while the u.s. was holding up the military aid. joining me now, democratic senator chris murphy of coun connecticut. i want you to take a look at what the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, tweeted this morning. "quote "after three witnesses no evidence has been presented of any offense. the first two permanent diplomats had no direct knowledge, just overhearing things. the third had no knowledge, not even hearsay. this is a travesty." what is your response to mr. giuliani? >> well, the crimes and the offenses that have been detailed in this testimony are absolutely damming. it's clear what happened. the president was using taxpayer dollars, security aid to ukraine, at a white house meeting in order to extort the you cran began president trying to interfere in the 2020 election and trying to help the president destroy the bidens and clintons. and ambassador taylor and george kent testified to the fact they were carrying out the orders

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i'm jake tapper. we have breaking news in the house impeachment inquiry.released more than 300 pages of testimony in which the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine bill taylor consistently and in detail describes the trump white house pushing the ukrainians in what taylor sees as a quid pro quo. a white house meeting and hundreds of million dollars in aid for ukraine only if the ukrainian government announced investigations that trump clearly saw as helpful to him. taylor testified that president trump's point man in the administration on ukraine gordon sondland, quote, told me that president trump had told him

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. >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of the union is on the brink.e beginning of what could be a pivotal week in the impeachment inquiry. when americans will get to hear for the first time directly from three witnesses at the center of the investigation. the public hearings are set to begin after the release of transcripts showing two key witnesses, staffers dr. fiona hill who has since left the white house and lieutenant colonel alexander vindman testified they were told that the push to get ukraine to open investigation news the bidens and the 2016 election was coordinated by chief of staff mick mulvaney. on friday mulvaney defied a congressional subpoena refusing to testify, instead asking to join a lawsuit that will settle whether certain current and former white house officials can be forced to testify. this could set up a potential constitutional crisis. as the white house exerts executive privilege over some of the witnesses kolgs believes -- congress believes is most crucial to the investigation. republicans have released a list of witnesses

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i'm jake tapper. president trump today after claiming he did not watch a single minute of the impeachment hearings is now attacking the first witnesses, tweeting, quote, congressman ratcliffe asked the two star witnesses, where is the impeachable event in that call. both stared straight ahead with a blank look on their face, remained silent and were unable to answer the question. that would be the end of a case run by normal people, but not shifty. a reference to the chairman of the committee democrat, adam schiff. and it's true that both witnesses initially remained silent before giving an answer to congressman ratcliffe's question. but it's something of a nonsensical argument, because neither witness was there to advocate for impeachment or even to provide legal analysis. take a listen. >> are either of you here today to assert there was an impeachable offense in that call? shout it out! anyone? >> mr. ratcliffe, i would just like to say that i'm not here to do anything having to do with the -- a si

>>> hello, i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of the union is looking ahead. house democrats are moving forward in the impeachment inquiry after two weeks of historic public testimony on capitol hill. the clear picture that has emerged, the trump administration was pushing ukraine for political investigations while holding up military aid and a white house meeting that ukraine wanted. a key witness, gordon sondland, testified when it came to with holding the white house meeting in exchange for the biden investigation, quote, everyone was in the loop, it was no secret. >> was there a quid pro quo? as i testified previously, with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting, the answer is yes. >> but even after 12 witnesses testified in public for more than 30 hours the hearings do not seem to have changed the political dynamics in washington. president trump continues to insist that he has done nothing wrong and there are still no republicans in the house or senate that we could tell are in favor of impeachment. democrats on the house in

i'm jake tapper in washington.s publicly testify on on capitol hill. we flared lieutenant commander alexander vindman and jennifer williams a state department official and aide to vice president mike pence. right now republicans are defending questions to those two witnesses. bringing in senior congressional correspondent manu yauraju. what are you hearing? >> reporter: that republicans are raising dual liability questions and vindman saying he immigrated to this country at a young age from the soviet union and questions from top republican counsel asking vindman about a job offer apparently given by a top ukrainian official for a top position vindman saying he didn't take it seriously it was comical all to question his loyalty to this country. they're defending the line of question wering. jim jordan, republican, who's the boss, sits on the house oversight committee and intelligence committee said to me, he said the question you guys are asking about doesn't seem to bother lieutenant colonel vindman. seemed fine a

tapper in distric attorneyf connecticut, durham, a career professional who will determine whether or not there is any there, there with regard to bidens and burisma, i don't understand how that could be under mining the 2020 election, unless you are prepared to say that president at candidate enjoys immunity for any investigation or prosecution while they are a candidate. that is a notion most fair minded americans to and should reject. elizabeth: robert ray thank you. >> thank you. >> good to see you. elizabeth: bumpy ride for stocks over stalemate on trade deal with china, that now may last into next year. jackie deangeles joining us from the floor of the new york stock exchange with more. reporter: red in the market, dow down 112, and nasdaq down 43, s&p 500 down 11. negativity coming in after reuters respect indicates that -- report indicates that a phase one deal with china may be delayed until next year. interesting news from fed, in-- fed officials don't see a need for further rate cuts this year, that would be three cuts. also a good day for retail, shares of target with a 14

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"the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> trump said he's seriously considering testifying inhe house impeachment inquiry. imagine the ratings, mr. president. "the lead" starts right now. >>> eight witnesses, three days, another phone call and a changing story. the damning testimony and presidential anger that could surely dominate the week ahead. >>> it's the other call in the impeachment investigation. the one where a diplomat overheard president trump asking about the investigations. and cnn went to the restaurant in ukraine where this allegedly all went down. >>> plus, in the span of a couple of days mayor pete goes from iowa hero to polling at zero among a critical group of voters in a critical state. the troubling lack of support for him in a brand-new

. >> so republican congressman mike turner spoke with our jake tapper and this is what was said. >> allis alarming. as i said from the beginning, i think this is not okay. the president of the united states shouldn't even, in the original phone call, be on the phone with the president of another country and raise his political opponent. no, this is not okay. >> so what does this mean when there were members of the republican party who are willing to go at least that far and say that? >> well, the part of the strategy here is to say we don't agree with this, but it's not impeachable. the president is a little frustrated with that strategy. he wants a strategy which says everything is okay, because he's concerned that even that creates a window that could move this firther. ultimate -- further. ult maimately the republicans a trying to make sure he doesn't get impeached. >> margaret talev, thank you so much. appreciate it. >>> we have so much ahead in the newsroom, but first here is this week's "staying well." >> i was obese, pre-diabetic. i also had high blood pressure. i felt like i nee

. >> president clinton spoke with jake tapper earlier this week on thursday talking about what his message to president trump would be in this case. let's listen to that. >> my message was -- would be, look, you got hired to do a job. you don't get the days back people have lost. every day is an opportunity to make something good happen. and i would say i've got lawyers and staff people handling this impeachment inquiry and they should just have at it. meanwhile, i'm going to work for the american people. that's what i would do. >> the stark difference is bill clinton was not out there talking about impeachment a lot. what do you say, if you could advise president trump right now? should he be defending himself? >> be quiet. and run the country. and let the staff and lawyers and political people run the impeachment. president clinton actually ran the government. at the end of the day he would say to me or joe lockhart or some of the other guys on the impeachment team, well, what happened today? he didn't talk to the media about impeachment unless it was very planned. it was a highly discip

adam schiff over the weekend on "state of the union with jake tapper" did note that other hearings, evidence or witnesses could come to the forefront. as it currently stands, that is not the plan. there are no future house intelligence committee hearings scheduled at this point in time. the focus now is on drafting that report and getting it over to the judiciary committee. some things happening this week that are sort of outside the scope of what's happening inside the intelligence committee but still super important. everybody with a keen eye on what happens with don mcgahn's case. that subpoena was issued in april. the real reason people care, it's the first real test of the white house's absolute immunity theory. if the court rules that mcgahn has to come to capitol hill, that doesn't mean that the flood gates will open for john bolton, mick mulvaney or others, but it will give people something to think about and at least the first court ruling against the white house on this interesting theory they've put forward. there's still some transcripts out there that need to be released that, h

. >> hi, i'm jake tapper in washington. most presidents tell lies, whether obama's if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, or bush's declaration that iraq had weapons of mass destruction. the motion of white house falsehoods is not new. what is new, however, is the sheer volume and degree of false statements coming from this president, donald trump. and as he mounts his defense from the impeachment inquiry on a foundation of lies, i wondered what is the actual impact of this on our nation? and what happens if there is some major international crisis and he needs all of the american people to believe him, to trust him, to have faith in his words? i mean, god forbid that ever happen, but if your word means nothing, what happens then? >> maybe i can see -- >> it's really kind of mind blowing to think we had a cat 5 hurricane that sat off the coast of florida for multiple days and we weren't crazy evacuating and it was because we had confidence in that forecast. and then the story became alabama. >> the alabama saga b

taking questions on impeachment, the 2020 election and more in a live cnn town hall moderated by jake tapperht right here on cnn. ist at 3m is t i'm part of a community of problem solvers. we make ideas grow. from an everyday solution... to one that can take on a bigger challenge. we are solving problems that improve lives. >>> this week the white house went on lockdown after a, quote, slow moving blob entered its highly restricted air space and it turns out that it may have been just a flock of birds. but military jets were scrambled and it triggered a response across multiple national security agencies. and on thanksgiving, the secret service managed to sneak president trump out of his mar-a-lago estate in florida and send him on a 16 hour trip to bagram air base in afghanistan to visit the troops there with only a very small handful of people being in the loop. let's bring in a former secret service agent under president obama and also cnn law enforcement analyst. good to see you. so let's talk about first this blob. as they investigated what this thing was, the white house on lockdown, i

. >> hi, i'm jake tapper in washington. most presidents tell lies, whether obama's "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" or bush's declaration that iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the notion of white house falsehoods is not new. what is new, however, is the sheer volume and degree of false statements coming from this president, donald trump. and as he mounts his defense from the impeachment inquiry on a foundation of lies, i wondered what is the actual impact of this on our nation, and what happens if there is some major international crisis and he needs all of the american people to believe him, to trust him, to have faith in his words. i mean god forbid that ever happened, but if your word means nothing, what happens then? >> maybe i could just see that, kevin. >> it's really kind of mind-blowing to think we had a cat 5 hurricane that sat off the coast of florida for multiple days, and we weren't crazy evacuating, and it was because we had confidence in that forecast. and then the story became alabama.

i'm jake tapper in washington. that tragic school shooting just north of los angeles in santa clarita has turned deadly. a female victim has been killed according to a hospital spokesperson. she was among six victims taken to the hospital after the school shooting. her identity has not yet been released. the gunman is believed to be a 15-year-old male student. the l.a. county sheriff's office se says the student is in custody and also in the hospital. a lockdown at all surrounding schools was just lifted a short time ago. we expect an update from authorities any moment now on the latest. the shooting happened at saugus high school just before classes were supposed to start. students inside described the moments they heard gunfire. >> we were waiting outside of the locker room because it wasn't open yet, and all of a sudden, like, we were with all of our friends and heardgunshots, let's go. let's run. we ran through the field. >> as law enforcement headed into saugus, students and staff could be seen rushing out eva

. >> cnn anchor jake tapper joins us now with more. nice to see you. you have been talking to sources about this. what are you hearing? >> first of all, we should note that what is in the excerpt is not actually what the vice president is rebutting there. it doesn't say that vice president pence discussed the 25th amendment. what i was told by a source close to the publishing of this book is that the huffington post, who first broke the story last night, that his reporting is accurate. that said, according to this anonymous, former trump official, said they did a tally of which officials might sign off on the 25th amendment to get rid of president trump. quote, according to anonymous, there was no doubt in their minds that that senior officials would support invoking the 25th amendment if the majority of the cabinet signed off on it. now, it never came to vice president pence, so when he says he never discussed it, that's entirely possible but not at all inconsistent with in excerpt. >> they would assume he would sign off on it but it was never brought

our jake tapper talks with fact checkers, historians, scientists, pundants to explore the national impactp's many falsehoods. >> it's a whole hoax. >> they're defeating isis. >> reporter: we all know he does it. >> the whistle-blower is very inaccurate. >> he's the babe ruth of lies. >> windmill. they say the noise causes cancer. >> this is a drug for him. >> there is no president that lied as if it were a form of breathing except donald trump. >> nobody's been more transparent than me. >> this isn't a partisan thing. he empirically says a tremendous number of things that are completely wrong. >> yes, exactly. >> in recent months it's been about 22 a day. >> trump lies about every conceivable topic, from the weather, to sharpygate. you can't make this stuff up. >> stronger, bigger, cheaper. >> to immigration and trade. >> we're not paying for the tariffs. china is paying for the tariffs with the -- >> it's wrong. >> so we wanted to know. what is the impact of all of these lies. >> in the u.s. -- >> research shows that repetition increases the belief in false news. >> on capitol hill. >> t

i want you to list ing what she told jake tapper. >> recent comments suggest that you don't believe mayoruttigieg is qualified too be the president, am i reading that wrong? >> yes. i don't think i want to dwell on various press articles, but i'll say this, i think any of the candidates that were on that debate stage were more qualified than the president of the united states right now. >> more qualified than trump? >> mayor pete -- >> do you think buttigieg is qualified, period? >> yes. >> okay. >> but let me explain why i think i'm the better candidate. i'm the one from the midwest that's won in a statewide race over and over again, and that's not true of mayor pete, that's just a fact. focusing here on my fellow women senators, senator harris, senator warren and myself. do i think that we would be standing on that stage if we had the experience that he had? no, i don't. maybe we're held to a different standard. >> again, to be clear, she says mayor buttigieg is qualified, but she also says given his resume, if he were a woman that she wouldn't be anywhere near the debate stage. how doe

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"the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >>> could impeachment be the grinch that steals christmas?starts right now. >>> breaking just minutes ago, new testimony released in the impeachment probe. a state department official who worked directly on ukraine issues, talking about rudy giuliani's continuing campaign of, quote, lies. also breaking today, the spotlight now on vice president pence and what he knew as a top aide to pence was on the ukraine call just finished testifying in the impeachment inquiry. >>> plus harsh words echoing around the world. the french president blaming president trump for causing