opening a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump of a claim he sought political help from ukraine house speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement after trump acknowledged a phone call with ukraine's president in which he discussed democratic presidential hopeful joe biden trump admitted to withholding aid to ukraine ahead of that call but denied using it as political leverage. the actions of the trump presidency reveal its dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and fix the integrity of our elections therefore today announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and directing our 6 committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry the president must be held accountable no one is a part of the law trump reportedly wanted ukraine's president to investigate joe biden and his son for corruption he says he's authorized the release of a transcript of the phone call with not a ms lewinsky and denied any impropriety and reacting to policies announc

, draft house continuing resolution we discussed earlier, also includes a provision preventing the president from holding up further aid to ukraine. this has become such a bipartisan, you know, swell of backlash that lawmakers in the house and senate on both sides want to put restrictions in future spending bills to prevent the administration from doing that again, but as i said, the whole has been lifted -- the hold has been lifted. the administration did not explain their reasoning for lifting the hold. apparently, they received the answers they wanted in terms of how the money was being spent. >> as we wrap up, give us one or two key players you are watching as the appropriations and spending debate continues. >> the focus is on the house and senate appropriations committees . senate appropriations chairman richard shelby, house appropriations chairwoman nita lowey, they are going to be key. the house and senate have to negotiate on spending bills that fundingvide updated levels for the federal government, so there needs to be some kind of compromise that. they have to meet and get on the same page. that said, they historicall

opening a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump other claims he sold political help from ukraine house speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement of the trump acknowledged he discussed joe biden with his ukrainian counterpart of the phone the actions of the trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and the integrity of our elections therefore today i'm announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and directing our 6 committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry the president must be held accountable no one is above the law french president to monitor macro has again met the iranian president hassan rouhani on the sidelines of the un general assembly urging him to meet president trump. it's a good thing because we don't know we think this president can't get fish out of panama need to be on if you don't miss it it is a lot to talk to the relations between the u.s. and iran became even more tense following attack

opening a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump claims he sought political help from ukraine house speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement amid allegations trump asked his ukrainian counterpart to investigate presidential hopeful joe biden . french president emanuel says he believes conditions are right the talks between iran and the u.s. follows micro-second meeting the rainy and president hassan rouhani on the sidelines of the un general assembly. you can buy mr boies jones is vowing briggs it will go ahead on october 31st despite the supreme court ruling unlawfully when he suspended parliament this month is flying home from the u.n. to deal with a political storm parliament will resume on wednesday. quake has hit eastern pakistan killing at least 25 people and injuring hundreds more the 5.8 magnitude quake epicenter was close to the city of near port in pakistan administered kashmir dozens of homes and cars were damaged when roads collapsed in many areas has more now from near poor close to the epicenter of the quake. rick un relief effort underway. with didn't get gandhi had

in the rough transcript the white house released of the president's call with the president of ukraine. house intel chairman adam schiff says this -- >> what this whistle-blower said about the nature of that call has been borne out in great detail by the call record that has now been released. so in a very substantial part, this whistle-blower has already been found to be credible. >> so let's go through this. in the very first paragraph of the complaint, the whistle-blower lays out the main allegations and they are shocking, saying the president used the power of his office -- used the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 election, including, quote, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the president's main domestic political rivals. in the rough transcript of the president's call with the president of ukraine, remember that transcript was released by the white house itself, there is this, and i quote, "there's a lot of talk about biden's son, that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. so whatever

formal impeachment inquiry into president romney they accuse him of seeking political help from ukraine house speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement about allegations that trump austins ukrainian counterpart to investigate presidential hopeful joe biden. french president says he believes conditions are ripe for talks between iran and the u.s. this follows micron's 2nd meeting with the iranian president hassan rouhani on the sidelines of the un general assembly in just 2 days. and an earthquake has hit eastern pakistan killing at least 25 people and injuring hundreds more the epicenter of the 5.8 magnitude quake was close to the city of near poor in pakistan admits administered kashmir. while the u.k. parliament will resume and just a few hours this is one day after the supreme court ruled that the prime minister's decision to suspend it was unlawful or as johnson is on his way back from new york where he was attending a united nations summit parliament was prorogued in august 2 weeks before brits instead lined to leave the european union and now calls for boris johnson to resign but he's

president donald trump's controversial phone call to the president of ukraine house democrats have subpoenaed the secretary of state might pump a 0 for documents related to that phone call while trump has gone on the attack against the unnamed whistleblower who reported him for soliciting interference in next year's presidential election trump says the whistleblowers claims are inaccurate although he hasn't provided any proof he also blames the democrats accusing them of instigating a witch hunt and says that spies were behind the revelations the house foreign affairs intelligence and oversight committee has set a deadline of one week for secretary of state pompei are to produce documents relevant to the impeachment inquiry. are less discussed were things stand now public for the aliens is sitting by in washington good evening to you pablo so what is the latest on president donald trump and the house impeachment inquiry. it's a very fast moving story brenda you said it yourself and you've just said it with so much of of what's been happening in the past few minutes of course the secretary of

state mike pompeo, who reportedly argued against releasing a rough transcript of the ukraine call, those unnamed white house officials who tried to lockdown the record of the call, mick mulvaney, ordered by the president to hold back nearly $400 million in aid for the ukraine. the white house counsel pat sipalone, whose office the acting d.n.i. testified today, he went to first when he received the whistle-blower's complaint. rudy giuliani, who told the atlantic today, and i'm quoting here, it is impossible that the whistle-blower is a hero and i'm not, and i will be the hero. these morons, when this is over, i will be the hero. that from the former mayor of new york city, rudy giuliani. >>> curt volcker, the special representative for ukraine and gordon, ambassador to the e.u. who according to the complaint spoke with giuliani in an attempt to contain the damage. all of them. you saw them up on your screen. see how that worked out? and tonight we are really just at the very beginning of all of this. the house speaker nancy pelosi says that she wants a fast impeachment inquiry focused on the president of uk

durbin wanted an amendment to ensure the administration no longer tried to free up eight to ukraine. the house continuing resolution also includes a provision preventing the president from holding up further aid to the ukraine. this has become such a bipartisan swell that lawmakers in both the house and the senate on both sides want to put restrictions gold has been -- >> give us one of the key players you're watching as the spending debate continues. caitlin: the focus is on the senate appropriations chairman, house appropriations chairwoman nina. they will be the key. the house and senate has to negotiate on spending bills that will provide updated spending levels for the federal government. there needs to be some kind of compromise there. that being said, they historically have worked well together and are key players to watch. in addition to that, another key player to watch for next week would be senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. how will the senate proceed on the spending bills moving, will they just had into formal conference negotiations with the house, the majority winner will b

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formal impeachment inquiry into president donald trump over claims he sought political help from ukraine house speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement after trying big knowledge he discussed joe biden with his ukrainian counterpart the actions of the trump presidency revealed a dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections therefore today i'm announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and directing our 6 committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry the president must be held accountable no one is above the law french president emanuel has again met iranian president hassan rouhani on the sidelines of the un general assembly urging him to meet donald trump. you believe. we don't know we think this president i guess you sort of. got me he's got to put me and relations between the u.s. and iran became even more tense following attacks on 2 major oil facilities in saudi arabia this month washington s

formal impeachment inquiry into president donald trump over claims he sought political help from ukraine house speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement to trump acknowledged a phone call with ukraine's president in which he discussed democratic presidential hopeful joe biden now trying to admitted to withholding aid to ukraine but denied using it as political leverage. the actions of the trump presidency reviewed dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections therefore today i'm announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and directing our 6 committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry the president must be held accountable no one is above the law. now trump reportedly wanted ukraine to investigate the bidens interests in the country ukraine says it has no evidence of wrongdoing now trump has denied any impropriety and reacting to proces announcement he fired back on twitter calling the impeachment

a formal impeachment inquiry into president donald trump claims he sought political help from ukraine house speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement of the trumpet knowledged he discussed joe biden with his ukrainian counterpart. french president emmanuel macro has again met iranian president hassan rouhani on the sidelines of the un general assembly urging him to meet with president trump. and we believe. we've now we think it's pretty tough to get fish out of. the on if you don't miss it he's got to put the. relations between the u.s. and iran became even more tense following attacks on 2 major old facilities in saudi arabia this month washington says iran was behind the attack a terror on denies the claims. you have prime minister has cut short his time at the united nations is heading home of the supreme court declared he acted unlawfully by suspending parliament house of commons will resume on wednesday there are no calls for him to resign but he's standing defiant in the brags that will go ahead on the 31st of all time but. obviously this is a verdict that we will respect and respec

the "washington post" reports the complaint centers on ukraine. house democrats are already investigating whether mr. trump and his attorney, rudy giuliani, tried to manipulate the ukrainian government into helping with the president's re-election campaign. nancy cordes reports. >> reporter: the whistleblower's warning has to do with the president's communications with a foreign leader, but congress has been blocked from learning much more. >> that whistleblower material must be made available to congress. >> reporter: the intelligence community's inspector general determined last month that the information provided by an employee met the definition of an urgent concern and must be conveyed to congress within seven calendar days. but the president's acting director of national intelligence refused. house intelligence chairman adam schiff -- do you believe that the white house or the president himself are pressuring the acting director of national intelligence not to hand this information over to you? >> we do know that they are making some claim that a

formal impeachment inquiry into president donald trump over claims he sought political help from ukraine housespeaker nancy pelosi made the announcement after trying big knowledge he discussed joe biden with his ukrainian counterpart the actions of the trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections therefore today i'm announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment in.

special envoy to ukraine, kurt volker, has resigned. this comes as the houseeachment inquiry has just kicked into high gear. secretary of state mike pompeo was hit with the first subpoenas. democrats on three committees are demanding documents on trump administration dealings with ukraine, and house intelligence committee leader adam schiff says hearings could begin as early as next week. a controversial phone call this summer between president trump and the president of ukraine is what prompted a whistleblower complaint alleging foreign election interference and a white house cover-up. a two-week congressional recess that begins tonight won't stop the investigations. and we've got reports from the white house and inside ukraine. but we're going to lead off our coverage with nancy cordes on capitol hill. >> reporter: even as most lawmakers left town today, the impeachment probe picked up steam with a plan to depose five current and former state department officials in the next two weeks and a subpoena sent to secretary of state mike pompeo, demanding key docum

a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump of the trains you saw political help from ukraine the house speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement after trumpet knowledge he discussed joe biden with his ukrainian counterpart of the phone. the actions of the trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and the pale of the integrity of our elections therefore today i'm announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and directing our 6 committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry the president must be held accountable no one is above the law french president emanuel macross says he believes conditions are right for talks between iran and the us it follows micro-second meeting with iranian president hassan rouhani on the sidelines of the un general assembly just 2 days the u.k. prime minister has cut short his time at the united nations boris johnson is heading home after the supreme court declared he acted unlawfully b

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opening a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump of a claims he sought political help from ukraine house speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement amid allegations trump asked his ukrainian counterpart to investigate presidential hopeful joe biden. french president emmanuel mark cross says he believes conditions are ripe for talks between iran and the us follows much on 2nd meeting the main president hassan rouhani on the sidelines of the un general. u.k.'s prime minister boys johns missed by briggs it will go ahead in october 31st despite the supreme court ruling yet to unlawfully but he suspended parliament this month he's flying home from the united nations to deal with the political storm parliament received on wednesday. and earthquake has hit eastern pakistan killing at least 25 people and injuring hundreds more the 5.8 magnitude quake epicenter was close to the city of near poor in pakistan administered kashmir dozens of homes and cars were damaged when roads collapsed in many areas come all hide as more from mit who are close to the epicenter cleek. rick un relief effort under w

communities whistleblower complaint detailing president trump's interactions with the president of ukraine." houseicized him for withholding the complaints. he testified today before the house intelligence committee. >> we consulted with the white house counsel's office and were advised much of the information in the complaint was, in fact, subject to executive privilege, a privilege i do not have the authority to waive. unable of that, we were to immediately share the details of the complaint with this committee. >> the whistleblower complaint shows that during the july phone call, president trump hurts the ukrainian president to investigate political rival joe biden. mr. trump has denied doing anything wrong. the president is back at the white house after a week in new york city, where he attended the united nations journal assembly and held by lateral talks with world leaders. after air force one landed from president spoke to reporters about the house impeachment inquiry. >> the witchhunt, here we go again, it is adam schiff and his crew making up stories and sitting there like pious whatever

in the wake of a growing scandal involving president trump and ukraine, house speaker nancy pelosi announced plans to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into the president. she argued yesterday that trump's actions reveal a betril of hisac oath of office. >> the actions taken to date by the president have seriously violated the constitution, especially whenly the president s says, article 2 says i can do whatever you want. i'm announcing the house of representatives isan moving forwardre with an official impeachment inquiry. i'm directing our six committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry. the president must be held accountable. no one is above the law. >> pelosi's announcement the came after a meeting with the caucus where 187 house democrats voiced support for some kind of impeachment action. a democratic said who was in the room, pelosi said we have to strike while the iron is hot. this is a national security issue, a a national security issue and we cannot het him think this is a casual thing. she told members about a phone call with presi

secretary of state mike pompeo has just been subpoenaed by three house committees demanding ukraine documentsachment inquiry quickly accelerates. hearings could start as early as next week. >>> moving transcripts. the white house corroborates the whistle-blower complaint, admitting its own national security attorneys ordered rough transcript of the ukraine call moved to a highly classified computer system, claiming it was designed to cut down on leaks. >>> tweet time. president trump erupts in a twitter tirade, fuming about the

secretary of state mike pompeo has just been subpoenaed by three house committees demanding ukraine documents as the impeachment inquiry quickly accelerates. hearings could start as early as next week. >>> moving transcripts. the white house corroborates the whistle-blower complaint, admitting its own national security attorneys ordered rough transcript of the ukraine call moved to a highly classified computer system, claiming it was designed to cut down on leaks. >>> tweet time. president trump erupts in a twitter tirade, fuming about the impeachment inquiry, the whistle-blower, and house democrats painting themselves as the victim of a media conspiracy, and declaring, i am quoting now, we're in a war. >>> and forced flattery? the rough transcript of the ukraine call shows the country's president is the latest leader to heap praise on president trump in hopes of getting what they want with no compliment too over the top. i am wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> breaking news this hour. the house impeachment inquiry into president trump is rapidly picking up speed. three house c

ukraine aid. according to a summary of the call released yesterday by the white house, mr. ump asked the president of ukraine for a favor, to look into campaign rival joe biden, and biden's son hunter. the whistleblower says white house officials were deeply disturbed and were directed by white house lawyers to remove a transcript of the call from the regular computer system, placing it instead in a separate system normally reserved for classified, sensitive information. he says aides saw this as an ituse of the system, but that it was not the first time they had done this to protect the president. okay you believe it is okay for the president of the united states to pressure a foreign country into helping him or her win an election? >> it is unwarranted. it is unwelcome. it is bad for the nation to have outside interference, any foreign power. >> thank you. and by extension, it would be equally unacceptable to extort that assistance as well. >> all i know is that i have the transcripts, as you have. >> i think it's wrong. and i think we all know it. it is illegal, and it is

ukraine. white house summary of the conversation said that the white house urged the ukrainian leader to investigate joe biden. acting director of national licomplaint defended before congress . >> the whistleblower says that i have received information from multiple officials that the president of the united states is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 u.s. election. you would agree that would be investigated, would you not? >> the horse has left the barn. you have all of the information. >> reporter: the complaint alleges white house official scrambled to lock down records and redirect them to a server or classified information. white house and republican lawmakers defending the president have ceased on a portion of the complaint in which the whistleblower acknowledges that being a direct witness to most of the events described. >> president trump should be allowed to know who these people are because they are talking about impeaching him based on secondhand information. >> he believes he is above the law and he can engage in blatant misconduct

say there concerned about these questions about the whistleblower in the possible connection to ukraine house speaker nancy pelosi called for legislation that would ensure the. >>option of indicting sitting us presidents for crimes. the eye. a speaker says that a president should be indicted. if he's committed wrongdoing. she made the comments on npr's all things considered. there is a longstanding justice opinion against charging sitting president special counsel robert mueller testified that the nixon era opinion prevented him from considering charges against president trump. despite pelosi's comments today she still does not support the idea of impeaching president trump. but she does supports his judiciary committee's investigation to determine whether articles of impeachment should be recommended. >>gary moments for shoppers after somebody plows an suv into a mall and then starts driving around tonight that suspects in custody. as police released some good news about the drivers, my said we need better. >>plus in the battle to reduce se south bay park rangers can now carry narcan and why

ukraine. three house committees now threatening to issue subpoenas after mr. trump admitted he discussed joe biden and his son with ukraine's president. tonight calls for impeachment are clearly growing as democrats warn mr. trump may have improperly used his office to dig up dirt on a potential 2020 opponent. >>> also breaking, a u.s. soldier just appeared in federal court charged with sending instructions to build car and cell phone bombs over social media. there were targets including a major american news network and news station. i'll get reaction from the armed services committee and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's go to our white house correspondent kaitlan collins where the president is wrapping up a day of meetings. kaitlan, while mr. trump was talking to world leaders, the scandal over his july conversation with ukraine's president was clearly intensifying. >> reporter: yeah, wolf, it was one of the first things president trump talked about as he arrived here at the united nations headquarters this morning. he's defe

ukraine's president. that admission comes after a whistleblower raised questions about what the president said on that phone call. nbc's kelly o'donnell has more from the white houseeporter: president trump added new detail about his july phone call with ukraine's president. >> the conversation i had was largely congratulatory. >> reporter: indicating for tin including for the first time hwe joe biden and his son played into that conversation. >> it was largely about the fact that we don't want our people like vice president biden and his son creating to the corruption already in the ukraine. >> reporter: the firestorm is whether the president crossed a line by engaging a foreign leader's help to investigate a political rival and whether pending u.s. military aid for ukraine was a factor. >> there was no quit pro quo. >> reporter: i asked the president to explain why the ukraine aid was delayed. >> i didn't delay anything. we paid the military aid to the best of my knowledge. >> after the complaint was filed, sir? >> listen to me, i gave so much more to ukraine than obama did. >> but couldn't that leader have felt pressure, sir? couldn't he have felt pressure? >>

. >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden >> of course i did >> reporter: nicole killian, cbs news, the white house >> ukraine saying that the president will meet with trump ski in a visit to the united states next week during the un summit. >>> mark zuckerberg meeting with members of congress bias against conservatives on facebook as well as data privac >>> let's is aobalday of action. country and the world. nge to >>> an unusual gathering at area 51. what prompted people to flock to this secret site today? >>> the start of a warming trend. i will let you know what you can expect heading into the weekend. a live look from the treasure island camera at blue sky's. >>> we are going live to this huge climate change march going on in san francisco. thousands of people . >> students from the bay area environmental organizations. many people leaving school and you can see a lot of them test. parked outside of the trans bay terminal. others continuing the march. it's a humongous demonstration organized by youth versus apocalypse. they started it house speaker nancy pelosi's office at 10 am and marched st

concerns a personal phone call between donald trump and a foreign leader believed to be from ukraine a white house correspondent kimberly hulk it has more. a state visit between the leaders of the united states and australia overshadowed by questions of political impropriety by u.s. president donald trump i've had conversations with many leaders that are always appropriate for the oval office trump defended and downplayed the allegations he abused his position of power during a phone conversation in july with ukraine's president vladimir selenski allegedly asking him to investigate a democratic presidential opponent former vice president joe biden it doesn't matter what i discuss but i will say this somebody ought to look into joe biden statement because it was disgraceful and somebody ought to look into that and you wouldn't because he's a democrat but that phone call has now become the focus of a congressional investigation following a whistleblower complaint from inside the intelligence community one of the trump justice department reportedly tried to block democrats accuse the trumpet ministra

own supporters admit there worried about this whistleblower issue and the possible connection to ukraine house speaker nancy pelosi is calling for legislation to be able to indict sitting presidents a california democrat said today a president should be indicted. >>if he's committed. wrongdoing there's a longstanding justice department office of legal counsel opinion against charging sitting presidents. special counter counsel robert mueller testified that the nixon era opinion prevented him from considering charges against president trump. pelosi says she still doesn't support the idea of impeaching president trump but she does support the judiciary committee's investigation to determine whether or not articles of impeachment should be recommended. >>president trump has approved the deployment of us forces to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. iii and saudi leaders requested additional us troops after a massive attack on oil facilities in the kingdom which affected 5% of the world's global oil supplies general joseph dunford chairman of the joint chiefs of staff called the deployment

. >> coming up tonight, house intelligence immunity chair -- committee chair adam schiff holding a news conference for a call between president trump and the president of ukrainethen house republican leaders criticize democrats for launching an impeachment inquiry. then president trump's meeting at the u.n. general assembly. intelligence committee chair alan chef held a press conference about the call between president trump and the president of ukraine. he says it is a shakedown of a foreign leader. and that he betrayed his oath of office. mr. schiff: good afternoon. i now had a chance to review and detail the notes of the call between the president of the united states and the president of ukraine as well as the legal opio

ukraine call transcript? >> no, i think he was rather effective. i think there is probably going to be at least two dozens or three dozen witnesses inside the white housestice department and the intelligence agency who have some knowledge of the ukraine matter and other matters where the president been involved in gross conduct. the committee sort of playing the role of the prosecutor. i think what you will sort of see in the next several weeks is or the question that's interesting to everyone is which of the several does witnesses inside the white house or the justice department are going to flip and talk on this white house. they have a lot of knowledge about what happened in the ukraine matter and the cover up. which of those witnesses are going to be the loyal that are doubling down. >> we know who's going to be the ladder and that's rudy giuliani. how would you handle rudy giuliani who could not give a straight answer from george stephanopoulos when asked if he'll comply with the intel committee or not. >> i would interview rudy giuliani under oath. i think he's a little bit of a cartoon at this point. he's kind of a little circus clown. i don't t

ukraine and the u.s. we should know the white house version was much shorter, only talking about improving the relationship between the united states and ukraine. and while we're still figuring out how they should fit into this allegation, because of statements like this, because of what president giuliani have been saying, there were all right questions about the president's interactions with ukraine long before this whistle-blower's complaint. >> kaitlan, nothing new from this report, but he addressed this whistle-blower complain on twitter this morning. >> yeah, it took him a little longer than we expected. the president pushed back essentially saying this is his style and how he communicates with world leaders. had said it's fake news and never ends. every time he speaks on the phone to a foreign leader i understand there maybe many people listening from various u.s. agencies and the country itself. no problem. he said knowing this is anybody dumb enough to believe i would say something inappropriate with a foreign leader along a potentially heavily populated call. i would only do what is right anyway

. >> sources say the whistle-blower's complaint involves ukraine. houseere already investigating a phone call between trump and the new ukrainian president over allegations that trump's attorney, rudy giuliani, was trying to pressure ukraine into helping trump's re-election campaign. >> the acting director of national intelligence has refused to allow the intelligence community inspector general to share the whistle-blower's complaint with congress as required by law. even though it was deemed credible and urgent. >> who do you think that this allegation, this complaint, involves? >> who is in the position to influence an acting director of national intelligence, who's not been on the job very long, to do something completely unprecedented? >> president trump is dismissing the story as fake news. the intelligence chief is set to testify at a public hearing next week, and democrats say he better have some answers. >>> president trump has scored a legal victory in a bicoastal battle to keep his personal financial information under wraps. in california a jud

the complaint also saisenior white house officials intervened to "lock down" all records of the ukrainencall. and, it alleged that "this was 'not the first time' uer this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into this codord-level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive... information." to reports surfaced that unnamed white house officials confirmed the attempto "lock down" the zelensky call. minutes after the complaint was released on thursday, acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire testified before the house intelligence committee. >> we consted with the white house counsel's office, and we were advised that mu of the information in the complaint was in fact subject to executive privilege. a privilege that i do not have the authority to waive. >> alcindor: meanwhile, yesterday, during a ivate event at the umission to the u.n., president trump lashed out at the whistleblower and his sources. "bloomberg news" published video from the event. >> that's close to apy. you know what we used to do in the old days, when we were th

government says house democrats continue their inquiry into president donald trump over allegations he pressured ukraine's president to investigate his political rival joe biden castro has mall. democratic leaders are keeping up the pressure on the white house with more calls for subpoenas and hearings next week nancy pelosi reportedly wants to formally vote on impeaching u.s. president donald trump by the end of november this is as serious as it gets when it comes to protecting the constitution of the united states the oath of office that will take i think the president violated that oath trumps phone call with ukraine in which he pushed for a ukrainian investigation of his political opponent while withholding u.s. military assistance pushed democrats to begin an impeachment inquiry earlier this week then thursday the public release of a whistleblower report claiming the white house tried to bury the calls records gave democrats the most powerful ammunition yet to see trump impeachment i think we've gotten to the point that if they're not going to do something for us what would they do something for on f

between trump incidents which were declassified by the president and then released by the white house ukraine's president voting is a lengthy thanks triumph for u.s. support saying his government is almost ready to buy more job an antitank missiles from the united states for defense purposes now trump then according to the notes replies i would like you to do us a favor because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it he then goes on to encourage selenski to speak to his personal noir rudy giuliani and the u.s. attorney general bill barr about allegations concerning joe biden well our correspondent she had returned he is following developments from washington d.c. so she had some very different interpretations from democrats and from president trump of just how incriminating this call was. right and now we have the original whistle blowers complaint which he withholding all from congress was the main source of anger within congress votes from republicans and democrats for that matter it seems like yet again the white house was subverting the law was trying to keep inf

withheld aid to ukraine to coerce kiev to cooperate and allegations that the white house tried to hide evidence of the ukraine's president is not the only foreign leader mentioned in that whistleblower report germany's chancellor i'm going to marry who also has a cameo appearance if you will the target yet again of trump's criticisms peoples of the world she is a toast to friendship at a u.n. summit dinner for world leaders u.s. president on the trump and german chancellor angela merkel. but trump has not always treated merkel like a friend the rough transcript of a phone call to ukrainian president go to him is a lansky cited trump saying when i was speaking to angle america she talks ukraine but she doesn't do anything. selenski was quick to agree saying you're absolutely right not only 100 percent but actually 1000 percent. drop then told his counterpart that the u.s. had been quote very very good to ukraine. that's all according to the official rough transcript of their conversation as released by the white house this week with the caviar that it is not a word for wor

ukraine is concerned. we also heard, mike, from the white house today that the transcript of president trump's phone call withine was indeed saved on a highly classified server. does that confirm a key aspect of the whistle-blower complaint? >> well, and this is the odd thing about this, and obviously, on the face of it it doesn't look good, but if you go back what was happening, if you remember the australian ambassador's phone call was leaked in verbatim and that created quite a stir and not only in the united states and in the white house, but also with our australian allies, and so someone could come up in good faith and argue, hey, we had a leak problem and we were trying to find our leak problem so we decided we would lock these thing away. that being said, if you read the context of the phone call it certainly would raise questions and this is part of why that investigation is so important, in a hyperventilating part, is really dangerous in trying to get the facts on all of these issues. >> you're also, mike, the host of cnn's very popular series "declassified" which returns for an all-new season this

anderson, about how else in the white house was involved, and why the white house selectively put head of state transcripts like the ukraine one in this code-word system and not other transcripts. the white house just has not provided an explanation for that. still a lot to learn, anderson. >> yeah. pamela brown, thank you so much. as we said, this is a fast-moving story. these developments just happening. it's not the only major development tonight from the whistleblower complaint. a key figure named in it has just resigned. kurt volker is his name. the u.s. special envoy to ukraine. our national security reporter, kiley atwood, joins us now with that. what have you learned about the resignation of this official? >> reporter: well, we should note that kurt volker is probably the key player when it comes to looking at if the state department was helping rudy giuliani a little bit too much with his partisan, politically motivated agenda in terms of encouraging ukraine to investigate joe biden, right. so what we know is that kurt volker had actually met with giuliani. he'd talked with giuliani. he had even, according to the

the chairs of the house intelligence, oversight, and foreign affairs committees are demanding pompeo's documents related to trump's dealings with ukraine4th, a week from tonight. they write, quote, your failure or refusal to comply with this subpoena shall constitute evidence of obstruction of the house's impeachment inquiry. back with us tonight, former 11 pace university school of law. and former 11-term republican congressman, christopher shays of connecticut who served on the house oversight committee. welcome to both of you. chris, let me start with you. you were a member of congress. give me your analysis of the pace of what it is happening now in the united states congress. >> first let me say for the record, i have profound unhappiness that republicans have been so silent for two and a half years. they needed to raise the president up to a higher standard and there's no standard. he speaks to the dark side of us. having said that, the president has given congress no choice but to move forward. nancy pelosi is correct. they have to move forward. the good news is you have three exceptional chairmen in adam schiff and jerry nadler

ukraine story. we'll see what he says today. "the washington post" is reporting on division within the white house that reveals the president's personalrudy giuliani inserted himself in the trump administration's foreign policy to pursue a shadow ukraine agenda. according to the post the sequence which began earlier this year, involved the abrupt removal of the u.s. ambassador to the ukraine, the circumvention of senior officials on the national security council and the suspension of hundreds of millions of dollars of aid administered by the defense and state departments all as key officials from these agencies struggle to piece together giuliani's activities from news reports. >> wow. >> a u.s. official tells the paper, quote, rudy did all of this. this blank show that we're in, it's him injecting himself into the process. giuliani last night responded to that report saying he was directed by the state department to contact ukrainian officials about evidence on the president's political opponent. >> you know who i did it at the request of? the state department. i never talked to a ukraine official until the state department called me