president here but we are learning more about the july phone call that president trump had with vladimir zelinskiaccording to "the wall street journal," which shares ownership of the fox news channel, president trump in a july phone call urged ukraine's president to look into joe biden's son, hunter. asked about in the oval office, president trump did not deny it. >> [reporter question] >> it doesn't matter what i discussed but i will say this, somebody ought to look into joe biden because it was disgraceful when he talked about billions of dollars that he is not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. >> meeting with australia's officer says president trump dismissed a whistle-blower's complaint to the intelligence community inspector general about an alleged promise president trump made to a foreign leader during a phone call. >> it's a partisan whistle-blower. >> moments later, the president acknowledged that he didn't know who the whistle-blower was, but he insisted all of his calls with world leaders have been totally appropriate, and according to "the

while talking about vladimir zelinsky the ukrainian president gave a light hearted reply when asked whether he had indeed been put under pressure by cultural. and then you. know men in. the in on the men and these men to meet senior woman she's the. former us that much jim just tristen political commentator joan william ludden gave us their views on the case. i don't think the republicans in the senate would have just called for something and taken a hostile position to the president i mean look i held office 14 years i've had these conversations there was was definitely back channel discussions they're not going to do something to embarrass the president especially something that that is so groundbreaking is that we don't have whistleblowers that were listening in on conversations that the president made with foreign leaders they just released that those discussions that is that is unprecedented lisa in my political lifetime i've never seen that kind of pressure we have what's called you know separation of powers congress has their powers the president has his powers the courts have their

the wall street journal reports not only was the a with vladimir zelinski but trump pressured him to work with rudy giuliani on a probe targeting joe biden's son hunter. the younger biden had business ties to ukraine at one point. he said they did not appear to be a quid pro quo from the president to his counterpart. here's what the president said about this earlier today. >> joe biden and his family? >> doesn't matter what i discussed, the partisan whistleblower. >> reporter: rudy giuliani, the president's friend and personal attorney took in august meeting with an aid to the ukrainian leader. week later the trump white house started to take a second look at the status of $250 million in foreign aid to ukraine, those have been released to the country, giuliani said he did not know about the funds during the time of his meeting. >> did you ask ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> know, i asked the ukraine to investigate the allegations there was interference in the election of 2016 by the ukrainians for the benefit of hillary clinton for which -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look int

zelinsky vladimir zelinsky and he actually went there early to the airport to visit the prisoners as they were coming down from the from the airplane to greet them and he even gave a small speech talking about the significance of this exchange for the future relation. between russia and ukraine. for example you crane in president told him or zelinsky and russian president vladimir putin have done everything we have promised and did not change our agreements they can make. things easy if you'll step down. and we heard this kind of sentiment echoed pretty much all over the world actually we heard the council of europe say that this was a really important step in normalizing relations between russia and ukraine we also heard from russia's human rights commissioner who said this was a historic step she said and even donald trump commented on twitter he gave his congratulations to both parties involved just on that we've been looking at the pictures all of the people who were coming there maybe some more well know and others give us a sense who has arrived. well at the beginning it was al

whistleblower claimed wrongdoing during a phone call between the president is ukrainian counterpart vladimir zelinsky it is the latest in a slew of impeachment attempts mr trump has faced since he took office in january 27th but the walls feel like they're closing in on the trump administration right now and i'm not sure they can hold them off for much longer the walls are closing in and everyone is freaking out the walls are closing the wheels are coming off. the walls are closing in on president trump walls are closing it with trump on the walls are closing in on the trump white house. all of the walls are closing at this point the walls are closing in fast on donald trump. then as you remember the democrats almost slaughtered was was mostly dominated by a russian collusion probe and our senior correspondent rocco's the it has been taking a closer look at the moves against president trump. if you're a democrat the hardcore liberal type you knew in your heart the trump would be brought down the only question was how long it would take just needed a reason and come on there were plenty no people put

as many as eight occasions during the course of that telephone conversation, mr trump urged vladimir zelinskie the son ofjoe biden, the former vice president, and the leading contender for the democratic nomination for president going into the election next year. in the conversation is thought to form the basis of a whistle—blower complaint that went to the intelligence inspector general a few weeks ago, but has been suppressed from being released to congress. it starts from a following pressure from the white house. now today, on twitter, president trump dismissed the row as fa ke president trump dismissed the row as fake news, calling it a perfectly fine and routine conversation with the ukrainian leader, in which nothing was said that was in any way wrong. but there are reports that mr trump urged a leader of the ukraine to meet with his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, to look into suggestions that, regarding the activities thatjoe biden's son, hunter biden, who worked for a ukrainian gas company. now there are suggestions thatjoe biden as vice president of the united states threaten to wi

information on a political rival a memo of a phone call shows president trump urging his counterpart vladimir zelinsky to open a corruption probe connected to presidential candidate joe biden the call prompted democrats in the u.s. congress to launch a full impeachment inquiry against president trump were in washington. also coming up it is back to business parliament resumes in london the prime minister suspended it but the supreme court overruled him and he is now bracing for a briggs it battle with lawmakers. and a disaster in the making in the world's oceans scientists on the un's climate panel warning of a dire threat to humanity rising sea levels super storms more flooding more drought . thank you so much for your company everyone well it is shaping up to be an eventful day in an already remarkable week in the united states the white house has released a rough transcript of a telephone conversation between president donald trump and ukraine's president vladimir selenski it shows that trump did. odd mr selenski to investigate former u.s. vice president joe biden and biden son who were at the time

donald trump, who met vladimir zelinski at the un yesterday insists that the call was perfect.sks the ukrainian leader to investigate his main democratic political rival, joe biden. but today, whistle—blower‘s letter was made public, and his allegations are damning. he says... and he goes on, white house officials told me they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for coordination, finalization, and distribution to cabinet level officials. according to white house officials i spoke with, this wasn't the first time under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into this code word level system, solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive, rather than national security sensitive information. and so to the evidence... would you agree that the whistle—blower complaint alleges serious wrongdoing by the president of united states? the first question seems to mr maguire discomfort. the whistle— blower complaint involved the allegation of that,

details of the 2 leaders conversation secret democrats say that during his discussions with vladimir zelinsky mr trump likely committed a crime by urging his counterpart to investigate democratic 2020 hopeful joe biden's activities in ukraine parties and comments if you take a look at the complaint it's from an unnamed whistleblower and this whistleblower essentially argues that they are working in the interests of the united states they heard about trump's conversation with the ukrainian leader they were outraged about it and they had to speak up now what's interesting is the whistleblower admits they never actually heard the conversation i was not a direct witness to most of the events described however i found my colleague's accounts of these events to be credible because in almost all cases will officials recounted fucked pot's ins that were consistent with one another in addition a variety of information consistent with these private accounts has been reported publicly and they're fulfilling my g.-t. to report this information through proposed legal channels to the row of an oath or ceas

into investigating a potential election rival of trumps in return for military aid funds as for vladimir zelinsky on the sidelines of the un general assembly he denied that. sure that we had. i think good phone call it was normal we spoke about many scenes and. i think you read it is that nobody bullshit bush me yes and no kerry you know there was no for sure you have to do is see if one of the call but you know the effort you could ask the question and i appreciate the answer and i think that somebody if you look at what he did it is over there where his son goes to china he walks away with a 1000000000 of their dollars he goes to ukraine and he walked away with $50000.00 a month and a lot of money in addition to that and the whole thing with the prosecutor in ukraine and he's going to take this is it like maybe he did it maybe he's out of the cave doing it is a summary of the phone call between the u.s. to creating a president's been released by the white house did selenski to investigate the business dealings of rival presidential candidate joe biden and his son however there's no mention of t

whistleblower did not have firsthand knowledge of the call between donald trump and ukraine's vladimir zelinskidonald trump argued it is the latest witchhunt by the democrats. the white house is considering releasing a transcript of the call but there are concerns about doing. >> it is not great president to release calls with foreign countries, heads of foreign countries. i will tell you it is a great call. a very honorable call. a nice call. >> reporter: democrats are demanding access the whistleblower complaint and hear directly from the person who filed it. so far the administration has not allowed either of those to happen which is pushing more democratic lawmakers to come out in support of opening and impeachment inquiry. here is chuck schumer. >> how long must we wait for our republican colleagues to rise up to their responsibilities to the constitution, the separation of powers is the rule of floor. when donald trump brazenly violates that law. >> reporter: fox news alert house democratic house will be meeting this afternoon to discuss the phone call, impeachment of the possibility of v

trump the white house will be releasing the unredacted transcript in a july phone call with vladimir zelinski. the white house will also be releasing a document showing the inspector general of the intelligence community felt the whistleblower who filed the complaint regarding the phone call had political bias in favor of arrival candidate of donald trump. regarding the transcript of the july phone call the senior administration official told fox news there is no smoking gun but there are a few words in it that will raise eyebrows but nowhere near as inflammatory as democrats have suggested according to the administration official. despite the white house agreeing to release the transcript on tuesday nancy pelosi announced the house is moving forward with an impeachable -- official impeachment inquiry. >> the president must be held accountable. no one is above the law. 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. >> nancy pelosi was facing pres

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senator ron johnson met him he had with ukrainian president vladimir zelinski.n september 11th, senator murphy was back in the u.s. and brief report is about meeting saying that president zelensky was baffled as to why the trump administration put a hold on $391 million in military aid and wanted to reach a resolution to keep the money flowing. murphy also conceded that he and zelinski did not talk in depth in the ukrainian president never brought up anything about a request fromut president trump. on september 20th, last friday,, the whistle-blower story went public and on monday, senator murphy's narrative about his meeting with zelinski changed. withth murphy saying the entire new ukrainian of an administration concerned, "that the aid that was being cut off to ukraine by the president as a consequence for theirun unwillingness, at the time, to investigate the biden burlesque." the conservative free beacon others assumed what murphy said the entire administration he meant president zelensky as well, but now murphy says his comments were "unclear," in other wo

who would believe vladimir zelinsky would be his monica lewinsky, although this time -- of course, the president was on the defensive today, lashing out at the media and claiming he didn't pressure anybody to do anything. >> there was no pressure. the way you had that built up, that call, it was going to be the call from hell. it turned out to be a nothing call other than a lot of people said i never knew you could be so nice. >> jimmy: he really thinks we're idiots. by the way, we are idiots who elected an idiot to run our country. this transcript is very clearly a [cheers and applause] a thinly-veiled extortion attempt. republicans spent the morning diving under their desk like an earthquake drill. they kept saying look at the transcript. there's no quid pro quo. there's a hell of a quid. after putting a hold on millions of dollars in aid money, trump told the president of another country to look into biden and said whatever you do, it's very important that you do it or else what? nothing? how else are you supposed to read that? people like lindsey graham are arguing that that transc

edge was the revelation that in mid-july, a week before his phone call with ukrainian president vladimir zelinski -- >> speaker pelosi -- >> bret: looking live on capitol hill, the house minority speaking out, let's listen in. >> they have been investigating this president before he even got elected. they have voted three times on impeachment on this floor. twice they voted before one word of the mueller report came back. our job here is a serious job. our job is to focus on the american public. our job is to make tomorrow than today. our job is to legislate, not to investigate something when you can't find any reason to impeach this president. i realize 2016 did not turn out the way speaker pelosi wanted it to happen but she cannot change the laws of this congress. she cannot unilaterally decide for an impeachment inquiry. what she said today made no difference of what's been going on. if it's no different than what nadler has been trying to do. it's time to put the public before politics. thank you. >> are you afraid that you're on the wrong side of this? >> bret: house minority leader, a quick

ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky said i would also like to thank you for your great support in defense. we are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps, specifically we are almost ready to buy more javelins from the united states for defense purposes. javelin, a weapon the u.s. is selling ukraine. we're ready, lay it on us. we're ready to do it. he explicitly references the military support for ukraine to purchase american weapons to fends off the russians that are currently occupying their country. >> and the very next thing trump says is, i would like you to do us a favor, though. though, though. what's the though doing there? i would like you to do us a favor though, and then the president proceeds to ask two things. he makes his ask. one is almost two ridiculous to get your head fully around but essentially trump wants the ukrainian president to pursue an insane and discredited conspiracy theory that basically the dnc was not hacked by the russians, but rather the security by the dnc hired to do their forensics was actually framing the russians on behalf of some nefarious

they cited a current advisor to president vladimir zelinski, but has since corrected the story that theual only advised the transition team and has since been distanced from the administration. police officers electric car running out of juice in the middle of a high-speed chase in california. the cop was first going to pursuing a suspect in a tesla one the battery conked out. the suspect got away, the pd is testing the e-cards in a pilot program. and the okay hand gesture is now a symbol of hate according to the anti-defamation league, which added dozens of entries to its database of symbols it says are used by whites or pharmacists and other extremists. other entries include a bowl haircut, not to the whites of pharmacist who shot and killed nine black people at a church in south carolina. that is tonight's real news roun next.ore news nice. but, uh... what's up with your... partner? not again. limu that's your reflection. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ run with us on a john deere 1 series tractor. beacuse changing your attachments, should be as eas

denied that there was any quid pro quo in his july 25th phone call with ukraine and president vladimir zelinski>> did you tell the ukraine and later that they would have the aid only if the investigator joe biden and his family? >> no i didn't. i did not make a statement that you have to do this or not going to give you -- i wouldn't do that. >> sources tell fox news that the whistle-blower who filed the complaint with the intelligence community's inspector general did not have firsthand knowledge of that conversation. president trump suggested that to prove his point the white house may release at least a partial transcript of the phone call. >> i may do it, because it was a very intense and gnomic innocent called on both his part -- it was a very nice call from africa to see it and i hope you get to see it soon. >> president trump and white house aides are debating whether to do it. there are fears releasing a transcript would be a dangerous precedent, a slippery slope that could lead to demands for other transcripts of other calls. >> i could do it very easily but i'd rather not do it. i don

this we should point out that there is also reporting coming out of the ukraine that leader vladimir zelinsky the president of ukraine saying that there may not have been just one phone call but in fact 2 and well ukraine maintains that it is an independent nation there leaving open the possibility of investigating this with regard to the crux of this of the president trying to use his office against his political adversary namely former vice president joe biden essentially saying that that is still a possibility the very thing the president wanted is still a possibility the eyes of the ukrainian leader ok can really help thank you. the u.k. prime minister boris johnson is coming under increasing pressure over allegations of misconduct johnson has denied a journalist accusations that he groped her 2 decades ago sunday times columnist charlotte edwards says it happened when she worked at the spectator that's a conservative news magazine while johnson was its editor the case is overshadowing the 2nd day of the annual conservative party conference in manchester austria's conservative leader seba

president trump was leaving for houston a short time ago, he said this about his conversation with vladimir zelinskit of the ukraine back on july 25th. >> the conversation i had with the president of ukraine was absolutely perfect. and people better find out who these people are that are trying to subvert our country. because here we go again. these are bad people, but the conversation i had with the president of ukraine was absolutely a ten. >> john: it was a ten. is there anything wrong with the president sank to the president of the ukraine, look, why don't you work with rudy giuliani and investigate what ties joe biden and hunter biden have two natural gas companies? >> soliciting foreign help in your campaign reelection for president of the united state and i think it's something people will generally find alarming. >> john: ukraine helped hillary clinton. >> would got to a whole bunch of things here. the idea -- people who are -- president trump has some weird messaging on this. on the one hand he says it's all made up in fake news. on the other hand he says he was spied on, which was soaked t

they have to act fast because next week there's a meeting going to be held between vladimir vladimir zelinsky the ukrainian president and president trump face to face on the sidelines of the un general assembly. ukrainians want that meeting to be about strategy about confronting russia over eastern ukraine and crimea about economic and military assistance. but they know very well that it could well be overshadowed by this ongoing controversy. so it's something that they are deeply deeply concerned about. matthew chance cnn in kiev." my new $4.99 blt cheeseburger combo, comes with... 100% beef and hickory smoked bacon, plus fries and a drink all for just the change in your couch. i found the remote! try my new $4.99 blt cheeseburger combo. my new $4.99 blt cheeseburger combo, deal talk! comes with fries and a drink. all for just the change in your couch. what... mr. wigglesworth? i thought we lost you. kevin?! try my new $4.99 blt cheeseburger combo. ( marty ) here's a live morning.the embarcadero this toss to weather. (dave)a slight cooling trend is forecast today into monday as an upper leve

step to peace congratulations to both countries are ukrainian president waldemar zelinsky and russian president vladimir. have done everything we have promised and did not change our agreements to. make. pretty. easy but this is the 1st time for about 5 more than 5 years close in 6 years that russian ukrainian pacey agreed on anything that could be seen as a positive the main obstacle signals has been made at the highest level between the 2. the new president there in ukraine and like the new president in russia so it seems that the 2 presidents are decided upon it's a very high profile prisoner swap isn't it well received by france and germany in particular who were you know emanuel my corn and angela merkel have been talking about trying to get the peace talks we started this month i mean they basically they fell apart in the poroshenko years i mean poroshenko simply didn't want to couldn't or didn't have the mandation internally in ukraine and wasn't strong enough but he definitely was unable to move the peace talks alarm's anybody that wants to see peace between in eastern ukraine and normalization

ukrainian president voted him are zelinsky and russian president vladimir putin have done everything we have promised and did not change over agreements. that you'll ship and we heard this kind of sentiment echoed pretty much all over the world actually we heard the council of europe say that this was a really important step in normalizing relations between russia and ukraine we also heard from russia's human rights commissioner who said this was a historic step she said and even donald trump commented on twitter he gave his congratulations to both parties involved give us a sense. while at the beginning it was all speculation you know there were it was unknown who the prisoners were that were blacked out windows on the buses but now we have identified them and let's go over the main ones one of the primary prisoners that was there were exchanged was ukrainian filmmaker all legs sense of now he was sentenced to 20 years in prison in russia on terrorism charges during the crimean referendum of 2014 he was accused of being part of a terrorist organization that plotted bombings of civil

with the ukraine we don't know if it's specifically related to this call with zelinski or maybe it had to do with vladimir putin. maybe he was talking with theresa may about ukraine. they are doubling down on this idea that they tried to flip the script. and listen to the what the president said. >> president trump: how much money did his son make from the ukraine? and then, he does nothing about energy. >> the president has pointed to a couple of things. there was investigation on the board of which hunter biden sat. the money was withheld before the prosecutor was removed. other countries were calling for the prosecutor to be removed as well but then there's a connection with biden and there was a 2013 trip that joe biden made with hunter to china, in which hunter biden came back with $1.5 billion in funding for a private equity company, rosemont seneca, that he was part of as well as chris hines who was john kerry's son-in-law. the president is really trying to throw a lot of dots out there for people to connect, but until we know what was in the transcript of that phone call and what was in the compla

ukraine's new president vladimir the linsky says he wants to revive peace negotiations with russia he's been courting european leaders recently rooted in zelinskyhave already spoken by phone the prisoner exchange could be an important and if step towards further dialogue and to simmons'. service and moscow with more details about the prisoner swap. this is the 1st major positive move between russia and ukraine since the conflict started in 2014 prisoners exchange including a person who was sentenced to jail for 20 years all accents also ukrainian filmmaker who has also been on a hunger strike 445 days a manage to get home today meeting his family after 45 years in prison here in the north of russia his release is seen as a major concession by russia by vladimir putin and it shows that was and is willing to negotiate with presidents alinsky off ukraine but he wanted something in return and the person who went back from ukraine to moscow is vladimir the same a key witness in the an 817 down or off the malaysian airliner in 2014 to kill that killed 298 people russia insisted of having this person was actually a ukrainian national and was captured

ukraine's new president vladimir the linsky says he wants to revive peace negotiations with russia he's been courting european leaders recently rooted in zelinsky have already spoken by phone the prisoner exchange could be an important and if step towards further dialogue and to simmons' algis it. is a professor of comparative politics at kiev cademy and he's joining us now from the ukrainian capital thank you very much for being with us on al-jazeera. what do we make of the fact that the sailors particularly are being returned in this prisoner swap. well this is important victory for you creatine but actually when we're talking about exchange we should be very cautious how to call it because from a formal point of view from ukrainian point of you can snort any sheet or because of sailors because sailors hat to be released by putin any way you are you rightly mentioned that there was an international tribunal decision we each state that they were caught in neutral what is n.z. should be released so actually it should be done by a rational result in any conditions it was a court. decision but another 11 peason as their political prisoners mostly

president vladimir putin by phone the prisoner exchange could be an important step towards further tentative talks this what is being seen as a victory for both presidents putin and zelinskya potential suspect and witness in the downing of the malaysian airlines jet of ukraine 5 years ago has also been released despite protests by the dutch government who had many of its citizens on the flight that suggests the lenski not only had to make concessions but that russia will be a tough negotiating partner in future talks to end fighting in eastern ukraine. victoria gave him be al-jazeera and the news ahead. divisions boil over outside britain's parliament as it had been a minister's resignation delivers a new blow to prime minister horst johnson. and 6 years on from a devastating earthquake.

president vladimir putin by phone the prisoner exchange could be an important step towards further tentative toltz this what is being seen as a victory for both presidents putin and zelinsky a potential suspect and witness in the downing of the malaysian airlines jet a crane 5 years ago has also been released despite protests by the dutch government who had many of its citizens on the flight that suggests the lenski not only had to make concessions but that russia will be a tough negotiating partner in future talks to end fighting in eastern ukraine. victoria al-jazeera matthew cup for as editor at the kiev post he explains what the president transfers mean for ukraine russia relations. i think this is a positive step and it shows that there is the ability to negotiate over important things but i think that in order to ease tensions between the 2 countries and stop the war in eastern ukraine and resolve the issue there are a lot of other issues that need to be resolved and many of them are much more difficult than prisoner exchanges this was not a big compromise by anyone the biggest compromise here was ukraine deciding to handle human someone the m. 817 suspect or witnes