the most important documents are at the white house. documents senator schumer's amendment targets would provide more clarity and context against the president's scheme. the amendment prevents the president from hiding evidence as he has previously tried to do. now, the house subpoenaed these documents as part of the impeachment inquiry. the president completely rejected this. every document subpoena from the house. as powerful as our evidence is and make no mistake, it overwhelming overwhelmingly proves his guilt, we did not receive a single document from the executive branch agency. recent revelations from press reports, freedom from information act requests, additional witnesses like lev parnas underscore how relevant these documents and therefore why the president has been so desperate to hide them and his misconduct from congress and from the american people. a trial without all of the relevant evidence is not a fair trial. it would be wrong for you senators acting as judges to be deprived of relevant evidence of the president's off

the white house counsel stated the president reviewed to participate. the constitution, article one section two said the house shall have the sole power of impeachment just as in article one section three, the senate has sole power to try. participation in a duly authorized congressional investigation isn't optional. it's not up to the president to decide whether to participate or not. the constitution gives the house sole power of impeachment, it gives the senate the sole power to trial impeachment. the president may not like being impeached but it's the preside president, not the congress decides when impeachment proceedings are appropriate in the impeachment power is no power at all. if you let him walk from congress and the american peop people, the evidence to cover up his offenses, the impeachment power truly will be meaningless. we'll have the back-and-forth with these documents, executive privilege. the president's lawyers keep saying it, they talk about how the legal rights that justify hiding the truth from of withholding information but that's

blair has been directed by the white house not to appear and testify." the house also wanted testimony from john eisenberg, the season attorney on the president's national security counsel. as you heard the past few days, key witnesses including dr. hill, lieutenant colonel vindman said they were concerned by president trump's efforts to pressure ukraine. they were told to report the concerns to mr. eisenberg. on the day before his scheduled deposition, the white house sent a letter to mr. eisenberg's personal attorney. it said "the president directs eisenberg not to appear at the deposition." that language is started to sound familiar. >> bill: all right. house managers continue to make the case for impeachment. republicans will get their chance tomorrow. we'll be live at 10:00 a.m. eastern time when republicans take to the microphones to say that the case that democrats have made is riddled with lies and misrepresentations. they will not eat up the entire 24 hours that it looks like democrats will. for example, democrats will likely push this to 9:00 p.

they have one more then of course we'll hear arguments from the white house and his legal team as well. we're going to step away as house managers continue with their opening arguments we'll be back with any updates as news warrants. our coverage will continue on our 24 hour streaming network, cbsn. you can watch it at cbsnews.com i'm sure most of you on your phones six you're loyal cbs fans have this app you can click on that. there will be more on your local news on this cbs station then we're going to have a full wrap up tonight on the cbs evening news. this has been a cbs news special report i'm norah o'donnell thank you for watching cbs news, washington. >> ♪ evite la tangodeur ♪ dans le tango de l'heure ♪ faut sentir comme une fleur ♪ sinon les mecs ont peur ♪ evite la tangodeur ♪ j'en ai horreur >> bill: [ inhales deeply ] [ sighs ] can you smell it? >> brooke: [ sighs ] jasmine and the sea. >> bill: no. money. monaco reeks of it. [ brooke scoffs ] [ inhaling ] ahh, so good. >> brooke: that is not real money, bill. >> bill: i always wanted my face on a dollar bill, and there it

we all understood that these prerequisites for the white house call and the white house meeting reflected president trump's desires and requirements. >> deputy assistant secretary of state george kent described the pursuit of president trump's corrupt demands as, quote, infecting u.s. engagement with ukraine. here is his full testimony. >> in mid august it became clear to me that giuliani's efforts were infecting u.s. engagement with ukraine, leveraging president zelensky's desire for a white house meeting. >> in short, u.s. diplomats responsible for ukraine policy understood that giuliani had defacto control over whether the oval office meeting would be scheduled and under what circumstances. mr. giuliani had been given that level of authority by president trump. and it was infecting official u.s. policy toward ukraine. to shake loose the white house meeting, top ukrainian officials knew that they had to meet with mr. giuliani who john bolton described as a human hand grenade who was going to blow everybody up. so, on august 2nd, mr. giuliani met with mr. yermak, president zelensky's top

you should be able to see these documents but the white house has withheld them from congress so the house can't verify the news report but you could. you could do that if you could see these documents. you should subpoena them and there is no reason not to see all the relevant documents. .. and others concerns that were discussed within the relevant agencies in late july and throughout august, approximately ultimately $35 million of ukraine military assistance and 14% of the dod funds remained unspent by the end of the fiscal year in order to make sure that ukraine didn't permanently lose the 35 million of critical military assistance that had been frozen by the white house congress has to pass a provision on september 27, 3 days before the funds were to expire to ensure that the remaining 35 million could be sent to ukraine. now, george kent is an anticorruption and rule of law expert. he told us that american anticorruption efforts prioritized building institutional capacity, support for the rule of law, not the pursuit of individual investigations particularly of political rivals.

even though the manuscript had been submitted to the white house the white house never informed anybody within the senate republican conference, which was a major problem. however, mcconnell made clear to his members in a closed door lunch before the proceedings even began to quote take a deep breath. his point, don't makeically rash decisions whether or not to vote for witnesses until you've heard the entire white house presentation, until you've had an opportunity to ask questions of both sides, something that will occur after the white house presentation concludes. still, there aren't many days to go and still a lot of questions left. and as for the actual present eggs themselves only one person even mentioned the bolton rev lags. that was alan dershowitz when he said this. >> nothing in the bolton rev lagsla revilations even if true would rise to the level of abuse of power or impeachable offense. >> the big question is did it resonate with republicans and with enough that democrats wouldn't have the votes to move forward on witnesses. we won't have the answer to that question at le

white house meeting. senators witness testimony text messages e-mails and the call record itself confirm a corrupt quid pro quo for the white house meeting an official act available only to the present united states in exchange for the announcement of political investigations the president and his allies have offered no explanation for this effort except the president can abuse his office all he likes and there's nothing you can do about it can't indict him can't impeach and that is because they cannot seriously dispute the president trump corruptly used an official white house visit for a foreign leader to compel the ukrainian president into helping him cheat in the next election the white house meeting of course was not the only official act that president trump conditioned on the announcement investigations into biden and the conspiracy theory meant to exonerate president trump from russians interference on his behalf in the last election in a far more draconian step as we have discussed the president

you should be able to see these documents, but the white house has withheld them from congress. so the house can't verify the news report, but you could. you could do that if you could see these documentsment you should subpoena them, and there's no reason not to see all the relevant documents. the lengthy delay created by perez's hold prevented the department of defense from spending all the appropriate funds by the into of the fiscal year as mentioned before. that meant the funds were going to expire on september 30th because, as we know,

the former white house press secretary. i wonder what the white house is thinking. there is some suggestion that they feel good about the fact that they are finally getting their side of the story heard in this process today. the president is in dabo switzerland. >> i think the absolute we have to feel pretty good about how the members of their legal team have conducted themselves so far. i feel that lofgren had an assignment that i would not have wanted. she is basically not going to win over any converts in the senate by telling the senate that they need to do their job when even some of the moderate senators on the g.o.p. side have so that the house and at them incomplete. i think senator schumer has a very interesting decision to make right now. you have a limited amount of attention span. not just in the room and what they are doing, but for america. who is paying attention? if they want to go down all of these movements that they know are going to fail, we know that it is unlikely for any republicans to break. he has to make a decision. as he want to go throug

you've been talking about the white house filing. democratic filing responding to the white house's brief from today. so you'll see these legal documents, these briefings go back and forth until we actually get to the actual arguments later today. we'll see also, john, whether or not house democrats themselves decide to talk a little bit more about this filing, about the white house's response. right now they are in speaker pelosi's office with the impeachment managers as they try to strategize the next few days, discuss what articles will be made publicly and see what they have to say about the white house's latest filing as well, john. >> more on the written word and the brief right now will become more of the lawyers on the senate soon enough. >>> we'll take a quick break. we'll be right back. $9.95 at my age? $9.95? no way. $9.95? that's impossible. hi, i'm jonathan, a manager here at colonial penn life insurance company, to tell you it is possible. if you're age 50 to 85, you can get life insurance with options starting at just

, from the trump white house, former white house chief of staff john kelly who is being now quoted that, i believe -- in effect, i believe john bolton. if john bolton put that in john bolton's book, i believe john bolton. this is someone who knows donald trump, worked with donald trump, and he has -- he's made his decision about who is credible. >> that's right. well, you know, that's the thing about bringing in the witnesses. and i keep wanting to say this, and the documents. the emails, whatever traffic was going back and forth. over and over, the president's lawyers have stood in the well of the senate and said, no evidence, no evidence, and donald trump did nothing wrong. and the question is, then why can't we see the witnesses and why can't we see the documents? but that's the thing. you open up and the witnesses start coming out, the documents start coming out, and you don't know where the next piece leads and the next piece leads or let me put it this way. i don't know where it leads. you may not know where it leads. it's entirely possible donald trump and his administration

a lot of discord briefly, if you would, in the white house. to abc news. i'm ros childs. strategy in the middle east has been criticised for yea rs the middle east has been criticised for years —— donald trump's strategy. we have had lots of discord and that seems to be continuing. into such a situation where iran has launched ballistic missile attacks on two airbases and iraq which housed us forces. these are developing situations, we are monitoring them for you. welcome, you are watching bbc news. now to some of the day's other news stories. a teenager guilty to the manslaughter of a police officer who was dragged along a road by a van. he was killed last august as he investigated a burglary. prosecutors wa nt investigated a burglary. prosecutors want the 18—year—old to be put on trial for want the 18—year—old to be put on trialfor murder. just one month earlier, he had married his partner, and the newlyweds were about to head off on honeymoon. 0n the evening of the 15th of august, harper and a colleague were called to report on a break and.

eight, the white house buried the call. ninth, presidenton trump confirmed he wanted ukraine to conductnd investigations in his siown words and finally president trump did not care about anticorruption efforts in ukraine. first perhaps the most simple way we know president trump one of the investigations done solely for his personal political interest he wanted a public announcement of the investigations not the assurance they would actually be d done if there was a desire to truly assist the anticorruption efforts are because he was worried of the larger issues of corruption in ukraine somebody actually investigating the facts underlying the investigation would have been most important. but he did not care about the facts or the issues. he just wanted the political benefit of the announcement of the investigation h to use to damages political opponent to boost his own standing prickle ambassador sondland at the center of the scheme made this clear in his testimony. >> so from mister giuliani at this point you understood in

listen. >> we will reserve time for rebuttal. >> chief justice roberts, senators, counsel for the white housei am val demings from the state of florida. the house managers strongly support the amendment to issue subpoena for documents to the state department. as we explain, the first article of impeachment charges, the president was using the power of his office to solicit and pressure ukraine to announce investigation that everyone in this chamber knows to be bogus. the president didn't even care if an investigation was actually conducted, just that it was announced. why? because this was for his own personal and political benefit. the first article furthers charges that the president did so with corrupt motive, and that his abuse of power for personal gain harmed the national security of the united states. as the second article of impeachment charges, the president sought to conceal evidence of this conduct. he did so by ordering his entire administration, every office, every agency, every official to defy every subpoena served in the house impeachment inquiry. no president in history has e

president trump bought every person who worked in the white house and every person who works in every department , agency and office of the executive branch. from providing information to the house as part of the impeachments inquiry. this was not about specific, narrowly defined security or privacy issues. nor was it based on potential privileges available to the executive branch. indeed, president trump has not once asserted executive privilege during this process . this was a declaration of total defiance of the houses authority to investigate credible allegations of the presidents misconduct and a wholesale rejection of congress ability to hold the president accountable. the presidents order executed by his top aides substantially interfere with the houses constitutionally authorized power to conduct an impeachments inquiry. as president from direction, the white house itself refused to produce a single document or record in response to a house subpoena that remains in full force and effect and it continues to withhold those documents from congress and from the american people. bu

i didn't know who they were when i was in the white house.hen the break-in occurred, i said, oh, no, because i knew at once instinctively it was our guys. >> g. gordon liddy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant, and e. howard hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-bay of pigs planner, ex-white house consultant. >> we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> earl silva read the names of 60 government witnesses. the list included only one low ranking white house lawyer and several former employees of the committee to re-elect the president. >> if you don't know richard nixon's psychology, you don't know his background, you could never understand why the white house reacted to watergate the way it does. >> from day one, there was a great sense that we were under siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. >> he tries to build a little like maf

with mitch mcconnell than he does the white house.ot forget how he left the white house and it's probably another twisting of the knife. >> i think it's fair for the democrats to argue, aha, now bolton is willing to testify. it adds to the pressure on mitch mcconnell, it adds to the pressure of the three or four retch cans who might be wavering on whether they should have witnesses in the senate. does it approve her strategy? >> there were some scratching their heads over the strategy. number one, they were saying they were playing politics with the impeachment, that the republicans just wanted him acquitted which is why it was being run by the senate. but right now this is a huge boon to speaker pelosi, because now she can say, look, us holding back the articles, john bolton is coming out, we're winning and we have a smart strategy here. it certainly helps her leverage. >> i would love to be invited to return john bolton's call. >>> coming up, the iowa votes to kick off the campaign four weeks from today. foreign policy a big deal ou

host: what is the white house to do in the white house -- what is the white house to do to keep republicans of the writers in their court, in line? bit.: working the phones a the president has been in touch with a lot of his allies on capitol hill as well as republicans like susan collins, who said the president has not spoken directly with her but has been in touch with officials heading into the trial. and we of course expect that to continue the next few weeks. the president has also brought down a number of lawmakers to mar-a-lago. he spent three weeks down there in florida wining and dining these people. he golfed with senator graham at one point. really making sure that his allies are not only allied with his strategy on impeachment, but are acting as communicators back on the hill to their politics and making sure their senate colleagues are also in line with what the white house things should happen. host: senator graham will be perhaps the point person other than mitch mcconnell. he was on fox news sunday morning and he said, that he is willing to work with senator mcconnell, but w

lieutenant vindman testified to the national security council otherwise that the white house learned about the investigation when it was announced and is colleague of his it said it might've been effective releasing aid. on that same day, the house rintelligence committee learns that the administration had withheld whistleblower complaint from congress. the scheme was unraveling. and what happens two days later? president trump released the military aid. he only released it after he he got caught. but there is another reason we know the president lifted the aide only because he got caught. because there's no other explanation. the testimony of all of the witnesses confirms it. both lieutenant colonel vindman and miss williams testified they were not provided any reason for lifting the hold. vindman testified that nothing on the ground had changed in the two months of the hold and mark sandy of the omb could also confirm that. ambassador taylor too testified that "i was not told the reason why the hold had been lifted.". let me take a moment to address another defense i expect you will

being interns at the white house. in fact, i believe josh, who is now a congressman, was an intern, one of my interns. he is now a congressman. that is a great way, if you can get one of those internships, i would highly recommend that you try to go for one of those. ms. sams: we love internships. let's take our first question. >> hello, i am a first-year graduate student in creative writing. i noticed your commonality between generality and specificity. the overall movement or things people notice in their everyday life. the candidacy and what it would mean to people versus the specificity of senior children and the specificity of the badge versus where you were when you knew it or other wording that made me think of friends, parents who died in 9/11. how do you choose when is a good moment to use a specific detail --when is a good movement to good moment to appeal to people as a whole? mr. edmonds: i think you do both in most speeches. you always want to have a real life story to bring your point to life. and i thin

, just out of the white house broadly but out of the white house press office in particular. the president had no public events on his schedule today, so apart from him calling in to rush limbaugh, we did not hear from him, and that was a pretty friendly interview as you can imagine. and there was no opportunity to sort of publicly question top white house officials, including the white house communications director and the press secretary, stephanie grisham, about what the justification was for the strike, what the white house's plan was moving forward, if and when iran retaliated. and so i think there was just a real vacuum of information. and as you said earlier, you know, what filled that in was a lot of confusion coming out of the pentagon. >> greg, is there any way to speculate if mattis and mcmaster and their ilk were still in the circle around this president, would that military briefer have ever been sent in that room at mar-a-lago with this option to place in front of the president even if it is, as the reporting indicates -- even if it was the worst-case, break-gla

the white house legislative affairs director told us the white house would not rule it out. they are keeping that card in their back pocket. ted cruz did rule it out and even more important than ted cruz was mark meadows, close friend of president trump, meadows was at the white house today talking strategy with congressman radcliffe on this new impeachment team that the white house announced the other day. med does said they are not going to call for this mogs to midisms because they don't have the votes. you don't bring a vote to the floor if you don't are have the votes. so we suspect when they gavel into session tomorrow, the democrats will mic their opening argument. they now have three days, 24 hours split over three days. that means some time on saturday, we suspect, they will end their opening arguments and the white house will be able to make their rerebuttal. that really, i'm told, is what president trump wanted he wanted the white house to be able to have their say in time for the sunday shows. so you can see here you the political calculous is really laid over th

heard from white house. assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, quote, get to the bottom of what happened, unquote, in 2016, we will nail down date for visit to washington. good luck. see you tomorrow. kurt. well, those words couldn't be much clearer. assuming president z convinces trump, he will investigate, get hef wha in 2016. we'll nail down the visit to washington. that's a text 30 minutes before that call. counsel for the president would like you to think, this is just about that call. you don't get to look outside the four corners of that call. they don't want to you look at the months that went into preparing for that call or the months of pressure that followed it. but you can just look at the right now what happened 30 minutes before that call. in this text message. heard from white house. assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016. if you are wondering how it seemed that president zelensky was aware of what he would be ask

"deadline white house" with nicole wallace begins right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. all eyes on capitol hill where the two big stories gripping washington are inching towards their crescendos. house speaker nancy pelosi holding out against mounting pressure from republicans in the senate, and even a few democrats, to send over the articles of impeachment so the trial for the senate can begin. there are reports this hour that they're expecting the trial to begin as early as next week. we start with a vote expected this hour to limit donald trump's powers as the country's kmantder in the chief in the wake of the deadly strike on qassem soleimani. it would require him to seek conggression authorization before any further strikes. it gained unlikely support from two very conservative republican senator whose were irate after a briefing from donald trump's most senior national security advisor. and two, iran is reupping its threats of revenge. and then mike lee on an interview this morning on npr. what i'm most concerned about is about where that go

heard from white house. assuming president trump convinces the who will investigate, get to the bottom of 2016, we will nail down visit to washington. good luck, see you tomorrow. those words couldn't be much clearer. assuming president the convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down the visitto washington. that's a text 30 minutes before that call .counsel for the president would like you to think this is just about that call. you don't get to look outside thefour corners of that call. they don't want you to look at the months that went into preparing for that call. for the months of pressure that followed it . but you can just look at right now, what happened 30 minutes before that call. in this text message. heard from white house, assuming president z convinces trump he will get to the bottom of a happened. if you were wondering how it seemed that president zelensky was aware of what he was going to beasked on that call . this is how you can tell. he

the white house was arguing that they felt that house democrats have not been really playing fair with the proceedings, that have been taking place on the house side the last couple of months. now, whether or not that's really going to have any impact on what the senators will decide are course is still yet to be seen because the white house refused to sunday over documents to the house, they've blocked testimony from certain white house officials and neil, as you can imagine that has certainly led to this other charge that we've seen obstruction of congress. as for the president though, we have not seen him on camera today. it's kind of a cold and raining earlier day here in washington and we don't expect him to leave the white house so we don't expect him to be headed out to the golf course or making any comments on camera, but we'll be watching on twitter to see if he has response from his lawyers today. neil. >> i was surprised by the take that saturday ratings are death valley in tv. [laughter] >> . >> we're always working exactly. >> this show gets higher ratings than my daily fn

were all staring a white house cover-up in the face. it is so clear what is going on here. >> i don't need spell it out for you, if senate republicans are not going to vote to call mr. bolton and mr. mulvaney and the other witnesses now, if they are not going to ask for notes and e-mails, they will be part of the cover-up two. because we have this out in the open. it is up to four senate republicans, just for senate republicans to ensure that john bolton, mick mulvaney, mr. blair and mr. duffy testify in the senate trial. it is up to four republicans to get the documents that surrounded their actions in those days. one final point. of course the president denied ambassadors account of late-night tweets. already republicans, already some republicans are saying this is just a he said he said affair. just a matter of conflicting accounts. i would remind everyone between president trump and ambassador bolton, only one of them is willing to testify in the senate under oath. only mr. bolton is willing to swear that he is telling the truth. >>

as i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting theanswer is yes. mr. giuliani conveyed to secretary perry ambassador volker and others that president trump wanted a public statement from president zelensky committing to investigations of burisma and the 2016 election. mr. giuliani expressed those requests directly to the ukrainians and mr. giuliani also expressed those requests directly to us. we all understood that these prerequisites for the white house call and the white house meeting reflected president trump's desires and requirements >> ambassador sondland also testified it seemed to pressure ukraine into for filling the president's requirements for an oval office meeting became progressively and more specific and problematic. what he described as the continuance. he explained evolution from generic request to investigate corruption to calls to pursue specific allegations against president trump's political opponent. here is ambassador sondland again. >> well mr. chairman when we left the oval office i believe on may 23, the req

government the pentagon in the white house had information that they thought that he had active plans or that he was leading forces that had active plans to target a miller americans and that's why this strike was called again we have not heard from the secretary of state and also most notably we have not heard from the man who authorized this strike that would be the commander in chief of the u.s. armed forces president donald trump by all accounts he is still at his mar-a lago resort 'd he has only tweeted a photo of the american flag and that was about an hour ago or so but beyond that absolute silence we do expect or we think that in a situation like this given the high profile nature of soleimani and the others that were killed for that matter that we probably would hear from the president i don't know i'm guessing there but i think that's why you're having a lot of not a lot of comments from official washington because i think they're waiting to see if the president decides to make an on camera announcement about this and the fact that he does hasn't tweeted about it yet indicat

john harwood at the white house. dana, what kind of reaction are you hearing from there on the claim of the bolton book? >> reporter: the feel up here is different today than it was just a couple of days ago when the kind of sense was that this was a train heading right for a potential final vote without witnesses. what i'm not hearing republican senators saying, okay, yes, count me in for witnesses, what we're hearing is a lot of silence, a lot of frustration that this is coming at this time. and specifically i'm told from a source familiar with conversations that republican senators are making clear to the white house that they are very frustrated, that the white house apparently had this manuscript or the key parts of it, back at the end of december, and that nobody on the hill was told about or key players were not told about it. there seems to be some scrambling going on as we speak to figure out who in the white house had their hands on it, more importantly how much did they disseminate, for example, one key qu

you should be able to see these documents but the white house has withheld them from congress so the house can't verify the news report but you could. you could do that if you could see these documents. you should subpoena them and there is no reason not to see all the relevant documents. .. and others concerns that were discussed within the relevant agencies in late july and throughout august, approximately ultimately $35 million of ukraine military assistance and 14% of the dod funds remained unspent by the end of the fiscal year in order to make sure that ukraine didn't permanently lose the 35 million of critical military assistance that had been frozen by the white house congress has to pass a provision on september 27, 3 days before the funds were to expire to ensure that the remaining 35 million could be sent to ukraine. now, george kent is an anticorruption and rule of law expert. he told us that american anticorruption efforts prioritized building institutional capacity, support for the rule of law, not the pursuit of individual investigations particularly of political rivals.

the white house is unloading on democrats for suggesting that pat cippolone who is the white house counsele. democrats were demanding documents and demanding information. the house is basically laughing at that, using strong language, and turning this around and saying someone shouldn't be allowed to participate. >> to the chamber. >> i am aware of a senator that was unable to take the impeachment oath last thursday. will he please rise and raise his right hand and be sworn? do you solemnly swear in all things apper takening to the trial of the impeachment of donald john trump, president of the united states, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws, so help you god. >> i do. >> the secretary will note the name of the senator who has just taken the oath, will present the oath book to him for signature. the sergeant-at-arms will make the proclamation. >> here ye, hear ye, all persons are to keep silent. while the senate of the united states is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives against donal

kaitlan collins at the white house, appreciate that. in the studio, chambers. residents don't often get the time, they have to make split second decisions. the house speaker this morning making clear she disagrees. >> this is with real teeth. this is a statement of the congress of the united states, and i will not have that statement be diminished by whether the president will veto it or not. the cavalier attitude of this administrati administration, it's stunning. i don't spend a whole lot of time telling him anything because i don't know what the basis of their judgment is to receive information. >> you can see from that, this is your wheelhouse. part of this is a constitutional assertion by congress saying, we're tired of getting steamrolled by presidents of both parties saying, this is their power, they don't have to consult with us. some of it clearly is nancy pelosi and the house democrats just have such disdain for this president. >> i don't know, we've seen for years the legislature has been sort of unable to step up and reassert its authority over makin

the white house -- at least some people in the white house knew what we reported today many weeks ago it obviously puts that pressure on those moderate republicans, and the real question that we'll have to see -- and it certainly hasn't moved in the past 24 hours, not to the point that it's gone over the edge -- is that is there enough pressure to get at least four republicans to vote with the democrats to call bolton as a witness. >> mike schmidt, pulitzer prize-winning correspondent with "the new york times." thanks for making time to be with us tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> we're going to take a break in just a second, but i will say the bolton developments -- and if they are going to keep trickling out, if there are a number of people who have seen this manuscript and now people know it's out of the bag, if this is going to be a daily news dribble in terms of what bolton has to say, the political pressure to actually hear from him in this context is going to be become inexorable, won't it? >> yes. and the republican senators are upset because they feel like they were blinds

miss grisham is officially the white house press secretary.was once a vaunted post in any presidential administration, the conduit through which the white house tells the american people what it's doing, and often questioned about what it's doing by reporters. for example, if a president were to escalate the dangers overseas by killing a high-ranking iranian general, you might think the white house press secretary would head to the podium to keep the country and the world abreast of what's going on, to try to fill in some gaps between the president's twitter threats, but that doesn't happen anymore. it hasn't for 301 days. we've mentioned miss grisham on the ridiculist before, back in socket, we highlighted her defense over on fox ampersand friends of acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney after the white house had to walk back or reinvent mulvaney's statements, basically admitting that president trump had squeezed the president of ukraine for politically advantageous dirt in return for u.s. aid. >>> gresham's appearance came less tha

rules a cover i send an amendment to the desk to subpoena certain documents and records from the white house the house managers strongly support senator schumer's amendment which would ensure a fair legitimate trial based on a full evidentiary record the senate can remedy president trump's unprecedented cover up by taking a straightforward step it can ask for the key evidence that the president has improperly blocked senator schumer's amendment that's just that. republicans are refusing to allow any amendments they say the democrats request to add new evidence as proof that the impeachment case is flawed. the 1st thing that the house managers have done upon arriving finally in this chamber after waiting for 33 days is to say well actually we need more evidence we're not ready to present our case we need to have subpoenas and we need to do more discovery because we don't have the evidence we need to support our case this is stunning it's a stunning admission of the inadequate and broken process that the house democrats ran in this impeachment inquiry that failed to compile a record to support

from the white house we've got this. these allegations being made by a man currently out on bail for federal crimes an is desperate to reduce his exposure to prison. notice in there they don't say alleged or accused of, they already say for federal crimes. from the vice president's office, his chief of staff says lev partnerais under multi-count indictment and will say anything to anybody who will listen in the hopes of staying out of prison. from mayor giuliani, who, of course, acts as the president's personal lawyer and has a close relationship with parnas, at least in the past he has, he says he's a very sad situation. from the department of justice they respond, 100% false. so you get an idea here that they are all trying to discredit parnas at the same moment where parnas is putting so much of the responsibility directly on president trump and also undercutting his rational, the whole issue of this was about corruption. the president saying it's his presidential duty to fight corruption. parnas saying, no, it was re

two white house lawyers. the second time we now clearly understood the gravity of the ongoing misconduct. because the president blocked mr. eisenberg from testifying without any justification, the record is silent as to what if any actions he or the white house counsel took to address president trumps brazen misconduct and abuse of power. we do know, however, that instead of trying to halt the scheme, white house lawyers facilitated it. by taking affirmative steps to conceal evidence of president trumps misconduct. for example, after lieutenant colonel denman and mr. morrison reported their concerns related to the july 25 call to the national security council lawyers, they tried to bury the call summary. they tried to bury it. the colonel testified that the lawyers believed that it was appropriate to restrict access to the call summary for the purpose of the leaks. and to preserve the integrity of the transcript. according to lieutenant colonel mr. eisenberg gave the go-ahead to restrict access to the call su

they are promised a white house meeting. they want a white house meeting. they need a white house meeting. they are going into negotiations with putin. they want to show strength. they can't get in the door. they see the russian foreign minister get in the door of the white house. we see the photos of the president and the russian foreign minister, the ambassador, what a great time they're having but no, the president of ukraine, our ally, can't get in the door. they are not stupid. they know what's going on. they're not stupid. that conversation i referenced yesterday when the ukrainians threw it right back in our face, when ambassador volker said to his ukrainian counterpart, you shouldn't investigate the former president, shouldn't engage in those political investigations, the ukrainian response was you mean like the one you want us to do of the bidens and the clintons? they are not stupid. by the end of august, there was still no explanation for the hold despite efforts by numerous people to seek the release of the funding. the leverage hadn't succeeded

actually not the white house's white house correspondent kimberly how could use it in our washington studio what will the white house be making a little of this kimberly. you know well the white house is trying to control this process particularly when it comes to witnesses and whether or not they will appear the white house is trying to push for a speedy trial in order to see the president acquitted there are a number of republican supporters of the president in the u.s. senate who are also trying to push for a very quick trial but that's becoming more and more challenging adrian in light of some of these new revelations in terms of evidence text messages e-mails that have been uncovered by house democrats as part of their overall impeachment inquiry essentially there are claims that have been backed up by the person at the center of all of this a man by the name of lev harness he is an associate of rudolph giuliani yes the personal lawyer of president trump he went on national television in the last 24 hours to say that the president knew exactly what was going on when there was th

i mean one reason the white house may not want to go to court, and you'll notice the white house withct to the witnesses who testified at the house, they didn't go to court on any of those. they didn't assert executive privilege with respect to any of that. one of the reasons they might not want to this time is they'll attach even more importance, even more significance to bolton's testimony should he ultimately testify. so we have to see. >> first of all, the president has yet to assert executive privilege. probably for the reasons that it's very uncertain whether he's actually going to be successful. but i think this is a very novel approach. normally you would tackle it and say does the privilege apply and then you decide the parameters and then you would say is there anything that says i cannot apply the privilege any longer? this is essentially saying it's a way to get out of the ultimate question of does privilege apply for the president in an impeachment proceeding and instead saying is there any way i can get out of having to rule on this final issue where you've got the supre

heard from white house. assuming president trump convinces the who will investigate, get to the bottom of 2016, we will nail down visit to washington. good luck, see you tomorrow. those words couldn't be much clearer. assuming president the convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down the visitto washington. that's a text 30 minutes before that call .counsel for the president would like you to think this is just about that call. you don't get to look outside thefour corners of that call. they don't want you to look at the months that went into preparing for that call. for the months of pressure that followed it . but you can just look at right now, what happened 30 minutes before that call. in this text message. heard from white house, assuming president z convinces trump he will get to the bottom of a happened. if you were wondering how it seemed that president zelensky was aware of what he was going to beasked on that call . this is how you can tell. he

the white house was working to schedule the meeting earlier at the white house or in warsaw, but thoseell through due to normal scheduling and a hurricane. the two presidents met at the earliest convenience without president zelensky ever announcing or beginning any investigations. the first thing to know about the alleged quid pro quo for a meeting is that by the end of the july 25 call, the president had invited president zelensky to the white house on three separate occasions, each time without any preconditions. president trump invited president zelensky to an in person meeting on their initial april 21 call. when you are settled and ready, i would like to invite you to the white house. on may 29, the week after president zelensky's inauguration, president trump sent a congratulatory letter, again, inviting president zelensky to the white house "as you prepared to address the many challenges facing ukraine, please know that the american people are with you and are committed to helping ukraine realize its vast potential. to help show that commitment, i would like to invite you to me

they're promised a white house meeting. they want a white house meeting. white house meeting. they're going to be going into negotiations with putin. they want to show strength. they can't get in the door. they see the russian foreign minister get in the door of the white house. we see the photos of the president and the russian foreign minister or the ambassador, what a great time they're having, but no, the president of ukraine, our ally, can't get in the door. they're not stupid. they know what's going on here. they're not stupid. that conversation i referenced yesterday when the ukrainians threw it right back in our face, when ambassador volker said to his ukrainian counter part, you shouldn't investigate the former president. you shouldn't engage in those political investigations. oh, the ukrainian response was, you mean like the one you want us to do of the bidens and the clintons? they're not stupid. by the end of august, there was still no explanation for the hold, despite efforts by numerous people to seek the release of the funding. the leverage

on july 10 at the white house. on july 19 during a call between zelensky and ambassador sondland and then on july 25 to call with the two leaders. so before that fateful call on july 25 president zelensky understood exactly what needed to be done, a quid pro quo. the evidence of president trump's grave grave misconduct does grave misconduct does not end with the july 25 call. from that point on president zelensky was on notice that it was president trump himself who demanded those two phony political investigations. after the july 25 call the ukrainians bottled up with president trump's direction and began to talk with rudy giuliani the president's political bagman. acting on the presence orders u.s. diplomat including ambassador sondland and ambassador volker worked with mr. giuliani to continue pressuring ukraine to announce the phony investigation that president trump sought in exchange for that oval office meeting. this is corruption and abuse of power in its purest form. over the next two weeks mr. giuliani di

now says it's moving ahead with the plans release can really help at al-jazeera the white house the u.s. military has confirmed that a plane that crashed in afghanistan was one of its aircraft the plane went down in gaza the province a mountainous area partly controlled by the taliban in a statement the taliban said high ranking u.s. security personnel were on board the plane and everyone was killed. u.s. secretary of state my pump aoa has expressed outrage in a phone call with iraq's prime minister over the continued attacks on u.s. facilities by armed groups backed by iran the u.s. embassy was hit by rockets on sunday in the 1st direct strike after months of near misses when american was injured when 3 rockets landed inside the compound located inside the heavily fortified green zone one hit a restaurant there the u.s. has called in iraq to ensure its diplomatic facilities are protected meanwhile clashes have resumed in central baghdad with police firing tear gas at anti-government demonstrators it's the 3rd day of a push by security forces the end months of them stray sions a

that was before we had heard any of the facts from the white house team. the white house team is now for the first time had an opportunity to cross examination and bring out more detail on this point. >> okay. so let's talk about the case they're presenting. the deputy white house counsel said on the floor, yesterday, quote, there is simply no evidence anywhere that president trump ever linked security assistance to any investigations unquote, but take a listen to acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney saying the president did exactly that. >> he also mentioned to me in the past the corruption leelt related to the dnc server, no question, about that that's why we held up the money. >> what you just described a quid pro quo? >> it is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened as well? >> we do that all the time with foreign policy. >> does it bother you at all the trump legal team told you had and your colleagues in the senate that there is no evidence that aid was linked to any investigation when the white h

department had gathered all of the records and was prepared to produce, provide them before the white house directed it to defy the subpoena. notwithstanding this unlawful obstruction through the testimony of brave state department employees, the house was able to identify with remarkable precision several categories of documents relevant to the first article of impeachment that are sitting right now, right now those documents are sitting right now at the state department. i'd like to walk you through four key categories of documents that should be subpoenaed and which illustrate the highly relevant documents the state department could produce immediately. they could produce them immediately for this trial. the first category consists of whatsapp and others that are caught up in these events including ambassador sondland and taylor and deputy assistant kent. all three said they regularly use whatsapp to communicate between each other and foreign government officials. and as the deputy secretary can explain it's a communication in certain parts of the world. we know the state department poss