if i had the answer, then whites would be -- i'm not a white separatist.hater like billy roper doing with mr. new klan thomas robb? and what have i gotten myself into? >> i hope this is the right klan compound. that would suck. >> and look who's waiting for me. former neo-nazi billy roper. >> yes, we did. we got a little lost. >> billy roper. >> hello, billy. kamau bell. nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you too. >> billy wants to chat before bringing me inside to meet with pastor robb. here's an appropriate setting for a discussion on hate. a kids' playground. >> tell me, how did you get involved with this, with pastor robb? >> i am actually involved as the membership coordinator for the knights party crusader youth corps. >> that's right. the man who said this -- >> if i had the answer all non-whites would be [ bleep ] dead. >> is now teaching kids. >> hi and welcome to the white youth focus tv show. >> can people who look like us still be our enemy? >> well, of course. we believe that homosexual -- homosexuality is wrong and you shouldn't race mix. then

white jewish guy, white woman any need to talk to a regular white guy. >> seattle is really white.like norway. essentially. but my naked is like 80% plus people of color. around the election time, all of a sudden there's like white power slogans at my kid's park. the swastikas down the lake where i go hang out with my family. and like all this stuff just starts swirling. this elderly african-american couple a few blocks away, someone painted the "n" word on their truck. that's messed up. so i was just like, well -- time to get off my ass and do something. >> yeah. why aren't more white people here? and i mean maybe not here with us right now, but here in this frame of mind. you know? >> that's the real question. that's part what was we're doing is like, can we create a space where we can do community defense so people who are trying to fight back against this sort of -- various elements of oppression in society, they have the space to do it. >> yeah, good job, white people. >> so this is my nra membership card. >> can i see it? so what happened? >> this is kind of like out of spite

hill to tell white house lawyers. that is devastating. >> yeah. >> this entire story here really putting things in perspective. certainly ms. hill's testimony today, according to this story in "the new york times," is going to raise a lot of eyebrows. this is -- this quote from her "drug deal -- i'm not going to be part of whatever drug deal rudy and mulvaney are cooking up." this obviously brings bolton into the center of this. we need to hear from him. >> they're reporting that bolton called rudy giuliani a hand grenade that would blow everything up. she said that during an earlier conversation. frank, i want to bring this in -- bring you in because he's quoting what they said here. bolton told fiona hill to report to giuliani's rogue operation to the white house, to white house lawyers saying, i'm not part of whatever drug deal rudy and mulvaney are cooking up. to tell white house lawyers, according to the testimony. what do you make of that? >> this language is extraordinary. this drug deal. rudy giuliani is a han

of white group interest. the idea of protecting your own citizenship rights but also protecting your own privilege vis-À-vis racial injustice and racial inequality. the idea of back presence in white schools is really pushed back by white citizens who have economic backgrounds and religious backgrounds and when we think about massive resistance which is not the clan. it's not tattooed what had two dogs who are getting into school and massive resistance is for people that are part of the clergy. and will attend church and women who are part of the pga and a massive resistance is organized by both white men and white women so it's protecting light interest and the white citizenship away from black perspective so i think of a massive resistance, it certainly white nationalism and white supremacy but by another name and we call that name massive resistance but massive resistance is why we get the confederate flag and the rebirth of the confederate flag. it's in the mississippi and in georgia which has become symb

i think we can infer from the white house opposition to dr. kupperman's testimony that they believe that his testimony would be incriminating of the president. it is also, i think, very plain additional and powerful evidence of obstruction of congress and its lawful function by the president that yet again and even after a court decision affirming the right of congress to proceed with this impeachment inquiry, the white house has obstructed the work of a co-equal branch of government. if this witness had something to say that would be helpful to the white house, they would want him to come and testify. they plainly don't. after hearing the testimony or reviewing the written opening statement of ambassador taylor, one can easily see why the white house does not want further evidence to come before the congress. i found it remarkable i have to say that the republican members of our three committees, including ranking members on oversight committees, took a position effectively of endorsing the white house obstruction that the president in an imp

we saw this in black and white in the transcript released by the white house of that call. president trump made the ask. boom. it's right there for the entire world to see. but now what we're seeing is more and more people who know what was happening behind the scenes be willing to come out. and every single drip, drip, drip of this for the president gets worse and worse, just as the polls of the american people are showing. >> okay. jeff, today defense department laura cooper is set to testify about why the military aid was held up. according to bill taylor, his testimony on tuesday, he said, lawmakers, the state department, the defense department, the cia, national security advisers all wanted to urge the president to release this money, and they couldn't even get a meeting with president trump. if that is the case,rreasoning? what was their legitimate reasoning for holding the mon>>r clues in mick mulvaney's press conference last week. he said -- >> get over it. >> a, yes. b, he also said that aid to ukr. and then he said something which he ended up taking back later, wh

that is the white house in general. throughout our history that the occupant adapts to the office in the office adapts to the occupant. think mrs. nixon, like all first ladies, this finds all of them together. who careso person more about the success of the president and the presidency and the president's spouse. that is their single focus and that is something that will bind all of them together in what personare as the single who has experienced the ups and downs, and who at the end of the day is not like any other advisor. they are a different confidant. i think mrs. nixon does not get the credit for just what an incredible political mastermind that she was. this is the hardest working person on the president's campaign. to think about it and richard nixon's campaign he had gone from congressman to senator to vice president of the united states, and in all of these campaigns, some of them were difficult. 1952 running for the vice presidency when the scandal on the finances corrupted and how that personally wounded he

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it came to the white house. there was a note sent to julie about the impression of her mother while she was painting this portrait. so beautifully evocative. said it is almost greek. the eyes reveal an unusual spirit. an expression of great sweetness. in that expression, occasionally the doors close and the lights go out. it is what one finds in all great beauty. always appealing to something beyond. the desire for the unattainable. windowe looked out the at the hummingbirds, there is a hummingbird in the painting. eyes, shesion in her still needs to injustices. i thought that was a beautiful tribute. >> audience, let's hear from you. we have a microphone. >> i will start -- i will try to stand, but i broke my hip. you talked about the support of women's rights. 1972, at the convention, they had a platform committee to decide public policy. the majority of women on the platform committee wanted to do something about childcare. men, i'mjority of sorry, did not want to. it got five -- fairly tense. all of a sudden

>> white shark. it is a circus. >> they'll need a bigger boat. >> dun dun dun. >> this is a clip from your episode of the circus. steve bannon was asked about the impeachment. >> i was in this i had the pleasure of being with brother schiff. and i know how they roll. here's what i would like to do. i'd like to have taylor at a committee desk in both sitds asking questions and national tv cameras on it. that's all i'm asking. you're cherry picking certain elements approximate tieing together a vast conspiracy. >> well, so he was like the rest of the republicans he didn't have the facts. he went after the process. more tellingly the interesting thing is bannon is often candid. and will tell you the truth. he told the truth about taylor when asked whether or not the attacks on him from the white house were legit. he said that dog won't hunt. he believes that taylor is unimpeachable witness. >> really. >> he defended taylor. >> i can't wait to see the circus on sunday night. show time 8:00. >> thank you

last week the white house announced the white house itself and federal offices will and incursions restrictions the washington post. >> i think they will be okay. >> does that make your job broadly as reporters more difficult when news sources are ended or criticized in that way by their decision not to? >> the washington post and new york times you a lot of their business online now. the washington post i know it free subscriptions to government employees. we have a.gov or an email address, you can get a free subscription so i don't think it really materially damages them and subscriptions to that tradition of the paper. and there's kind of a dual game that goes on with this administration. the president wants to feed on us and use us as a prop in his political rallies but we have not been kicked out of the white house, we have not been kicked out, we're still in proximity to the president all the time. he talks to us a lot. there's a lot of news that comes out of the white house and a lot of people in his administration talk to us area and they work with us as the press. they understandthe va

because of her impact, the theilege she felt to be in white house and anybody who works in the white house sees the impact on the wall of the things they have been able to acquire. i worked for several first ladies. correspondence was important to them. -- of the good things about the things about mrs. nixon, as she came from a small town. envelope fromt an the white house, the president of the united states, what it is andeceive in their mailbox, that is what to have her mail responded to and that anyone who wrote to her would get a letter from the white house. how much that means. that she took that so personally is one of her great legacies. they know what they're talking about. misses roosevelt, eleanor roosevelt, established the first formal correspondence office at the white house. she was the eyes and ears for her. she really understood what that connection to the american people would be through mail they wrote to her or the president. talk about the threat of history. it's a wonderful example to the connection to the constituents. you can never forget that. >> she had a mind

i want to go now to hans nichols at the white house. hans, in just about 25 minutes from now, we may hear from the president. he has been very defiant this morning, perhaps unsurprisingly, as the white house hits this deadline to maybe defy these house requests for documents. >> there are two things happening in the white house this morning, maybe a third when we hear from the president in a little bit. number one, is white house are all but daring congress to change this and make it a more formal impeachment inquiry. the white house's view is that that triggers a certain level of legality that requires more responses, but it also gives the white house access to what capitol hill has, to congressional documents. and then you have the president trotting out this new line on twitter and he appears to be making a distinction between investigating someone for what he says is alleged corrupt behavior and investigating a potential political opponent. i'm going to read you the tweet. as president i have an obligation to end corruption, even if

the white house will refuse to cooperate with it. this comes after the state department brought gordon soundland the u.s. ambassador to the european union from speaking to three house committees informing him of that decision just hours before he was scheduled for a deposition today. ambassador sondland is among the three diplomats who exchanged potentially damning text messages about a possible effort to leverage the government of ukraine last summer. and according to republican senator ron johnson sondland told him over the summer the release was contingent on ukraine pointing a prosecutor who would quote get to bottom of what happened in 2016. house intelligence chairman adam schiff made clear the administration's stonewalling represents obstruction of justice to him. >> the failure to produce this witness, the failure to produce these documents we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress, a coequal branch of government. >> in a tweet this morning the president took persona

let's have rules from the white house.ou move forward because the house can make its own rules. and there are plenty of witnesses yet to hear. but these witnesses, sondland, withdrawn today, i think is a critical witness in terms of getting to this whole issue of quid pro quo. >> right clearly because sondland had a phone conversation with the president in the five-hour gap in which he didn't respond to the charge deaffairs. and then responded quoting the president. stick around we are speaking of witnesses we got more breaking news to talk about. next new reporting first on cnn how the president pushed top officials to go around the normal channels on ukraine and deal instead with guess who, his tv lawyer rudy giuliani. an update on bernie sanders, how he changes his campaign after he recovers from a heart attack. ♪ (dramatic orchestra) performance comes in lots of flavors. there's the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. and then there's performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. th

i'm glad i am seeing the white house fight back.ou: this fight is joined by the republicans, the white house, the president. now does it go to the supreme court? >> there will be many steps in between here and there. the courts don't get involved in these types of political questions. lou: how will it be resolved? >> there can be stand offbetween these coequal branches. the congress can tried to proceed without the white house cooperation. they can get subpoenas from people whom they intimidate. calling aught knap nancy pelosi and congress for intimidating witnesses. they are threatening that if they push back on the subpoenas, that will be considered obstruction of justice. people will be judged guilty if they try to assert their constitutional -- their constitutional rights. if republicans back the white house, i think there will be a standoff and they won't be allowed to proceed. lou: who won't be allow to proceed. lou: issuing an impersonal noun. >> congress, nancy pelosi, schiff, nadler, those folks won't be able to complete th

instructed by the white house not to appear what on earth their lawful obligations and came forward area did their lawful duty. we appreciate the courage they had shown. and that other witnesses will show you are scheduled to appear. the lawsuit that doctor government filed in district court has no basis in law. a private citizen not soon the congress to try to avoid coming in when they're served with a lawful subpoena . we expect that the court will make sure short shrift of that argument. but nonetheless we move forward. doctor cooperman testimony, we believe would corroborate the allegationsof misconduct other witnesses have made . but we move forward and we will obviously consider as we informed doctor cooperman's counsel of his failure to appear as evidence that may warrant a contempt proceeding. in terms of where we are, we have had a full schedule. up until this point we got a full schedule from this point . i think we can infer from the white house opposition to doctor kupperman's testimony that they believe that his testimony would be incriminating of thepresident . it is a

i didn't know who they were when i was in the white house.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. >> they thought they were james bond. we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> prosecutor earl silbert 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, if 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

secretary pompeo in the white house. it may have come from the white house, it may have not. we don't know. there is a series of folders which all come from. folder after holder. i don't have time to fully scrutinize everything in here. it's essentially a packet of propaganda and disinformation spreading conspiracy theories. those conspiracy theories have been widely debunked and discredited. apparently, the material came in may of this year. it coincided with the moment in which the ambassador was recalled. so it was clearly targeting her as well as some other people. the inspector general turned it over to the fbi and has not done anything else internally with it at the department of state, as far as we understand. when the whistleblower report came out, he felt that he needed to turn it over to congress. we are now in possession of this packet of propaganda and disinformation that was circulated in may. peopleions a number of we were planning to see, most notably, ambassador jovanovich. secretary state pompeo is trying to block her from coming. we don't think he will succe

that was in the white house.broke into the water gate and elsewhere looking for dirt on president nixons opponent. this according to the times is a rogue operation involving the highest officials in the land. the chief of staff of the white house the president himself of course. and bolton wanted to alert the lawyers. what did he expect white house lawyers to do? call the cops? read the president his rights. you have a right -- that may happen some day. not yet. it's amazing. i believe that this conventional wisdom we thought was right. the house would impeach but the senate would never convict with the republicans. it maybe wrong. the senate can convict if this keeps going. >> interesting. the new reporting says that according to today's testimony. bolton told hill to tell the white house lawyers that i am not part of whatever drug deal rudy and mulvaney are cooking up. and we're also learning more about mick mulvaney involvement and working with giuliani. what do you make of that? >> again, it's high officials.

i think that's what the white house is trying to do. house thinks that if they cooperate and if they have hearings -- what this tells you is that they know the facts are bad and if they engage in the process with hearings, it's going to get worse for them than if they obstruct. they'd rather take the hit on obstruction. >> that tells you a lot. >> it tells you they know how bad the facts are. >> in the nixon impeachment there were a federal judge who ruled among other things that grand jury testimony had to be turned over to congress. this was part of the so-called road map for impeachment proceedings that came out of the watergate era. in court yesterday there was a department of justice lawyer who argued that he would rule differently. >> i think the preposterous position that the judge indicated by saying wow, you half expect barr to open up an investigation into nixon to see if he can exonerate him at this point. i think that's simply wrong legally. one thing we have to be careful of for the public is a lot of times we talk about im

i'm sure they'll get instructions from the white house. if they do and they fail appear, they will be building a very powerful case against the president for obstruction. each time the white house steps in to obstruct congress from getting documents and we know now that there are any number of very important relevant documents the state department is withholding from congress. they also withhold witnesses and forced them to refuse to appear or attempt to ignore lawful process, they will build the obstruction case against the president. in terms of how we will use litigation, we are not willing to allow the white house to engage us in the lengthy game in the courts. we'll press forward. [indiscernible] >> no. we will not allow the white house to delay our investigation. any acts of obstruction of this, any effort to prevent the congress and the american people from learning more about the president's misconduct, will build a public case for obstruction of congress by this president. let's keep in mind what we have learned in two short weeks

we start in the nation's capitol, the white house declaring war against the white house impeachment inquiry he says that is unfair because it denies the president and house republicans investigative powers writing president trump and his administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances. >> gordon sondland is at the center of the scandal and that order came literally an hour before sondland was set to speak on capitol hill. more from cnn's jim acosta at the white house. >> the president's legal team has fired off a letter to nancy pelosi refusing to cooperate with the investigation. the president is stoking those tensions, declaring he won't cooperate with what republicans are calling a kangaroo court. cnn has also learned of a memo by a white house official who listened in on the conversation and character rises that conversation as, quote, crazy and frightening. he was left shaken by what was said on about the call. that's why adam schiff said they must get to the bottom of their investigation. here's what he had to say. >> the failu

so why is the white house claiming victory tonight? plus two major court hearings tonight that could change the course of the impeachment investigation. what we're learning from inside the courtroom. and a rising democrat embroiled in a scandal delivers a blistering farewell speech and tonight she leaves congress pointing fingers. let's go "out front". >>> good evening. i'm pamela brown in for erin burnett. "out front" tonight, the breaking news, the impeachment investigation now in high gear on this historic day when the house of representatives voted to move forward with the impeachment of president trump. another crucial witness testifies of a quid pro quo between trump and ukraine. tim morrison, a top white house adviser now the fifth person under oath to back up allegations of a deal military aid to ukraine in exchange for dirt on trump's political enemies, something the president has denied over and over again. >> no quid pro quo. >> no quid pro quo. >> no quid pro quo. no quid pro quo. no quid pro quo. >> well, tonight, white ho

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and i'll be honest, we can take the headline, white house stymies congress, white house refuses to hand over information, we could run that same headline every three months in this administration began. so i don't think for once the democrats are not shocked and amazed that the white house is lying or not providing information. they can have this vote whenever they want. here's the other key part about this. every piece of information that they have asked for, that this administration refuses to come forward with can be part of a complaint about obstruction of justice into an investigation of inappropriate behavior the president has already admitted to. that's their option, to take everything that donald trump is doing now and make that a part of their case in a stronger case that for once, according to the polls, not only are people in favor of the impeachment inquiry, but we have now moved to a point where americans are actually recent polls show, americans are in favor of donald trump being removed from office in a vote. that's something that works in the democrats' favor. >> interes

it's right there in black and white. in the letter the white house sent to nancy pelosi and the chairs of the intel and the foreign affairs and the oversight committees. they sent it just tonight. the absurd -- and i mean absurd claim that the president has been left with no choice, okay? remember that. no choice, those two words. going on to refuse to participate in what they claim is a partisan and unconstitutional inquiry. no choice. no choice. really? the president of the united states claiming he has no choice but to stonewall and to obstruct in the face of lawful inquiries from congress. why does this president always see himself as a victim? he's the president of the united states, arguably the most powerful person on the planet. why does he always see himself as a victim? he has everything. is he really a victim? and he's putting that out there to people who have no reason to feel victimized. everybody is a victim. i'm a victim. no one forced him to make that call to the president of ukraine. no one forced him to

that's in the white house statement.nd that this still doesn't grant the president his due process rights. how do you respond? >> we have been proceeding in a serious and solemn and sober fashion, consistent with our constitutional responsibilities and will continue to do that. this impeachment inquiry from the very beginning is simply about following the facts, applying the law, being guided by the united states constitution and presenting the truth to the american people. and the resolution that we will be voting on thursday is consistent with that direction. >> any doubts whether or not it will pass? do you have the 218 votes for sure that you need? >> it is my expectation that the overwhelming majority of the house democratic caucus will support our effort to continue to move forward to this next phase of the impeachment inquiry which will allow for the public presentation of evidence as well as give the president the opportunity to present any exculpatory information that he may have, which, by the way, wolf, has ye

the white house going to war on the house impeachment inquiry.g former congressman trey gowdy to help wage it. he would not join the administration but would help them wage the impeachment fight from the outside. you can imagine that would mean a lot of tv appearances. joining me to talk about that, ross garber. he teaches impeachment law at tulane and has represented four governors who face impeachment. you have a little bit of expertise in this arena, ross. thank you for being here. look. whether you like his politics or not, trey gowdy is a skilled litigator. he's a good lawyer and can make an effective, compelling argument. but, remember when he said this? listen. >> the notion that you can withhold information and documents from congress no matter whether you are the party in power or not in power is wrong. respect for the rule of law must mean something irrespective of the vicissitudes of political cycles. >> does that from 2012 make it a little bit harder for him to defend the administration's stonewalling now? >> i think we're going to be

the white house press secretary stephanie grirnl saying the white house democrats are wasting time and money with these requests for information, although we should point out this is not a request. this is a subpoena and it's something they have to comply with. we should point out in that statement coming from the press secretary, john, they're not saying we're not going to cooperate with this. that same sentiment goes for the vice president's office. they also released a statement this afternoon because they had been requested that they turned over information relevant to this investigation and they're saying they don't take this seriously at this point and don't see it as a serious matter. but, again, in that statement they're not saying they're not turning over information. that's important. >> it is important. jim, to what extent is the white house concerned with the release of these text messages which plaint as clear a picture as you can get of a quid pro quo. >> i think they are concerned about this, john. i think that is why you saw the president in almost a roboticic fashion,

there has been some strategizing at the white house, primarily led by the white house chief of staff mick mulvaney and senior adviser to the president and his son-in-law jared kushner. but what we have largely seen is the president alone, at least as it relates to the messaging around this impeachment strategy. and that led to some dismay among white house officials and allies high spoke with over the last day, who said they were disappointed to see the president go out yesterday on the south lawn of the white house and ask another country to investigate the bidens, saying the president is making matters worse for him. where there has been some effort effort at the white house, it's been largely to try and reconstruct the time line and the circumstances surrounding in call between the u.s. president and the ukrainian president back in july as the white house begins to prepare its impeachment defense. what we are also seeing from the white house, it seems, is an effort to potentially dare house democrats to go further with the impeachment inquiry. the white house officials really beli

the white house orders the e.u. ambassador not to testify before lawmakers and said it is done playing nice. now house democrats say they'll subpoena the ambassador. >>> calling trump first. cnn has learned that the e.u. ambassador called president trump during the four-hour gap before he responded to a text message from another u.s. diplomat who warned that holding up aid for ukraine for help with a politic campaign was, quote, crazy. >>> and favoring the inquiry. a new poll shows a majority of americans support the impeachment inquiry and more republicans may be breaking with the president. will public backing for the impeachment inquiry change how republicans respond on capitol hill? wolf blitzer is off today. i'm brianna kieler, you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> the breaking news this hour, a significant escalation of the impeachment battle between the trump administration and house democrats. white house lawyers have written a letter about to deliver telling house speak

particularly leads to white privileges and what white people are privileged with, the privilege thatou assume to be intelligent, presume to be innocent while black people are deprived of that assumption and so you have white people imagining that, you know what, i don't want coconfess my own racism, i don't want to challenge rage racism because i'm going to lose those privileges but i think what's also happening and i think there's a book entitled dying of whiteness by jonathan that sort of documents how white people today have actually been losing -- i should say racist ideas which they imagined are allowing them to sustain privileges are actually leading to their own death, to give an example in certain states where you have white americans refusing to allow obamacare provisions to come to that state, that then leads -- they don't want those people of color to get access, so then what happens to those white people, they don't have access, or you have white people who are advocating for the removal of gun control policies so they can protect their family against so-called black crim

adding the white house aid was shaken.ow despite the white house insisting they will not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry they are gearing up for it. sources te sources saying that they hired trey gowdy for an attorney. he met with mick mulvaney. erse >> huh. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst and cnn political analyst to talk about all of this crazy and frightening and now trey gowdy has made an entrance. remember the reprieve when they handed over a transcript and whistleblower can complaint and they said stone walling done full stop. is that going to stop the bleeding now? >> i don't think so. they're trying one too, prevent the democrats from having any additional facts because they do realize, as you point out, that the facts they did release, the reads out of the phone calls on a full transcript and the whusal blower complaint really did open up -- i think they thought that might stop impeachment from going forward and quite the opposite happened. new people came forward and a new amount of facts came forward

adding the white house aid was shaken. >> now, despite the white house insisting they will not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry, they are gearing up for it. the white house is hiring the former south carolina congressman as a lawyer. he's not expected to join the administration officially but will be advising from the outside. he met with the chief of staff mick mulvaney. >> i want to bring in cnn legal analyst. and cnn senior political analyst. to talk about all of this. crazy and frightening and tray gowdy made an entrance. president's reprieve we had. stone walling is done, full stop. that seems to be over. is that going to stop the bleeding now? >> i don't think so. they're trying to to do two things. one to prevent the democrats from having any additional facts because they do realize that the facts they did release the read out of the phone call, not a full transcript. and the whistleblower complaint really did open up -- they thought it might stop impeachment from going forward. of course quite the opposite happened. new people came forward, enormous amount of facts were ava

peter alexander is over at the white house. mike, tell us what you're hearing from your sources inside biden world. >> reporter: hallie, what i'm hearing is this what they saw in terms of the split screen, this contrast between the president and their view increasingly unnerved and unhinged as he's feeling the weight of the pressure of this investigation on capitol hill and now legal troubles closing in on his lawyer, rudy giuliani, versus the statesman like way that you see the former vice president talking about the issues that matter to voters. this is a point biden made in a tweet directed at the president. he said while he was at the forum in los angeles yesterday talking about the fundamental dignity that all americans deserve, the president is, as he put it, showing little respect he has for anyone else. america is so much stronger than your weakness. now, hallie, it's also interesting we talked the other day about the speech the vice president gave in new hampshire, much more direct taking on the president on these issu

the white house released records that say this. this is in the white house notes from the call.uote, 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 you can do with the attorney general would be great. that's donald trump talking to zelensky in notes released by the white house. biden went around brag that he had stopped it, the prosecution. so if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me, trump said. trump also told us that he urged ukraine to investigate biden. >> the conversation i had was largely congratulatory, was largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place, was largely the fact that we don't want our people like vice president biden and his son creating to the corruption already in the ukraine. >> so that's all that the whistle-blower alleged. donald trump then blurted it out of his own, what does he call it, stable brain and mouth? here's another example from the whistle-blower's complaint. white house officials told me that they were, quote, directed by white house la

no offense to my white crew members. here's the problem with white people.for these one, two, three, four. five. yeah, five. yeah. he's from alabama. so i don't even think of him as being white. as a black man every video of michael brown, eric garner -- >> mm-hmm. >> philando castile. i'm seeing myself in that. >> mm-hmm. >> even though i've never been in that situation. when eric garner is on the ground being choked out by cops and saying i can't breathe and i find out he has asthma and people are like he's a 6'4" black man with aft ma, i'm a 6'4" black man with asthma. while people don't see white people in these videos and see themselves. we've had enough of these videos now of white women where we're like you must have seen the other videos. you'd think in that moment you'd be like wait a minute, am i about to get a hashtag with a name that's not mine? >> no, they don't. white people also see groups with people of color and they see individuals for white people. that's just their m.o. but it's nice to see that these stories are aggregated because that k

so that also makes him a concern to the white house. yeah, awful terms in some of the statements coming in from official white house press people suggesting this guy was completely unqualified for this important position. jeffrey toobin, how do you see all of this unfolding? >> i don't think there is much legal ground in which to object to his testimony. this cupperman case seems sort of silly to me. this is a subpoena. it's a valid subpoena. all the other witnesses have responded to the subpoena. the idea that when you get a subpoena, you have to go to court and say, judge, should i comply with this? i just don't get that. the fact that the white house counsel has raised in this eight-page letter this blanket objection, that doesn't seem to have any legal base at all, and the fact that these others have come through and testified about these conversations, i can't imagine that a judge would say, you, john bolton, don't have to testify about the very same conversation. >> do you agree? >> i'm sorry, wolf, i couldn't hear what he was say

why shouldn't nancy pelosi just call the white house bluff and hold the vote to rob the white house of a talking point? >> it won't work. they're going to stonewall anyway. >> why not just do it so that they can't make this argument anymore? >> because we're going to have a vote and put members on record once we have all of the evidence. and we're getting as much evidence and the judiciary committee is going to refer then the articles and the house members will vote. speaker pelosi wants to have members vote once we've made the case. and the reality is this president is just stonewalling, and even lindsay graham, if you go back and look at his clips, he has said that you can't have the white house obstruct congressional oversight. >> speaking of tray goudy, based on your sources, i've spoken with people who say he's in consultation now with the white house about potentially joining up with the president's impeachment strategy team outside the white house. >> hopefully he'll look at his previous quotes. he was the one who was saying any president, any party, you can't subvert congressio

in black and white. there was an arrangement where the white house wanted ukraine to investigate joe biden and investigate the 2016 election interference and ukraine wanted millions of dollars. i you see diplomats trying to figure out how to make this happen what do you see? >> with contacts with ukrainian, the administration was seeking a quid pro quo. that they were going make a trade in exchange for getting the investigations that would help trump people and dig up dirt against biden, for example, that they would get this meeting and the foreign aid given over. that was the disagreement. republicans claiming there is no quid pro quo. that disagreement is now over. the messages make it clear that there was indeed a quid pro quo and it was very serious and this is exactly what, you know -- it will be very interesting to see what the republicans now say having denied there was a quid pro quo. if there were more hurds there things would be a lot better. he seems a fair minded man and open to facts. that i

well, the white house is obstructing the impeachment inquiry. they say it's because they believe this unconstitutional. now nancy pelosi and her caucus, they're facing a major challenge as how to move forward. president trump continuing to stonewall house democrats in their investigation efforts. the white house sending a scathing letter to nancy pelosi and house committees refusing to cooperate. calling the impeachment inquiry illegitimate and unconstitutional. pelosi sending her own strongly worded warning writing, mr. president, you are not above the law. you will be held accountable. >> the president is obstructing congress from getting the facts that we need. it is an abuse of power for him to act in this way. and that is one of the reasons that we have an impeachment inqui inquiry. >> reporter: the war or words heating up after the white house blocked gordon sondland from appearing before house committees on tuesday. his attorney writing in a statement, ambassador sondland is profoundly disappointed that he will not be able to testify. hou

last week the white house announced erdogan will visit the white house again next month. decision to pull troops out of syria. before trump imposed sanctions, and before turkey's assault on kurdish forces. now the strategy and mutual admiration is being challenged by the same issue, be strong to their base but trying to prevent yet another middle east war. wolf today the president's quotes are interchangeable with what turk's president erdogan has been saying about the situation, that the kurds are no angels and that syria and russia should fill the security voids and fight isis and that u.s. should left turkey border to turkey. wolf. >> drew griffin, good reporting, thanks very much. coming up, why these curious pictures of kim jong-un riding a horse could signal potentially something big. (melissa) somebody would ask her something and she would just walk right past them because she didn't know they were talking to her. (deborah) i just could not hear. i was hesitant to get the hearing aids because of my short hair, but nobody even sees them. (avo) our nearly invisible h

now the white house is gearing up for this legal battle, cnn is learning the white house is expected to bring on former gop congressman trey gowdy to serve as the president's outside legal counsel. gowdy was here at the white house yesterday meeting with acting chief of staff nick mulvaney. we are learning behind the scenes how white house officials scrambled to try to keep the contents of that ukraine phone call secret as concern was spreading through the white house. a source says one white house official described that call and the aftermath crazy, frightening, saying they were shaken by what they heard on that call. but this morning president trump misrepresenting that white house official's kempblts i want to fact check a part of the tweet. he said the squad whistleblower before knowing i was going to release the exact transcript stated that my call with the ukrainian president was crazy and frightening. that was from a white house official whose views were memorialized by the whistleblower. >> that memo given to the inspector general. the president goes on to 22 et that the whi

let's get to the white house. what is the white house saying about this? >> reporter: well, kate, what we're learning, the white house indeed consulted with the state department over this decision to block gordon sondland, the ambassador to the european union from testifying. that came last night with the officials over sondland's deposition. one of the key factors weighing on the white house right now is how much they should cooperate with the house inquiries, at the same time as they're also pressuring the house speaker nancy pelosi to actually bring this for a vote on the house floor. it's a formal vote to open an impeachment inquiry. that's something that the house speaker has insisted that she is under no obligation to do, pointing to the constitution, of course. but this does fit into a broader strategy that we're seeing from this white house, kind of testing the limits of how much they can disobey these requests from congress. a coequal branch of government, of course. one source close to the impeachment sessions saying the days of being nice are do

she was also very complimentry nixon about how the white house had been improved and that there were more dark corners anymore and she had done a beautiful job. learn more about former first lady pat nixon on the presidency. this is american history tv only on c-span 3. >> cornell college professor catherine stewart talks about racial dynamics in the 1930's, including the federal writers project, an effort together narratives from former slaves. we recorded the interview at the organization of american historians annual meeting in philadelphia. >> catherine stewart, your book, long past slavery, representing race. what period of time are you talking about here? prof. stewart: it's entertainment because it focuses -- interesting because it focuses on a project that came out of the 1930's and specifically out of the roosevelt administration's attempt to do something to create work for all different types of occupations. it created a number of arts projects to put unemployed writers and artists back to work. it happened in the 1930's that they created the federal writers project and dec

and non-white. what's interesting about this first letter and really his first trip was. what did he assigned as the cause of essentially witnessing this anti racist sort of space and behavior among the white people and non-white people? what did he consider to be the fundamental cause of what he was experiencing? yes? >> there are what? >> yes, they were all muslim, so what did you think was really causing it? >> yes, islam. and so, he didn't just sort of right about the unity, and the brotherhood as he called it, and these experiences. he also stated you, know what? what could be the cure for racism in america? he made the case that is lumb could be the cure for racism in america. now, of course, many black people in multi racial muslim nations probably had issues with that type of statement. he of course offered that as a solution. to the racial problem in america. and, as you would imagine, if you go on the hunt, you go on a hushed, you have an incredible religious experience, which is suppose w

the white house tonight in massive clean-up mode.the president's hand-picked ambassador turns. what did he tell lawmakers behind closed doors and we have details this morning and president trump admitting he resolved a crisis or claiming he resolved a crisis he created and his own party is calling him out tonight. let's go out front. >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news. president trump's acting chief of staff today blowing the lid off trump's claim there was no quid pro quo with ukraine and tonight mick mulvaney is trying to undo