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

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

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

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 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

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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

how does it affect the process and how does the white house respond? so far up on capitol hill they are trying to actively avoid the shutdown. of course, a stay tuned situation. >> november 21st. right? deadline. >> right. >>> other breaking news regarding 2020. senator kamala harris slashing sister and spe staff in rey lialignment of her campaign. what's happening? >> all-in on iowa. saying it quite some. i but gotten real in the last few days. announcing a major change in staffing and how they're structured. essentially pulling back from other early states like new hampshire and nevada, even california, her home state, to redeploy in iowa where they're saying they want a top three finish for kamala harris. she has really struggled to gain traction, but this is a clear sign they're having money issues. they're trying to do everything that they can so that she can start doing well in iowa. if she didn't, it could pose a challenge for her campaign. back when they announced this all-in strategy they thought he had enough money to do it. they didn't think

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

circling the white house. he's waiting to bite back. >> talk more about that. >> i know john bolton from the bush white house. he's a lifetime republican. but the toughest bureaucratic infighter there is. he knows everything about everything, including this president. and he was not treated well on his way out. i guarantee there's going to be john bolton payback. >> it's worth pointing out that one of the white house -- the first white house aide who has agreed to defy instructions not to cooperate, morrison, who is testifying, apparently, next week, is a bolten guy. and so, this will be an interesting barometer to see what he says. he may corroborate the more damning material that taylor has alleged at this point. he's known to be a loyal party guy. i don't want to elevate his testimony too much. >> bolton? >> morrison. boltton brought him in. >> i was listening with one ear and reading with another. the deputy, former deputy national security adviser, following a lawsuit, asking a federal judge to rule on wh

he is no longer at the white house. he was formally a white house counsel.y way of subpoena submitted himself to the mueller report and was cited 130 times. i think that process is proceeding and we hope that maybe mr. mcgahn will see his way of understanding his responsibility to this nation as opposed to an individual or as opposed to a party. >> okay. congresswoman sheila jackson lee, thank you so much. >> it's a pleasure to be with you. >>> what do people outside the beltway think about the impeachment inquiry? i'm going to ask presidential candidate and montana governor steve bullock. there he is. live, next. when you look at the world, what do you see? we see patterns. relationships. when you use location technology, you can see where things happen, before they happen. with esri location technology, you can see what others can't. ♪ you wanna see something thatamazing?ing. go to hilton instead of a travel site and you'll experience a whole new range of emotions like... the relaxing feeling of knowing you're getting the best price. these'll work. the utt

what happened behind the scenes at the white house to get them to decide no testimony from the white house, kaitlan? >> reporter: essentially the white house played an essential role in deciding this, and officials were in talks late last night discussing just how much they should be cooperating with this, whether or not they should send the ambassador up to capitol hill if there hasn't been this formal impeachment inquiry vote yet. that's what we're hearing behind the scenes for the last few days over here, because they say essentially because it's not a legitimate probe in their eyes, because democrats haven't voted to launch a formal impeachment inquiry that they shouldn't have to be cooperating in this way by sending people like the ambassador up to capitol hill. we're told the white house counsel's office consulted with the state department before they did tell the ambassador this morning that he would not be sitting down for that scheduled deposition, and essentially what you're going to hear from manu is they will say it's worth the risk of angering these democrats by not lett

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

jeremy diamond at the white house. let's speak more about this with political analyst sabrina sadiki for "the wall street journal" and cnn national and security legal analyst susan hennessy, a former nsa attorney. democrats are now saying that they may not need to call the whistle-blower to testify that they have enough from the complaint, plus they have concerns as expressed by adam schiff about exposing this whistle-blower to attacks, et cetera. is that legitimate in your view as democrats are proceeding in a formal impeachment inquiry? >> so i don't think there's that much sort of substantive value at this point of bringing the whistle-blower in. again, as republicans were claiming this was all second-hand knowledge, all hearsay by the whistle-blower, what we've seen is that complaint sparked off a series of primary source testimony. people like bill taylor and next week, tim morrison who are actually going to be able to speak to what happened. so the idea that the whistle-blower is now going to come in and provide

let's have some rules for the white house.f they don't want to have any rules, then you move forward because the house can make its own rules. and there are plenty of witnesses yet to hear. but these witnesses, sondland that was withdrawn today, i think is a critical witness in terms of getting to this whole issue of quid pro quo. >> because clearly sondland had a phone conversation with the president in that five-hour gap in which he didn't respond to the charges da fair, and then he responded essentially quoting the president. stick around. speaking of witnesses, we just got even more breaking news to talk about. next there's new reporting, first on cnn, on 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. >>> also tonight, an update on bernie sanders, how he is changing his campaign as he recovers from a heart attack. saturdays happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve

so that is the white house's stance. the house speaker saying effectively that she has the authority to move forward with an impeachment inquiry and saying that the president will be held accountable. those are her words. this is a standoff that continues to intensify, andrea. the question is what will it mean for the timing of this entire approve? the speaker had said she wanted this to be done by the end of the year. we have put the question to administration officials, what if the house speaker calls your bluff, effectively, and holds a vote? the answer to that is, they won't engage in hypothetical questions, andrea. >> indeed. jeff mason, what about the hiring of trey gowdy who led the house oversight investigation into hillary clinton in the benghazi which led to the email revelations. trey gowdy was a tough chairman, he's now been brought in use outside counsel. what does he bring to the table? >> sure. number one, it's a sign, along with yesterday's letter, that the white house is taking it even more seriously tha

it's white women that fear that same bias win.hat same bias which we all see, many think will sink a woman's chances. >> why do women fear that more than women of color? >> part of it is correlated with women of color versus white women. we saw this huge surge of political activism, white suburban women who where such a force in the 2018 midterms, women of color have outvoted every other group of americans for the last 30 plus years and they're the most politically engaged. what we found is women of color are more likely to go out and work for a campaign, more likely to volunteer, more likely to give money to a campaign, more likely to do the ancillary civic leadership actions to get women elected. that sense of optimism comes from being on the ground and working for it. overwhelmingly women want to see a woman president, they want to see women elected. the question is how hard will they work to make it a reality. it can't be just about clicking on a page on facebook. they have to go out and work, raise the money, give the money,

and he was at the white house yesterday. is he or is he not based on your reporting going to serve as an outside council on impeachment to the president? >> maybe. most likely. but there were reports last night that trey gowdy had lunch we the president yesterday. there were reports several hours later that he was on board. the way it has been described to me is number one, i think people got confused in the initial reports in not understanding that he was not ever supposed to be part of the white house apparatus. it was always going to be an outside counsel. somebody r number two, it's said a an offer has not been made to gowdy yet. but it wasn't a done deal as of last night. as you know, until these things are done in trumpland and even then they're not necessarily done. he will likely be there. i think they will welcome his help. i think they would welcome his help on a number of fronts including a public facing defense. but it is not quite there yet. maybe that'll change in the next couple of hours. but as of last night,

the white house announced the white house itself federal offices will end subscriptions to the washington post, new york times . their competitors of your that bloomberg. >> i think they will be okay. >> does that make your job more difficult when news sources are ended or criticized in that way by their decision? >> the washington post andthe new york times do a lot of their business online now . the washington post gives free subscriptions to government employees. if you have a.government email address you get a free subtraction so i don't think it damages them and subscriptions to that paper. and there's sort of like a dual game that goes on in thisadministration . the president likes to be on us and use us as a prop in his political rallies but we have not been kicked out of the white house, we've not been kicked out of air force one. we're still in close proximity to the president, he talks to us a lot. thereis a lot of news that comes out of the white house and his and ministration talks to us, they work with us as the press. they work with thepress and understand the value of the p

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

>> well, you know, there's very little comparison between the clinton white house and any normal whitee. i would put every president, sort of in my lifetime with the exception of nixon, as a normal -- >> you're saying no comparison to the trump white house. >> yeah. so it is hard to compare. but i'll tell you the one thing that is comparable, most people in the white house don't know what's going on. and the clinton white house, we were very careful about keeping the group of people who worked on this separated from everyone else. when everyone else was told to go and do their work. but the people every day were just like american news consumers. they were hanging on every word. they were watching on tv. they didn't know. and that's the case here. the difference is the president is the chief's spokesperson for the president here. and he's out there every single day ratcheting this thing up. the press conference performance was embarrassing but also troubling. you know, given that he started lecturing the media on here's what you'll cover, here's what you'll ask. but that's the sense of

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

he's still a white house employee. but he was most important to this conversation because he was on that phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine that kicked off this entire impeachment inquiry. so he could speak to the phone call. he could also to speak to bolton, who they want to get in here, reacted to it. but he's now the first person to take this issue of the bat the between congress and the white house to the courts this is not his battle to decide essentially. he wants the judicial branch to weigh in on whether or not it's appropriate for him to follow a congressionally mandated subpoena or the guidance of the white house, which is not to come testify. you heard adam schiff saying that's not good enough. they are going to put his lack of forthcomingness to speak to the committee in a bucket that says he's obstructing and he must thehave something damning say. they are hoping to essentially move on with the inquiry. >> there has been, as you know, a fair amount of consequential testimony al

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viewers, the white house refuses to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. "new day" starts right now. >> escalating a standoff with house democrats, president trump is refusing to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. >> how can it be that the constitution gives congress the right to impeach. if you pursue impeachment, it's unconstitutional. >> the president is obstructing congress from getting the facts that we need. >> you think about what the democrats are trying to do. impeach the president of the united states. 13 months prior to an election. >> if the president thinks by delaying this that he's going to prevent us from moving forward, he's sadly mistaken. >> if we sound like we're pissed, it's because we are. >> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >>> good morning. welcome to your new day. wednesday, october 9th. 8:00 in the east. we begin with a war in the nation's capital. the white house declared war on house democrats and their impeachment inquiry into the president. but this is something more this morning. we are hearing fro

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

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

so that's how sort of how i come to define that element of whiteness. when i got to be white. miami and now living in places like -- i live in nebraska now where it was this idea of, oh, no, you're definitely not a white woman, you're not a white person, right? and you know that, but you -- the context what changed. i didn't change. my actual skin color did not change, but all of a sudden my, like, who i was was being sort of told to me rather than me getting to express it. you hear it in the answer, like these were big things. this is actually connected to my family's weird obsession with disney world and that we went all the time and, like, why was that -- is that a particular south florida thing? other questions would spill out from that, and other times where i went to this dude ranch in nebraska when i moved there because i found out that so many of my students were first generation college students. about 25% of the university was first-gen college students, i'm a first-gen college student, but these students were from rural backgrounds. i'm from miami, and i didn't feel

but what are you picking up from your white house sources?> i'm really picking up that they're all over the place and they're not on the same page and there's a lot of finger-pointing. but it's really, you know, it's more disjointed than ever. you saw yesterday president trump coming on and saying we actually can't hire trey gowdy for the job that we just announced we were hiring for as outside counsel because of lobbying rules he can't start till january. this is a job they wanted him on helping in an impeachment inquiry that they expect to be wrapped up by december. that there's internal finger-pointing about why they got themselves in that mess in the first place and whose fault it was. no one knows who's in charge, people don't know what they're supposed to be doing. but there is also sort of a sense that overall a confidence that president trump is going to barrel on in his re-election campaign and that confidence and the weakness of the democratic field that they think that overall he is going to win a second term. >> all right. well, w

the white house pushed back. but ultimately the state department won out here. >> kylie atwood, appreciate it. joining us now, someone who not only is running to defeat president trump next year but will also be one of the senate jurors if he is impeached. she also sits on the senate intelligence and judiciary co , committees, kamala harris. what is your reaction to this latest reporting about giuliani trying to override the ukraine embassy and the state department to get a visa for this former prosecutor? >> anderson, it's further evidence of corruption by this administration and the personal attorney of the president of the united states. clearly implicitly being permission to act as though he is an arm of the government and the state department. and it's a violation of an extraordinary number of rules and ethical laws about who should do what. and i'm just glad to see that the process is beginning to really do the investigation into rudy giuliani. he has clearly broken many laws. and, you know, i was listening

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

more now from jim acosta at the white house. >> christine and dave, the white house is on a collision course over the impeachment inquiry. the president's legal team has fired off a letter to house speaker 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 confirmed the c nni he calls it crazy and frightening. he was left shaken by what was said on the call and that's why adam schiff says they must get to the bottom of their investigation. here's what he had to say. >> 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 congre congress, a co-equal branch of government. >> and administration officials held a conference about the letter to the house speaker. officials w call what democrats would have to do in order to secure the cooperation of the white house. one official said the white house did not want to get into hypothetical

boris sanchez joins us this morning from the white house. is the white house saying anything about how they think this will play out? >> reporter: good morning. not specifically. trump was shouted questions from reporters as he boarded air force one this morning on his way to chicago. he didn't answer questions about the testimony, though he did answer a question about strategy. i'll get to that. but we can look at this adjudication potentially as a we bellwether as to whether john bolton testifies or not. house members want to hear from him in part because of what they've heard from others like fiona hill, who told them bolton was running a shadow state department, that he was a hand grenade and that bolton joked about giuliani making these drug deals on the side. the questions about the strategy come down to president trump. today he effectively told reporters he wanted republicans and his legal team to focus on the substance of his call with president zelenskiy of ukraine. keep in mind, that goes against what we've heard from officials be

older white man? >> i don't think it's one or the other. i think it's both. i think they like joe biden, they know joe biden, they feel comfortable with joe biden. he was the right hand man of barack obama when he was the vice president. i think it's all o >> quickly. >> no question. but what you saw in 2008 was african-american voters in south carolina, obama went from about 40 points down to winning south carolina after he won iowa. when voters in south carolina saw that he can win support other places with other kinds of voters, they switched. that could happen here. >> my thanks to both of you. ever wonder what it's like to be in the situation room when a raid like this weekend's goes down? two people who have been beside two former presidents when the stakes were high join me next. >>> but first, the california, wildfires still raging across the state, powered by hurricane force winds. the governor now declaring a state of emergency. take a look at the firefighters battling the kinkaid fire in no

white house to defy the white house and come and testify in this inquiry.o that suggests that there will be many more and that it would be hard for the white house to stop oerps such as former national security adviser john bolton who clearly have important information to bear from coming forward number one. number two. >> yes. >> this testimony, it really tends to implicate the president very directly. i'm struck by that. you know, in watergate in the nixon era, you essentially had months and months even a couple of years worth of inquiry that was asking the question well what did the president know and when did he know it? but president trump by contrast in this ukraine plot was really directing and very much involved and at the center of the action. all of these people are testifying in various ways about things that the president personally did, for example, he personally ordered gordon sondland, the eu ambassador, the ambassador to brussels be involved in ukraine policy, according to what sondland told fiona him. he said well butt out because donald tr

for another white candidate. >> stan herndon, thank you for writing about it. thanks for being with me. i'm brooke baldwin. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> welcome to the lead, i'm jake tapper. and we begin with breaking news. two sources present at the tuesday deposition of white house national security counsel staffer lieutenant colonel vindman tell me that he told congressional investigators that he became convinced that president trump personally was ordering the with holding of $400 million in aid for ukraine as a way of forcing ukrainian president zelensky to publicly announce an investigation into the bidens. he said the existence of a quid pro quo had been clear to him by july 10th when the ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland, a point mant on ukraine situation, told ukrainian officials they need to deliver, quote, specific investigations in order to secure the white house meeting they so desired with president trump. that is according to vindman's opening start reported yesterday. but the fact that the $400 million in aid

it's obviously been a concern of many of us that, i worked in the white house, i was the white house staff secretary, i spent three years in the west wing. i've seen a lot of these memos. the nature of that product, how it's developed, it's not a transcript, it's not an electronic recording, obviously. and so there was always going to be some question about the preciseness of that, but i think i wouldn't lose the forest for the trees, if i can make the larger point. which is that the president's conduct is made clear by the call memorandum and it is devastating. and that conduct has been further corroborated and confessed to by the white house chief of staff. and all the evidence that has come out in the public domain has further corroborated the whistle-blower complaint. in other words, there is already significant undisputed evidence of what the president did, and it's very damning. >> the paragraph about joe biden in that transcript as you say contains all the evidence you are looking for as an investigator. and so it's fascinating to see that line dropped out of it because as cru

sox arere of the white jumping. they are jumping the team to go get these jobs in the defense plans for the shipyards. they are highly paid. as draftdodgers. as unpatriotic. they are drawing a good salary. they stay out of the war and play baseball for these shipyards on the weekends. does not even want to let these guys back in and he is nine-gameed to this series, world series. he is portrayed as a great money grubber. a money grab her. more withcome deal that -- and we will deal with that more later on. why is he opposed to the nine-game series? is he a traditionalist? maybe. remember what i said about eddie cott and -- eddie cicotte and another. this is a longer series. they are planning no off days because cincinnati and chicago are so close. they are not that close really but they will have no off days pitchingeded a deeper staff. really, the white sox that year were really stuck behind cicotte and williams and after that, there was a rookie who won 13 games and then read favor who is of- red favor who is a ha

following white house discussions late into the night. just moments ago the state department has told gordon sondland, the ambassador, not -- not to testify this morning. just over an hour before the u.s. ambassador to the european union was set to appear before three house committees in closed door deposition. >> he flew in from europe for this. his lawyer said sondland wanted to testify, traveling to washington from belgium, but he will follow that order because it is coming from his employer. the state department. sondland was set to answer questions over his role in president trump's dealings with ukraine, including trading a white house visit for an investigation into the bidens. >> we'll hear from congressional democrats in just a few minutes on this as we wait for that, let's go to capitol hill. our cnn national correspondent suzanne malveaux joins us. the question becomes, once again, blocked for information by this white house, what are democrats going to do? will they move to hold the administration members in contempt? >> and t

the white house just subpoenaed. democrats say the president's actions have left them no choice, the impeachment probe escalates tonight. plus make pence slamming a request for uk's documents from him. it doesn't appear to be serious. really? and the other breaking news this hour, doctors are revealing moments ago bernie sanders did have a heart attack. let's go out front. >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news. president trump's white house up subpoena. house democrats issuing a subpoena to the white house moments ago. this is part of the impeachment inquiry. they say they're left with, quote, no choice after the white house refused to hand over documents related to trump and ukraine. this as congress this hour has obtained now documents in the whistle-blower complaint against president trump. the intelligence community inspector general deemed it both urgent and credible today, spent nearly seven hours behind closed doors on capitol hill. he gave documents showing how he worked to