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In the United States and around the world welcome we begin the day with the phone call. Between 2 president s and a conversation that could bring down one of those presidencies yesterday the u. S. House of representatives launched an impeachment inquiry reacting to a whistleblower report that suggests u. S. President asked ukrainian president zelinsky to dig up dirt that trump could use against his opponent in next years president ial election today the white house released the transcript summary of that phone call in it us President Trump says i would like you mr selenski to do us a favor i would like my attorney general to call you and your people and i would like you to get to the bottom of it. And with that trump asked zelinsky to help deliver political dirt against joe biden the leading democratic candidate who could very well run against trump next year a u. S. President asking another country to help influence the outcome of a u. S. Election an allegation that has triggered impeachment investigations and investigation that trump today once again called a witch hunt these are the documents the white house released hoping to diffuse the controversy over President Trumps telephone call with his ukrainian counterpart of a lot of ms alinsky instead they seem to back up claims that trump pressured selenski to investigate the business dealings of democratic rival joe bidens son trump continues to deny the allegations and says democrats are harassing him. This is rather it was or whatever and if you take a look at the democrats they went down to see the president of ukraine and they asked him for all sorts of things and dont go with the republicans and stay with us and like its a political war they shouldnt have done that its the single greatest witch hunt in American History probably in history but in American History its a disgraceful thing the conversation details were made public a day after House Democrat leader nancy pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry into the matter a move shes defended. The president of the United States. Kept his Constitutional Responsibilities has asked a Foreign Government to help him in his Political Campaign that cannot stand he will be held accountable Top Democrats had long resisted calls for impeachment fearing a backlash from voters who still support trump but compared to the russian best a geisha they say the ukraine call is different after the president is directly involved here its pretty clear what has happened and i think this as bad as the other stuff was this is even worse. What trump probably saw as a routine chat now looks set to be at the center of a massive political battle with congress one that could ultimately spell an early end to the trump presidency. You know Public Opinion make or break for this impeachment inquiry an investigation with replications for both the u. S. And ukraine to talk about that tonight im joined here at the big table by galen drew he is host and producer of the 538 politics podcast and with the ukrainian side of the story for us tonight my good colleague Nick Connelly joins us from here gentlemen to both of you well. Lets start with the u. S. Ukrainian president s they just met in a one on one meeting in new york at the u. N. Afterwards they spoke to reporters here is part of what ukrainian president zelinsky said when he was asked about being pressured to help dig up political dirt for the u. S. Take a listen are you sure that we had. I think good phone call he to us normal we spoke about many scenes then day so i think in the youll read is that nobody bullshit bush me yes and no great. Oh you dont know what they want to know right here and i know there was and by the way you know they would know for sure you have to do it is one of the call are thats what the u. S. President says id like to give both of you to react to this nic let me start with you did you get the impression though that president zelinsky that maybe he hasnt grasped entirely what exactly was being asked of him in that phone conversation. Well brant this transcript we saw today is pretty remarkable because theres lots of talk of investigations before it even becomes really plain this is about hunter biden and his father former Vice President joe biden i think its probably did will unrealistic to expect that this communication came out of nowhere there wasnt any kind of back channel discussion before the official talk on the phone between the 2 leaders so i i think in terms of you know an interest in what joe biden sums up in ukraine i think he understands in terms of the ramifications of this kind of conflict of interest in the u. S. But schools setting i think thats pretty hard to fathom here in ukraine because this is a country where most people would just your own confidence like that where politics and big business where government policy and person puts can trust very tightly interwoven so theres no real big shock here in ukraine the suggestion that trump would want to do Something Like this you know thats a very good point where corruption have home these things are not surprising healing for the u. S. President this is really cut and dry isnt it a normal phone conversation he says and he says its been turned into a witch hunt yet again yes so there are basically 2 questions here one is did the president of the United States ask the president of ukraine to dig up dirt on a possible political opponent it seems pretty clear that he asked the president of ukraine to investigate biden and his son hunter now what the president saying there was no pretty quid pro quo he didnt say that this funding for our defense is specifically tied to digging up that dirt if you read the transcript no he didnt literally say if you do this i will give you military aid but we know from past the moeller investigation for example thats not the way that trump does business right in fact his personal lawyer Michael Cohen said that he basically says. You know it would be really nice we really need you to do this etc etc cinco you know i mean come on the person is a you know hes been alive on this earth long enough not to know that you dont say to the president of ukraine at least for an american president to do that to say hey if you investigate my political opponent i will give you the military if you want right i mean exactly quid pro quo cant take place without it actually being explicitly said as you said what about Public Opinion in all of this. Its important for this inquiry would you agree to that and do we know if most americans they even want to see the country go through these impeachment proceedings ok so the answer to that question last week are based on the latest polling that we have is no. Basically 60 something percent of americans say theyre not interested in having an impeachment inquiry against the president it varies a little bit high fiftys mid fiftys and then say about 38 percent on average say they do want an impeachment inquiry into the president of the United States but there are a lot of copy outs there for example the House Speaker nancy pelosi has not been pushing for an impeachment inquiry up until now so theres a good chance that once you have high profile people in washington pushing for this Public Opinion it could change what it comes down to the final question of what they said total inquiry means Public Opinion is fundamental because the chance that the senate actually removes president trouble from office meaning 2 thirds of the senators vote to remove the president from office is controlled by the republican which is controlled by the republicans is very low so you have to basically look at this from the starting point of this is Political Warfare democrats are going to use this inquiry to try to tarnish the president and you know they will say we have the Legal Backing we have like were in the morally right position where public will say this is a witch hunt how dare you and then when it gets the senate acquit him presumably unless something comes out that here to for we can imagine yeah i mean so nick you hear i mean how explosive this can or cannot be in the United States and lets take it then to ukraine i mean could it in any way become a liability for president so lindsay despite the fact that there is so much corruption in the country. It already is a lot but its the ukraine could only lose in the situation this is a lose lose if you would come up with the goods or d the ukraine judiciary as present selenski today reemphasized in new york that this is all independent he cant influence anyone if they would come up with something against the biden family father who visited ukraine when he was Vice President or the son that would you know put ukraine in democrats bad books if he doesnt do trump the favor hes asked then equally hes going to have secured goodbye to those 400000000. 00 in military aid and the sales of weaponry so you really saw president s get today desperate to focus on the positives on the on the small talk inviting retracing his invitation to President Trump to come to kiev and the same kind of flattery we saw in the transcript saying how much he enjoyed staying in the trump tower when his visit to new york and just trying to say as little as possible because there is really nothing for ukraine to win in all of this and ukraine desperately needs american support after all lots of fears here in kiev that the europeans especially the french are going to go soft on russia going to bring back draw down those sanctions have been place since crimea was annexed so that real support and the bipartisan support ukraine has enjoyed for the past few years in washington absolutely crucial so Ukraine Security so are those of a why abilities and what about this entire scandal does this impeachment inquiry becoming an asset for donald trump i mean the president will certainly spin it as a potential asset for him you heard him say today that this impeachment could be good for the election and basically what this goes back to is probably clintons impeachment because after republicans impeached clinton in the ninetys they saw democrats do very well in the Midterm Election following that essentially the americans felt as if their president had been victimized by republicans in the house they came out in droves to support him and ultimately democrats did well so donald trump wants that kind of. To be repeated in that he is seen as being victimized by these democrats who are partisan hacks etc and then he wins reelection in 2020 as a result but we only have very few examples of impeachment from history to have only been 3 previous impeachment proceedings and so its not necessarily fair to use that one example as the kind of template for how this will turn out this could turn out very differently which explains why nancy pelosi has been so reluctant to take that step that she knows is going to trigger something that as you say is completely predictable let me ask you about the text of the take summary of this phone conversation if you read it it clearly reveals that youve got the president asking a foreign president to help him influence the outcome of the u. S. Election its clear and yet today we heard from people like Lindsey Graham the u. S. Congress saying this is just normal conversations that president s have with other heads of state other leaders but its not is it. Correct i mean i cant imagine an example in which a democratic president would have done such a thing and republicans would have been about as theyre being about this situation helping the republicans sell does the as something that is normal because thats what it felt like today when Lindsey Graham was talking about well throughout trumps presidency weve seen things that would have been an abomination under obama kind of framed in a particular way so we set the states that this wasnt a quid pro quo he was just saying he was talking about a lot of things they included a conversation about security it also included a conversation about corruption those 2 things may not necessarily be linked the president is concerned about corruption so you see that kind of its all about framing the conversation in a way that this is normal for trump this is the way he speaks now its up to americans whether or not they believe this was something thats going to happen now that has not happened before is democrats are going to be in the news on a regular basis in front of t. V. Cameras making their argument as part of this impeachment inquiry for why the president should be impeached why they believe that he is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors up until now palosi has been very interested in trying to quell the talk of impeachment and put emphasis on other things like the democrats policy priorities that is going to change and once democrats start arguing loudly on television for americans on a regular basis that the president has broken the law or whatever the allegations may be you may see Public Opinion change i would not be surprised if support for impeachment started to take off as democrats become more vocal on this issue yeah its completely unpredictable which of course makes it a whole them were interesting a fascinating absolutely drew coast and producer of the 538 politics podcast joining us tonight here in berlin and. My colleague here right there Nick Connelly to both of you gentlemen thank you very much was great and great discussion. Our now we go to the u. K. Where it was another eventful day in another eventful week british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson today addressed parliament in london and challenge the Opposition Labor Party to table a motion of confidence in his government the British Parliament resumed its session today after the Supreme Court yesterday declared that suspension by Prime Minister johnson to be unlawful heres Boris Johnson and the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbin going at it today in westminster. They have been to house rice used today to table a motion of no coal fired. On the on the. On the only. One he can have that relates to her worth any of the other politicians this little partys thanks to go over the weekend to you and i sure wouldnt even tell you were very gloomy have the courage to actually will they refuse to take responsibility and do nothing but their underlay why wouldnt they offer to yesterdays ruling mr speaker. The Prime Minister should she have done the all noble thing im resigned she was. The only was the only when he had ceased to speak ya he was forced back to this house to rightfully face the scrutiny he tried to avoid. Ways you know shreds of frivolous or humility say i need of course no substance whatsoever. Serious. All right to talk about what we just saw there im joined here at the big table by quentin feel hes a Senior Analyst with the think tank Chatham House in london he is here in berlin tonight its good to see you quentin when i see that and listen to that i get the impression that Boris Johnson is acting like yesterday the Supreme Court parochial that just didnt happen is business as usual can he can he get away with that i dont know hes gone straight on the attack hes just ignoring anything not there were calls right through this debate that he should resign he should realize what a complete he was accused of being a liar cheat it was a very angry angry and rumbustious debate and he just ignored it totally and just said i carry on what i think is clearly was his strategy before is even more his strategy in iraq is im the man of the people whos going to take on this dreadful parliament and earlier in the day we heard his attorney general describe the parliament as a disgrace as a dead parliament this is the parliament there was only elected 2 years ago and its a parliament that has actually been pretty strong in standing up to the government and thats exactly what the Supreme Court said yesterday they said parliament is sovereign and Boris Johnson was unlawful in trying to close it done for 5 weeks so he had his power checked yesterday by the Supreme Court and now he wants to go next month and meet with e. U. Leaders and see if he can get this last minute deal but after what happened yesterday the Supreme Court his position his leverage with them is even weaker than it was just 48 hours ago is it i think so i think thats thats it his chances of getting a deal really very slim and partly because they dont believe he can get it through parliament he could come up with a clear plan to get a deal through pennell them and. Maybe they could move to do that hes going to have to get crossed the support hes going to have to reach out to the opposition to get agreement and whats he doing is attacking them head on and basically say youre a complete shallow you dont even have a motion of no confidence in me and precipitate an election. Whats Parliament Going to do now that they have resumes the session. Can they do anything now to influence the brights it outcome that we may or may not experience on october 31st i mean is there work to be done yes undoubtedly there is i think the 1st thing is they want to put absolute handcuffs on the low theyve passed which says we will not crash out without a deal on the 31st of october jones says i will have a the low and he says i will say leave on the 31st of october its not clear how he can do that however theres something more dramatic they could do and this is what the Scottish National party leader said in Parliament Today which is yes to have that vote of no confidence but then the all the anti Boris Johnson forces have got to come together and agree on a Transitional Government which would ask for a delay and organize or an election or indeed organize a referendum one of the what do you think is more likely well its very difficult a referendum take 6 months to organize where an election can can be done in a month the thing giving for a referendum is that actually both late Jeremy Corbett the leader and conservative Boris Johnson the leader of very split and a referendum gets them off the hook and it means that perhaps they can get the old bricks deal of the way whether the referendum says we still want it. All the referendum says no were giving up on but Boris Johnson he would prefer to have an election because he believes i mean right now he has a minority government in parliament he believes that if you had the election today he would receives strong showing strong support and he would be stronger in parliament so thats the better option for him than a 2nd referendum isnt it i think at the moment it is but. Hes what areas and this is how hes trying to be been nuva it into a scheme for an extension from the e. U. Because hes made that such a big deal that he will die in a ditch rather than tension and that he actually is forced to us for an extension he could then look weak and then he wouldnt pick up all the probe voters because what he wants to do is smash the bricks it to his right what he is in danger of doing of course is losing very much as to the left to the liberal democrats and so on so there is an argument that says if he cant deal and did a deal with labor that they both agreed to put it to a referendum for going to an election in a way it would just get the issue off the yeah its hard to imagine the labor coming in any a greener making any deal right now with with boards johnson i think that the mood is how you know the language is very strong and the fact that john some flatly and repeatedly refuses to say sorry refuses to apologize to parliament its rightful fundamentally hes been accused by the Supreme Court of Misleading Parliament and lying to the queen thats pretty serious stuff thats right and i agree it can feel as always we appreciate your insights thank you. 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And ukraine shows trump prodding ukrainian president to dig up political dirt that could possibly be used to influence next years she was so like shouldnt that allegation is why impeachment investigations are now under way also coming up tonight get braggs it done a defiant Boris Johnson addresses parliament in play