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Office meeting with the russians. This was way back in 2017. Yes, it is the same meeting where President Trump apparently shared highly classified information and bragged about firing james comey. According to the post President Trump told the russians he wasnt concerned they had interfered in the 2016 election. Because the u. S. , quote, did the same in other countries. But wait. There is more. Sources confirmed to cnn that the special envoy to ukraine kurt volker has resigned. He is the one who set up a meeting between Rudy Guiliani and an aide to ukraines president. Also developing, secretary of state mike pompeo has now been subpoenaed by three house committees. Like i said, it is hard to overstate just how much news has been made in the last day. Cnns White House Reporter Jeremy Diamond is live outside the white house for us. A lot to unpack here. Lets start with the new cnn reporting about the length the white house went to, to limit access to records of the president s calls with putin and the crown prince of saudi arabia. What more can you tell us . Reporter we learned already through the whistleblower complaint that the transcript of the president s call with ukraine president that now infamous july conversation that the transcript of that call was moved on to a highly classified system and now cnn is learning that this was not the only time that the white house sought to restrict access to transcripts and records of the president s calls with other foreign leaders. It also happened in the case of a phone conversation with the crown prince of saudi arabia. And that call was after the murder of the journalist jamal chashoggi and we also know at least one of the president s phone conversations with Vladimir Putin, records to that call were also restricted. We saw transcripts of these calls not going out to the people they normally would so clearly a change in procedures there. What we dont know at this point is whether those call transcripts were also moved on to the same highly classified system. We do know of course those were calls with two very controversial leaders. In the case of chashoggi it came at the time of the sensitive and controversial murder of the journalist so we dont know if it was done for personal or political reasons as it appears to be the case with the ukraine call where there was not necessarily anything highly classified on the conversation but rather perhaps concern among white house officials that the president may have done something inappropriate. Jeremy, weve uncovered so much in the last 24 hours. Youve found Something Else new concerning Mitch Mcconnell. There were differing opinions as to whether the white house should release the transcript of the president s conversation with the ukrainian president back in july. We have also now learned according to a source familiar with the matter that the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell also encouraged the white house to release the transcript of that call that was first reported by the Washington Post. Of course this is significant because that call is the how we learned that the whistleblower and his complaints, the matters he was discussing in that complaint were corroborated by this phone call. You saw the president in that transcript of the conversation pushing the president of ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden. It has certainly become a touch point of this impeachment inquiry that democrats are now leading. There are certain officials and certain republican allies who believe it was a smart move for the president to release this transcript because perhaps it removes any kind of sense of guilt because he is putting it out there of his own volition. Jeremy diamond at the white house, thanks. More now about the u. S. Special envoy to ukraine, the diplomat who has now quit his job in the wake of the whistleblower report. Sources tell cnn kurt volker resigned yesterday evening. Lets bring in our National Security reporter. Kylie atwood. I know youve been working to gather more information. What can you tell us . Yeah. It came pretty suddenly. Weve heard a lot about kurt volker over the past few days namely from Rudy Guiliani who has been waving his cell phone showing people the Text Messages he has between himself and kurt volker who is that special representative to ukraine for the Trump Administration. Where it gets sticky there is in that role as a state Department Official he shouldnt be engaging in politically motivated investigations that guiliani was pushing and that we know trump had discussed during his phone call with president zelensky in july. But the state department has said, listen. All ambassador volker did here was connect guiliani with an aide of zelenskys. What we know from this whistleblower complaint is it was actually a lot more than that. The day after trump spoke with president zelensky on the phone the next day kurt volker was there on the ground in ukraine meeting with zelensky and talking about according to the complaint how to navigate the demands made by President Trump. So it is going to be really interesting to see what ambassador volker ends up saying here. Now hes left the Trump Administration and should be able to say a little more than he would have if he was still in the administration. But he has been called forth to talk to congress about this and were expecting thats going to happen next week. We know the house, i think the House Foreign Affairs Committee Really wants to get him in front of them. Secretary of state mike pompeo is another one congress is calling on. Theyve now subpoenaed the secretary of state. His name was not mentioned in that whistleblower complaint. What do they want to hear exactly from mike pompeo . Well, so what they want from mike pompeo are documents. State department documents. So there are the allegations right now as weve seen because theres proof out there that the state department was involved with Rudy Guilianis efforts here and President Trumps motivations to encourage ukraine to investigate joe biden, which is a political agenda. So what they want from the state department are documents that either prove the state department was involved in that or prove that the state department wasnt. The reason they are subpoenaing the secretary of state is because hes ignored their multiple requests for these documents over the last few weeks. So now theyre saying, listen. You either provide us with these or else it will be evidence of obstruction. And the reason that is so significant is because if it is evidence of obstruction, then it will become part of the impeachment inquiry that is being navigated right now and put together by those on the hill. And impeachment inquiry leads us to bring in a couple other players who are joining us right now. Kylie, stay with me because i want to expand this conversation and bring in the wall street journal White House Reporter and a the Washington Post White House Reporter. You know, were just learning that there is at least one republican now who is supporting an impeachment inquiry and is willing to say publicly he supports this probe. He is from nevada. He makes it clear that he supports the inquiry not necessarily that he supports impeachment but how significant is this . That is immensely significant because if we know anything about President Trump is that he has a stronghold on the republican party. They have excused a lot of his behavior. Theyve excused a lot of the doctrine and policies that typically they wouldnt support bus bu because President Trump has shown he is willing to take on republicans, democrats, attack people on twitter he kept them in line. The fact there are now certain republicans thinking of whether or not they should back this impeachment inquiry, were not hearing a lot of republicans defending the president saying he did nothing wrong. Youre hearing were deeply troubled. We want to get to the bottom of this even if its not impeachable i wouldnt have done this. You heard one republican on the Intelligence Committee say, mr. President , this is not okay. The fact there is some daylight between the president saying this call was perfect and a number of republicans saying they have concerns about it could be the first step in what democrats feel they need to make this a bipartisan impeachment process where they can have some republicans come onboard and if that happens that could lead to sort of a Snowball Effect where more republicans feel safe, breaking with the president. It is definitely not an entire dam breaking yet but the fact that there is some daylight between a certain number of republicans and the president is something to watch. At least a crack at this point. There was a remarkable bipartisan moment in the senate this week, where the senate voted unanimously to force the white house to release that complaint. To the Intelligence Committees. And now cnn has learned it was Mitch Mcconnell who pushed trump to release the phone call transcript. Is this a sign republicans have had enough of the stonewalling or even possibly trump or did they under estimate what the complaint and the transcript would reveal . Well, i think what we know with the transcript is the president certainly heard a lot of differing opinions about what to do but the thinking on the release really was a sense from a lot of people that they should get ahead of the concerns, that they got credit for transparency if they do put it out, and some of the president s defenders and allies will say that the, there is no sort of direct quid pro quo outlined in the transcript. They point to that as another reason to put it out there. That is certainly what the president is talking about as well. I think in terms of republicans more broadly i think well see this play out very quickly. This is really moving like a wrecking ball at this point. What we saw this week to the point is there is some sense of some caution at least from republicans. We caught up with a lot of senators the day the whistleblower complaint came out and a lot of them said they hadnt read it yet. There was that effort to at least put a little pause on it. I wonder, kylie, i remember after the Mueller Probe and even while that was going on it didnt seem like other World Leaders were too shaken by all of that. How are they reacting to the developments this week . So it was the United Nations General Assembly this week. And the meeting between President Trump and president zelensky was not expected to be a meeting that got a lot of attention. Because of everything it was the top meeting that everyone was watching. Diplomats here in the city were i spoke to a lot of them on the sidelines of this and they were kind of surprised that this had taken over. Right . Because there are so many other pressing National Security issues this Trump Administration needs to be dealing with right now. North korea, afghanistan, iran. I mean, those are just a few of them. Because of whats happening here the diplomats im talking to from those countries and from the region are saying they arent getting the attention from the Trump Administration on the issues they really need to be working on. Mike pence the Vice President is named in this whistleblower complaint. The whistleblower says President Trump instructed the Vice President to cancel his attendance at zelenskys inauguration and President Trump made sure to remind reporters this week that pence had talked to the ukrainian president as well. Where does the Vice President fit into all of this . He is starting to have more of a central role and democrats in the house are going to want to know more about what mike pence talked about when he talked with zelensky. He actually went to poland and had a meeting around the time the Trump Administration had become very public that they were holding back almost 400 million in military aid. So pence has this meeting with zelensky. He comes out and says we didnt discuss biden but we talked about corruption. Democrats are going to want to know whether or not that discussion got a little bit closer to that quid pro quo that Many Democrats say was evident in the president s call. Maybe not explicit but whether or not pence was involved in anything like that in telling zelensky if you want to get this money that we need to see x, y, z from your government in terms of investigating joe biden. Pence is going to have to be able to show that he did not do that because right now the democrats are saying that the u. S. Government led by President Trump with Vice President pence as the mouth pete was putting pressure on the ukrainians to investigate joe biden or else not get the money that was going to be influential in their defense against the russians on their border. Weve heard a lot from the president the last couple days. He is frustrated. I think that may be an under statement. He has been pushing back on these claims and i think were seeing him sort of try out a lot of the playbook we saw him deployed during the russia probe. He is talking about a witch hunt. He is trying to discredit the information. He is defending his behavior. I think we are likely to see more of that in the days to come. Great to have all of you with us. Thanks so much. Were learning of another conversation that the white house tried to limit access to and it concerns that now infamous Oval Office Meeting the president had with two high ranking russian officials in the wake of the firing of james comey. The stunning statement trump supposedly made next in the cnn newsroom. It was a life changing moment for me. I had no idea that my grandfather was a federal judge in guatemala. He was an advocate for the people. A voice for the voiceless. Bring your Family History to life like never before. Get started for free at ancestry. Com this inot this john smith smith. Or this john smith. 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This is how we heal. Cancer Treatment Centers of america. Appointments available now. New revelations from the infamous Oval Office Meeting in may of 2017 where the president revealed highly classified information to several top kremlin officials. According to the Washington Post, President Trump told the two senior russian officials that he was not concerned about moscows interference in the 2016 election. Because he said the u. S. Did the same in other countries. Those comments prompted white house officials to seal off access to any remarks made in that meeting. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer responding to this report saying if true, the reports that President Trump may have told Close Associates of putin that he didnt mind russian interference in the u. S. Elections are extremely harmful to both our National Security and the integrity of our elections. It is one of the most disturbing things weve learned yet. Cnn political analyst and White House Correspondent for the Washington Post helped break this story. Josh, what else can you tell us about the president s comments as they relate to Russian Election meddling in 2016 . If you remember that was a pretty chaotic time in the white house. He had just fired james comey the fbi director. Special counsel was soon to be appointed. He had two top officials into the oval office. In that meeting he made several comments. He said he just fired the nut job james comey, he revealed classified intel about a military operation and then he also in the meeting according to our sources that we spoke to down played russian interference in the election so that the United States said that the United States also interferes in other countries elections and it was not that big of a deal. The comments left a number of his top officials very surprised. After the meeting the president soon flew off to saudi arabia for his first major trip as president of the United States and officials back at the white house took some pretty extreme steps to make sure the comments, memorandum of the conversation that is normally circulated inside the building did not go to a wide audience. They really wanted to limit who it went to because they were fearful it would become public. Parts of the meeting became public long ago as you noted in your opening there. And as reported by the New York Times and the Washington Post. But he said more. Thats what we revealed last night. That he also down played the interference in the election. This never came out in muellers report. Why are we just learning about this . Do we know what happened to the memorandum of the meeting . Well, that is a good question. We certainly have been trying to see that ourselves. We know that mueller asked some questions about this meeting. That was part of his report that delineated this meeting but that was not in the report. You know, that was a pretty significant meeting for the white house and folks have talked about that meeting now for even two years later. There are vivid recollections of what happened that day. Listen to President Trump in helsinki last summer when he was pressed on russias interference while standing next to president putin. All i can do is ask the question. My people came to me, dan coats and some others, they said they think its russia. I have president putin. He just said its not russia. Josh, i guess the question now, did he truly not believe it was russia or did he just not care . The president has always been skeptical of the russian interference and the prevalence of it. He sees it as a way for his critics to undermine the legitimacy of his election. He has gotten very frustrated at times when people have said russias interference had something to do with the outcome and the president has always been very reticent to admit the russian interference in the election in 2016 even though his intelligence agencies have done it. At times he has conceded it happened but other times really pushed back on the scope and significance of it. In this meeting early on in the presidency he told the russians he was not that concerned because the United States meddles in other countries elections as well. How could the comments he made in this Oval Office Meeting with the two russians play into the impeachment inquiry officially under way . It is too early to really know. Nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, has been telling her caucus she mainly wants to keep the impeachment inquiry about ukraine and what happened in this call with zelensky and the whistleblower of that complaint, president zelensky of ukraine of course. There are other members of the house who are looking at various episodes potentially including this and wanting to build a case in the impeachment inquiry. It is really hard to say how much it will play into that yet. Okay. We know youll stay on top of it and well continue the conversation. Thanks for having me. Thank you for being here. How concerning is President Trumps phone call with ukraine or the additional allegations in the whistleblower complaint . Well ask the former u. N. Ambassador under president obama, next. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. You dont live in one corner. Fragrance shouldnt either. Air wicks new Technology Releases fragrance upwards and outwards, unlike glade. So now you can fill every corner with fragrance. Upgrade to air wick. Stimulant laxatives forcefully stimulate i switched to miralax for my constipation. The nerves in your colon. Miralax works with the water in your body to unblock your system naturally. 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Our founders could never have thought anyone could be so abusive of our system. They knew people might try to take advantage of this and that in the white house but never so abusive of the system. That whole thought that if you dont have the checks and balances you dont have a republic. My next guest is the former u. N. Ambassador under president obama and Pulitzer Prize winning author whose new book is called the education of an idealist, a memoir. Samantha power, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, ana. Im going to get your book in just a moment but first i have to ask you about the fall out from the president s call with the ukrainian president. You tweeted this. That donald trump thought it was a good idea to release this transcript as a staggering testament to the endemic corruption of his administration. He and his close advisers have lost the ability to even see what is incriminating. Ambassador, that is quite the statement. Well, i mean, i think what we have seen from the beginning of this presidency is a pattern where what matters most to the president of the United States is his own welfare, own selfaggrandizement, his own wealth, his own political fortune. There are so many examples of this but here is an example where the president is blatantly extorting a foreign leader, a foreign leader who is governing a country that has been invaded by russia, a country that interfered in our election previously, and our president is trying to advance his own political welfare rather than look out for an ally and deliver what that country needs in order to enhance its security. So the fact that people put that transcript out and thought it would be somehow helpful for the president i think just speaks to how accustomed the people around President Trump have become to this pattern of behavior. And yet, were learning there was an effort to make that transcript more secret. To put it in a more secure system. A place where they put the most highly classified documents. So how do you i guess marry those two . I think that is a very fair point and that of course has just been revealed in the last 24 hours. But putting a transcript like this, which could reasonably be classified, because its an exchange between the president and a foreign leader, but putting it in a special compartmented code word system, which is something that the lawyers appear to have insisted upon, speaks to the fact that outside this little circle of people who are accustomed to this level of corruption and selfaggrandizement and even bullying and extortion, somebody who is a little further away looks at it and says oh, whoops. This is not kosher. This is not allowed. Given where we are today it is kind of interesting to look back to what the president said just a couple years ago in his first address to the United Nations when the president spoke about the need to protect whistleblowers. Take a listen. We seek a United Nations that regains the trust of the people around the world in order to achieve this the United Nations must hold every level of management accountable, protect whistleblowers, and focus on results rather than process. Are those words coming back to haunt him . I dont think there is any evidence that President Trump gets haunted by his past statements but it is clear that whats good for the goose is not so good for the gander. And theres a hypocrisy of course in that. But whats important is that others step forward. President trump is going to look out for President Trump. There is no mystery there, no secret there. I tried to describe in the book ive just written, education of an idealist the importance of trust in National Security, the importance of trust in healing our divisions, and Something Like this and then the way he just bunkers down and goes into attack mode attacking people who have worked very closely for him, blaming other people rather than taking responsibility himself. That makes it really difficult to go to other countries and to summon their support and their help when we need it. And we need most of the threats facing the American People today are ones that cross borders. Talking more about your book, as an idealist are there lessons you can offer someone in the Current Administration who is guided by a moral compass but may feel uncomfortable about what is happening inside right now . Well, as i described in the book, and i try to bring people into meetings, the meetings we had dont look much like the meetings that occur today. There isnt a lot of National Security process of the kind that has existed for decades unfortunately and i think that is going to produce, you know, more and more sloppiness as time goes on. But whats really important in those meetings, my biggest regrets in government are not occasions where i raise my hand and i say, mr. President , president obama, i disagree. I think we should go in a different direction. I dont have any regrets about that. He would sometimes get irritated with me. I describe in the book him saying you get on my nerves. My greatest regrets are when i didnt raise my voice. When i had a thought and i looked around and i thought, i dont have as much experience up on capitol hill as other people in the room. I will defer to them, for example, on whether we go to congress after the red line was crossed in syria on yemen, you know, not raising my hand loudly enough and often enough to cut the cord with saudi arabia as we should have done long ago. Not providing assistance to what has become just a devastating, cruel war. So my message i guess to people, Civil Servants and political appointees, is your life is long. You know, this is a short, may feel like a long period, but ones ethics need to be enduring and you want to be able to look back and say, i said what was on my mind. I raise concerns even though i know my president , when the current president likes yes men and women and likes people to flatter him, my duty is to my country. Former u. N. Ambassador and author of the new book the education of an idealist Samantha Power great to have you with us. Thank you so much. Thank you, ana. 2020 democrats are on the trail trying to navigate impeachment talks. Will their messaging to voters on policies be over shadowed by this controversy . Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Refreshed skin and less stress. One softgel. 7 benefits. New total body refresh. Power your day with megared. And i recently had hi, ia heart attack. 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Every day at marcos, get two medium, onetopping pizzas for just 6. 99 each. Hello to the italian way. Hello primo. 2020 frontrunner Elizabeth Warren is holding a town hall in South Carolina today as several polls show her neck and neck with former Vice President joe biden. Listen to what warren had to say about impeachment. And the inquiry against President Trump. I dont think this impeachment inquiry is about politics at all. I hope we go forward with care and deliberation but that we do it quickly. I think its important. The American People are counting on us, congress, to do our constitutional duty. Cnns senior political reporter is following warren on the trail today. Warren is expected to speak any minute now. What do we expect her focus to be . You know, warren likes to stick to her plan and her plan is usually to talk about the economy, talk about income inequality, talk about her healthcare plan, and thats what we expect and what her message has been. That is what has drawn voters to her. A lot of voters here as you can see, gathering behind me. Some of these folks have been here since very early in the morning standing out in the hot South Carolina sun here in rock hill. She has addressed has not addressed impeachment in some of her remarks in previous days. Maybe she will talk about that. By and large she is sticking to her message that she would be a fighter that can really bring bold change to america which is what she thinks is needed at this time. All 19 democratic president ial candidates support this impeachment inquiry. A lot of them are calling for impeachment period but as i recall impeachment wasnt even mentioned at the last debate. Does this now become a bigger focus of the 2020 race . You know, in some ways, yes. You think about Elizabeth Warren. She was out front talking about impeachment way back when, right when the Mueller Report came out. And that is one of the reasons i talked to some voters here. They like her boldness on there but you also find many of these democrats arent getting bogged down by impeachment. But theyre not letting that drowned out their message about any number of issues. Health care, for instance. Corruption. Corporate greed. All of these topics i expect Elizabeth Warren to keep talking about. Again, it is what is made what has made her crowd swell. Back here she has a pretty good crowd in this black town, not a black town, an hbcu. That is one of the things she is trying to do obviously is attract africanamerican voters. About twothirds of the voters in this primary state. As you can see not a lot of africanamerican voters in this crowd. Today she has to do better with those voters if she is going to remain competitive. You see her doing obviously really well in National Polls when it comes to South Carolina she has not been doing too well. That is part of the goal of this event to connect with those voters as well. Okay. Rock hill, South Carolina. We know youll bring us any highlights from her event today. Thanks so much. Congress has been down the impeachment road before. Most recently of course with president bill clinton. So what happened in that case . Which divided washington more than 20 years ago . Well take you back. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. I dont keep track of regrets. And i dont add up the years. But what i do count on. Is boost® delicious boost® high protein nutritional drink has 20 grams of protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals. Boost® high protein. Be up for life. Im about to capture proof of the ivory billed woodpecker. What . . . No, no no no no. Battery power runs out. Lifetime Retirement Income from tiaa doesnt. Guaranteed monthly income for life. Nooooo run with us on a john deere 1 series tractor. Beacuse changing your attachments, should be as easy as. What about this . Changing your plans. Yeah. Run with us. Search john deere 1 series for more. The most talked about person in washington this weekend is someone whose identity we dont even know. The man or woman who wrote the complaint about President Trumps conversations about the president with ukraine, the socalled whistleblower. This certainly isnt the first time a Single Person has spoken up and triggered events that reached the highest office in the land. Cnns athena jones takes a look at how whistleblowers have sometimes changed the course of u. S. History. We still dont know who the whistleblower is. But the complaints contents have catapulted washington into an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The now declassified document alleging trump tried to get ukraine to interfere with the 2020 u. S. Election. With all the talk of a whistleblower in washington in the past few days, what does that exactly mean . Its defined as an employee who brings wrongdoing by an employer or other employees to the attention of a government or Law Enforcement agency. And who is commonly vested by statute with rights and remedies for retaliation. In this broad category of people, one of the most famous in american history, mark felt better known as deep throat. The fbi informant helped take down the Nixon Administration divulging crucial information about watergate. In 1971, military Analyst Daniel elseburg leaked topsecret department of defense information about why the u. S. Entered the vietnam war. William vinny and thomas drake were nsa officials who informed the Inspector General about government surveillance programs they perceived as invading citizens privacy by monitoring their internet activity. Fbi agent Colleen Rawley flagged then fbi director Robert Mueller about intelligence failures before the 9 11 attacks. Or Sergeant Joseph darby who told military investigators in 2004 about inmate abuse at the abu ghraib prison in iraq. Not everyone who blew the whistle on the government has been rewarded. For some it meant the end of their careers. Or even worse. Willful, purposeful disclosure caused exceptionally grave damage to u. S. National security. Reporter former nsa contractor leaked a secret report about russian hacking of the 2016 election to a News Organization and now is serving a sentence of more than five years after pleading guilty to leaking that classified information to the media. Winter will serve a term of incarceration that will give pause to others who are entrusted with our countrys sensitive National Security information. The air force veterans mother telling cnn in march she is being painted as evil. I think we as americans deserved that proof and so how is it that she put us in danger by giving us that proof . Reporter winner is the first person arrested under the Trump Administration using the espionage act established in 1917 during world war i originally intended to prosecute anyone interfering in u. S. War efforts so people like spies in modern times its the same law that sent Edward Snowden into exile in russia. The former intelligence contractor accused of leaking nsa documents revealing a secret global surveillance program. These leaks have inflamed and sensationalized for ignoble purposes the work that Intelligent Community does lawfully under strict oversight and compliance. Reporter earlier this month snowden said hed like to return to the u. S. If he is guaranteed a fair trial. Im not asking for a parade. Im not asking for a pardon. Im not asking for a pass. What im asking for is a fair trial. And this is the bottom line that any american should require. Reporter in may the Justice Department indicting wikileaks founder julian assauge of 18 espionage act counts ordering him extradited to the u. S. After spending seven years at the Ecuadorian Embassy in london. 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