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New york, we want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Youre live in the cnn newsroom, we are days away from the start of public impeachment hearings and with evidence mounting, the president is doing everything he can to discredit the witnesses going before congress. There shouldnt be anything. There shouldnt be impeachment hearings is what i said so maybe they misconstrued it. What i say is read the transcript. Its all about the transcript. Theyre having people, ive never even heard of some of these people. I dont know who they are. And by the way, its all thirdhand knowledge, but regardless of what anyone says, read the transcript. Now, they want to have a transcript of the other call, the second call and im willing to provide that. Well probably give it to you on tuesday. Monday being a holiday. Well probably give it to you on tuesday, but we have another transcript coming out, which is very important. They asked for it. And i gladly give it. Theres never been a president whos been so transparent. This is a witch hunt at the highest level and its so bad for our country. So now, President Trump plans to release another transcript of a different call he had with the ukrainian president. But lets not forget the first transcript, the one where he literally asked ukraine to do him a favor by investigating the bidens. In the meantime, the Washington Post is reporting House Republicans are looking for fall guys to shift the blame to when being acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, we learned was missing a lot when white house testified to congress. They said mulvaney was central in pushing to investigate the bidens. You heard what mulvaney said. What you just described is a quid pro quo. It is funding will not flow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened as well. We do that all the time with Foreign Policy. I have news for everybody. Get over it. Theres going to be political influence in Foreign Policy. He later took that back but these new depositions indicate his initial statement was the truth. More on that in just a moment. Theres another development were following and this involves the president s former National Security adviser john bolton, when it looked like house investigators might proceed without getting him to testify, boltons lawyer essentially said hold on keep fighting this court case to get him to talk because he has relevant information he wants to tell you. So does that mean bolton has a bomb shell . Stay tuned for that. And new today, republicans now have a list of witnesses they want to hear from, and it includes the former Vice President s son, hunter biden, even though there is no evidence of wrong doing by him or his father, and they want to hear from the whistleblower who triggered this whole investigation and who the president has repeatedly attacked. The whistleblower is a disgrace to our country. A disgrace. And the whistleblower, because of that, should be revealed. Cnn White House Correspondent Jeremy Diamond is joining us here today. Now the president saying very important to hear this other call, the one from april, not the infamous call now from that sparked this investigation from july. Thats right. This would be the first call that President Trump actually had with the ukrainian president , zelensky. There are no allegations of impropriety, no concerns raised by National Security officials around this call. However there was a discussion of corruption which is something that the white house had mentioned in their brief readout. Well have to wait and see to what extent the president actually discussed that, but clearly what the president is trying to do here is as we are seeing that this story line is mounting around him, beyond just the july call with ukraine, the president is diverting attention here away from the mounting evidence of the shadow Foreign Policy, a much broader story line than just one phone call that did not go as it should have. We mentioned the gop came out with a list of witnesses they want to hear from publicly in those public hearings that began this next week, a couple of them we mentioned, hunter biden, we heard the whistleblower was on that list. Adam schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is responding. What is he saying. Its important to keep in mind first of all that the list the republicans are putting forward is not a list that they can get these people to come forward for public testimony. Adam schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has to actually approve this. Schiffs statement is very important, and heres what he said, this inquiry is not and will not serve as a vehicle to undertake the same sham investigations into the bidens or 2016 that the president pressed ukraine to conduct for his personal political benefit or to facilitate the president s effort to threaten, intimidate and retaliate against the whistleblower who courageously raised the initial alarm, and that of course is because House Republicans are seeking hunter biden to come forward. They want the whistleblower who democrats are trying to protect this intelligence officials identity. Neither of those two are going to come forward. Will democrats allow some of these to come forward. A couple are people who have come forward for private depositions, and feels bolster the president s narrative more so than the Current Administration officials who House Democrats have invited to come forward. Were going to ask a democrat right now what he thinks of this list coming up. Thank you very much, Jeremy Diamond, i want to bring in jeremy conley, he serves on the oversight dmecommittee, good to have you with us. First, lets start with the news the president is planning to release a new transcript of another call he had with the ukrainian president. He says hell do this on tuesday. Of course thats the day before the public hearings begin. Whats your reaction . Well, i think this is the call you and jeremy were just talking about which might have been more of a Courtesy Call right after the election of president zelensky in ukraine. Well see. Maybe it will shed some additional light. But were pretty focused on the call of july 25th, which i think is very incriminating of the president. And by the way, we keep on talking about quid pro quo. Its about extortion. I will give you something you want desperately only if you agree to give me something in return, in this case, political dirt on a prospective political opponent. Extortion could be the high crime and misdemeanor, the Impeachable Offense here. I believe abuse of office alone is an Impeachable Offense. It doesnt have to be a crime. But in this case, we have a crime, its extortion. A few hours ago House Republicans released their list of witness requests. This is who they want to hear from. The whistleblower, hunter biden, kurt volker, the former special envoy to ukraine, david hail, a Top State Department official, tim morrison, nelly ore, the wife of bruce ore and alexandria cha li chalupa. We have heard from three of four or those witnesses, prospective witnesses in the deposition process. Personally speaking for myself, i wouldnt have any problem with them. What were not going to do as adam schiff said is allow them to sort of revisit these crazy already debunked conspiracy theories about the bidens and ukraine. Or to try to out the whistleblower. Were not going to be party to that. Were not going to give them a platform to do that. But you see there is some negotiation to be had over this list, perhaps some. Well, kurt volker, tim morrison, they were witnesses in the deposition process and hearing from them in public would not trouble me at all. Okay. We learned yesterday from the two transcripts that were released that white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney had a central role in dealings with ukraine. How important is it for your committee to be able to question him and how far are democrats willing to go in order to do that. I think Mick Mulvaney does need to be heard from and should be heard from. Theres lots of precedent for that. During watergate, we heard from bob halderman, Richard Nixons chief of staff, and i think we need to do that again with Mick Mulvaney. Mick mulvaney has put himself in the center of this controversy, and therefore, i think, needs to account for himself. He had, of course, that Disastrous Press Conference in which he said, yeah, a quid pro quo did occur, so what, get over it. Those are momentous words, very hard to walk back, and i think he needs to explain himself. I know democrats want to hear from him. That was what we had heard prior to the new testimony, but hes saying, no, im not going to. I have immunity. That was his argument. Thats why he defied a subpoena yesterday when he was supposed to testify or his testimony had been requested, so i guess to the second part of that question, how far are democrats willing to go in order to get him before the committees . I dont know the answer to that. Let me just say, i think we have plenty in front of us with which to have public hearings and to proceed. The whistleblower complaint, which was highly detailed has essentially been corroborated in all respects during the deposition process. And nobody has contradicted that the republicans are now forced in their defense at intimidation of witnesses threatening to out the whistleblower, and actually physically storming the witness room to try to prevent the proceedings from going forward. Thats a pretty weak defense. One thing we have been hearing from republicans as well as the white house is theres no direct link between President Trump and this quid pro quo. They argue officials were simply acting on what they presumed the president wanted. Can you prove President Trump knew what mulvaney, or Rudy Giuliani were doing . You know, thats gaslighting. The white house released the transcript of the phone conversation of july 25th. That is the president talking. By the way, witnessed by one of our witnesses, colonel vindman, who was on the call and heard the same thing the transcript reflects. And in that transcript, out of the president s own mouth, not somebody elses, he says, yeah, we can start to consider that military aid you need that i have suspended but we need a favor, though. We need a favor first, though. That is a, thats extortion. And that came right out of the president s own mouth and everybody could read it and see it. The republicans, i guess, are hoping that we will forget about that transcript, but that transcript was an incriminating document released by the white house itself. Theres also President Trumps former National Security advis adviser john bolton and his Attorney Says he has relevant information that hasnt been revealed yet. What do you think boltons strategy is here, dangling this but at the same time refusing to voluntarily testify. Well, it sound like mr. Bolton wants congress to subpoena him for his testimony, presumably he does have something to share. We do know from other depositions that he was a source of resistance to the sham ukraine policy being led by giuliani and sondman and being pressed by the president himself, and i think his testimony would be a desirable thing, whether congress decides to pursue it with a subpoena and delay the process is a question were going to have to examine carefully because were on a realtime bind here if we want to get this wrapped up before the end of the year. And is that the goal . Is that the definitive goal to try to do this before the end of the year . The Speakers Office indicated that they would like to have this done sometime around the holiday season, Christmas Holiday season. I think thats a realistic goal, so long as there arent inordinate delays and i think one of the considerations about trying to secure testimony from people unwilling witnesses without a subpoena like mr. Bolt i dont kn on is the time factor. Congressman gerry connolly, thank you for being here. Could all the president s men be his fall guys, looking to protect the president , raising doubts about some of his fiercest defenders. Plus, former new york city mayor, Michael Bloomberg, quietly taking a step toward a president ial run and he would be going down a path that no other democratic candidate is attempting. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Only lexus asks questions like these, because we believe the most amazing machines are inspired by you. Experience the rewards of our curiosity. Rowithout the Commission Fees and account minimums. So, you can start investing today, wherever you are even on the bus. Ooh, like this guy. Yeah, i bet hes investing right now. Hes taking charge. Hes grabbing the bull by the horns and he just missed his stop, yeah. Its time to do money, so what are you waiting for. Download now and get your first stock on us. Robinhood. Month after month im doing it all. 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First, the closed door testimony of george kent, an official in charge of ukraine policy who was deposed three weeks ago, and his testimony transcripts came out this week, and he says he believes there was a quid pro quo, but that trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani played such a big part in manipulating ukraine policy and was attacking everyone from the ambassador down that kent says he kept his concerns to himself. More transcripts, testimony from Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland who said underoath that Rudy Giuliani was the president s point man on ukraine. Sondland now says the president did hold up aid to that country in exchange for help investigating the bidens. President trump once called sondland a Great American and highly respected, but yesterday he said he hardly knows the gentleman. Then theres the president s own acting chief of staff mick mu mulvaney. He was supposed to testify yesterday. He was subpoenaed, but mulvaney did not show up, he told investigators he has immunity, even though witnesses put him at the center of orchestrating the quid pro quo with sondland. Lets bring in former federal prosecutor gene rossy. The Washington Post has reporting that giuliani, sondland and mulvaney may end up being fall guys for the gop, to shift blame away from the president. How successful would they be in making this argument, but all those people were perhaps going rogue without the president s knowledge. Their chances of being successful with that argument are probably as low as the red skins winning the super bowl. And i got to say this, watching the president deny that he knows sondland and watching the president say that the testimony that he is hearing from these depositions, it reminds me of a baghdad bob when we were innovating our rock, its totally dluelusional, heres wh we have, congressman, jerry donnelly, he mentioned extortion, i agree with him. What you also have here is textbook bribery. 18 usc 201. It fits all the elements of a bribery scheme. You have a quid pro quo and a corrupt motive. And its arms for dirt. And i want to draw an analogy to something before we get to the next question. Imagine its the spring of 1944 and president Franklin Roosevelt calls Winston Churchill and says winston, were not going to send you aid for the dday invasion unless you dig up dirt on my opponent tom duey in the republican party. If that ever happened, fdr would have been impeached and then the next day indicted. Its an egregious use of power. Some of the president s defenders have hinted that Ambassador Gordon Sondland is working with democrats on the impeachment committees, that hes somehow in cahoots with them. Listen to senator lindsey graham. Why did sondland change his testimony, did he talk to schiff, did the talk to schiff staffers. Facts first, sondland was appointed to his role by President Trump directly and also donated a Million Dollars to trumps inaugural committee. How successful have republicans been in discrediting the key witnesses. Heres the thing, if you were to put up a chart, ana, on one side of the chart, you would have the president and mulvaney, theyre the only ones who are sticking to theres no quid pro quo, even Mick Mulvaney backtracked from saying it was, and on the other side of the chart, you have all these people who under oath have said there was a quid pro quo for corrupt reasons. Lerts lets go to sondland. I have seen this many times from witnesses, they make a statement, either not under other or under oath and they whae realize they better clarify what they said, this is exactly what happened to sondland, he realizes he cant backtrack and say theres no quid pro quo because that famous email, i think its from bill taylor, where theyre talking about. The text message. Yes, ana, that is exhibit number one, if i were the prosecutor, giving the opening and closing arguments against the steamers, the president and all of his conspirators. Let me ask you about Mick Mulvaney, though, because the president s acting chief of staff is also highly involved in all of this according to the testimonies we saw yesterday from the transcripts. He was subpoenaed to testify himself yesterday but he didnt show up telling impeachment investigators at exactly one minute before his scheduled testimony actually that he is claiming absolute immunity in these proceedings. And i want you to listen to what President Trump says about mulvaney possibly taking the stand. I dont want to give credibility to a corrupt witch hunt. I would love to have mick go up, frankly. I think he would do great. I would love to have him go up. I would love to have every person when they know me. What i dont like is when they put all these people that i never met before. So does Mick Mulvaney really have absolute immunity as he claims, especially now that other witnesses have said mulvaney was the one directing trump Foreign Policy on ukraine . I want to say this, the concept of absolute immunity only exists in the minds of two people, the president of the United States and bill barr, who is really disappointing. There is no such thing as absolute immunity. Most normal witnesses who are trying to comply with the law, if they have a problem with the subpoena, they dont just ignore it. They either comply or claim some kind of privilege but there is no privilege that protects a crime fraud scheme, and we have a scheme to defraud the United States, arms for dirt, so there is no privilege. You have to comply with the subpoena or heres whats going to happen, the house committees and the house itself, they are going to use the failure to comply with the subpoenas as an article of impeachment. They did that in part with bill clinton, and they obviously did it with richard nixon, so theyre actually giving, putting fuel in the fire of the house impeachment process. Gene rossi, always good to get your take, i appreciate your insight and expertise. Thanks. Thanks. President trump is at the alabama, lsu kick off where students were warned against disruptive behavior. Well go live there next. En we g for a roommate, he wanted someone super quiet. Yeah, and he wanted someone to help out with chores. So, we got jeanpierre. But one thing we could both agree on was getting geico to help with renters insurance. Yeah, geico did make it easy to switch and save. Oh no. Theres a wall there now. Thats too bad. Visit geico. Com and see how easy saving on renters insurance can be. With truecar, to sell just enter your license plate and see your cars value in real time. Sports package and low mileage . Nice. 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Whats the mood of the crowd there today . Reporter youre right that this is a reliably red state. Its a reliably red crowd. We have been speaking with folks who have been tailgating all day ahead of this game. Most of them are very enthusiastic about President Trump. Now, as you mentioned, the past two major sporting events that he attended, he did receive something of a poor reception. There were boos mixed in with cheers. That may not happen today. Take a listen to some of the conversations that weve had. Its a bunch of bull. [ bleep ] i think theyre fishing, its a fishing expedition. Its been like that for three years now. Reporter how much are you following what hes actually being impeached for . For something in the ukraine where he told the president to take a look at biden for his misdeeds while he was in office. If he was corrupt, he was corrupt. Put him in jail. Did you vote for trump in 2016. Absolutely and ill vote for him again, even if i have to go in there in a wheelchair. Its just crazy. Theres no basis for it. Reporter do you think hes being treated fairly . I dont. Reporter no . And what is your understanding of what the impeachment inquiry is about . Made up stuff. We have the transcripts. Read the transcripts. Reporter now President Trump has arrived at the stadium. Hes headed up to a box. Hes expected to be announced during the game, but during a tv timeout, so we may soon see what kind of reception hes going to receive, perhaps that could be the warm reception that hes been looking for. This is his third major sporting event in two weeks. Sarah westwood in tuscaloosa, alabama. We have new details about the explosive account in the new book. The chilling picture it tells of life inside the white house when we come back. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Woman what gives me confidence about Investment Decisions . Rigorous fundamental research. 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This is a moment where trump is going to be particularly worried that hes surrounded by people he fundamentally cant trust. Reporter the author is the same unnamed person who wrote an oped in the New York Times last year claiming to be part of a socalled resistance to trump within the white house ranks. Its not clear if the person is still working for the president or has left. According to the post, the new post says senior trump Administration Officials considered resigning on mass last year in a quote midnight selfmassacre to warn the public about President Trumps behavior. If it was senior people and it was a lot of them, it would have not only affected the actual operations of the government but underscored and made very real one of the concerns about this administration which is that people are concerned about the president s very erratic nature, and i think it could have had a big impact. Reporter the author says the officials decided against mass resignations, fearing it would destabilize the government even further. The book depicts trump as incompetent, a danger to the country, paranoid of those around him, including note takers, and profoundly cruel. The author says trump spoke in a hispanic accent to make fun of migrants crossing the border, when discussing women, he comments on make up, he critiques clothing, uses words like sweetie and honey. He makes racist remarks in private, and he makes racist remarks in public. He says antiwoman things in private and in public. Reporter the white house is calling the author a coward, saying the book is nothing but lies, a work of fiction. One trump biographer warns the push back wont stop there. God help you if you occupy an important position in service to the president and you evidence any lack of loyalty, hes going to come after you hard, and theres no threat that he wont make. 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The billionaire businessman says he plans to skip, just skip the first four primary contests on the democratic calendar. Its a strategy that has never been successfully executed in the past. Back in march, bloomberg announced he had no intention of running for the nomination, and then just three months ago i asked him about it. When is the last time youve thought about running for president . Long time ago. Have you completely ruled it out for 2020 . I think the only thing im considering, somebody suggested that i should think about 2024 and run then, so ill consider that one. Are you ready to endorse any of the 2020 candidates currently . Im afraid im not. Well see down the road. Theres fifteen months to the election, i think its a bit premature, dont you. There you had it, and now hes changing his tune. Cnns senior Political Writer and analyst, harry enten is here with us now. My how things change over time. My goodness gracious, i change my lunch order, he changes whether or not he wants to run for president. You know, same thing. Exactly. Lets talk about the chances, then. You say you look at the polls, you look at the data thats out there. Theres no clear path. I dont see a clear path. Look at iowa, youre talking about hes going to skip the first four states, look at his favorability rating in iowa, this was in march, and only 27 of likely democratic iowa caucus goers said they had a favorable view. 30 had an unfavorable view. Thats not very good, and if you then blow it on and look nationally, the National Horse race, a Monmouth University poll that measured this in march, where was he polling at, 2 , you know, you dont have to necessarily good at math to know that 2 isnt very high. Democrats must be thinking or at least he must be thinking democrats arent necessarily satisfied with the choices that they have. I mean, that would be the obvious reason for somebody else to get into the race. But you say theres data that suggests otherwise. There is data. This to me seems like a donor class problem believing that the democratic electorate isnt satisfying, a fox news poll at the end of last month, 69 say they are satisfied with their choices. Less than 30 say they wish there were other options. These are not the type of numbers that i would necessarily look at to say, you know what, i want to get in this race because democratic voters, they want that alternative. These polls, in fact, this is one of the lower polls, when you combine that with the fact that his numbers are low, i dont necessarily quite understand where exactly hes going with it th. On the flip side, there was a poll out of iowa that showed half of the voters there were undecided who they wanted to back for the primary. Might that be reason for him to have hope . Maybe, but again, go back to the fact that he isnt particularly well liked in iowa. It would be one thing if Michelle Obama was going to jump in the race, and shes very much beloved by democratic primary voters but the idea that Michael Bloomberg, to be perfectly honest, wasnt a democrat a little bit ago is going to jump into the democratic primary rice and reach out to the different constituencies, i dont see. He has the right to run. I dont see a clear path for him. At this stage in the race, how do you assess the elect account of a more moderate democrat. Given that electability is so important in the primary, look at their past electoral performances, where a number of democrats running in this race who ran in 2018 for the United States senate. One of them obviously was Elizabeth Warren and what we can do is compare how she did in that race versus the other people running for federal office, the democrats running for the house of representatives, and what do we see, we see Elizabeth Warren ran well behind the other democrats in her home state of massachusetts. Thats not necessary a good sign. Amy klobuchar ran well ahead of the average democrat running for federal office in her state. That is a good sign for her electability. One other thing ill note is we have national and state polls where we compare how Elizabeth Warren is doing versus how joe biden is doing, both of them are pretty well known, and what do we see in the national and the state polls, we see that biden has regularly run ahead of Elizabeth Warren which is a notch in his belt on the electability scale. And the other data is also the state polling, especially in the swing states when it comes to the headtohead match ups with President Trump in skp these candidates. If we pull up the slide again, what we can see is that joe biden has been running ahead of where Elizabeth Warren has been running in those swing states, New York Times polls, he is leading by a point in the six closest swing states that donald trump won in 2016 that the democrats will need to win probably at least half of those, hes winning by on average a point among likely voters, Elizabeth Warren down by 3 points which is reflective of what we have seen in the National Polls where joe biden is running 3 to 5 points on average ahead of Elizabeth Warren. A point ahead of trump. Thats got to give the Trump Campaign some boost. That is good news for the Trump Campaign. It might be one of the reasons that bloomberg wants to get in because he doesnt believe any of the democrats can beat trump. Well have to wait and see. 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