Facts that could, at a minimum, embarrass the president. The white House Counsels review of documents was triggered by the ongoing house impeachment inquiry. Earlier today house intel chairman adam schiff talked about the importance of linking the president s decision to freeze ukraine aid to his efforts to dig up dirt by the bidens. Yes, the president s chief of staff, the person who meets with the president every day on live camera admitted exactly that, veisavis the most serious and that is the mill aritary aid. What ambassador sondland did say was everyone was in on the loop of the precondition of the meeting that ukraine desperately sought for its recognition that the United States had its back, that everyone was in the loop on this. It was a clear quid pro quo, and with respect to the military aid, in the absence of any other explanation and in light of the president s own record of pressing for these investigations, two plus two equals four. What every judge tells every jury and its no different here is you dont leave your common sense at the door. Everyone understood this was merely pressure to get the president s investigations, and even more and i thought this was notable about ambassador sondlands testimony, he wasnt even as interested in the investigations as he was the announcement of the investigations. That gives lie to the whole idea that this was ever about corruption. It wasnt. It was about the Reelection Campaign of the president. I want to bring in cnn contributor john dean. He was the former white House Counsel to Richard Nixon who testified before congress about what nixon knew and when he knew it. As an important figure as there is in watergate. We just learned of a possible smoking gun here according to the Washington Post reporting at least. Instead of tapes youve got emails. How big of a deal is this new reporting . Is it a smoking gun . Im not sure its a smoking gun because i think weve already seen the smoking gun in the memoranda of conversation that trump had with zelensky, asking him to do him a favor and clearly mentioning biden and 2016. Thats to me, always been we started with a smoking gun and this is just further corroboration. Ana, one of the problems with what he was doing with military aid and the uncertainty about it is that its illegal post watergate to withhold spending. This was an issue that came up during nixons impeachment. He impounded funds. He reached back to thomas jefferson, Warren Harding and fdr to justify his actions so Congress Kind of put it aside, but after nixon was gone, they did adopt new laws that make it very clear you cant do anything to withhold spending once Congress Appropriates the money. In fact this is what, im sure, these memos reflect. In fact, according to the Washington Post, there were email exchanges asking whether this was legal to withhold the aid and they came to the conclusion, guided by some of the Legal Counsel in all of these email exchanges that it was okay and legal to do it as long as the hold was temporary. Does that i guess give them cover . It sounds like lawyer talk giving them cover for temporarily withholding the aid when they didnt even know why he was withholding it at the time, just what it was doing, and it was buzzing throughout the system that this aid was being withheld and they had to do something before the end of the fiscal year when the aid would expire. That was one of the other problems they had to confront. These would be enlightening. I dont think well ever see them because it sounds like lawyer to lawyer material. The lawyer in the office of management and budget and the white House Counsels office. This is purely work product and protected by most courts so i dont think well ever see these documents unless they leak. Can you speak to the timing here . How relevant is it that it was after the fact that the white house was trying to justify the reason for withholding the aid. Is this proof the white house knew the president did something wrong . I think its highly suggestive of that problem, that the president im reading the book anonymous and this president doesnt think through anything. He just goes and does things and his staff is the last to learn often by reading his twitter account. Im sure this is what happened here. My god, does the man know that hes breaking the law if hes trying to put a freeze on this money that he cant do. So im sure that that was part of the after the fact look at this. Theres just no doubt in my mind what happened and i dont think theres any doubt in anybodys mind as ambassador sondland said, two plus two does equal four. However, republicans say there is reason to doubt because nobody has said under oath, yes, the president told me you are holding up this aid until ukraine investigates the bidens or until ukraine investigates any potential meddling in the u. S. Election in 2016 which has been debunked of course, just a Conspiracy Theory there, but there hasnt been somebody to say the president told me this. Ana, in the current republican party, two plus two does not equal four. It doesnt equal anything. Im not even sure they can do the math anymore. Its pretty striking the way they analyze problems and jump onto conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact. Theyll get three plus six equaling four. To me its just denying reality and thats what they choose to do and theyre trying to look for an excuse to take their partisan action and not take the responsible course and look at what the president has done and why hes done it. Its a very, very serious offense of what hes done, is to use his personal office to advantage his election, reelection, using a foreign country. Weve never had a president pull a trick like this. Nixon, in his darkest thoughts, i dont think would envision doing this. Thats why this is so serious. Well see how this all plays out and i think it will get sharpened up in the coming weeks before we get to the sending articles of impeachment to the senate. Let me play a clip from the Closing Remarks of adam schiff following the two weeks of public testimony in which he invoked a little watergate history. Listen. The difference between then and now is not the difference between nixon and trump. Its the difference between that congress and this one. John, you said during the testimony even a week ago or so that democrats had already had more than they had against Richard Nixon to impeach him and youve said something similar this evening and yet we keep learning more. Its like this bombshell Washington Post reporting. It doesnt feel like the investigation is complete. Is it too soon to vote and hand this over to Senate Republicans . I think it is. Whats going to happen is the House Intelligence Committee is going to write up a report and send it to the house Judiciary Committee. The Judiciary Committee can further investigate this before writing articles of impeachment. I hope they do. I think they should. They also have to look at issues like was paying off Stormy Daniels something that should be included in an article of impeachment. Michael cohen, his personal lawyer, is now serving time for it. Should the Mueller Report obstruction of justice instances, ten of them, be part of the articles. These all have to be examined and filtered and further witnesses may be called. This week we expect a decision by the District Court in the District Of Columbia on mcgahns claim of privilege. The former white House Counsel. Yes. A definitive opinion on that could well result in not only mcgahn coming but other witnesses doing so because theyll realize its so well drawn that nothing is going to happen in the court of appeals and the court of appeals might flip it around quickly and the Supreme Court wont take it. So all those issues have to be confronted between now and when articles are drawn and sent to the senate or voted on by the house. Congressman schiff indicated that investigations would continue and theyll continue to let things play out in the courts but they arent going to slow down the current track theyre on necessarily, that it would be happening in tandem. I do want to remind people of your famous quote during watergate. Lets listen. I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it. I also told him that it was important that this cancer be removed immediately. With the new explosive reporting in the Washington Post and what we have learned during the public impeachment inquiry, where are we in history as it pertains to the presidency of donald trump . You know, thats a very fair question, a very good question. He is facing reelection. He wants badly to be reelected. Weve never had a president be subject to an impeachment proceeding during their first term. Its always occurred in the second terms. It will have an influence on the election. There have been a number of commentators who have said really the American People are going to have the final say on this regardless of what happens in the house and senate because this president is going to have to deal with this issue before voters. I think thats correct. John dean, i really appreciate your perspective and expertise. Thanks for joining us this evening. Thanks, ana. Right now, ukraine is in the middle of this impeachment inquiry connected to a quid pro quo and bye dunkdebunked conspi theories. How damaged is ukraines relationship with the u. S. . Well talk to a former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine next. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Imagine a disease is caused by too much of a bad protein, but a Company Develops a way to actually attack it. What drew me to Capital Allocation in Health Sciences was the potential to help many people through investments that help fund medical innovation. My team and i often choose to invest at the very early stages of human trials. Investing lets me use everything ive learned as a doctor to help make a positive impact. So thats why i go beyond the numbers. Oh, ho oh, ho, ho, ho you. You got me. Uh, what do you want . Ive got uh, ai robots, ive got vr goggles. I want your sled, please. No. [ chuckles ] timmy. Itd be a shame if this went viral. For those who never compromise. The mercedesbenz winter event. Whoa. 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In the impeachment inquiry into President Trumps actions regarding military aid to ukraine the former soviet Union Country is strategizing how the reverse the president s negative perception of ukraine and salvage its relationship with the administration, according to sources who also say ukrainians are not sure who they can trust now to make their case in a way that is compelling to President Trump. A u. S. Diplomat testified on capitol hill this past week that although military aid was finally delivered to ukraine after being held up for months, ukrainian president zelensky still has not received a much sought after white house meeting although he and trump did meet at the u. N. With me now is the former u. S. Ambassador so ukraine, steven piper, who served as ambassador during the Clinton Administration and also served as an official in the george w. Bush administration. Ambassador, i really appreciate you being here. You have extensive experience on this region. How important is the u. S. Support of ukraine there both monetarily and diplomatically, and what impact has President Trumps apparent hesitancy to deliver support had there . Well, the ukrainians consider it very important. Ukraine would like to become a normal european state but in terms of the current conflict that russia has inflicted on ukraine, ukraine sees the United States as the geopolitical counter weight to russia. Germany cant play that role. The European Union cant play that role. France cant play that role. So its very important and i was in kyiv about three weeks ago and the ukrainians are very nervous about the degree of american support given how important it is in their standoff with russia. I want to play something republican senator john kennedy said this morning. Listen to this. Senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and Clinton Campaign computers, their emails . Was it russia or ukraine . I dont know, nor do you, nor do any of us. Ms. Hill let me interrupt to say the entire Intelligence Community says it was russia. Right. But it could also be ukraine. Ambassador, a sitting u. S. Congressman is pedaling what diplomats have said is a russian Conspiracy Theory. Whats your reaction to that . Well, its very unfortunate. Not only has the u. S. Intelligence community but the senate Intelligence Committee and the Mueller Report all made very clear that it was russia that interfered in the u. S. Election and hacked into the dnc mail server. What weve seen is a russian effort now going back a couple of years to deflect that story and say, no, it was ukraine. Its unfortunate that we now have senior members on capitol hill saying that perhaps they believe that. Its wrong. Its unfortunate, and its taking our attention off the russia problem which was big in 2016 and may come back in 2020. Another republican congressman made this argument on ukraine aid this morning. Take a listen. The july 25th call, president zelensky in his own words, said there was no demand, no pressure, no quid pro quo. He didnt know about a hold on aid to ukraine. The readout from ukraine after that call, theres no reference to a quid pro quo or a hold on aid. On july 26 president zelensky meets with ambassador sondland and volker, makes no reference to a quid pro quo and a hold on aid. Its not until they read it in politico on august 29 that president zelensky and his team received confirmation that theres a hold on aid. I just want to ask you about the front end of that when hes talking about ukrainians never felt pressure, they didnt know the ukraine aid was being held up, do you buy that argument that they didnt feel pressure, that we should take their word for that . Lets make clear, in july about the time of the july 25 phone call between President Trump and president zelensky what the white house was saying is we want investigations in return for a meeting in the oval office of the white house. It was only later on in later in august and Early September that the white house then began to say that we have to have those investigations if you, president zelensky, want the meeting at the white house and military assistance. So thats point number one. Point number two, its wrong to say that zelensky was not aware of this. When president zelensky met with Vice President pence in warsaw on september 1, it was the first issue he raised about military assistance. I think theres a certain amount of deflection here and trying to throw a little bit of confusion about what exactly happened here. Finally, one last point, if youre the ukrainian president and you see american sport as so important, particularly as youre getting ready to sit down with Vladimir Putin for the first time ever, youre not going to come out and contradict the president of the United States. Youre not going to say hat the was a quid pro quo, there was pressure. Theres no advantage for president zelensky or ukraine for him to say it. But at the same time, when i was in kyiv a few weeks ago, i also dont see the ukrainians doing any of the requested investigations. Ambassador steven piper, your insight is much appreciated. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. Breaking news in the case of navy s. E. A. L. Eddie gallagher, the Navy Secretary is now being asked to resign over what he allegedly said to white house officials about the case. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Dont go anywhere. Im a verizon engineer, and im part of the Team Building the most powerful 5g experience for america. 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Esper says he lost trust and confidence regarding his lack of candor involving the handling of gallaghers case, according to a statement just released by the pentagon. And gallagher was convicted of posing with the body of an isis detainee. President trump reinstated his rank after he was demoted as punishment. Jeremy diamond is following this. Why is secretary esper asking for gallaghers resignation. Reporter this is a remarkable and extraordinary situation. Already you had the top pentagon official, mark esper, and the top military leader, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, mark milley, opposed to President Trumps desire essentially to prevent them from expelling Eddie Gallagher from the navy s. E. A. L. S and now you have mark esper, the head of the pentagon, asking for Richard Spencers resignation, the secretary of the navy. Let me read you the top of this statement from the dod spokesman jonathan hoffman. He writes, secretary of defense esper has asked for the resignation of secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer after losing trust and confidence in him regarding his lack of candor over conversations with the white house involving the handling of navy s. E. A. L. Eddie gallagher. He goes on to say that essentially what Richard Spencer did here, according to the pentagon, is that he went around the defense secretary, mark esper, spoke directly to the white house and proposed to them that they could restore Eddie Gallaghers rank, something that the president did unilaterally himself, and allow him to retire with his try dent pen which signals his membership in that navy s. E. A. L. Community. In case theres any question here, our pentagon correspondent, barbara star, spoke with a Senior Defense official who confirmed that secretary spencer has indeed been fired. That is what they mean by his resignation, by asking for his resignation. We also have a statement in here from the secretary of defense, mark esper. He writes, i am deeply troubled by this conduct shown by a senior dod official and he writes that secretary spencer no longer has my confidence to continue in his position. So again, an issue that had already put the president of the United States at odds with his pentagon chief, the secretary of defense mark esper. This is now evolving further and leading to the firing of the secretary of the navy, Richard Spencer, because spencer essentially went around esper, according to the defense department, to try and nullify the president s concerns. That Senior Defense official also said that esper only learned on friday of those efforts by spencer to essentially go around him and go directly to the white house with this proposal. Ana. Jeremy diamond at the white house, thank you. 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After building a business that created thousands of jobs, he took charge of a city still reeling from 9 11, a threeterm mayor who helped bring it back from the ashes, bringing jobs and thousands of Affordable Housing units with it. After witnessing the terrible toll of gun violence, he helped create a movement to protect families across america and stood up to the coal lobby to protect this planet from Climate Change, and now hes taking on him. Michael bloomberg starting today is officially in even though hes done everything but announce his candidacy this month, filing papers for various state primaries and three days ago he told reporters he was still excited. Christina, least surprising announcement ever i think. Some bloomberg ads start running on tv tomorrow but this is a super late entry into the race for president , a strategy thats never once gone well for democrats. What is his plan . To try to beat the odds at this point with this late entry, to your point, into an already packed race. Hes betting that his personal life, his track record as mayor of new york and as a philanthropist, as well as his role as a leading Democratic Political donor will help him win the nomination. Let me give you some color on how hes positioning himself right now. Bloomberg describes himself as a doer and Problem Solver and not a talker in a letter on his website today. This letter frames the 2020 election as an existential crisis for the country and says, quote, im running for president to defeat donald trump and rebuild america. We cannot afford four more years of President Trumps reckless and unethical actions. If he wins another term in office, we may never recover from the damage. The stakes could not be higher. We must win this election. Look, Mike Bloomberg has many accomplishments to tout but he does face some serious headwinds. Tactically, its late in the primary cycle to launch a campaign, and political analysts say no one who has entered the president ial this race this late has ever clinched the nomination, and there are more hurdles to clear. For one, hes a billionaire at a time when the term is being used as an insult and rising income inequality is a source of frustration. Progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are trying to capitalize on those emotions, suggesting that billionaires should be disqualified from running. Heres Bernie Sanders responding to bloombergs announcement today. We do not believe that billionaires have the right to. [ applause ] that is why we are going to overturn citizens united. [ applause ] that is why multibillionaires like mr. Bloomberg are not going to get very far in this election. [ applause ] that is why were going to end Voter Suppression in america. Face a number of other challenges as well. His stop and risk policy while he was mayor that the nypd employed, that is hanging over him and possibly a challenge with black voters. Well have to see if the apology that he gave on the eve of his announcement really sticks and resonates with the black community. Thats just another challenge. Ana. Indeed. Christine, its getting interesting, thanks. Cant overemphasize, it is an already crowded field, still more than a dozen candidates in the race so is there a realistic path to victory for him. Lets bring in harry enten whos looking at all of this for us. Where does bloomberg stand currently and nationally when you look at the key states . Im not sure i understand this path. Take a look at the early states, iowa, we had a poll last week, where was he polling . 2 said he was the first choice. Look at south carolina, where was he polling there, 1 . Youre talking about a heavy africanamerican state, the majority electorlengtelectorate africanamerican. Or of course im going to skip the early states and run a national campaign. Where is he polling nationally . He was at 4 which i guess is better than he was doing in the early states but the fact is 4 is not particularly high, and joe biden is running away from the pack at 26 . Michael bloomberg has one, two, three, four, five, sixth place in that poll, not exactly a great place to start out. He could argue i wasnt even in the race and i was already in sixth place but do you think it has to do with name recognition . Is that his biggest hurdle . I dont think it is. Democratic voters have a pretty good understanding of who he is. We can look at the favorable unfavorable. You want high favorable, low unfavorable. He has the highest unfavorable rating in the field. 43 of democratic primary voters say they have an unfavorable view of him. That is not a good place to start out and its actually more than double where joe biden and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrens unfavorable ratings are at this point. Its not about name recognition. Democratic voters simply dont like bloomberg right now. People say this is a sign that bloomberg sees a path because he believes that democratic voters arent necessarily satisfied with the current field prior to his entry. Is there any evidence to back that up . I dont really see it. Weve gone over these polls over and over again in which they have asked are you satisfied with the field or do you want more candidates running, and the vast majority of democratic primary voters say they are satisfied with the field. There was a Monmouth University poll taken a few weeks ago, 74 said, yes, they are satisfied with the current field. Just 16 said no. 16 , i guess thats if you get 16 that might be better than i thought he was going to get in the primary but thats not doesnt give you the nomination. No, it doesnt. If you look at the early state polling, the national polling, you get deep down into what voters are saying about the field, i think its more about donors and elite folks in new york who arent satisfied with the field. The democratic primary voters were satisfied with the field before Michael Bloomberg got in and thats why hes not polling highly. As always, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. What a crazy week we saw on capitol hill. Public impeachment hearings in the impeachment inquiry are over at least for now so what are the next steps . Crossexamine is next. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. O and everyone has dads eyebrows we chose eleanor. It was greatgrandmas name. So apparently, we come from a long line of haberdashers, which is a fancy word for. 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Are there anymore hearings or witnesses, or are you doing . We dont foreclose the possibility of more depositions, more hearings. That investigative work is going to go on. What were not prepared to do is wait months and months while the administration plays a game of ropeadope in an effort to stall. Were not willing to go down that road. Whats more, the evidence is already overwhelming. Analyst and former federal and state prosecutor elie honig is here to answer your questions on impeachment. Several witnesses have said they believe there was a quid pro quo. The president continues to say there was not one. How do we know who to believe . Thats the Million Dollar question. Quid pro quo means this for that. Its important to keep in mind its important but not necessary to impeach. All Congress Needs is abuse of power. You do not need somebody saying magic words. You do not need a federal crime. My advice is what judges tell juries to do in criminal trials. Apply your common sense to the totality, all of the evidence. When you do that, you look at the witness testimony. I think theres two things that are simply not disputable. One, trump held up foreign aid and he held up a white house visit, and two, he asked ukraine to investigate his political opponents. Are those two things connected . Trump says, no, i said no quid pro quo, i said i want nothing. Congressman adam schiff said thats after he got caught, after the whistleblower complaint came out, after congress was already investigate egg. On the other hand, virtually every witness we heard from said, of course there was an exchange. I think the American Public can draw its own conclusion. This week we heard that the president and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani didnt care about the 2016 meddling. He really only wanted an announcement that there was going to be an investigation. How does that affect the case . I think its so telling. We heard various witnesses talk about the deliverable, meaning what they really wanted was zelensky to go to the microphone and make a public announcement of these investigations and that tells me that the motive was political. Trump and giuliani wanted to be able to say, see, theyre investigating, and not really to fight corruption because real prosecutors, i was one, conduct real investigations in secret. The last thing you would ever do is go to a microphone and say, hey everybody, were investigating you, tip off the target, tip off your witnesses. Thats one of those details that came out last week that i think is really telling. Trumps ally in the senate, lindsey graham, has said that he considers this impeachment inquiry invalid unless the whistleblower testifies. One viewer asks, legally is the whistleblower obligated to testify . The short answer is no. The sixth amendment of our constitution gives criminal defendants the right to be fronted by the witnesses against them. It means to crossexamine in court and that constitutional provision applies to all criminal prosecutions. This is not a criminal case but i think its fair for the president to say im entitled to some of the constitutional protections that a defendant might be. Heres the thing. The whistleblower is not necessarily a witness. Quick example. Say three people i know and trust say to me, hey, we were in the bank last week when it was robbed and the person who did it was acosh. I call the cops and say i have information that acosh robbed the bank. Im not a witness. I didnt see it. The witnesses are the people who were there. That sixth amendment right doesnt apply to the whistleblower, the accuser, but to the actual witnesses. What are your final questions for this week . The first is exactly what jake tapper just asked adam schiff, are you done or are there going to be more rulings. Were going to get a ruling to tomorrow on the don mcgahn case and the Judiciary Committee said they intend to call him as a witness but thats a strategic decision that House Democrats have to work out among themselves. Number two, who is john bolton doing and trying to tell us . Hes got a book, back on twitter but he should be testifying. He had a oneonone conversation with donald trump trying to get trump to release that foreign aid. We need to know what happened in that conversation and, third, are we going to see those articles of impeachment. I would hazard a safe guess theyre being drafted as we speak and i think we will see draft articles of impeachment any day now. And youll be back in a week and well put those theories to the test to see if impeachment articles have happened. You can ask your own questions on crossexam. A health care for Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Well have an update on her condition next. First, this weeks Global Energy challenge. 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This next week, the courts considering a critical request from the president , right . Right. The court is on a brief recess. They wont be on the bench, but behind the scenes they are looking at this petition from President Trump. He is trying to block a house subpoena for his financial records. That is before the Supreme Court. We could get an order as soon as tomorrow. On top of that, on december 2nd, when the justices take the bench again, theyre hearing a huge 2nd amendment case. This is a momentous term and she has had these setbacks facing all these huge issues shes going to have to decide. She keeps plowing forward. Thank you. More on our breaking news. The white house review turned up emails showing an extensive effort to generate an after the fact justification of President Trumps decision to block Ukraine Military aid. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im a verizon engineer, and im part of the Team Building the most powerful 5g experience for america. 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The delay of aid to crane is uk at the center of this ongoing impeachment inquiry in the house. The documents are between Mick Mulvaney and white house budget officials from early august. Remember, trump ordered the hold in mid july. The report also says white house lawyers are expressing concern that the review has turned up some unflattering exchanges and facts that could at a minimum embarrass the president. The white House Counsels review of documents was triggered by the house impeachment inquiry. Intelma