References that would imply investigations of joe biden and his son, hunter, and the 2016 election. A u. S. Top diplomat was concerned President Trump withholding hundreds of millions of military aid would result in a quid pro quo. Bill taylor texted the u. N. Ambassador. Taylor wrote this, are we now saying Security Assistance and a white house meeting are conditioned on investigations . Suthland responded, call me. On september 9th, as i said on the phone, i think its crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a political campaign. 4 1 2 hours later sondland said i believe you are incorrect. The president has been crystal clear. No quid pro quos of any kind. He urged ukraine not to interfere in u. S. Politics. The Washington Post reports volker warned giuliani that ukrainian claims were unreliable. Today the Inspector General for the Intelligence Committee will testify to the house panel behind closed doors. World wind day on developments on the impeachment front most shocking President Trump under investigation to ask a secret government to interfere in elections is that he did it for all the world to see. Jim acosta at the white house. Dave and christine, a remarkable moment, one for the history books as President Trump stood outside the white house and the president asked china to dig up dirt on former Vice President joe biden, unlike his conversation with ukraines president. No call transcript is necessary here. The president said the quiet part out loud. China should start an investigation into the bidens. Because what happened to china is just about as bad what happened with ukraine. Its become more difficult for the white house and its defenders to accuse the whistleblower complaint of relying upon hearsay to accuse the president of asking a Foreign Government to interfere in the upcoming election as the president did that in front of the cameras. Dave and christine. Jim acosta, thanks, jim. The president saying yesterday he has not spoken with china president about investigating conspiracy theories about the bidens. That is not true. Cnn learned exclusively President Trump did raise joe biden with president xi in a june phone call. Thrust his political grudge into the worlds most complicated and consequential relationship. Kylie atwood part of the cnn team that broke that story has more for us. Christine and dave, now, during a phone call between President Trump and president xi in june we are learning that trump did mention joe biden, the former Vice President. Now his most formidable democratic opponent leading up to 2020. He also mentioned Elizabeth Warren according to sources familiar with this phone call. It was in the political sense that they were doing well in the polls and that they were the ones opposing him when it comes to 2020. We are also learning that the transcript of that call was put in the highly sensitive server. The same server that the ukrainian transcript was put in to that we consistently reported on in the last few weeks. I did speak with one chinese diplomat who said it was chaotic, but also said china wasnt interested in getting involved in the domestic politics on the u. S. But we are still waiting to see how the Chinese Government officially reacts to those statements from President Trump today. Thank you for that. Big slow downs in u. S. Manufacturing and the Service Sector made for another day on wall street. The monthly jobs report just hours away. Matt has all the latest for us next. They left a ton of stuff up here. Welp, enjoy your house. Nope. No thank you. Geico could help you save on homeowners and renters insurance. Imagine a world where nothing gets in the way of doing great work. Where an American Icon uses the latest hr tools to stay true to the family recipe. Where a music studio spends less time on hr and payroll, and more time crafting that perfect sound. 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The dow is down more than 300 points earlier in the day and balances lost more than 700 points since tuesday. The selloff began after the institute of supply management reported a slow down in the u. S. Service sector. Lets bring in matt eagan lead writer for cnn business. Many people saw the lead in manufacturing and many people thought it was isolated. American manufacturing the smaller part of the economy and then this. Happy friday, guys. We made it through another pretty crazy week. Almost. Almost. And, christine, your point is spot on. Right. Manufacturing we know its in contraction and thats because of the trade war and this global slow down. And now were learning that the Service Sector, restaurants, hotels. Thats really the biggest part of the economy. And now its growing at the weakest pace in three years. Employment growth and services is also slowing. That is certainly adding to these concerns that we could be dealing with some sort of severe slow down or maybe even a recession. Jobs numbers come out in a few hours. What do you expect and what does that tell us . Investors are on high alert for any manufacturing slow down and really contraction is spreading. Certainly anything to do with manufacturing jobs. I mean, theyve certainly slowed down the growth. Does that go negative . That would be a concern. Also there are these temporary jobs that are added because of the census. That is sort of boosting things. Also, overall, how is private sector job Growth Holding up . It has been slowing. I think investors and economists can live with a slow down there and were hoping its not any more than that. Nothing severe. We heard the president and the surrogates saying because this is because of the Democrat Impeachment concerns and you take away President Trump and the economy and the stock market will fall apart. This is about trade war and global trade flows. Am i right . You are right. Just look at the weekly chart of the dow. We saw the market take a hit at 2 00 a. M. Tuesday morning. That had nothing to do with impeachment or politics that is when this ism manufacturing report came out showing it was the worst month for factories since the end of the great recession. I think impeachment does pose another uncertainty. But right now its really just noise. I think investors are really squarely focused on the economy and theyre not really paying attention to that side show in washington, at least not yet. President focused on the fed as that war continues to escalate. Meeting at the end of the month. Jerome powell between a rock and a recession. What do you expect him to do . He is put in this impossible position and already a really tough job and i think hes going to be under more pressure to lower Interest Rates and thats because of these concerns about a recession. I mean, we saw yesterday one of the reasons why the market appeared to bounce way off the lows yesterday was because the odds of a rate cut in october have sky rocketed. They have gone up to 90 . A week ago they were at 50 . People were worried about the economy. Jay powell will have to respond to that. When it gets around 90 , 100 . They dont have a choice but cut rates. You made this point in your stories. The fed cant fix a trade war . No. No magic war for trade war. Borrowing costs are already really low. They could extremely soften the blow and it is helping on real estate and help with autos, as well. If youre a manufacturer and rates go a little bit lower, i dont really think that changes anything if youre worried about the trade war. If youre a Restaurant Owner and losing customers because of the factory layoffs, i dont think going lower changes anything. Well talk a little sports next. Thursday night football seahawks and rams go down to wire. How did this one end . 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On july 25th, volker texted a top zelensky adviser. Head from white house, assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate get to bottom of what happened. The statement ultimately made it to President Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani said that statement didnt go far enough and suggested adding references that would imply investigation of joe biden and his son, hunter, and the 2016 election. The newly released text shows a u. S. Top diplomat was concerned. President trump was withholding hundreds of millions of dollars of military ad would amount to a quid pro quo. Bill taylor texted gordon the u. S. Ambassador to the European Union. Are we now saying Security Assistance and a white house meeting are conditioned on investigation. Sondland responded, call me. There it is. On september 9th taylor spelled out his concerns. As i said on the phone, crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a political campaign. Four and a half hours later, sondland said i believe you are incorrect. The president has been crystal clear. No quid pro quos of any kind. Sources told volker yesterday he urged ukraine not to interfere in u. S. Politics. Washington post warned that he warned giuliani that ukrainian claims were unreliable. Michael atkinson will testify at house panels behind closed doors. The text kept a worldwind day of impeachment front. Perhaps most shocking if President Trump under investigation for secretly asking a Foreign Government to interfere in u. S. Elections. He did it, again, for all the world to see. Cnns jim accoosta is at the whe house. Dave and christine, it was a remarkable moment, one for the history books as President Trump stood outside the white house and called for foreign interference in the 2020 election. Dig up dirt on former Vice President , joe biden, unlike his conversation with ukraines president no call transcript is necessary here. The president said the quiet part out loud. China should start an investigation into the bidens. Because what happened to china is just about as bad as what happened with ukraine. Its become more difficult for the white house and its defenders of allying upon hearsay of asking a Foreign Government to interfere in the upcoming election as the president did that in front of the cameras. Dave and christine. Jim acosta there at the white house. The president also saying yesterday that he had not spoken with chinese president about conspiracy theories about the bidens. That is not true. Cnn has learned exclusively mr. Trump did raise joe biden with president xi in a june phone call. Suggest that the chinese investigate the bidens into the worlds most complicated and consequential relationship. Kylie atwood part of the team that broke the story has more. Christine and dave, now, during a phone call between President Trump and president xi in june, we are learning that trump did mention joe biden, the former Vice President. Now his most formidable, democratic opponent leading up to 2020. He also mentioned Elizabeth Warren according to sources familiar with this phone call. It was in the political sense that they were doing well in the polls and that they were the ones opposing him when it comes to 2020. We are also learning that the transcript of that call was put in the highly sensitive server. The same server that the ukrainian transcript was put in to that we have constantly reported on over the last few weeks. I did speak with one chinese diplomat today who said it was chaotic as they saw these media reports coming in, and also said china wasnt interested in getting involved in the domestic politics of the u. S. But we are still waiting to see how the Chinese Government officially reacts to those statements from President Trump today. All right, kylie, thank you for that. Amid the avalanche of ukrainerelated news. New damaging information about Vice President mike pence. Two sources tell us the Vice President was told about the july 25th call between president s trump and zelensky the day after it happened. Those two and a third source prove that pence was provided a transcript of the call. Not certain if the Vice President had read it. But pence prepares and relies on briefings before meeting with foreign meetings and did meet with president zelensky weeks after the call. Secretary of state mike pompeo says he intend to respond to a subpoena calling for documents related to ukraine by today. House democrats plan to subpoena the white house if it fails to comply with broad requests for documents. But the white house may have another idea. Axios reports the white house is planning to send House Speaker nancy pelosi a letter later today arguing President Trump and his team can ignore lawmakers demands until pelosi holds a former house vote approving a house inquiry. A letter has been drafted but not finalized or signed as of last night. Much more on this. One of the biggest movies of the year, but social media threats have the feds warning about safety at theaters showing joker. New Text Messages released by House Democrats overnight by u. S. Diplomats reveal, but officials in the two countries seem to have different understandings, shall we say. Political post senior political reporter great to have you here on another head spinning day. How do these Text Messages broadly speaking change the impeachment inquiry . Certainly evidence in its favor. I think that the big take away from these Text Messages is that it was broadly understood from these ambassadors and envoys that were serving in Eastern Europe and ukraine specifically that there was some kind of condition here. The text message from kurt volker referred to how he had just spoken with the white house and then referenced how a meeting was conditioned upon pursuing these investigations. Its not a coincidence that all these people seem to understand these things as condition. Whether it was the meeting. Whether it was specifically the military aide, i think we need to find out more. Kurt volker said some important things on thursday. Bill taylor the top diplomat to ukraine and this text message that he sends, as i said on the phone, i think its crazy it withhold Security Assistance for help with a political campaign. It seems, though, at least someone there was seeing what was happening behind the scenes and alarmed. There were two Text Messages from bill taylor to this effect. It almost seemed like he was gathering evidence or trying to cover his back side when it came to what might come out of these Text Messages one day. And then you see the response from Gordon SondlandEuropean Union and also a big trump donor who basically respauponds in a he knows the isis part of a record and very carefully worded, defending the president saying there was no quid pro quo. I think everybody understood that there was something objectionable going on here and a lot of covering of their back sides. The president yesterday right out there in front of the cameras, 30 seconds apart. First he says, i have a lot of leverage. I have a lot of options with china in terms of a trade deal. Exactly 30 seconds later he says, china should pea investiga be investigating the bideens. In the soup of the last week that is something that investigators must really be focused on here. The president out loud calling for another country to investigate his political rivals. Yeah, certainly. And the timing of that that you just mentioned, the 30 seconds apart. The president was talking about the trade war with china when he mentioned the leverage that he could have on china. Then he was asked about ukraine. He was not asked about china investigating. And he brings up china investigating the bidens on his own. I think its pretty clear from the president s comments that he understands what leverage is. He understands how to use it. The fact that he would associate those things so closely together, he would bring up china investigating on his own. I think, you know, the totality of his comments from that call with the ukraine president and now these Public Comments about china suggest that he knows how to at least implicitly get his message across. That maybe these countries should do him a favor, if they want favors in other areas that he can handle from an official perspective. Okay. So on the republican side, minority leader mccarthy calls pelosi reckless and calls on her to suspend the impeachment. Funding off the impeachment vowing to stop it and any cracks in the republican firewall for the president . I think republicans are probably very happy to be on recess right now. If they were in the halls of congress being chased down by reporters, this would be a much more difficult situation. Look, their goto after the release of the ukraine call was to basically say nothing. They said they were very concerned about potential corruption with joe biden, but they didnt generally address the substance of the president apparently asking for a foreign country to do something that could play in an election. I think in this case, its going to be similar. Those members also have to be asking themselves, if they dont speak out or do something about this, will the president keep taking this further and further as he seemed to do on thursday with china and really have the situation get out of hand . Its clear they are uncomfortable with this entire situation. How does the Vice President mike pence get through this . We know he reviews transcripts of calls to prepare, briefings to prepare for meetings and he met with the ukrainian president and given a transcript of that phone call between the president of the United States and ukraine. Where does mike pence fit into this . Mike pence throughout the Trump Presidency has been a background figure and not involved in the major controversies. In this case, i think he is inuvl vaed. It is impossible not to involve him. Also very difficult to believe that he didnt understand what kind of pressure was being applied and what the specific investigations that they were pressing for were. Given that he had a representative on that phone call on july 25th. Given that Rudy Giuliani to a large extent and President Trump, too, to a lesser extent, were publicly pushing for these investigations beforehand. If you are mike pence and you have that planned visit to ukraine and then you have zelensky in september, i think its understood just as during the trump tower meeting that, quote unquote adoption is not about adoption but sanctions. This is something that would be understood at somebody at mike pences level. How quickly do you expect a vote in the house . I am surprised they are saying they want to move through this quickly. This is something that is going to have to drag out because the white house is going to put up a fuss about this and fight the subpoenas and depositions. I dont know how democrats can rush through this without trying to get every piece of evidence they possibly can about ukraine. Judging by what we saw thursday the more they push and more evidence they gather, the stronger their hand can be. Aaron blake, thank you so much. Thanks. Unearthed a letter from 2016 that shows republican senators echoing calls by then Vice President joe biden to address corruption in the prosecutor general office. The bipartisan letter undercuts a baseline attack made by President Trump. The president claims biden pressured the Ukrainian Government to fire the prosecutor general to stop investigations into a company that his son hunter biden on its board. Signed by rob portman and ron johnson. Just last week johnson asked attorney general william barr to another whistleblower complaint, this one coming from the irs. An irs official alleges he was informed of one political appointee at the Treasury Department trying to interfere with the audit of President Trump or Vice President pences tax returns. The president , of course, never released his. 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Another text from a senior diplomat referenced the hundreds of millions of dollars that was withheld from ukraine. Here it is. Quote, are we now saying that Security Assistance and white house meeting are concernditionn investigations, end quote. A source tells cnn the Ukrainian Government went so far as to draft a Public Statement about its commitment to carry out these investigations but never released it in part because Rudy Giuliani did not think it went far enough. I give you this, you give me that. That is the essence o