Journal reporting sondland frequently updated top officials on efforts to convince ukraine to launch investigations the president was demanding. Among them, Energy Secretary rick perry and mick mulvaney, who famously said this about trumps pressure campaign. 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. Also released this weekend, a deposition from former top official, tim morrison. He told officials that sondland was acting at the direction of the president and that he spoke to a top ukrainian official about exchanging military aid for investigations. Republicans trying to shift the blame for mounting trouble away from the president. Those individuals who leaked this, this is all coming out into public has weakened that relationship. It exposed things that didnt need to be exposed. It would have been better off if this happened behind the scenes. Funding would have been restored and the relationship with ukraine would be far better off than it is today. The president attacking another witness after demonizing Marie Yovanovitch while she testified on friday. The president on sunday lashed out at another witness, jennifer williams, an aide to Vice President mike pence. He went after her as a nevertrumper. She is set to testify tomorrow. Williams listened in on the phone call to ukraine. She testified privately that trumps request for investigation struck her as, quote, unusual and inappropriate. The president s latest attacks on a witness threatens to deepen his trouble in a frenetic week ahead. Cnns David Shortell has more from washington. Reporter eight witnesses set to testify publicly this week before the house intelligence committee, including highly credentialed National Security officials, making this week the most consequential of the trump presidency. I want to focus on two of the witnesses that are scheduled to provide some of the most compelling testimony so far. Thats Gordon Sondland, and timothy morrison, who is the Top White House expert on russia. Sondland was a wealthy businessman who donated 1 million to the president S Election Committee and later became his top envoy to the e. U. His testimony is not expected to be a home run. Well likely hear him describe a call that he had with President Trump, that the president told him explicitly that he does not asking for a quid pro quo. Sondland is likely to be quizzed about a conversation he had with his colleagues that we recently learned about. That conversation, at a restaurant in kiev, sondland told officials that trump did not care about ukraine and was only concerned about an opening of an investigation into the bidens. Morrison, the former nsc official, is expected to testify on tuesday. And we expect him the to build the credentials of sondland as someone who was working with President Trump on this shadow ukraine policy, sondland, the witness with the most direct role in this effort that weve heard from so far. Dave and christine . All right. A stunning rise from obscurity to the top of the field in iowa, for Pete Buttigieg. The south bend, indiana, mayor, had a ninepoint lead in september. Its a close race for second, with Elizabeth Warren at 16 . On the ground, for weeks, i have been feeling theres momentum. They connect with the message and get more and more interested in supporting this campaign. I know we have the biggest hills to climb ahead of us. We will stay disciplined and focused on doing that. I dont do polls. I know we need ideas that match the problems in this country. The biggest challenge facing buttigieg is a glaring lack of support in the black community. He will speak at morehouse college. The field getting a warning from obama. 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We know theres more radical and more violent elements within that campus. Weve seen fires being lit to try to keep the police out. Weve and petrol bombs to be used against police. Weve seen a bow and arrow used against police. One policeman having an arrow in his leg. If protesters use the lethal weapons, they believe a bow and arrow is a lethal weapon, they will have no choice but to use minimum force and live fire. Here, were seeing thousands of protesters trying to distract the police. Theres been a cat and mouse game for many sides. Theres been teargas and rubber bullets from the police side. Theyre trying to draw the police away from the campus. Seeing if they can allow the protesters to escape. We saw dozens of the protesters manage to sneak out of the campus and disappear. The police extended the cordon, trying to pick up every, single one of them. They want to arrest as many of those people as possible. They should come out, drop their weapons, but they will be arrested. Christine . Thanks so much for that, paula. President trump backing off a proposed ban on most flavored vaping products, a ban he announced with some fanfare just two months ago. We cant allow people to get sick. And cant have our youth be so affected. White house and Trump Campaign officials tell the washington post, trump changed his mind because he fears that upsetting vapors could hurt his reelection chances. Trump also believes that job losses in the vaping industry could stop the Economic Growths. Juul will stop selling pods, other than tobacco and menthol. As of last week, theres been 42 confirmed deaths. China and the u. S. Held constructive discussions about a phase one trade deal, amid reports that the negotiations hit a rough patch. That positivity coming from Chinese State media. The two sides had a phone call. Stocks hit record highs friday, after larry kudlow said washington and beijing were close. Pete navarro repeated sunday, with high praise for the negotiating style of lighthizer. My lighthizer rule is all negotiations should be closed doors. Were on a glide path to a deal. He says, dont believe the leaks. Never believe the leaks. The day in day out leaks on the trade deal. Navarro would not say if a trade deal would be reached this year. Until then, tariffs are still on many goods, including agriculture projects. The president promised cash for farmers before thanksgiving. The Agriculture Department begins a second round of bailouts next week. The 16 billion package is to compensate for trade losses in the war here. Farmers have been in the middle of this. You see farm bankruptcies rising. Its been really devastating for some of the communities and family farms trying to hold on. In some cases, the bailout money is not compensating them 100 . And the president is still s saying that the chinese are paying the tariffs. Theres a redistribution of wealth now. 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Thats when we have elements. The incoming front here, not impressive to this hour. The models suggest across the metro cities in the northeast and work your way into the interior portion of new england and transitions from a wintry mix into snowshowers. And you have to go north to burlington, to northern maine, thats where the snow will accumulate. A uniform trend of temperatures in the 40s. Generally between 40 and 45 degrees over the next couple of days. And hit additional reinforcing shots of colder air in the northern states. Toward the south, a milder trend begins to develop. Chicago climbs out of the 30s and stays in the 40s. Gets to 50 or so degrees later in the week. And new york city, remains between 45 and 55 this week. Well call it a cool week across the midwest and northeast. The ravens put a beatdown on the texans on what was supposed to be the matchup of the weekend. Pass interference is a big problem for the nfl. Andy sholes has those stories in the Bleacher Report. Houstons hone, andy sholes. I thought we had a great game in store. As a texans fan, dave, im not surprised, by what happened on sunday. Wow. Texans routinely dont show up for big games. A big play early in this one was a nonpass interference call. The nfl made you can challenge if pass interference wasnt called after the saints got cheated out of the super bowl last year. The way the league is enforcing it is ridiculous. The prime example is coming in the first quarter. Deshaun watson going deep to hopkins. And hopkins at the end of this play, will get tackled in the end zone. No flag was thrown. The texans challenged it and it was upheld, no pass interference. When that happened, 6 of 58 pass interferences had been overturned. Hopkins tweeting out after the game, someone new has to make the decisions in new york. Lamar jackson outdueling. Ravens win big, 417. And mark ingram has no doubts who the mvp should be right now. The mvp frontrunner. If somebody has to Say Something different about that, see me. Be more outside of the bank. If you have an issue with that, come see me. The reigning super bowl mvp making plays with his arm for new england. Not tom brady, julian edelman. Brady to edelman to dorsett for the touchdown. That was a gamewinning touchdown. 1710. Cowboys and lions, dock prescots dance routine was the talk of the nfl a week ago. Now, its become a touchdown celebration. Ezekiel elliott getting this screen pass from dak in the fourth quarter. Takes it in for the score. Now, he does the dak. Cowboys allsmiles, would get the win, 3527. Over the weekend, the biggest story in the nfl, was the Colin Kaepernick workout that turned into an eventful day. The league was holding a workout for kaepernick at the Atlanta Falcons facility. 25 scouts arrived. And 35 minutes before it was to start, it was called off by kaepernicks team. They were doing it an hour later and moving it to a High School Stadium about 60 miles away from that practice facility. Kaepernicks team said the nfl workout fell apart because they wanted to film it, have it open to the media and sign a waiver, not a waiver with employmentrelated clauses in it, which is what the nfl wanted them to sign. Dave, i talked to kaepernicks agent at the workout. I was at both of them. He said in the end, he felt like the nfl workout was just a p. R. Stunt, like many said. And once it got moved, only eight teams were represented at the workout that was 60 miles south, at the Atlanta Falcons practice facility. He hit guys in stride. Hes his own worst enemy, a lot like the politician we talk about. He looked sharp. Theres so much mistrust between kaepernick and the nfl, that workout that was set up, it seemed doomed from the start. I think he blew it up for good this time. We shall see. The president attacks another witness in the impeachment probe. 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Among them, Energy Secretary rick perry and mick mulvaney, who famously said this about trumps pressure campaign. 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. Also released this weekend, a deposition from former top official, tim morrison. He told officials that sondland was acting at the direction of the president and that he spoke to a top ukrainian official about exchanging military aid for investigations. Republicans trying to shift the blame for mounting trouble away from the president. Those individuals who leaked this, this is all coming out into public has weakened that relationship. It exposed things that didnt need to be exposed. It would have been better off if this happened behind the scenes. Funding would have been restored and the relationship with ukraine would be far better off than it is today. The president attacking another witness after demonizing former ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch while she testified on friday. The president on sunday lashed out at another witness, jennifer williams, an aide to Vice President mike pence. He went after her as a she is set to testify tomorrow. Williams listened in on the phone call to ukraine. She testified privately that trumps request for investigation struck her as, quote, unusual and inappropriate. The president s latest attacks on a witness threatens to deepen his trouble in a frenetic week ahead. He said that eisenbergs executive secretary put it on the highly classified server after misunderstanding some instructions. They found it was displaced when they tried to use it for a planned warsaw trip in september, a trip that was canceled. A stunning rise from obscurity to the top of the field in iowa for Pete Buttigieg. The south bend, indiana, mayor, pulling to a ninepoint lead. Thats a 16point surge in iowa since september. With 11 weeks to go before the caucuses, its a close race for second, with Elizabeth Warren at 16 . On the ground, for weeks, i have been feeling theres momentum. They connect with the message and get more and more interested in supporting this campaign. I know we have the biggest hills to climb ahead of us. We will stay disciplined and focused on doing that. I dont do polls. I know we need ideas that match the problems in this country. The biggest challenge facing buttigieg is a glaring lack of support in the black community. Just 4 in a recent quinnipiac poll. He will speak at morehouse college. The field getting a warning from obama. He talked about going too far on certain policies. He says voters want ideas rooted in reality. This is still a country that is less revolutionary than it is interested in improvement. They like to see things improve. But the average american doesnt think that we have to completely tear down the system and remake it. And i think its important for us not to lose sight of that. Expect buttigieg to be the target of increased attacks during the next democratic debate on wednesday night. More on all of this, including the queens second son trying to explain his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. It did not go well. A car wreck would be kind. Cnn is live in london. Before i ask her. May i have your permission to marry her . Youre marrying her and her whole world. Shop neal lane diamond engagement rings. At kay. Shop neal lane diamond ei looitaly avel. Yaaaaass. With the united explorer card, i get rewarded wherever i go. Going out for a bite. Rewarded going new places. Rewarded anytime. Rewarded getting more for getting away. Rewarded learn more at the explorer card dot com. And get. Rewarded tmobiles newest most powerful signal is here. Experience it with the amazing, new iphone 11. 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Theres so much material to explore from last week and so much more coming this week. What we see is this picture really filling out with a clear and consistent tone and message of a white house that had a shadow policy, trying to influence trade access to the president , right . For investigations into the president s political rivals. How damaging was last week . It was very damaging. The whistleblower told a story. And everyone has confirmed that story or expanded on it. And it keeps getting worse. Whether it changes republican opinion, we dont know at this point. But what it does do is solidify the support of democrats and prevent the backlash as they move forward with this inquiry. With the democrats have to clear, the bar they have to clear is high crimes and misdemeanors and firsthand knowledge that the president acknowledged these. The point man ended up being on ukraine. How pivotal could his testimony be in making that argument . Very pivotal. He was one of the key players along with figures like rudy giuliani, and he is under fire right now because everyone has basically confronted his first testimony and said it wasnt true. And sondlands correction turns out to be accurate. If he turns on and says the president was onboard with this, i think it will undermine any remaining claim that the president didnt know what was going on. On this side, you have a huge impeachment process under way, on the other side, you have democrats running for president. We saw new polling for Pete Buttigieg that he has soared ahead in iowa. 25 . Theres a race for number two there. What do you make of the buttigieg surge here . Its not totally surprising. Buttigieg has been organizing in iowa from an early point in this contest. He made this the centerpiece of how he will create momentum and show he is viable. The democrats have a long run here. You have many formidable candidates. He will create the perception in New Hampshire and move forward. Its unclear he can win in the big states. Unclear he can carry South Carolina or california. But this changes the story. Its not one poll were talking about. Several polls and he is far ahead. 77 days to iowa. And iowa really matters. For democrats, especially, the winner in iowa has gotten the nomination since tom harkin. Not always the presidency. Thats a little warning. A form eer president made so interesting news, and trending was toofarleft. Barack obama had words of warning for those out of step with what he sees as mainstream democrats and policies rooted in reality. Is he right that some of the candidates may be going too far left for the country right now . Thats a fair warning. And its important to remind candidates with what can be viable, whats not perfect but possible. In the same interview, he talked about the importance in energy that the big ideas people bring to campaigns. That part of the interview got less attention. I think he was trying to do the pluses and minusescandidates ano can bring this. And you have to inspire voters in campaigns. Its not a practical decision being made. Both sides have something to offer. We saw former mayor, Michael Bloomberg this weekend, disavowing stop and frisk, something hes been supportive of until recently. Is that a blatant attempt to say, i want to run and i have to get i have to get the support of black voters . Sure. You flipflop on day one, before youve even really announced. That indicates he understands he has a problem with that policy. When youre mayor, your mayoral record will really matter. That particular policy in this day and age is a big concern for a lot of voters. Its unclear to me that he has a big path to victory. He has the same kind of constituency as mayor pete. But hes a billionaire running. And he doesnt have the organization. So, he still has a difficult challenge ahead. And both buttigieg and bloomberg struggling with voters nationally. Buttigieg is young and new and he wants to translate that into broader appeal. Julian zelizer, nice to see you this morning. Another long week. It will be a big one. President trump backing off a proposed ban on most flavored vaping product. A ban he announced with some fanfare just two months ago. We cant allow people to get sick. And cant have our youth be so affected. White house and Trump Campaign officials tell the washington post, trump changed his mind because he fears that upsetting vapors could hurt his reelection chances. Trump also believes that job losses in the vaping industry could stop the Economic Growth he often touts. Juul will stop selling pods, other than tobacco and menthol. The cdc reports 2,200 cases of lung injury linked to vaping. As of last week, theres been 42 confirmed deaths. Former Vice President joe biden has released a plan for combatting violence against women. It includes 100 million a year to clear the backlog of processing rape kits. 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Iran has prided itself on keeping it going in the face of an International Block cade. But Something Like this is increased debt and increased problems. Were seeing video of protests, frankly, across the country, in many different cities. Because of the lack of transparent, open reporting. And net block, the website, says 5 Internet Connectivity as of normal. Its hard to say how substantial these are. But irans interior minister has been open saying security must come first. Theres been reports and videos of clashes. Even the Supreme Leader has said that a number of people have lost their lives in this. But the focus of irans government are talking about how these are rioters. The u. S. Stands by the iranian people. Iran said, they show no concern for the suffering under their sanctions. If this goes further, protests on the streets and results in a political change. Youll see hardliners. But will the protests continue or damper down . Nick paton walsh, thank you. British social media is slamming Prince Andrew after he gave an interview on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. He denies accusations he slept with an underage girl, which would be statutory rape. The queens seconds son saying he had no recollection of meeting her. He told the bbc at one point he went to epsteins home, planning to break ties with him. You were staying at the house of a convicted sex offender. It was a convenient place to stay. I mean, ive gone through this so many times in my mind. At the end of the day, with the benefit of all of the hindsight one can have, it was definitely the wrong thing to do. At the time, it was the honorable and right thing to do. And i admit that my judgment was likely colored by my tendency to be too honorable. Thats the way it is. Hadas gold is live at Buckingham Palace. In that interview, he said, he conducted himself in a manner unbecoming. In the interview, unbecoming. He was a sex offender. Whats the reaction been . Stunning interview that took place behind me in Buckingham Palace on thursday evening. Just the fact it happened is notable. Rarely do members of the royal family sit down for interviews. But to draw a line under this controversy raging around him for months, he seems to be mistaken. The reaction has been swift and overall negative. It seems to have caused more questions than provide any answers. For example, in that answer you just aired, he said he went to break up with, pretty much, Jeffrey Epstein in person. Earlier in the interview, he said they werent that good of friends. This is the first time we heard from Prince Andrew, any actual alibis to some of the dates that she met up with Prince Andrew. One of the examples, he said, he wasnt with her because she was taking one of his daughters to a pizza restaurant for a birthday party. The reaction from the british media has been harsh. Charlie proctor, the editor in chief of the royal central website, he said, i expected a train wreck. That was a plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a Nuclear Explosion level bad. One of the questions is if Prince Andrew will speak under oath to investigators about Jeffrey Epstein. He told the bbc he would do so if his Legal Adviser said that was the right thing to do. Thank you for that. The head of the faa says hes considering an overhaul of the plane approval process in the wake of two boeing 737 max crashes. Steven dixon tells the wall street journal he is willing to change the certification process to focus on pilot reaction and human factors. That echoes new recommendations from the ntsb. The faa has been criticized for outsourcing its certification to planemakers themselves. Lets get a check on cnn business this morning. Looking at markets around the world. Pretty much a mixed perform mansion here. Asian and european stocks have violence over the weekend in hong kong. That was a problem here. The hang seng rose 1. 3 , jumping up from last weeks nearly 5 drop. It could be another record day on wall street, if things hold. Markets are hungry for any news of a u. S. china trade deal. Chinese state media sunday, said the two sides held constructive discussions about a phase one deal. Last week, all major indices hit record highs when larry kudlow said, washington and beijing were close to a deal. The records also as concerns of a recession fade into the background. Ford is coming for tesla, unveiling an suv with a storied pedigree. The mustang match e. Now, two motors allow it to go from 060 in 4 seconds. This is fords biggest bet on a electric car. Half of all u. S. Autosales are suvs. Prices start about 45,000. Dunkin is tossing out styrofoam cups for good. The chain is ditching its phone cup. A move that ends doublecupping. Dunkin said it was breaking up with the doublecup. Dunkin will offer customers doub doublewalled paper cups. Miss those foam cups. But a good call. In case you missed it, saturday night live gave impeachment hearings a soap opera spin. Days of our impeachment, where the only thing at stake is democracy. Oh, yeah. I love the glamour and the spotlight. Thats why i spent my career in ukraine and somalia. I did the thing where i would hold a magnifying glass and say, ill look into that. But i grabbed a hammer and took my eye out. Not my best day. Not my worst. Is rudy okay . I think he may have fixed me. Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went, turned bad. She started out in somalia, how did that go . As long as were talking about track records, trump started in atlantic city. How did that go . Even fox news thought attacking yovanovitch was a bad move. Should the president be tweeting at her mid hearing . No. It makes him look like a big, dumb baby. Thats what theyre saying on his favorite channel. Thats like if your kid turned on nickelodeon and dora was like, youll never learn to read, fatty. Its all politics until you bring dora into it. Leave dora out of it. We love dora. Thanks for joining us. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. Heres new day. Eight public impeachment hearings set for this week. This last week was good for the facts and bad for President Trump. The president lashed out at another witness. Career diplomat jennifer williams. Donald trump doesnt like what hes hearing, he shouldnt tweet. Mr. Sondland has to decide if his loyalty is to america or the president of the United States. This is a man who said, as far as the president is concerned, there was no quid pro quo. The president of the United States shouldnt be on the phone with another country and attack his political welcome o our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is new day. Its monday, november 1th. Its 6 00 here in new york. Hope you all got some rest this morning, because what a week ahead in the impeachment hearings. Including a witness that seems to grow in importance every hour. At least eight current and former officials are set to testify. Each tells a key part of the story, but yale teasily the mos important appearance is wednesday when Gordon Sondland is scheduled to appear. Sondland had multiple direct conversations with President Trump about efforts to get the ukrainians to investigate joe biden. Sondland revised his original testimony, a 180 as it has been called, and admitted he made clear to the ukrainians they would not get any aid unless they launched the investigations. And new this morning, the wall street journal reports theres even more. A trail of emails where sondland kept several key Trump Officials updated about the