Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Multiple usual officials and the Prime Ministers of khcanada and the uk are all now saying intelligence indicates the passenger plane that crashed in iran wednesday morning killing all 176 people on board was shot down by iran. Possibly accidentally. The british Prime Minister saying minutes ago there was a, quote, body of information showing an iranian air missile brought down that passenger plane. Brand new video sent to cnn report s s to show a missile fi into the sky and striking an object right around the the time that Ukraine Airlines flight crashed. Cnn has not independently verified the authenticity of the video. Another new video showing the fiery moment the flight hit the ground just minutes after taking off from the tehran airport. Our correspondents are covering the story from every angle including on the ground in iran. Well start with alex with new reporting about how the plane full of civilians may have been the shot down by accident.
Closed testimony very soon. Have you reached an agreement with the whistleblower and his or her attorneys providing the information firsthand . Yes, we have. And as director magire promised during the hearing, that whistleblower will be allowed to come in and come in without a minder from the Justice Department or from the white house. Democrats have laid out a timeline of testimony from some of the Major Players in the ukraine whistleblower controversy. Here you see it. Five Senior State Department officials are scheduled to give depositions before the house in the next two weeks. There is no republican support as of yet for impeachment to date. The president s personal attorney, though, Rudy Giuliani was telegraphing an unwillingness from republicans to work with democrats. I wouldnt cooperate with adam schiff. I think adam schiff should be removed. If they wutput a neutral person, if i had a judge in a case and he announced im going to impeach and went ahead and did a whole false ep
Policy might soon be taking. Plus nigerians are airlifted out of south africa were taken facing a surge of anti foreigner and violence they say they have no future in africas biggest economy. Times to be so misconduct thank you for joining us. Scotlands highest court has ruled that british Prime Minister Boris Johnsons decision to suspend parliament is unlawful and a controversial move jobson formally put the house of commons in recess until the middle of october he says he did it so he could start afresh on his domestic agenda next month but it means law lawmakers will not get back to work im told just 2 weeks before britain is due to leave the European Union now the government says it will appeal the scottish slowly and britains Supreme Court. Now one of the people who took the case to the court was a Scottish Nationalist member of parliament joanna charity heres what she said after hearing the courts ruling. It is unlawful for parliament to be suspended the highest court in scotland
Second thoughts asking for foreign election help, well, think again. I would think that if they were honest about it, they would start a Major Investigation into biden. Its a very simple answer. Likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens. Because what happened in china is just about as bad as what happened with ukraine. So i would say that president zelensky, if it were me, i would recommend that they start an investigation into the bidens. A packed hour ahead for us, but we start right there with that remarkable moment. President trump on his way to florida telling reporters standing outside of the white house that ukraine and china should launch investigations into the bidens. This at the very same moment House Intelligence Committee members are questioning a potential impeachment witness about that exact same topic, using president ial power and the leverage of official policy of president of ukraine to dig up election dirt. Rexless, unfounded smears against joe b
It is such a rare occasion in American History that you could almost talk about it as unprecedented. There have only been only three president s ever impeached in u. S. History. One in the 1800s, one in the 1900s and one now in the 21st century. As of tonight three u. S. President s ever impeached including President Trump. But as you know neither of the two previous president s who were impeached neither Andrew Johnson in the 1800s nor bill clinton in the 1990s, neither of them were convicted after their senate trial and removed from office after impeachment. No president has ever been removed from office by the impeachment process. And to be frank, nobody expects that to happen to President Trump now either. But beyond that widely shared bottom line expectation defined as much by the constitution and u. S. History as anything else about your current moment, beyond that widely spread expectation, frankly anything seems possible at this point, and that is in part because everything has