24 hours. there has been a lot. as we just heard, the president flatly admitted on the south lawn that he wants ukraine and now china added in to look into the bidens. he just said it. msnbc reports that president trump suggested in a call with chinese president xi in june that beijing should investigate biden. he reportedly mentioned elizabeth warren too. white house record of that conversation went into the secret vault where that ukraine call lives, according to that report. a pair of trump s envoys drafted a statement for ukraine s president to commit to investigating biden, that s according to the new york times, they just put it in writing in a statement. former ambassador kurt volker testified yesterday before multiple house committees and reportedly revealed that he told giuliani the biden story was a dud and rudy was getting bad information. and the wall street journal reports that the u.s. ambassador from ukraine was pulled from the country because she would not push the tr
criminality and donald trump s world, i can t help but to let s plow right through that. jim, we have the president saying what he said out on the lawn, but now we have this raft of stories that came through in the last 12 hours supporting the argument, in fact, the facts that we saw in the summary of the phone call on july 25th that the president and people around him and in fact the levers of the united states government from the state department to justice and outside the government with rudy giuliani are working on behalf of president trump to investigate joe biden on behalf of the president. yeah. i mean, let s step away from the play by play for one second. you now know that the president has used the machinery and the manpower of the federal government to ask foreign adversaries to investigate his chief political rival. biden is leading in the polls and most people assume at this moment that he has a better than decent chance of becoming the nominee. unprecedented in histo
messages that show the president s top envoys pushing the president of ukraine to investigate joe and hunter biden and to investigate the unsubstantiated conspiracy they re that i ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. the message appear to confirm reporting from the new york times that kurt volker and the u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland helped draft a statement for the ukrainian president committing to investigation into the bidens. in a july nine teeth text message, he texted this. had breakfast are rudy giuliani this morning. teeing up call with yermak. andre yermak is an aide to the ukrainian president. he then adds, most important is for zelensky to say he will help investigation. two days later, bill taylor the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine texts sondland writing, quote, president does laens ski is sensitive about taking ukraine
president trump raised biden s political aspect as well as liz warren during a phone call with chinese president xi. the white house record of that call was later stored in the same highly secured electronic system as president trump s july 25th phone call with the president of ukraine. when asked about president trump s call with xi earlier this week, cnn said the white house did not deny that he raised joe biden. joining us now, donny deutsch and the cofounder and ceo of axios jim. gentlemen, welcome. there s so much to go through maybe ever than we ve had in this conversation. we have the text messages but the president of the united states standing on the south lawn saying ukraine should look into joe biden and by the way, so too should china. there s a method to the madman. he s got what i call the cat strategy when he s in trouble.
bernie sanders and elizabeth warren don t do that and therefore have more time to meet voters. biden s average donation is $42. bernie sanders average donation is $18. tells a lot. michael steele, how do you see 2020 politics as it applies to impeachment here? how does this factor in? obviously joe biden s at the center of it every time the conversation comes up he and his son hunter are raised. how does this change the dynamic of the race, if it does? it does. i mean, it really i think it rachets it up to a more serious level a lot sooner. i think that and what s interesting is that biden has pretty much been absent from this conversation since he s been the focus of it. and the way that he has. i would have thought by now that there would have been a very definitive, a very passionate moment by biden pushing back against the president and really kind of establishing another