Pressured the ukrainian leader. The ambassador talked about a call made after the day the president asked the ukrainian leader to investigate the bidens. In the presence of my staff at a restaurant, sondland called President Trump and told him of his meetings in kiev. The member of my staff could hear President Trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. Ambassador sondland told President Trump the ukrainians were ready to move forward. Following the call with President Trump, the member of my staff asked ambassador sondland what President Trump thought about ukraine. Responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of biden which giuliani was pressing for. All right. No one knew about this testimony until bill taylor arrived yesterday. President trump was asked about this call yesterday. This is what he said. I know nothing about that. First time i heard that. The aide who allegedly heard this call, david holmes, he will testify behind clo
Now implemented in the ukraine scandal. Des do you know who paid Christopher Steele to do to generate the steele dossiers . Plus the inside scoop on the steele dossier from the people who commissioned it. There was no democratic conspiracy to frame donald trump. And just who is the constituency for the newest candidate in the 2020 race . Im going to make my case and let the voters who are plenty start make their case. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We have some breaking news tonight. The New York Times just reporting that donald trump had already been briefed about the whistleblower complaint when he finally released that aid to ukraine. Its further evidence for House Democrats contention that the reason the aid was released was simply because trump and his cronies got caught. Now, that news comes as the impeachment process is continuing to move forward rather quickly. Just hours ago democrats released a final set of closed door deposition tra
Caught red handed trying to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election. By pressuring a foreign leader to target joe biden, an american citizen for political gain. Cnn newsroom starts now. Hello everyone, thank you for joining me this sunday. Im fredricka whitfield. We start with a Dramatic New Development in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump and the pressure mounting. House intel chairman adam schiff is vowing to act your gently after nurnsing theres a tentative agreement for the anonymous whistleblower to testify before congress and it could happen as early as this week. All that needs done is make sure attorneys that represent the whistleblower get the clearances they need to accompany the whistleblowers testimony and figure out the logistics to protect the identity of the whistleblower. Thats our paramount concern. This whistleblower has done a Cardinal Service to the country by exposing wrongdoing of the most serious kind, a breach of the president s duty to the
Familiar with the matter who say that trump used the july 25th conversation with ukraine president zelenskiy to pressure him to more aggressively pursue an investigation trump believed would deliver potential political dirt against one of the president s political adversaries, joe biden. Again, just to reiterate, a president who spent three years that he colluded with a foreign power to get dirt on his political enemies has been caught redhanded doing just that. And this comes today after the president declined to say whether he discussed the former Vice President joe bidens family in that phone call with the ukrainian president , a call he insists was appropriate. Did you discuss joe biden, his son, or his family with the leader of ukraine . It doesnt matter what i discussed did you ask him joe biden during the conversation . I dont want to talk about any conversation other than to say great conversation, totally appropriate conversation, couldnt have been better, and keep asking ques
What is plainly before us. The president ial phone call where the president ignored the work of the advisors and the National Security council talking points and instead chose to talk about the bidens and talk about hunter biden and ask for an investigat we are just going to have to debate that. But isnt the principal that no one including the president is above the law . Absolutely essential and worth the effort to make certain that we continue to guarantee, ambassador morrison . Im sorry, ambassador volker. And mr. Morr. The rule of law is essential to our democracy. It is so true. We have had some discussion and challenge from the other side that the president has authority in Foreign Policy to do what he likes. And in fact, he does. President trump, taking the troops out of syria, allowing the Turkish Forces to go in literally meant that some kurdish families went to bed saturday night and woke up sunday morning, packed their kids, and fled for their lives. A lot of people, includi