Weekend pushing back. The president releasing the video calling the investigation into his administration the single greatest scam of politics. President trump shook down a foreign leader of his own political gain and covered it up. We have the latest live from the white house. It is saturday night live returns from its long summer break with the full cast of political characters and a new one. Woody harrelson as joe biden. Well give you a look. Later a sunday sitdown with tony, grammy, ben plat on starring with Gwyneth Paltrow on the much talked about Netflix Series of politician and dear evan hansen. I think we saw the sob that happens every single night. A sit down with plat. A july telephone conversation with the president of ukraine compel nancy pelosi to come out to support an impeachment inquiry. According to our latest nbc news count 225 of 235 House Democrats now support some form of impeachment action. Nbcs hans nichols is at the who i say for us. The president was up late la
Would imply he was raveled in the first place. I think he might be smoking black market vapes. Trump tweeted and retweeted more than 100 times this weekend. Since friday the president has retweeted 130 times and counting. These are his tweets. And hes playing all the hits. He called this the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. Even his witch hunts are the greatest in the history. [ laughter ] he wrote, if that perfect phone call with the president of ukraine isnt considered appropriate, then no future president can ever again speak to another foreign leader. Right. All overseas phone calls will be disallowed hereforth. to the wait did frowe just winners. Prouders it was a perfect conversation with ukraines president. And who is he quoting here . Everyone uses their phone differently. Thats right. Thats why Xfinity Mobile lets you design hes quoting himself. Your own data. [ laughter ] now you can share it between lines. Again, the president of ukraine said there was no,
Transcripts, these are notes, not an official transcript, but as close as is available. It is the best record of this call. Made july 25th, from the white house residence by President Trump to president zelensky ukrai ukraine, the call lasted about 30 minutes. And let me walk you through the call after having read the notes of the call. Trump begins by congratulating zelensky for his election victory and midway through the call says, quote, id like you to do us a favor those because our untry has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it, id like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine. They say crowd strike. I guess you have one of your wealthy people, the server, they say ukraine has it. Now, frankly, it is hard to tell exactly what the president means. Jchlt doj officials werent able to shed light on it. But perhaps he is thinking that somebody in ukraine has one of the missing clinton email servers. Frankly, it is impossible to tell. And then
let s take a look at the week s top stories. we re following new reporting involving the investigation into former president donald trump. classify top humans that he took with him when he left the white house. multiple sources tell cnn that federal prosecutors have obtained the 2021 audio recording of trump acknowledging that he kept classified pentagon documents about a possible attack on iran after leaving the white house. the existence of the recording undercuts trump s primary defense that he declassified all the documents that he brought with him from the white house to mar-a-lago. cnn reports that july 2021 meeting was held at trump s golf club in new jersey, with two people working on the autobiography of trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows, as well as trump pays, including communication specialist, margot martin, who as the guardian reports, regularly taped trump s conversations with authors to make sure they re accurately recounting his remarks. so really,
last 60 years because they understand the power of incrementallism. i think part of the problem with republicans is that we are so often focused on hitting the hail mary pass we forget about the power of incrementallism. this is going to spend less money next year. that is not sufficient. it s a big win. let s put in our pocket and get another win tomorrow. republican dusty johnson of south dakota with a plea to house gop hard liners who are criticizing the debt limit bill. we ll have the latest on where support stands for members of both parties as leaders try to secure their votes. plus, president biden and former president trump mark memorial day with very different messages, and also ahead we re following a developing story out of moscow this morning. drones attacked residential areas for the first time since russia invaded ukraine. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, may 30th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begi