A were talk about present no president from President Trump is russia corrupt country yes it is and President Trump has met a number of times in person with president putin is that right yes a few times and hes had a number of phone calls with president putin is that right this is turkey a corrupt country yes and just last week despite their corruption at the white house president aired on had an audience with the present United States that correct as he did finally mr giuliani on may 9th told the New York Times President Trump basically knows what im doing as his lawyer are you familiar with that statement to the New York Times or not but you agree as someone who has a lawyer sitting next to you that a lawyer acts on a clients behalf and only on a clients behalf is that right. I believe that a lawyer acts on his clients behalf im not sure about only on the clients behalf because i think. As i understood mayor giuliani in this case he was doing a lot that i considered to be on his own
Selenski make a Public Statement about investigations i knew that investigations were important to President Trump we did not discuss any classified information other witnesses have recently shared their recollection of overhearing this call for the most part i have no reason to doubt their accounts its true that the president speaks loudly at times and its also true i think we primarily discussed asap rocky its true that the president likes to use colorful language anyone who has met with him it for any reasonable amount of time knows this well i cannot remember the precise details again the white house has not allowed me to see any readouts of that call and the july 26th call did not strike me as significant at the time actually actually i would have been more surprised. If President Trump had not mentioned investigations particularly given what we were hearing from mr giuliani about the president s concerns however i have no recollection of discussing Vice President biden or his son
Witnesses up are 2 veteran diplomats acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine William Taylor and Deputy Assistant secretary of state george cant a tailor has said in closed door testimony he had what he calls a clear understanding the trump wanted to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden in exchange for continuing military aid to ukraine cant testify the trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani pushed for the removal of the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie avantage who will testify on friday the president denies any wrongdoing and says the inquiry is in his words the greatest witch hunt in american history. Kimberly how kate is at the white house and castro is on capitol hill for us where that hearing is of course taking place well be talking to both of them in just a few minutes but 1st patty cohan begins our coverage. From a most the 1st day of his presidency there have been calls for Donald Trumps impeachment. But for the 1st 2 years with his party in control of con
The impeachment inquiry into donald trump the u. S. Top diplomat in ukraine testifies behind closed doors in sport its a huge night for round madrid in the Champions League the 14 time when its currently bottom of their group. To fight the right. Lets get going to accuse president wretch up type are the ones in the russian for city of sochi for talks with lot of me a putin mr repeated his threat to restart his military operation against kurdish fighters in northeastern syria the leaders are expected to discuss the turkish cease fire that was brokered by the u. S. Which is due to expire in a matter of hours the Kurdish Syrian Democratic forces the pulled out of some areas along the border but not everywhere as agreed under the terms of the truce before heading to sochi is what mr had to say. Vladimir putin and i will discuss all the steps to be taken in order to maintain the territorial integrity of syria and to cleanse the northern parts of syria from terrorists and terrorist organizat
security council staff beforehand including recommendations to encourage president selenski to continue to promote anti corruption reforms in ukraine so the national security staff understood what was in the u.s. national security interests and that was rooting out corruption and they encouraged the president to talk about it but as you see from the record of the call and i join the president saying read the call that topic was never addressed the word corruption never escaped his lips instead present trump openly press president selenski to pursue the 2 investigations that would benefit him personally in response to president s alinsky gratitude for the significant military support the united states has provided to ukraine president trump said. i would like you to do with a favor though because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it i would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine they say crowd strike i guess you