Washington. Im john roberts and for bret baier. At this hour, President Trump has just arrived back to the white house from florida where he delivered more sharp criticism to democrats over what he called impeachment crap. Earlier double down on his calls were joe biden and has on to be investigated, now saying china should look into them, too. This is House Democrats getting their first deposition in the impeachment inquiry and the state departments former specil envoy to ukraine. Correspondent richardson joins us now from the north lawn with this. Good evening. Good evening, john. President trump has just returned to the white house, walked over to some supporters on a cell phone, then walked into the white house. The president is defending his conduct, knocking the impeachment inquiry and now pushing two countries now to investigate former Vice President joe biden and his son. China should start an investigation into the bidens. President trump wants china to investigate Hunter Bide
I do not know the identity of the whistleblower. Speak with first public hearing opened with public squabbling over the person who brought the complaint over the call with the ukrainian president. The witnesses, top diplomat to ukraine, bill taylor, sitting sidebyside with secretary of state george kent. In a new disclosure, taylor said he was told last week about a colleague who overheard President Trump on a july 26 phone call with the u. S. Ambassador to the e. U. A member of my staff could hear President Trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. Mr. Sondland told President Trump, the ukrainians were ready to move forward. Ohio republican jim jordan, who was added to the intelligence committee, challenged taylors understanding of facts. You are their star witness. I have seen Church Prayer changes that are easier to understand in this. I dont consider myself a star witness. Im not here to take one side or the other or to advocate a particular outcome. T
Or omissions in the applications. The chief judge of the fisa court writing today, the frequency representations turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case calls into question whether information contained in other fbi applications is reliable. Todays rare response comes after james comey acknowledged wrongdoing in seeking the fisa warrant to survey carter page. Hes right. I was wrong. I was overconfident in the procedures that the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. I thought they were robust enough. Its incredibly hard to get a fisa. I was overconfident in those. Reporter its not been real hard to get a fisa warrant. The government made 1,081 requests. The court rejected only one of them. That is an approval rate of 99 . A concern raised that the court has been a rubber stamp for the fbi. Many of us have been looking at this secret fisa court for years. This isnt the first and
Baghdad, but now President Trump is openly saying it was a future plot and one of the reasons why soleimani was taken out. And an exclusive interview with Laura Ingraham airing on fox tonight, President Trump revealed there is a looming threat from Qassem Soleimani against u. S. Embassies. We will tell you that probably it was going to be the embassy in baghdad. That they have largescale attacks skillet tax plan for other embassies, and if those were planned, why cant we reveal that to the American People . I can reveal that it wouldve been four embassies. Officials describe the threat as evident but they did not know specifics. We do not know which day it was going to be executed. This was going to happen in american lives were at risk and we would be culpably negligent as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said can we be culpably negligent. The president s critics continue to fumed that the administration had not presented a compelling case to take out soleimani. One of the qu