The Intelligence Community Inspector General testified in private today. Sources tell us he gave the House Intelligence Committee documents showing his work to corroborate the whistleblowers complaint. We also now have the Opening Statement and Text Messages supplied by kurt volker, the president s former special envoy for ukraine. Heres part of a july 19th exchange between volker and Gordon Sondland, republican fundraiser and ambassador to the european union. Sondland writes, looks like potus call tomorrow. I spoke directly to zelensky and gave him a full briefing. Hes got it. Volker responds, good. Had breakfast with rudy this morning. Teeing up call withier mac monday must have helped. Most important is for zelensky to say he will help the investigation. Then on the morning of the july 25th call between President Trump and the president of ukraine, ambassador volker messages sondland. Quote, heard from white house. Assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the
Another court battle. But right now we are waiting for President Trump and the first lady to arrive at Buckingham Palace for a queens reception of nato leaders. This comes on an extraordinary day when the president and french president emanuel macron publicly clashed on a number of topics, including the strength of nato. Were going to get to them in just a moment, but first there is breaking news back home. As President Trump huddles with his nato counterparts in london, the House Intel Committee is preparing to vote on its official impeachment report. Cnn has just learned that the report, which will be released to the public tonight, is expected to give specifics on how President Trump pressured ukraine for political gain. Outlining the panels justification for impeachment. The Intel Committee vote expected here in just a few hours is coming as republicans from three different committees weigh in with the report of their own. Its a rebuttal of sorts, some 123 pages in total. And their
The democrats first start witness who poured a ton of cold water over every impeachment fantasy they had. You will notice a common theme in this show, the corruption, the hypocrisy, the deceit of both the Democratic Party and their allies, frankly their stenographers the media mob. Every accusation they make, every attack, every smear, every slander every one of them is nothing more than mere projection. Theriot the ones guilty of real collusion and corruption with ukraine just like the bought and paid for russian dossier full of lies in 2016. They are the ones guilty of conspiracy. They are the ones out there. Yeah, joe biden leveraging your tax dollars in an obvious quid pro quo in a shakedown to fire a ukrainian prosecutor. Why would a Vice President of the United States ever want to do that . And the ones that colluded in the election. President trump has committed zero crime. Zero impeachable offenses and the democrats and the mobs baseless claims are unraveling this hour breaking
Of the president on that call President Trump clearly and openly pressed ukraines president zelensky to work with attorney general bill barr to investigate his potential 2020 candidate joe biden and bidens son hunter. The ukrainian prosecutor said there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by him. Whether hes gaslighting or truly of the belief there was nothing inappropriate, President Trump tried to argue the rough transcript would exonerate him. Its a joke. Impeachment for that . When you have a wonderful meeting or you have a wonderful phone conversation . By releasing the rough transcript did not exonerate the president and those republicans are sticking by the white house talking points insisting there is nothing to see here. There already appear cracks in that facade with republican senator ben sass calling it very troubling. Republican senator mitt romney calling it troubling in the extreme. Republican senator pat tumy calling it inappropriate. Governor pence in the Vice President i