Lets get real. Okay. Bye, katy. Goodbye. Good afternoon. Im katy tur. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west and the 2 00 p. M. In washington where the Trump Administration is trying not to cooperate with the house impeachment investigation. In a letter, mike pompeo tried to block employees with a Congressional Panel investigating trumps ukraine call. He accused democrats of attempting to Bully State Department staffers. Pompeo himself may be in hot water. He was caught at worst lying. At best, knowingly misleading about his own involvement in that call. The wall street journal is reporting the president pressed the president of ukraine to work with Rudy Giuliani to investigate joe bidens son. What do you know about those conversations . So, you just gave me a report, whistle l blower complaint, none of which ive seen. The secretary of state feigned ignorance but we now know he was on the line and listening according to a Senior State Department official who spoke to nbc news. A chance democrats won
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that s just their line. but they re saying they re not reading the complaint. it s very, very instructive, katy, because it means they don t want to defend the president s behavior. so you have to distinguish between the fire eating house republicans and newt gingrich hypocrites and even, you know, lindsey graham is a complete hypocrite because he was totally on the other side the last time. you have to distinguish between them and a whole set of other republicans in the senate who are takinging much more of a wait-after-see attitude. is it very possible that five, six, seven of them will come along and vote to convict? i think that s distinctly possible, and that would make it much harder to say this was entirely a partisan affair. jonathan, always good to see you and get your expertise. daniel samuelsson, great to get your perspective as well. in a few moments chris
our congressional republicans willing to play along? are they willing to stick their necks out if r this president and his history? joining me, daniel and jonathan. so darren, i want to start with you. what are republicans doing in order to defend this president. sticking to the talking points the white house has been circulating. they are arguing that he has every right to conduct the diplomacy he was doing in terms of his outreach to the ukrain n ukrainia ukrainians. they are slamming the democrats saying this is not a real impeachment inquiry. you ve heard that over and over again, saying the democrats need to take a vote on the house floor to authorize an impeachment investigation like in the clinton and knicks ben gagss. they re clearly trying to goad the democrats into doing that for campaign fodder to get the democrats on the record clearly the democrats are already on
york. and i m john berman in charlotte, north carolina live at the cnn grill. the convention gavels to order in the afternoon. then the party will spend the next three days trying to sell the message that we are, in fact, better off now than we were four years ago. they have had trouble with that one so far. they suggest they would have a better plan for the future. tonight s main attraction, first lady michelle obama and castro. cnn s dana bash joins me now. dana, you have inside information for the obama contain and what the goals are for these three days. first of all, they say they want to chrrystallize the visio. when you look at the economy between barack obama and mitt romney. and they re also going to talk about building a middleclass from the middle out, not from the top down. a very different vision. we have heard that phrase a lot. i think the word we re going to hear over and over again is middle, middle, middle. middle class. they re going to focus heavil