Multiple diplomats to that country but cnn is just now learning when it came to his decision to block the millions of dollars in critical aid to ukraine the president of the United States was the one under pressure from within the white house and far beyond. Cnn global correspondent sara murray and Jeremy Diamond have the new reporting. Lets dig in. Jeremy first for you. What are you learning about when the president actually finally decided to release this aid to ukraine . Reporter well, brooke, it came down to a phone call between the president and ohio senator rob portman on september 11th. In the afternoon, were told, according to six sources familiar with the call, that ohio senator rob portman repeatedly urged the president once again to release these funds. The president , were told, put up his usual defenses blaming european allies for not providing enough funding to ukraine. What happened after the call is unusual in terms what happened for months before. The president withhol
Aid. Manu raju is on the hill. Manu, tell us why democrats wanted to hear from sondland. Sondland played a key role in discussions about setting up a meeting and having discussions after President Trump talked to the president of ukraine zelensky about the president s desire to investigate joe biden, have the ukranians investigate joe biden. Around that conversation the president had with zelensky, someone engaged with individuals about moving forward in setting up both a meeting with the ukranian government and the president of the United States. That meeting had been put on ice. The ukranians had raised concerns about that. Also he was involved in discussions about why military aid was withheld. He said in one of the Text Messages with another diplomat that there was no quid pro quo and then there were more messages in that text message exchange. Someone said, call me. He told that to bill taylor on capitol hill. They also wanted to see these Text Messages of his own that had not bee
Subpoenas and lets the president give their case later in the process. Still, though, not one republican voted in favor of this. Theres nothing the president did to be impeached. This isnt about the republican party. This is about the republic. No one should ever go through this again. We believe in the rule of law. But unfortunately in nancys house, we do not. This is a sad day. Its a sad day, because nobody comes to congress to impeach a president of the united states. No one. We cannot ignore and we will not ignore when the president s behavior indicates that that investigation, that inquiry is necessary. These rules are fairer than anything that have gone before. The final vote, 232196 in favor of this resolution. And while republicans all followed the party line, not all democrats did the same. So lets start there. Tom foreman is in washington to walk us through this vote. Tom, start with the two democrats who defected. The two who defected from the vote here. These two are two de
Zelensky to investigate burisma and interference in the 2016 election. Burisma is the Ukrainian Company on which joe bidens son hunter served on the board. He testified, that is my understanding. Security assistance money would not come until the president of ukraine committed to pursue the investigation question. So if they dont do this, they wont get that. Was your understanding . Taylor, yes, sir. Question. Are you aware that quid pro quo means this for that. I am. And he describes an odd shi a odd situation by stating that something is not a quid pro quo, this for that, that that negates it being one. President trump was adam ant that president zelensky has h to clear things up and in public and President Trump said it was not a quid and sondland said if this is not a quid pro quo and if he didnt clear things up in public, we would be at a stalemate. And i understand a stalemate to mean ukraine would not receive the muchneeded military assistance. To state the obvious, declaring so
The u. S. Is similarly targeting number of chinese investments they want to limit in the United States, including looking to delist investments and limit how much governmentrun Pension Funds can have in them. This continues and the impeachment fight. Well update that. I want to go to jim jordan, republican from ohio, on the house judiciary committee. A lot to discuss, congressman, i appreciate you maybe weighing in on this trade stuff. The president added couple doozies that might be warranted, but the market interprets that as no trade deal likely. Do you agree with that . Jim well wait and see, all i know, no president been tougher on china than President Trump and hes dealing with real problem of china, intellectual property, not abiding for trade norms and host of other issues china is guilty of. I been focused on the impeachment process, unfair process the democrats are involved with. I upon this, the president has the American Peoples best interest at heart and hes trying to acco