Surrounding this story. That noise, the goal post moving, the denying of wrongdoing, even while seemingly admitting to it all, theyre all from a playbook this president has used before. And youll see plenty of examples of it tonight. But strip that away. Dont go down those rabbit holes, and youre left with the question of whether a sitting u. S. President may have used the power of his elected office to obtain something of personal or political value from a Foreign Government. Perhaps by means of extortion. And again, wherever a court or congress may come down on that the president , himself, has now admitted to some elements of it, saying, yes, he did talk with ukraines president about criminally investigating joe biden and his son, hunter. The conversation i had was largely congratulatory, was largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place, was largely the fact that we dont want our people, like Vice President biden and his son, creating to the corruption already in the ukrai
Intelligence committee acknowledged the existence in a statement and since then reporters and lawmakers have been trying to ascertain what it entails. The acting director of National Intelligence has withheld the complaint from congress at the recommendation of the Justice Department. On wednesday, the colleagues at the Washington Post for were the first to report the Communications President trump and a foreign leader. In days since, several news outlets including the post and New York Times reported that leader is the president of ukraine. There are new details from the wall street journal. That newspaper reporting President Trump repeatedly pressured his ukrainian counter part to investigate joe bidens son. The president urged him about eight times to work with Rudy Giuliani on a probe that can hamper mr. Trumps potential 2020 opponent. They have not confirmed the wall street journals reporting. This is what President Trump had to say about all of this on friday afternoon. Its a par
Allowing College Athletes to get paid. Major heartburn for the maker of zantac, the nations top pharmacy chains stops selling the drug. Snow emergency in montana after an unprecedented autumn blizzard umps up to four feet. Umnew study on red meat causes a major beef in the medical community. Were live from the Nations Capital tonight with new information about the role the secretary of state may have played in that controversial president ial phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting tonight from washington. Odonnell and good evening from washington, and thank you so much for joining us. There is a lot of breaking news onnight on that impeachment inquiry, and it concerns two of the president s closest and most trusted advisers, secretary of ecate mike pompeo and his omrsonal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. Tonight, cbs news has confirmed that pompeo listened in on the president s controversial phone llll over the summer with
United states conditioned defense of a u. S. Ally on delivering the dirt on biden. Was it true or false . Trump emphasizes multiple times to ukrainian president zelinsky that, quote, the United States has been very, very good to ukraine and that prompted zelinsky to bring up what he needs to defend his country from continued russian aggression. Thank you for your great support in the area of defense, he said. Were almost ready to buy more javelins from the United States. Theres different versions of them. Theres one you put on the shoulder. The u. S. Has been deploying to ukraine for their selfdefense. In responding to zelinskys plea for missiles, trump immediately responds with a favor of his own. I would like you to do us a favor, though. Zelinsky then tells trump his assistant has already spoken to Rudy Giuliani. Trump goes onto make another request saying the other thing, theres a lot of talk about bidens son, that biden stopped the prosecution, so if you could look into it, it sou
Interaction with a foreign leader included a promise that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the u. S. Intelligence community to file a former whistleblower complaint with the Inspector General. Who also said it was deeply troubling and then the Justice Department squelched it. At that point theyre supposed to automatically get information over to congress and the Oversight Committees, but well talk to the reporter behind that. Right now theres a coverup. Straight ahead. It is thursday, september nine teeth. Along with joe, willie and wee we have economic analyst steve radnor. Elise labott, and columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post David Ignatius. And theres just a little bit more of that border wall discussion, the president but wait, theres more. You can fry an egg on it. You can, really, its that hot. It was kind of disturbing, all most, to hear him sell this wall. Lets hear a little bit more President Trump speaking to the Southern Califor