Birth to 17 children. It is friday october 4, 2019. Your world in 90 seconds. China should start an investigation into the bidens. What happened to china is just about as bad as what happened to ukraine. The president calls on another foreign power to investigate his rival. Democrats released Text Messages that suggests the state department was helping the president s attorney push a foreign power to investigate a party. Mgm international has agreed to pay 800 million to the victims of the massacre and their families. Its the right thing to do for restitution. The cdc says more than a thousand people have been sickened b 19 have now died. Those patients who survived may have longterm consequences. A former assistant is suing actor robert deniro. Shes accusing the actor of sexist and abusive behavior. You have to be [ bleep ] kidding me, you little brat. [ bleep ] you. Carrie lam has evoked Emergency Powers. Used by protesters. 12yearold girl helped her Basketball Team win its game with
Period. Full stop. End of story according to taylor. This Opening Statement itself is thorough. It is detailed. In fact, for taylor to read these 15 pages it took over an hour. Taylor telling lawmakers that President Trump used the powers of his office to push ukraine to investigate biden and the 2016 election and a debunked con spur s conspiracy theory. The text message sent by taylor to the ambassador of the eu Gordon Sondland in september. Let me remind you of the text message. That said are we saying that Security Assistance and white house meetings are conditioned to investigations. Sondland responds call me. Taylor revealing exactly what was said on that phone call and this comes from the Opening Statement. I want to read the lines that are really important. He says, during that phone call ambassador sondeland told me that President Trump had told him that he wants president zelensky to state publicly that ukraine will investigate bu burisma, the company that hunter biden was on
A second whistleblower in the ukraine scandal. Lawyers say he has firsthand knowledge of President Trump over ukraine. Joe biden speaking out. Defending his family against unproven accusations of wrongdoing, saying he will beat trump like a drum. Leading experts warning an economic slowdown could get worse, with new evidence the trade war with china is hurting american workers. The general manager of the Houston Rockets in trouble for comments he made about hong kong and the nba. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. Its 5 00 a. M. In the east. We start with the latest in the second whistleblower has come forward with information about President Trump. And an attorney confirming his team represents a second person who he says works in the Intelligence Community. He says his client has firsthand knowledge backing claims by the first whistleblower, who raised the alarm between mr. Trump and zelensky. This is likely to undercut republicans wh
From a fire hose. Its why we have this, the idea of all the developments during the day. Verses 6 verses 7 and on. If you look away for a second, you might miss history in the making. We were here twice before in modern times and here we are again in 2019 and weve got to understand whats going on, even though thank you. Lets get straight to the news. This is a cnn special hour the white house in crisis the impeachment inquiry. Im laura coates and im going to take you through the latebreaking news on the impeachment inquiry into donald trump. The white house sending a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi refusing to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. Democrats fighting back with subpoenas for ambassador Gordon Sondeland to turn over documents on the ukrain call by monday and to appear in person by wednesday. And now a source telling cnn of the ukrain whistleblower wrote a memo describing the reaction of a white house official who actually listened to that now infamous call. Quote crazy a
Quo with ukraine. According to his testimony which he amended just yesterday, sondland told lawmakers about a conversation he had with a top aide to ukraines president and he puts it this way. I now recall, speaking individually with mr. Yermac where i said resumption of u. S. Aid would probably not occur until ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks. They were going to investigate the bidens and that is a quid pro quo and that statement and who is now saying it is key. Its coming from the president s hand picked ambassador, a close ally with the president. A man who had donated a Million Dollars to Donald Trumps inauguration and he is with this now addendum to his testimony blowing through the president s main defense here. No quid pro quo no quid pro quo. No quid pro quo. No quid pro quo. No quid pro quo. Gordon sondland now joining the list of officials who also have testified under oath that donald trump was withholding the ad