Separations immoral and were seeing republican lawmakers turn against the president and call for anened to this practice immediately. Republican senator orrin hatch has now sent a letter to the Justice Department calling on it to pause the separation of families, saying, quote, we must do everything in our power to bring these Children Together with their parents. Republicans, meeting right now, scrambling for a vote. Lets go to the white house. Abby phillip is there. Good morning. It appears that the president s trip to capitol hill yesterday just created more questions than answers. Reporter thats right, poppy. It was supposed to be a meeting with House Republicans aimed at clearing up some disagreements on the issue of immigration more broadly and also perhaps answering some questions from frustrated lawmakers about this issue of family separations, but instead the president took no questions. There was no back and forth but he spoke at length about a number of issues, talked about
Retreat involves ivanka trump, the Vice President , Senior Republicans in congress, and theres even one report the first lady. Also we have a rematch. The lineups are set for the cnn debates. Former Vice President joe biden will share the stage with senator Kamala Harris again. Will he be ready this time . The other night, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, they go he would to head. That will be interesting. First what democrats are planning for Robert Mueller when he testifies on capitol hill. Lauren fox has all these details for us. What have you learned . Reporter a big week ahead and democrats really banking on the fact this shifts Public Opinion. Now, the House Judiciary Committee planning to focus on five areas of alleged obstruction of justice including the president telling don mcgahn to fire special counsel Robert Mueller as well as mcgahn denying publicly he told him to fire mueller. Trump telling Corey Lewandowski to tell Jeff Sessions to limit the investigation a
Called this another fake news story out there. Well, is that how it ended up . Friday morning the president delivered a series of contradictory talking points and insisted the conversations he had with ukrainian officials under scrutiny were, quote, totally appropriate and beautiful. Then later said he couldnt remember them and said he had not read the whistleblower complaint. Then in the next breath claimed that, quote, everybody had read it, they laughed at it. By the weekend however the president was largely confirming all of it. Even defending it. Here he is. I had a great conversation. 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 ukraine. Okay. So there it is in his own words on camera and all of this while he attacked the whistleblower for what he called spying at the same time continuin
An urgent search for a worker believed to be trapped in the rubble of a Hotel Construction site that collapsed. Killing two people in new orleans. But the building remains dangerously unstable tonight, making the rescue operation extremely risky. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in tthe situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Were following multiple breaking stories including daylong testify in the house impeachment inquiry by President Trumps former top russia adviser. Fiona hill is the first person from the white house to testify in the inquiry into whether the president withheld military aid to pressure ukraine into investigating his rival, joe biden. And tonight, the president is tweeting that he will sign an executive order imposing sanctions on turkey over its military offensive against u. S. Allied Kurdish Forces in northern syria. He also says u. S. Troops will keep what he calls a small footprint in syria as re
Upcoming visit and outlining vision for the reboot of u. S. Ukraine relationship. Include can, among other things, burisma and election meddling in investigation. It is the company that put joe bidens son hunter on the board. And deep reservations from a senior u. S. Diplomat as he refers to hundreds of millions of dollars in crucial u. S. Military aid to ukraine, being withheld at the time of these demands. Quote, are we now saying that Security Assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations . The response to that text . Call me. As in, lets quickly get this off the record. This is all is happening as the president openly admits to enlisting other countries to investigate his political rivals. As my reporting shows, not for the first time. In fact, he raised the bidens on a phone call with china in june in a source that the white house may argue that they do not have to provide any documents on all of this to congress until the vote formally vote, the house forma