serious consequences. they said, look, if the president is going to deny these allegations, he can release the transcript of his phone call with ukrainian leaders because they ve asked for that for a couple of weeks now. republicans are pretty guarded on this. some have come out, the allies of the president have come out and said there doesn t appear to be anything to this, but really the members of the intelligence committee are sort of keeping mum for now and saying let s see how this plays out. kyle, last question here. we know about this call because lawmakers have been investigating this. help us understand that, that subject of investigation, how this was being looked at or regarded by lawmakers before this news broke? well, they don t know the details of the whistleblower complaint per se, but they have seen rudy giuliani s very public comments about trying to get ukraine to investigate about joe biden and his son. so they started looking at this and bringing in a question o
under oath. the president keeping mum after giving an address, he refused to answer questions about moore. listen. should roy moor resign? mr. president? do you believe the accusers? cnn has learned the president s silence on the issue stems from past experience. republicans close to the house says the president is concerned the focus will shift to earlier sexual misconduct allegations against him. one trump is speaking up, ivanka trump telling the associated press there s a special place in hell for people who prey on children. moore insisting he s staying in the race with tweet ending we will not quit. his campaign also putting out quotes from a dozen women who have known him for years all attesting to his character, and
and that question is important because the president said he is open to renegotiating with countries around the world, although there are no takers yet. and so it comes to the heart of the issue. if the president believes in the science that might affect how he would decide on policy. those questions have you asked again and again, trying to get an answer and the white house for political reasons it would appear they want to avoid the controversy of looking like the president has flip-flopped. it s not an easy answer for the white house.. it s politically somewhat treacherous. .for now, they re keeping mum. dara. kelly o donnell live for u in washington. thanks, kelly. now to the headlines and take a look at this incredible video taken near calvary, canada, where a tornado touched
it came from a competitive any ge in discussions with the leader of china. bill: the chinese never t show their hand.no they never let you know what they are thinking. the chinese bureaucrats i m talking about. sure. bill: so you don t know, you know. there is face they put on. i was looking for something out of t president xi, we don t even know if he liked the food or anything. is that what you want to know, bill? how were the burgers ? it was very aggressive, no warning, he just acted. and ten hours later, the chinesa government is trying to figure out with that. i m not surprised by the silence or having to recalculate their interest in north korea. keeping mum was probably the best course of action for the chinese. bill: they would do that anyway on american soil. but it was fascinating to see donald trump oh, president
israel may be keeping mum. but an american source confirms the explosions that rocked areas near the syrian capital over the past couple of days did in fact come from israeli air strikes. the target said to be storage sites for missiles. syria s not keeping quiet at all. officials there saying the action amounts to what they call a declaration of war. let s go live to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. she s been on top of this story from the start. she s the first one who reported about these israeli actions. barbara, what s the latest? reporter: we now know indeed it was israeli war planes pounding targets inside syria from lebanon, flying over lebanese airspace. as you say, the question now is, could the u.s. be next to act? even after a damascus suburb was bombed, israel officially still isn t talking.