President has ordered all of his subordinates, the whole executive branch, to stonewall and not participate in the election. It seems strange to say that since the president is blocking this, more evidence is therefore needed. Frankly the president s systematic refusal to engage with congress itself threatens the structure of the government, because if you cant impeach the president and you cant indict him, hes above the law. Thanks so much. The news continues. Want to hand over to don lemon for cnn tonight. Connected to those you love, u with the new iphone 11. So tmobile is giving you an iphone 11 on us for each new line of unlimited. For yourself, or up to a family of four. Keep your family connected, and hurry into tmobile today, to get up to four iphone 11s on us. Only at tmobile. Hi honey, we got in early. Yeah, and we brought steve and mark. Experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list sales event. Sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at sig
The country is, i would be very unlikely to get reelected to get elected, but in the private sector, i can make a difference. Well, in a statement, taking credit for some of tuesdays big wins for democrats, bloomberg adviser howard quality of life wolf son explains the reason for his decision to enter the race now, the current crop of democratic candidates. Quote, we now need to finish the job and ensure that trump is defeated, but mike is increasingly concerned that the current field of candidates is not well positioned to do that. In a cnn poll of poll, biden leads the pack by 27 . Closely behind is Elizabeth Warren, who has unsettled some on wall street with her wealth tax and more centrist democrats with her medicare for all plan. Biden and warren are the only two above 20 . Warren is also tied with biden in the latest iowa poll from monmouth university. Joining me now, cnn political commentator, amanda carpenter, cnn political commentator, and panelist New York Times correspondent
To be because the people involved knew that congress was on to the scam. And by they, we can now definitely include President Trump. Why . Reportedly the president was briefed about the whistleblower complaint before he released the ukraine aid. You know, right when he started saying, no quid pro quo, no quid pro quo. I want nothing, when he had just said the opposite before that. We also have two other pieces of the puzzle that make the picture of potential impeachment even more clear. So what do you say . Lets get after it. All right. This comes from the New York Times just tonight. Sources say President Trump already knew about the whistleblower complaint when he released the hold on military aid to ukraine on september 11th. The times reports lawyers from the White House Counsels Office briefed the president in late august. Remember, im going to lay out the whole time line for you again in detail in the next segment. But july 25th is the call, right . Then august he finds out about
Lets go live to hong kong and cnns will ripley. Could this heighten tensions on the ground . Reporter what its illustrating is the division that exists in hong kong between the people who are celebrating this bill and the government which is condemning it because obviously it authorizes sanctions on chinese and hong kong officials involved in human rights abuses. The very abuses that protesters have been at times violently fighting against for the last six months plunging this city into a recession and adding to the uncertainty is another part of this bill that requires the state department to review hong kongs highly covetted special trade status. The mainland doesnt have it. Hong kong does. Its a big reason why this country has been so prosperous for so long. If that were to go away because of perceived human rights abuses by the United States that could further deepen the economic crisis that has resulted from the social unrest here. And so you have people waiving american flags, th
Letters from jerry nadler. How likely is it that theyll accept his invitation to participate . Well, as you said, alex, were still waiting on official word from the white house about which way theyre going to go and that despite the fact that theyre in the 24hour range for the first deadline for the president to design whether hell send an attorney to the impeachment hearing. Sources say it is unlikely that the white house will agree to do that. The bigger question is whether they will send attorneys to impeachment hearings Going Forward and for that they need to make a decision by that second deadline on friday. The president , though, for now, alex, hes reveling in the contrasts of whats going to happen this coming week with that impeachment hearing on wednesday. The president will be abroad in london for the nato summit and he just tweeted a few moments ago, i will be representing our country in london at nigato whi the democrats are holding the most ridiculous impeachment hearings