President has had we would say in the last couple of years, this may be the one with the greatest potential to make news. This was not a close call. We are going to be taking this label but it begins. We want to preview what we are likely to see tonight with foxs matt finn, he is there at the rally in minneapolis and he joins us know. As bc coast to coast with President Trump rallies, thousands and thousands of people started lining up earlier today and happening right now, thousands and thousands of protesters. Many have very vulgar, obscene posters and we will try to not to show them and people had been cursing us out and telling fox news to leave. Many of the people are also blowing while souls, you might be able to hear some of that piercing sound. There are some protesters that tell us this represents a sea of whistleblowers. Leading up until the days of this rally, the mayor and President Trump have been feuding. They Trump Campaign was built 530,000 for security. The star tribun
Set in, and multiple people, National Security officials among them, worried that the president had cross add lied a d how to limit the fallout if they did. One they they tried to do that, moving the transcripts to a highly classified server so more people wouldnt see it. More on that in a second. This comes as a white house blocks a person in the firestorm. Gordon sondland banned from testifying at a House Committee this morning and sondland claimed no quid pro quo may have gotten that talking point from the president himself. Cnns Kaitlan Collins is at the white house and what can you tell us . Reporter brooke, learning that after one of those officials testified on capitol hill last week you saw those texts come out where there was concern raised among top u. S. Diplomats about whether or not the president was withholding that military aid in exchange for those investigations. One of those officials messaged another, the first one being bill taylor, essentially running the ukraine p
There is a new whistleblower in the ukraine skanl scandal facing the u. S. President donald trump. The lawyer for the first whistleblower says his team represents the second client who works in the Intelligence Community who has firsthand knowledge backing up claims of the first whistleblower. Mr. Trump insists he did nothing wrong by asking ukraine to investigate political rival joe biden after withholding military aid, but hes already been lashing out on twitter over this second whistleblower. And hes launching baseless accusations at two of the Top Democrats in the house, accusing them of high crimes, misdemeanors and treason. Cnns Jeremy Diamond has more from washington. Reporter we now know there are two whistleblowers from within the Intelligence Community who have raised concerns about President Trumps call with the president of ukraine. Attorneys for the first whistleblower now say theyre also representing at least a second whistleblower from within the Intelligence Community.
U. S. Troop withdrawal in Northern Syria. The u. S. In turn asked the kurds not to turn to russia. Shortly thereafter the u. S. Moved its troops out of the way this week. Turkey launched an offensive against kurds in Northern Syria. Turkey considers the kurds a terrorist group but the same kurdish fighters had been helping the u. S. Battle isis in the area. Weve got full coverage of this story. Barbara starr is at the pentagon, arwa damon is on the border between turkey and syria and colonel Cedric Leighton also with us. Barbara, lets begin with you on your exclusive reporting here. Tell us about the conversations, the documents that recognize the verbal sparring over whats at issue here. You are leaving us to be slaughtered. That is the headline here, fredricka. The head of the sdf, the syrian fighters that the u. S. Found so valuable to be allied with in the fight against isis now under attack by Turkish Forces, a nato ally. The u. S. Not willing to get in the middle of any of this a
And a different kind of president. My interview with president jimmy carter, not missing a day of work even after an injury. What does he think about the push for impeachment . I think it still remains to be seen. I think it depends on what is revealed in an inquiry. And im a democrat, so i feel pretty much like the Democratic Party does. Good day, everyone, and well have the full jimmy carter interview coming up for you later in the program. Here in washington, President Trump is facing devastating new numbers, 58 of americans polled now support the houses inquiry of the president , 49 calling for mr. Trumps removal from office. The president is fighting the impeachment battle on all fronts, today having the state department block Ambassador Gordon Sondland from showing up on capitol hill, angering the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee adam schiff who moments ago issued a subpoena along with two other chairmen for sondlands testimony and documents. The failure to produce th