Efforts to persua ukraines leader toinvestigate former Vice President joe biden, and his son. Meanwhile, on tuesday, 12 candidatesquared off in a democratic residential debate, held in ohio. Reinecting her surge the polls, this time it was eltaabeth warren facing a x from her rivals. Especially over her support for medicare for all. Raise taxes on the middle would class, to pay for it. Itor for politics and ior government, scott shaver. Joining us via skype from the nations capital, is tall coping, the washington correspondent for the san frlccisco chronicle. E to you both. Thank you. Lets start wi you, scott. You were in washington this week and you spoke with several members of californias congressional delegation, several ofthem are players in this impeachment inquiry, what did you learn . Adam is of course leading the charge along with nancy e house Intelligence Air of committee, and we met with him after a long meeting he had with the spea r. He has become the target of republican
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Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the american people. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, megan thompson. Thompson good evening andth k you for joining us. From washington d. C. To iowa toi issippi, the topic on the president ial campaign trail for the past 24 hours washm impet. On his way to a Campaign Event st night, President Trump called the impeachment inquiry a hoax. Tu at the rally ilo, mississippi, mr. Trump drew cheers and chants when he accused the media ancrats of a Long Campaign to remove him from offe. Theyve been plotting to overthw the election since the moment i won, but the people here that arhighly sophisticated know
And that the white house tried to cover it up. On thursday, the acting director of national intelligence, joseph mcguire, testified before congress about the complaint which he called quote unprecedented. It centers president held with the ukraine president in july where he asked him repeatedly to open a corruption investigation into his 2020 president ial rival, hoe biden. On tuesde Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the start of a formal impeachment inquiry against the president accusing him of betraying his oath of officepresident trump is called impeachment inquiry quote a credility and character of ujoining us now via skype from washington dc is political reporter jessica taylor. And here in studio the editor politics and government, scott shafer. Jessica taylor and scott shafer, thank you for fobeing here. Scott, of course given californias representation and congressional leadership, we are pl ing a prominent role in this. Nancy pelosi today accused william barr of going rogue. She
Joe bide shared the ste with kala harris did not go off on e biden this time it was his fellow former obama kelet cabinet member that made the attacks against biden. With as now leis jager he senior Political Writer for the San Francisco chronicle, as well as la times polical reporter see my meter great to be thank u for coming to think you for having us. Okay holy on castro going after joe biden, healy and castro has e job is to make a e stage was take a listen to that clip and get your reaction on the other side. Are u forgetting wh you said two minutes ago . Are you forgetting already what you said just two minutes ago . Cannot believe, that you said two minutes ago, that they had to buy and now youre saying they dont have toet you fong that. Fulfilling the legacy of barack obackma and you are not. That will be a surprise to a very heated moment. How did that play . He is essentially going after joe bidens age it sounded. Li absolutely, that is the sort of discussion it was about t