President ial power to pressure a foreign leader in hopes of hurting a potential 2020 opponent and helping his own campaign. This hour, ill talk with congressman peter welch. Hes a democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. And our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Jim, President Trump is refusing to give a straight answer about his contacts with the ukrainian president. Thats right, wolf. But as you said, cnn has confirmed President Trump pressed the president of ukraine to investigate joe bidens son in a call over the summer, and that the call, according to our david shoretel was part of the whistleblower complaint that has rocked the white house this week. The white house is still not commenting on these latest revelations, but earlier in the day, the president did not deny that biden came up during that phone call. All of this is raising questions for democrats as to whether the president attempte
Harsh words, if this report is true, he says its, quote, clearcut corruption. I know what im up against, i know what im up against, a serial abuser, abuses power everywhere he can and he sees any threat to his stain in power, hell do whatever he has to do but this crosses the line. Eric hi, peter. Eric, former vp has been on site here for a couple of hours, finally on stage, theres an estimated 9,000 or so democrats in attendance, they are hearing from 19 different people but joe biden, of course, at the top of the heat and right now the president and the president focusing on joe biden saying somebody needs to investigate this, so i asked the former Vice President joe biden how many times he has spoken about foreign business deals and this is what he said . Ive never spoke to my son, i know trump deserves to be investigated, he is violating every basic norm of a president , you should be asking him the question why on the phone of a foreign leader trying to intimidate a foreign leader
And on that issue, notice this. The administration seems to have moved from denial to justification. In fact, in a fiery interview on cnn, the former new york city mayor denied asking for an investigation to our chris cuomo and just seconds later admitted he did. You want to cover some ridiculous charge that i urged the Ukrainian Government to investigate corruption. Well, i did, and im proud of it. Our team is covering all of the details on this story across washington. Lets begin with our White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins. Good morning. The president is about to come out here. Its only the second state visit of his entire presidency. The first was with the french. Hes going to welcome the australian Prime Minister and his wife and the delegation here at this welcoming ceremony behind me which is going to include an inspection of the troops, 19gun salute. All this pomp and circumstance. But what is hanging over this state visit and what the president was tweeting about just mi
Information. We heard from you a lot. Almost 40 meso per mr. Morris in the over office , he insists hes gone as heavy as he can with sanctions against iran. That these are the strongest sanctions that have ever been put on that country. Now its a matter of waiting to see what happens next. From 4 00 the afternoon. Fox news have been told by u. S. Officials that the president was given a list of potential targets from iran back at the beginning of the week. Theyll be updated today. But the president for the moment, at least, appears to be comfortable showing restraint. He said in the oval office, he intimated again in the east roo east room, that strength can be shown through restraint. He said, people thought i was going to go into iran in 2 minutes. There was that time that we looked like we were going to sack iran after that drone, and he called off the attack. That was a signal to iran there were no serious consequences for any of its maligned activities. Mike pompeo, the secretary
And we speak with a former government scientist who claims the white house suppressed his testimony on the climate. Why do you think the white house blocked your testimony . It did not comport with the position of the administration. Brennan and Steve Hartman on how a School Bus Driver turned a student into a princess. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell. Brennan good evening. This is our western edition. Norah is on assignment. Im margaret brennan. We begin with breaking news a horrifying scene in southern utah. A bus carrying Chinese Tourists crashed near a national park. At least four people were killed, more than a dozen critically hurt. Details are just coming in. Our transportation correspondent kris van cleave is following this. Reporter helicopters raced some of the most severely hurt to utah hospitals. The first images from the scene this morning showed it was a violent crash. 30 people were on the bus. At least four are dead, 1215 more suffered critical injuries.