joe biden u.s. house democrats are calling his action a quote unambiguous damning and shocking abuse of the office of the presidency. not for the 1st time on a difficult day in new york donald trump was forced to defend his conversation with ukraine s fellow timea selenski using a familiar line which continues but they re getting hit hard in this which aren t because when they look at the information it s a joke. impeachment that i didn t do it to take a look at that call it was perfect i didn t do it there was no quid pro quo the allegation trump pressured selenski to look into dealings by his political rival joe biden and his son hunter trumpet hoped by releasing this memo of the call the problem would go away but phrases like do us a favor appear to back up the allegation that there s no mention of military aid being dependent on an investigation from discusses corruption crimes involving
on and welcome good to have you with us i m on the. us the makers are reviewing a classified whistleblower complaint against president trump that has prompted an impeachment inquiry the complaint is based on a phone call between trump and ukraine s president the issue at stake is did the u.s. president abuse his power by urging ukraine to open a corruption investigate an investigation into trump s political rival joe biden and his son. not for the 1st time on a difficult day in new york donald trump was forced to defend his conversation with ukraine s volodymyr selenski using a familiar line which aren t continuous but they re getting hit hard in this which aren t because when they look at the information it s a joke. impeachment that i didn t do it to take a look at that call it was perfect i didn t do it there was no quid pro quo the allegation trump pressured selenski to look into dealings by his political rival
and ukraine to talk about that tonight i m joined here at the big table by galen drew he is host and producer of the 538 politics punch cast and with the ukrainian side of the story for us tonight my good colleague nick connelly joins us from here gentlemen to both of you well. let s start with the u.s. and the ukrainian presidents they just met in a one on one meeting in new york at the u.n. afterwards they spoke to reporters here is part of what ukrainian president selenski said when he was asked about being pressured to help dig up political dirt for the u.s. take a listen are you sure that we had. i think good phone call it was normal we spoke about many scenes and they still i think in the you ll read it is that nobody bullshit bush me yes no great. benefit you really want to know what they want to know right here and there you
in july between president selenski and president trump. is where a lot of people are now focused and they re hoping that further information comes out of course like i mentioned before. from the complaint from this whistle blower and of course that essentially means that this this meeting that s taking place today the focus is not really on what s going to happen and what they re going to talk about today it s more on the broader picture will. be a fly on the wall. from d.c. thank you. well now to the u.k. where it was another eventful day in an eventful week moments ago british prime minister boris johnson addressed parliament in london and challenge the opposition labor party to table a motion of confidence in his government the british parliament s resumed sitting today after the supreme court declared its suspension by prime minister johnson to
it s great to have you along everyone we begin in the united states where the white house has released a memo of a telephone conversation between president donald trump and his ukrainian counterpart a lot of resilience kate well it shows that president trump did push mr selenski to investigate former u.s. vice president joe biden and biden s son who worked for a ukrainian energy firm that phone call has triggered allegations that president trump behaved inappropriately and it also incidentally prompted the democrats a congressional leader house speaker nancy pelosi to launch a formal impeachment inquiry against the us president president trump responded with an egg rebuttal of the accusations against him each species greatest which chant in american history probably in history but in american history it s