2020 candidate. We expect President Trump will address the impeachment inquiry and the memo of his july phone call with the president of ukraine. Thank you for watching. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace begins right now. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york where we are moments away from the first president ial press Conference Since House Speaker Nancy Pelosis announcement that she would begin Impeachment Proceedings into donald trump. And, donald trump, if youre listening, everything you say may be used against you in the court of public opinion. Donald trump manifesting his own destiny in terms of the Impeachment Proceedings now underway in congress by attempting to run a political Hit Job Operation on joe biden and his son by asking a foreign leader to investigate them. The white house revealing in notes today from the president s call with the president of ukraine that trump pushed the leader of a foreign country to work with his personal attorney
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Im going to thank frank, elise, carol and matt. My colleague chuck todds going to pick up our coverage of the president s Press Conference. The beef and all of the different things, pork, very big on pork. But if you look and you see, i actually think they put out a statement. Theyre starting to buy very heavily our ag again. They want to make a deal. The question is do we want to make a deal . If smc doesnt pass through congress, is that the end of nafta . I dont want to answer that question but you know how i feel about nafta. I think nafta is the worst trade deal ever made. I also think the World Trade Organization was not one of the greats. Not one of the greats. That was the creation of china which went like a rocket ship from the day they signed. It was terrible. No, were going to find out. Thats going to be a very interesting question. With nancy and chuck and all of
these people focussing on the witch hunt because they cant beat us at the ballot. They cant beat us at the ballot
is that a correct statement? so thank you, larry kudlow. as the president reads through his schedule and gives that media critique, the senate intelligence committee is now also in possession of that whistle-blower complaint at the center of the growing scandal with donald trump and the leader of ukraine, the one that commenced impeachment proceedings and now may see to this whistle-blower s complaint, and maybe the whistle-blower himself before being before congress. go back to the president. leader kevin mccarthy and the republicans many of them. and we were going to do this any way, but i ve informed them all of the house members that i fully support transparency on the so-called whistle-blower information, even though it was supposedly second-hand information, which is sort of interesting. and other things have come out about the whistle-blower that
foreign government, and then in the evening is making a decision about that very whistle-blower complaint not going to congress. a big problem for this attorney general who seems not to care about his true role as head of the justice department. well, let s unpack those separately because i think his role in keeping the whistle-blower complaint from being transmitted to congress seems to have been litigated. it would appear that the whistle-blower complaint is going to congress. but are you saying that we should understand on what grounds? and the other question i would have for you, frank, is it s in some of the reporting today that the i.c., i.g., the intelligence community s inspector general who was in receipt of this complaint referred the entire matter to the justice department for investigation. and the justice department said, nah, nothing here. nothing explain to me how hillary clinton s emails were referred by the same person, the i.c./i.g. to the justice department which l
into the skicif, the secure are where they can view classified material. they re doing that as we talk right now. and all of this is happening ahead of some potentially explosive testimony tomorrow from the inspector general who deemed that complaint urgent and credible and the nation s spy chief who initially blocked who they initially blocked from essentially going to congress with this whistle-blower complaint. so a lot more drama as a source has told nbc news that the spy chief, the director of national intelligence joseph maguire actually vowed to resign if he could not testify to congress. saying, quote, he never considered resigning but not that he never threatened to, for what it s worth. of course there s been a ton of political reaction today as the allegations surrounding the president are now essentially the center of a formal impeachment inquiry. we ve got a lot oh gto get to, t to unpack. let me go to white house