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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto 20191025 13:07:00

washington post reporting this morning that at the same time that that military aid was being withheld from ukraine, robert lighthizer, the white house key trade representative was told by john bolton that he may not want to go to the president s desk with a proposal to restore some of the trade privileges to ukraine. i should note it s an important caveat. it s not clear if there was ever a conversation between the president and bolton and that s why it went to lighthizer. we just don t know. but what is the significance of that, if it does come out there were other things being withheld. not just the white house meeting, not just military aid but aushllso, you know, differe trade levers being pulled here. that s precisely it. this raises the first possibility that the trump administration was willing to leverage other policy outside of the congressionally appropriated military aid to ukraine in order to try and build pressure on the ukrainian government to launch these investigat

Transcripts for CNN CNN Tonight With Don Lemon 20191025 07:09:00

over the course of this year he s sort of neutered and removed and out lasted every rival in the foreign policy realm as an adviser to the white house and sort of clearly using this year to set himself up to go run for a kansas senate seat that is open next year. and potentially prepare himself to be the heir apparent to donald trump in 2024. you see pompeo emerge at the center of the scandal and the person who, if he wasn t actively involved in this, should have been actively involved in it. and i think he s sort of been greatly diminished over the last six weeks and his political future back in kansas today for the fourth time doing interviews. you wonder if he s wondering whether he s made the right bet. elliot. the washington post is reporting that in august the trump administration delayed restoring trade privileges to ukraine after john bolton warned

Transcripts for MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes 20191025 00:02:00

now, unfortunately for trump and his allies that s probably not going to work for much longer. that s pause as the washington post reports democrats are taking hearings public and soon. but the facts here have not changed. donald trump withheld desperately needed military aid from ukraine, aid that had already been approved pie congress in an effort to force ukrainian officials to manufacture dirt on the bidens and provide ammo for a baseless conspiracy theory about the 2016 election. and it appears that now that it was not just security assistance withheld. just today the post reported that the white house s trade representative in late august withdrew a recommendation to restore some of ukraine s trade privileges after john bolton, then national security advisor warned him that president trump probably would oppose any action that benefitted the government in kiev. trump may be trying to work other countries as well. remember how he went before the

Transcripts for MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes 20191025 07:02:00

investigation. the hearings are currently held behind closed doors. it s probable not going to work for much longer. democrats are taking hearings public and soon. the facts here have not changed. donald trump with held needed military aid from ukraine. aid that had been approved by congress. in effort to force ukrainian officials to manufacture dirt on the bidens. and provide ammo for a baseless conspiracy theory about the 2016 election. it appears that now it was not just security assistance with held. just today the post reported that the white house trade representative in late august crew a recommendation it restore some of the trade privileges. after national security adviser warned him president trump probably would oppose any action that benefitted the government

Transcripts for MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports 20191025 16:14:00

cable on august 29th expressing his misgives about the delay of military aid to ukraine. what do you do with that cable? i m not going to talk ukraine this morning. did you relay his concerns to the president? i came here today to talk about workforce development. this as the washington post reports that the white house pressured ukraine the pressure on ukraine, rather, went well beyond withholding military aid. it turns out in late august white house trade representative robert lighthizer recommended to restore some of ukraine s trade privileges after then national security adviser john bolton warned him the president would probably oppose anything that would help the government of kiev. joining me now is stephen piper, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, currently with stanford university. thank you for being with us. let me ask you about william taylor because you worked with

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