other mortgages are paid each month, but with a reverse mortgage, you can pay whatever you can, when it works for you, or, you can wait, and pay it off in one lump sum when you leave your home. sandra: the white house just now releasing the full unredacted transcript of the president trump s phone call with the president of ukraine. welcome to a brand-new hour of america s newsroom. the news is moving fast. i m sandra smith. bill: i m bill hemmer. major bombshell one day after democrats advance their push for impeachment. the white house claims the transcript shows there were no promises made to ukraine in return for releasing military aid. there is no quid pro quo, no pressure at all. the justice department today pushing back on the claim that the whistle-blower complaint was an urgent concern requiring the attention of congress. that is the back drop. here is the news, catherine herridge is live at the department of justice. catherine, you have seen it.
candidate is at this point. we may find out as the morning goes on. one other point, the white house s general principle is they ll put out everything they can on this and working to see if legally they can give the whistle-blower complaint to congress. what do you mean legally? isn t it demanded? there was an opinion from the office of the director of national intelligence general counsel said there wasn t a statutory threshold to send the complaint to congress because it was about someone outside the intelligence community and therefore outside of the odni jurisdiction. the whistle-blower has also informed the director of national intelligence that he or she, we don t know who it is, plans to come before congress at some point. we do not yet know the forum or the format. outside of that the president has got a meeting with the ukrainian president zelenskiy today and a press conference afterwards. eat your wheaties. get ready to go. five hour energy, whatever your
gas company burisma holdings and investigated by the prosecutor show kin. his office was under scrutiny for not prosecuting oligarchs and reiff with corruption. the united states and other western nations wanted shokin removed. biden said i ll withhold loan guarantees to ukraine unless you fire this guy. they balked at doing it. he gave them an ultimatum saying i m on a plane in six hours. if he have is not fired by then you will not getting the money. you could say that joe biden was acting at the beheft of the united states and others. even the president said he was a good guy in the transcript. there is this troubling connection between joe biden, hunter biden, shokin and
the ukrainian call coming out. target time for that is 10:00 this morning. so be watching carefully for that. the president insisting yesterday that he said nothing inappropriate in that phone call and that house speaker nancy pelosi is blindly going down the road to impeachment. listen here. president trump: she is talking impeachment. so i think that by the way, she hasn t even seen the phone call. the phone call was perfect. the call that wasn t perfect and the words that weren t perfect were joe biden with respect to his son. the son takes away millions of dollars out of ukraine and million else of dollars out of china. and you don t talk about that. it is a real disgrace. bill: a senior administration official tells fox news, you mentioned a little bit of this at the beginning of this bill and sandra, they ll likely release a document from the intelligence community inspector general that describes the whistle-blower as having a political bias in favor of another political c
i am a former cia case officer, a former federal agent. my perspective is we need to fully understand what happened. the american people regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum should want to know whether the allegations are true or false. i think the president should want to insure he is vindicated if he asserts he is innocent and if he is not, that s a dire circumstance and one of great national security. bill: last night on cnn you said this, the circumstance is cut and dry. the president allegedly sought to influence a foreign leader. how can cut and dry and alleged by be used in the same sentence based on the limited information we have at the moment, congresswoman? the cut and dry i think in the larger discussion that we were having is i am it is cut and dry what it is we re looking at. i am not looking to talk about any other allegations against the president when i m saying these offenses are deeply concerning and if true