him. unlike putin whose secrets and closest confidants are harder to track for u.s. intelligence, trump remains an open book. his public statements make it easy for putin to know where the president is going on any issue. thank you very much. more breaking news coming up next. president trump considering firing the intelligence community s inspector general who reported the whistle-blower complaint to congress that sparked this impeachment inquiry. oh there s no place like home for the holidays.
we ll see if he takes questions clinton s presidential campaign. about the new york times much more on all of the breaking report that said that the president did talk about with news right after this. ng? his aides the prospect of firing tyler s off to college. and mom s getting older. mike at atkinson, the inspector mhm, and eventually we would like to retire. td ameritrade can help you build a plan general for national for today and tomorrow. intelligence and that is key come with a goal. leave with a plan. because he green-lighted this td ameritrade. whistle-blower complaint and found the whistle-blower complaint about the president s phone call with the leader of ukraine to be credible. in the meantime, president trump and his defenders are gearing up for war in week as the public hearings get underway in the impeachment inquiry. the trump campaign will be running a rapid response operation to react to the fast-moving developments up on capitol hill and the war room and chief is
months when it came to the with holding of the u.s. military bullied ukraine s president to aid. also republicans doing their own investigate joe biden for political benefit and withheld preparation. they held a mock hearing earlier aid and i think that case is today, the full conference will going to be made clearly meet and democrats behind closed doors will meet with speaker tomorrow. cnn has obtained this nancy pelosi as part of her internal republican memo that is very detailed laying out their leadership meeting regularly strategy for defending the scheduled but expect that president now that the public impeachment is a key topic they impeachment hearings are hours discuss. meanwhile we re getting more away and we pointed out some of details about exactly what could the major points insisting there happen in that senate trial. was no conditionality or evidence of pressure that we heard richard burr saying that could go on between six and president trump or zelensky said there w
has rested their case after bombshell testimony by former trump campaign official rick gates. let s go to sara murray outside of the federal courthouse in washington. sarah, tell us more. reporter: that is right, wolf. we did get some bombshell testimony today. what people may not have seen from robert mueller s report and that is a look at how donald trump allegedly reacted to roger stone s saying that more information was coming from wikileaks. tonight a direct line is being drawn connecting then-candidate donald trump to roger stone s efforts to get intel from wikileaks during the 2016 campaign. former deputy campaign chair rick gates testified he was riding with trump to new york s la guardia airport that summer when trump took a phone call from stone lasting several minutes. gates said the two men apparently discussed wikileaks plans to release democratic emails which were hacked and stolen by russians. after mr. trump got off the phone with mr. stone, what did
cooperate with russia at almost any cost and with great resistance from within his government. reporter: ukraine got the missiles. the new transcripts reveal another instance where the president seemed worried about backlash from putin. former volker aid testified that trump saw a report from cnn in december of last year about a u.s. warship move sboog the black sea to counter russian s aggression. a u.s. moving a warship could be seen as pushing back on russia. reporter: it prompted an urgent call from trump to his national security adviser. according to christopher anderson, ambassador bolton relayed he was called at home and the president complained about the news report. the former kgb colonel will be buoyed by the transcripts confident he can get his way with a president who views him sympathetically.