matter tell fox news that after the july 25th call with president zelensky it wasn t reported to the national security council senior leadership that a staffer relate information about the call to individuals outside the nsc and characterize the conversation as outrageous. fox has no comment yet from the white house. bret: ukraine s president being criticized tonight by russian leader vladimir pugh for his inability to pull back heavy weaponry in the east as a step toward a peace agreement. but vlodymyr zelensky says he s working to bring peace with russian separatists. zelensky also working hard on the subject of corruption which was the genesis of one controversy they re leaving now to the trump impeachment effort. reporting to that from he corruption is a reality difficult to escape. when i got elected i thought next day we were going to arrest
the main event, which is the president s phone call. there are a tendency for the democrats to go down these nooks and crannies. president trump can recall for any reason he wishes. democrats impeach donald trump, it s going to be about the phone call and whistle-blower complaint, not about the ambassador. i disagree with you a little bit. the democrats are trying to build a case of the president is corrupt and hiding it. trying to hide it through obstruction. strictly on ukraine though? they are trying to stay laser focus so far. according to the witnesses coming in, i think they might expand that beyond ukraine and any foreign leader he may be enlisting to help investigate joe biden and the democrats. that s what they are saying is part of his not fulfilling duties to uphold his office under the constitution. that s the argument they are making. the obstruction part is he will not cooperate with subpoenas and witnesses, that he is trying to
outnumbered . chris: can t wait, let s get it going. melissa: love the attitude. harris: we are learning president president trump has invited russian president vladimir pugh into the white house this fall under criticism from both sides of the aisle after their summit in helsinki, finland, this week. some republican lawmakers argue it may not be the best idea. president trump is refusing to cave to criticism on the issue. watch. look at the sanctions i put on, look at all of the things that i ve done. if nobody else did what i ve done. obama didn t do it. obama was a patsy for russia. look at the statement he made when he thought the mics were turned off. a stupid statement he made. nobody does a big deal about that. getting along with president putin, getting along with the russia is positive, not a negative. that being said, if that doesn t
katie: he didn t bring us any california sunshine. adam: ever it is like a no. sandra: it is friday but it is a busy news day. targeting vladimir pugh and his inner circle, sanctioning seven russian oligarchs and 17 russian government officials. a dozen russian government come back governors owned by the oligarch as well as a state arm dealing company and a subsidiary bank. of the sanctions already responded to with the demonstration calls a totality of the russian government s bad behavior including russia s actions on crimea. support for cyber hacking and attempt to subvert western democracy. he was white house director of strategic communications earlier today. this is a continuing process that we are working on to ensure that russia s bad behavior and especially when it comes to the issue of election meddling in
we ll show you what started this and how it ended. let s get to it. announcer: now, shepard smith reporting lie from the fox news deck. shepard: good friday afternoon from the news deck. in the russian military showing of the new nuclear missile. president vladimir pugh and says it can strike anywhere on earth. putin claims the united states and nato missile defense systems would be useless against the so-called satan two. the test launch comes as tensions are rising between russia and the united states and our allies a month for that matter over the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in england. the kremlin denies any involvement, but investigators say the weapon was a nerve agent that the soviet union invented. russia s ambassador to the united states telling nbc news today show he cannot remember the last time relations were