Back. President trump making no attempt to stop the crowd from playing on a timeworn racist trope. Of course none of the four targets are on the list of democrats running for president , so what is the president doing here right now . Lets get to it. Abby phillip has the latest from the white house. Manu raju is on capitol hill. Abby, first to you. What are you hearing there . Reporter kate, this was not an off the remark, as many of them are. This was scripted. This is the president going person to person on each of the members of the squad describing them as socialists and using all kinds of terms to reframe this debate as being about why they are unacceptable. But then when the crowd responded with send her back, as you noted, President Trump stood there and seemed to almost bask in it. Did not say anything about it, even though the white house for several days now have been saying that this is not about racism, this is not about necessarily that trope that he utilized over the week
This year, theyre coalescing around one goal and one goal only, to defeat donald j. Trump. What we have now is a frontrunner embracing that in spades. Joe bidens campaign ad in iowa underscoring this bottom line. We know in our bones this election is different. The stakes are higher, the threat more serious. We have to beat donald trump. All the polls agree joe biden is the strongest democratic to do the job. Candidate b, his buy, jill biden, what might seem spontaneous with the same moment. Your candidate might be on healthcare than joe is. You have to look at whos going to win this election. Maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say, i personally like soandso better, but your bottom line has to be that we have to beat trump. Then, today, comes the evidence that the Biden Campaigns unconventional strategy appears to be striving in this unconventional race. A new poll out this morning shows the Vice President up 7 points since june, pulling way ahead of the rest of the democratic
Keep his tax returns private. It is day 41 of the impeachment inquiry. President trump is in new york this morning after attending a ufc fight last night. His first appearance in his hometown since announcing he changed his residency to florida. The president was greeted by protesters outside the arena and inside a mixed reception. Meanwhile, another fight for the president moves in washington over impeachment. Congress gearing up for the next phase of its investigation. The Washington Post reporting House Democrats are pivoting from fact finding to a campaign of persuasion. Privately sketching out how they plan to use a series of blockbuster hearings to make the public case for trumps removal from office. Some democrats are saying they already have enough evidence to impeach. Do you at this point think theres enough evidence to bring forth articles of impeachment against donald trump . Yes, i do. Actually, i thought there was back in the mueller testimony. Do you think you have heard
Democrats are going to have to decide when to stop gathering evidence and then scramble to lay out that evidence and republicans already are scrambling to combat it. The Washington Post reports democrats are looking at Holding Public hearings as early as midnovember, which would derail the current republican complaints and stunts that the president praised today which argue that the current closeddoor proceedings are unfair. Even though republicans used this same playbook and praised it during the benghazi hearings. Lindsey graham this afternoon announced a Senate Resolution condemning the houses quote closed door impeachment inquiry. The president s allies are not pounding the facts. Theyre pounding the table and the process but ultimately its the democrats who have to figure out how to lay out this case. And they have to figure that out quickly because the mounting evidence against the president is the fact if the democrats want this done before the iowa caucus, they have just weeks
Someone. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead, the number two republican in senator john thune of south dakota delivered a devastating assessment of the house impeachment inquiry of President Trump. Senator thune telling reporters that the picture being painted of the trump ukraine scandal by the top diplomat in ukraine is, quote, not a good one. Bill taylor testified he was told President Trump was going to withhold, quote, everything, from ukraine, everything, including badly needed military aid that is until ukraines president publicly announced investigations into joe biden and his son hunter as well as ukraines alleged role in the 2016 election. And as Cnns Kaitlan Collins now reports for us, this all comes as President Trump is trying to spin capitulation to turkey in syria as a win for the United States. This was an outcome created by us, the United States. And nobody else. Reporter today President Trump took credit for a ceasefire in syria. While