We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im george howell. The cnn newsroom starts now. 2 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast and around the world good day to you starting with the president facing an impeachment inquiry. Donald trump is tweeting up a storm. Attacking his opponents, firing up his supporters and trying to discredit the whistleblower at the heart of this ukraine scandal. The president is calling the whistleblower his accuser and says he wants to meet him. Mr. Trump is also trying to depict himself as the victim of espionage and warns there will be, quote, big consequences, some view that as a threat and there are fears someone might try to out the whistleblower. His attorneys wrote in a letter to the acting National Intelligence director, it says, in part there are, quote, serious concerns we have regarding our clients personal safety. We appreciate your offices support thus far to activate appropriate resources to ensure their safety, end quote. Despite those concerns the democratic chair of the House Intelligence Committee says the whistleblower is planning to testify. Adam shiffrin also finds himself back in the president s crosshairs. Mr. Trump tweeted that he wants shiffrin questioned for fraud and treason. The president has criticized shiffrin for straying from what was the rough transcript of the call to ukraines president when it said that he read that in a committee intercorrecting what shiffrin described himself as a parody that the congressman is pushing ahead. He told 60 minutes on cbs hes looking to subpoena documents from the president s personal attorney. List sdmrn will you call Rudy Giuliani. Were going to need evidence from Rudy Giuliani and its our intention as soon as first thing next week to subpoena him for documents and there may very well come a time where we want to hear from him directly. In the meantime, mr. Trumps supporters are digging in defending the president. Cnns Sara Westwood has more now from the white house. Reporter ail eliahus of President Trump were out in full force on sunday defending trump and questioning the motives of the whistleblower as democratic House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Shiffrin says his committee reached a tentative agreement with the whistleblower for him or her to come in and deliver testimony and attorneys for the whistleblower confirmed on twitter that they have been in talks with lawmakers from both parties in the house and the senate to make that testimony happen. But top aide to President TrumpStephen Miller continued to attack the whistleblower as partisan and accused that percentage of undermining trumps administration. The president is the whistleblower here. The president of the United States is the whistleblower and this individual is a saboteur trying to undermine a democratically elected government. The behavior of this individual is close to a spy. I dont know who the individual is. All i know at some point, chris, we have to focus on the real scandal which is three years of deep state sabotage. Reporter Rudy Giuliani, the president s personal attorney on sunday gave conflicting answers about whether he would be willing to testify before the House Intelligence Committee. Giuliani is at the center of the ukraine controversy. Hes mentioned several times in the whistleblowers complaint and President Trump brought up giuliani during that now infamous july phone call with ukrainian president zelensky. Now, despite telling cnn he would be willing to testify before congress if President Trump gave him the all clear, giuliani did muddy the waters a little bit when asked against sunday. Take a listen. I wouldnt cooperate with Adam Shiffrin. I think he should be removed. If they remove Adam Shiffrin and put in a neutral person and a democrat who hasnt expressed an opinion yet, if i had a judge in a case and already announced im going to impeach, wouldnt i move to recuse so you wouldnt do it . I said i will consider it. I have to be guided by pmy client. If he decides he wants me to testify, of course, ill testify. The House Democrats are ramping up pressure on the Trump Administration to hand over documents and provide testimony related to the ukrainian controversy. On friday issuing that subpoena for secretary of state mike pompeo and giving him a deadline only of until october 4th, friday, to provide documents that they have sought since september 9th. They also want depositions from Top State Department officials including from former u. S. Envoy to ukraine kurt volker. Volker is slated to appear before three committees this week and the pressure to provide those documents will be intens , particularly this week. Put it in perspective. A professor of government of essex from england is joining us. Natasha, looking ahead of at whats promising to be pivotal, the impeachment inquiry will get under way and know the whistleblower will likely testify. Given what we know so far what is the impact of hearing from the very person who ignited this storm . Well, i think that theres going to be more details that will come out that will solidify for the democrats what exactly took place. But i think that the democrats already feel that they have plenty of information. They feel that trump leveraged hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in order for his own political gain and he admitted it even on the rough transcripts and so i think what theyre hoping to find out from the whistleblower is a little more about who was involved, when did everything take place and just how deep this actually went. I think they already know that trump obviously directed this to take place but want to know how extensive it goes. Lets say thats point one. Point two certainly will be public opinion, critical in this and if this latest poll is any indication, it seems that americans are open to this process. Take a look, 55 of voters approve of an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. 45 disapprove but those numbers still fall on a division that is clear in america on a knifes edge there. The question here, is there a threat of overreach for democrats here . Well, i dont think so because this is very different than pushing for impeachment over the Mueller Probe because it does involve a National Security issue. And as the poll revealed, you know, you have 55 that are in favor of pursuing the process and almost all democrat, its up to 90 of democrats are in favor of this so for democrats, they do have to do what their constituents want. On the flip side you have almost 80 of republicans not in favor of the impeachment process but when the process takes place and as more information comes out, its likely that the independents at the moment are 49 are in favor of the impeachment inquiry, might shift their public might shift their opinion and they feel that maybe more information needs to come out, maybe its too soon to tell yet. Its not likely to bring about information that will look good for trump. Lets also talk about the pressure on republicans, those who might say one thing privately but then fall right in line publicly. Is this enough to push those members of the president s own party to recorps when they are forced to be on the record . That is a great question. I mean, if they decide to support trump through this process, what theyre doing essentially is saying it a democratic president did something similar that thats essentially okay that they want to erode at our democratic norms and processes in order to support trump, in order to go with trump and thats really a lot there. I mean this, is different than the Mueller Probe where mueller wasnt super clear about whether or not a crime had taken place. He said there was obstruction of justice but didnt say there was collusion and left it to congress and there are a lot of what ifs and interpretation. Here we have evidence of trump saying can you do me a favor . Can i use taxpayer dollars essentially to get you to investigate a political opponent and undermine the credibility of our elections. If this happened to a democrat how would republicans feel about this . I think thats something they have to ask themselves. Whats likely well have a couple that will effect but what we see with trump, hes been like teflon. Hes been able to retain the support of his republican allies no matter what. That natasha, thank you so much. One of his supporters is defending the call. Jim jordan. He had a lot to say about the scandal on cnns state of the union. He made false claims about democratic president ial candidate joe biden and his son hunter but jordan was challenged by my colleague jake tapper who factchecked him straight up. Listen. The president is calling for ukraine to investigate his rivals. Jake, youre missing the fundamental point. Im not missing anything. The democrats if you want to impeach Rudy Giuliani talked to a ukrainian. So were going to impeach the president. I think the in light of what this president has been able to do leading our country and the economic growth, what hes done with our Supreme Court justice and with the embassy in jerusalem, a host of things, you really think so, wait a minute, the president s private lawyer had a i think you leveled a bunch of accusations about hunter biden. I said the facts. Did he get paid 50,000. Yeah, he was paid by a Foreign Company but joe biden was trying to get a prosecutor who was not pursuing corruption fired and its amazing the gymnastics you will go through the Vice President i would think somebody whos been accused of things in the last year or two would be sensitive about throwing out wild allegations. Im throwing out the facts. The prosecutor was not pursuing corruption. Thats why the entire west wanted him fired including anticorruption activists in ukraine. I dont understand what you dont get about it. I get that. Im talking about this specific case. That theres been reporting on and the facts of that specific case are what he was paid per month, 50,000 like i said, thats more than some of the folks i get the privilege of representing get paid in a year. Hes getting it a month. The Vice President s son got hire the president s daughter right now is having all sorts of copyrights granted in foreign country. That doesnt alarm you. The president s sons are doing all sorts of business all over the world. That doesnt alarm you. Come on. Whats come on . Either theres a principle that people should not benefit from their connections or there isnt. The previous administrations fbi went after this president on july 31st they didnt even acknowledge there was an investigation until after the election. They spied on two Americans Associated with President Trumps campaign. They put peter strzok in charge, the guy who said trump should lose 100 million to 0. They used a dossier to now were back to the dossier. Thats what happened to President Trump. Now none of that worked. None of that worked. I understand you want to change the subject but the president was pushing the president of ukraine to investigate a political rival. I cannot believe that is okay with you. I cant believe its okay with you. If this is a principle but he didnt do that. Its in the transcript. Youve got to read it you dont read things in context. The context is that that comes up when zelensky is talking about all investigations. Jake tapper with congressman jim jordan who is a member of the House Oversight committee. That is the Main Investigative Committee in the u. S. House of representatives. Former special envoy to ukraine kurt volker is expected to appear. Who are on Boris Johnsons drive to meet the breks deadline even as the opposition threatens a no confidence vote. One year after Jamal Khashoggis kidding what Mohammed Bin Salman is saying about the journalists murder. Stay with us. 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In fact, the first big policy unveil came from the house secretary pledging to open 40 new hospitals. This is a mirror imaging the strategy we saw in the 2016 Eu Referendum during which the current Prime MinisterBoris Johnson stood in front avenue bus saying save money from brussels and spend it on the Health System. But there was also a conference that got under way at a time when it is going to be difficult for them to get back and forth from one part of the country to the next. Parliament is now still in session and the conservative party hasnt managed to obtain a pause or recess to have this party conference. That means minister also have to shuffle back and forth between manchester and the north and london in the south which is three hours away, one city from the other. Back in westminster there are suggestions the opposition parties might end up calling a no confidence vote in the government but that is looking ten use at the moment because they cant necessarily agree on who could become the subsequent caretaker Prime Minister. All of this as brexit goes down to the wire on october the 31st. And from a personal side, Boris Johnson is also facing questions about his relationship with the u. S. Internet entrepreneur, one who he was close to at the time when he was mayor of london. The sunday times investigation alleged that a woman benefited from her proximity to the london mayor. He dismissed them and said everything was aboveboard. Nina, thank you. Now to hong kong where protest organizers are canceling a march planned for tuesday after police rejected their permit application. The civil human rights front has organized some of the largest rallies to date and picked tuesday to march because its chinas national day. 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