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From but we know this is a horrible crash with at least four fatalities according to highway pa control. Multiple injuries and lots of help on the way asking people to stay away from that section of highway, state reoad 12 and mor crews on the way, rescue crews to help those people. Thank you. Youll bring updates as we learn more. Our top story at this hour, the conversations surrounding this explosive whistleblower claim and the president s attempted to downplay what weve learned so far. What we know. The director of National Intelligence refusing to give congress this urgent credible concern. A whistleblower complaint filed by an official. Sources tell the New York Times and Washington Post the communication at issue involve as phone call in which promises were made with the government of ukraine. Then the president s personal attorney comes on cnn says he asked ukrainian officials to investigate one of the president s opponents joe biden. Heres the president earlier today. Joe biden, his son or family it doesnt matter what i discussed. I will say somebody ought to look into joe bidens statement. It was disgracefuli dont want to talk about any conversation other than to say other than to say, great conversation. Totally appropriate conversation. Couldnt have been better. The president says there was nothing nefarious discussed on any call with any world leader. House intel leader adam schiff by law allowed access says its a coverup. Inspector general found these aless credible but only 14 days to investigate them. They deserve a thorough investigation. What were intent on doing and come hell or high water is what were going to do. Come hell or high water. Cnns Kaitlan Collins is at the white house. What more did we hear from the president earlier about this whistleblower . Reporter the president defending himself how he conducts himself with World Leaders which has come under scrutiny. The president didnt offer a lot of details. Defends him, disputing certain things alleges he believes the whistleblower is partisan, when asked how he thinks that, the president didnt provide an answer. I dont know the identity. I hear its a partisan person meaning it comes out from another party. But i dont have which conversation . Figure it out. Youre supposed to be the media. Figure it out. It was which conversation . July 25th with the i really dont know. I dont know. Reporter you see there the president not denying, though, he may have discussed joe biden with the ukrainian president when asked. Whenever he said it didnt matter what he discussed. Whats coming under question is the white house is maintaining the president did nothing recall. All conversations with foreign leaders were above board. If thats the case, why is the white house blocking that information from becoming public if theres nothing to hide there, if theres nothing nefarious what it was the president said. Of course, this comes as House Democrats are investigating Rudy Giuliani and his interactions with the ukrainians which you heard last night. He said he feels that the president , if he did pressure the ukrainians to in his opinion straighten up to receive military aid money, Rudy Giuliani thinks that would be appropriate. Kaitlan collins with the latest from the white house. Thank you. Whether or not ukraine is at the center of this whistle blower complaint we know the administration has as recently at this summer wanted that country to investigate the former Vice President. Take you back to may of this year when Rudy Giuliani considered traveling to ukraine to look into the debunk theory about joe biden. That trip was scrapped following criticism. Two months later in july, giuliani instead met with a ukrainian official in madrid and the same month President Trump called the ukrainian president elect. Is that the conversation at the center of the whistleblowers complaint is a major question. The complaint itself filed august 12th, 18 days after the call. A few days later the president considers blocking 250 million in military aid to rue cain free free ukraine. Three days later administration lifts the freeze on ukrainian funding. Take a closer look what the official records show when it comes to this phone call july 25th between President Trump and the ukrainian president. So the white house readout of the call was brief. It says they discussed ways to strengthen the relationship between the United States and ukraine including energy and economic cooperation. Ukraines version, lengthier knop mention of aid money or joe biden. It reads donald trump is convinced that the new Ukrainian Government will be able to quickly improve image of ukraine, complete investigation of Corruption Cases which inhibited interagency between ukraine and the usa. John avlon, senior cnn political analyst and served as speechwriter for Rudy Giuliani during his time as mayor. We look at all this. Start with the two different accounts of the phone call. Ukraine says there were discussions about its investigating corruption. Noticeably absent from the u. S. Version. Should that raise a red flag . I think so. The thing is, they, we need to know a lot more what happened. Maybe what the whistleblower was trying to tell congress. Well have to learn more. If there was actually a promise by the president to release funds in exchange for help with his election by investigating a political rival, that, to me, looks a lot like a violation of various federal laws. Bribery and Campaign Finance laws. When we look at what we are learning from Rudy Giuliani. Im going to call on you, my friend, to translate your former boss but first play a little what he said on with chris cuomo. Take a look. You never asked anything about hunter biden or anything about joe biden and only thing i asked about joe biden get to the bottom of how it was that the person appointed dismissed the case against did you ask ukraine to look into were joe biden. Of course i did. Of course i did. I mean, look, we all know its not the first time Rudy Giuliani has contradicted himself. Its not the first time that maybe something has been thrown out and we all go whats that . Months later, oh. A really big thing. What is your, your gut on what we heard from him last night . Is this some sort of strategy to be the ball guy . Strategy to deflect, or a strategy at all . Go with c. Generally we found with dbt and with rudy acting as sort of advocate in the court of public opinion, a mistake to read too much strategy into things. Impulse, sometimes messages the president would like rudy to communicate out in the world and sometimes rudys just doing his thing and trying to act as an attack dog for his client. Again, in the court of public opinion. Be honest. That was not a particularly good performance. Nor a particularly schooled. Things fell apart quickly because he contradicted himself. In a private capacity, Rudy Giuliani can have these conversations. The problem dealing with the presidency and the real issue isnt a bad interview late at night. The real issue, the Inspector General saying theres a credible and urgent whistleblower report being blocked when it should be released to the congress at the request of someone higher up presumably the president and the justice department. Thats a coverup. If indeed the president has nothing to worry about, says it perfectly appropriately, release it. If not, it means hes lying. To that point, right . So lets say if we follow what Rudy Giuliani said there. Right . That he asked a Foreign Government to look into his clients potential political opponent, is Rudy Giuliani doing anything illegal jl hes not the president doing it. Right . Hes not as far as we know, not going it on behalf of the campaign, just his private client. Anything illegal . Could be. Depends. Could be a conspiracy between Rudy Giuliani, the president and others involved in the campaign. Thats when i want to look at. He is the president s lawyer. Not a random person who says oh i like trump. If you did this that would be fabulous for this guy. He is a representative of donald trump. There definite ly could be something there. Am people float the logan act. Put that aside. Never prosecuted. Its nonsense. The real issue the president withholding aid to have a Foreign Government go after a political opponent, quid pro quo. A partisan issue. He means someone as concerned about my actions trying to hold mow to account. The new partisan. The real issue with this is that if republicans saw a democratic president doing exactly this, would they have a problem with it . The answer is obviously, yes. What sticks out to me interesting in this timeline, just a question and we dont have the exact answer. Going through the timeline we know on september 2nd, the deadline for the dni to hand this information over to congress. Right . We know that didnt happen. Fast forward to a week later, september 9th when the intel ig says adam schiff i think you need to know about this. Theres an urgent concern overruled by the dni. Interesting on that same day you have clee committees, oversight, Foreign Affairs and intel who launched this investigation by the president , Rudy Giuliani and others to pressure the Ukrainian Government in terms of reelection efforts. John, is it just a quicoincidence in thi crazy world . Whats your gut . My gut, acknowledge the obvious and not try to ignore it. Theres obviously some connection between these things. Until we see the report, again, we cant know for sure. President says he has nothing to worry about. Release the report. Why is the department of justice running cover for this president . Why, rather than doing what is right to get the information out as the statute requires . Coverup as much as potential of wonglog, deeply serious. Dont ignore that. To your point, nothing to see, we say it about umpteenth things, nothing to see, why so many road blocks . Look at this particular complaint, though, anything that would preclude this person from handing the complaint directly to congress . So in their mind, if this isnt happening with the ig, pashden me, with the dni, the ig still wants it to happen. Could the whistleblower just go to congress say, here you go . Maybe. Its not entirely clear. This is likely classified information. You have to worry about that aspect of it. Whistleblower laws are specific. Very specific things you have to do. It appears the person so far has been following those. Going around and just going straight to congress is not part of that process. So the person could potentially be in trouble if they didnt follow exactly the letter of the whistleblower protections. The fact we are where we are shows that if he or she is playing fair, the would us is not playing fair. Those procedures are not leading to what needs to happen here, which is Congress Needs to see that. Ant note, too, Kamala Harris apparently just saying shes actually urging to, in fact, go directly to congress. Interesting to see what happens on that. Appreciate it, my friends. Across the country right now, huge crowds of peoplemarching to the ban of Climate Action and you will hear from some of them who chose to wack out of school to walk out of work today. Plus, talking 2020. Joe biden and Elizabeth Warren really taking incoming fire from democratic rivals. Plus, what happens to Kamala Harris . The senator is basically moving it iowa to jumpstart her campaign. At carvana, no matter what car you buy from us, you get the freedom of a 7day return policy. 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Somebody ought to look into joe bidens statement because it was disgraceful where he talked about billions of dollars that hes not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. So somebody ought to look into that. President trump insisting somebody should dig into a Conspiracy Theory involving biden, ukraine and a ukrainian prosecutor. Democrats are accusing President Trump of wrongdoing. He points the finger back bringing back a Conspiracy Theory with joe biden. Dig in on those claims. Someone here we need. Whats the back story . Trump is talking about the time in 2016 when then Vice President joe biden demanded that ukrainian leaders fire the countrys senior prosecutor who was widely seen as ineffective in fighting corruption. Now, biden does not think that he did anything wrong here. In fact, he boasted about this effort to get the prosecutor fired. Listen to what he said at an event in 2018. Im desperately concerned about the back sliding on the part of kiev in terms of corruption. They ill give you werent concrete example and i went over, i guess, the 12, 13th time to kiev and i was supposed to announce that theres another billion dollar loan guarantee. And i had gotten a commitment from poroshenko and from yachtsenyuf they would take action against the state prosecutor and didnt. Walking out of the press conference i said, were not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. Youre not the president. The president said. I said, call him. Im telling you, youre not getting a billion dollars. I said youre not getting a billion. Im leaving here in what, six hours . Leaving in six hours. The prosecutors not fired youre not getting the money. Son of a bitch. Got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid. At the time. So the reason that bidens critics say this anticorruption effort was a problem was because at the time bidens son hunter sat on the board of directors of a company that was owned by a ukrainian man who supposedly was uner investigation by ukrainian prosecutors pap few things to know. The effort to get the prosecutor fired was not bidens alone. It came from american diplomats in ukraine, from international donors, from the International Monetary fund. Not a joe biden crusade to help his son. Second important thing to note its not at all clear how much investigating this prosecutor was actually doing. Reports that he basically wasnt investigating anyone. Why people werent happy with him. Not at all clear getting the prosecutor fired would actually help bidens son hunter at all. So there are questions here, conflict of interests experts have said. Bidens son put him in a difficult position being on the board of a ukrainian gas company. But the complaint that biden was somehow corrupt here is simply not at all corroborated by the evidence we have. Debunk. Thank you, appreciate it, daniel dale. Right now tens of thousands of protesters are out on the streets walking out of school, maybe skipping for the day. Often with permission. Leaving their jobs to take part in a global call to action on the Climate Crisis. We are live for you in new york and seattle next. Plus, more on the breaking news out of utah. Four killed in a tour bus crash. We are told there are multiple injuries as well. Stay with us. I get it all the time. Have you lost weight . Of course i have ever since i started renting from national. Because national lets me lose the wait at the counter. And choose any car in the aisle. And i dont wait when i return, thanks to drop go. At national, i can lose the wait. And keep it off. Looking good, patrick. I know. vo go national. Go like a pro. Doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacistrecommendeding . Memory support brand. You can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Thats why National Intelligence<\/a> refusing to give congress this urgent credible concern. A whistleblower complaint filed by an official. Sources tell the New York Times<\/a> and Washington Post<\/a> the communication at issue involve as phone call in which promises were made with the government of ukraine. Then the president s personal attorney comes on cnn says he asked ukrainian officials to investigate one of the president s opponents joe biden. Heres the president earlier today. Joe biden, his son or family it doesnt matter what i discussed. I will say somebody ought to look into joe bidens statement. It was disgracefuli dont want to talk about any conversation other than to say other than to say, great conversation. Totally appropriate conversation. Couldnt have been better. The president says there was nothing nefarious discussed on any call with any world leader. House intel leader adam schiff by law allowed access says its a coverup. Inspector general found these aless credible but only 14 days to investigate them. They deserve a thorough investigation. What were intent on doing and come hell or high water is what were going to do. Come hell or high water. Cnns Kaitlan Collins<\/a> is at the white house. What more did we hear from the president earlier about this whistleblower . Reporter the president defending himself how he conducts himself with World Leaders<\/a> which has come under scrutiny. The president didnt offer a lot of details. Defends him, disputing certain things alleges he believes the whistleblower is partisan, when asked how he thinks that, the president didnt provide an answer. I dont know the identity. I hear its a partisan person meaning it comes out from another party. But i dont have which conversation . Figure it out. Youre supposed to be the media. Figure it out. It was which conversation . July 25th with the i really dont know. I dont know. Reporter you see there the president not denying, though, he may have discussed joe biden with the ukrainian president when asked. Whenever he said it didnt matter what he discussed. Whats coming under question is the white house is maintaining the president did nothing recall. All conversations with foreign leaders were above board. If thats the case, why is the white house blocking that information from becoming public if theres nothing to hide there, if theres nothing nefarious what it was the president said. Of course, this comes as House Democrats<\/a> are investigating Rudy Giuliani<\/a> and his interactions with the ukrainians which you heard last night. He said he feels that the president , if he did pressure the ukrainians to in his opinion straighten up to receive military aid money, Rudy Giuliani<\/a> thinks that would be appropriate. Kaitlan collins with the latest from the white house. Thank you. Whether or not ukraine is at the center of this whistle blower complaint we know the administration has as recently at this summer wanted that country to investigate the former Vice President<\/a>. Take you back to may of this year when Rudy Giuliani<\/a> considered traveling to ukraine to look into the debunk theory about joe biden. That trip was scrapped following criticism. Two months later in july, giuliani instead met with a ukrainian official in madrid and the same month President Trump<\/a> called the ukrainian president elect. Is that the conversation at the center of the whistleblowers complaint is a major question. The complaint itself filed august 12th, 18 days after the call. A few days later the president considers blocking 250 million in military aid to rue cain free free ukraine. Three days later administration lifts the freeze on ukrainian funding. Take a closer look what the official records show when it comes to this phone call july 25th between President Trump<\/a> and the ukrainian president. So the white house readout of the call was brief. It says they discussed ways to strengthen the relationship between the United States<\/a> and ukraine including energy and economic cooperation. Ukraines version, lengthier knop mention of aid money or joe biden. It reads donald trump is convinced that the new Ukrainian Government<\/a> will be able to quickly improve image of ukraine, complete investigation of Corruption Cases<\/a> which inhibited interagency between ukraine and the usa. John avlon, senior cnn political analyst and served as speechwriter for Rudy Giuliani<\/a> during his time as mayor. We look at all this. Start with the two different accounts of the phone call. Ukraine says there were discussions about its investigating corruption. Noticeably absent from the u. S. Version. Should that raise a red flag . I think so. The thing is, they, we need to know a lot more what happened. Maybe what the whistleblower was trying to tell congress. Well have to learn more. If there was actually a promise by the president to release funds in exchange for help with his election by investigating a political rival, that, to me, looks a lot like a violation of various federal laws. Bribery and Campaign Finance<\/a> laws. When we look at what we are learning from Rudy Giuliani<\/a>. Im going to call on you, my friend, to translate your former boss but first play a little what he said on with chris cuomo. Take a look. You never asked anything about hunter biden or anything about joe biden and only thing i asked about joe biden get to the bottom of how it was that the person appointed dismissed the case against did you ask ukraine to look into were joe biden. Of course i did. Of course i did. I mean, look, we all know its not the first time Rudy Giuliani<\/a> has contradicted himself. Its not the first time that maybe something has been thrown out and we all go whats that . Months later, oh. A really big thing. What is your, your gut on what we heard from him last night . Is this some sort of strategy to be the ball guy . Strategy to deflect, or a strategy at all . Go with c. Generally we found with dbt and with rudy acting as sort of advocate in the court of public opinion, a mistake to read too much strategy into things. Impulse, sometimes messages the president would like rudy to communicate out in the world and sometimes rudys just doing his thing and trying to act as an attack dog for his client. Again, in the court of public opinion. Be honest. That was not a particularly good performance. Nor a particularly schooled. Things fell apart quickly because he contradicted himself. In a private capacity, Rudy Giuliani<\/a> can have these conversations. The problem dealing with the presidency and the real issue isnt a bad interview late at night. The real issue, the Inspector General<\/a> saying theres a credible and urgent whistleblower report being blocked when it should be released to the congress at the request of someone higher up presumably the president and the justice department. Thats a coverup. If indeed the president has nothing to worry about, says it perfectly appropriately, release it. If not, it means hes lying. To that point, right . So lets say if we follow what Rudy Giuliani<\/a> said there. Right . That he asked a Foreign Government<\/a> to look into his clients potential political opponent, is Rudy Giuliani<\/a> doing anything illegal jl hes not the president doing it. Right . Hes not as far as we know, not going it on behalf of the campaign, just his private client. Anything illegal . Could be. Depends. Could be a conspiracy between Rudy Giuliani<\/a>, the president and others involved in the campaign. Thats when i want to look at. He is the president s lawyer. Not a random person who says oh i like trump. If you did this that would be fabulous for this guy. He is a representative of donald trump. There definite ly could be something there. Am people float the logan act. Put that aside. Never prosecuted. Its nonsense. The real issue the president withholding aid to have a Foreign Government<\/a> go after a political opponent, quid pro quo. A partisan issue. He means someone as concerned about my actions trying to hold mow to account. The new partisan. The real issue with this is that if republicans saw a democratic president doing exactly this, would they have a problem with it . The answer is obviously, yes. What sticks out to me interesting in this timeline, just a question and we dont have the exact answer. Going through the timeline we know on september 2nd, the deadline for the dni to hand this information over to congress. Right . We know that didnt happen. Fast forward to a week later, september 9th when the intel ig says adam schiff i think you need to know about this. Theres an urgent concern overruled by the dni. Interesting on that same day you have clee committees, oversight, Foreign Affairs<\/a> and intel who launched this investigation by the president , Rudy Giuliani<\/a> and others to pressure the Ukrainian Government<\/a> in terms of reelection efforts. John, is it just a quicoincidence in thi crazy world . Whats your gut . My gut, acknowledge the obvious and not try to ignore it. Theres obviously some connection between these things. Until we see the report, again, we cant know for sure. President says he has nothing to worry about. Release the report. Why is the department of justice running cover for this president . Why, rather than doing what is right to get the information out as the statute requires . Coverup as much as potential of wonglog, deeply serious. Dont ignore that. To your point, nothing to see, we say it about umpteenth things, nothing to see, why so many road blocks . Look at this particular complaint, though, anything that would preclude this person from handing the complaint directly to congress . So in their mind, if this isnt happening with the ig, pashden me, with the dni, the ig still wants it to happen. Could the whistleblower just go to congress say, here you go . Maybe. Its not entirely clear. This is likely classified information. You have to worry about that aspect of it. Whistleblower laws are specific. Very specific things you have to do. It appears the person so far has been following those. Going around and just going straight to congress is not part of that process. So the person could potentially be in trouble if they didnt follow exactly the letter of the whistleblower protections. The fact we are where we are shows that if he or she is playing fair, the would us is not playing fair. Those procedures are not leading to what needs to happen here, which is Congress Needs<\/a> to see that. Ant note, too, Kamala Harris<\/a> apparently just saying shes actually urging to, in fact, go directly to congress. Interesting to see what happens on that. Appreciate it, my friends. Across the country right now, huge crowds of peoplemarching to the ban of Climate Action<\/a> and you will hear from some of them who chose to wack out of school to walk out of work today. Plus, talking 2020. Joe biden and Elizabeth Warren<\/a> really taking incoming fire from democratic rivals. Plus, what happens to Kamala Harris<\/a> . The senator is basically moving it iowa to jumpstart her campaign. At carvana, no matter what car you buy from us, you get the freedom of a 7day return policy. This isnt some dealership test drive around the block. Its better. This is seven days to put your carvana car to the test and see if it fits your life. Load it up with a weeks worth of groceries. Take the kiddos out for ice cream. Check that it has enough wiggle room in your garage. You get the time to make sure you love it. And on the 6th day, well reach out and make sure everythings amazing. If so. Excellent. If not, swap it out for another or return it for a refund. Its that simple. Because at carvana, your car happiness is what makes us happy. Work so hard give it everything you got strength of a lioness tough as a knot rocking the stage and we never gonna stop all strength, no sweat. Just in case you forgot all strength. No sweat secret. All strength. No sweat. Ever since you brought me home, that day. Ive been plotting to destroy you. Sizing you up. Calculating your every move. You think this is love . This is a billion years of tiger dna just ready to pounce. And if you have the wrong Home Insurance<\/a> coverage, you could be coughing up the cash for this. So get allstate and be better protected from mayhem, like meow. Its something we take personally, and believe in passionately. Its the idea that if our mothers were diagnosed with cancer, how would we want them to be treated . Thats exactly how we care for you. With answers and actions. To hear your concerns, quiet your fears, lift your spirits. With teams of cancer experts and specialists, delivering advanced Treatment Options<\/a> and compassionate support every step of the way. All here in one place, with one purpose. To fight your cancer, together. Thats the mother standard of care. This is how we inspire hope. This is how we heal. Cancer Treatment Centers<\/a> of america. Appointments available now. You know the saying, best defense, a good offense. President trump making uses of that with joe biden today the president asked about the whistleblower accusations. Take a listen. Somebody ought to look into joe bidens statement because it was disgraceful where he talked about billions of dollars that hes not giving to a certain country unless a certain prosecutor is taken off the case. So somebody ought to look into that. President trump insisting somebody should dig into a Conspiracy Theory<\/a> involving biden, ukraine and a ukrainian prosecutor. Democrats are accusing President Trump<\/a> of wrongdoing. He points the finger back bringing back a Conspiracy Theory<\/a> with joe biden. Dig in on those claims. Someone here we need. Whats the back story . Trump is talking about the time in 2016 when then Vice President<\/a> joe biden demanded that ukrainian leaders fire the countrys senior prosecutor who was widely seen as ineffective in fighting corruption. Now, biden does not think that he did anything wrong here. In fact, he boasted about this effort to get the prosecutor fired. Listen to what he said at an event in 2018. Im desperately concerned about the back sliding on the part of kiev in terms of corruption. They ill give you werent concrete example and i went over, i guess, the 12, 13th time to kiev and i was supposed to announce that theres another billion dollar loan guarantee. And i had gotten a commitment from poroshenko and from yachtsenyuf they would take action against the state prosecutor and didnt. Walking out of the press conference i said, were not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. Youre not the president. The president said. I said, call him. Im telling you, youre not getting a billion dollars. I said youre not getting a billion. Im leaving here in what, six hours . Leaving in six hours. The prosecutors not fired youre not getting the money. Son of a bitch. Got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid. At the time. So the reason that bidens critics say this anticorruption effort was a problem was because at the time bidens son hunter sat on the board of directors of a company that was owned by a ukrainian man who supposedly was uner investigation by ukrainian prosecutors pap few things to know. The effort to get the prosecutor fired was not bidens alone. It came from american diplomats in ukraine, from international donors, from the International Monetary<\/a> fund. Not a joe biden crusade to help his son. Second important thing to note its not at all clear how much investigating this prosecutor was actually doing. Reports that he basically wasnt investigating anyone. Why people werent happy with him. Not at all clear getting the prosecutor fired would actually help bidens son hunter at all. So there are questions here, conflict of interests experts have said. Bidens son put him in a difficult position being on the board of a ukrainian gas company. But the complaint that biden was somehow corrupt here is simply not at all corroborated by the evidence we have. Debunk. Thank you, appreciate it, daniel dale. Right now tens of thousands of protesters are out on the streets walking out of school, maybe skipping for the day. Often with permission. Leaving their jobs to take part in a global call to action on the Climate Crisis<\/a>. We are live for you in new york and seattle next. Plus, more on the breaking news out of utah. Four killed in a tour bus crash. We are told there are multiple injuries as well. Stay with us. I get it all the time. Have you lost weight . Of course i have ever since i started renting from national. Because national lets me lose the wait at the counter. And choose any car in the aisle. And i dont wait when i return, thanks to drop go. At national, i can lose the wait. And keep it off. Looking good, patrick. I know. vo go national. Go like a pro. Doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacistrecommendeding . 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All dont let our people die claimant change is not a lie [ speaking in Foreign Language<\/a> ] we are fighting [ speaking in Foreign Language<\/a> ] what do we want . All Climate Change<\/a> when do we want it. All now the Climate Crisis<\/a> marching happening across the u. S. As well. Cnns scott mclean in xeelgalso york. Reporter way more than nypd anticipated. Shut down all of lower manhattan. Estimating in the hundreds of thousands which is amazing considering this thing started with such, well, grass roots from a few teenagers here and there. I want to bring in one of the voices behind this. This is jamey margolin. Good to see you. Good to see you. Reporter i saw you on capitol hill testifying in front of the senate and frustrated at moments. Very frustrated. Reporter tell me about that. What frustrates you the way grownups in power think about this issue . They think about it as a competition have an economy or solve life on earth. They talk about it being unsensible. Theyre talking its not sensible. We need sensible solutions as if as if it was sensible to destroy a life on earth. It is insanity. Im defying the definition of insanity. Trying to solve an issue with the same thinking that caused it sitting in the hearing room all of these politicians talking how theyre going to buy and sell and use greed to get out of the problem caused by buying and selling and greed. It didnt make any sense and was frustrating because there was, sitting behind me a delegation of amazon protectors being so they didnt talked like they didnt actually care about the people affected, just wanted to see how can i hold on to as much money as possible. Reporter fired you up more . Fueled more of this . It did fuel more of this. After the testimony, so much amazing responses on social media and more people turned tout strike because of it. Telling me i saw your testimony and now im coming to strike. Its amazing to be able to turn, to turn a situation of of frustration into one of hope and action. Reporter thank you. Thanks for stopening. Thank you. Reporter thats the thing, erica. Greta thunberg the swedish girl who inspired so much. In a deep dre pregs and upressi into action. You see it here today. Appreciate it. In mentioned, on the west coast what are you seeing there. Reporter a look at the crowd. 1,700 amazon employees. A lot of them dont work for amazon. The number is procedure higher than that. Some people have the blessing of their boss to be here, many have taken Vacation Days<\/a> and some are taking a really long lunch. One sign over there that says, somme, big footprint equals big responsibility. The reality, amazon is a massive polluter. Takes a lot of carbon to move things across the country. One employee told me that she believes that the planet would be better off without amazon in it. That said, the company Just Announced<\/a> a pretty ambitious climate plan yesterday involving buying 100,000 electric delivery vans to try to become Carbon Neutral<\/a> by the year 2040 but some employees especially the folks here say thats not good enough. They want the company to stop donating to politicians who deny the Climate Science<\/a> and want the company to stop using their technology to help oil and gas companies, something that Ceo Jeff Bezos<\/a> said flat out he will not do, erica. Live from seattle. Thank you. Senator Bernie Sanders<\/a> speaking at a climate protest today in greens br oboro, and tg about joe biden and candidates going after Elizabeth Warren<\/a>. What does this all tell us about the 2020 race . Thats next. At fidelity, we believe your money should always be working harder. Thats why your cash automatically goes into a Money Market Fund<\/a> when you open a new account. 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Were now hearing from the Highway Patrol<\/a> there in utah there are 12 to 15 people who are in extremely Critical Condition<\/a> at this hour, and that four people have been confirmed killed. A terrible bus crash there in bryce canyon. That is out in the beautiful wilderness of utah, which the state has been encouraging people, of course, to come see some of their spectacular views in the outdoors. Bryce canyon has millions of people coming every year to see the beauty of the place, but this is a horrific accident on state road 12 there about four hours from salt lake city. You point out, that bus really, that image, does paint quite a picture. Sarah, thank you. Turning now to the 2020 race. S as the democratic primaries draw closer lower polling candidates sharping attacks on the frontrunners. Elizabeth warren rising in polls, Pete Buttigieg<\/a> and Amy Klobuchar<\/a> taking shots how shell pay for her medicare for all plan. Senator warren is known for being straightforward and was extremely evasive when asked that question. Its puzzling when Everybody Knows<\/a> the answer to that question of whether her plan and senator sanders plan will raise middle class taxes is yes. Why you wouldnt say so and explain why you think thats the better way forward. Tired of the extremes in our politics and tired of the noise and nonsense, you have a home with me. Weve be got a lot of great people running, but some of these ideas are better left in the College Faculty<\/a> lounge than right here at this port. Longtime frontrunner joe biden under phi before Bernie Sanders<\/a> from holding fundraisers with wealthy donors. Overwhelming overwhelming majority of our contributions comes from the working people of this country and im very proud of that. I contrast that with how my good friend Vice President<\/a> biden is raising money today. We are not going to make the changes that we need in this country when you go to three fundraisers in chicago sponsored by multimillionaires. And a cnn political commentary is with us. Pick up on what Bernie Sanders<\/a> said there. I get it on one hand. Where your money comes from says a lot about you. How much do voters really care whether the majority of your money is from a big donor or 10 here, 10 online . Right. What voters care about are you in bed with special interests that clearly are using their money to buy their own way through america . And to slight the little man, frankly . Or actually in bed with the people. The contrast all of this donor conversation is trying to make. When Bernie Sanders<\/a> or Elizabeth Warren<\/a> says look at me. All of these donors giving mes 20, all of these individual americans im fighting for is who im beholden to. Thats a real conversation. At some point joe biden is going to have to answer for the fact that a lot of his money is coming from the very corporations that are doing harm to communities. So when you are taking your money if and in deep conversations with and feeling beholden to people who are doing regular americans harm you have to figure how to navigate that. Elizabeth warren taking a lot of hits as we saw. Some, look, a lot of questions. Not answering that question how medicare for all will be paid for as buttigieg pointed out. Is she, though, in becoming a target, a sign might be good news for her campaign, right . Is this a sign the other candidates are getting worried . I imagine her campaign is really happy that people are coming for her, because the only time candidates really start to pick at someone is when theyre on the rise. Elizabeth warren has momentum in the race and had momentum several months now. Of all the candidates the om person surging. Everyone is staying flat or declining. Of course, the people especially those at the bottom, the ones scrambling, have the most to gain will try to topple the person with the most momentum. I am not a campaign megging strategist for any of these folks. One thing i would say is that at some point she has to actually answer the question. I would bet my money the way she answers that question is going to be to talk about, like, the devil in the details how great her plan is. Not sure that attacking her assaying you cant answer this particular question will derail the overall message why she thinks her plan is the best one. Take a quick listen to Kamala Harris<\/a>. Very little sleep last night trying to figure out where my sp sweaters and boots are because im packing to be here as much as i can. I cannot only be in iowa, because South Carolina<\/a> is also a state that is very important that i care about. You know it can be frustrating, frankly, to have to make shes decisions that feel like a trade justify but i plan on spending as much time as i can here. Her Campaign Manager<\/a> saying she needs to finish in the top three in iowa. A high bar. Doesnt reach it, is she done . They think that. Listen to them. Bold to put this out this early. Kamala harris has an authenticity challenge. Folks like her, see her perform but dont quite know who shes showing up as at any point in time. Takes off showing up as a tough prosecutor. We want to see her take down donald trump and prosecute the republicans. Shes got to be really in that. Because she hasnt been on the ground in iowa so much people havent been able to connect with her, touch her, feel her. Its smart shes doubling down on iowa. Interesting theyre putting it out there now saying shes got to be one, two, three. See what happens in february by their own mietmetrix. Thank you. We would like to honor this weeks cnn hero. 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On that call with selenski, president elect, President Trump<\/a> about eight times urged him to work with giuliani on a probe. Important to point out here, too, they say that there was not a mention of a provision of foreign aid on that cowl to our cain. Fascinating, though. Especially based wa we heard from the president today, when asked directly this morning, if he ask eed the ukrainian president , the president said it doesnt matter what i discussed. Does it matter if he discussed, perhaps, as many as eight times urging him to work with giuliani on a probe . Well, i think it depends on whether the house of certainly there will be people and Many Democrats<\/a> who believe that if this story turns out to be true and presumably a tape of this phone call exists, but if this is true, there will be people who will assert this was a classic abuse of power. That the president of the United States<\/a> is not supposed to use the Foreign Policy<\/a> of the United States<\/a> to advance his electoral prospects, is supposed to be using the power of the presidency to advance the nations prospects. And if he was using american Foreign Policy<\/a> for the sole benefit of his campaign, there will be certainly people who will claim that is an abuse of power. Is it a crime . I dont know. Its hard for me to conceive how that could be a criminal offense but it might be an impeachable offense. It certainly would not be a good look in many ways. That is an understatement, yeah. As we look at what we do know here, were still trying to piece together, were hearing Different Things<\/a> about the phone call. Initially in the readout there was no mention the u. S. Readout about the phone call of discussion about investigations into corruption but the ukrainian readout did mention that was part of the discussion and that is coming into question and hearing this it raises that to a new level. Reporter well, it does but it is important to point out there is no obligation on the part of the white house to have a complete or detailed readout of its the president s phone calls with foreign leaders. This administration has been particular particularly stingy in the detail recount but that is certainly something within the discretion of the white house. The issue here is the president s behavior, not the p. R. Strategy of the white house. The issue is is the president abusing his power if he is using the influence of the of the American Government<\/a> on foreign powers for the sole purpose of trying to get reelected. That is the issue here. And the first thing that, of course, Everyone Needs<\/a> to think about and be accurate is what was said in the phone call and the facts are going to matter a great deal. Indeed they do. Facts matter. Facts first. That is the most important thing. Jeffrey toobin, thank you. I want to point out to the wall street journal reporting the white house declined to comment and the Biden Campaign<\/a> did not response respond to its request to comment. Our coverage continues right after this short break. Ever since i started renting from national. Because national lets me lose the wait at the counter. And choose any car in the aisle. And i dont wait when i return, thanks to drop go. At national, i can lose the wait. And keep it off. Looking good, patrick. I know. vo go national. Go like a pro. Telescopic mascara by loreal. Length. Propels lashes up to 60 longer. The comb bristles precisely define. For legendary length and definition. Telescopic mascara by loreal paris. Youre worth it. This sunday night game of thrones poised to break its own record for the most emmy awards in a single year. The hbo show which is the Parent Company<\/a> with us here at cnn won ten awards at the creative emmys forecasting and costume. So if it wins three of the 14 total nominations it is up for this weekend, there you go. It is a clear favorite for many when it comes to the category of best drama. When we look at best comedy, veep is the frontrunner. Also hbo. Production on the final season had to be delayed while the star Julia Louis Dreyfus<\/a> underwent treatment for breast cancer. It is hard to believe friends sitcom turns 25. Everybody tuned in to watch ross and phoebe, chandler and joey drink coffee and songs about smelly cut and the hair cut. It ran for ten seasons. It is owned by Warner Brothers<\/a> and part of our Parent Company<\/a> and joining us now marna kaufman and david crane. It is a whirlwind for you over the past couple of weeks. It certainly has. It is overwhelming and quite wonderful. It is amazing. A show that has been off the air for 15 years and here we are. And here you are. And marna, what has surprised you most about some of the conversations sur rounding this anniversary . You know, i think what surprises me the most is that were discussing it at all. That were still here. That probably surprises me the most. And that and hearing the stories about people who learned english from watching the show. Thats pretty awesome. Wow david anything that has surprised you in terms of what youve heard over the last couple of weeks with this milestone . Just the number of younger people like people who were ten and 11 and 12 and who just discovered the show now, it is fantastic. You would think just the enormous cell phones would turn them off. But no. Its were very lucky. Maybe theyre intrigued by the people sitting together at a coffee shop instead of staring at their phones. Absolutely. I think there is a big element of that, where people it is aspirational. You have those kind of friends you could talk to. For me as a parent of nearly teenager, i hope they see that and get that you can have real conversations. So there are so many moments. Youve talked about your moments and the guest stars. Was there anybody who you really hoped would be a guest star on the show who said no . I dont think so. We never wrote for specific stars. We write characters and the casting people would come back and say so and so wants to do it and it was just a name you couldnt believe it. And so, no, we were always just thrilled and amazed at who did want to do it. I dont think there was ever a time we went after someone and didnt get them. And did people come to you and say, you know, i would be really great on this episode . Yes. Not all of them famous. Some family members. Some family members. Did you say yes to any family members . Actually, yes. My fath my father in an episode has one line. So that was pretty great. Thats fantastic. I love that. That is such a great moment. Im curious, as we look at all of this and i think back to different episodes that i watched and where i was watching them, im always curious, how much time did either one of you spend in coffee shops before writing this . Almost none. None. I dont think so. I think marta was driving past one in l. A. And went, oh, that would be a good place to have them hang out. Because seinfeld had their coffee shop and cheers had the beer so we needed someplace you hadnt seen before. It wasnt about us being in coffee houses when we were younger but we were part of a group of six people who lived in new york whose friends were family. And we sort of were drawing on that more than the caffeine. Which there was so much to relate to. At that point in my life, i could relate to that when your friends are your family. You said no need to do a reboot. People ask you about the where do you think the characters would be . Im curious there was so much attention on the rachel, do you feel like some of the guys were kind of robbed about the attention on their hair cuts . I dont did anyone worry about their hair . I dont think so. I cant remember any complaints from the guys about not having the rachel. For us, all that stuff, like the hair and the clothes and whatever, it was great but we were mostly trying to go okay, does everyone have enough jokes. And any squabbles about the number of jokes . No. Never. No. The cast was amazing. And amazingly democratic and supportive of each other and, no, there was never any of that. And they were true ensemble in the best sense of the word. Which is so great to hear. I remember an interview when it was wrapped in the last season talking about how hard it would be to say goodbye. And i think a lot of people could relate to that. It is great to have you with us. Thank you for coming back and chatting with us again and congratulations on 25 years. And heres to even more audiences picking it up in the next 25. Thank you. Thank you. And you could see more of their behind the scenes insight in cnn special report friends forever, 25 years of laughter tomorrow at 9 00. Thanks for joining us. The lead with jake tapper starts right now. So president said he doesnt know what the mystery whistleblower complaint is about but it is ridiculous and partisan and the person is a hack. The lead starts right now. Breaking news. Brandnew reporting in the wall street journal on the mystery explaining that President Trump<\/a> directly asked the ukrainian president eight times to investigate joe biden and his son. 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