California, a federal judge in california gives a win to trumps attorneys arguing against the provisions that would have kept him off the ballot if he didnt turn over his tax returns. Congratulations to Harmeet Dhillon and her team. Shannon a fox news alert, state Department Inspector general heading to capitol hill with an urgent matter at hand, that news as mike pompeo arrived in italy. One of two countries along with australia at the heart of the investigation into the investigators. Democrats are turning up the heat on mike pompeo. Rudy giuliani and william barr. We will tell you what barr and the us attorney dura mater after, the academic epicenter of the counterintelligence russia probe. Giuliani calls him a deep state operative. Mueller had a different take. What do we know about the man
who has apparently vanished. Breaking news from overseas, dozens of protesters in court after he today meant to mark the anniversary of the communist takeover of china. A teenager shot. Hong kong police say he would be the one facing charges. The young leader of the prodemocracy movement joins us from hong kong with a message for america. We began with fox team coverage, Katherine Herridge with the Attorney General digging into, Mark Meredith with a closer look at hunter biden but we begin with Jillian Turner only developments in the democrats ukraine investigation. What are they up to tonight . Democrats are claiming mike pompeo is the fact witness to the Impeachment Inquiry. Using only at the moment, planning a Press Availability for tomorrow. Democrats demand he interfered with efforts to interview state Department Employees who may
have knowledge of the president s calls with ukrainian president volodymyr zelinsky. That is the subject of the whistleblower complaint. Mike pompeo was on the call. The letter to John Sullivan tonight, democrats say pompeo, quote, participated personally and that july 25th call. Of true he is now fact witness in the Impeachment Inquiry. This follows on fox news confirming a few hours ago the state Department Inspector general will speak to capitol hill employees tomorrow afternoon. According to reports that hearing comes at the, quote, urgent request of the Inspector General. All this as mike pompeo pushes back hard on democrats efforts to find out what he and his state Department Employees know about that now infamous ukraine call. Still up for grabs whether any of the diplomats subpoenaed will show up. Mike pompeo issuing a scathing
letter to the Committee Chairman making his resistance crystalclear. He writes im concerned with aspects of the Committee Request that can be understood only as an attempt to intimidate, bully and treat them properly the distinguished professionals of the department of state including several career fs ohs. The chairman wasted no time responding warning pompeo that since he was now known to beyond that call he officially is a witness. Any effort to intimidate witnesses or prevent them from talking with congress including state Department Employees is illegal and will constitute evidence of obstruction of the Impeachment Inquiry. Breaking tonight fox news confirms first voelker will go before the Committee Thursday and on friday the intelligence
community Inspector GeneralMichael Atkinson who himself will appear to talk about the whistleblower. Sources tell Fox News Members of that trio of committees could get their bite of the apple as early as next week, whistleblowers and talks to meet with them in person at a secret location outside capitol hill to protect his or her identity. Shannon it is almost impossible to get them in or out with somebody seeing them. Thank you for bringing us up to date. We will see, good to have you. The Trump Administration has agreed to sell ukraine 115 antitank missiles and two additional launchers according to two us officials who spoke to fox news. The subject of legal Arms Sales Ukraine has been part of the fury of the president s phone call to his ukrainian counterpart in july. The ukrainian leader referred to the javelin weapon specifically answer ukraine was ready to purchase more of them. The Trump Campaign setting a new
record for president ial fundraising. Along with the Republican National committee it raised 125 million in the last three months. Republicans crediting democratic attacks for sparing the record donations. To put things in perspective former President Obama and the dnc raised 70 million in the same time period eight years ago. Four democratic president ial candidates released their fundraising numbers so far, Bernie Sanders 25. 3 million, Pete Buttigieg 19. 1, Kamala Harris 11. 6 and cory booker, 6 million was william barr is a key figure in the investigation into the investigators. Katherine herridge tells us. Reporter keeping a low profile fox news is concerned william barr made two trips to italy, the most recent last friday with us attorney john durham who is leading the investigation into the origins of the fbi Russia Collusion case. Durum, who has a broad mandate got the assignment after bar testified in april about alleged improper surveillance of the Trump Campaign. Spying on a Political Campaign is a big deal. Im not suggesting those rules were violated but i think it is important to look at that. After the Special Counsel report and before the july 25th phone call with ukrainian leader donald trump told reporters he wanted barr to cast a wide net. I hope you look at australia and i hope he looks at ukraine. I hope he looks at everything because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country. In response to a letter obtained by fox news shows australians Us Ambassador contacted bar and offered help, Justice Department officials called the durham investigation proper adding the connecticut us attorney is gathering information from new resources including a number of Foreign Countries and the president introduced the Attorney General to appropriate officials. The Obama AdministrationAttorney General questioned the relevance of durums work when
he said the Inspector General is finalizing a more narrow report on alleged surveillance abuse targeting the trump team. The whole thing is highly unusual and to see how the president is involved in trying to help the Attorney General in that effort gives me pause. The longawaited report from Michael Horowitz into alleged surveillance abuse of the Trump Campaign is a moving target with witnesses and information pushing back. A source close to the process adjusted to fox news a timing of later this month. Joe biden hunter is at the center of the ukraine controversy, donald trump accusing the biden family of corruption of Business Dealings with ukrainian china. Mark meredith takes a closer look at hunter biden and how his professional and personal history could affect his fathers political future. My father joe biden. Hunter biden is no stranger to controversy, the focus these days is on a decision in 2014 to join the ukrainian natural gas company. Reporters asked the Obama Administration if it was a Conflict Of Interest for then Vice President biden. Hunter biden and other members of the biden family are private citizens. It does not reflect an endorsement by the administration or the Vice President. Hunter had some corporate experience, he served on the board of amtrak and launched a Consulting Firm but we asked kevin wally, biden supportive he could see why bidens work in ukraine could raise flags for some people. Im the first to say i dont think hunter it would be on this board of his life they were smith. Mainly because of the biden connection and the character he has become in terms of growing up as his father absent. Hunter accompanied his dad on at least one overseas trip to china in 2013. Last month now candidate biden denies any involvement in these affairs. Foxs Tucker Carlson painted this photo believed to be from 2014 showing the bidens on a golf course with a board member. Donald trumps Son Don Junior suggested on twitter the photo contradicts the former vps statement, and the attacks on hunter are unwarranted. He can take these attacks, the Vice President can take these attacks. Is the satisfaction of politics and what this president needs to do, he thinks, in order to win. Political pundits believe hunters public struggle with addiction and past Business Dealings remain an issue on the campaign trail. I like joe. I think hes a very fine man who served his country admirably but some of this is inextricable. The Biden Campaign did not respond to our requests for comment. Hunter no longer serves on the board. He told the new yorker he had no idea his time created so much grief for his dads campaign. As the Impeachment Inquirycontinues to take shape and put heat on his personal attorney, the Attorney General is doing plenty of investigating of his own. Pete king from new york, great to have you with us tonight. You have weighed in on the characterization of what william barr is up to and how things are portrayed in the media. I want to reuse something from Matthew Miller who used to be eric holders spokesperson at the doj under the Obama Administration and he says one thing about this investigation to personally oversee. What is the predicate . Theres never been a credible allegation that a crime was committed, your response . There was never a credible accusation by the trump organization, the Trump Campaign and get the Justice Department and jim comey began an investigation of the Trump Campaign. They are real issues as to why the fbi and cia were involved in the investigation of the trump
campaign, was this a coming together to have an investigation of the president ial campaign. When you look at carter page, or an Advisor Application in the steel dossier all of which were the genesis of the 2016 investigation by comey and all of them. To me it is a necessity. I have Great Respect for Attorney General william barr but i dont care who the Attorney General was he has an obligation to investigate what went on in 2016, why this investigation was started on the Trump Campaign, who was involved, was there any collusion among the intelligence agencies. This should never be repeated again. After two years of investigation it turns out there was nothing so why was it started in the first place. Katherine herridge is reporting the horwitz report, looking into the genesis of 5 applications has been pushed back because apparently there have been new witnesses and they continue to investigate, she is estimating a hearing at the end of the month. What will it tell us . I would hope sooner rather than later but the Inspector General has to make sure the reporters complete. If there is no information he has to pursue that. Keep in mind the Inspector Generals report as comprehensive as it might be cannot be fully comprehensive, the Inspector General can only investigate people who currently he cant draft former employees or draft the record so the horwitz report is very important but to me even more important is going to be what the Attorney General william barr confined and also john durham who is assigned as a point man on this. This ukraine call, the biden
family thrust into a number of questions. Here is how the Biden Campaign is responding to those. No evidence that he did anything wrong and yet he still hopes you guys will ask questions like that, that you will try to insinuate there is an optical issue, some kind of issue that wasnt there. This is the playbook he ran into thousand 16. We are not going to let them do it this time. They say theres no there there and to suggest otherwise is partisan and political. I like joe biden. I dont enjoy this investigation but i believe it is something that is necessary. When you have the son of the Vice President with no experience getting such a lucrative deal for himself and the Vice President was the point
man, investigating or going after corruption ukraine it raises real issues and i do now in the course of the last year this is to be checked out. A number of ukrainian officials have brought information to people in the United States including Rudy Giuliani which shows this investigation of hunter biden and the investigation was cut short, whether that turns out to be true or not that has to be fully investigated and the president has the right is Chief Executive Officer of this country whose job is to make sure money is being properly spent in ukraine and corruption is being routed out, find out what the involvement is, if there was a Conflict Of Interest for the former Vice President and his son. Not something i enjoy talking about but it is a reality and part of the job of this administration, any administration, whether hes a candidate for president is immaterial. He is a former Vice President that these allegations have been raised. Something the primary field has to address as well. Great to see you tonight. A win for the president of
california judge temporarily blocking a California Law attempting to force donald trump to release his tax returns and exchange for getting his name on the ballot in that state. That judge saying the law is likely unconstitutional and would create a Slippery Slope for more demands on the federal executive. Democrats Impeachment Inquiry is in full swing so why are the same lawmakers questioning William Barrs investigation into what sparked the russia probe . Trace gallagher, the one in the only on the case tonight next. At outback, steak oh no, its gone. Ck. Phew, its back with lobster mac cheese. Its gone again. Oh, its back with shrimp now steak lobster starting at only 15. 99. Hurry in before these three are gone again. Outback steakhouse. Changes our perspective, connects us, and pushes us further. The most inspiring minds, the most compelling stories audible. What are you doing back there, junior . Since were obviously lost, im rescheduling my Xfinity Customer Service appointment. Ah, relax. I got this. Which gps are you using anyway . A Little Something called instinct. Been using it for years. Yeah, thats what im afraid of. He knows exactly where were going. My whole body is a compass. Oh boy. The my account app makes todays Xfinity Customer Service simple, easy, awesome. Not my thing. Shannon we are learning more time but the Attorney Generals coordination with Foreign Governments as part of an we are learning more about the Attorney Generals coordination with Foreign Go