Happening around the world, and thats the fuel for me. As long as theyre going to keep going we have to keep going too. A source telling cnn President Trump pressured ukraines president to investigate joe bidens son. Here to discuss susan glasser, ryan lizza and michael isikoff. Good evening, one and all. I appreciate you joining us. Michael, were going to start with you. The wall street journal is saying the president pressured ukraines president about eight times in that call. Is this an abuse of power . If as reported, its certainly an abuse of office. The president is using his office as president of the United States to pressure a foreign leader to give him ammunition against a political opponent. I mean, its hard to find something, you know, quite as serious as that up to now. The question is, you know, its the the ball game is that transcript of the phone call. We can have press reports of it, we can have former officials describing it, but until we actually see the wording in t
Candidates are campaigning this afternoon. It really is quite a scene there. She has this entire exchange with biden to share with us. First, we have to say repeatedly, there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by either biden or his son. This has been deeply looked into by the media and others. But this latest chapter started just a few days ago when a whistle blower from the Intelligence Community filed a complaint about communications between President Trump and a foreign leader and then a source tells cnn that on a july 25th call with ukraines new president , President Trump pressed the ukrainian leader to investigate joe bidens son hunter. Yesterday we saw the former vp essentially dodge the question but today, jessica, not so much. Reporter yeah, alex, that is exactly right. Today he went right after President Trump in all of this and really hit right at the heart of it. And as you mentioned, there is absolutely no evidence any of these allegations are true. It has been looked into.
Release a trypsin of the conversation, nancy pelosi issued this Statement Today to all house members saying if the administration persists in block ing the complaint, quote, it will be entering a grave new chapter of lawlessness, unquote. Some democrats in congress now say impeachment may be their only option. If the administration refuses to make the contents of that call public. I dont know if the whistleblower complaint sh in the president is slishl withholding military aid at the same time he is trying to brow beat a foreign leader indoing something e liss it that is providing dirt during a president ial campaign, that may be the only remedy thats equal to the evil that conduct represents. Today, the president once again defended the call as perfect and denied trying to pressure the government in gaiting bidens son. We had a great conversation. The conversation i had was largely congratulatory. Was largely corruption all of the corruption taking place. Largely the fact that we dont
About how activities are happening nonstop around the country and world. Thats the fuel for me. So long as theyll keep going we have to keep going too. Well get to that this hour. First the big picture. President trump pressured ukraine president to investigate joe bidens son. Here to discuss, susan glasser. Ryan and michael isikoff. Ill start with you. The wall street journal is saying the president pressured ukraine president about eight times in the call. Is this an abuse of power . If as reported, it certainly an abuse of office. The president is using his office as president of the United States to pressure a foreign leader to give him ammunition against the political opponent. Its hard to find something quite as serious as that up to now. The question is, its the ball game is that transcript of the phone call. We can have press reports of it and former officials describe it. Until we see the wording in the transcript, im not sure thats needed to move the ball forward. So the ques