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2020 candidate. we expect president trump will address the impeachment inquiry and the memo of his july phone call with the president of ukraine. thank you for watching. deadline: white house with nicolle wallace begins right now. hi, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york where we are moments away from the first presidential press conference since house speaker nancy pelosi s announcement that she would begin impeachment proceedings into donald trump. and, donald trump, if you re listening, everything you say may be used against you in the court of public opinion. donald trump manifesting his own destiny in terms of the impeachment proceedings now underway in congress by attempting to run a political hit job operation on joe biden and his son by asking a foreign leader to investigate them. the white house revealing in notes today from the president s call with the president of ukraine that trump pushed the leader of a foreign country to work with his personal attorney rudy giu ....
including at the top of the hour. you mentioned his meeting with the leader of venezuela, this is one of several one on ones that the president has today. msnbc happens to be able to be in the room, interacting with the president. one of our team s producers is there. i ll be in the room for the meeting with the president and the leader of ukraine in just a bit. it is now 10:00 and we re going to get to breaking news. as this moment is trump administration is releasing what the president describes as the transcript of that phone call that launched the democrats impeachment investigation. what we now know, it was a 30-minute call with the president of ukraine two months ago. we ve got a team of reporters covering the story and let s get to julia at the justice department. what are we learning so far? we went over the transcript of the call and we also went over why the justice department is not going to release the whistle-blower complaint. what stood out to me about the trans ....
that a businessman would have knowledge is limited in any when he is about to sign a transaction. but if you go after his integrity, right, if you go check. and by that he clearly meant after his public service, if you go after his military record, that president trump was you re done. thinking about or had in front but chuck, isn t there a high stakes problem with that, for of him the possibility of providing security assistance to trump and the republicans to say, because then the next question is, okay, who does know ukraine. it was similar to writing a check to someone who you re what trump said? bolton and trump. about to send. he used that analogy very and they don t want those folks to come before congress. i absolutely agree. i m saying if there is a path to clearly to indicate that this try and point out that he has limited knowledge, that s the would be this would require path and it s a narrow one. something. if that person owed him does it ultimately work? no, it ....
murray, thanks to both of you. thanks for watching our msnbc special. find me on weeknights. it s the beet, 6:00 p.m. eastern. it started as a 30-minute phone call between two presidents. it erupted into a full-scale scandal that now threatens to bring down donald trump. today i m announcing the house of representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. our president sacrificed our national security and our constitution for his personal political benefit. they ve been trying to impeach me from the day i got elected. and you know what? they failed. you ve seen the headlines. tonight we ll dive deep into the part of the story you haven t heard. and key players will reveal for the first time what really happened. as we go on assignment. the conversation just after 9:00 a.m. on july 25th started out friendly. president donald j. trump calling his newly elected counterpart, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. this is from the official notes o ....
ambassador sondland says under oath there was no shadow. we re all bad apples, we re a whole pile of bad apples, that is a watergate tape with better sound quality. r knowing trump s behavior patterns, it has been especially in new york the loudest voice gets the biggest headline and gets to drown out the truth, a story, or cover something back. he has been the president of distraction and that has really been one of the biggest marks of this presidency in addition to being the president who is the president for themselves and not thees people. what is fascinating here is it is almost like he is going back to a play book that worked for him towo get elected. it has worked, so i think this is one of the differences with water gate. there was a time when we, the american public, were getting all of the same information. and inio a vastly different wor now we re not getting all of the same information about the facts that we should be. one thing the president is good at ....