try one more time, he s going to lose some of your former colleagues who are more in the center. i got a text from one who said if one of those people get to gavel, i m out. let me ask you. i m sorry to interrupt. he keeps on giving concessions. he s i mean maybe some of them are good. i don t know. he s changing the rules. he s democratizing the process. he is making it easy for people to amend bills. beyond that, he s making his concessions and not picking up any votes. i m not a plugs. i th politician. i thought the whole poent is i give you this and then you give me the vote. he s giving away the store and they re still like thanks fbut o thanks. it s really difficult to negotiate with political terrorists, number one. no matter who gets elected whatever happens, we ll have a speaker name only. we ll have a spino.
this comes after the release of a rough transcript that shows mr. trump pushed ukraine s president to investigate joe biden, his possible 2020 poent. president trump denies he put pressure, slamming the impeachment inquiry as a hoax. saying they have damming evidence of a shocking abuse of presidential power. we have a team of correspondents, experts and guests standing by as we cover this major breaking story. first, let s go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. a huge day in the presidency, we heard from the president just a little while ago as lawmakers are learning even more about his ukraine phone call. reporter: it was a critical day, wolf, but the president dodged questions and released a fog of conspiracy theory, the president offered no apologies from seeking help of the ukrainian president in trying to dig up dirt on joe biden.
but here s the thing. the economy and the approval ratings are steady and two and a half years in. it s absolutely true. an it s one of the signs that we are at best a 51% country. and i mean that somewhat metaphorically. we don t have moments particularly of great common agreement about the kinds of political issues carol was just mentioning, the kind of economic issues of the day. we are i don t want to say inherently divided but close to it. we are always going to disagree. what s so fascinating is there has been this kind of economic oxygen that has given the president i believe the means to act the way he s acted. and at some point because the economy is to use it again an inherently cyclical thing, at some poent it is not going to hold.
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there s another special counsel investigation that we don t know about. that michael flynn is helping on three separate investigations. is there any information we ve learned about what that second investigation might be e? could that be an obstruction of justice investigation? it s too hard to say at this poent. we just don t can know exactly what that other tenderal of the investigation is. at the same time it s not surprising someone has proviewed information that as they re fond of saying, the evidence talks them where it takes them and the mandate is to investigate russian interference in the election. but if they come across evidence of a new crime they can and apparently will, pursue it. you say this is likely to go on a long time but when you look