himself in power. i was trying to make it clear that the charges against the president were completely false. rudy s done an incredible job of once again casting up a conspiracy theory that serves his purposes of creating a counternarrative. these are serious allegations and we need to do the fact finding and figure out exactly what did happen. announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. all right. good morning and welcome to your new day. it is friday, september 27th. it is 8:00 in the east. and this morning, we have learned that house speaker nancy pelosi wants to move quickly on impeachment, think fast track with passage of formal articles of impeachment as soon as this fall. everything now depends on two key questions. did the president of the united states pressure a foreign leader to investigate one of his political opponents. the answer to that is now in print. and did the white house move to cover it all up? cnn has learned that both the white
hen hen a fox news alert. a short time ago nancy pelosi was speaking at the new jersey state committee s annual conference. here is what she had to say about opening the impeachment inquiry. this is not a cause for any joy that we have to go down this path. it s a difficult decision to make. but we have that obligation. because. [applause] the actions that were taken that undermine the constitution and the oath we take to protect and defend. ed: speaker continuing her comments on all of this. that is the story for friday september 27th, 2019. the story always goes on i will see you bright and early in the morning fox & friends 6 a.m. eastern time. have a great night.
good morning, everyone. it is friday, september 27th. i m ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we begin with the fallout from the escalating impeachment inquiry of president trump. white house officials are scrambling to figure out their next steps for countering democrats impeachment push. one person close to the white house tells nbc news there appears to be a rising sense of anxiety, unease and concern inside the white house. that the whistleblower s allegations could seriously wound the president. one source familiar with the situation described to nbc a sense of total panic. all of this over the past week, to address this new reality. another person familiar with the discussion described the mood inside the white house as shell shocked. with increasing wariness that as the impeachment inquiry drags out, the likelihood increases that president trump could respond erratically and become quote unmanageable. according to washington post, trump s advisers are envisioning a s
barbara. i was privileged to sit down and have a couple drinks with him last year when i was giving the commencement speech. he told me all about writing that op-ed and his position on the iraq war, but also some crazy stories about ant a barbara in the 1970s, burning down the bank of america building and riots. he lived through, dare i say, some interesting tiles. we all remember yellow cake, the controversy that was involved in. whether you were talking to him in a bar or on tv, he was forthcoming and interesting to talk to and he will be missed. have yourself a good afternoon. it is friday, september 27th. over 2,000 miles away in washington, house democrats and president trump are in the middle of an historic fight over the impeachment inquiry.
republican controlled senate intelligence committee is launching its own crucially bipartisan inquiry requesting an interview with the whistle-blower as well. quote, no later than friday, september 27th, as in this friday. and then in an unexpected development and sort of a head scratching one we re still trying to parse, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, a man who s backed president trump at nearly every turn, allowed the republican-controlled senate to unanimously pass a resolution calling on the trump administration to release the whistle-blower complaint to congress. while the resolution is not binding the fact mcconnell actually allowed it to pass raises all sorts of questions about his continued willingness to go to the mat for trump or what his strategy is here. it s probably in light of all of this, all these developments. the president decided to try to make an omelet out of some broken eggs. he announced today he would be releasing the transcript of that very controvers