Announcement late today, u. S. Is sending a modest force, several hundred men and women in uniform along with armaments to saudi arabia in response to the attack on the nations oil installations, costing them 5 to 6 of their total output. Then theres the main topic, whatever the president said during a phone call with the leader of ukraine that was troubling enough to cause a whistle blower complaint to go up the chain of command in the intelligence community. The wall street journal first to report that in a july phone call, trump repeatedly pressured the president of ukraine to investigate joe bidens son asking eight times for him to work with Rudy Giuliani on the inquiry that could damage his chief democratic opponent ultimately. The Associated Press has matched the reporting on the phone call in a piece cowritten by jonathan la mere standing by to join us. Trump was asked about the new revelation. Its a ridiculous story. Its a partisan whistle blower. They shouldnt even have inform
relationship with his two sons was very personal for him. and frankly, i think they were afraid to raise it with him. so, they largely kept it to themselves as far as i could tell except for one state department official which raised it shortly before a newspaper published a story detailing this relationship that hunter had with them. and it was a head s up given to joe biden in case he was asked questions about it during a visit to key vef. i m sorry to ask you to come to a judgment, but in your view do you think we ll hear from hunter baden before this is over? i don t know. i would say that hunter doesn t really think that there s anything wrong with what he did. you know, many people at the state department who were working on ukraine thought that it was very problematic because here we were, joe biden in particular, taking the lead