Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Hi there. Im brooke baldwin. Youre watching cnn. Thank you for being with me today. All eyes on democrats who in different ways to pose a pla problem for President Trump staying in the white house. Joe biden and nancy pelosi. Joe biden is expected to speak as donald trump continues baseless accusations against joe biden and his son hunter in the ukraine. The comments come as sources tell cnn Speaker Pelosi is addressing a resolution to address the phone call with the ukrainian president , happening as calls for impeachment are
growing. Among them a group of moderate freshmen lawmakers in Swing Districts with all of National Security backgrounds. Well talk with one in a few moments. Speaker pelosi and biden are about to speak as President Trump gives yet another reason why he originally withheld millions in military aid from ukraine after that whistleblower complaint came to light. One day ago he cited corruption. And now hes pointing the blame at eu
And check out the modern ruhles podcast. Third episode drops today. Were talking feminism. Right now, our dear friend, katy tur. Im here. You know i have a Bernie Sanders Campaign Manager and im going to talk to them about how they feel about the surge. Shes peeling away the voters. Im going to guess theyre not that into it. Well see. Well see. They are, theyre proposing bigger and broader and deeper plans compared to what the other democrats are doing on everything from the wealth tax to the climates. Housing. Is that the way theyre going to make a difference. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Im katy tur. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west and 2 00 p. M. In the east and today, the dam is breaking on impeachment. At 2 30, joe biden will make his strongest statement yet on the trump ukraine controversy. Hell tell reporters if the president doesnt comply with investigatio investigations, congress has no choice but to impeach. At 4 00 p. M. , nancy pelosi is leading a mee meeting with her entir
Impeachment. Robin biro, appreciate you on the program. And this is breaking. We just found out Speaker Pelosi will speak at 5 p. M. Eastern right after that meeting with the democratic caucus. Stay tuned to fox. Dana fox news alert. Major developments expected this hour as democrats beat the drums on impeachment amid the ukraine controversy. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will make an announcement at 5 p. M. After meeting with other leaders this afternoon. Her office now says she will make the announcement at 5 p. M. But first shes set to take questions at a forum in washington. Well also hear from former Vice President joe biden this hour. Hes expected to say congress will have no choice, that the house will have to impeach if the president refuses to fully cooperate with all of their investigations. Hello, everyone. Join me for this wild ride. Im dana perino and this is the Daily Briefing. Complete coverage this hour. We start with chief White House Correspondent john roberts c
aides later on in the afternoon and asked them how did it go today? and the white house officials that responded back to the president said that they thought he had a great day when it comes to this hearing up on capitol hill. they don t see any damage done to the president after this first day of testimony. i will tell you, though, anderson, the talking points are shifting. white house official i spoke to this evening said that they were pleasantly surprised by the performance turned in by some of these gop lawmakers who were essentially saying, well, this was an attempted quid pro quo, it wasn t a quid pro quo, so, therefore, it s not impeachable. so, anderson, their talking points have shifted once again. they ve gone from saying there was no quid pro quo to, well, an attempted quid pro quo isn t that bad after all. that s not something that the president i mean, he says the call was perfect. that s right. he said a couple days ago i think it was that he didn t want people m
changing their strategy about whether there was a quid pro quo and now have this theory well, a quid pro quo isn t that big of a deal and not impeachable. aaron, what do we know about how sondland got to this point with his testimony? we do know this has not happened just overnight. in fact it s been a process here that obviously we saw bill taylor come in and directly contradict gordon sondland, who was one of the first witnesses to come in for the impeachment inquiry. then there was morrison and other national security officials, vindman who have come in. now we ve had four versus one really and sondland s recollection versus everyone since then. we know that one detail specifically was that this supplemental declaration was brought to the committee yesterday afternoon and over the course of last night and today they have added footnotes to his testimony and we got the product we got today. it really is a reversal on a