con congresswoman ilhan omar off the house foreign affairs committee. the lead starts right now. my leadership and voice will not be diminished, if i am not on this committee for one term. my voice will get louder and stronger. republicans key committee, b comments that omar has meat critical of israel. some using anti-semitic tropes. comments for which he has apologized or ones she retracted. the minnesota democrat and only muslim refugee in congress asks today, how might this look to the rest of the world? plus, a despicable act. a young new jersey politician shot to death just steps from her own home. was she targeted or was she a victim of random violence? but first, russia ramping up strikes against ukraine, with warnings of a larger offensive on the horizon. cnn is in one town hit more than 70 times in just one day. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. russia s renewed offensive against ukraine may already be beginning. that s the assessment of volodymyr ze
Murray, thanks to both of you. Thanks for watching our msnbc special. Find me on weeknights. Its the beet, 6 00 p. M. Eastern. It started as a 30minute phone call between two president s. It erupted into a fullscale scandal that now threatens to bring down donald trump. Today im 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. Theyve been trying to impeach me from the day i got elected. And you know what . They failed. Youve seen the headlines. Tonight well dive deep into the part of the story you havent 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 of the phone call released b
Wt is the full extent cleared away. Chuck rosenberg. Of the democrats prior senator mccains former coordination with the whistleblower, and who else did colleague, jeff flake, retired the whistleblower coordinate senator from arizona, surmised this effort with . That if a secret impeachment second, what is the full extent vote were held, 3035 of the of ukraines Election Meddling Senate republican members would against the Trump Campaign . Vote to impeach. And i thought how sad, how sad, and third, why did burisma hire that it takes a secret vote to hunter biden, and what did he do for them, and did his position make a courageous vote. Affect any u. S. Government actions under the obama it should be 3035 if they administration . These questions will remain believe thats the right thing to do. I know im sounding naive, but i outstanding because republicans were denied the right to call witnesses that know these remember being saddened by that. I feel the same way. Answers. What we will w
court, in your view, watering down federal corruption laws. you write, quote, the supreme court has shown recent penchant for gutting the ability of prosecutors to pursue elected officials even beyond the president. you go on to say the only way this can be solved is through congress. i should note that there is, and we ve talked about this, this bigger argument and idea whether it comes to former virginia governor bob mcconnell or current new jersey senator bob m menendez, what some people call the criminalization of politics. there s a lot of, you do this for me, i ll do this for you, without quid pro quos being annunciated what do you mean? for all the division on the supreme court, the one thing that they ve really been unanimous on the last several years is until narrowing down the scope of the corruption laws. we ve seen a series of decisions out of the supreme court that have made it all but impossible for federal prosecutors to bring corruption charges. in fact, since this
immunity in a civil lawsuit over the death of journalist jamaal khashoggi . biden, of course, once referred to the crown prince as his murderer and vowed to treat saudi arabia like a pariah state. ashoggi. to treabut now he s moy to offer federal us immunity. of and when youfe look at that atta the exacmet same date the day after opec plus led by saudi arabia, all of a sudden they re reconsidering an oil output increase. e i m sure just a merence. coincidence. now, biden offer biden offes munity, saudiid arabia pumps more oil. maybe it s a quid in a pro to quote joe again. anyway, adam schiff and eric swalwell, where are you guys? swalwell, where are you guys? that s right. your deep concern surrounding so-called quid pro quos, that was a giant fraud. pro , just like the left steria. climate change hysteria. now, think about thi s in think about thi the name of saving motherth earth, beautiful mother earth mot. , beautiful mother earth biden shut down the keystone xl pipeline, restrict