night. just a few hours ago speaker of the house nancy pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into president donald trump saying his action in regard to ukraine marked a, quote, breach of his constitutional responsibilities. this week the president has admitted to asking the president of ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically. the action of the the actions of the trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president s betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections. therefore today i m announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. this is a huge escalation from a speaker that has been very, very, very reluctant to formally dive into impeachment. she has in some ways had very little choice as more than 40 and maybe more congressional democrats have come out in support of impeachment
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
total of trump s behavior, not just a phone call. also yahoo news reporting the 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 of 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 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.
things are moving very, very quickly. here s what has happened just since we were on the air last night. just a few hours ago speaker of the house nancy pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump saying his action in regard to ukraine marked a, quote, breach of his constitutional responsibilities. this week the president has admitted to asking the president of ukraine to take acs which would benefit him politically. the action of the the actions of the trump presidency revealed dishonorable fact of the president s bebetrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections. therefore today i m announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. this is a huge escalation from a speaker that has been very, very reluctant to formally dive into impeachment. she has in some ways had very little choice as more than 40