Democrats battle to take back the white house . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I am wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. We are following major breaking news. House democrats drop the hammer, launching a formal Impeachment Inquiry as the outrage over the president s ukraine phone call reaches critical mass. Nancy pelosi making the announcement awhile ago, accusing President Trump of betraying the nation by asking ukraine to help them hurt his potential 2020 opponent, joe biden. Tonight, the president is firing back in familiar fashion, calling the impeachment probe a witch hunt. He failed trying to calm the controversy by releasing transcripts of a phone call tomorrow. All this as the person behind the whistleblower complaint that
set the scandal in motion wants to speak directly with congress. The House Intelligence Committee chairman says that could happen as soon as this week. Our correspondents, analysts, guests are standing biy as w
why donald trump sent this tweet out yesterday. ainsley: this was the president s tweet the big deal whistleblower had a professional tie to 2020 democrat candidate. washington examiner byron york, in other words, was working with someone who was potentially running against me. why wasn t this reported by the icig, a witch-hunt scam. brian: it was mentioned but they still said it was enough to move it forward. ainsley: they said he was a registered democrat. his attorney said give me break. come on he is just a democrat. then if you read this article it talks about how the ig found out the whistleblower worked for a democrat. steve: sounds as if that revelation came up in closed door testimony on friday. ainsley: correct. steve: byron talked to some people off the record. ainsley: they had a professional relationship. steve: apparently there is a connection. whoever the person is working with wants to take donald trump s job. brian: also keep your eye on the courts for this. the judge
witch hunt garbage. so bad for our country. can you believe this? they never saw the transcript of the phoneaw call. a total witch hunt. presidential harassment. secretary of state receiveden permission from ukraine to release the transcript of the telephone call i had with their it president. they toept know either what the big deal is. a total witch hunt scam by the democrats. here s thehe president yesterda. our country is doing the best it s ever urdone. they are going to lose the election. they figured this never happened where we re in the election. and if she does that, they all say it s a positive for me from the election. and they wonder why they don t get gun legislation done or drug prices lowered. because all they do is talk nonse nonsense. and other countries look today with iraq and other countries during the day. as details to use leverage
transcript of the telephone call i had with their president. they don t know either what the big deal is. a total witch hunt scam by the democrats. that s what the president tweeted. but it is interesting, alex marquardt is reporting from the u.n. is saying aid for investigation of the bidens. zelensky responded his conversations with the president are private and confidential and when secretary of defense if do you remember a time the white house releases transcripts of these conversations with world leaders? at the state department we deputy do that as well, you want to protect confidentiality of discussions.