2020 candidate. We expect President Trump will address the impeachment inquiry and the memo of his july phone call with the president of ukraine. Thank you for watching. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace begins right now. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york where we are moments away from the first president ial press Conference Since House Speaker Nancy Pelosis announcement that she would begin Impeachment Proceedings into donald trump. And, donald trump, if youre listening, everything you say may be used against you in the court of public opinion. Donald trump manifesting his own destiny in terms of the Impeachment Proceedings now underway in congress by attempting to run a political Hit Job Operation on joe biden and his son by asking a foreign leader to investigate them. The white house revealing in notes today from the president s call with the president of ukraine that trump pushed the leader of a foreign country to work with his personal attorney
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sitting next to zelensky earlier today ten minutes of my life i ll never get back. but one thing he did say and it caught my ear and i wonder if it caught yours was he urged zelensky to work things out with putin to make it right with him to work together with putin. how much are we once again watching our president, america s president, do the bidding of vladimir putin? yeah. we talk about rudy being a possible emissary for the state department. i think it looks like trump is acting as some kind of go-between between putin and ukraine and wants to try to, quote, work this out. there is a whole counter intelligence underside to this that just people need to understand. the whole world listens to each other. there is this secret side of intercepts and intelligence work. and so i keep reminding people it wasn t just the president of ukraine and the president of the united states on this call. rest assured that vladimir putin
who s said, look, privately they said to the white house we need to see these notes, they need to see this transcript. other republicans were telling the white house don t move on this. you re going to set a precedent for the office of the presidency that s unhelpful for not only you but future presidents. and the so there was another fight yesterday after the lunch, this is the right thing to do and they wanted to try to get ahead of it in their own view even if it did not fully exonerate president trump in any way even in the view of most republicans. so ashley parker, donald trump read the mueller report and we re pretty sure he didn t here where i sit and thought it totally exonerated him. tell he how this transcript does anything resembling that. this is president zelensky the leader of ukraine who donald trump asked to investigate joe biden and his son. he says to the president, i would also like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense. we are ready to cont
colleagues reveal in their report in significant tensions inside of this administration about how to proceed. there are attentions about whether to release that transcript or not earlier today. whether to release the whistle-blower complaint to the committees. this is a fight at almost every level. bob costa, what are you hearing about the strategy behind releasing the white house version of notes from the call with zelensky that doesn t amount to anything close to an exoneration of the conduct in question. if anything, it s back to the mueller report where donald trump and rudy giuliani believe that by constantly hurling mud into the media landscape by appearing on fox news they can muddy things up. that doesn t seem to be working as well with the ukraine scandal. here s what happened. the white house officials there weren t eager to release these transcript notes at all. but they were under pressure from some senate republican
that he threatened to quit saying, quote, i ve never quit anything in my life, and i m not going to start now. but the reporting raises the stakes for his testimony tore up on capitol hill where he may be asked to testify under oath about any clashes he s had with the white house. that breaking news coming in the wake of a cascade of bombass from the president himself today. donald trump s communication strategy amounts to whatever the opposite of surgical is. he came in like a wrecking ball this afternoon sitting alongside the foreign leader in question ukrainian president zelensky. railing against hillary clinton and her emails and seeking to relitigate the origins of the russia investigation. the breaking news around the president and ukraine is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. with us from washington post, which is on fire, national political reporter robert costa and white house reporter ashley parker. former assistant director for