nancy wanted carinne to know about her lindsay, how nancy always knew where she was, how they were best friends. it was a speech she had heard before. >> it is typical with a lot of parents or family members when they report a missing person, sometimes they give you the idea that it is an idyllic family life because i think there's a fear if they don't paint a rosie picture of the person we won't be sympathetic and look for them. >> you're not going to work hard? >> we're not going to work hard and i think it was a bit of that with nancy. >> narrator: they were working the case. they brought in the usual suspects like the boyfriend. >> when you guys were dating, she wasn't dating anyone else to your knowledge? >> no. >> narrator: his name was matthew ramirez. they were on and off for a bit. >> when i went to her house thursday, she was like i want to break off. >> what was off was soon back on. lindsay and matt were back together in time for the weekend, but not in time to make plans for that friday night. >> i'm going to san diego with chris and everybody. you know, i'm like, have fun,

i've long thought it was never about the quantity of democrats for nancy pelosi. it was about the quality. and i don't mean good or bad democrats. i mean the type of democrat that was coming onboard here. and when we saw those seven centrist moderates in that op-ed in "the washington post" giving the speaker a heads-up, these are the majority makers. 43 seats flipped from republican to democrat in 2018. 21 of them the democrat won it by a margin of less than five percentage points and 14 of those were won by donald trump. they give the speaker's gavel in her hand. this discreet set of facts around the ukraine situation and that has been the shifting underneath the speaker's feet as to why she's in a different place now. >> and, dana, we know that she and president trump spoke this morning. she said at the atlantic conference a few hours ago, i think it was supposed to be about whether they can agree on any gun legislation. what have you learned about that conversation? >> we're just learning from sources the speaker told her caucus that she pressed the president,

and now, nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house. >> nancy: last tuesday, the adoption of the constitution on september 17th. sadly, on that

is that what nancy pelosi will say at 5:00? not the transformational leadership moment that we may see for nancy pelosi. joe biden understood this is the speaker's job. biden had to make a statement, it was presidential, he kept it clean but he was firm. we'll see if nancy pelosi goes further than joe biden. i suspect she will. >> and he brought the attention back to the whistleblower complaint, a resolution in the senate to have that turned over to its intended recipient, congress. this whistleblower, from my understanding, never wanted to be known. is washington still a place that can protect a whistleblower's identity? >> i would strongly believe this is going to leak pretty soon, especially if this whistleblower testifies, as i suspect they will, even though it's closed door testimony. what's most of the interesting about joe biden's comments that you just played, going back to neal's point, narrowly defining what this all about is. he talked about how this is an abuse of power, a national security threat, and how the presi

speaker just heard from nancy pelosi. she said the house would move forward on an impeachment process. she really emphasized the national security implications. this is important. we have had a lot of allegations against the president regarding his taxes, associates. it was important for the speaker to focus this on national security. she emphasized her intelligence background as a member of the intelligence committee she said she helped to write the whistleblower law. she knows what is in it and knows the director of national intelligence right now is not obeying the law by refusing to turn over the whistleblower complaint. david: that makes perfect sense except for one thing -- you said focus. we have six committees pursuing it. did she step away at the last moment? she could have named a special committee, judiciary takes the lead. she says we will let six committees go forward. that sounds not like a lot of focus. anna: excellent point. it goes to one of the questions we have had during this whole process. judiciary c

if you want to know what nancy pelosi is going to do tomorrow read what aoc tweets tonight, nancy pelosi is trying to appease the socialist wing of the party. they will be embarrassed when these transcript come out. i hope the american public wakes up. have we not learned what we went through the last two years? this stuff has to stop. it is making america weaker. heather: alexandria ocasio cortez tweeted, quote, at this point the bigger national scandal is in the president that lawbreaking behavior but the democratic party's refusal to impeach him for it. that was enough for pelosi to move the needle. donald trump sticking up for america during his speech to the united nations general assembly. >> wise leaders always put the good of their own people and their own country first. the future does not belong to globalists. the future belongs to patriots. heather: he has strong words for iran and china. here to break it down is vice president for foreign-policy at the heritage foundation james carrafanoh. let's begin with your overall thought on the address to the united nations yesterday. >

i want to go to nancy pelosi. she is talking about the impeachment right now. >> in fact admitted intervened on the quote, unquote biden issue? >> again, and he has referenced that. if that is the case, that the president of the united states would ask a foreign government to assist him in a political way, that would be wrong. >> would it be impeachable? [laughter] >> let me just say, that everything we've been doing up until now is about preserving that republic benjamin franklin said a republic if we can keep it. and he, and that means it is not a monarchy. we have a system of checks and balances in our constitution. three coequal branches of government to be a check on each other and that, that is a republic. it is a democracy. it is not a monarchy. the president, has said, article 2 says i can do whatever i want. that is in violation of the spirit of the constitution. our founders wanted to provide for, shall we say activities they might not engage in. they put up guard rails but they would never suspect a pre

why didn't nancy pelosi wait? why didn't democrats wait? why have these national security freshmen come out so strongly? because the president himself said that he had a phone call with a foreign leader in which he asked the foreign leader to intervene in an american election by looking at joe biden and his son. i mean, why wouldn't that be enough? >> right. i think pelosi has been quite explicit on her reasoning. she doesn't believe there needs to be some explicit or implicit quid pro quo. that would make the situation worse. she is saying that the mere fact the president of the united states, as gloria said, brought this up, has now acknowledged that he brought this up in a phone call with a foreign leader, essentially inviting and encouraging foreign interference in a u.s. owe lex, violating a citizen, hunter biden, his constitutional oath by using the powers of his office not for the public good but for his personal political gain. that itself issi impeachable. she is being shrewd drawing the line here and not playing the game the white

well this comes after months of caution from speaker nancy pelosi, she says the turning point. >>was president trump admitting to his discussion of former president biden with ukraine's president. she says his actions to date have seriously violated the constitution. therefore today. i'm announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. speaker of the house nancy pelosi finally pulled the trigger on tuesday announcing an official impeachment inquiry into president trump. the announcement comes after months of pressure and a whistleblower report cleaning president trump. preston ukraine's president in a july phone call to investigate former vice president joe biden and his son house minority leader kevin mccarthy of california push back. >>speaker pelosi happens to be the speaker of this house, but she does not speak for america when it comes to this issue with president trump also responded calling the move a which he tweeted such an important day the united nations so much work and so much success in the democrats purposely had to rui

and now, nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house. >> nancy: last tuesday, the adoption of the constitution on september 17th. sadly, on that day, the intelligence committee inspector general formally notified the congress that the administration is forbidding him from turning over a whistle-blower complaint. on constitution day. this is a violation of law. reports began to break calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election. this is a breach of his constitutional responsibility. the facts are these. the intelligence committee inspector general, who was appointed by president trump, determined that the complaints were incredible dominic. on thursday, the inspector general testified this was the house intelligence committee stated that the director of national intelligence blocked him from disclosing. this is a violation of law. the law is unequivocal. the dni director of national intelligence shall provide congress the full whistle-blower complaint. for more than 25 years, a search on the intelligence committee member, as a ranking member as part of for, even before i was a part

nancy pelosi is navigating among different factions in her caucus. there was a lot of criticism about chairman nadler's handling of the hearing regarding corey lewandowski. >> i also think this is a very select committee in many respects. the speaker in this case, or the leader, selects the people who are on this committee directly. and they're the cream of the crop in many respects, many of them former prosecutors themselves, people who know how to delve into these issues and ask the probing questions you need to ask. i do think yesterday they tended to focus too much on the process and not on the content and the context of the information itself and the evidence and the law breaking, quite frankly, that has taken place. i think they're going to move towards that. they had the director before them yesterday and maybe it was a little bit more of a process, you have to get beyond process and lay it out to the american people, the straw that broke the camel's back, what is it that makes this different. >> and it's national security. we're not talking a

nancy pelosi expected to speak at 5 p.m. today. she'll make a statement on impeachment after she makes with democrats. what sort of counter programming might we expect from this white house? >> reporter: well, rudy giuliani intimated in a tweet that he sent out earlier today that today was going to be all about iran, but that tomorrow they're going to roll out more evidence about joe biden. as to nancy pelosi, i don't expect that the speaker's office would say that she's going to make a statement about impeachment at 5:00, if it wasn't a statement that was going to be very, very significant. so we'll see. again, though, the president can talk all he want, but unless you see the transcript and unless that transcript doesn't contain anything, that might be his only form of defense. >> dana: john, i had one other question. i floated an idea -- let me get your take and i'll let you go. i think there is some reason to be against releasing this transcript. because precedent reasons and because the president has to have confidential discu

house speaker nancy pelosi said this was a last resort. she had conversations with president trump in which she said i'm not going in that direction, but what happened after the revelations of this phone call is that you did have a growing number of establishment democrats, not just progressives saying it is time to move toward an impeachment inquiry. and pelosi saw something needed to happen. the second piece of it, the political calculation, all of these conversations i have been having with white house and administration officials in the past several months about impeachment, a number of them saying i have been talking to allies that they're concerned about these, and we will see erratic behavior and erratic tweets. >> let's talk about nancy pelosi. the fantastic meeting, she made it clear that the democrats want to move quickly, strike while the iron is hot. >> democrats say they have so much of the evidence they need. the house speaker said that what president trump already admitted to, is an impeachable offense. to use her phrase, th

nancy pelosi was in cysistent. it gives you a sense how many democrats want it and the bow has been broken. >> good or bad politically doesn't equal the same as good or bad morally or good or bad for this country. kristin, thank you very much. there will be a lot of folks out there, ali velshi will argue with the democrats going forward, drawing a line, regardless what it does politically in 2020, drawing a clear line to say this is what we will not accept from a president in terms of that person's behavior, >> irrespective of outcome. the fortunes of the country don't rest on what's good for a political party, it rests on whether or not people are looking at the constitution and protecting it. so it is definitely an interesting development. the president talked about releasing an unredacted transcript of the conversation on the phone, but a lot of experts say it is the whistleblower complaint that's central to this thing and that's what -- don't get caught up in the idea that oh, the president is saying he will re

nancy pelosi we would be outraged. they should have impeached him. >> laura: a very interesting brew of quid pro quo. >> i don't even think she announced quid pro quo and i don't know what the crime is. the reality is, joe biden actually made a very well committed something called cranes, $1.5 billion from chinao years ago negotiating with china and you are feeling. >> laura: that will never happen. >> what do you mean it will never happen? >> laura: it was an apparent, it was an apparent -- >> china did not invest in their own challenged son with $1.5 billion. they bought the vice president of the united states and even if you are a democrat, you should be shocked by that. this political party is so corrupt, it stinks. when the biden corruption comes out, and we look how much money clint made up the secretary of state's office. look how much money carries stepson made in the same transaction. and who wasn't making money and the obama administration. >> laura: hold on because "the washington post" is come out tonight a

pelosi by nancy pelosi. this is david cicilline of rhode island, talking about thedam against impeachment, saying it is not breaking, it is broken. proud so many of my carrot legs are standing up dust colleagues are standing up to president trump's wanton abuse of power today. debbie dingell wrote -- this country is divided and we cannot -- after recent revelations i support and impeachment inquiry because we must follow the facts and hold the president accountable. it was about 30 democrats who have come out for impeachment who have not come out previously. this is justin amash saying, it is not about the transcript of a call. don't let president trump or republican officials distract you with a straw man. it's about his continuing abuse of the office of the presidency. we will show you a few more jordan, a close ally of president trump, republican from ohio. democrats have been trying to impeach the president since the beginning of this congress. michael collins testimony was a bust. john dean's testimony

house speaker nancy pelosi says that is what faces the nation tonight. right now as she stepped out and made this announcement just within the last hour. >> i'm announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. i'm directing our six

nancy: it does. alan: so, if the key is performing private insurance, how can we go about doing that? [laughter] alan: we saved the toughest for last. [laughter] nancy: well, the question of how you change a system when you have such a powerful economic investment, and how many people work in the private insurance industry, if we went, you know, tomorrow, to medicare for all as a single-payer government run system, how many people would be out of a job? one of the arguments for the system that i described was the high-paying employment that had produced in all the people that delivered the health care, as you probably know, are administrative costs for how we deliver health care are the highest in the universe, some of the. ,e invest less in the universe probably. we invest a huge part of our health care dollar in that management. we see it as ideologically superior because it is private , but we also like the economic benefit. changing that is really going to brokering oformous economic interests, s

you have pennsylvania live look at capitol hill where house speaker nancy pelosis is expected to announce a formal impeachment inquire for a president trump at any moment pl we'll bring it to you live .the. the team of reporters standing buy ammon javers traveling with the president live outside the u.n. but kim off with kick-off with ylan muy. >> a moment of truth that is how the speaker has been describing her decision to democratic lawmaker and speaking right now. >> last tuesday we observed the anniversary of the adoption of the constitution on september 17th sadly on that day, the intelligence community inspector general formally notified the congress the administration was foreboding him from turning over a whistleblower complaint. on constitution day. this is a violation of law shortly there after press reports began to break of a phone call by the president of the united states calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election this is a breach of his constitutional responsibilities. the facts are these. the intelligence community inspector general who was appointed by pres

i don't even think nancy pelosi believes in it. i think she is doing this simply to appease her base. and it's really sad for the americans in this country who want to see our leaders do something for the american people not sit on capitol hill and squabble back and forth. ainsley: not in favor of people eating red meat there is a study out of johns hopkins a vegetarian diet with dairy and eggs is actually worse for the environment than one meat meals per day. what are your thoughts? >> well, yes. they talk about a flex datarian eat once a day and. we have been eating meet in this country and this world since the beginning of time. to now say that we should stop eating meat because it's going to save the environment. how about ininstead the climate change activists stop riding on private planes and riding on yachts and black service cars to every single event. that would have appear bigger impact on our environment instead of cutting out an industry. ainsley: missing out. cheeseburger is most of our favorites. are you on no interru

it's going to hurtn nancy pelos. she is now going to put those 3g districts in either having to vote for impeachment in which case they're going to irritate their republicans constituents.orb arn hurts districts who are up for grabs. it hurts people like adam schiff and elizabeth warren. i was taken back at the rhetoric this past week. president trump has tried to get a foreign country involved in the american election. really? don't you remember what hillary clinton was trying to do? don't you think we're going to suddenly start seeing, it is so bad, if you think it is so bad for what the president did, you don't want a foreign country involved in our election, why didn't you criticize hillary clinton?that's exactly d to do. >> sean: that's selective moral outrage.feigned moral out. >> karl: and look, this is going to hurt them with swing voters for exactly that reason. american voters are going to look at this.this critical grout are up for grabs in this election are going to say, really? that's the best you can do

permanent gross to the economy so it would be a win for americans but that's also why you could see nancy pelosi not wanting to move forward because it's a win for americans and if it's a win for americans is also a win for president trump and sadly that is what is at issue with democrats and nancy pelosi and that is the reason why nancy pelosi would want to spike it right now and wait for after 2020 tonight present from that victory. by denying americans that victory as well which is that but that's where we are with politics. steve: what their ostensible reason for blocking it? >> i think it's the usual one. unions would like to stricter guarantees on jobs and environmental's would like stricter sides guarantees on environment the fact is nancy pelosi's majority rests on congressman from marginal districts that are very pro- trade and particularly pro- trade with american and she needs to start hearing from people like harley in orange county and lizzie in houston people whose elections depend on getting moderate republicans from pro- trade to pull the lever again and once she starts he

and nancy pelosi had held for precisely that reason. she felt it could backfire, look at what happened to bill clinton, of course. he is one of only two us presidents who have been on the receiving end of impeachment proceedings and after his impeachment was overturned by the senate his popularity skyrocketed and there is a fear on the democrats was part that trump cosmic supporters could use this to make him even more popular, going into the next year. —— trump‘s supporters. basically, putting their name behind impeachment proceedings, saying there was some sort of turn in opinion amongst the democrats on this one, that this was beyond the pale. and also something that they could explain, the democratic leadership, to the american people, unlike the recent russia probe stop david willis for us there. let‘s get some of the day‘s other news. officials in pakistani—administered kashmir say at least 22 people have been killed and hundreds injured in an earthquake. security forces have reached the areas worst affected, in and ar

what we saw wasohn lewis going pelosi.re nancy so she was following her caucus. this. of people were ready for >> phil, you cover president trump, day o in, day. when you read the whistle-blower complaint andaw how he had h an interaction with the ukrainian president,t,hat did it reveal t you about h he uses his power? >> it revealed a patrn of behavior in such granular dinail that whistle-blower complacot. it wasn't just the whistle-blower. it was corroborate based on the whistle-blower's ctacts within the government,t, other white house aides, other officials who werere alarmed by the presidents behavior, d it documented president who really sees himself as above the law. we havwe just hadwe ar two-y tional conversation about how it is illegal and improper for a presentr government official to seek help in a campaign from a foreign government or a foreign leader. and yet that's what the document shows president trump tried to doith his ukrainian counterpart. >> if that's what it shows, why did the white house chooseo relee a memo about the call? >> it's interesting t

nancy pelosi was in cysistent. it gives you a sense how many democrats want it and the bow has been broken. >> good or bad politically doesn't equal the same as good or bad morally or good or bad for this country. kristin, thank you very much. there will be a lot of folks out there, ali velshi will argue with the democrats going forward, drawing a line, regardless what it does politically in 2020, drawing a clear line to say this is what we will not accept from a president in terms of that person's behavior, >> irrespective of outcome. the fortunes of the country don't rest on what's good for a political party, it rests on whether or not people are looking at the constitution and protecting it. so it is definitely an interesting development. the

that is another obstacle for nancy pelosi to as a tape. tothe senate is not going impeach the president, it is another acquittal for him. we had some really interesting statements from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, not saying that he's ready to abandon ship right yet with the trump presidency. he criticized democrats for politicizing the process but he didn't exactly defend the president. it looks like mcconnell and some others are holding their fire for a find out what happened and what the whistleblower is alleging. somene: just to bring you breaking news, nike out with their earnings report and looked like it eat on most of the main metrics. stop closed at a record high back in july. a new record high. number, $.76 was the average estimate. the company coming in above estimates as well as on revenue. caroline: coming up, growing calls for resignation, this time in the u.k.. prime minister boris johnson remaining defiant. a defeat in his brexit strategy. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ caroline: in the united kingdom, growing calls

nancy pelosi never hinted that she wanted to be here. you asked nancy pelosi about impeachment. she would say it is not on the table, and it was never firmly on the table today, it very much is. you heard her today at 5:00 in that very somber address. she talked about the president, a violating of the law and she talked about the president betraying his oath of office, betraying his duty and to uphold national security. so this was a real big moment for her. there is a further test ahead of her, of course, can she bring this caucus together, right? there's been a lot of infighting and alexandria ocasio-cortez and some of the more liberal members of her caucus there. can she bring them together? can she bring other democrats across the country onboard because if you look at the polling on this and a lot of the democrats themselves haven't been for impeachment to this point and something like six and ten. so she's got a big job ahead of her in term was bringing the country along and messaging on impeachment and you talk about the democrats wanting this to happen expeditiously and

but those two i think thes are things nancy pelosi is watching. the thing that puts us in a different place, alisyn, and i've said this to you guys on this show for many months, it was never about the quantity of democrats in our caucus calling for impeachment. it was about the quality. were they the democrats from those districts that delivered her the majority? that flipped from republican to democrat? those people that wrote that op-ed in "the washington post." people close to pelosi's thinking. we're hearing new language open to impeachment from them. that's what makes today so significant and different. >> that's exactly right. that has changed. fundamentally changed. and it changes by the hour. we get more and more members coming out each hour saying they want to support the process. and we know from our reporting that nancy pelosi was on the phone last night using language she hasn't used before 37 it's out there. now something is fundamentally different. plus there are these open questions that people are being asked about whether or not t

they get that to nancy pelosi. in the afternoon, she finds out from the white house that they are going to release the transcripts. and then she schedules the 4:00 meeting and then she did the 5:00 statement. i'm just saying from the timing perspective, could nancy pelosi, the most powerful woman in government not have said thanks, guys, the seven of you, i hear you, they said they are going to release the transcript let's see what it says and then he wouldn't already be on the road to impeachment. >> juan: what happened with mueller? >> dana: nothing. >> juan: bill barr comes out and says no obstruction, no collusion. he steers the whole narrative and conversation in the country as a spin effort to protect donald trump. >> jesse: there wasn't any spin. >> juan: oh yeah there is evidence, they decided not to indict on the basis of the evidence or the contacts between the russians or they left open obstruction to the justice department because of a policy memo that said you can't indict a sitting president. >> katie

nancy pelosi should be outraged at chris murphy. they should have impeached him. >> laura: a very interesting brew of quid pro quo. >> i don't even think shey announced quid pro quo, and i don't know what the crime is. the reality is, joe bidennd actually may have very well committed something called crimes, $1.5 billion from china two years ago negotiating withcr negotiations. #*b. >> laura: they ever should have happened. it was an apparent -- >> china did not invest in their own challenged son with $1.5 billion. they bought the vice president of the united states and even if you are a democrat, you should be shocked by that. this political party is so corrupt, it stinks. when the biden corruption comes out, and we look how much moneyp clinton made off the secretary of state's office. look how much money kerrys stepson made in the same transaction. and who wasn't making money and the obama administration. >> laura: hold on because "the washington post" has a story out tonight and you are the focus, not a shocker. the whistle repor

that signals to me, i think, where nancy pelosi is going. i think romney has helped reassure maybe speaker pelosi that there is the possibility of republican support maybe in the house, and incidentally maybe in the senate. if you take romney's statement seriously, he's sort of saying maybe as a senate republican, he would vote to convict. suddenly if up have a couple more republicans even sound somewhat like that, the notion this is a purely partisan maneuver, that goes away. one final thing. i'm sorry i'm going on so long. i think the house republicans who served in the military or in the intelligence community, the seven democratic freshmen put out that op-ed earlier this evening that's very powerful. i got to think this will hurd, mike gallagher, mike fitzpatr k fitzpatrick, they've all shown streaks of independence from trump. at the moment, i've got to think they're thinking to themselves, maybe this is the moment for me to step up as well. >> maya, let's pick up on what bill just said because he raises -- if democrats unanimously in t

to take nancy pelosi's call to prayer seriously. i mean, it reminds me of a pyromaniac with a match in hand about to set fire to a building saying please pray with me that the damage i'm about to cause isn't too severe. i mean, if you're really sincere about that prayer, then put down the dang match. but nancy pelosi and the democrats can't put down the impeachment match. they know they couldn't beat anymore 2016 against hillary clinton -- in 2016 against hillary clinton, they're increasingly aware of the fact that they won't win against him in 2020, and impeachment is the only tool they have to get rid of donald trump, and the democrats don't care if they burn down and destroy this nation in the process. jedediah: pastor, the evangelical vote in this country is, obviously, a voting bloc that all candidates pay serious

nancy pelosi is going to speak at 5 p.m. any moment now joe biden will speak. thank you very much for joining us. >> shepard: calls for president trump to be impeached or growing and we expect an announcement on impeachment action of some kind from the house speaker this afternoon. we are also expecting to hear from joe biden sometime in the next half-hour. this comes after president trump admitted in a phone call with the newly elected president of the ukraine that he asked the ukraine to investigate his political rival and former vice president joe biden and his son. last hour the president tweeted that he has no unauthorized release of the full unredacted transcript of that conversation. he said we should get that tomorrow. days before that phone call, the president ordered withheld almost $400 million in military aid to the ukraine. money approved by congress to assist the ukraine and its ongoing conflict with russia. the top democrat in that congress, nancy pelosi, is set to meet with democrats an hour from now to chart the course ahead. she said she will

all right nancy nancy. hold your vote. if you're so worried, let's do this. let's see how far the radical democratic party is willing to take this political stunt. i say to the speaker, well, in name only, or to the call. i want every one of your democrats on the record. i dare you to do it. now, i'm sure the real speaker, that would be alexandria ocasio-cortez, will demand it. i also predict you are probably going to buckle, because you know your job's on the line, and you are not in control of your caucus at all. so let's get this on the record. let's see democratic lawmakers, you know, ones from oh, look right there, both all democratic lawmakers that won districts that donald trump won. let's get them on the record. do they have the courage to do that customer will they support impeachment over nothing? will they trash the will of their own constituents? will they continue to waste time, taxpayer money over deranged political folly that will go nowhere in the u.s. senate, and by the way, congressman, golden congressman maloney, congressman suzy lee and al

house speaker nancy pelosi launched an impeachment inquiry into president trump amid allegations he asked ukraine's leader to dig up dirt on joe biden. follow him down jordan this is our 0 live from doha coming up the french president meets the iranian leader for a 2nd time at the u.n. and not just him to begin talks with president trump. heading home to a political storm but his johnson cut short his visit to new york after the u.k.'s highest court ruled his suspension of parliament was unlawful. and family members of some thick terms of the 2737 backsplashes it's not boeing's compensation offer calling it a publicist stopped. us democrats are opening a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump of a claim he sought political help from ukraine house speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement after trump acknowledged a phone call with ukraine's president in which he discussed democratic presidential hopeful joe biden trump admitted to withholding aid to ukraine ahead of that call but denied using it as political leverage. the actions of the trump presidency reveal its dishonorable fa

and that's i'm sure what nancy pelosi has been mulling over for months and months. i think she was left with no choice today. >> wolf, for people out there that are used to hearing what many describe as noise coming from washington, the churn and the chaos of washington in the trump era, it is understandable that people are still saying i don't want to tune in. well, tune in because this is not noise. this is something that doesn't happen very often, it has only happened three times in history that the house of representatives has launched a formal impeachment inquiry, and even though there are very partisan times we are living in, for the speaker of the house who was reluctant to do this, and did make, given where we have been, a pretty fast change in her outcome and approach to do this is incredibly big. and the fact is given where the house democrats are, it is hard to see these six committees, particularly the house judiciary committee, not ending with arlt calls of impeachment and full house vote. >> jeffrey, weigh in. remember, her words are precise, nancy pel

nancy, where have you been? you're my mom's friend watching season four of "breaking bad" who says, i think this guy might be dealing meth. thanks to international viewers for joining us. for our u.s. viewers, early start, continues right now. >>> breaking overnight, the president himself ordered a hold on military aid to ukraine, days before pressuring the you yan koran president to investigate joe biden. how democrats meet behind closed doors as the talk of impeachment grows. >> is there a path to diplomacy? >>> and did the faa mislead congress on the boeing 737 max. they say the inspectors were underqualified. welcome to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. the strongest suggestion yet, that the president may have political motives when he pr pressured him to investigate joe biden's son. "the washington post" first to report this. >> a senior administration official says the president was mainly concerned about corruption and pushing europe to shoulder more of

it's good to have you with us we begin in the united states where house speaker nancy pelosi is making an announcement expected to be about impeachment proceedings against the u.s. president let's listen in point to my president trying to bring that the complaint is both an urgent concern and credible. and it's disclosure he went on to say relates to one of the most significant and important of the director of national intelligence is responsibility to the american people on thursday the inspector general testified before the house intelligence committee stating that the acting director of national intelligence blocks him from disclosing the whistleblower complaint this is a violation of law the law is unequivocal the d.n.i. is staffed for. it says the d.n.i. d.n.i. director of national intelligence shell provide congress the fall whistleblower complaint. for more than 25 years i've served on the intelligence committee as a member as the ranking member as part of the gang of 4 even before i was in the leadership i was there one when we created the office of the director of national int

house speaker nancy pelosi announced congress will start an official inquiry into a legit high crimes and misdemeanors the actions of the trump presidency reveal it dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office of our national security and to trail of the integrity of our election to president must be held to . no one is it the wrong. at the un brazil's president again refused to believe the facts about fires in the amazon saying the fate of the rain forest is personal business. and over ruled by the supreme court in a blow to british prime minister boris johnson all of the new judges agree that his move to suspend parliament was unlawful johnson vows the ruling will not get in the way of brett. and william blue cross welcome to the program only 2 presidents have been impeached in american history donald j. trump may become the 3rd after months of speculation nancy pelosi the democratic speaker of the house of representatives has announced her congressional committees will form an umbrella inquiry its goal to gather to gather the evidence necessary to impeach tru

no, nancy's aoc. she's smarter than aoc but dumber in this sense: she gave the united states senate every reason to say, you know what? we are not going to hold a trial based on what nancy pelosi decided and her violation of the history of america when it comes to impeachment. that's exactly what this senate should say. ed: by the way, when i asked mark questions, people mistake it on social media to think i'm fighting with hill. i'm a journalist. i'm going to press him on his opinions, which are very strong the, and that's fair game. this is a free country, and i think mark made a really important point right there because when he's talking about aoc and nancy pelosi, you teed it up perfectly, because shely cysted for months and months -- resists. president trump branded the democratic party as the aoc, the squad, that they were the real leaders of the democratic party, and many in the mainstream media laughed and said they're just these freshmen congresswomen. and mark levin pointed out, no, they ar

how does this play out now that nancy pelosi's opened a formal impeachment inquiry. six separate committee investigations will continue. from there a decision will be made on whether to draft articles of impeachment. with me someone very familiar with how the process works, guy smith. he served as special adviser to president clinton during his impeachment proceedings. good morning. >> good morning. >> thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> walk us through this. where does this go from here? >> where this goes from here are the six committees in the house now have even strengthened investigatory powers. the courts will pay more and closer and quicker attention to what is being unfolded. now, we also will see later today what's in this transcript. >> sure. >> the mueller report was amorphous. it was easy to spin. barr distorted it. what trump has admitted to and guilliani has already admitted to clearly violates a law, is clearly unethical, soliciting help from a foreign power is against the law. it is easy for people to understand. >> it is interesting

trump may become the 3rd after months of will she or won't she speculation nancy pelosi the speaker of the house of representatives has announced her congressional committees will form an umbrella inquiry it's goal gather the evidence necessary to impeach trump that is the 1st of a long and uncertain path to removing him from office pelosi grounded her decision in the us constitution. the actions taken to date by the president had seriously violated the constitution especially when the president has article 2 says i can do what ever i want the actions of the trump presidency reveal which dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his own with the office betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections therefore today announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and directing and 6 committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella and impeachment inquiry the president must be held accountable no one is above the law. so for more now let's bring in our washington correspondent oliver sa

>>house speaker nancy pelosi says the house is launching an official impeachment inquiry into president trump and the president is firing back calling the move a total witch hunt. thanks for joining us tonight, i'm ken wayne theresa stasi in for pam moore is speaker pelosi announced a formal inquiry after whistleblower report. >>claim that the president pressured a foreign government into looking into a political rival joining us tonight as bree jackson she is live in washington dc bria really amatic development today from the nation's capital. >>a dramatic development, but also a historic step as house speaker nancy pelosi made that announcement about the informal or that she's me about the formal impeachment and curry now this is a big difference from what we've seen in the past from nancy pelosi. she hesitated before to move forward with the impeachment inquiry, but after those a whistleblower allegations that president trump had contacted our talk to a c president of ukraine about investigating former vice president joe biden's son. pelosi. decided to move war with us and so we're s

democrats have made the argument nancy pelosi made it that enough is muff. this president is behaved in a way you cannot ignore and must kind of censure in the sternest way. impeachment inquiry. >> what happened so quickly. she said no she wasn't doing it. >> a couple things. she wasn't going to do it before the detail of the ukraine call. which is egregious. and doing that after he's been investigated for inviting a foreign power to meddle in an election. she saw her caucus moving. just in the last 24, 36 hours a bunch of freshman moderates said we think impeachment inquiry possibly impeachment is in order. i don't think she felt she could any longer stand in the way of the very passionate sentiments of people. >> interesting. the administration went to great lengths to shut this down. you know it. you have been reporting on it. the "new york times" reporting that they are in negotiations to allow the whistleblower to testify. why do you think the sudden change of course? >> i think clearly they were pressured in want sense they knew they didn't have much o

and tonight, we have news of a phone call between president trump and nancy pelosi. jon karl standing by. >>> the other major news this tuesday night, the tropical storm slamming puerto rico at this hour, and the new track. will this effect the east coast? >>> the stunning images in court today from that night the dallas police officer who claims she was tired and confused, when she entered the wrong apartment and killed the man she thought was an intruder. >>> tonight, the 40-foot narco sub intercepted by the u.s. coast guard, trying to sneak into the u.s. what was found inside. >>> and the horrific helicopter crash on new york city's east river. and tonight here, the transcripts. what the passengers in their final seconds said. one pang epassenger trapped in harness saying "how do i cut this?" >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us on a tuesday night. and we begin tonight with the rare and historic move in washington late today. house speaker nancy pelosi telling fellow democrats to follow the facts, she was before the cameras a short time ago, saying

democrats have made the argument nancy pelosi made it that enough is enough. this president is behaved in a way you cannot ignore and must kind of censure in the sternest way. impeachment inquiry. >> what happened so quickly. she said no she wasn't doing it. >> a couple things. she wasn't going to do it before the detail of the ukraine call. which is egregious. especially in the context of him doing that and doing that after he's been investigated for inviting a foreign power to meddle in an election. she saw her caucus moving. just in the last 24, 36 hours a bunch of freshman moderates said we think impeachment inquiry possibly impeachment is in order. i don't think she felt she could any longer stand in the way of the very passionate sentiments of people. >> interesting. the administration went to great lengths to shut this down. you know it. you have been reporting on it. the "new york times" reporting that they are in negotiations to allow the whistleblower to testify. why do you think the sudden change of course? >> i think clearly they were pressured in

nancy pelosi said that week after week as other democrats moved forward. we have to methodically be on a fact-finding miss, what we've didn't doing. she added now we have the facts and now we're ready. didn't seem to me there was much hidden language what we anticipate hearing from her in a couple of hours. this is a house speaker and a house democratic caucus that seems poised to begin a formal impeachment process here of the president of the united states. >> let me follow-up to that. if all things are a go, right? x and we hear that from her in the next two hours, what happens next, david? >> still in a marshalling the facts kind of moment. those has remember the 1998 process against president clinton and, again i think it's unclear. we have to wait to hear from speaker pelosi how she'll set up this process. what happened in judiciary? a select committee out of that? but there's going to be a gathering of the facts. witnesses. there are going to be hearings to put together, and why i think she also wasn't saying it's impeachable of an offense, ba you th

funny you mention it actually we're imminently expecting reaction from nancy pelosi as opposite number in the house of representatives we have a 2 minute warning about 2 minutes ago that the that the house minority speaker will be speaking very shortly in congress to give their reaction but as you can see from donald trump's tweet defiance and in fact the one from how to video ready to go he or she also tweeted a video which gave us the sort of augment that we can expect going forward which is if the democrats keep saying they can't beat me in 2020 their only alternative is to impeach me and it's basically a selection of bits culled from the news from the t.v. news of various democrats saying we'll go to impeach him by any means necessary blah blah blah one wonders presented al green saying you know if we don't impeach him he may win so this is the argument now this is a sign of the weakness of the democrats this is a sign that they can't beat me by fair means they want to subvert democracy with these which ones which they continue in even after what was seen as a bit of a bit of a dow

we have some big names including nancy pelosi's daughter christine. plus president trump's confidante chris ruddy is here. we have a surprise visit from the one, the only robert deniro. what a difference a week makes. extraordinary developments in the ukraine scandal. it's moving fast and now the impeachment inquiry is moving quickly as well. it has a lot of people wondering, has president trump finally met a story that he can't control? now right now he is watching fox news and rage tweeting, but new developments keep coming. house intel chairman adam schiff has just confirmed that in his words he expects the whistle-blower at the heart of this inquiry to testify, quote, very soon. i'm told by a reliable source nothing is set in stone yet. it may still take a while but there is progress. in journalism we oftentimes focus on what's next. what's about to happen? what's coming soon. in this story what has already happened is extraordinary. the information we learned this week from the phone call, from the call log, that is, and from the whistle-blower c

i don't think nancy pelosi is idiotic. i think she's good at politics. that's why she's the speaker of the house. so what is she thinking do you think? >> brit: i think she's thinking that she needs to be responsive to the needs of her caucus. look at what she did today. it was really quite clever if you think about it. did she have a vote in the house to conduct an impeachment inquiry? no. she did not. she simply announced one. how is that different from what her committee chairman, jerrold nadler did just ten days ago? he announced that they are going forward with an impeachment inquiry. as a matter of law and constitutional activity, the question tonight is, has anything really changed? is this an action or is this merely a gesture? my sense about it is that it's merely a gesture. she has continued to protect vulnerable members of her caucus from having to vote by going forward on impeachment. she just announced it. now, they might have to defend that, but they can go forward and say, "i didn't vote for this." the president is willing to put all the s