rudolph giuliani is the president's political hitman. in an official conversation with the president of ukraine, he directed the ukrainian president to have a follow-up conversation with giuliani as part of the effort to dig up dirt on joe biden. full stop. that is lawless. that undermines our national security. that's an abuse of power. that's unpatriotic. that undermines the electrode process and our democracy. the american people will not stand for it. >> i would like to add, the crime is with the quid. it is for something -- something for something. the crime is when you ask for that favor. when you inject politics into foreign policy. as the chairman said, we have just received this unclassified transcript from the white house. the initial reading shows that, not only was rudolph giuliani brought in, but the department of justice, attorney general barr, exactly the crime that we were concerned about. blurring those lines between the political, our national security, and the official role of the president of the united states. >> giv

rudolph giuliani is the president's political hitman. and in an official conversation with the president of ukraine, he directed the ukrainian president to have a follow-up conversation with giuliani as part of the effort to dig up dirt on joe biden, period, full stop. that is lawless. that undermines our national security. that's an abuse of power. that's unpatriotic. that undermines the electoral process and our democracy and the american people will not stand for it. ms. clark: i'd just like to add that the crime is with the quid. it's something for something, quid pro quo, but the crime is when you ask for that favor, when you inject politics into foreign policy, and the fact that, you know, as the chairman said, we have just received this unclassified transcript from the white house, but the initial reading shows that not only was rudolph giuliani brought in, but the department of justice, attorney general barr, exactly the crime that we were concerned about, blurring those lines between the political, our national security, and the

european rudolph giuliani is the hitman.t's political and in an official conversation of ukraine, ident ukraine, you directed the ukrainian president to have a follow-up conversation with giuliani as part of the effort to dig up dirt on joe biden, period, full stop. lawless. that undermines our national security. power.an abuse of that's unpatriotic. that undermines the electoral and our democracy and the american people will not stand for it. >> i'd just like to add that the crime is with the quid. for something, quid pro quo, but the crime is favor, u ask for that when you inject politics into foreign policy, and the fact as the chairman said, we have just received this from theied transcript white house, but the initial eading shows that not only was rudolph giuliani brought in, but justice, ment of attorney general barr, exactly the crime that we were concerned about, blurring those lines between the political, our and the security, official role of the president of the united states. reporter: given what you know about the transcript, is that alone to impeach the president? [indisc

>> got it. >> you heard rudolph giuliani say things like, it's full of hearsay. the hearsay that's critical are the words out of the president's mouth admitting to doing the act. previously, in the comey firing, he couldn't prevent himself from saying that i wanted to fire him to stop the investigation. we always have him as the worst witness against himself. combined with giuliani's statements, it is a powerful indictment of obstruction. we'll hide the telephone conversation. then its obstruction of the report to congress. yothds the director of national intelligence did so well. i thought today we saw him trying to shift. he on the one hand had conversations with the white house he should not have had. then barr has been imme indicated. >> we're going to leave this on the screen. some of the people that donald trump himself implicated. everybody remembers when he said ask michael cohen and he ended up in jail. what is the significance of the lawyers, giuliani and the lawyer for the united states? attorney general barr? >> in the case of lawyergate, there were l

rudolph giuliani is a central figure in this effort. attorney general barr appears to be involved as well. the whistle-blower notes there were -- they were not a direct witness to the events described, but that the details came to light over a period of some four months. they add this, quote, in the days following the phone call, i learned from multiple u.s. officials that senior white house officials had intervened to lock down all records of the phone call, especially official word-for-word transcript of the call. yesterday the white house released the notes from that conversation, which included trump telling the president of ukraine, quote, i would like you to do us a favor. that included an investigation of joe biden and his son hunter. the complaint released today corroborates that. the complaint also lays out rudolph giuliani's contacts with ukrainian officials about the bidens and says multiple u.s. officials were, quote, deeply concerned by what they viewed as mr. giuliani's circumvention of national security decision-making pr

giuliani's role president trump's private lawyer and the question was the secretary of state perhaps an accomplice to president wrongdoing the democrats are running a high risk with the impeachment inquiry but recent polls show a surge in support for the impeachment proceedings the strategy of the democrats is clear president trump's reputation and credibility can be severely damaged and that might decide the election in 2020 and in a related development u.s. media reporting that president trump's special representative to ukraine has resigned kurt volker was named in the whistleblower report on trump's phone call with ukraine's president as someone quote trying to contain the damage is scheduled to testify before congress on thursday and we've proposals for negotiations voting is underway in afghanistan for a presidential election that could mark a turning point for the country the islamist taliban have vowed to disrupt the election with attacks on polling places or won't warning voters to stay away from the polls more than 70000 soldiers and police have been deployed to protect vot

el presidente trump y su abogado rudolph giuliani, dijo que cuando era vicepresidente, biden arÓ una investigación a una empresa en ucrania, en la cual su hijo era miembro de la nt >> de declarar para los que saben interpretar el cÓdigo. tiene su cÓdigo, como el jefe de una familia mafiosa. lorrain: en otro momento de la llamada dice que nos gustarÍa que nos hicieron favor, porque nuestro paÍs ha pasado por. ucrania sabe bastante de eso. luego le pidiÓ ayuda para encontrar el servidor de computadora del comitÉ nacional demÓcrata que pirateo la inteligencia rusa antes de las elecciones de 2016. el presidente de ucrania respondiÓ al pedido de trump diciendo. >> quiero asegurarle que nos ser el caso y que trabajaremos en la investigaciÓn. lorrain: para trump, pro o compromiso no fue suficiente, insistiÓ en que su abogado rudolf giuliani y el fiscal william barr sean parte del proceso. les pidiÓ que llamen. dÍas antes de la llamada, trump retuvo el pago de $400,000,000 en ayuda a ucrania. el presidente ha dicho que no lo hizo para ponerle presiÓn al paÍs. ramÓn: el distri

giuliani to the ukraine to try and find out about joe biden's son so certainly this is not yet over but of crucial importance is that report by the whistleblower and whether it is released to the congress intelligence committee thank you very much mike mike hanna in washington. now tech giant google says it's willing to pitch in to help ease the housing crisis in island's capital rent prices are higher than ever in dublin with many blaming foreign investors and property developer as a driving up the costs from dublin art scene reports right at the site has been marked down here. like there before the location which is ideal for the modern workers these people are protesting outside the office of private equity company or to use their phrase a vulture fund these financial organizations buy property and evicted tenants who then say they're threatened with homelessness cutting a ribbon to celebrate sleeping in a tent is better a metaphor as you can possibly imagine it's generally gentrification of mass addictions where people are being forced out because not all middle income earners w

giuliani his personal lawyer to try and ferret out information with the office of the president of the united states on the phone to the president of ukraine with this money pending. military aid as well. so this is the soup of circumstance which the democrats are seizing upon which many says is just as is a bit too much right so we've also been hearing from u.s. house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff making some remarks about the the whistleblower complaint. right so i think we should remember also that it's not simply the alleged crime of using abusing the office of the presidency in order to get on your own your potential opponents from a foreign government but the fact of when the time to cover up this all began because we heard that a whistleblower in the intelligence community had heard accounts all for these conversations and was very concerned took these concerns to the inspector general who oversees the intelligence community who also decided ok there's something in this one seems like the general decides that he he he then gave it to the director of national intell

giuliani and members of the ukraine government. i'm sure we will hear more about kurt volker in the coming hours and days, but of course events are happening thick and fast, mike pompeo has been subpoenaed as part of this investigation? yes he has, and that is in regard to documents correspondence, e—mails and so on, about contacts between members of his staff and members of the government of the ukraine. mike pompeo has defied two previous deadlines to produce those documents, he now has one week in which to do so. david, these impeachment proceedings, how popular are they within the country, is there a lot of support, not much? traditionally there has been very little public support for impeachment, embers of the public tend to prefer their politicians to focus on more mundane but relevant topics, the economy, cost of things, healthcare and so on. but there was a poll released today which showed an increase in the number of people interested in impeachment proceedings against donald trump. and i think there is a feeling, certai

giuliani is a central figure in this effort and also attorney general william barr appears to be involved as well at this person also goes on to say that the white house officials who told me this information were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in this phone call so you know these are very damning words which we're hearing in this complaint which was filed on oldest 12 and as we heard in the report there at the acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire who took office just 4 days after this complaint was filed landed himself in a situation which was complicated to say the least and of course we're going to be hearing from i'm just keeping an eye on the screen there to see if he's coming in because we're waiting for his appearance in the next few minutes ok so no soliciting interference in the elections in 2020 a very serious challenge this investigation is a very explosive story in the u.s. what is the view of these developments in ukraine. seems a really really long way away all of this impeachment hype in washington here seen from kiev at least ordinary ukrainians

giuliani the former mayor of new york and personal lawyer to president trump so the net is somewhat tightening and if you watch president trump over the last few days and he's talked about this he seems to paraphrase him to be fairly low energy about this because the essential thing to remember is this is an issue that is far more understandable to the american public that it's an issue of quid pro quo did president trump withhold funds in return for dirt on his political rival that is the question that is now being addressed but as i said the investigation is getting wider and staff at the white house seem to be getting more nervous austria holds early general election on sunday and it's likely the center right former leaders sebastian kurtz could return to power in may he became the 1st chancellor in austria's modern history to be removed by a no confidence vote with more from vienna when it came. his people's party is riding high in the polls and his message is simple only he is fit to lead his country where a majority of the previous parliament had no confidence in him sebastien

giuliani to groom the incoming ukrainian administration to heed trump's calls investigate his political opponent and if you'll allow me to go through this timeline just a little bit in april is when the lewinsky won the presidency in ukraine 8 days later the u.s. ambassador to ukraine was mysteriously recalled according to the whistleblower who spoke with senior administration officials it was because that ambassador hadn't fully bought in to the idea of this investigation of joe biden and his son soon after that giuliani continued his face to face meetings with other leaders in the ukrainian presidency in the ministration and the whistleblower was led to believe that ukrainians thought that they had to play ball with this call to investigate bided and that the only way that selenski would receive a phone call or a meeting with trump was if he played ball with this request in june selenski was apparently still silent giuliani tweeted his unhappiness about that and in july that key decision by the president to temporarily withhold almost $400000000.00 in u.s. military aid to ukraine a fe

giuliani the former mayor of new york and personal lawyer to president trump so the net is somewhat tightening and if you watch president trump over the last few days when he's talked about this he seems to paraphrase him to be fairly low energy about this because the essential thing to remember is this is an issue that is far more understandable to the american public it's an issue of quid pro quo did president trump withhold funds in return for dirt on his political rival that is the question that is now being addressed but as i said the investigation is getting wider and staff at the white house seem to be getting more nervous austrians head to the polls on sunday for an early general election and it's likely the center right formulate a sebastian could it could return to power when it came as more from vienna. his people's party is riding high in the polls and his message is simple only he is fit to lead his country where a majority of the previous parliament had no confidence in him sebastien court says he has confidence in the voters you know how we did. recently the amount of

giuliani the former mayor of new york and personal lawyer to president trump so the net is somewhat tightening and if you watch president trump over the last few days when he's talked about this he seems to paraphrase him to be fairly low energy about this because the essential thing to remember is this is an issue that is far more understandable to the american public it's an issue of quid pro quo did president trump withhold funds in return for dirt on his political rival that is the question that is now being addressed but as i said the investigation is getting wider and staff at the white house seem to be getting more nervous. plenty most all to come in this news hour including chaos in the streets of haiti as a police station is targeted anti-government demonstrations planned. on dominic cain in the austrian parliament on sunday voters will elect new members to this chamber who form the next government. and if for their own ferarri iran has action from qualifying and the russian ground free. we have no shortage of lovely summer weather across the mediterranean at the moment lat

giuliani to the ukraine to try and find out about joe biden's son so certainly this is not yet over but of crucial importance is that report by the whistleblower and whether it is released to the congress intelligence committee thank you very much mike mike hanna in washington. now tech giant google says it's willing to pitch in to help ease the housing crisis and island's capital rent prices are higher than ever in dublin with many blaming foreign investors and property developer as a driving up the costs from dublin art scene reports right at the site has been marked down here on the pix site sorry for the location which is ideal for the modern where these people are protesting outside the office of private equity company or to use their phrase a vulture fund these financial organizations buy property and the victor tenants who then say they're threatened with homelessness cutting the ribbon to celebrate sleeping in a tent is better a metaphor as you can possibly imagine it's generally gentrification mass addictions where people are in for sale because not all middle income earner

and what rudolph giuliani is sort of avoiding answering in his answer to chris cuomo in the last hour. >> katelyn, indicatkaitlyn, we s a call between president trump and ukraine president. we don't know if that is what's involved in this promise. that's being reported. interesting differences in the read out between ukraine version and the white house version. what's going on? >> big differences. we're not sure how they fit into the allegation. if you look at the last time the president that we know of spoke with the ukrainian president, we got two very different readouts from the white house and from ukraine. the president's saying convinced the new ukrainian government will be able to quickly and improve the image of ukraine, which inhibited the interaction between the ukraine and the u.s. we should know the white house version was much shorter, only talking about improving the relationship between the united states and ukraine. and while we're still figuring out how they should fit into this allegation, because of statements like this, because of what president giuliani have been

rudolph giuliani, is a central figure in this effort." ( booing ) oooh, rudy better hire a lawyer, and for his sake, it better not be rudy giuliani. ( laughter ) rudy, evidentalyy, is at the center of this swirling corrupt-nado. the whistleblower says that as a "direct follow-up" to the president's call with mr. zelensky about the "cases" they had discussed, giuliani traveled to madrid to meet with one of zelensky's advisers, ah, yes, spain...whe everes for famous running of the bull-(bleep) ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) "i'm the one in the red bandanna." old blowy mcwhistler says that rudy's freelance diplomacy was so troubling that state department officials spoke to mr. giuliani in an attempt to "contain the damage" to u.s. national security. (as concerned official) "rudy, okay, we're here, this is an intervention to stop your foreign intervention. also, we've seen you on cable news. please tell us you have a drink drinking problem, because we don't-- and he's gone. rudy's shaping up to be the fall guy for this whole fiasco, because inside the white house, most have blamed gi

rudolph giuliani is a central figure in this effort, attorney general barr appears to be involved as well. the president insisting again today there was nothing wrong in his conversation with zelensky, said there was no quid pro quo, there was no pressure and that the wrong person is being investigated in all of this. listen here. >> that was a perfect call. but adam schiff doesn't talk about joe biden and his son walking away with millions of dollars from ukraine and then millions of dollars from china. he doesn't talk about joe biden firing a prosecutor. and if that prosecutor's not fired, he's not gonna give them money from the united states of america. the president yesterday of ukraine said there was no pressure put on him whatsoever, none whatsoever. and he said it loud and clear for the press. what these guys are doing, democrats are doing to this country, is a disgrace and it shouldn't be allowed. >> reporter: another string to pull on here in all of this, dana. new york times reporting this hour that the whistleblower was a cia agent detailed to the white house and has exten

amy: and the role of president trump's private attorney rudolph giuliani, who is going bacacand forth to ukraine, but saying he is doing this on behalf of the state department? bizarre -- i've never seen anything like this. it is truly bizarre. clearly unethical or illegal. i mean, i'mm wondering what laws covered his actions as a private citizen. it may be a violation of the neutrality act for a private citizen to engage in u.s. foreign policy. but that will be something that congress really should investigate, is whwhat the hell was rudy giuanani doing g and hw -- what role is he playingng and who is paying him?? where is h he getting his money from? is it donald trump himself or is it the u.s. government? amy: of coursese he's sang he is working on behalf of the state department. finally, president trump seeming to throw vice president pence under the bus as well as he is talking about these perfect and beautiful phone conversations he has had with the ukrainian president. he also says you should check out pence's as w well. >> the thing about donald trump, he lies about everything

rudolph giuliani, is a central figure in this effort. attorney general barr appears to be involved as well. so i want to go back to this call now because it says, quote, mr. giuliani is a highly respected man. he was the mayor of new york city, a great mayor, and i would like him to call you. i will ask him along with the attorney general. see the connection? and there is much more. the whistle-blower going on to say that according to the white house officials with direct knowledge of the call, the president in the course of pressing ukraine's leader on the bidens and dnc servers wanted him to, quote, meet or speak with two people the president named explicitly as his personal envoys on these matters, mr. giuliani and the attorney general william barr, to whom the president referred multiple times in tandem. be sure to refer to them multiple times. it says, quote, i will have mr. giuliani give you a call and i'll also have attorney general barr call and we will get to the bottom of it. and under the heading of the coverup is worse than t

giuliani, on digging up dirt on joe biden's son. the white house said the two presidents discussed strengthening the relationship without giving specifics. ukraine said they talked about the investigation of corruption cases which inhibited the interaction between ukraine and the usa. in may the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani, said he was going to ukraine to push the new president to investigate joe biden and his son's links to a gas company. he canceled the trip, but then in july went to madrid to meet with an aide to president zelensky to talk about biden. biden's son, hunter, had served on the board of a ukrainian gas company which ukraine's prosecutor general was supposed to be looking into. but in 2016, joe biden, as vice president, played a prominent role in getting the prosecutor fired because he had been ignoring corruption. biden joining other countries and groups in the widespread push to get ukraine to clean up its act. fast forward to 2019, and president trump, his lawyer, and many supporters pounced, accusing biden o

rudolph giuliani is a central figure in that effort, but giuliani isn't just a central figure in the effort. he's a central player in the nine-page complaint. >> he's all over the place talking with ukrainians in new york, going to places like warsaw and even planning a trip to ukraine that was eventually scrapped, trying to pull together information that could really help, he says, his client. >> reporter: according to the whistle-blower rudy giuliani met more than once with yuri lutsenko even before the new president zelensky took office this may. he had accused joe biden of trying to quash an investigation of a ukrainian company that biden's son hunter was involved with. there was just one problem with the accusation. >> it turns out not to be true. the investigation that the ukrainians supposedly stopped at biden's behest had actually stopped two years earlier. >> the investigation stopped ukrainian officials say, not because joe biden asked for it, but because there was no evidence and that prosecutor lutsenko walked back the allegations and that didn't stop giuliani from rabidl

rudolph giuliani, is a central figure in this effort. attorney general barr appears to be involved as well. so i want to go back to this call now, because it says, quote, mr. giuliani is a highly respected man. he was the mayor of new york city, a great mayor, and i would like him to call you. i will ask him to call you along with the attorney general. >>> see the connection? and there is much more. the whistle-blower going on to say that, according to white house officials with direct knowledge of the call, the president, in the course of pressing ukraine's leader on the bidens and dnc servers, wanted him to, quote, meet or speak with two people the president named explicitly as his personal envoys on these matters. mr. giuliani and the attorney general william barr. to whom the president referred multiple times in tandem. he surely referred to them multiple times. again, from the rough of that call, quote, i will have mr. giuliani give you a call and i am also going to have attorney general barr call and we will get to the bottom of it

in the past 35 minutes, we have learned they are subpoenaing information from rudolph giuliani and also closed-door depositions before the 15th of october from some of his associates. one of the most important thing this week as we are going to hear from house speaker nancy pelosi note press conference in the middle of the week, wednesday. she usually doesn't have a press conference in the middle of a recess but that will be different. the other big thing goes on away from capitol hill where some of these freshman democrats in districts that favor president trump are going to start having town hall meetings. kendra horn in oklahoma. susan wilde tomorrow in pennsylvania. max rose in new york city. he has a series of those coming up over the next couple days and that's where we are really going to start to learn how some of these freshman democrats in swing districts feel about impeachment and what their constituents were telling them. >> neil: you are amazing, thank you. chad pergram. congress is moving full speed ahead on this. not so much when it comes other issues that are rather time

giuliani not denying it, saying it is fine. it is hard to defend that. much easier to go back to the white house talking points which were, of course, mailed out to the democrats, as well as republicans last week. but to go back to those talking points or to try to discredit this whistle-blower, which still doesn't make sense. even if you discredit the whistle-blower that's like someone saying there was a bank robbery going on and calls the police and the police find the bank robber in the bank and the person who called the cops didn't see me. it doesn't make any sense if you have corroborating evidence else where. even if the attempts to discredit joe biden and his son, even if whatever they're claiming some wrongdoing that took place which has not been found. even if it had been found, what the president did would still be problematic. that doesn't exonerate him. it really isn't clear why they're going with this, other than they think they want to keep their supporters on their side and by discrediting the whistle-blower and

this comes as trump and former new york mayor rudolph giuliani are facing accusations they ran a shadow foreign policy in ukraine outside of normal channels. but on sunday, giuliani insisted secretary of state pompeo was aware of what was happening. meanwhile, the trump administration's special envoy for ukraine, kurt d. volker,r, s reresigned. more than 2 million people took to the streets in a massive global climate strike friday. from bangladesh to uganda to chile, demonstrators walked out of work or school totoemand world leaders act to solve the climate crisis. one million people protested throughout italy alone. in montreal, canada 600,000 , people joined the strike, including greta thunberg, the 16-year-old swedish climate activist who sparked the fridays for future movement. >> this week, world leaders all around the world -- from all aroundnd the wororld gathered iw actctionthe u.n. climamate summit. they disappointed us once again with their empty words and insufficientnt p plans. [applause] them to unite behind the science, but they did not listen. [boos]s] soso today, we are

giuliani the former mayor of new york and personal lawyer to president trump so the net is somewhat tightening and if you watch president trump over the last few days and he's talked about this he seems to paraphrase him to be fairly low energy about this because the essential thing to remember is this is an issue that is far more understandable to the american public it's an issue of quid pro quo did president trump withhold funds in return for dirt on his political rival that is the question that is now being addressed but as i said the investigation is getting wider and staff at the white house seem to be getting more nervous. australians head to the polls on sunday for an early general election and it's likely the center right former leader sebastian kurtz could return to power in may he became the 1st chancellor in austria as modern history to be removed by a no confidence vote dominic cain reports from vienna. his people's party is riding high in the polls and his message is simple only he is fit to lead his country where a majority of the previous parliament had no confidence

giuliani to explain the u.s. relationship with kiev. several officials described tense meetings on ukraine among national security officials at the white house leading up to the president's phone call on july 25th, sessions that led some participants to fear that trump and those close to him appeared prepared to use u.s. leverage with the new leader of ukraine forh trump's political gain. as those worries intensified, some senior officials worked behind the scenes to hold off a trump meeting or dahl with ukraine president out of concern that trump would use the conversation to press kiev for damaging information on trump's potential rival in the 2020 race, former vice president joe biden, and biden's son, hunter. here for our leadoff discussion on a tuesday night, robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post" and moderator of "washington week" on pbs. peter baker, co-author of the book "impeachment in american history." alexi mccayman and jeremy bash, a former chief counsel to the house inte

rudolph giuliani is a central figure in this effort. attorney general barr appears to be involved as well. though the whistle-blower concedes that he or she was not a direct witness to most of the events, quote, i found my colleagues' accounts of these events to be credible because in almost all cases multiple officials were counted fact patterns that were consistent with one another. a variety of information consistent with these private account has been reported publicly. in addition as you know the intelligence community's inspector general has already said the complaint has merit. and today the acting director of national intelligence, joseph maguire told members of the house intelligence committee he believes the whistle-blower is acting in good faith and following the law. it is important to establish that because the other part of the whistle-blower complaint on what became the july 25th call and others is so explosive. quoting again, white house officials told me that they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the elect

rudolph giuliani, is the central figure in this effort. >> this person says they heard from multiple u.s. officials that they were deeply concerned by what they viewed as mr. giuliani's circumvention of national security decision making processes to engage with ukrainian officials and relay messages back and forth between ukraine and the president. >> seth: amazing, they concocted an illegal scheme to extort the ukrainian government to help them win the 2020 election, and they chose as their go-between, rudy giuliani. [ laughter ] that's like if you planned a bank heist and made mr. magoo your getaway driver. [ laughter ] "magoo, where's the car? "car?! i thought we were using skis!" [ laughter and applause [ light laughter ] and then in the hearing this morning, the acting director of national intelligence, joseph maguire, was grilled about his handling of the whistle-blower complaint, and specifically giuliani's role in the scandal. and maguire said even he, an intelligence official at the highest levels of government, had no idea what rudy was doing. >> were you aware of his role

rudolph giuliani is a central figure in the effort. attorney general bill barr appears to be involved as well. one of the whistle-blower's biggest allegations is the white house tried to hide the records of the phone call between trump and zelensky. the whistle-blower wrote, white house officials told me that they were directed by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcripts from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored. instead the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system used to handle classified information of a sensitive nature. according to white house officials i spoke with, this was not the first time under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into this code-word level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information. the complaint goes on to say that multiple u.s. officials told me ukrainian leadership was led to believe that a phone call between the president and president zelensky

giuliani the former mayor of new york and personal lawyer to president trump so the net is somewhat tightening and if you watch president trump over the last few days when he's talked about this he seems to paraphrase him to be fairly low energy about this because the essential thing to remember is this is an issue that is far more understandable to the american public that it's an issue of quid pro quo did president trump withhold funds in return for dirt on his political rival that is the question that is now being addressed but as i said the investigation is getting wider and staff at the white house seem to be getting more nervous. austria is holding an early general election on sunday and there's likely the center right former leader kurtz could return to power in may he became the 1st chancellor in austria's modern history to be removed by a no confidence vote from vienna when it came as more. his people's party is riding high in the polls and his message is simple only he is fit to lead his country where a majority of the previous parliament had no confidence in him sebastien

quote the president's personal lawyer mr rudolph giuliani is a central figure in this effort and attorney general barr appears to be involved as well but buried in a footnote a couple of pages later a couple pages later whistleblower admits i do not know the extent to which if at all mr giuliani is directly coordinating his efforts on the ukraine with attorney general barr attorney general does know because he issued a statement yesterday saying there was no involvement. my point in all of this is again the transcript is the best evidence of what we have and so that the american people are very clear what that transcript relates his legal communications the united states is allowed to solicit help from my foreign government in an ongoing criminal investigation which is exactly what president dropped from did in that conversation so if the democrats are intent on impeaching the president for lawful conduct then be my guest i yield back thank you congressman reckless. mr heck. thank you mr chairman director thank you for being here sir thank you very much for your service i want to step bac

rudolph giuliani is an essential figure in this effort. attorney general barr appears to be involved as well. more than half a dozen u.s. officials have an warned me of various fact related to this effort. the information was relayed to me in the course of my official interagency business. tois routine for individuals share such individual touch information with one another -- information with one another. i was not a direct witness to most of the events described, however i found my colleagues recounts to be credible because they were consistent with one another. in a variety of information consistent with these private accounts has been reported publicly. i am deeply concerned the actions described below constitute a serious or flagrant visitation of, or law or executive order that does not include differences of opinions concerning public policy matters." that is on intelligence. house.gov, coming out less than half an hour before the hearing that will focus on how this was handled by the acting director of national intelligence, joseph

trump's discussions with ukrainians involve his allies, including his personal lawyer, rudolph giuliani who hope to persuade to investigate matters. mr. giuliani's efforts created the impression that the trump administration's willingness to back the ukrainian president was linked to his government's readiness to intern pursue investigations saw it by mr. trump's -- sought by president trump's allies. rudy giuliani was on several cable news programs last night. this is what he wrote on twitter, the democratic owned media is going crazy over the ukraine, but first let them report how vice president biden bribed the president of ukraine to fire the investigator investigating hillary. tweet aliani goes on to president telling a president elect of a well-known corrupt country, he better investigate corruption that affects the united states is doing his job. maybe if obama did that, the biden family would not have built millions from ukraine and billions from china. rudy giuliani on twitter last night. crystal in fargo, north dakota, you are next. good morning. so much fork you allowing all

according to the whistleblower's complaint, trump's personal lawyer rudolph giuliani spoke with secretary of officials including one -- seven officials including one to follow up on the call. >> what is the message the united states is sending to ukraine? >> reporter: what do you think it is? >> i think that it's the kind of knowledge with war with russia, but we just care about this investigation, but our internal politics. >> reporter: the resignation of envoy kurt volker has come as a shock. one official said it will be nearly impossible to fight russia without him. for "cbs this morning saturday," rocxanna saberi, kiev. >>> "washington post" national correspondent phillip bump joins us. good morning. >> good morning. >> a rough transcript of the call between the about the and the ukrainian president essentially showed trump telling him he would be hearing from attorney general william barr. what are the implications of that being that the justice department stood down on investigating the whistleblower account? >> right. i think there are a couple of concerns that have been raised abo

the washington post saying the push by trump and rudolph giuliani to influence the newly elected ukrainian leader reveals a president convinced of his own invincibility, willing and eager to wield the fast powers of the united states to taint the political cal foe and confident that no one can hold him back. tim o'brien's latest column, president trump decides laws are for the little people. has the dialed move on impeachment? senator chris coons is a democrat who sits on the foreign relations committee, supporter of vice president joe biden. we are awaiting comments from the president of the united states as he goes to houston. from the vantage you have on the senate foreign relations committee, what's been reported here that president trump reached out to ukraine's president to give him the authorization and encourage to do this kind of investigation, senator. >> well, david, good to be with you. i think we need to get to the bottom of this. first, it would be very easy for president trump to resolve some of this by promptly releasing the transcript of his call with ukrainian president z

rudolph giuliani, is a central figure in this effort, and attorney general barr appears to be involved as well. buried in a footnote a couple of pages later the whistle-blower admits, i do not know the extent to which, if at all, mr. giuliani is directly coordinating his efforts on the ukraine with attorney general barr. the attorney general does know because he issued a statement yesterday saying there was no involvement. my point in all of this is, again, the transcript is the best evidence of what we have, and so that the american people are very clear what that transcript relates is legal communications. the united states is allowed to solicit help from a foreign government in an ongoing criminal investigation which is exactly what president trump did in that conversation. so if the democrats are intent on impeaching the president for lawful conduct, then be my guest. i yield back. >> thank you, congressman. >> mr. heck. >> thank you, mr. chairman. director, thank you for being here, sir. thank you very much for your service. i want to step back a bit and put into perspective i thi

and now he's doing it again through his personal attorney are y rudolph giuliani who couldn't seem to stop himself from admitting it on television 30 seconds after denying it. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> no, actually -- >> you never asked fig about hunter biden, anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of how it was that the -- >> so you did ukraine to look into joe biden. >> of course i did. >> you just said you didn't. >> you want to some ridiculous charge that i did it -- well i'm proud of it. >> was dths trying to buy the 2020 election using military military aide as an incentive to pressure a country that remains under threat from russia which was so determined to control ukraine it invaded its territory and seized control of crimea and occupies it to this day. the "new york times" says questions have emerged about whether trump's inquiry into the biden was behind a week long white house hold on military aid from ukraine. the united states suspended the military aid to ukraine in early july. trump did

rudolph giuliani is a central figure in this effort and attorney general barr appears to be involved as well, but very did a footnote a couple of pages later, the whistleblower admits i do not know the extent to which if at all mr. giuliani is directly coordinating his efforts on the ukraine with attorney general barr. attorney general does, not because he issued a statement yesterday saying there was no involvement. my point in all of this is, again, the transcript is the best evidence of what we have. and so the american people are very clear what that transcript relates, legal communications, the united states is allowed to solicit help from a foreign government in an ongoing criminal investigation which is exactly what president trump did in that conversation. if the democrats are intent on impeaching the president for lawful conduct and be my guest, i yield back. >> thank you, congressman ratcliffe. >> mr. hack. >> thank you, mister chairman director. thank you for being here, sir. thank you very much for your service. i want to step back a little bit in kind of put it into a pe

rudolph giuliani, is a central figure in this effort, and attorney general barr appears to be involved as well." but a couple of pages later, the whistleblower admits, i don't know the extent to which, if at all, mr. giuliani is directly coordinating efforts on ukraine with attorney general barr. the attorney general does know, because he issued a statement saying there was no involvement. my point in all of this is again, the transcript is the best evidence of what we have. and so that the american people are clear what that transcript relates an illegal communications, the united states is allowed to solicit help from a foreign government in an ongoing criminal investigation, which is exactly what president trump did in that conversation. so if the democrats are intent on impeaching the president for lawful conduct, be my guest. i yield back. chairman schiff: thank you congressman ratcliffe. representative: thank you for being here, sir. thank you for your service. i want to step back and put in perspective what is at stake. yesterday the white house released the transcript of that j

rudolph giuliani has been conducting his shadow foreign policy political bribery operation behind closed doors. anyone paying attention knows he will eagerly do whatever he thinks he can get away with no matter how corrupt or treasonous. the troubling factor is the character of someone so lacking in any basic sense of right or wrong that they will step into a voting booth and pull the lever for a liar, sociopath, kana artist, fraud, and dental case who is so unfit he is a character -- caricature of himself. what about the character of someone who will hand america over to that? manipulate ane election with the help of the kremlin, for three years, he has been stealing credit for the economy and stock market, which have been in an upward trend for the past decade. he picked up the ball on the 98 yard line and claimed credit for the game. he lies every time he opens his mouth, like the lies he told at the u.n. yesterday about europe not contributive to the defense of the ukraine. it is not because he has to lie, he likes to live. host: do you plan on watching the president today in his pre

rudolph giuliani, is a central figure in this effort, and attorney general barr appears to be involved as well." but buried in a footnote a couple of pages later, the whistleblower admits, i don't know the extent to which, if at all, mr. giuliani is directly coordinating his efforts on ukraine with attorney general barr. the attorney general does know, because he issued a statement saying there was no involvement. my point in all of this is again, the transcript is the best evidence of what we have. and so that the american people are very clear what that transcript relates an illegal -- relates legal communications. the united states is allowed to solicit help from a foreign government in an ongoing criminal investigation, which is exactly what president trump did in that conversation. so if the democrats are intent on impeaching the president for lawful conduct, be my guest. i yield back. chairman schiff: thank you, congressman ratcliffe. representative: thank you for being here, sir. thank you very much for your service. i want to step back and put in to perspective what is at stake

rudolph giuliani, is a central figure in this effort, and attorney general barr appears to be involved as well." but a couple of pages later, the whistleblower admits, i don't know the extent to which, if at all, mr. giuliani is directly coordinating efforts on ukraine with attorney general barr. the attorney general does know, because he issued a statement saying there was no involvement. my point in all of this is again, the transcript is the best evidence of what we have. and so that the american people are clear what that transcript relates an illegal -- legal communications, the united states is allowed to solicit help from a foreign government in an ongoing criminal investigation, which is exactly what president trump did in that conversation. so if the democrats are intent on impeaching the president for lawful conduct, be my guest. i yield back. chairman schiff: thank you congressman ratcliffe. representative: thank you for being here, sir. thank you for your service. i want to step back and put in perspective what is at stake. yesterday the white house released the transcript

giuliani maligned. by releasing his juvenile records and turned out he was actually an altar boy who went to the same catholic school as the so-called mayor giuliani, whether it was john bell who was shot dead, 50 shots on the of his wedding or omar edwards who is an off-duty black police officer who was killed in harlem or of course if that was eric gardner who is killed for all the world to see unarmed and given the death sentence of selling loose cigarettes. thank you reverend sharpton in all his incidents unfortunately there was no measure of justice to the officer who engaged in the act resulting in the death of those individuals. what can be done to create a greater degree of accountability, recognizing that the majority of police officers are there to protect and serve with the best of intentions. but like any avenue of human endeavor in life there are bad apples, and when a bad apple engages in actions that result in the death of an individual, what can be done to make sure there's a greater deg