and russian allies can do in the short term to help zelinski? there's a lot of things economist like to say we could do in the long term, but what do you think we can actually do in the short term to help relieve some of this pressure that is on him? >> it's a good question. and it was just in kiev did not conclude the next assistance. helping zelinski -- he's got an impressive new government there. he's brought in entirely new people in the government. for better or worse, so it's a rather inexperienced government. but helping ukraine get across the finish line with the imf i think is one of the main short-term goals we should have together with them. redirecting the pressure so that zelinski does not feel europe and the united states are looking at our watches wondering and you're going to wrap up this conflict so we can get back to business as usual and focusing our attention more on moscow to bring about a resolution of it. helping him with the fight against corruption. this was one of his key tenants in his political platform to root out th

ambassador volcker met with president a lens key -- zelinski. there was no reference to a quid pro quo, or president zelinski having any idea there was a hold aid decree. makes no reference two a hold on aid or quid pro quo. the aid was getting released. guess what happened. aid got released. there was no new investigation created. this whole thing is a fairytale. adam schiff is misleading you and you are playing along with it. many of you are anemic and public is getting deceived. what adam schiff said that president trump was asking president zelinski to manufacture dirt on the bidens, investor volcker testified that was apple the untrue. that is what we call an inconvenient fact narrative. hem schiff has been saying had no contact with the whistleblower. he would like to but he did not have contact. he lied. when he gave his opening statement before the acting director of national intelligence as to what was what the transcript interview said -- going back to ambassador volcker's interview in the process, we were here ready to do our part. if

the next day ambassador volcker met with president zelinski. in that meeting there was no reference to a quid pro quo, or president zelinski having any idea there was a hold on aid. oh over the course of the next several weeks engaging with ukraine. ukraine makes no reference to a hold on aid or quid pro quo. by the way, yeah what else ambassador volcker testified to. the aid was getting released. it was going to get released. guess what happened. the aid got released. there was no new investigation that had to be created. this whole thing is a fairytale. adam schiff is misleading you and you are playing along with it. many of you are at the rec and public is being deceived. what adam schiff said that president trump was asking president zelinski to manufacture dirt on the bidens, investor volcker testified that was absolutely untrue. that is what we call an inconvenient fact for the narrative. adam schiff has been saying he had no contact with the whistleblower. he would like to but he did not have contact. he lied. you know what else he lied

we had the a between volodymyr zelinsky and trump, that is the main evidence of what went on here and what we have gone through for the last week or so our people's different characterizations and descriptions of it. what we're supposed to take away from that it seems to me is that you have to say either that it is perfect as the president says or that it is impeachable as democrats say and i think for the most part most sensible people look at this and say the president shouldn't leverage his control over american national security purely to do political research. what mainly was done here was the president asked another country to help with an ongoing justice department investigation which is appropriate, to the extent he also through the bidens and is probably something that was poor judgment to do and you could say it was not perfect but impeachable? they are not going to impeach him over that. shannon: we will get the transcript today, the ig is going out to testify behind closed doors tomorrow but in the meantime the wall street journal editorial board's headline is the whistleb

zelinsky has 77 or maybe it's less now i think is about 66 percent support of the people that's a lot you know it's quite alive percent voted for him yes and i don't understand now how it's possible when you have this public support that the street can rise up like it has when it well i'm starting to wonder when is it going to get to the point when the people say no we don't want another made because it's basically what the neo i guess called the nazis yes you can call the us that's basically what they're calling for there apparently there are there are reports that there's a threat and possible how did we get to this point because he you have to ask basic questions put to shame call came in as a centrist left i think is a much more nationalist right winger and we have zelinsky is very much a moderate i think his message resonated with the public so is he weak the institutions weak or both or is it just because there's a free fringe group out there that's trying to call the shots. last night. in february 2014 demonstrated the weakness of basic institutions of government in ukraine and

zelinsky has 77 or maybe it's less now i think is about 66 percent support of the people that's a lot you know it's quite alive percent voted for him and i don't understand now how it's possible when you have this love of public support that the street can rise up like it has when when i'm starting to wonder when is it going to get to the point when the people say no we don't want another made up because it's basically what the neo i guess called the nazis yes we're going to that's basically what they're calling for there apparently there are there are reports that there's a threat and possible how did we get to this point because he you have to ask basic questions put to shame call came in as a centrist left i think is a much more nationalist right winger and we have zelinsky is very much a moderate i think his message resonated with the public so is he weak the institutions weak or both or is it just because there's a fringe group out there that's trying to call the shots. the last. 2014 demonstrated the weakness of basic institutions of government in ukraine and the absence of any

zelinsky has 77 or maybe it's less now i think is about 66 percent support of the people that's a lot you know it's quite alive percent voted for him and i don't understand now how it's possible when you have this love of public support that the street can rise up like it has when when i'm starting to wonder when is it going to get to the point when the people say no we don't want another made because it's basically what the neo i guess called the nazis yes we're going to that's basically what they're calling for there apparently there are there are reports that there's a threat and possible how did we get to this point because he you have think of much more nationalist right winger and we have zelinsky is very much a moderate i think his message resonated with the public so is he weak the institutions weak or both or is it just because there's a fringe group out there that's trying to call the shots. the last. 2014 demonstrated the weakness of basic institutions of government in ukraine and the absence of any understanding of the concept of rule of law and that has persisted from the

zelinsky has 77 or maybe it's less now i think is about 66 percent support of the people that's a lot you know it's quite alive percent voted for him and i don't understand now how it's possible when you have this love of public support that the street can rise up like it has when when i'm starting to wonder when it's going to get to the point when the people say no we don't want another made because it's basically what the neo i guess called the nazis yes you can that's basically what they're calling for there apparently there are the reports that there's a threat and possible how did we get to this point because he you have to ask basic questions put to shame who came in as a centrist left i think is a much more nationalist right winger and we have zelinsky is very much a moderate i think his message resonated with the public so is he weak the institutions weak or both or is it just because there's a fringe group out there that's trying to call the shots. last night. in february 2014 demonstrated the weakness of basic institutions of government in ukraine and the absence of any unde

on page 2, volodymyr zelinsky says i like javelin missiles and the president says, talks about crowd checking ukraine to the question of confusion about whether ukraine is involved or not but that is the investigation the president is looking for. the president often goes on a different tangent than someone else is talking about. may be the president connecting these two and the question, was that inappropriate? we have read what was said and can judge the question. jillian: the president going off on his own, he did that yesterday, a lot of people argue about his call on china to investigate biden saying that. some people say this adds to our point what we were trying to get to the bottom of with ukraine but other people say shouldn't he be investigated if there is potentially something going on? doesn't mean he's trying to dig up dirt for the campaign. >> this goes back to the heart of the matter which is forget what was happening on private phone calls. ukraine on one hand, china on the other to investigate hunter biden for these alleged pieces of corruption. things that will look

zelinsky has 77 or maybe it's less now i think is about 66 percent support of the people that's a lot you know it's quite alive percent voted for him and i don't understand now how it's possible when you have this public support that the street can rise up like it has when when i'm starting to wonder when is it going to get to the point when the people say no we don't want another made because it's basically what the neo i guess called the nazis yes we're going to that's basically what they're calling for there apparently there are there are reports that there's a threat and possible how did we get to this point because he you have to ask basic questions put to shame call came in as a centrist left i think is a much more nationalist right winger and we have zelinsky is very much a moderate i think his message resonated with the public so is he weak the institutions weak or both or is it just because there's a free fringe group out there that's trying to call the shots. the last. in february 2014 demonstrated the weakness of basic institutions of government in ukraine and the absence o

he even mentioned it to president zelinski and the phone call. but it was not connected to the aid. that's where people got sidetracked at the press conference. chris: i believe that anyone listening to what you said in that briefing only one conclusion let's play we said. >> he also mentioned to me in the past the corruption related to the d&c server no question about it. but that is it and that's why we held up the money. >> funding will not flow unless investigation is a democrat server happen as well we did all the time of foreign-policy. chris: you were asked by jonathan was investigating democrat one of the conditions for holding up the aid was not part of the quid pro quo and you said it happens all the time. >> go back and watch what i said before. there was a long answer about corruption. chris: you totally said that. >> and then i said the exact same thing i said now which is yes, the reason that we held back the aid with the two reasons i mentioned. i can prove it to you. the aid flowed. once we satisfied ourselves that corruption was doing better with it and we got the i

diplomats that included conditions for potential white house visit for zelinski. hours before the july 25 phone call he wrote to an aide assuming that he convinces president trump he will now down a date first visit to washington. republicans and democrats were split on what they had to see. >> there was no quid pro quo. >> more evidence that he was improperly using his audience. >> he is expected to tell halsey pelosi that they will not recognize the impeachment inquiry until it is formalized with a vote on the house floor. cbs news back to you. >> because democrats are expecting that move they have drafted a subpoena demanding the hand of her documents about the ukraine. >>> stocks are looking to start the day in the green. another bay area company is announcing big job cuts ahead in this money watch report. >>> here's a live look outside before we had to break. this is that the hardly strictly bluegrass the van gogh. to harrison, the wine collection. to craig, this rock. i leave these things to my heirs, all 39 million of you, on one condition. that you do ever

volodymyr zelinsky would not get a meeting with donald trump. how is that not pressure? >> even if it is pressure it is different than what biden did. the purpose of questioning is to get a little investigation about a scandal at the highest level of the government, the washington press has been covering up for three years deliberately and about which they are going after me personally. they get me, the messenger. has been a crook for 30 years. let me explain to you about -- >> i want to ask you -- >> let me answer about volcker. internal texts, they reached out to me. i finished my investigation, they reached out to me, asked me to talk, did it on their direction and control, i reported back to them, discussed with them, their idea, not my idea. they asked my advice. i didn't tell them he must, he should, he must, i said i gave them my advice what would -- the corrupt ukrainian government that has been corrupt for a long time, that it was willing to root out corruption no matter who it hurt, without fear of favor, the way our agency should do but don't. we have a corrup

two months beerfore trump's call with president zelinsky where he made it clear he wanted ukrain to investigate the bidens and after the president's phone call with ukrain's it president in july, at least one national security official alerting white house lawyers who put the transcript in a highly classified and restricted serverer. that call was so disturbing to a white house official that they called it it crazy and frightening to the whistleblowerer who reported it. adding the white house aid was shaken. now despite the white house insisting they will not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry they are gearing up for it. sources te sources saying that they hired trey gowdy for an attorney. he met with mick mulvaney. erse >> huh. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst and cnn political analyst to talk about all of this crazy and frightening and now trey gowdy has made an entrance. remember the reprieve when they handed over a transcript and whistleblower can complaint and they said stone walling done full stop. is that going to stop the bleeding now? >> i don't think so. they're trying one too

zelinski. the wrong point to my view. ukrainians are fed up with corruption. zelinski was victorious in the ukrainian election because he campaigned against corruption. there are concerns, as i mentioned, about, about certain individuals and their ability to influence decisions. the chief of staff of the president is a former lawyer and have a lot of questions have been raised about that. they are the ones that should be tired of for, not us us in the west. we are the ones fighting and defending for our country. and yet, putin is is taking advantage, looking to exploit western support for ukraine and taking advantage of what he hopes will be a new president there that doesn't know the ropes. he tried this right after zelinski one where he announced and easing of passports for those living there. he handled that very well. but there are more tests coming for him that we have already seen. it is worth, i think, stepping back for a moment, to see how we got to this point. i mentioned briefly the budapest memorandum. an agreement signed in 1994. in which the unite

the white house says he never intended to meet with president zelinski. >> the president didn't want to take the meeting, or have the phone call. >> investor summit is expected to tell lawmakers that the president directed him to talk with his personal attorney rudy giuliani about efforts to arrange a meeting with zelinski and prepared testimony, simon says he supported the president's effort to fight corruption but says he did not understand giuliani's agenda may have been to push ukraine to investigate the bidens. >> u.s. lawmakers are mourning the loss of one of their own today, democratic congressman elijah cummings died of convocations from long-standing health challenges. the 68-year-old inspected death home district in maryland. >> the white house flag was lowered to half staff in tribute to marilyn congressman elijah cummings, who passed away early thursday, the son of sharecroppers, cummings was first elected to congress in 1996. when democrats went back to the house in 2018, he became chair of the powerful house oversight committee. one of the committees leading impeachment

story for us in kiev while these are some interesting times aren't they nick it looks like president zelinsky i mean he apparently got called saying some not so nice things about other leaders here in europe i'm talking about the german chancellor in that phone conversation that he had with u.s. president trump let's just kind of look at the part of that transcript trump said to him when i was speaking to uncle americal she talks ukraine but she doesn't do anything and the lenski responded you know donald you're absolutely right not just 100 percent but a 1000 percent right now and when you look at that is that going to hurt zelinsky in his plans moving forward with germany and with the european union of those words going to come back to haunt him. brant i'm not sure they will i think most world leaders have things to be queasy about if their private by the actual calls were published like this interestingly enough i think in this case this transcript came out without anyone in washington bothering to warn that this was coming and we have seen selenski meeting angela merkel in new york at the

ukrainian president zelinsky. he is quoted in this phone call transcript summary with the us president and he he. did not say the most flattering things about miracle were germany's policy with ukraine do you think he has he shot himself in the foot with germany already well look i think he's right is it the beginning of understanding what his offices as president i mean remember where he came from so he's drinking from a fire hose when it comes to understanding politics whether it's domestic or whether it's fine and i think that you know he's trying to run through extremely tight rope here and in that respect i think you know in that case it's best to give him time to respond to this i mean the fact is is that this accusation that was made by trump germany and europe to do much for the crate is false so i think it's this point is a real tight rope for him see how he can do it if this is a piece that takes place if the president is removed you know that's never happened in u.s. history if that does happen what do

i kneel fascists that have levers of power in ukraine and corruption this is where zelinsky the heart of his campaign was if he can get western institutions maybe the f.b.i. would be one of them though they have a pretty dodgy reputation right now what selinski wants to do is if he's going to take on corruption he's going to need outside help and i think he thinks trump is going to help him bring peace and start dealing with corruption and that's a good that's a good play for ukraine and everybody around it go ahead alex yes and with a great problems alinsky no faces if he really is serious about corruption is that of course the whole issue has now become an issue in american domestic politics so i gather he's already been won't mind the democrats that up to now support for ukraine and in the united states has been a bipartisan issue that he risks not making it all of more alex so are you suggesting a quid pro quo is that what you're suggesting here is that what is wrong visit cuse dove but the democrats are doing it go ahead. well that's exactly what i'm saying and can i just add tha

zelinsky has 77 or maybe it's less now i think is about 66 percent support of the people that's a lot you know it's quite alive percent voted for him and i don't understand now how it's possible when you have this love of public support that the street can rise up like it has when when i'm starting to wonder when is it going to get to the point when the people say no we don't want another made up because that's basically what the neo i guess called the nazis yes we're going to that's basically what they're calling for there apparently there are there are reports that they're out there threatening possible how did we get to this point because you have to ask basic questions put to shame call came in as a centrist left i think is a much more nationalist right winger and we have zelinsky is very much a moderate i think his message resonated with the public so is he weak the institutions weak or both or is it just because there's a free fringe group out there that's trying to call the shots. last. february 2014 demonstrated the weakness of basic institutions of government in ukraine and t

officials today vice president pence evidence that he was pressuring zelinsky personally and other high officials in ukraine more shoes to drop on that so this is now reaching all across the top u.s. agencies but something that i must point out a bit to your leading statements those 2 diplomats were removed kurt volker and the u.s. ambassador there she was recalled and kurt volker was told he would be fired if he didn't resign so he's in his. almost a whole full day 12 hours now of deposition to that the relevant committees intelligence chiefly as we speak on capitol hill and there kurt volker is straightening out the record and that is that very deftly he and the ambassador were trying to help the ukrainians navigate this corrupt process involving rudy giuliani the president the vice president the secretary of state almost everybody how damaging are president trump's admitted actions that they just that we know not even the things that we do know how damaging are these actions to state department employees are incredibly damaging the morale is really at a low point a lot of the halls t

i kneel fascists that have levers of power in ukraine and corruption this is where zelinsky the heart of his campaign was if he can get western institutions maybe the f.b.i. would be one of them though they have a pretty dodgy reputation right now what selinski wants to do is if he's going to take on corruption he's going to need outside help and i think he thinks trump is going to help him bring peace and start dealing with corruption and that's a good that's a good play for ukraine and everybody around him go ahead alex yes and with a great problems alinsky no faces if he really is serious about corruption is that of course the whole issue has now become an issue in american domestic politics so i gather he's already been won't mind the democrats that up to now support for ukraine and in the united states has been a bipartisan issue that he risks not making it all of more alex so are you suggesting a quid pro quo is that what you're suggesting here is that what is rump is accused of but the democrats are doing it go ahead. well that's exactly what i'm saying and can i just add that

meanwhile, zelinski said today he hopes president trump will come to ukraine. he says president trump has an open invitation here in kiev. >> bret: david, thank you. joe biden and elizabeth warren are tied when combining first and second choices of those surveyed in the latest fox news poll. the two came in at 45% apiece. ask bernie sanders was next at 34%. kamala harris had 15%, pete buttigieg is up 13%. tonight correspondent peter doocy tells us what else we are learning from the latest numbers. >> joe biden 2020 has lots to do a joe biden 1973. >> it takes proven ability to get things done. we are not electing a planet. >> it seems obvious who he was talking about. >> i have a lot of plans and i get teased about this. >> just 19% of democratic primary voters in a fox news poll believe it was with warren gives democrats the best chance to beat trump. far behind at 43% who believe it's biden who isn't hurt much by recent controversy appeared only 10% of democratic primary voters say they are less likely to vote for him because of hundd biden's business deals i

story for us in kiev while these are some interesting times aren't they nick it looks like president zelinsky i mean he apparently got called saying some not so nice things about other leaders here in europe i'm talking about the german chancellor in that phone conversation that he had with u.s. president trump let's just kind of look at the part of that transcript trump said to him when i was speaking to young americans she talks ukraine but she doesn't do anything and the lenski responded you know donald you're absolutely right not just a 100 percent but a 1000 percent right now and when you look at that is there going to hurt zelinsky in his plans moving forward with germany and with the european union of those words going to come back to haunt him. brant i'm not sure they will i think most world leaders have things to be queasy about if they have private bilateral calls were published like this interestingly enough i think in this case this transcript came out without anyone in washington bothering to warn kiev that this was coming and we have seen selenski meeting angela merkel in new yo

and understand how this could possibly happen and it makes me wonder why zelinsky when he came into power he didn't say ok we're going to we're going to clean house we're going to lay down the law we have a mandate from the people to clean up and we're going to stop this funding of the for example the battalion which is i don't understand why they're down there i don't know if they're actually integrated into the. you know openly. interesting thing you want to. well. robert mentioned 3 things that contribute to the mainstays of power all of the executive which now is the executive in the legislative branch together has impressive power and then there are the institutions of government which exist to surround the deep state. i don't know if i want to go ok. i don't want to be any of them the problem is that. the institutions are we have always been weak and this goes back to even before ukraine's independence there's never been strong institutions in the sense of being independent in ukraine . then this has been played off the divisions between east and west through the alternating of powe

not just 100 percent but a 1000 percent right now and when you look at that is there going to hurt zelinsky in his plans moving forward with germany and with the european union are those words going to come back to haunt him. brant i'm not sure they will i think most world leaders have things to be queasy about if they have private by the actual calls were published like this interestingly enough i think in this case this transcript came out without anyone in washington bothering to warn that this was coming and we have seen selenski meeting angela merkel in new york at the u.n. since this came out seeming it business as usual the fact that ukraine's disappointed by western european response to its calls for aid that there are talks talks specially in france about reengaging the kremlin even softening sanctions without huge or major russian concessions that all the stuff that has worry kid for a long time is not a secret i think he was fairly cautious in his speaking to trump and in terms of the flattery 100000 percent agreement rather 100 percent you can even read that as him being ironic

zelinsky has 77 or maybe it's less now i think is about 66 percent support of the people that's a lot you know it's quite alive percent voted for him yes and i don't understand now how it's possible when you have this love of public support that the street can rise up like it has when when i'm starting to wonder when is it going to get to the point when the people say no we don't want another made because that's basically what the neo i guess called the nazis yes we're going to that's basically what they're calling for there apparently there are there are reports that there's a threat and possible how did we get to this point because he you have to ask basic questions put to shame call came in as a centrist left i think is a much more nationalist right winger and we have zelinsky is very much a moderate i think his message resonated with the public so is he weak the institutions weak or both or is it just because there's a free fringe group out there that's trying to call the shots. the last. 24 teen demonstrated the weakness of basic institutions of government in ukraine and the abse

story for us in kiev while these are some interesting times aren't they nick it looks like president zelinsky i mean he apparently got called saying some not so nice things about other leaders here in europe i'm talking about the german chancellor in that phone conversation that he had with u.s. president trump let's just kind of look at the part of that transcript trump said to him when i was speaking to uncle americal she talks ukraine but she doesn't do anything and the lenski responded you know donald your time some of the of our rights not just a 100 percent but a 1000 percent right now and when you look at that is there going to hurt zelinsky in his plans moving forward with germany and with the european union of those words going to come back to haunt him. brant i'm not sure they will i think most world leaders have things to be queasy about if they have private bilateral calls were published like this interestingly enough i think in this case this transcript came out without anyone in washington bothering to warn kiev that this was coming and we have seen selenski meeting angela merke

ukraine kurt volker testified about any role he may have had interims coersion of ukrainian president zelinsky to provide damaging information about joe biden and joe biden's son volcker's a name appears in that whistleblower complaint which became public last week the one that triggered an impeachment inquiry against the president and voters testimony today it was private but president trump he said plenty in public today well i think by. going down and i think his situation because you may very well find that there are many other countries that are just like this. and. so i would say that president. if it were me i would recommend that they start an investigation and if there is nobody has any doubt that they weren't that was a christian 100 percent. carli he joins me tonight from kiev in ukraine good evening to you nic let's talk about kurt volker he had an important job as special envoy to ukraine for the united states until he resigned last week last year i interviewed him here and he was adamant in his defense of trump's commitment to ukraine take a listen to what he said i can imagine y

not just 100 percent but a 1000 percent right now and when you look at that is there going to hurt zelinsky in his plans moving forward with germany and with the european union of those words going to come back to haunt him. brant i'm not sure they will i think most world leaders have things to be queasy about if they're private by the actual calls were published like this interesting enough i think in this case this transcript came out without anyone in washington bothering to warn that this was coming and we have seen selenski meeting angela merkel in new york at the u.n. since this came out seemingly business as usual the fact that ukraine's disappointed by western european response to its calls for aid that there are talks talks specially in france about reengaging the kremlin even softening sanctions without huge or major russian concessions that all the stuff that has worry kid for a long time is not a secret i think he was fairly cautious in he's speaking to trump and in terms of the flattery 100000 percent agreement rather 100 percent you can even read that as him being ironic and a

ukraine kurt volker testified about any role he may have had interims coersion of ukrainian president zelinsky to provide damaging information about joe biden and joe biden's son volcker's a name appears in that whistleblower complaint which became public last week the one that triggered an impeachment inquiry against the president and bowker is testimony today it was private but president trump he said plenty in public today well i think. going down and i think is a situation because you may very well find that there are many other countries. just like they stand and. so i would say that president. if it were me i would recommend that they start an investigation. because nobody has any doubt that they were that was a christian 100 percent. connelly he joins me tonight from kiev in ukraine good evening to you nic let's talk about kurt volker he he had an important job as special envoy to ukraine for the united states until he resigned last week last year i interviewed him here and he was adamant in his defense of trump's commitment to ukraine take a listen to what he said. i can imagine your j

as far as what the president said in the transcript, i think asking zelinski, the ukrainian president, for assistance in mueller's investigation is fine. that's the kind of thing that's done all the time, asking another government for assisting in our investigations. asking him about biden getting a prosecutor fired also seems fine to me because it's an elements of barr's investigation to show the obama administration was winning on the ukrainian authorities to investigate paul manafort and potentially others in the trump campaign then it's very relevant that biden had that kind of influence and control over the ukrainian's. i would prefer if the president hadn't gotten into biden's son because to my knowledge, there was no justice department investigation into hunter biden and that does go on the line toward a president using his control over foreign policy -- you on hold on a second. andy i have january 11th, i have 2017 politico, it outlines ingrate specificity the the election interference of the ukrainians in 2016 on hillary's behalf. now we have joe biden on tape demanding the f

continues to investigate the circumstances of the president's interaction with ukrainian president zelinski and whether he used the power of his office to pressure foreign leader to intervene in an american election on his behalf. this task was thrust upon them by the president's alleged conduct and the demands of our constitution and of our republic. here in the senate our job is even more austere, we are assigned power not only to examine the evidence but to render judgment. we all have a solemn duty to follow the facts impartially and let ourselves be governed by reason that role means we have a responsibility to behave impartially in a nonpartisan manner from the onset. as my friend and leader mcconnell said during the 1998 impeachment debate ", this is mcconnell, it's been my view that i don't as potential juror if it's serious enough to warrant a potential impeachment proceeding at all thank i ought to prejudge the case. and yet, already a few of my senate republican colleagues seem determined to turn this serious partisan exercise.er my friend the republican leader here on the floor

but getting back to the call, you say there's nothing impeachable in the president's call with zelinsky on july 25th. would you do it? i mean, if you were president, would you solicit help from a foreign government to dig up potential dirt on a political rival? >> listen, for the last four years, i have seen people in the media, people across the aisle, complain about how this president operates. >> can you just answer nye question? >> i will admit he is nontraditional. >> would you do it? is it okay? does it sit well with you? >> i'm not the president of the united states. >> does it sit well with you? >> i don't even know what's happening in these discussions because i haven't even been a part of these discussions. yes, it's great that there are 40 members of the house, but my constituents that i represent, they're asking me questions that i can't even answer -- >> well, you get the transcripts. >> you're asking me questions about -- i hope i do. i hope i do, because right now democrats have closed us out of the process, and people, including the press, yourself, are asking questions

they have not returned the comment on knowledge of a between donald trump and volodymyr zelinsky. the us ambassador to european union is scheduled. sean defend the president in text messages saying there was no quid pro quo linking military aid to an investigation to the bidens. lawyers for the was a lower asked congress when they were planning to submit testimony in writing. >> after his july 25th call with volodymyr zelinsky. and and characterize the conversation as outrageous, there is no comment from the white house. >> the new york times reporting rudy giuliani is under federal investigation. prosecutors reportedly investigating whether he broke any lobbying laws for his work in ukraine and is tied to the case to clients who were arrested earlier. a wild week in washington will only get more convoluted next week. joining me to break it down fox news chief political anchor bret baer. the notable quotables at the end of the we, hard to believe it is one week in washington and here we go again. >> one tagline, can you believe that was a week? shannon: the hearings and subpoenas

relating to trump's contact with ukraine including his call in july with ukraine's president volodymyr zelinsky several house committees are looking into whether trump pressured ukraine to investigate former democratic vice president joe biden trump has vowed not to cooperate with the probe. iraq has been shaken by more violence the country is facing a deepening crisis with the street protests and unrest growing security forces have again opened fire on protesters in the capital baghdad at least 70 people have been killed in 4 days of turmoil. protesters rush to take one of their own to safety then they flee is the sound of sniper fire ricochets through the streets they're desperate enough to risk their lives because they feel the state has failed to deliver the basics. we're. not going to protesting because we're suffering there's no electricity no jobs people are dying of starvation it's a curse. unrest says spread rapidly across the country this week without any apparent leadership or connection to a political or sectarian movement in response authorities shut down the internet and imposed a

relating to trump's contacts with ukraine including his call into line with ukraine's president volodymyr zelinsky several house committees are looking into whether trump pressured ukraine to investigate former democratic vice president joe biden trump has vowed not to cross with the probe. iraq has been shaken by another day of unrest the country is facing its worst crisis since the defeat of the so-called islamic state terror group 2 years ago security forces have again opened fire on protesters in the capital baghdad at least 70 people have been killed in 4 days of unrest. protesters rushed to take one of their own to safety. and they flee as the sound of sniper fire ricochets through the streets and again. they're desperate enough to risk their lives because they feel the state has failed them were those that are. not going to protesting because we are suffering there's no electricity no jobs people are dying of starvation it's a curse. on the rest has spread rapidly across the country this week without any apparent leadership or connection to a political or sectarian movement in response to t

to evaluate whether ukraine is truly going to adopt the transparency and reforms president volodymyr zelinsky promised during the campaign, i suggest we stop the back-and-forth texts. it is not clear if either ambassador will be called to testify but we are also seeing in the new york times reports that they drafted a statement for the ukrainian president committing them to investigate among others hunter biden. shannon: we will talk more about this coming up. have a great weekend. it is friday after all. congressman doug collins says nancy pelosi is throwing house rules in the trash and call that a clear indication that it is all about overturning the election. >> it is amazing to me nancy pelosi has such little faith in the american people. if she was right, if she had an agenda, if she believed democratic party candidates for president were on the right track then why is she so skeptical of the american people voting for what they believe is the right idea? the problem is she knows donald trump is connecting with american people, he did in 2016, we will see it again next year and what they

. >> volodymyr zelinsky hosted the actor in his office monday. tom cruise says he is interested in scouting locations in the ukraine and volodymyr zelinsky was a 1-time comedian actor himself. rob: i love tom cruise. that is a good line. jillian: a federal judge blocking georgia's antiabortion law as the battle over life takes center stage. rob: the supreme court back in session taking up this issue, where do american values lie on this? the president of march for life comes up next. jillian: steve doocy with what is coming up on "fox and friends". >> today is national coffee with a cop day, officers joining us outside fox square. coming up some of our guests talking shortly within half an hour to tommy laren, a story in california where it sounds like an officer was canceled because there could be republicans there. chairman pai will talk about how worries of elizabeth warren is elected president could be better facebook. lou holtz on whether or not college athletes should be paid and tom homan, former ice director, so much to talk to him about.

near zelinsky to investigate trump's domestic political rivals the lewinsky deny the allegation on tuesday. i've never felt any influence on me there are a lot of people in russia in the west standard ukraine who would like to influence me but i'm the president of ukraine of independent ukraine and it seems to me that my state so far shows that it is impossible to influence president trump says the ukrainian investigation is a hoax he has repeatedly tried to discredit the whistleblower and intelligence officer who remains anonymous trump has said on twitter that he wants to find out the officer's identity even as a senior member of his own republican party says the whistleblower ought to be heard and protected hi joe castro al-jazeera washington prisoners prime minister boris johnson is expected to lay out on wednesday what durning street senses his final offer on brics it's it would involve customs checks on the islands arlen's johnson's juice to give a speech in the next couple of hours at the conservative party conference in manchester really worry chalons is there for us and has this u

hand knowledge of the july phone call between president trump and the ukrainian president volodymyr zelinsky then man was among the white house staff listening when trump said to the ukrainian leader i would like you to do west a favor publicly investigate trumps political rival joe biden and a company called charisma that employed by tin son i was concerned by the call binman said in his written testimony i did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a us citizen i was worried about the implications for the us government support of ukraine i realized that if ukraine pursued an investigation into the bidens and it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained this would all undermine u.s. national security the newly elected selenski was hoping to schedule a visit to the white house and ukraine was waiting for u.s. military aid needed to fend off russia but trump temporarily withheld the aid as his advisors continued to push ukraine to investigate the democrats a

trump told the ambassador he was not asking for a quid pro quo but donald trump did insist volodymyr zelinsky go to a microphone and say he is opening an investigation. >> in my 10 short months in congress it is not even noon and my most disturbing day in congress so far. >> reporter: republicans point to the admission that these are the hold on usaid that did not leak until august 29, 5 weeks after the president's phone call with ukrainian leader they say undercut democrat claims of a quid pro quo. with the close of claims republicans accuse their colleagues of unfair tactics. >> democrats will not even allow republicans to have a copy of the transcripts from each of the witnesses we have interviewed. if you want to look at the transcript there has to be a democrat staffer. >> fox news can confirm john duramax investigation into the origins of the russia collusion case expanded based on new evidence gathered during a trip to rome with the attorney general william barr, described as very interested to question the former director of national intelligence james clapper and john brennan. >> tha

ambassador to ukraine merida avan of it who is implicated in the phone call between trump and president zelinsky of ukraine trump on that phone call said that the former ambassador was bad news she reportedly was not on board his administration's attempts to convince ukraine to launch an investigation into trump's domestic political rivals. is scheduled to testify on october 11th but before that panel will hear from was the former ukrainian envoy who resigned from that post last week just as the pietschmann inquiry had been launched he reportedly went to ukraine following the phone call between trump and the lewinsky to control the damage from that phone call volcker is scheduled to give his deposition before congress on thursday. bruce fein is president i say this resigned her post as well declined the opposition's designation to be interim president her resignation is the latest in a twist in a deepening a political crisis playing out with her as congress president mark martin his car dissolved congress on monday after opposition politicians voted to remove him from office at all she hopes her

hand knowledge of the july phone call between president trump and the ukrainian president volodymyr zelinsky then man was among the white house staff listening when trump said to the ukrainian leader i would like you to do west a favor publicly investigate trumps political rival joe biden and a company called charisma that employed by tin son i was concerned by the call binman said in his written testimony i did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a us citizen i was worried about the implications for the us government support of ukraine i realized that if ukraine pursued an investigation into the bidens and it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained this would all undermine u.s. national security the newly elected selenski was hoping to schedule a visit to the white house and ukraine was waiting for u.s. military aid needed to fend off russia but trump temporarily withheld the aid as his advisors continued to push ukraine to investigate the democrats a

the whole reason the president zelinski was elected. was he companion on corruption how to fix the corruption that was in the previous administration in ukraine. so whose just highlights of whose type information really highlights what was going on in the previous administration. in the president zelinski his mayday commitment to come out and address that. is you mentioned that the investigator, during the previous administration was fired because he wasni trying to investigate and get to the bottom of that corruption. it's one of those things that i think president trump and president zelinski are going to be able to work together is we move forward to help root out h what had happened in the past and to make sure that we correct that because and make sure it doesn't happen in the future. >> are taking to step weather the trump administration will withhold documents. or continue to obstruct the house of representatives. nobody is above the law. twenty think about the president and instructing others in testimony and his reaction genera

that phone call ambassador solon told me that president trump had told him that he wants president zelinsky to state publicly that ukraine will investigate bris milah and legit ukrainian interference in the $26000.00 election taylor said in a statement joe biden's son hunter had been a board member a ukrainian gas company taylor continued ambassador soul and also told me that he now recognized that he had made a mistake by earlier telling the ukrainian officials to whom he spoke that the white house meeting with preston selenski was dependent on a public announcement investigation in fact ambassador solon said everything was dependent on such an announcement including security assistance while the press and wasn't calling this a quid pro quo taylor suggests that's exactly what it was soliciting for help in the us elections is illegal in my can short months in congress it's not even. and this is the most disturbing day in congress so far a growing number of americans believe donald trump should be impeached and removed from office for the 1st time that number is more than 50 percent the pres

i think that president zones give still needs -- president zelinski still needs to prove himself to be on the world stage. host: will he get one soon? guest: the ukrainians did announce that a couple months ago and certainly it will be a discussion for a long time but no date has been set. after everything has gone on i think it will be interesting to see if it does happen and what is discussed. host: what are you watching for next? guest: i'm watching for the origins of this, where this all came from. who approach to? giuliani says he was approached with information. i'm interested in who approached them, what was their agenda? who were they paid by, where did the money come from? did giuliani begin this on his own? what were they after? is hugelyat interesting because that is a potential avenue for foreign interference in u.s. politics, that's my big question right now. host: [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] >> c-span's "wash