poniewozik, the author of "audience of one: donald trump, television, and the fracturing of america," and he is also a chief television critic for the "new york times." thank you for joining us. i want to begin with this moment from president trump's first cabinet meeting on january 10, 2018. listen to what he says as the cameramen and reporters enter the cabinet room. [video clip] pres. trump: welcome back to the studio. you heard the president say, welcome back to the studio. what do you make of that? guest: i'm sorry, i was not sure if it was a question. it is very revealing, in "the new york times," one of the political reporters reported early in the administration that president trump, who was not only a reality show, but a figure in many ways created by television throughout his advised his staffers to view each day of his ofinistration as an episode a reality show and which he defeat his enemies. i think very much the mindset of showas a production, as a of actual real-life locations as a set, that has not left him. i am not sure if the clip you are showing was from the same

candidates. all five of the top polling democratic candidates are ahead of donald trump in one on one polls with margins from a four-point lead to a 15-point lead over donald trump. we will have the details of that poll for you at the end of the hour, and we have an exclusive interview tonight with today's defender of democracy who went viral for standing up to the republican speaker of the house of representatives in north carolina, democratic state representative deb butler. she'll join us tonight. and you'll want to see the video of what she had to do in the north carolina house of representatives today with republicans trying to turn off her microphone in what the charlotte observer called a stunning display of contempt for democracy. but we begin tonight with donald trump once again making a trump problem much worse. today donald trump's john bolton problem got much worse. no one makes donald trump's problems get worse better than donald trump. so today when he was asked about john bolton, donald trump would not resist taking shots at john bolton, attacking john bolton. calling john bo

sides agree, it's still gridlock. >> when donald trump said, we're like living in a third world country when it comes to our infrastructure, do you agree with him? >> i don't disagree. >> drain the swamp! >>> good evening. i'm meteorologist bill karins with your 10:00 east coast time dorian update. we have the new path, forecasted intensity coming up at the top of the next hour. join me then and i'll give you all the latest. it is now beginning to move over grand bahama island, the eastern tip of the island is now moving into the eye. this is about as strong a storm as you'll ever see. 185-mile-per-hour winds and it is walking to freeport at 5 miles per hour. due west is the general motion. the forecast path from the hurricane center does have it over freeport for about the next 24 hours, and then that parallel coast to the east coast of florida, it does look like they're going to get grazed. it's going to be a very close call to see how strong the winds are on the coast. as of now the eye is expected to remain offshore, then we're going to watch the storm going up along the sou

representatives. donald trump might never give another state of union address because in january, donald trump is now tonight more likely by that time to be in the middle of a trial in the united states senate. and the speaker of the house is not going to invite an impeached president to deliver a state of the union address in the house of representatives in the middle of his impeachment trial in the senate. donald trump is going to be impeached by the house of representatives on at least one article of impeachment because, as of tonight, everything in the whistle-blower's report has so far proved to be true and more is proving to be true each day, including the most damning aspects of that whistle-blower's report. but the smoking gun evidence that will force the impeachment of donald trump are the words that donald trump spoke in the white house record of his conversation with the president of ukraine and nothing is going to change those words, nothing is going to make those words any better. and so for the majority of the members of the house of representatives who have said th

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] caller: i would like to say to the americans, democrats or republicans, leave donald trump alone. i am a democrat. donald trump told us the truth. when he was running for office he said he knows how this government is operated. donald trump is doing just what the democrats and republicans have been doing for years. donald trump is a man that does .ot back down. however, donald trump is showing the world our strong points and our weaknesses. people said he is a traitor. but the democrats and republicans seems to me he won the race war. donald trump is showing what is wrong, whether you are a democrat or republican, however you want to flip the coin. nobody is trying to correct things. and donald trump is being treated just like barack was and that's good for donald trump, because what the republicans did to barack everybody now is doing to donald trump. most of the republican politicians want to see donald trump fail. they want to see him fail because there will be no one else. host: you are seeing the republican leaders want to see him fail? caller: yeah. how did he defeat 17 people

much information as possible and that includes an unredacted transcript of donald trump's conversation with ukraine's leader that is at the center of the democrats impeachment inquiry. another senior administration source says in addition to releasing this transcript they are planning to build a case with the inspector general of the intel community, found the whistleblower to have political bias in favor of a rival candidate to donald trump. the president and his team are making a case in lodging and impeachment inquiry the democrats are getting ahead of themselves and ahead of the evidence. >> they want this to be true so badly you saw it was nancy pelosi, they didn't wait for the evidence they have been clamoring for for days. >> the phone call was perfect. the call that wasn't perfect and the words that wordperfect were joe biden with respect to his son. >> donald trump has democrats are willfully ignoring what he believes is the real story, hunter biden's business dealings in ukraine. >> his son takes away millions of dollars out of ukraine and millions of dollars out of china and

>> not an elected judges with life tenure. neil gorsuch, phenomenal picked by donald trump, one of his most important part of his legacies when he's done with the judiciary and all through the judiciary, district court, appellate court judges all over the country and mike emanuel is in for shannon bream, he and the fox news at 19 have all the news about the north carolina special election. >> multiple breaking stories tonight. breaking from north carolina results are in for district 9, widely touted as a bellwether going into 2020, we are going there live with the republican winner and a test case for the trump revolution. back here fevered speculation gripping washington on who will be donald trump's next national security adviser, john bolton, we will give you the inside scoop. the cia goes head to head with cnn over a report about a high-level intelligence asset was extracted from russia, the cia says the report has the potential to put lives in danger, we will separate fact from fiction. congressional democrats pushing full steam ahead on gun control legislation but are republi

book, audience, donald trump, pressuring of america, before we get to that, tell us about your day job. >> so i am the chief television critic for "the new york times" which is a -- a television, much more vast field than it was when i first started writing about it and, you know, i like to say that being critic has become much more like being a book critic now in that there's so much doing a lot of -- but if fantastic work in the sense that television is a great excuse to write about everything, and it reflects whatever people are are interested in or best with, so i wrote about reality tv, i wrote about the news, i've, you know, could write about this. [laughter] >> if, you know, the circumstances were right, so a pretty vast field. >> how much time dow do you spend now with the networks as opposed to netflix, amazon, hulu, et cetera, et et cetera? >> there's vast drop now in content ocean. you know, it used to be, you know, every fall, the big three or four networks would release the content, the shows they were going to premier for the coming season, that was what you were going to

rival? bombshell claims. the impeachment chaos overshadowing donald trump on the world stage as he puts america first. >> the future does not belong to globalists. the future belongs to patriots. heather: the warning shot defied at iran and china. the legacy of 9/11 heroes, the graduates making all-americans proud. "fox and friends first" starts now. good morning to you. you are watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning. thank you very much for joining us. let's start with a fox news alert, it is shaping up to be a busy day, trump administration official says there is evidence of political bias in whistleblower complaint against the president. the exclusive report coming as we await the release of the transcript. garrett tenney joins us from washington where congress just launched an impeachment inquiry. >> reporter: the white house is expected to release several key documents including the fully unredacted transcript of the july phone call with ukraine's president. and administration official tells fox news the white house will be releasing a document showing the intelligen

donald trump when he ran. nd i just been sickened by the things that are going on. i'm hispanic and against my whole family, i voted for him. and because i pleeved in him because of religious reasons and economic policy that he had. but he lost my trust when he turned the office of the president into a joke, not just for this country, but the president has always been respected and always been held in high regard. right now, donald trump has become like not just a bully, but has become a child who can't take any criticism, somebody needs to take his phone away. and when the mueller report came out, it was a bunch of things one, a bunch of corruption and in mexico, if there is corruption in every corner. and you don't have to have a signed piece of paper or certain things to see -- there is a saying if the river makes sounds, does it have rocks. and all of these things that have been going on, behind the scenes, twisting the truth and revealing half truths, all of those things have turned me off completely. i don't know if i'm going to be republican. i tend to see who the best person

>>> campaign 2020. watch our live coverage of the presidential candidates on the campaign trail and make up your own mind. c-span's campaign 2020, your unfiltered view of politics. >>> today at 4:00 p.m. eastern, president trump will be speaking to reporters at a news conference at the end of the the 74th u.n. general assembly. at united nations headquarters. watch life live coverage on c-span 3. >>> back aboard the bus in milwaukee, wisconsin. we welcome back to the program charlie sykes. lasttime on the program, you were a contributor. now founder and editor at large for the bull work. what is the bull work? >> the bull work is an online publication. and basically kind of a success of the legal standard. we had the core digital staff after it was shut down move over to the bull work. we're 24/7 website. we have a podcast, which i host. three daily newsletters. people ought to check it out. >> do you do most of your work out of wisconsin? >> it's based out of washington, d.c. i split my time between milwaukee and d.c., but i spend most of my time here in milwaukee, yes. >> we can talk about wisconsin politics. but i want to go to your story this morning. it's a national story in many of the papers today. the headline that trump ukraine story is a stress test talking about the systems being tested and none look ready. what are those systems? >> well, i think this is going to be one of those, whether it's a constitutional crisis or not, we don't know. we haven't seen the whistleblower report or the transcript of the conversation between the president and the ukrainian president. but this is going to put a lot of pressure on our institutions. i break them down to five. the rule of law of republicans, pressure on joe biden himself and the presidential campaign ask then the way the media is going to handle it. one of the problems that we have is we kept the dial turned up to 11 over the last three years. the question is if this turns out to be the real thing, do we know how to calibrate our responses? are we going to be able to actually grasp the challenge here. is congress going to be able to rise to this particular challenge? is the media going to understand how to deal with all of the spin. what do we do with a president who seems increasingly emboldened to defy the law, who believe that he skated from the mueller probe and now says, look, i'm invincible. so all of the systems and the norms that we count on are going to be under tremendous pressure if, in fact, this story turns out to be as it has been reported so far. >> nancy pelosi already under tremendous pressure. we saw comments from alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeting over the weekend calling for impeachment hearings to begin. now we saw one of her close est allies on cnn state of the union saying that this could perhaps be the crossing of the rub con can when it comes to impeachment. talk about her role in the systems here? >> yeah, and obviously, one of the institutions is going to be stressed is congress. because inaction is not an option here. again, we don't have all of the facts. we don't have all the information yet. but if it turns out to be as it has been reported, congress has to act. otherwise it becomes a constitutional nullity. in a lot of ways, if congress does not do anything at all t will do as much damage to the separation of powers as trump's own conduct. so nancy pelosi put out a tough statement yesterday. she's made it absolutely clear she does not want to move ahead with impeachment. and perhaps that is still somewhat premature, but my colleague at the bullwork also has a piece where he recommends an alternative. that congress could establish a small select committee with the specific to investigate this ukrainian story. not any of the other issues, but specifically this. look at the whistleblower complaint. look at what the president's communications were. and then report to congress. so that may be a middle ground approach to this issue. >> by the way, phone numbers to dial in. 202-748-8000. and before we leave that ukraine story, here's how the editorial board of "the wall street journal" says it might play out. all of this is likely to play out in familiar trump era fashion with democratic congressman adam schiff making claims that turn out to be sbaj waited, the media resistance hyping impeachment, and president trump fighting back in tweets without evidence of worse behavior by trump. nothing much is likely to come of it. what do you think? >> i think it's probably accurate to a certain extent. however, the president has bisically already acknowledged that he did raise the issue of joe biden with the president elect. the president of the united states tried to influence or bully, we don't know whether he tried to extort the head of state of another country to dig up dirt on his political opponent. if that is true, if any element of that is true, then we are in a red zone area. it's the same we become numb, but i think this is not impeachable, if it's true, if it's not impeachable, what would be? the president of the united states taking an issue of national security and using his office to try to pressure another country to help his personal political campaign. he was not encouraging the president to do something with the government of the united states. he was talking about you should work with my personal attorney rudy giuliani. donald trump is going to throw up a lot of dust. he's going to do a lot of flipping the script to make it all about jb sqoe biden. but there are known facts in the case. they would not suggest there's any significant misconduct by joe biden or a member of his family. we can surgeonly clear this up by seeing what was the whistleblower complaint, why did the inspector general regarded as valid and if the president did not say anything that was inappropriate, he can certainly release a transcript of that phone call and then we would have the facts on the table. >> plenty of callers for you this morning. we haven't gotten to the wisconsin discussion yet, but we'll start with joe out of massachusetts, boston. a republican, go ahead. >> caller: thank you for letting me kom on the show. i'd hike to say i'm amazed -- i'm assuming he's one of the never trumpers. you guys should be so embarrassed. you and bill crystal, ever since trump has been elected, all you do is put things up in front of him where he can't really become a president. you guys are just so unbelievable. to me, you definitely aren't asking the right questions. you should be asking booiden those questions. ask said ask him on tv, ask him what he meant when he was going to withhold a billion dollars to the ukrainians. it sounds like it's true and he's admitting it. why don't you follow that up? >> charlie sykes, we'll give you a chance to responder. >> the president is literally quite unbelievable on a regular basis. this is where you get the dust thrown up because there is the clip of joe biden saying that, skt, ukraine needs to fire the prosecutor. but again if you go back and look at what actually happened, virtually the entire free world was putting pressure, the imf, the western alliance was putting pressure saying you need to do something about the corruption. this is not joe biden doing something that was free-lancing. and this had nothing to do with an investigation into his own operation. so again, this is the alternative reality, unfortunately, that we're living in here. and this is why i do think it is incumbent on congress to do something, to create maybe this select committee. because you can't wait for the special prosecutor, the department of justice is not going to lift a finger about this. this now is up to congress. and congress has to decide what is his constitutional responsibility. is the president above the law? do the laws apply to the president? will he ever be held accountable for his conduct? because if you do have a president of the united states who is in effect betraying the national interest of this country, colluding with a foreign country to dig up dirt on his opponent, that is a big deal. and republicans ought to recognize that as as well as democrats. >> that clip that you just referred to of joe biden that the caller was referring to, a couple of callers had asked us to play that clip. so here is joe biden from 2018 at the council on foreign relations. >> i remember going over convincing our team, convincing them that we should be providing for loan guarantees. and i went over the 12th, 13th team and i was supposed to announce that there was another billion dollar loan guarantee. and i had gotten a commitment that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn't. so they said -- they were walking out to a press conference and i said we're not going to give you the billion dollars. they said you have no authority, you're not the president. i said call him. i said i'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars. i said i'm going to be leaving here, and i think it was, what, six hours. i said i'm leaving in six hours, if the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the son. well, he got fired and they put in place someone who was solid at the time. >> charlie sykes, on those comments and what this whole story means for joe biden and his family. >> yeah, this was not about joe biden and his family. this was the foreign policy of the united states. this was the position that virtually the entire western alliance was taking, the imf putting pressure on ukraine saying if you want to get more aid and loans, you're going to have to deal with your chronic and notorious problem of corruption. if you look at the timeline, this has nothing to do with his son. this has nothing to do with an investigation into his son or members of his family. but again, if you take that out of context, it can be made to look like undue influence. everybody needs to step back for a moment and remember that donald trump's campaign used to be headed by paul manafort who was up to his knees in ukrainian corruption. so irony is dead in the era of trump. but for donald trump to be concerned about iranian corruption is highly ironic. and all of this is an attempt to turn the attention from the sitting president of the united states had a phone conversation that, according to the "wall street journal," included his attempt eight separate times to pressure the ukrainian president into digging up dirt on his political opponent and to work with his private attorney. this is where i think we need to focus. this is what congress needs to focus on. this is what i think that the public needs to focus on this. because i do think you have a president who has become absolutely emboldened, he believes that he can push any narrative, he believes that he will never be held accountable. he knows that the democrats have never held him accountable, the republicans will never break with him. he understands that it's easy to manipulate the media. but this actually does matter. and i think there's a lot at stake here and there's some very, very dangerous precedence for our constitutional system if we don't take this seriously. >> connie, a democrat. good morning. connie, are you with us? you've got to stay by your phone, connie. charlie sykes joining us from wisconsin. this is thomas in wisconsin, a republican. go ahead. >> good morning, gentlemen. we knew here in southwestern wisconsin that charlie sykes was a never-trumper right from the beginning, and most of us were, too, because we were supporting scott walker for president and then we went to marco rubio and eventually went to tread cruz who want the nomination here in wisconsin. once president trump started doing the things we wanted him to do we saw that he was the right choice and continues to do what needs to be done. charlie sykes is part of the resistance and that's to throw enough you know what against the wall and see what sticks. >> do you think donald trump wins wisconsin again in 2020? that's thomas in wisconsin. charlie sykes, same question to you. do you think president trump wins wisconsin again in 2020? >> well, thomas is probably not a fan of mine anymore. but yes, could i just point out that, you know, i was on the air here in wisconsin for more than 20 years and did support -- i did support scott walker. i would have supported marco rubio. i helped ted cruz win the primary. but at some point you have to have some principles, you have to have some standards and i have been unwilling to vendor those to support donald trump. so will donald trump win wisconsin? i give it the caveat that i did not think he was going to win in wisconsin. i think wisconsin is going to be the battleground state. it's a microcomp of the rest of the country and the vote is divided to urban, rural, suburban. there are strong holds that are hard core republican strong holds and donald trump won wisconsin because he really flipped the northern rural parts of the state, many counties that had voted for obama twice voted for donald trump. i expect that they will do that again. so the question is will democrats turn out in big numbers in places like milwaukee and dane county. in the midterm elections they did. but it's a whole different ball game with the general election. so i think that if i knew who the democratic nominee was, i could give you a much stronger prediction. so far in the polls most of the democrats are leading donald trump, but i do think the candidates actually matter and i do think that wisconsin is going to be very, very much in play right up until the end in 2020. >> which democratic candidates definitely win wisconsin and which definitely lose wisconsin? >> well, there's no such as definite in politics these days. i think we've learned that. there's no hard-core gold standard. i think that joe biden is the best position at the moment to win wisconsin, but then again, we're having this conversation in september of 2019, not september of 2020. i think that if the democrats move too far to the left, they run the risk of squandering some of the advantages they have here. i think that there are a lot of suburban voters in wisconsin, as there are in michigan and pennsylvania and other swing states who are open to the idea of voting for a democrat, who are appalled and disgusted by donald trump's conduct, his character and maybe some of his policies. but if they think that the democrats pose more of a threat, they might not vote for them and they might sit out the election or they might hold their nose once again and vote for donald trump. and i'm talking about things like, you know, for example, taking away private health insurance or increasing -- massive increases in middle class taxes, open borders or the provision of free healthcare to undocumented immigrants. there are positions -- the democrats, and again we're not any different than much of the rest of the country, a lot of these positions are potential winners for the democrats but they could turn them into stone cold losers as well. >> in virginia, this is jahan, an independent as well. >> good morning. i agree with the suggestion that crystal made with the special committee, that way both republicans and democrats would be on that committee and they can go even further and investigate biden, even though this is not about biden, but let's do it. let's make it all clear. that's what i think should be done. >> charlie sykes. >> no, that i think is the most obvious logical and low-risk strategy for democrats in congress right now and this committee ought to be bipartisan. nancy pelosi ought to invite mitch mcconnell to participate if he wants. let's get the facts on the table before we take any other steps here. and this shouldn't be all that complicated, because, number one, once we see what the ig saw with the whistle-blower report, if we get a transcript of the phone calls, that's going to be clear what happened there. and then of course i think put on the public record what we know about what happened in ukraine with the bidens, which i think is going to turn out to be the fact that there's nothing there. but again, this can be done in a relatively short period of time. i'm not naive enough to think that it won't be caught up in the usual partisan sort of back and forth. the ball is in congress's court. nobody else is going to pick this up. >> the house intelligence committee expected to meet with the acting director of national intelligence. that's taking place thursday. also, timeline this week, something to look to, president trump expected to see and meet the president of ukraine and 16 other world leaders as he attends the u.n. general assembly meeting in new york. the white house confirming that president trump is expected to meet with the ukrainian president on wednesday. so just some markers to look to this week as this story goes on. this is shelby in bluff city, tennessee, an independent. good morning. >> caller: good morning. thank you. i would like to send mrs. nancy pelosi -- to really push impeachment. what can we lose at this point? we've done lost so much with mr. trump. he is not reliable, he is not competent, he is a liar, and everybody that believes in him, they better take their blinders off, because i think he has some major misfires or screws loose. >> that's shelby. charlie sykes, go ahead. >> well, there's two ways of looking at impeachment. number one is the political dynamic, and the second is constitutional. the political dynamic is what i think nancy pelosi is focused on, which is that this might backfire on democrats. she's concerned about members of her caucus or in the swing seats. she also knows that it's not ultimately going to result from his removal from office, because whatever the house does, the senate is not going to convict and remove him. because we know how republicans are reluctant to break with donald trump at all. but then there's the question of is the president above the law. when the mueller report came out, it was very clear that the position was the department of justice says a sitting president cannot be indicted. so if congress will not investigate potential illegal actions by the president, then literally the man sitting in the oval office is above the law. and i don't think that that is consistent with our constitutional understanding. so whether you're talking about the corruption, whether you're talking about the obstruction of justice or whether you're talking about all of this, it has to be on the table. because again, as i said a little bit earlier, if congress does absolutely nothing, then it renders itself a constitutional nullity and i think that that will have negative consequences going forward. >> this is bill in pennsylvania, a republican. good morning. >> caller: good morning, john. charles, i don't know who you're trying to kid. i'm wondering who you're going to vote for in the election. i'm sure it's going to be joe biden if he gets the nomination, but he's not. warren is. here's what i have to say. this story -- the story is the democrats trying to get ahead of joe biden's messy family affairs, including hunter biden on a major drug binge that included him getting hooked up with beau biden's ex-wife and running around china and the ukraine posing as some type of energy expert, making millions of dollars on the biden name and the democrats are trying to get ahead of this story because it's damaging, very damaging for joe biden. this whole idea that trump saying, hey, we need this investigated is some type of crime, listen, charles, we don't believe you or bill crystal anymore. >> that's bill in pennsylvania. to the caller's discussion about the biden family history, here is one of the papers focusing on hunter biden's dealings. this is the washington "times" today saying that those dealings are helping his father's rivals in this campaign. charlie sykes. >> yeah, i mean, the caller threw up a lot of things that i don't know are substantiated whatsoever. i haven't decided who i'm going to vote for. but what i find amazing, though, is that anyone who supports donald trump purports to be concerned about corruption, concerned about sleaze. this notion that, yes, we have to be concerned about joe biden because of these possible conflicts of interest, i mean, could you look in the mirror and look at what's going on with the president? and again, i do think that these issues have been well reported by people who have talked to the prosecutors, who have talked to officials in ukraine, and they say there's nothing here. there was no crime committed in the ukraine. there was nothing improper that was done. now, hunter biden was paid money to be on the board of directors of this company. did he pay all of the taxes he needed to pay in the united states? that's an american issue and that's legitimate to look into. but i think what's truly interesting is the way in which we have this projection where we have the incredibly swampy nature of the trump administration, and yet somehow we're now supposed to be focused on all of this. look, i would feel better if we had a consistent standard. if you hated lying and you hated corruption and you applied to it trump and biden equally -- but obviously what we're seeing is it's all tribal. we're going to swallow everything that donald trump does, we're going to swallow the obstruction, the contempt for the rule of law, the self-dealing, all of the lie, we're going to swallow that but then we're going to pretend to be indignant about somebody else. at some point this fever will break and we'll recognize that if you have ethical standards, they ought to apply across the board. but that is not the case in american politics, right now, is it? >> wendy in pennsylvania is next, a democrat. good morning. >> caller: good morning. joe biden isn't the thing with ukraine. that's a diversion. he needs to look at manafort and what he did in their elections. that was blueprint for 2016 election. >> anything else, wendy? >> caller: all that lobbying that he was doing over there. well, read the indictment of paul manafort and all those lobbyists who were talking to all the congresspeople. who were those congresspeople? and maybe some of them were republicans and they all know that donald trump is ill legitimate and if they admit that, then they lose all their judges that they worked so hard to get. >> charlie sykes, back to paul manafort. >> this is the world-crushing irony, that donald trump who once had paul manafort as the chairman of his campaign is now trying to make an issue of ukrainian corruption. paul manafort was one of the most corrupt political operators of our time in knee-deep in the worst aspects of american and ukrainian politics. so there is that irony there. but to the point about legitimacy and everything, this is where i think that everybody needs to take a deep breath and step back. donald trump is right now the president of the united states. he won that election. now, you may not be happy about it, but there's not ever going to be a scenario in which he's declared illegitimate and the federal judges removed from their positions. none of this is ever going to happen. i don't know if that was the caller's suggestion. but i do think that we need to at a certain point focus on what are the facts, what do we know and what can be done about this. and folks, if the story turns out to be a nothing booger, then let's find out about it. let's look at the whistle-blower report and see the transcript. donald trump came out yesterday and said yeah, i did talk to the president of ukraine about going after one of my political opponents. again, there seems to be this notion that if you admit something in public that makes it okay. it is still a breath-taking statement. if there's nothing wrong, let's lay everything out on the table and then let's make a judgment. but i think we're at the point now where many republicans have simply given the president an absolute blank check and he is abusing it. he is going to take it and i think that there's something always dangerous about taking somebody in power and saying you can do whatever you like, there will be no consequences, we will not hold you accountable, and no matter how e egregious your conduct is, we will find to way to make it about the other guy. there's something toxics and dangerous about that. >> charlie sykes is joining us in the bus in milwaukee, wisconsin today as part of our battleground tour in the cspan bus. this is tim out of greene bay, republican. go ahead. >> caller: good morning, gentlemen, thank you for your time. i want to go back to the topic of wisconsin and being the battleground state. i agree with charlie sykes and i think wisconsin will be a battleground state, if not the battleground state. mr. sykes has been identified as a never-trumper, but i also believe that of the six of the ten members of congress from wisconsin, a few of the republican members have distanced themselves from trump during their time in this congress, and i think that's going to hurt the republican base in wisconsin over time. and i just wanted to get mr. sykes's thought on that. thank you for your time. >> well, i guess i would disagree with that. i think long-term, having republicans who are willing to show that they are independent and that they're not simply toties is in the interest of the republican party. look, there will come a time when donald trump is not around. there will be a post-trump era and those that kept their heads and maintained a sense of integrity i think are going to be better off for it. wisconsin has got a very strong congressional delegation. most of them have been, i would say, supportive of the president's conservative policies, but they have been willing to criticize the president on occasion and i don't think there's anything wrong with that. >> what do you think about that term, never-trumper. ? >> i'm sorry? >> what do you think about the term never-trumper? >> oh, i don't have a problem with it. i mean, i think i probably called myself that at a certain point and the reality is that i am never going to vote for donald trump. i am never going to think that donald trump is fit to be the president of the united states. i may support some of the things that he does in terms of his policies, but i do think that this country is greater and better and more decent than to deserve donald trump as the president of the united states. >> to hudson, wisconsin. this is calvin, a republican. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i was wondering, if a crime was committed there, would it not be right to investigate it or for trump just to ask about it and to inquire about it, would that be wrong? and you know what the problem is, they just don't think they can beat trump so they want to find some way to take him out without having to beat him in the polls. manafort, he keeps on backing up manafort, but he doesn't want anything related to joe biden. you know, he says he supported ted cruz, but what issue is different than what ted cruz did? that's just a scam, a pretense to give him some credibility that he's a republican or a conservative. he mentioned his conduct and his character. what was wrong with his conduct and character since being in office? i would think you would go to the issues. what did he do that this man, sykes, disagrees with that he has him all siekd out about. >> charlie sykes. >> well, where do you want to start? as a conservative, when i was on the radio i probably had paul ryan on my show 1,000 times, 100 times, to talk about the deficit and the debt. i remember the tea party movement concerned about that and now we have trillion dollar a year deficits. let's start with that. we used to believe in free trade rather than the kind of protectionist trade wars that we have right now. i'm old enough to remember when republicans did not kiss up to thuggish dictators and try to appease people like vladimir putin and kim jong-un. i also remember when we said that things like character mattered, when it was bill clinton, as opposed to now donald trump, who has told, what -- who lies as frequently as most politicians even speak. and i guess that's the objection. this is a man -- look, you can say that you like his judges, but don't make the case that donald trump is a man of good character. because you know that he's not. and i guess the question is, can we distinguish and say we support that policy, but we're going to draw the line here, we actually believe in fiscal prudence so we object to the trillion dollar a year deficit. where are republicans on that? where were republicans on free fray trade and where were republicans against standing up against some of tdictators of the world? those are things that republicans ought to be able to say we're not getting on that particular train. >> charlie sykes is editor at large of the bull work. you can see that at the bullwork.com. we appreciate your time this morning, as always, when you stop by the washington journal. >> thank you very much. >> with the general assembly in new york city, the president wrapping up his meetings with world leaders with a news conference this afternoon, which should get under way shortly. president trump has already met today with the ukrainian president. we expect to hear more today about the release of the memorandum on the transcript of the phone call between president trump and president

, seriously this is great. how did we get here? i think it's really important to understand that donald trump did not materialize out of thin air. we are living in a news environment that's moving so quickly that it's difficult to take a step back and take a deep breath and contextualize everything that's happening and why it's happening in sort of trace its roots peered there is argument to made obviously that if you could in talking about moderate republican party trace roots back 50 or 60 years. you could trace it to pat buchanan taking on george h dubya but short new to encourage and the revolution 94 the reason i chose to start the book in 2008 was i believe you had this really phenomenal convergence of events with the selection of sarah palin as john mccain's running mate and the schism that really exposed in the republican party, the disconnect between the governing class and the basis of party and the angst and resentment that was out there for simmering below the surface that not many people saw ended then of course you had the financial collapse, that fall with the bailout of the banks

donald trump, he is going to lose. that is now becoming the consensus opinion of professional poll watchers and election analysts. and i don't mean people like me who have dabbled in the use of polls during election seasons only. i mean the professionals who live and breathe polls and voter data every day of the year, whether it's election season or not. i mean people like washington's esteemed election analyst charlie cook, who will join us later in this hour. charlie cook now says if the election is a referendum on donald trump he will lose. charlie cook got more ammunition for that today when a new poll came out showing that 60% of americans believe donald trump does not deserve a second term. we will of course continue to keep you up to the minute on the breaking news in the congressional election in north carolina tonight. and we begin tonight with what might be even worse news for donald trump than today's very bad polls for the president on a day when donald trump's re-election campaign is facing nothing but very bad news in a bunch of new polls the president created what mi

presidency. and we start with a flashback to these photos. we are now learning what donald trump told two russian officials in this infamous meeting in the oval office in may of 2017, held without american media or officials present. the day after trump fired former fbi director james comey. late friday the "washington post" reported that trump told the russians during that meeting that, quote, he was unconcerned about moscow's interference in the 2016 u.s. presidential election because the united states did the same in other countries. an assertion that prompted alarmed white house officials to limit access to the remarks to an unusually small number of people. according to three former officials with knowledge of the matter. also late friday cnn reported that white house aides took, quote, remarkable steps to keep potentially embarrassing calls private according to people familiar with the matter. the sources told cnn that, quote, white house efforts to limit access to president donald trump's conversations with foreign leaders extended to phone calls with saudi crown prince mohamme

hidden from congress by donald trump's acting director of national intelligence. thanks to new reporting in "the washington post" and the "new york times," we now know that the whistleblower's credible and urgent concerns related to a promise donald trump made in conversations with a world leader centered on ukraine. "the washington post" reports, quote, a whistleblower complaint about president trump made by an intelligence official centers on ukraine. that's according to two people familiar with the matter which has set off a struggle between congress and the executive branch. the complaint involved communications with a foreign leader and a promise that trump made which was so alarming that a u.s. intelligence official who had worked at the white house went to the inspector general of the intelligence community. and ukraine is already at the center of an existing political scandal. there is a known effort underway by donald trump and his lawyer rudy giuliani to pressure ukraine to launch an investigation into joe biden, who donald trump fears as a potential opponent in 2020.

news alert, top republicans demanding to know who made the complaint about donald trump's phone call after a tense hearing on capitol hill with the acting director of national intelligence. griff jenkins joins us from washington, the whistleblower could be a cia officer. good morning. >> this is a buzz. who is the whistleblower? the new york times says it is a cia employee detail on assignment to the white house, served on the staff of the national security council, the acting dni joseph maguire testified for 3 hours. we've never seen anything like this. >> this is unprecedented in the unique situation. i want to stress the whistleblower and inspector general have acted in good faith throughout. i have every reason to believe they have done everything by the book and followed the law. >> reporter: the chairman adam schiff pressed maguire to explain his handling of it. >> the subject of the complaint for advice about whether you should provide the complaint to congress. >> it did. has executive privilege. it was not stonewalling. i did not receive direction from anybody, just try

once again really picked up speed, but donald trump won't resign the presidency, but a lot can happen in the next three months. donald trump can be impeached, and he can be impeached before christmas. we will begin this program tonight the way the impeachment hearings will begin, with a verification of the document that has now become the most important public document in the impeachment investigation of donald trump. the memorandum of telephone conversation between president trump and president zelenskiy of ukraine. larry p fife r who has prepared documents with leaders of foreign governments will start us off tonight with just his simple reading of this memo, verifying this memo. does it look like a legitimate summary of that kind of conversation? is there anything strange about the memo other than what the president actually says in the memo? larry pfiefer is the one to answer the questions tonight. this might be outdone by other documents as the investigation proceeds and that might happen soon and might be outdone by the whistle-blower's report which is now in the possession of t

and fair minded americans see through all of this. panel, thank you so much. that's all the time we have tonight. meek is in for shannon bream, the fox news at night team take it from here. president trump is calling on everybody at "the new york times" involved in a recent story about supreme co >> donald trump calling on, the story about brett kavanaugh to resign. landing in hot water after backtracking on new sexual misconduct allegations as brett kavanaugh. calling for brett kavanaugh's impeachment and a member of the squad ready to file a impeachment resolution against the newest justice. donald trump holds out hope for a diplomatic solution with iran and his administration releases new evidence the islamic republic is behind a series of drone attacks on saudi oil facilities. america first ties donald trump's hands on iran. later elizabeth warren campaigns in new york while slamming wall street and donald trump campaigns in new mexico which is turning blue. can he win over hispanic voters? the president sounds like he's winding things up in new mexico, speaking now. we will bring that shortly. karl rove and doug show and will be here with analysis. we begin with fox team coverage of the latest brett kavanaugh controversy, trace gallagher examining the political fallout. will it backfire and help donald trump in the long run? first we go to the host of fox's media buzz with the facts tonight. >> the new york times corrected a glaring omission in the accusation against brett kavanaugh touching off a political firearm. kate kelly charge brett kavanaugh exposed himself in another of those rugged yale parties, the forthcoming book says the woman in question supposedly wound up touching his genitals won't commented, quote, several of her friends say she does not recall it. that crucial point was left out of the time story by the same reporters which was based on secondhand information from one former classmate who wasn't identified as a former bill clinton lawyer, the other student talk to start to two unnamed officials who have spoken with him. the controversy reignited the bitter battle over sexual assault claims at his confirmation hearings. a source close to the justice told foxnews this was a disgusting effort to smear brett kavanaugh to sell a few books and senate democrats knew of the allegation (said nothing. the washington post said today it passed on publishing the same charge last year. donald trump tweet that kavanaugh should sue over what he called lies added without explanation or the justice department should come to his rescue. the president seized on that. >> the new york times made another terrible mistake. it is a shame a thing like that could happen. how can they do a thing like that and destroy somebody's life. >> a times editor apologize for a, quote, offensive tweet that facing a man excusing himself may seem like harmless fun. the magnitude of the allegation against the supreme court justice requires a high level of proof. after leaving out exculpatory evidence from the alleged victim the times correction is an admission is still short of that. >> howard kurtz leading us off tonight. now for the political fallout, political parties hoping to weapon eyes these uncorroborated allegations, trace gallagher has this side of the story tonight. >> a new york times article laying out another sexual misconduct allegation against brett kavanaugh, no fewer than 6 democratic presidential candidates called for his impeachment. kamala harris, a little foreign, pete buttigieg, beto o'rourke and julian castro but under extreme pressure the new york times issued a bombshell correction saying friends of the alleged victim say she does not recall the incident. the times mistake did not go unnoticed by the president courting i call for the resignation of everybody at the new york times involved in the brett kavanaugh smear story and while you're at it the russian witchhunt hoax which is just as funny. they've taken the only gray lady and broken her down, destroyed her virtue and ruined her reputation but even after the new york times correction, knowing there is no corroboration to the accusation kamala harris who was the attorney general of california and knows a thing or 2 about reasonable doubt still went on msnbc and said this. >> i've called for impeachment. i believe that is the clearest way for us to get an investigation of these allegations. >> apparently harris isn't alone. fox news reached out to all the 2020 candidates to see if they changed their position, none responded. mike allen says represent a democratic smear campaign, by portraying brett kavanaugh and mitch mcconnell as villains, defining the three branches of government saying each of these white men will argue symbolizes republican corruption and breaking but mitch mcconnell is already fighting back making sure he is on the record. >> it would be a mistake to dismiss this as a bad case of sour grapes. this is not just a left-wing obsession with one man. as part of a deliberate effort to attack judicial independence. >> not every democrat is on board with impeaching brett kavanaugh. house judiciary chair jerry nadler says his hands are fool impeaching the president. >> thanks very much. with the outline of the plan aimed at donald trump brett kavanaugh and majority leader mcconnell, is what we are seeing a smear campaign or new efforts to get at the truth, let's get reaction from tom tillis who was on the senate judiciary committee, great to have you. your thoughts on that? three boogie men situation with donald trump, brett kavanaugh and senator mcconnell? you think that's a winning play for democrats? >> i don't think it is. i think the american people outside of it, house democrats wondering whether they should go anywhere with this new story. i had a front row seat in the judiciary committee, there was a hit now. there is no information, no corroborating testimony, fbi investigation, the facts are what they are, brett kavanaugh is a great justice and they are trying to take whatever they have to, i saw it front row in the judiciary committee. the american people are tired of it. faxed unsubstantiated allegations and they need to move on. >> jerry nadler saying about this impeachment notion, quote, we have our hands full with impeaching the president and that will take of our limited resources and time for a wild. your reaction? >> they are even doing impeachment light for the president. they don't have enough information to pursue the president, the special counsel spoke loudly, there was no collusion, no obstruction, they tried to use false allegations to prevent kavanaugh from getting elected to the bench, that didn't work out. i don't think this goes anywhere and i think the new york times head pieces nothing but that, they walked it back into the end of the day brett kavanaugh is a great justice, he's not guilty of anything except being a great judge and he's going to be one of the great justices on the supreme court. >> new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez tweeting today, quote, this was almost a year ago, it is unsurprising brett kavanaugh credibly accused of sexual assault would lie under oath to secure supreme court seat because sexual assault is not a crime of passion, it is about abuse of power. he must be impeached. is that responsible? >> wouldn't you think the alleged victim would have at least spoken up. they are trying to create allegations, they don't even have a first-hand witness to stand 8. this is absurd we are spending time on these allegations when the american people care about one thing, getting the economy back on track, getting justices to the bench working to legislate the way brett kavanaugh will, they have nothing here, the house has already said they're moving on. if they don't have the resources to do it, that's the best evidence you have for having nothing. they need to move on. >> you remember on the judiciary committee you helped that these people for the bench, do you worry some judges may say i don't want to go through that, don't want to put myself through that are put my family through that. >> i do. every member running for congress, whether senate or house member, you have to worry about that but that's why you have to come back and continue to fight. that's why i am running for reelection. we cannot let this be the status quo in washington. cory booker, i remember vividly his spartacus moment. kamala harris holding up a document that obviously had nothing on it, pretending she was a prosecutor, she was anything but a fair-minded person when she became, went before the judiciary committee and tried to encourage this politics of personal destruction that the american people are getting tired of. >> thanks for your time. >> the united states is planning an attack on the world's largest oil processing facility in saudi arabia. it has cut the nation's oil output in half, donald trump says the us is locked and loaded. iran denies any involvement. jillian turner is here to break down the latest. >> the iranian regime is responding to donald trump's claim the us is locked and loaded saying they are ready to face off in a full-fledged war, donald trump responding to that saying he doesn't want war, never has. >> i don't want war with anybody but we are prepared more than anybody. with all that said i would like to avoid it. >> when it comes to the weekend attack on saudi armed facilities iran is sticking to its favorite am oh, deny, deny, deny. the us has released satellite images of damage alleging a pattern distraction suggesting the attack came from iran or iraq. further evidence the oil facilities were attacked by multiple cruise missiles and drones from across the persian gulf in the islamic republic. >> some strong studies done but it looked that way at this moment and we will let you know as soon as we find out definitively. >> reporter: iran's government is armed to the teeth with advanced missile technology and claims it is not afraid to target us military facilities in the middle east. iran making it personal going after donald trump's national security team, accusing them of lies. >> translator: to accuse the islamic republic of iran of these attacks and defensive measures is in line with their maximum falsehood policy. >> reporter: saudi arabia so far silent on the full extent of the damage these attacks caused, 5% of the world's oil supply is cut off and seen the biggest 1-day rise in oil prices since the first gulf war erupted in 1990. donald trump still not ruling out a meeting with the president at the un general assembly. the road to diplomacy is not yet dead. >> they would like to make a deal on certain terms and conditions and we won't do that. >> reporter: donald trump going to mike pompeo to saudi arabia, he says they are in it together and figuring out how to respond. knowing this administration he could change his mind to make a 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[ buzzer ] episode. awww, that one's my favorite. catch every episode of this is us with xfinity. >> mike: and president trump launching an ambitious plan t >> donald trump launching a plan to return new mexico red.o it starts tonight with a rally. on the opposite coast a surging 20/20 front runner elizabeth war rally support in new york city scoring in a key progressive endorsement. we have fox team coverage on the dueling rallies, standing by with a look at warren's but let's go to kevin cork live from rio rancho. >> the president making the case for new mexico, hoping this reliably blue state in 2020, 3 evidence to tell you about, the economy, energy and immigration, the president certainly bringing out a standing room only crowd. this arena holds 7000 or so, i would say 10,000 here but more outside. analogy ands of build the wall and usa and 4 more years the president paid particular attention to selling his policies to new mexico's hispanic community. saying they are working very well for them and he said that will pave the way to victory in 2020 for the gop. >> the unemployment for hispanic americans is right now at the lowest level ever recorded in the history of our country. wages for hispanic americans are rising fast, nearly 8% since my election. we will campaign for every vote and we will win the great state of new mexico. >> reporter: that got the crowd excited. is new mexico in play? the campaign thinks so. the president lost here by 8 points but he won 19 counties, boston sandoval county by 1800 votes. probably has a lot to do with why we are here tonight. he will continue his swing in california tomorrow where border security and immigration are major issues. back to you. >> let's go to new york city where 2020 democrat senator elizabeth warren is rallying support and scoring a key progressive group's endorsement. >> reporter: tonight, elizabeth warren's campaign, 20,000 supporters packed washington sq. park in downtown manhattan to hear her speak, to hear her unveil her plan to end corruption in washington dc once and for all, her version of draining the swamp. part of that, this will be the first thing she will concentrate on if she becomes president through congress, this idea of ending corruption in washington dc. she wants to bring structural change, bringing government to work for the people, not just the wealthy and the corporations. >> i have a lifetime ban on senators, congressmen and cabinet secretaries -- let's shut this industry down and return our government to the people. and there is more. now more secret meetings with every meeting between a lobbyist and a public official should be a matter of public record. >> reporter: warren unveiled the plan in a lengthy blog post. she wants to create an office of public integrity dedicated to investigating public ethics. she wants to create conflict of interest laws requiring the president and vice president to put their business in a blind trust to be sold off, wants to ban congress members from serving on corporate boards and owning individual stocks and ban lobbyists from political fundraisers was warren also zeroed in on the trump administration, called in that blog post the trump administration the most corrupt in our lifetimes. >> donald trump is corruption in the flesh. he swore to serve the people of the united states but he only serves himself and his partners in corruption. he tries to divide us. we are busy fighting each other no one will notice that he and his buddies are stealing more and more of our country's wealth. >> warren is certainly surging according to the polls, latest cnn poll from last week shows she has surpassed bernie sanders and is now second behind joe biden, 24%-18 person. we spoke to warren's supporters tonight, although we spoke to said they believe sanders's time has passed and the time for warren is now. >> i love bernie but his time is done. time for her to step up and be the one. >> she would be better. bernie can be in the background. >> bernie as well, we need his message but his time has passed. >> biden is a nice guy. his time has sort of passed. >> sanders and a huge endorsement from the working parties family, the progressive group and 3 hours after her speech. >> brian, thanks a lot. the president looking for an upset in the democratic leaning new mexico, a state he lost by 8 points in 2016. >> when i'm on the debate stage debating one of these far left radical democrats whoever it may be and they start telling you what they are going to do for you and we have the best numbers in every category we have ever had, hispanic americans, excuse me, new mexico as a whole. >> here to discuss, doug show and karl rove. let's get to it. is there any chance new mexico going republican or at least donald trump forcing democrats to play defense? >> could be. president bush carried it in 2004 x 6000 votes after losing by 300 votes in 2000. i think the trump campaign's view that they can take new mexico striven by one thing, they had a big rally in el paso, and they keep track of all the attendees and found they had a large number of low turnout low propensity hispanic democratic voters from new mexico who showed up for the rally. they continued to look at that data and continued to massage the data and think they have a shot at it. i suggest a different reason they might have a shot, the state in the southeast corner in the northwest corner very heavily energy dependence particularly in the southeast corner they've had a great deal of energy development as a result of fracking and if you have democrats like warren and sanders who say we want to end fracking and even biden who says an immediate moratorium of build on federal lands, they have a problem because that economy being driven by energy exploration and a lot of latinos are getting good high-paying jobs in that sector of the economy will not want to be told they stand a good chance of losing. >> look ahead to next year. >> obama won it by ten points, clinton by eight points. the hispanics went to clinton by about 20 points, obama by 50 points. i'm not that worried. if there was that much of a swing donald trump would be reelected by a substantial margin. i have a different explanation. karl rove got the highest percentage with george bush in 2004, republican is gotten in recent memory 40%. i think the speech speaks to hispanics nationally and if trump is able to up his hispanic vote to the high 30s or 40% level he has a stronger chance of getting reelected. the numbers he cited are compelling and my view as a democrat as if he can run a more inclusive campaign that he has in the past and seems to recently i think he has a much better shot at being elected and if we nominate someone like elizabeth warren who increasingly seems she is on the strongest path of any candidate it will be tougher given her program of redistribution and now economic growth that i can see for us to win the election, hold the 55%, 70% of hispanics we need. mike: i would love to keep picking your brain but time is short. the shocking video garnering national attention, a mob style attack on representative omar's district raising questions why the city doesn't have enough cops next. the weather's perfect... family is all together and we switched to geico; saved money on our boat insurance. how could it get any better than this? dad, i just caught a goldfish! there's no goldfish in this lake. whoa! it's pure gold. we're gonna be rich... we're gonna be rich! it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. mike:'s new york city prosecutors subpoena donald trump's tax returns, the office of the manhattan district attorney center subpoena to the accounting firm asking for 8 years of the president's personal and business returns, the da previously subpoenaed the trump organization for records related to hush money paid to stormy daniels. the accountants say they will comply with their legal obligations. the white house ordering two former aides to define house subpoenas. the white house council says rick dearborn and rob porter are absolutely in the in from testifying to what the judiciary committee is calling its first impeachment hearing. in a separate letter the white house council reportedly says former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski who never worked for the white house did not reveal private conversations with the president beyond robert mueller's report. corey lewandowski is expected to attend the hearing as its sole witness tomorrow. democrat jerry never tells fox news all this is a shocking and dangerous assertion of executive privilege and absolute immunity. >> disturbing video show mob style attacks in downtown minneapolis garnering national attention tonight at as mattson tells us the city is also dealing with a police officer shortage. >> we have to warner views this video as violent and difficult to watch. minneapolis police tell us so far 16 people have been arrested for targeting vulnerable people whose valuable items like cell phones. in one video young male is punched and kicked in the head, a mob gathered around him, beat him until he is unconscious and he is out cold. appears something is taken from his pocket. the victim tells fox news he is currently not living a normal life and cannot drive to work. and another video two males appear to be attacks, repeatedly punched. they fight back but one is knocked unconscious on the sidewalk in downtown minneapolis. a mob pummels a man to the ground, they beat him with a belt, pull off his pants, they even ride a bike over him, the attackers run to gain speed and stop them. the videos are emerging as minneapolis is dealing with a crippling police officer shortage and politics seems to be getting away. the police chief is asking for 400 more officers over the next couple years but so far the mayor has proposed 14 new officers in the budget. the chair of the safety committee tells fox news the city council is investigating in his apartment and youth violence prevention. >> it was concerning to see that video and that is not what i want people to feel minneapolis is like or about and putting them together at an earlier time, and officers in that unit. >> they have until december to decide how many officers it wants to add to its budget, the mayor has proposed 14 and now we are told city council is considering 30 or 40. mike: thanks very much. california banning state-sponsored travel to another state topping the real news roundup. iowa the purple state making california's now go list about 11 states because it does not require medicaid to pay for transgender surgery. thousands of present feel remains discovered at the home of an abortion doctor who died earlier this month. mike pence calling for a thorough investigation of the grisly findings. planned parenthood reaching agreement with its former ceo over her severance package. liana claimed planned parenthood tried to buy her silence by withholding her health insurance and departure payout. planned parenthood says that is untrue. on a lighter note former white house press secretary sean spicer scoring 4s across the board in his dancing with the stars debut, with a bright looking shirt. and its we before his performance he said he won't forget this for some time and maybe even needs some therapy. the new york times facing scrutiny for running this story on brett kavanaugh causing some to question the objectivity in the mainstream media, britt hume is on deck to weigh in. dad: oh, hey guys! mom (on speakerphone): hi! son (on speakerphone): dad, i two goals today! vo: getting to a comfortable retirement doesn't have to be an uncomfortable thought. see how lincoln can help. >> the left cross to threaten, bully and intimidate americans into submission, use democrat prosecutors and phony congressional committees whenever they can, they will do what they can to deeming you, to liable you, they tried to blacklist, coerce, cancel and destroy anyone who gets in their way. look at what they are doing today to justice cavanagh. >> donald trump at the rally in new mexico continuing his defense of brett kavanaugh. ahead of a planned push against the newest supreme court justice the women's march severing ties with 3 of its founding and most controversial board members. david fund has more. >> the board will replace the top 3 this month at a meeting but they are out in the first place following allegations of anti-semitism. tamika mallory is out, those allegations are years in the making. tamika mallory once appointed louis farrakhan the greatest of all time because of what he has done in black communities. she was attending an event where farrakhan made anti-semitic remarks and later apologized. and blandon has been accused of anti-semitism but it is important to point out actively campaigning for bernie sanders who is jewish this presidential election, this is from a campaign appearance earlier this month. >> i would be so proud to win but also to make history and elect the first jewish american president this country -- [applause] >> the first jewish american president this country has ever seen and for his name to be bernard sanders. >> in a statement from the women's march on twitter, quote, despite report saying otherwise our outgoing board members have simply served out there terms and are moving on to new ventures, we are unified than ever and we thank them for the groundbreaking work and sacrifice. the women's march put out this image of 16 new faces that will sit on the board of the organization including a transgender woman and three jewish women, one of the new board members is on the defense after tweets surfaced criticizing the us military. this tweet is from 2016, just one of several, quote, this american muslim works to be on the frontlines of redefining terrorism. it is isis but also the us military. looking at the group is organizing a protest in washington on sunday, october 6th aimed at calling for the impeachment of brett kavanaugh booty will be on the bench for the first day of the fall term. a day later on the seventh. expect that to be somewhat of a show at the supreme court. the women's march, and other progressive groups writing a march against brett kavanaugh on the anniversary of his confirmation. the new york times is facing intense scrutiny from both sides of the iphone make a major revision to its recent article about a resurfaced sexual assault allegation against the newest supreme court justice. here's an excerpt from the editor's note, the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say she does not recall the incident. that information has been added to the article. let's bring in senior analyst britt hume. senator chuck grassley was the chairman of the judiciary committee during the brett kavanaugh confirmation. take a listen. >> when they refer to reporters, journalists as the police of the democratic system but today i'm reminded of a very old adage, who will watch the watchmen. >> you been in the news business a long time. how high does this failure go? >> it is hard to know but there was a time not many years ago when the new york times simply would not have done anything like this. i remember nearly days of the reagan administration in the 80s one reporters for the washington post were editorializing like mad in their coverage of reagan, donald trump -- president reagan's economic program being battled in congress and the new york times didn't do that. they covered it fair and square straightahead and that was the way the times was in one of the things, kind of a national treasure really because it was a newspaper with enormous reach, huge circulation, big market, bureaus all over the world much of which it still has. what has changed is the long-standing tradition of neutral news coverage is gone and the times now finds itself in these situations where it pursues as it did the trump russia collusion story which there was nothing to it, the story completely collapsed in the end. the new york times would have been more reticent about that. they would have covered the controversy but wouldn't have embarked on that wild goose chase this sort of thing would not have happened because the times was different and the editor of the times, a legendary editor, and a contract guy, he said he wanted to be remembered as the man who kept the paper straight and i couldn't figure out what he was talking about. now we know, saying he cut the paper straight is on his gravestone. he was holding back the tide and he did for many years but now the tide is right. >> criticism of the new york times story, partisan attacks like this are why people feel they can't afford to speak out. they are designed to intimidate witnesses and distract from the truth. your reaction. >> there may be some of that going on but that's not what this is about. this criticism of the new york times on this story is entirely valid and is not designed to intimidate witnesses. if you look at the story the alleged witness in this case was somebody the writers haven't even talked to and the alleged victim was somebody who is told friends that she did not remember the incident so i don't know what that has to do with what jan is talking about at her own reporting on this story going back during the confirmation hearings has been called into question and that wasn't partisan either. that, she got called out for a bad story and wasn't the first time. >> we have tension in the middle east switching gears a bit. the iranian, the saudi's, created some freak out at msnbc. listen to this. >> now that donald trump is president it is even harder to take the government's word, the washington post's misleading statement trackers up to 12,000. everything from the trivial to the serious education point the president has contradicted himself on this very issue repeatedly. our big question today is on the issue of war. how does the american public know when the government is telling the truth? >> perfectly reasonable question. we need some basis for determining whether the government is telling the truth and to the extent we can figure out based on how the government presents its case, what evidence it offers, where it comes from and the like. this situation is one where we may never know the exact details but we all know what the intelligence community is telling us and how we get the information we may not know but their conclusion will be public. the question arises can you trust the intelligence agencies which i don't think there's a chance donald trump will try to fake the conclusions of the intelligence reports on something like this matter. we see the washington post, 12,000 or so lies. if you go through that many of them are exaggerations, some of them are, a great many are opinions and conclusions that are arguable and when you boil it down, the number of lies has been too many for sure but it is not 12,000. >> i could pick your brain all night but we have got to go. is calling it a ridiculous netflix deal but will donald trump's called to investigate former president obama's good with the studio backfire? are panel debates after the break. >> mike: a president trump suggesting today that instead of in >> donald trump suggested instead of investigating him house judiciary committee which is building a case for impeachment against donald trump should be investigating former president obama's book and netflix deal. let's untangle this with founder of catalina magazine and rnc committeewoman army dylan, great to have you. is the ten donald trump offering a suggestion to democrat let house judiciary committee, look at the obama book deal, the ridiculous netflix deal, then look at all the deals made by dems in congress, congressional slush fund and the ig report, take a look at them, those investigations would be over fast. your thoughts? >> it is so odd. i hope he is kidding. the point is the american people do not want investigations, that the entire point the republicans made with mueller, that it costs so many taxpayer dollars, so much money to do investigations, people don't like investigation so why investigative president who is no longer president on a netflix deal in the book deal with every president had a book deal since they left office for 100 years, that is ridiculous. no one wants that, nope taxpayer once this. >> the key difference between the obama netflix partnership and trump's business dealings, they weren't announced until well after barack obama left office in may 2018 to be precise, the point is not to make sense but to deflect criticism by sticking his rabid followers on anything obama related. your response? >> what is really tragic is the depth of perception of irony. the president is being tongue-in-cheek and spending that there are innumerable useless investigations going on at the house level and they don't result in anything and drag the administration through the mud and the type of swamp activity you see with former presidents enriching themselves is unquestioned. i don't think there's anything suspicious about the obama media deal, some presidents of enriched themselves in a fishy way. president clinton and his wife are the poster children of those and many others like president carter and the bushes of gone on and i think this is much ado about nothing. the president is bending over the witchhunt he suffered while in office. >> the mask how can the president be profiting off the presidency when he is hemorrhaging cash at some of his properties. >> he says he losing so much money being president but we have no idea what money is being made, he has trump hotels everywhere. we know how much money is being brought into the trump companies, losing billions? who knows? we don't know how much the sitting president is making, let's not divert attention to presidents who left, let's worry about the one who is in there right now. >> investors went after president obama last year, he spent his entire political career bashing the rich, he clearly made enough money not what -- why not give back the taxpayer money for his presidential pension each year, your thoughts? >> what kathy just that is a bunch of nonsense. it is irresponsible to speculate about the president's motives and his profits, anyone with business sense knows to give up your business as a real estate investor to be in the presidency is a net financial loss, he turns over every one of his paychecks to different causes, parks, government agencies and so forth. put their assets into trusts. the petty jealousy and nastiness we see is unfortunate and beneath contempt frankly. >> we have to leave it there. thank you so much. most-watched, most trusted and most grateful you spent the evening with us. shannon is back tomorrow night. i get it all the time. 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? >> no one in washington least of all donald trump is doing the slightest thing about this and i agree we are going to lose 15%-25% of our jobs in the next 10 years owing to artificial intelligence, drones, robotics and driverless vehicles which is going to take care of long-haul truckers but there is good news also, there will be replacement jobs with technical skills which will be higher wage jobs than those that are lost. we have to plan how to get the technical skills necessary into the hands of those workers. iran the numbers here. it would be child's play, one third of 1% of the state's budget to make those workers get free community college or postsecondary education to acquire those skills. to govern is to choose and i chose as a governor, even without federal help the states could take care of that like a mini g.i. bill. it wouldn't be free for everybody like bernie sanders is, just for the displaced workers and you would get them having higher wages and a happy ending in a more affluent society. artificial intelligence is going to create enormous wealth in the united states,

donald trump has done that's a label and will be well into his 2nd term if we end up the one that the house at some point bought out the articles of impeachment i believe that ought to be in the next few weeks send it over to the senate and the case will be tried the side at the house can continue to investigate until there actually is a trial in the senate the house would prosecute the trial of the senate but we need to get going with it do you think it's necessary to prove a quid pro quo as people are talking about currently with regards to this infamous phone call. no this is it it be is about our ease that give far later. to enervate out his bath to investigate a political opponent and a political opponent so on. he is seeking to use the power of the president's lee in the plough mostly with foreign powers not for it to advance the interests of the it out of states but to attack his political opponent joe biden that's what he's asking for he also asked by the way that they get involved again in the russian investigation he talked about robert muller's and also it's a false leads a

know what that means, real as can be. but it's those polls that show donald trump's political standing may be reaching a low point that's leading to a presidential unraveling. here are those polls. donald trump loses to joe biden in head to head polling by 15 points. donald trump loses to bernie sanders by nine points. donald trump losing to elizabeth warren and kamala harris by seven points. donald trump loses to mayor pete buttigieg should he be the nominee by four points. the head to head polls we are reflecting with the latest presidential approval number reveals that trump's squandered summer has taken a toll. he slumped six points and he's back in the 30s nearing his lowest approval rating ever. "the washington post" notes, quote, president trump trails potentialal democratic challenges. with approval ratings as low as trump's are today. that is where we start with some of our favorite reporters and friends. with us from "the new york times" white house correspondent amy kearney. nbc news correspondent heidi przybyla. msnbc correspondent garrett haake. and at the table charlie sy

that the house was moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry of president donald trump this after hearing mr trump's own words describing a now infamous phone call he had with the president of ukraine regarding u.s. aid for that country and mr trump's desire for the ukraine president to investigate joe biden his son hunter biden it's a fast moving story with many angles but for legal analysis of the house inquiry and what we've heard so far from president trump we turn to richard painter a professor of law at the university of minnesota and the former chief white house ethics lawyer during the george w. bush administration he joins me now from minneapolis welcome to the program. thank you so there's a lot to discuss but 1st your reaction to speaker pelosi is announcement about opening up an impeachment inquiry against the president. it's about time this impeachment inquiry should have been open a long time ago and this latest instance of abuse of power by president trump is yet one more grounds from beijing him we already have the obstruction of justice that's outlined in th

so thank you to both of you, radima and carl, we appreciate the work you are doing. >> thank you for bringing us here. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm going to see you back here at 10:00 p.m. eastern for the last word. "deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace begins now. ♪ >>> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. from russia if you're listening to ukraine, take out joe biden for me, will you? donald trump making clear that he can't win the presidency without foreign interference and doesn't have any interest in trying. donald trump essentially confessing to the conduct in question admitting that he urged the ukrainians to investigate joe biden and all but confessing to connecting u.s. aid dollars or in trump's words "money k" t the request to investigate biden. here he is with what he discussed on july with the ukrainian president. >> the conversation i had was largely congratatory, all of the corruption taking place, was largely the fact that we don't want our people like vice president biden and his son creating to the corruption already in ukraine. >> important to note trump is making a wholly unsubstantiated claim when he alleges corruptions by the bidens. there is no evidence of any wrongdoing. in reality joe biden was the one working to purge corruption from ukraine and trump is the one ordering foreign intervention in presidential politics. and here's trump seeming to confirm what we know from press accounts about the whistleblower complaint that put this entire scandal into motion that trump tied a promise to a foreign leader to something of urgent concern. >> it's very important to talk about corruption. if you don't talk about corruption, why would you give money to a country that you think is corrupt? one of the reasons the new president got elected is he was going to stop corruption. so it's very important that on occasion you speak to somebody about corruption. very important. >> though he'd go on to deny promising military aid in exchange for a biden investigation. trump came awfully close to confessing to the entire conspiracy in plain sight urging a foreign leader to meddle in the u.s. selection and suggesting he would not give money to a country that hadn't properly investigated corruption. except in this case the corruption is fabricated by trump and giuliani and the conduct in question is trump assolicitation of election interference from ukraine. it came after mueller testified about the russia attack on our 2016 election. when the july 24th congressional testimony of special counsel robert mueller deflated the impeachment hopes of democrats, president trump crowed no collusion and claimed vindication from accusations that he had conspired with russia in the 2016 election. then the very next day trump allegedly sought to collude with another foreign country in the coming election. pressing ukrainian president zelensky to dig up what he believed would be damaging information about one of his leading democratic challengers. and that is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. with us from the "new york times" white house correspondent annie karni. now an adviser to the biden campaign. with us at the table former democratic senator clara mccaskill. former federal prosecutor paul butler. former -- oh, david jolly didn't make it but he's still up here if he shows up. and chief public affairs officer karine jean-pierre. annie karni, let me start with you. donald trump seeming to confirm everything that your newspaper and "the washington post" and the "wall street journal" has reported since friday basically that donald trump called the code red. donald trump asked the ukrainians to investigate joe biden. >> i mean, he hasn't issued a firm denial of any of it. he tweeted about the "wall street journal" had reported that eight times in that july 25th phone call he asked ukraine to investigate biden. and he tweeted about that today calling it fake news. but he didn't issue a clear denial. one thing that we as journalists need to press him on today as he makes his rounds at the u.n. is on that phone call did he directly tie that foreign aid to an investigation of a political rival at home. that's what we still need clarity on from him, and he does a lot of talking these days in front of reporters and a lot of pool sprachlz. so that's something that we really need to push him on to get a more specific answer. >> paul butler, that's an important thing to know if there was a quid pro quo. about tut would seem we already have what we had in 2016. here's a graphic of how the ukrainian effort in election interference is already worse than the russian attempt, which put in motion a special counsel a 22-month investigation. so on the russia probe, russia approached the trump campaign in. this instance it was donald trump who approached ukraine. the russia investigation examined a lot of contacts 150 contacts mostly among aides and advisers with the russians. in this instance what is public facing is trump and rudy giuliani driving a ukrainian oppo operation in the russia investigation the mueller report sites donald trump jr.'s ignorance of the laws and accepting foreign aid. post mueller, the whole country is educated in the illegality of election interference. the russia investigation he was a candidate. now with ukraine trump is the american president has the -- of the presidency. in the question from the russia probe, as annie karni just said about a quid pro quo with military aid. >> we've seen this movie before. trump tried to bully the ukrainians into messing with our democracy. he tried to get a foreign national to help him when election to the oval office. he's on notice that that's illegal. it's a violation of federal campaign laws to solicit a thing of value including opposition research from a foreign national. mueller says that in, in his report. he says one reason he didn't charge anyone with that crime is because at that point it wasn't clear that it was a crime. now he's on notice. as you point out, nicole, it's worse this time because he's sitting in the oval office bargaining with foreign leaders. while you have $250 million in foreign aid in a defense aid to the ukrainians and a conversation where he's mentioning biden eight times. and, remember, michael cohen, if he wouldn't talk about a quid pro quo, michael cohen testified to congress that's not how trump -- he doesn't say, okay, i'm going to prescribe yone to . i don't know maybe by mentioning biden eight times in a conversation with the ukrainian president and at the same time he's saying unless you do this corruption investigation, you are not going to get your $250 million. >> you know, there's no one to blame but the person who did this, and that's donald trump. but has there been a culture of per missiveness some robert mueller delivered a report that didn't clearly articulate whether things had been. not wrapped in a clear message of whether crimes had been committed. nancy pelosi put impeachment off the table the day after the mueller testimony donald trump gets on the phone and solicits election meddling from the ukraine. >> i'm not sure anything congress does or doesn't have has much impact on this guy. he clearly is using -- i mean, there's two or three things there. first, i used to do circumstantial arson cases. there is so much circumstantial evidence here. he was withholding the aid. >> right. >> i mean, congress was complaining why aren't you getting ukraine the money we have appropriated them? he was stopping -- i mean one of the things they've got to do is they've got to dig through and see if they can get close to the finger that pointed -- that said hold that aid. i'm betting if we could get there it would in fact be donald trump and rudy giuliani saying let's hold the aid, put pressure on them to go after biden in a way that will help in your election. clearly illegal, clearly a felony. and he thinks executive privilege and classified information is a tool to allow him to break the law. >> well, let me key off something you just said if we can get there. how do we get there? it was rod rosenstein who essentially threw up his hands after andy mccabe had opened up a russia investigation into the president. we have now got bill barr there who is entirely comfortable using the justice department to shield donald trump from any legal scrutiny. i mean, if there are concerns that a crime was committed, couldn't the intelligence community inspector general refer that to the doj or the fbi for criminal referral for investigation? >> i think the i.g. -- this is a trump-appointed i.g. and that is not mentioned often enough. this guy was appointed by donald trump. he's the one that says this is an urgent matter under the statute, the whistleblower's claims should be reported to congress. if that breaks, then the i.g. is going to have little faith in saying, hey, doj, do something. because guess who told him not to send this stuff to congress? doj. they are the ones he called -- i mean, they gave it to dni, and then dni called doj and donl said no -- doj said no. >> shot it down. so what's going to have to happen here is the courts are going to have to begin weighing in on a wide variety of subjects. and i think legally they are in a worse position on this matter than they are on almost anything else that congress is taking them to court on. because this statute is pretty clear. what you would have to decide is the statute protects the president even if he's behaving with criminal behavior. >> joe biden called late friday for the transcripts, all the transcripts to be released of donald trump's conversations with the ukrainians, which we know to be from annie karni's colleagues' reporting at the center of the whistleblower complaint. that which caused as claire said, urgent concern from the trump-appointed i.c. intelligence community, i.g., inspector general. what else can biden do? does biden still have bipartisan relationships in the u.s. senate to call on the senate intelligence committee or foreign relations community to demand some more transparency? >> well, look. i think vice president biden's doing what he can do, which is speaking out and making clear what went wrong. look, it's up to congress to decide if it's going to fulfill its constitutional responsibility. >> haven't they already decided no thank you? >> nicole, i think this could be a game changer. i really do. i think that -- you know, your graphic before i think really laid out why in many ways this is much worse than what happened with russia. the idea that in 2016 maybe trump didn't know what he was doing. maybe he wasn't going to be president, whatever. he is president, he is in the oval office. this is money congress said should go to ukraine for an urgent security concern. the incursions of donald trump's friends in russia, trump withheld that aid. we don't know why. we also don't even really know what's fully in the whistleblower report. i think there's been great reporting related to this call. but maybe there's even more than this call. we just don't know how far this really goes. i think congress has to decide that it is going to issue the subpoenas and it is going to go to court and force those subpoenas, and it is going to get to the bottom of this because this is an abuse of power by the president that really ranks up there. i don't think it's mello dramatic to compare to watergate. after all, richard nixon didn't go and break into watergate himself. this is trump inviting foreign interveerns into our elections. >> color me cautiously optimistic, i guess, that the sort of landscape has shifted. i don't know that i see it yet. what do you see? >> it doesn't seem like the landscape has shifted. it should be shifting. i think this is a big kind of flag that congress needs to be looking at and acting on. look, the thing that i look at with this is the timing. this happened after the call. the call to the ukraine president happened after the mueller testimony. and so after donald trump saw that congress was not going to act on his past crimes, he clearly started committing new crimes. and it is absurd here because we have to remember that our founding fathers knew this was going to happen. they knew there was going to be a donald trump. so they put a remedy in the constitution so that someone like a donald trump could be stopped. and it's just absurd that congress is not acting. this is not a popularity contest. this is not a beauty pageant. we are talking about their constitutional duty. we have donald trump who truly believes he is above the law, period, full stop. he's obstructing congress. he is obstructing justice. and nothing he's not going to stop unless congress steps up and stops him. >> one thing that was remarkable, annie karni, this weekend, is the way he's turned the entire cabinet into his personal propaganda machine. i think we're all conditioned to see rudy giuliani on cable news making these out landish claims getting ahead of the michael cohen hush money scheme for the porn store, throwing sand in the gears of the mueller probe. but it was startling to see the country's treasury and secretary of state echoing rudy's message. let's watch. >> if it's the case that there was something going on with the president or his family that caused a conflict of interest and vice president biden behaved in a way that was inconsistent with the way leaders ought to operate, i think the american people deserve to know that. >> what i do find is inappropriate is the fact that vice president biden at the time's son did very significant business dealings in ukraine. i for one find that to be concerning. and to me that's the issue perhaps that should be further investigated. >> annie karni, just a stunning -- donald trump likes to call his gop primary opponents the three stooges, rudy, mnuchin and pompeo seem like a better fit. but what do you make of the fact that he's using the week of unga, his secretary of state to sort of puppet these ub substantiated allegations against a potential 2020 opponent? >> well, one thing. i mean, if this white house has not been, you know, organized enough to send out talkers or talking points to the administration officials going out on the issues in a long time. but it certainly sounded like they were reading from a similar script on sunday where both pompeo and mnuchin said it would create a bad precedent to release the transcript of this call and really poured cold water on that. even though while allies on the hill like lindsay graham were saying it would be helpful to look at that transcript and to have it released. and then they were turning this story around and saying like the real story here is biden which is the giuliani line all along. i mean, this is not surprising these two would be -- these are the top tier administration officials. these are the ones that trump trust the most. these are the ones that are with him at unga this week in new york. and that they were left with the task of defending the president. it's why many administration officials have refused to go on the sunday shows throughout the year because it's often a thankless task when you get a newsy week like this. it'll be interesting to see how these comments play out in four years. he is someone who is widely thought to have presidential ambitions and we'll see how he tries to distance himself from donald trump later when he's running for his own candidacy. so we'll see. >> i understand annie karni has to stare at the trees every day. it's shocking. it's like access hollywood weekend shocking to see the country's secretary of state -- secretaries of state usually stay far, far away from a president's domestic scandals. this is a domestic political scandal. he asked a foreign leader to dig up dirt on the frontrunner's kid. this was debasing the secretary of state, debasing the department of the treasury and to see them was beyond surprising, was shocking. >> and by the way, clearly he was ordered to do this. because he's a good enough talker. all he had to do was pivot and say, you know what, i'm focused on? we have a tinderbox in the middle east. and everyone would've understood that he would just pivot away from that and go directly to what the rest of the world is talking about. >> the behalfoon in chief practically started a global economic slowdown with his trigger-happy trade war with china. to see those two smearing the bidens was shocking to me. >> will anybody take these guys seriously out in the real world? and by the way, i thought jake tapper did a good job with mnuchin. >> he did a great job. >> ivanka trump got patents from china after her father was president. oh, i'm sure china was giving out those patents. >> rocking her polyester dresses. let me ask you about this idea the prospect of the investigation. three former national security investigators have told me anybody can refer this to the fbi or to prosecutors. how far can that get before bill barr snuffs it out like a candle? so there's two different documents that congress wants. one is the whistleblower complaint. and the other is the transcript of the conversation that the ukrainian president had with trump. they can claim executive privilege for that transcript. and they might have an argument that, yeah, the president should be able to talk to foreign leaders without it being disclosed. there is a crime fraud exception. so the president is committing a crime, then ultimately that executive privilege would be defeated. but in terms of the complaint, the law is clear once the inspector general certifies that it's an urgent matter of national security and the person who's making the complaint the whistleblower is credible, he gives that information to the head of the agency, in this case the director of national intelligence. that person is an errand man. he's a messenger. his job is to walk that to congress. so when he doesn't do that on orders from the trump administration, the other thing this has in common with the mueller investigation is obstruction of justice. >> annie karni, this was another weekend that i didn't remember a weekend since the russia investigation was in full swing where all three major newspapers, your newspaper, "the washington post," and the "wall street journal" on saturday morning, on monday morning, and i believe on sunday morning had front-page stories about the ukraini ukrainian scandal. how big is this story of what transpired between donald trump and the leader of ukraine? >> i mean, i think this is potentially as big as we've seen yet. unlike the story about russia and collusion as we've said on this program already, this story involved donald trump directly involved in the phone call. he is on the phone call himself. it's not his son or his son-in-law in the meeting asking for dirt on a political opponent. this would imply that donald trump was involved himself. the question though is like we know, donald trump tends to not speak, he communicates between the lines. is there really a direct ask, a direct quid pro quo? that's what we don't know yet, and that's what needs to be found out here. if so, this is a huge story. and as we've seen, you know, democrats who were sitting on the fence have moved further towards impeachment in the last few days. we have seen schiff, pelosi, we have seen their language changing. if this is just another case of, you know, it's close but it doesn't quite connect the dots here? then we move along and this was a two-week news cycle. it's still too soon to say. but it's a big story that needs more reporting. >> annie karni, we are going to keep watching your byline and your counterparts and all the papers. you've all done incredible reporting. and we thank you for spending some time with us. after the break, does donald trump's brazen attempt to get ukraine to meddle in the 2020 election change nancy pelosi's calculation? release the transcript, an idea gaining bipartisan support. how all of this is playing on the campaign trail. mayor pete buttigieg on 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contemplated a country that has elections every four years that this would be an extraordinary remedy, but it may be that we do have to move forward with that extraordinary remedy if indeed the president is at the same time withholding vital military assistance. he is trying to leverage that to obtain impermissible help in his political campaign. i have spoken with a number of my colleagues over the last week. this seemed different in kind. and we may very well have crossed the rubicon here. even impeachment reluctant democrats warming up to it in light of allegations that donald trump abused his power, the power of his office to coax a foreign government to meddle in the 2020 election. even house speaker nancy pelosi who has chastised members of her party from going there before admitted that if the white house continues to conceal information about the president's conversations with the ukrainian president, quote, they will be entering a grave new chapter of lawlessness which will take us into a whole new stage of investigation. and in this weekend's "washington post" constitutional odd couple, george conway and neal katiel underscore that there could be grave consequences if congress doesn't act fast. and it risks emboldening future presidents who might turn out to be of his sorry ilk. to borrow john dean's haunting metaphor, cancers if not removed only grow. congress bears the duty to use the tools provided by the constitution to remove that cancer now before it's too late. ron and the table are back. claire, what do you think not just about where this conversation is because we've had pretty granular conversations about nadler's handling pelosi's reluctant. but i can't help but tie it back to parenting. you know, and i have a 7-year-old, but if you say no and then the child gets to yes, then the next time you say no, it's a bigger transgression and a bigger one. this would seem like the most outlandish behavior, the scariest behavior and behavior with real serious consequences for our country. and i know elizabeth warren who we're going to talk about later talked about congress being complicit. do you think that's where we are? >> well, i certainly think that there has been a slowness to reality, a slowness to realize how bad this guy really is. that he actually would knowingly do something like this is startling. now, they have asked for the documents by thursday. the three chairman have asked pompeo for all the documents. then a subpoena will come. then there will be a long fight over executive privilege and the subpoena like we already have going on. there's numerous court cases working through. they have stonewalled everything. it's now all getting litigated. but let me say two words here. rudy giuliani. there is no privilege around rudy giuliani. and so he can't really fight a subpoena. now, he could go and pull a corey lewandowski and say i won't answer your questions, read it yourself and be one big jerk. i could not tell would be harder for him to do that as a lawyer, as a former u.s. attorney for him to come in front of congress and just be a clown like corey lewandowski was. so i think, you know, and the dni is going to testify about the whistleblower complaint this week. so i think you'll see enough happening this week one way or the other that will reassure the public that congress is not doing nothing. it's just this white house is going further than anybody's ever gone trying to totally block oversight. >> so my brain which i'll admit is a little fuzzy on cold medicine. keeps going to the failure of imagination that we used to talk about 9/11 that it wasn't just an intelligence failure and a law enforcement failure. >> it was a failure to imagine that terrorists could fly airplanes and buildings. and, you know, people like michael hayden have called the russian attack on our democracy a political 9/11. so i want to ask you not a question whether the democrats are too weak. but is the congress not designed to do this with one party? i mean, are the republicans the ones really failing the nation? >> well, i would certainly say the republicans -- i mean, knowing my republican colleagues as well as i do, i served with most of them for more than a decade. they have to be disgusted at this behavior. so where are they? where is richard burr, rob portman? >> where's lamar alexander? he's not even running again. where are the senators' senators that should stand up and say, you know, if it were only mitt romney in a state where frankly trump's not very popular, that's the only senator who is ever standing up and calling this guy out. and it's disgusting. >> mitt romney tweeted this. if the president asked or pressured ukraine's president to investigate his political rival either directly or through his personal attorney, would be troubling in the extreme. critical for the facts to come out. he did. we know he did. >> he did, mitt. fire that tweet out right now. i would support impeachment. i mean, the dam has to break. i think one of the reluctance, part of the reluctance is knowing what happens when it gets to the senate. i mean, these guys are all hiding under their desks. >> the republicans if they are not favor -- the speaker of the house is not favoring impeachment. i would make arguments to juries or to judges about why they should sentence someone who violated public trust to prison. and the argument would be if you don't give this person consequences, if you don't make them do the time for their crime, that's going to send a message. that's going to send a message that -- well, the reason you should punish him is to send a message. but the point is when people don't get punished, that sends a message as well. when there is not impeachment, that also sends a message. and president trump has certainly received that message when, again, there were no consequences to the russian investigation. he does the same thing again. and he will keep doing this until the congress fulfills its constitutional responsibilities starting with the speaker of the house to formally begin impeachment hearings. >> i think this guy's probably been lawless most of his life. i think a good set of prosecutors could go over his bank records. >> if they could just get them. [ laughter ] >> and find all kinds of violations of the law in terms of him misleading lenders and all the different kinds of white collar crime that you're so familiar with. i don't disagree with you. i think the problem is that if you look at the reality they got to get the 218 votes in the house first. i'm sure they're counting. they're getting closer. then they have to have at least some bipartisanship. there has to be a few republicans. the because if not i think what she's really concerned about is that it just divides the country even more if we don't have someone who has enough character and courage at this moment to stand up and say we don't accept this by a president. and i am hopeful that some republicans in the senate will find their conscience and do that. but that's the big problem because it goes there and then -- >> just really quickly, this president is a threat to national security. >> no question. >> he is using the power of the oval office for his own personal, political, and financial ends. the speaker has a responsibility to act regardless of the politics. >> you know, karine, i hear from political people in my life, former elected officials, this analysis about politics. i hear from all the former national security types in my life on the right and the left this, if x, and y, if he's an unindicted co-conspirator. >> i think that's exactly right. we just have to do the right thing for our country, which i don't think is happening right now. i mean, you think about it going back again to the founders. they knew donald trump was going to come. they knew that. that's why they added that remedy impeachment. they did not in i that congress would be too scared to act. i think that's the piece that they missed. i don't know what else could be more of an impeachable offense when you have the president of the united states using the power of the presidency to blackmail another country. i mean, i don't know what ulz -- for his own political gain. >> that's even worse. >> and so i'm not sure what else do you need to act here, and it's like they have to move faster and be more active here. >> but you are dripping with exasperation and disappointment. are you optimistic that they ex disappointment? [ laughter ] >> ron. >> look, i do think a line has been crossed. i think what you heard from schiff that when you started to hear from pelosi, i think things are moving. i understand why karine's frustrated. i'm frustrated too. i worked in the senate democratic leader's office. ooh inwhat it's like to be in the leadership office try to round people up. but i do think you're going to see this week. i think this is going to be a critical week with the thursday deadline with the speaker trying to organize her members. i do think we are going to see more progress. we are kind of stepping in intermediate step. before you reach a final judgment on impeachment, to start an impeachment proceeding so that the house has more leverage to litigate more promptly and get the subpoenas enforced and get the documents and start to build that record. and i really do think that is the next step to take the thing up one more notch. senator mccaskill said earlier the justice department has failed us, the republicans have failed us. i think the democrats are going to get tougher. and then it's going to come down to court battles over getting the materials to build this case starting some kind of more formalized process to do that will give the democrats more leverage to win those court battles. i think that's going to start this week. >> paul, i want to ask you before we lose you, one question about a conspiracy. we learned through the mueller report that they couldn't prove a criminal conspiracy. i always understood that to mean more than one person. is there any legal exposure? i mean, are there people on this white house staff -- we know about this because a whistleblower sought out the inspector general of the intelligence community. i imagine if the whistleblower saw these notes or knew about this call, the national security adviser probably knew about this call, maybe the chief of staff knew about this call. if we end up with an investigation in congress through impeachment proceedings or any sort of special counsel, could there be exposure among other people who knew about the president asking a foreign leader to investigate his opponents? >> there could be. we'd have to know more about what the specific allegations are in the whistleblower's complaint. but if there is clear evidence of aquid pro quo that the president put $250 million in foreign aid. remember the ukraine desperately needs this. they are near russia. they're poor. they have to have this money in order to have a viable state. the president saying you're not getting it not saying explicitly but implying you're not getting this unless you help me win my re-election. if folks knew about that and didn't come forward, not only are they unamerican, they might very well be criminals. >> paul butler, thank you. after the break biden strikes back calling for donald trump to disclose that transcript of his calls with ukraine and a full investigation into donald trump's 2020 election meddling effort. that's next. >> woman: what's my safelite story? 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>> i think he's going to act in a lawless matter no matter what. look, he's made it clear that he deserves to be impeached. we are also in a reality where the senate republicans have completely lost touch with their conscience. i support the house in taking on impeachment proceedings. i also think that the only real resolution to this will be defeating this president and his enablers in the congressional republican caucuses. look, what's going on here is shocking. the president of the united states confessed to official misconduct. and nothing appears to be changing around that. we also got to be able to do two things at once. i just walked around the town of elkader with the mayor here. they are concerned about making sure that their community can thrive. they are worried about infrastructure. they are worried about keeping their school open. they are interested in health care. we've got to make sure that we deal with this president and also deny him his power to constantly change the subject from the other things that we are delivering on or proposing to deliver on that he just won't. because life in american communities is not getting any better under this president and he hasn't kept any of his promises other than the one about the corporate tax cut. we've got to demonstrate a better way. assuming that senate republicans won't do their duty in the event of an impeachment, we've got to defeat them. >> is your job of defeating made easier or harder when he simply becomes more emboldened? we only know about his request to the leader of ukraine to help him defeat joe biden, should that be the nominee. is your job of defeating him at the ballot box made easier or harder if the democrats impeach or don't impeach? what's your political calculation on the democrats proceeding with impeachment? is it good for you or bad for you? >> well, i'm not getting any questions about it here in iowa. at least not from voters. it's not that people don't care. it's that people are also focused on what's happening in their own lives. i think our job of defeating this president depends on having a good candidate with a great vision in addition to calling out presidential wrongdoing. it's explaining how everyday life is going to get better. i think that the house should act. i also think that the house's actions will not have any effect on the conduct of this president. the only way to deal with it given the senate being where it is and they can do whatever they feel is right in the house. i think they should proceed. but the only thing that's really going to make a difference is for senate republicans to experience a loss of power as a consequence of them betraying their own values by being on board with this president. >> i worked for senator john mccain, and i can't help but see a little homage to his straight talk express in that bus tour you are undertaking. what is your strategic objective in being on a bus, being more accessible to reporters and some of perhaps some of your democratic opponents are? what are you hoping to achieve through this bus tour? >> well, we want to demonstrate our values around openness and authenticity. one thing even though he's from a different party that i admired about senator mccain is that he was whering to provide that kind of access and talk to journalists about whatever the most pressing issues of the day were. as we travel between these different communities, i've gotten an opportunity to speak with the reporters and speak dire directly with people about how this campaign is going to affect them and about what it is we are seeing on the ground. i think it brings us all a little closer to reality and it also demonstrates that the candidate has the qualities that i'm going to need as president, which is the ability to have open, frank, frequent, and honest conversations with the press about where this campaign and eventually where this country is headed. >> where this country is headed would seem that you think is toward really no recourse over this president. you suggested that he'll act however he's going to act regardless of whatever remedies congress applies. it also is apparent from democratic primary polling that voters are hungry for the kinds of full-frontal attacks that joe biden launched on donald trump and his video where he took on the president's conduct in charlottesville. how willing and eager are you to make trump front and center in your candidacy? >> i don't have any problem confronting this president. but i also think that the more we are talking about him, the less we are talking about us. and it would be a tremendous gift to trump to make this election all about him. no question we're going to call out his lies, we are going to confront his wrongdoing. we are not going to lose sight of the questions that voters are asking about how their lives are going to get different. the questions i'm getting are are you going to keep my kids safe in school. are you going to see to it that the economy's going to grow in a way that eshings actually -- earnings actually get to us in our families. what are you going to do about making sure that health care is available to all of us and that a health care provider stays open in this community? these are the things that are going to affect people's lives. the most egregious failure of this president in addition to the criminal behavior, the deception and all of his other wrongdoings is the fact that he's done nothing to make our country better, nothing on wages, nothing on family leave, nothing positive on health care, nothing to actually resolve the issue of immigration, nothing on infrastructure despite that deal that he touted. that matters too. and we should not allow this president the gift of getting us arguing about whatever outrageous tweet he just sent at the expense of making sure that we are competing on the turf that we will always win on, which is what the american people agree with us on, which is their actual lives from health care to wages to safety. >> i spent more time on the campaign trail working on campaigns than i have on television. what are we missing here in the national media that you're seeing in the campaign trail, and how important is iowa to your candidacy? where do you put iowa for you? >> crucial for us to do well in iowa. it's a place where we can demonstrate the ability to win elections. we can show the sort of ground game that helped us for example such a great showing at the steak fry, the reporters are saying we won the steak fry, show to speak. that's also a show of organizational strength in terms of the mechanics needed that it take dolla takes to win your caucus. in terms of what's getting missed in the coverage, theres a lot of coverage asking tough and important questions. but to me it still seems very washington-oriented. a lot of people here aren't asking me about the latest ups and downs among the house democrats or what's going on with proceedings. they want to know how their lives are going to be improved or worsened by the decisions that are being made in those big white buildings in washington, d.c. we must make sure we keep our eye on that because that also happens to be winning turf for us as democrats. the american people are also with us on every major issue affecting this country. that's why we shouldn't get off on arguing about greenland. >> mayor pete buttigieg, don't be a stranger. come back any time. thanks for spending some time with us. >>> when we come back, last year they laughed at him literally during his address to the u.n. general assembly. this year he is embroiled a scandal with ukraine. how is donald trump being received at the united nations general assembly? 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as the hill knows, the controversy followed donald trump to this year's general assembly. gets questions every time he walks by a camera. oh, yeah, by the way, trump is still scheduled to meet with the ukrainian president this wednesday. joining our conversation, republican consultant and contributor sir michael shelton. so a year ago he was laughed at, literally laughed out. still makes me laugh every time i watch it from a year ago. this year questions about asking a foreign leader to dig up dirt on joe biden, and we only know about that because of a whistle-blower complaint. >> i think right now the united states is the laughing stock of the world, i have to be honest. congress has the duty, they have a sworn obligation to be a check on the limitations and boundaries on the power of the executive. they're not doing that. as far as i'm concerned, republicans notice senate who are maybe afraid of losing elections, i would argue they're colluders. they are allowing donald trump to get away with everything. what's the point of congress? the whole idea of the american experiment might as well be dead if the body politic does not work. right now it's not functioning, it's not working. for me as a republican, i look to democrats and say, hey, we may have policy differences but, guys, you're the last hope here. and nancy pelosi, with all due expect to madam speaker, she's not doing anything. >> this does not seem to be

including a new iowa poll that the nation is buzzing about as well as donald trump's latest move which could push us into a war. but first as former vice president and 2020 presidential candidate joe biden pointed out to the media on saturday, we remain in the midst of what could be the worst of three years worth of trump scandals. one that could finally push house democrats to pull the impeachment lever. according to t"the wall street journal" donald trump repeatedly pulled foreign interference 2.0. essentially trying to do to biden what russia did to hillary clinton in 2016. paging robert mueller. ukraine's foreign mip bester is denying any pressure took place during the july 25th phone call between donald trump and the president of ukraine emphasizing that ukraine prizes close relations and open lines of communication no matter who the american president is. that should not surprise you since ukraine relies on the u.s. for military aid. picking a fight with the american president, no matter who that is, would not be wise for them. also ukrainian president zelensky is going to meet o

nancy pelosi will announce a im donald trump. the move toward impeachment is a dramatic one for speaker pelosi who was unmoved by the mueller report, but who has taken this extraordinary step in the wake of a whistle-blower complaint regarding the president's conduct with the leader of ukraine and his demand that a foreign government investigate the biden family for the express purpose of dirtying up a potential political rival. donald trump's conduct has been revealed in waves of new reporting and stunning admissions from the president, himself, over the last several days. twin developments last night, though, seemed to break the dam of opposition from pelosi. a report in the "washington post" that trump ordered a hold on military aid to ukraine just days before a call in which he pressed for an investigation into the bidens as well as the voices of seven freshmen democrats with national security backgrounds who described trump's conduct as impeachable. their calls seemed to usher in a wave of new support for impeachment proceedings. the number of democrats who support impeachm

>> donald trump spent his entire campaign threatening to imprison his 2016 political rival. banana republic style. and true to form, he has spent his entire presidency strong arming federal agencies to try to make that happen. and just last night, "the washington post" published this report. based on documents it received. you see that headline? state department intensifies email probe of hillary clinton's former aids. yes, this is an actual headline for a story published last night. not during the 2016 election or when secretary clinton left the state department way back in 2013. donald trump is still attacking hillary clinton, and using the power of the federal government to do it. meanwhile, donald trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, is still melting down on national television over the real crisis facing the country. not her e-mails, his corruption and danger to our national security. and rudy is throwing everyone under the bus. >> this was given to me -- i wasn't looking for it. it was given to me by a very legitimate american investigator, lawyer, who had these very serio

donald trump. news that he'd invited the terrorist group that supported the 9/11 terrorists to camp david during the week of the 9/11 anniversary. the news breaking today that john bolton, donald trump's third national security adviser, is out. donald trump claiming that he ousted bolton over policy disagreements, while bolton maintains that he offered to resign last night and turned in that resignation this morning. whatever you thought of bolton's foreign policy views, he was largely seen as a check on some of the president's most reckless and childlike impulses. things like sucking up to kim jong-un and staging a summit with the taliban at camp david. his abrupt resignation came as a surprise to the west week. "the new york times" reporting, "the national security adviser's dismissal came so abruptly that it was announced bare lly an ho after the white house scheduled a briefing for 1:30 where mr. bolton was supposed to appear alongside mike pompeo and treasury secretary mnuchin. mr. bolton is reported to have now left the white house." trump fired off a tweet indicating there we

whistleblower. new development straightahead and new pressure on nancy pelosi as calls for donald trump's impeachment intensify in the wake of the secretive whistleblower complaint but is the democratic narrative unraveling as fox news learns the whistleblower does not have firsthand knowledge of the phone call with the ukrainian president in question. tensions escalating with iran. the country's foreign ministers is the latest round of us sanctions against his country has closed the door to negotiations, both donald trump and iran's president are in new york city setting the stage for a possible showdown as fallout deepens. the state department spokesman morgan ortagus joins us live in moments. also tonight a cornerstone of this administration, protecting religious freedom and donald trump is allocating $25 billion to because. we will speak to the ambassador at large for international religious freedom. welcome to fox news at night. we begin with correspondent jillian turner who has the latest from donald trump on this whistleblower complaint. >> sources are confirming to fox news the whistleblower

bolton who only a few hours ago was fired by president donald trump we've got alan fisher who is our correspondent at the white house just to talk through some of this out and we should point out this was supposed to be well that was a briefing about the u.s. treasury department imposing sanctions on groups like eisel and hamas and islamic jihad in the revolutionary guards but of course the sacking of john bolton pretty much took over that they i thought there was some interesting stuff there where let's start with what. might come players said the president is entitled to the stuff he wants any moments people he trusts and values compare that to the way donald trump actually got rid of john bolton. the thought whole thing is just all and i mean it looks like a movie doesn't it when the reporters are all shouting over one another trying to get their question haired and the fact that it lasted what 12 minutes or so is also very odd that you'd have to senior people from the administration from an administration that doesn't brief that often would put them in front of the media for 12 m

we're just seeing. well where else but twitter total trump president donald trump says i have informed john bolton that is of course the national security adviser last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration and therefore i asked john for his resignation which was given to me this morning i thank john very much for his service i will be naming a new national security advisor next week i think we've got alan fischer actually to talk through this one alan what's going on the seems like a surprise. one a surprise and 2 this is pretty brutal for donald trump normally when people are fired by tweet and he's done that a few times in the past then it's we've had a disagreement or his resignation has come and we know the been fired but here this is pretty brutal saying i asked for his resignation there were a number of disagreements that we didn't agree with his point of view and that was the same with other people in the administration and so john bolton is out the door what is also a

released a partial note of the conversation donald trump had with the leader of ukraine, which has led to president trump's opponents bringing impeachment proceedings against him. the allegation is that he threatened to hold back us military aid to an ally, unless ukraine provided dirt on one of his political rivals, the democratic party's frontrunner, joe biden. the president claims the entire story is a witch—hunt and a hoax. this report from our north america editorjon sopel. he's made me more famous than i've made him. who'd have thought that a meeting between donald trump and his ukrainian counterpart would become the most keenly anticipated event of un week? but after a phone call injuly between the two men that has resulted in the democrats launching impeachment proceedings, it has. it's better to be on tv than by phone, i think. and a central charge — did the us president try to pressurise volodymyr zelensky into supplying damaging information on donald trump's main democratic rival, joe biden? the ukrainian leader looked uncomfortable. i think, good phone call. it was

politically motivated. overshadowed by the biden ukraine noise, donald trump took the stage to take the message to iran. >> it didn't fall on deaf ears, the response from the president in a fox news sit down. can can spice make everything nice? rob: favorite items that can't seem to stay on store shelves. "fox and friends first" continues right now. good morning, you are watching "fox and friends first". i am rob schmidt. jillian: we have a lot to get to and we begin with a fox news alert. the trump administration official says there is evidence of political bias in whistleblower complaint against the president. rob: we await the release of the transcript of the phone call with ukraine's president. jillian: congress just launched an impeachment inquiry. >> reporter: we expect a lot of news on this story. at the direction of donald trump the white house will be releasing the unredacted transcript in a july phone call with vladimir zelinski. the white house will also be releasing a document showing the inspector general of the intelligence community felt the whistleblower who filed the co

double standard for hillary clinton and donald trump. and if the question is mental fitness, and we're prosecuting a case against joe biden and letting what -- if donald trump were anyone's you know, relative, i think there would be a family meeting, we'd talk about the investigation, we'd talk about a david brooks column in 2017 where senators wondered if he wasn't displaying early signs of alzheimer's. we'd talk about an axios report where her schedules were unearthed and there was nothing on them. if this is going to be an apples to apples question and it's because of the age of two othe top candidates, it would seem that democrats are already digging a hole for themselves on these kind of attacks on biden. >> i think that they are -- we are basically writing the attack ads if this continues for the republicans. and that is something that's incredibly dangerous because biden could very well be the nominee. i don't know, but that could be a likelihood. he is right now the front runner and we can't do that. right? we -- and the other thing about biden is that they don't understand --

on the east coast john bolton is out, donald trump launching a search for his next national security adviser as his critics pile on. what the shakeup means for the war in afghanistan on the 18th anniversary of the terror attacks. we are live in washington. a major m aga win in north carolina. >> tonight was the first step toward taking back the house of representatives in 2020 because under this president america is great again. >> democrats licking their wounds after donald trump boosts republicans across the finish line. what does it mean for 2020 kick you sports heroes thinking of the real heroes. top athletes putting the spotlight on first responders since september 11th. "fox and friends first" starts right now. good morning, you are watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning. today is the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, americans nationwide, the memory of 3000 lives lost in the families of the victims on that tragic day. here's a look at ground 0, the freedom tower in new york city and we want to thank every police officer, every firefighter and all the

now. >>> hi, everyone, it's 4:00 in new york. if only donald trump tackled gun violence, pediatric cancer in the way he's spent proving he was right all along that hurricane dorian was in the path of alabama. no noaa corrected the president vehemently. and today donald trump is still at it. his alabama tweet count today stands at four but those numbers are expected to right as donald trump surveys the damage to his reputation, which now includes sharing a false weather forecast and doubling down on it. "the new york times" describes this morning's developments this way, quote, by thursday morning it was clear that mr. trump had no intention of conceding that he was wrong about alabama. at a tweet at 6:39 a.m., the president accused of media of not giving the hurricane the attention it deserves. and they said the president'sco harm's way and the president is focused on covering up a mistake he made. this is part of a pattern of two trump phenomenons, lying and doubling down. "the washington post" is out with a piece chronicling other low points in the trump administration's war on t

democratic led impeachment investigation into donald trump pits the left against corey lewandowski. the president's former campaign manager going to to toe in a testy hearing. griff jenkins live in washington as some lawmakers are calling on him to be held in contempt of congress. i don't know which was the most fiery part yesterday. it was really something. >> it was must watch tv, the first official impeachment hearing of a former campaign manager of using to ben's to democrats demands citing executive privilege resulting in the committee chairman's threat of holding a combat of lewandowski in contempt. >> there is a far more troubling level of contempt on display here and that is donald trump's role and your refusal to answer questions. >> democrats tried to get him to answer questions related to the mueller report, and obstruction of justice. listen. >> you follow their instructions and you are doing what they thought you would do. you are a loyal soldier. >> the president cannot hide behind you and you should be telling the truth. the truth will set you free. >> this fake russia co

right now. >> hi, katie, great to have you back. donald trump has been admitting to attempted collusion, demanding a foreign government undercut his domestic opponent. that is our lead story. i want to tell you later, neil cocha will be here explaining his agent or the case for impeachment. and corey lewandowski lying again, i have a fact check on that in the hour. a new fall out in international scandal consuming the trump white house. tonight washington is reeling over a story unlike anything that we have ever seen in modern political history and i realize that's saying something, but the president is admitting open now to begin the week that he sought election help from a governor government, pressing ukraine to go after a potential rival, joe biden. now, we're tracking several responses right now, congress dialing up the pressure with new calls for impeachment, including from some unlikely places and some republican rivals you see right here against donald trump, going on "morning joe" together to argue this time today is different. and in some ways, it is clearly differen

donald trump tightens his economic grip on the regime. what the white house just did that could force iran back to the negotiating table. alexa is going hollywood. the actors who just signed up to be the new voice behind the gadget. "fox and friends first" starts right now. and good morning to you. you are watching "fox and friends first" on this thursday morning, thank you for starting or ending your day with us. we begin with that fox news alert. the explosive whistleblower complaint declassified overnight and in just a few hours the director of national intelligence will have to answer questions from lawmakers about that report. and the president's reaction and a lot of others. >> the president is calling for transparency in this whistleblower complaint, lawmakers have seen enough not to make it public yet but it is at the center of the inquiry. the president is slamming it. >> the witchhunts continues. they are getting hit hard on this witchhunts. when they look at the information it is a joke. impeachment for that? >> this is the nation's top intelligence official, joseph m

it from here. >> we begin with a fox news alert. donald trump crafting a foreign policy agenda without john bolton. where does diplomacy go from here, a big point of contention was how to deal with north korea. more insights tonight from a former insider on the national security council. stick around. we are hours away from house judiciary committee, lawmakers on the panel say the formal technology went of the impeachment inquiry, democratic house leaders are shying away from using that terminology. we will cut through the confusion tonight. the house minority leader kevin mccarthy is on deck. trump administration officials are in california on a fact-finding mission. the white house says donald trump has taken notice of the homelessness crisis. what are residents saying? we will tell you what we are all that is coming up but first breaking tonight a win for the trump administration, the supreme court giving the white house a green light to enforce restrictions on asylum-seekers on the southern border. late breaking news, good evening. >> the order came down earlier this evenin

are accused of trying to cover up evidence that donald trump used his power to solicit foreign interference in next year's election. in a phone call, mr trump pushed ukraine's president to investigate his main political rival, joe biden. borisjohnson says tempers need to come down after furious scenes in the uk parliament on wednesday. but despite strong criticism, the prime minister has refused to apologise for his own controversial language. and this video is trending on bbc.com: prince harry has praised the swedish campaigner, greta thunberg, and said the world will be a "very, very troubling" place if people continue to deny climate change. he was speaking during a visit to botswana on his tour of southern africa. that's all. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news it's hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i am stephen sackur. the trump presidency has seen us politics become ever more polarised and partisan. but in the words of one commentator, you ain't seen nothing yet. the democrats‘ decision to begin impeachment proceedings based on emerging details of