biden, hunter biden, his son was involved with who wanted to meet joe biden. and then hunter went with his father and joe biden and introduced his father, the vice president, to this asian partner who ultimately was arrested for corruption. and the partner's soash dwrait waassociate wasarrested for cor. this is dirty, dirty, dirty. in the end when everything comes up, if biden did play a central role in the energy policy in the ukraine and he's not going to try to turn the this around on donald trump, that's the biggest mistake of his life right now. >> judge, here's the interesting thing. i don't want to improperly accuse people of improper behavior. but adam schiff and his colleagues continue to spin the narrative over and over again of which they're guilty of. they'll accuse the president of colluding with rawsh sha. the only people that worked with with the russians was the dnc. i would think that the only people that actually worked with the ukrainians is that same group, the democrats and the hillary clinton campaign. and i think you'll see that. i welco

those are joe biden's words. that is concerning to me. >> bret: if the president did as is being reported, "the washington post" now does match "the wall street journal," he mentioned numerous times to the president of ukraine while the u.s. is considering $250 million in aid to ukraine, is that implicit quid pro quo to get this investigation kick-start a? >> you don't have any of the facts. let's wait until next thursday. let's go through the appropriate channels. how many times have we learned this lesson before? let's just say -- i'm not going to speculate that it happened. >> bret: let me just say, would something like that be a problem for you? >> you know what will be a problem for me? for me to speculate without knowing the facts. i want our president of the united states to have relations with every country. i want our president to be able to talk to those leaders and i think it is inappropriate that all these people are going to listen to these conversations and selectively put something out and then hav

the quickly turning to joe and hunter biden. >> wind of this morph into an investigation of joe biden and hunter biden, and is it appropriate -- >> that's the way you characterize it. >> that's the way it appears to line up buried >> no it doesn't. >> you went there for one thing, found out something else -- >> of the media line set up. >> president trump and rudy giuliani say if there was any quid pro quo it was joe biden. as vice president threaten to withhold $1.2 billion in lone guarantees to ukraine if a prosecutor investigating the natural gas company hunter biden was involved with wasn't fired. in iowa, biden denying any wrongdoing. >> mr. vice president, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings? >> i've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. >> in the face of mounting calls for his impeachment, the president trying to flip the script to the bidens, insisting they are the ones who should be investigated. >> when you see the call you're going to be very surprised. joe biden is the one that did a very, very bad thi

joe biden. >> imagine. we'll talk about you know about china. but imagine if don jr. went over on air force one with his dad and inked a big deal in an area he has no background. washington would go ballistic, i would, rightly so, such a different response to to it. when my book came out, number one on "new york times" bestseller list, i did your radio show, and fox, and no contact from the mainstream media. >> you write about republicans. >> absolutely. >> they don't want to hear. >> there is a cast system in washington d.c. they protect. i think one of reasons that their is so much animosity toward trump, some is ideological, some style or whatever, a lot is he represents a massive disruption to the business model of washington dc. which is you come in, you juice in your family, you juice in your friends, you serve in public service, you come out rich, and when you leave office you cash in further. high representhe represents a threat and challenge to, that they don't like that a lot of people in both pol

he knows hunter biden is a weakness for joe biden. he knows that if he attacks hunter biden, it puts joe biden in a bad position. today joe biden could be if this was about anybody else, could be out on television attacking donald trump. joe biden's not doing that today because he doesn't want to talk about his son who's had various problems, not the kind of problems donald trump has asserted but other problems. and donald trump knows that. this is a hit job on the son, the last surviving son, his brother passed away. this is the last son. part of the reason why joe biden didn't run for president in 2016, because he wanted to take care after his family after he lost beau. this is an achilles hill of joe biden psychically. and donald trump is like where can i go to get the oppo to get at this guy's heart. >> because i have no conscience, i have no morals and i don't care about using the united states government and possibly foreign aid to carry out my campaign. >> correct. and if that's ukraine or if that's utah, donald trump is going

if a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they would be getting the electric chair by now. >> again, the ukranian prosecutor has said he knows of no evidence of any misconduct by the bidens. as opposed to the intelligence community whistleblower whose complaint about the president's phone call and more, the trump administration is blocking from congress a complaint that the inspector general of the intelligence community appointed by trump called credible and urgent. consider, however, how much of this is playing out in front of our eyes and ears. in may, the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani, told the "new york times" that he was going to ukraine to push for this investigation into the bidens to do so, in fact, to help his client, president trump. quote, i'm asking them to do an investigation that they're doing already and that other people are telling them to stop, giuliani told the times. and i'm going to give them reasons why they shouldn't stop it, because that information will be very, very helpful to my client and may turn out to

joe biden said about his son. joe biden, it's a very dishonest he did. >> a separate source told fox news that it weakens the complaint, but does not necessarily undercut all the complaints. >> all right. tonight, we will be joined by mark levin, trey gowdy, mike pence all weighing in tonight, alongpe with john solomon and peter schweizer. they have written and investigated this extensively. it's pretty clear, the media's four day anti-trump binge was yet another false, totally misguided, and as usual, they got it all wrong moment. but, despite so much terribleres and misplaced his officer i can't, we got a big thanks to the media mob. they've highlighted joe biden and the country of ukraine. biden's conduct is now rightly in the spotlight.as comeman devs weekend,d, this may be the end of joe biden's campaign. let's take a look. >> the left knows that biden's sonn is a problem for him. this is why when hillary clinton was running, these stories first originated back one hillary clinton was trying to make sure that

biden doesn't if you go back to the iowa state fair she was strong and crowds 3 times what joe biden was so i think that he might like chris said have a sugar high right now. based off of some sympathy by by the julio castro attacks but i do expect to see maybe elizabeth warren running away from this want to point out too that at this point in 2008 obama was still in single digits so there's still some room for one of these other candidates but i'm not sure who so let's just pretend for a 2nd that we are advisers to the sanders campaign what would you advise them to do to regain their their position against war and against biden chris. you know it's a tough place to be whatever you were a leader in a prior campaign and the find yourself stumbling in a new campaign i think sanders is his real challenge is you can only be an insurgent once and he kind of had that chance in 2016 i think a lot of people who who were with him in 16 have now moved over to warnings of looking for you know a younger step to generic if you will but she does of elizabeth warren comes off a little more reasonab

>> joe biden is presumed innocent. but somebody has got to investigate him for going to the president of the ukraine and telling him i'm not going to give you -- >> that's fine. but you're working under authority of the president. >> no, no, no, no. when the new prosecutor that joe put in came in, he not only dismissed the case on hunter biden, forgetting about $6 million in laundered money -- >> the prosecutor that was removed, which of the original intrigue on joe biden, that prosecutor was removed, first of all, by consensus of a multiple of western countries and it was after hunter biden's stuff was done. look, you should have your hand on your face. you know why? this is all a distraction from what i asked you. >> no, it isn't a distraction. what you said is totally wrong, completely wrong. >> it's a factual timeline. >> you don't know what happened. i know what happened. >> how do you know i don't know? >> you're just repeating spin. >> oh, but you don't, right? you're not spinning anything. go ahead. >> i'm not

you mentioned joe biden. did anything about betos a performance either meet or exceed expectations for him as someone who sort of is thought to have found his voice in el paso and odessa after those mass shootings? >> i have to say that practically every single candidate when they wanted to talk about el paso or they want to talk about gun reform, they tipped their hat to the leadership of beto. and beto owned it, and he did it gracefully. he talked what most candidates have been afraid up to this point to really talk about. he named racism as one of the things that is tearing this country apart and named that it falls at the foot of the white house. and that is refreshing, because if you can't say it out loud, you can't address it. >> maria teresa kumar, greetings from everybody here. you know everybody here. >> you guys are having so much fun. texas is having a great time. thanks for having me on. >> you'll be here next time. thanks for joining us. >> it's your punishment. >> from houston. and now i underst

joe biden? >> no, actually i didn't -- >> you never ask anything about hunter biden, never asked anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked a bunch of varnish to get to the bottom of how it was -- he was appointed, dismissed the case against -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden. >> corseted ex-lax because you just said you didn't. spirited you ask the ukraine to look into it? >> rudy: said to me did i ever talk about joe biden, i said no. then i said i did say you should investigate joe biden and hunter biden. i corrected it immediately. i corrected it before he corrected it. the reality is the distinction is this, what they are trying to say as i went there for a political mission to kind of get joe biden in trouble. it ridiculous. i went there as a lawyer defending his client. i've known about this for five months. i've been trying to get people to cover this for five months sentiment will be very hard to get this out. one problem with this, it ukrainian collusion, whic

and now he's blaming joe biden. and right now the front and center issue is did the president of the united states cajole and dangle promises or threats in front of a foreign leader in order to get that foreign leader to provide dirt or potential dirt on a political opponent. that is flat out wrong, it is unethical and probably illegal. >> congressman jerry connelly, thanks so much for joining us. >> my pleasure, wolf. >>> we'll have more on the breaking news. we're getting some -- getting some frightening pictures of an suv -- look at this, smashing through a suburban chicago shopping mall. stand by. we'll have the latest details. at humana, we believe your healthcare should evolve with you. and part of that evolution means choosing the right medicare plan for you. humana can help. with original medicare, you're covered for hospital stays and doctor office visits, but you'll have to pay a deductible for each. a medicare supplement plan can cover your deductibles and co-insurance, but you may pay higher premiums and

how about joe biden? >> joe biden? yeah. if he's going to be the candidate, it's joe biden or donald trump, i'm voting for joe biden. >> i don't know who's running. if anything, i'll go for anybody else other than trump. >> reporter: leaving the fairgrounds we traveled north trading this blue county for a red one, luzerne county. arguably the county that gave donald trump pennsylvania in 016, even though they hadn't voted for a republican here since 1988. trump's trade policies and the vote from farmers could determine whether or not it stays that way. over the past year, bankruptcy rep 13% in part rmers nationwide the second year of retaliatory tariffs on u.s. agricultural products. >> this particular farm has been in the family since the 1930s. we've been farming in this valley since the 1850s. >> reporter: curtis voted for trump in the 2016 primary but not in the general election. he explained some of the difficulties that farmers are facing. >> it makes it more challenging to come up with a marketing plan to plan your fu

or never asked anything about joe biden. >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of how lo senko who dismissed the case against -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> you just said you didn't. >> reporter: the conversation rudy giuliani did have with officials including the president's representative are now under investigation by three different house committees who were demanding information while some republicans say it is overblown. >> i think there are people in the intelligence community and other parts of our government who just have it out for the president. >> reporter: now, jake, we should note that this report about president trump pushing the ukrainian president is published in the "wall street journal," a paper backed by rupert murdock a close ally of the president and this is coming days before the president is scheduled to sit down with the ukrainian president in new york next week, a meeting the white house confirmed is still on today. >> kaitlan collins at the white house with the breaking news. thanks s

carley: yes, so joe biden's sent letter demanding they stop booking rudy giuliani, president trump's personal attorney, the letter saying in part, we write to demand that in service to the facts you no longer book giuliani, surrogate for donald trump who has demonstrated that he will knowingly and willingly lie in order to advance his own narrative, now that letter coming after giuliani appeared on 3 sunday morning shows including fox sunday morning futures, giuliani responded to the dale yes beast for comment, sounds like the usual left-wing censorship, some on social media are slamming team biden's demand , pamela tweets free press, he can't tell me who to keep off because they don't like what he's saying, another twitter user sounding off saying i think biden should stay in his lane and worry about biden, so a lot of people saying, you know, his campaign really overstepped their bounds, you know, who is he to tell a news network who they can and cannot book. >> we will see if news networks listen, which ones do listen. >> to be continued. >> let's talk about this, this is new stud

i think joe biden needs to continue doing what he's doing he's already the most popular candidate in the race and matthew you would i have talked about this we have opinion polls that go back 10 years to the time when he 1st took office as vice president indicating that joe biden across the board republican and democrat is considered one of the most likable popular elected officials in the entire united states so i think it needs to continue doing what he's doing you know i mean this this this talk about biden gaffes and biden being creepy can we all remember who the president of the united states is i mean come on we're going to accuse joe biden of gaffes we're going to go right now i'm not talking about repairs since we're on a trip we're diving or paris and if we're to the rest of the democratic field right but that's something that democrats need to get straight to and this is something else that i've talked about with matthew and larry many times before is that nobody if i've said it once i've said it a 1000000 times nobody snatches defeat from the jaws of victory but of the lib

trump asking a foreign leader for joe biden. the whistle-blower complaint about an urgent threat to national security involved a phone call between trump and the president of ukraine. on that call trump asked the ukrainian leader to investigate joe biden owe s's son. not just once. trump asked the ukrainian president about eight times on that call to investigate. eight times. one phone call. all this because hunter biden was doing business in ukraine when his father was vice president. we'll get to the details on that shortly. just a short time ago, joe biden responded saying, quote, there is truly no bottom to president trump's willingness to abuse his power and abase our country. this behavior is particularly abhorrent because it exploits the foreign policy of our country and undermines our national security for political purposes. since this major development broke that we now know who the phone call was with and we now know how many times trump asked for his -- for joe biden's son to be investigated trump has been silent. he

and how much did joe biden know? >> so, one of biden's -- one of hunter biden's business partners had met an oligarch who was running the ukrainian gas company, and he offered his -- hunter's -- associate position on his board. and as part of that, eventually that same executive offered to bring hunter on the board. the rule that hunter had was that he didn't tell his father about his clients, he didn't tell his father about these things, and his father didn't ask. it was a don't ask don't tell policy. so hunter took the job, which was quite lucrative and he didn't tell his father and he didn't consult. and the news broke in the newspaper in the "wall street journal" in 2014. but it's unclear whether joe biden even saw the reports at the time. and it wasn't until much later that one of his state department advisers briefed him on hunter's role with the company. >> and what did the people around -- was anyone saying, look, mr. vice president, this is a bad look, not withstanding any agreement you have with your son, d

joe biden said he just fire the man. it was not true. >> sean: i promise, greg, we have time. we will get to you. how many documents, are we talking about from hunter biden's legal team going to burisma holdings and others and how does it show will cover up? does it show the vice president's involvement at a deeper level than we previously knew? >> matt miller from msnbc i think will be embarrassed tomorrow because he can look at the documents. today he said on television when joe biden fired the ukrainian prosecutor there wasn't even an open case. tomorrow you can read the open case. you can read the prosecutor's memo. specifically what hunter biden's legal team was asking the prosecutors to do. there was an investigation. the media is wrong because they haven't picked up their notebooks are naturally done the gumshoe work it requires to find out what happened here. we are going to see documents from the state department, documents from hunter biden's legal team, text messages from hunter biden's own business partner de

into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> that was the same interview. did the president lean on a foreign government to help his re-election effort. >>> parts of texas under water. two dead from devastating weather. >>> another episode of blackface and another apology from justin trudeau. can the iscanadian prime minist overcome the scandal before the next election? >>> and the vaping cases skyrocket to 500 nationwide. now, the feds are investigating. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "early start." i'm julia chatterly. >> i'm dave briggs. it's friday, september 20th, 4:00 a.m. the call is coming from inside the house. compelling details about the whistleblower complaint, that confirms president trump's communications with a foreign leader. "the washington post" first reported the complaint, relates to ukraine. that's according to two people familiar with the matter. the complaint involved some kind of promise the president made, a promise so alarming, a u.s. int

biden did. >> joe biden and his son are corrupt. if a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they'd be getting the electric chair by right now. >> all right, that comes as trump continues to defend pressuring the ukrainian president to investigate biden on a phone call, even though, we should be very clear, there's no evidence of any wrongdoing by joe biden in something that has been extensively litigated and covered. "outfront" gloria borger, political, politics editor for "the new york times," patrick heal healey. the electric chair? >> you know, this is trump hyperbole at its best or worst. the reality is president trump has been spreading this what looks like pretty clear misinformation for awhile now in terms of these unsubstantiated allegations about joe biden. and the reality is this is how president trump plans to run his re-election campaign, whether it's joe biden or frankly any other democrat who comes out. what we've seen is the president being willing to basically say what

biden's ties to ukraine is coming up, joe biden says it didn't happen and in his own words he did ask the ukrainian president at the time to fire someone and -- >> fire prosecutor looking into the company that his son was part of. >> exactly, the story of joe biden is the one that's on the forefront now, some could say we don't know yet, we should know more thursday when the intel idea is going before the house intelligence committee, but this could turn into eyes being on the story of joe biden and turning worse for him. >> giuliani on fox news sunday complained about the probiden media which have covered this, we will get that more in later segment. the effort by rudy and allies, whatever the president said to ukrainian president is not the story, the story is hunter biden and ties and paid all the money and should biden have threatened ukraine with withholding $1 billion? >> well, the answer to your question, the winner here is donald trump, now it's possible for rudy giuliani to lose because of that kind of performance, who cares, he's not running for office. >> why is the winner

joe biden. here is "the union leader" the biggest nape innewspaper in the. the back page saying joe biden is a lot like firefighters, a problem solver who loves america, steph. >> all right. vaughn, let's talk kamala harris, struggling to get out of single digits. what does she need to do tomorrow? >> reporter: yeah. i know mike is excited to be here in new hampshire and i'll go out on a limb and declare this officially the fall before the new hampshire primary. it's in the 50s here. kamala harris, this has to be a new tune for her campaign. to note since launching her bid nearly eight months ago she has visited the state just four times for 12 events by far the fewest numbers of stops of any of the top tier candidates. she has only been here one time since june. where does kamala harris's campaign go from here? she will be speaking over at a town hall this afternoon over in londonerry at an apple orchard and guess who was there a month ago? joe biden. she'll head up to portsmouth later this eve

joe biden is on tape bragging about lawbreaking. that doesn't seem to concern anyone that hates trump. instead they have publicly blcalled for trump's impeachment even before they knew what was in it. they have been doing this since 2017. the first month the president is in office and pelosi's announcement yesterday about an official impeachment inquiry means nothing.it was a nothing. that's what they've been doing the whole time anyway. they had been conducting a never ending impeachment inquiry since president trump and melania trump came down the escalator in trump tower in 2015. what we are seeing playingng out over the course of three years is now a party that has put -- pay attention to this. their rage, their hatred, whether they know it or not they are now putting their hatred ahead of president trump but more important above all else, above what's in the best interest of this country. that would be for a president to be able to freely conduct foreign policy as commander in chief. today president trump called them out for wh

joe biden is in front of a fire truck. essentially, you have the 17 democratic presidential candidates that are all descending here on des moines. this is the big kickoff here heading into these final four months. we're going to take a listen here into joe biden here. >> how do you plan to address similar issue voters who are pro-life? >> who are pro-life? well, they should have an open mind about making sure that people have an opportunity to make their own judgments. there are a lot of decent, honorable people who have a different view than they do, and i think they should have the right to be able to have the access to what the supreme court has allowed. >> mr. biden -- >> who are pro-life? >> yes. >> well, i'm going to say, they should have an open mind about making sure that people have an opportunity to make their own judgments. there are a lot of decent, honorable people who have a different view than they do, and i think they should have a right to be able to have the access to what the supreme court has allowed. >

you never asked anything about joe biden and his role in the -- >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of how it was usenko, who was appointed would -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did! >> you just said you didn't! >> a classic giuliani. add to that cnn confirms the white house and the justice department were directly involved in keeping the whistleblower complaint from congress. there is a lot going on here. and there's a lot more to come this hour, so first let's get over to cnn's indicacaitlikaitl. shooeps she's at the white house. kaitlan, the president is speak to reporters in the oval office. we're going to get that tape. but you have some of the reporting of what's going on there. >> reporter: the president is addressing this complaint in the oval office. he says he believes that this whistleblower is partisan, though moments later he admitted he does not know what the identity of the whistleblower is. we should factor in, when the president and his attorney general rudy giuliani -- >> i'm interrupting you for only one

you said i went there to get dirt on joe biden, do you know what i find out about joe biden. i told my colleague, they are going to cover this up, too bad biden is involved, i have a night straight case of ukrainian collusion, the minute i say biden, washington press corps will go nuts. john: now you are stray -- >> i am straying to what is wrong with us today. john: we need to point out that prosecutor appoints after shokanwas fired, resurrected, and found that hunter biden was paid millions but said that the board of barisma was able to pay a board member whatever they wanted. >> so distorted. john: just a fact. >> he is the prosecutor that biden put in, there is a newspaper article where biden approves him, that does not strike you assed on odd? >> did you bother to look. >> one another point. >> no, let me finish. this is unfair. these are very important things that have been covered for years to protect slimy joe. reality, is there are three other prosecutor, you have to do go on-line, 3 others. that say, that this is done to get rid of biden to cover-up hunter and cover

well matt you know on previous shows we've talked about joe biden's performance president trump giving him the nickname sleepy joe i would give him the nickname creaky joe and we've seen so far during this campaign that he has a lot of verbal gaffes his language gets sort of tangled and it's leading to a lot of questions about you know his fitness to keep going is he going to be this dynamic energetic candidate you know all the way through particularly when we see that elizabeth warren is nipping at his heels i think it's smart for his advisors to lower those expectations so that joe biden could potentially actually you know outperform them as for talking about iowa let's remember that back in 2008 the former for vice president then senator biden he actually lost iowa i think you only earned less than a percentage point and immediately dropped out so i think a lot of our political watchers are pundits people who talk about this for a living need to kind of remember that he didn't have a great track record with iowa at least the last time around ryan. i think joe biden needs to continue

you never asked anything about joe biden -- >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of how it was that lutsenko, who was appointed, dismissed the case against antac. >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> today joe biden called trump and giuliani's allegations not credible, and he added this. >> t-- >> late this afternoon, biden issued a state about these latest reports on trump's conversations with the ukrainian leader, which said in part and we quote, if these reports are true, then there is truly no bottom to president trump's willingness to abuse his power and debase our country. donald trump should immediately release the transcript of the call in question and direct the office of the director of national intelligence to stop stonewalling and release the whistle-blower notification to the congress. a lot to talk about, as we say, as we end another week. here for our leadoff discussion on a friday night, frank figliuzzi, former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence. shannon pettypiece, veteran journalist, senior w

never asked anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked about how the case was dismissed against -- >> so, you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> you just said you didn't. >> we need a chris cuomo face there. that warranted a quo cuomo face there. the phone call between trump and zelensky is under investigation by house democrats. sources say the white house, not the justice department, told the acting director of national intelligence is that the complaint is not covered by whistleblower laws. thursday the intelligence inspector-general told lawmakers the complaint covers multiple events. >> if the department of justice decides that an employee of the justice community comes forward, follows the law, follows the process, is nonetheless outside the process, they're not protected. that means if this whistleblower is not protected, no whistleblower is protected. that's the danger of the d.o.j.'s misinterpretation of the law. >> the inspector-general says, the complaint's disclosure not on

when joe biden says, who is going to get it done? what he is also saying is who can go toe-to-toe with president trump? who is going to win a general election? he is looking at this from a practical perspective. i would be surprised, very surprised, if elizabeth warren came at this in a way she's never come at it before in a debate so i suspect we will see, she is still prosecuting the case about vision. he is prosecuting as dana says the case about practicality. and all of this is overshadowed by the larger question, who could beat the president? and is that a practical question? or is that a question about who has a vision? >> she has slowly tried to start to argue sui she could do both. she can have the vision and go toe-to-toe with the president, that they're not mutually exclusive and so it's going to be interesting to see if she continues on that path tonight and if she can do it in a more succinct way, especially given the fact that she's finally on the same stage as joe wide zbln so jeff zeleny, team biden, you hear trump say

you never asked anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of who it was that yushchenko, who was appointed, dismissed the case against antac. >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did! >> reporter: russian have raised questions about the obama administration, and alleged that had something to do with biden's son hunter's business dealings inside the country. an unproven accusation. >> i said, i'm leaving in five hours. and they put in place someone who was solid at the time. >> democrats fear the president or his associates have essentially invited ukraine to meddle in the 2020 lerks. not unlike donald trump jr.'s meeting with a russian attorney at trump tower in 2016. in 2017, the president defended his son's actions. >> most people would have taken that meeting. it's called opposition research or even research into your opponent, but it's very standard where they have information and you take the information. >> reporter: and just like the russia p

you said i went there to get dirt on joe biden. do you know what i found out about joe biden? do you know what i told my colleague? they're going to cover this up. i got a nice straight case of ukrainian collusion. the minute i say biden, that washington press corps is going to go nuts. they've been covering up for years. john: now you're straying into areas -- >> no, i'm not. i'm straying into what is wrong with us today -- john: we need to point out that the prosecutor who was appointed after shokin was fired, resurrected, reanimated the case and found that hunter biden was, in fact, paid millions of dollars, but he said that the board was able to pay a board member whatever they wanted, and he didn't see anything wrong with that. >> so distorted. john: i'm just stating the facts. >> if you did any work, you'd find out this is the prosecutor that biden put n. there's a newspaper article in which he approves him when he's appointed. doesn't that strike you as odd that the vice president would approve a particular prosecutor? did you ever bother to look? let me finish -- john:

this is joe biden and elizabeth warren. can warren, who has steadily climbed over the summer, pass joe biden in the weeks and ,nths ahead going into io and can joe biden stay up there? his poll numbers continue to drop ever so slightly. sanders, the same. he is dropping, he is much like trump, hhas a base of people who will stay with him the whole time, but prty much parked in third. elizabeth warren is the person to watch to see if she cano become the front runner anytime in the next few wes. nada: mary anne marsh, thank you very much. mary anne: thank you. nada: in the past few hours, a judge in boston has sentenced felicity huffman to 14 days in prison.is the actress admitted to paying a college consultant thousands of dollars s alter her daughter' university admissions score. she is the fst person to be punished in the broader scandal involving dozens of wealthy parents and $25 million in bribes. in a statement, huffman said " accept the court's decision without reservation," adding, "there are no justifications for my

especially last night when castro said to joe biden -- he was actually wrong about what joe biden said. i'm not beating him up for that. he was wrong, but it was crystal clear what he was trying to do. >> no question. and if you look at the first debate and the second debate, one strategy that has not worked is trying to go after joe biden personally. eric swalwell is out of the race. kamala harris had her best moment and her worst week since. so the reality here is that they have injected this into the bloodstream. even though they're apologizing this morning, this is something, as you said, democrats are talking about it, but either own it or not own it. they had to know it was going to sort of not be seen that strongly by democrats. but i think the bigger point is, when you swipe away everything, i'm not sure that much changed last night except joe biden is still the frontrunner. he had a very strong first part of the debate. as the debate went on, it was very long, he had a weaker performance. but you walk away from this, he's the winner. julian castro is not. >> but what's really

did he ever mention going after joe biden? no. so this is a phone call between two presidents, one just getting reelected, just got elected, congratulations, we are very generous to the ukraine, other countries like germany should do more and oh, by the way i have heard that this prosecutor that got fired maybe he was a good guy and they fired him because he was looking at joe biden's son. could you look into that? congratulations. that to me is not a quid pro quo and the entire whistleblower complaint is based on hearsay and we are with not going to impeach a president based on hearsay as long as i am around a. this is a sham, there is a political smell to this that is far different than mueller. >> brennan: what did you tell the president when you were golfing with him yesterday? are you advising him? >> keep fighting back. we have your back on this. i am openly telling everybody in the country idt's back because i think this is a setup. work with us on guns. try to do something on prescription drugs. govern the country and make

about joe biden to the prosecutor? >> the only thing i asked about joe biden was how it was sanco, who was appointed, dismissed hunter. >> so you did ask something about joe biden? >> of course i did. >> so that seems really, really bad for the president. here he is seemingly admitting that talking about building a trump tower in moscow lasted into the campaign, possibly even after president trump was elected. >> well, it's our understanding that they went on throughout 2016. there wareren't a lot of them, t there were conversations. >> throughout 2016? >> yeah. probably could be up to as far as october, november. >> prior to that interview, president trump's attorney michael cohen admitted that conversations went on earlier. here's rudy giuliani admitting that trump paid hush money payments to stormy daniels. >> i'm giving you a fact that you don't know. it's not campaign money, no campaign finance violation. >> they funneled it through a law firm. funneled it through a law firm and the president repaid it. >> a month

there's a lot of talk about joe biden's son. that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. biden went about breaking that he stopped the prosecution. so if you can look into that, it sounds horrible to me." then the president zelensky replied about his own attorney general, who would soon be appointed. "he or she will look into the situation, specifically to the company." that is hundred biden's company. "they mentioned this issue. the investigation of the case is actually the issue to restore the honesty. we will take care of at her work on the investigation of the case. the call continues, ""i will have juliana give you a call, and i'm also going to have attorney have attorney general barr call and you'll get to the bottom of it. i'm sure you'll figure it out." based on our account during the course of this conversation, the president uses the name of rudy giuliani and the attorney general eight times. the justice department

and they could go even further and investigate joe biden, even though this is not about joe biden, but let's make it all clear. that is what i think should be done. host: ok, charlie sykes? obvious,at is the most logical and low risk strategy for democrats in congress. this committee should be bipartisan. nancy pelosi should invite mitch mcconnell to participate. let's get the facts on the table before we take any other steps. this should not be complicated, because number one, we -- once we see what the ig saw with the whistleblower report, if we get a transcript, it will be clear what happened. and then put it on public record what we know about what happened in ukraine with joe biden, which i think will turn out to be the fact that there is nothing there. but again, this can be done in a relatively short time. i am not naive enough to think it will not be caught up in the partisan back and forth, but this is up to congress. the bulk is in their court and nobody else will pick this up. a committee is expected to meet with the director of national intelligence, that will be on thursda

biden, and joe biden's diplomacy in ukraine and how that intersected with joe biden's son hunter and his work in ukraine for a ukrainian owned oligarch gas company, i used the air quote stumble there because we had written about that back in 2015. it wasn't like he discovered anything new. what he say doing more was to push the ukrainians to investigate it, to give fodder to trump to be able to potentially run against joe biden, and that is why we see this complaint which i think is quite valid that rudy giuliani is sort of distorting the u.s. foreign policy apparatus and he has support in that effort from trump. >> what we're talking about tonight is this breaking story tonight which has really come to full bloom which is the latest reporting from "the wall street journal" and is that the president of the united states, donald trump, is out there dealing with the president of ukraine to get dirt saying i'll give you the latest military aid we owe you if and only if you get me some dirt on joe biden and his kid hunter. last night rudy giuliani said he had knowledge of his initial eff

joe biden has been devastated by this. in "the washington post" there's a column by me but an in-depth report about hunter biden and ukraine, doing what you did with michael mcfaul building on the "new yorker" profile. i believe in one standard. if there was enough evidence to use a fisa warrant against carter page for probable cause for being an agent of a foreign government, hunter biden should have been under the same surveil lance from 2014 forward. he was deeply cooperating with interests of people whose interests are not aligned with the u.s. read the column. >> i have no idea how that is even remotely relatable, but i will read your column. >> i would put it under the umbrella, and he wrote a great column. but i would put it under the umbrella of exhaustion. you said a lot of people are exhausted from people -- from the democrats investigating donald trump. i would just say people are exhausted, a lot of people are exhausted with everything around donald trump. i think that happened before ukraine. i think it starte