central europe. we have heard a lot about ukraine and what is going on with the american government. what exactly is the relationship between the united states and ukraine right now? ght now? relationshipk the is one of surrogacy in some ways. the ukrainian government has gone through tumultuous resolutions -- revolutions over the past 30 years. the recent five years, there was the revolution in 2013-14. for the past 30 years, we have been supporting ukraine on its path to democracy. aid a$500 million for year. on goodupporting them governance, energy reform, energy independence from russia. the trump administration did initiate this military aid package to ukraine as it resists russian aggression. host: what happened 30 years that started this relationship? guest: ukraine was part of the soviet union. soviet union fell in 1991. since then, we have been supporting countries as they reformtize and try to their governments, anticorruption things, this list of things i have been discussing. ukraine is a really important geopolitical player and occupies a really important space geograph

ukraine. it's an ancient and proud land. with a rich history filled with much beauty heroism and sacrifice. ukraine is a border land. a place where east meets west. this is the flag of ukraine the blue represents the sky the gold its seemingly endless fields of wheat. ukraine is a prize many have sought. and much blood has spilled in the quest to possess it. ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. in world war one. and world war 2. and every time the ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of power. history doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. if one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and they are they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. in the middle of the 17th century ukrainian leader bogged down who. broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russia. just over 50 years later as the russians swedish war was raging another ukrainia

9:00 a.m. on cspan2. cspan2 to. cspan2. next the former us investor to ukraine, talks about the political agenda the country his president. the ongoing conflict it's russia. [inaudible conversation] >> were going to get underway. i am richard and my day job at managing partner of an associates. i am also a member of the board of the center for the national interest. both of these capacities and having spent time at both think tanks, i can tell you quite sincerely the lunches at the center for the national interests are far better than the atlantic council. [laughter] to top off this excellent lunch, we have a great dessert and that is investor john who at it's us today. to talk about the future of ukraine and ukraine and russia relations, we really couldn't have a better speaker. to address this issue. john at not only served as the us ambassador to ukraine, but as followed ukraine related issue for many years in his current capacity running his program, european program at the atlantic council. having a real in-depth understanding or let's call it eastern european and central a

. full clancy's in ukraine's capital kiev. absolutely no. right to do what you are caricature. now on the brink of a civil war at least 70 dead so far and the death toll rising. to. a new. poll we saw here today was a revolution. said to. have invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other goals. nato has expanded into 13 countries up to the borders of russia 13 countries. focus to be on not allowing buy into hot wall between ukraine and russia. in the city would. to be truthful. the the the los. ily . ily ily. ily ily ily. ukraine. it's an ancient and proud land. with a rich history filled with much beauty heroism and sacrifice. ukraine is a border land. a place where east meets west. this is the flag of ukraine the blue represents the sky the gold its seemingly endless fields of wheat. ukraine is a prize many have sought. and much blood spilled in the quest to possess it. ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. in world war one. and world war 2. and every time the ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price

but a nothing call. at one point the president tells ukraine's newly elected leader the u.s. "has been very, very good to ukraine adding that the generosity was not reciprocated. zelensky responds saying ukraine wants to buy more anti-tank missiles from the u.s. prompting this response from president trump. he said this -- i would like you to do us a favor, though. a favy that included investigating a u.s. cyber security firm named crowdstrike and separately investigating joe biden's son. president trump then promised to connect ukraine's president with his own personal attorney, rudy giuliani and attorney general big barr. house speaker nancy pelosi called it a shakedown that confirmed the need for an impeachment inquiry and house intelligence chief adam schiff summed it up this way. >> the notes of the call reflect a conversation far more damning than i or many others had imagined. it is shocking at another level that the white house would release this, these notes, and felt that somehow this would help the president's case or cause. this is how a mafia boss talks. what have you done

the president of the ukraine. it is at the center of a wristle blower complaint filed by a member of the intelligence community. it started a week ago when the chair of the house intelligence adam schiff revealed that the inspector general received a whistle-blower complaint. and he deemed the complaint credible and urgent, but donald trump's director of national intelligence was refusing to share it with dock as required by law. something congressman schiff said had never happened before. a few days ago we got the first inkling of why. it concerned his communications with a foreign leader including a promise that was regarded as something so troubling that it prompted an official in the u.s. intelligence community to file the complaint. yesterday it was reported that the complaint had something to do with trump and ukraine. the intersection of donald trump and yukraine raises a lot of implications. people's attention turned to a phone call that trump had with the president of the ukraine a couple of weeks before the wristle blower complaint was filed. "that call is already under

dialogue between president trump and the president of ukraine and shows how unfearless they are about getting the facts. for them, it's not about the narrative, nor is it about the truth. but we already knows this. speaker nancy pelosi holds the office of speaker, third in line to the presidency. and opened an impeachment in wirey and what world is that responsive? it may be one place that we expect a freshman member of congress to say we need an impeachment inquiry, this is the speaker of the house. without one bit of evidence opening an impeachment inquiry. her own members questioned did she move too soon. the democrats and many in the media twisted to what they wanted to believe to fold into their political narrative. it really goes to show what their impeachment is all about, it's just politics. but not the politics the american public expects congress to act. this is the people's house. this is the body where the voice should be heard. voice in the speaker, voice in but the voice of the millions of americans who lend it to their representative. consider the last time the ho

the leader of ukraine. portions will also be live on c-span throughout the day. >> president trump met with the ukrainian president on the sidelines of the general assembly in new york city. he talked about the relationship and took questions on a phone call they had earlier in the year that prompted a whistleblower complaint against president trump. president trump: thank you very much, everybody. we are with the president of ukraine. he's made me more famous that i have made him. i will say he's got a great reputation. he's very, very strongly looking into all sorts of corruption and some of the problems they have had over the years. i think it's one of the primary reasons he got elected. his reputation absolutely sterling. it's an honor to be with you. we spoke a couple of times as you probably remember. they'd like to hear every single word. we hear from every single word. then they'll say what about today? i think the press would like to say in the meetings we have lots of witnesses if you'd like to have them. but the country of -- our country is doing phenomenally well. we have t

exchange has taken place between russia and ukraine there were a motion scenes of families were reunited at their ports in moscow and kiev. also coming out to a blow to indian attempts to put a rover on the moon the national space agency trying to find out what went wrong if they don't turn the chandra into spacecraft disappeared after it enters its final descent to the lunar surface. omarion evanston it's good to have you with us a long awaited exchange of prisoners between russia and ukraine has taken place the swap is being viewed as a step towards easing tensions between the neighboring countries and could also increase the chances of resolving the conflict in eastern ukraine 5 years of fighting between a troops and russian backed separatists has left more than 13000 people dead. their 1st steps of freedom back on home soil 35 former prisoners arriving in kiev. a handshake from the president is nothing compared to the embrace of a loved one. some had been separated for months others for years never knowing what would come next also the knowledge status kept on changing we he

: talk about how good the u.s. has been to ukraine. you asked president zelensky for a favor and asked him to talk to the attorney general of the united states and rudy giuliani about joe biden? sir, how does that the pressure -- president trump: no pressure whatsoever. if you take a look at the democrats, they went down to see the president of ukraine and they asked him for all sorts of things and don't go with the republicans and stay with us. like it's a political war. they shouldn't have done that. that should be an impeachable event, i guess, based on what you're saying. the democrats just came out, they went down there a. group of people, some of whom i was dealing with on the gun issue, and twhent down, put tremendous pressure on ukraine. the president himself just came out with a statement saying there was absolutely no pressure put on him. there wasn't. what i do want to see is i want to see other countries helping ukraine l. not just us. as usual the united states helps so nobody else is there. i want to see other countries help. just so you understand, it's the single

call, the president of ukraine asks to buy anti-tank missiles from the united states and in the very next sentence on that memo, president trump asks president zel inski to do him a favor, saying i would like you to do us a favor, though, because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it. first, he appeared to ask them to investigate hillary clinton's emails and then joe biden's son. >>> also of note in this letter, he mentions his own attorney general repeatedly. it seems the call can be summed up this way, no longer is it, russia, are you listening? it's now president zelensky, can you do me a favor. joining me from the white house, peter alexander and geoff bennett. he's been talking to members of congress all day. and from our washington news room, nbc news justice correspondent pete williams also here with me the former acting solicitor general for the obama administration, neil catiahl. peter, the timeline we'll put up on the screen, july 18, decision to delay aid communicated internally within the white house. july 25th phone call between trump a

president's political bidding in and around the ukraine? how people knew about this in the administration? who tried to stop it? who's been involved in keeping the whistle-blower complaint from us? there are so many questions that need to be answered here, and it should be our responsibility to get to the bottom of all of it. of all of it. i think this is a really serious moment for this country. i think the minute that the president is able to turn the foreign policy of this nation into a vehicle for his own political advancement is the day that democracy as we know it slips away from us. and so if we aren't ready to have a bipartisan conversation about consequences and remedies this week, then let's at least have some bipartisan consensus in the way that this place used to all the time around making sure that we have all the information necessary to move forward. i yield the floor. objection. mr. menendez: mr. president, i ask to speak for up to 15 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. menendez: we have heard some deeply disturbing revelations in recent d

ukraine in comparison to european companies. he doesn't specifically mention military aid but says the u.s. has been, quote, very, very good to ukraine. so not an explicit quid pro quo, but the president was clearly teeing up his request to ukraine. so after that exchange about u.s. help to ukraine, trump then says, i would like you to do us a favor. he asked ukraine to look into its role in the 2016 election where he claimed without evidence that ukraine has the dnc server, and on biden. he then mentioned biden on page 4. he says, there is a lot of talk about biden and his son and a lot of people want to find out if biden stopped the prosecution of a company tied to his son. we should note there is not direct evidence to support this allegation that the president made in the call. now, zelensky said in response to the president bringing up biden that the next prosecutor would look into it. now, we should note that at the bottom of this log there is a disclaimer, that this is not a, quote, verbatim transcript of a discussion. it goes on to say that the text of this document records the

personal political vendetta. we now know the president urged ukraine to investigate a political opponent while hundred one - - holding the urgent security assistance to support us national security interest. in fact, congress approved the assistance including 141.5 billion for the state department and 250 million to the pentagon with an overwhelming bipartisan support and indeed republicans and democrats have come together to offer support to ukraine. we know with ukraine what is at stake on the front lines of a struggle that is not guided by democratic values or by the rule of law but with the oligarchs together democrats and republicans with a free and independent ukraine because together we stand behind our shared values of democracy and with the support of ukraine with their own 'sstrategic interest. that's why we came together with special forces to invade crimea in 2014 over ukrainian sovereignty. i was chairman of the foreign relations committee at the a time with bipartisan support in the era of growing political divide our free and sovereign ukraine inspired us to trans

he launched relating to this ukraine controversy. he claims he had the right to meet the whistleblower whose identity is being protected right now. he's painting this person as an accuser. he's also accusing the house of intelligence adam schiff for treason. he's claiming that a civil war could break out of democrats successfully if removing him from office. democrats are more and more united and coordinated across different epnds. they have not unveil a coordinated messaging strategy. we did see the white house allies out, what we saw was defending the president against impeachment little in the way of defense of the president's actual context on the phone call with the ukraine president. sarah westwood, thank you for that reporting. let's go to capitol hill our manu raju is joining us live. we expect an gres sif push from democrats and how much cooperations will they get from the house of intelligence and adam schiff moving forward sending outleters and trying to get document frs the trump administration, we saw on friday the intelligence along with two other house pane

chief of staff to hold back military aid for ukraine for at least a week before his phone call with the ukranian president. that was first reported in the "washington post." much more in a moment. that's what we're hearing from the president of the united states. right out of the trump play book. unsubstantiated smears. ignoring the facts and leaving himself just enough wiggle room. listen to what he said about his conversation with the president of the ukraine. a conversation so concerning, a whistleblower is trying to make a complaint about it to congress. a complaint the white house and the doj are trying to bury. >> did you discuss joe biden, his son or family. >> it doesn't matter what i discussed. somebody ought to look into bideens statement. it was disgraceful. >> the conversation i had was largely congratulations. largely corruption all of the corruption taking place. largely the fact that we don't want people like vice president biden and his son creating the corruption already in the ukraine. >> if you don't talk about corruption. why give money to a country that you thin

biden and his son bringing his corruption to ukraine. inaine has a lot of problems the new president is saying he is going to be able to read the country of corruption. i said that would be a great thing. we had a great conversation. we have a conversation on many things. i believe ukraine put out a statement yesterday. we covered many different topics. it was a warm conversation. i backed ukraine from the beginning. they are very upset other countries are not doing the same. germany should be spending much more. france and all of the european union. why are we spending money and they are not? they are spending very little by comparison. >> [inaudible] i would have no problem. to see the same thing as a lot of other people with respect to ukraine. ukraine has had a tremendous corruption problem. they were involved in a lot of things. hopefully it can be straightened out. the new president, we had a very good talk. the new president got elected based on the fact that he would and corruption. >> [inaudible] whistleblower, it sounds like it is not a whistleblower. you cannot have that happ

between president trump and the newly elected president of ukraine. this is the call that was part of an official complaint by a whistleblower in the intelligence community. the intel community's independent ninspector determind this was an urgent complaint. what the call transcript clearly shows is president trump specifically asking the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden whose son hunter sat on the board of a ukranian energy campaign while his dad was vice president. here's one of the key lines. i would like you to do us a favor. the call starts with general congratulations on the ukrainian president's success in the parliamentary elections. then almost immediately president trump mentions how much the u.s. does for ukraine, especially compared to europe. he tells zelensky, quote, i would say we do a lot for ukraine. i wouldn't say it's reciprocal necessarily, but the united states has been very, very good to ukraine. zelensky responds, i'm very grateful for that because the united states is doing a lot for ukraine. i would also like to thank you for your great support

meeting with the president of the ukraine, the man on the other end of the phone call that speaker nancy pelosi says forced her to launch an impeachment inquiry. hello. i'm dana perino. this is "the daily briefing." it's coming hour after the white house released a transcript of their conversation. it shows president trump asked for a review of the biden family business dealings in the country but did not mention military aid as part of a quid pro quo. the president insisted earlier today he did nothing wrong. >> it's the single greatest witch hunt in american history. probably in history. but in american history. it's a disgraceful thing. the letter was a great letter, meaning the letter revealing the call. that was done at the insistence of myself and other people that read it. it was a friendly letter. there was no pressure. the way you had that built up, that call, it was going to be the call from hell. turned out to be a nothing call. >> dana: a top democrat says the call looks like something out of organized crime. >> the president has now admitted the notes of this call and we don

ukraine's president showing no connection between foreign aid and investigating joe biden. what does that mean for democrats and house impeachment hopes? president and ukraine's leader will meet moments from now. we'll take you there live when that happens. whoever said the trade war would kill u.s. is way off. big gains as the market resumes the march back towards all-time highs. all that and so much more on making money. ♪ >> it is the single greatest witch-hunt in american history, probably in history but in american history. it's a disgraceful thing. there was no pressure. the way you had that built up the call it was going to be the call from hell. it turned out to be a nothing call. charles: president unleashing on democrats and media now that the transcript of the phone call is out. president asking ukraine to look at joe biden and his son over alleged shady dealings. this phone call a centerpiece of the house impeachment crusade. the man himself, fox senior judicial analyst, judge andrew napolitano. >> remain seated. charles: your initial take on this after boeing through it? >>

the nation's capital. lawyers for the whistleblower, the ukraine scandal, warning that president trump's threats are posing a grave risk to their clients' safety. the letter from adam schiff came as president trump escalated his war on the whistleblower and adam schiff. he was pressing president zelensky in an inaccurate and fla fraud way. >> and then, the president went after the person who gave the whistleblower the information. was the person spying on the president of the united states? big consequences. chairman schiff there's a tentative agreement for the whistleblower to testify to his committee. he says the president's threats have heightened security concerns for the whistleblower. >> all that needs to be done at this point is to make sure that the attorneys that represent the whistleblower get the clearances they need to be able to accompany the whistleblower testimony. and we figure out the logistics to figure out that we protect the identity of the whistleblower. >> schiff says he expects the whistleblower to testify soon. >>> meantime, the president's personal attorn

, well, it's very nice of you to say. i will say that we do a lot for ukraine. we spend a lot of effort and a lot of time. much more than the european countries are doing. and they should be helping you more than they are. germany does almost nothing for you. also all they do is talk and i think it's something you should really ask them about. when i was speaking to angela merkel, she talks ukraine but doesn't do anything. a loft european countries are the same way. i think it's something you want to look at. but the united states has been very, very good to ukraine. i wouldn't say that it's reciprocal necessarily because things are happening that are not good, but the united states has been very good to ukraine. the president also asked later in the conversation, i would like you to do us a favor, though, because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it. i would like you to find out about what happened with the whole situation with ukraine. they say crowd strike, i guess you have one of your wealthy people. they say ukraine has it --

awaited exchange of prisoners between russia and ukraine is under way now this could be a significant step towards easing relations between the countries and raising chances for results in the conflict in ukraine's east fighting there between troops and russia backed separatists has killed more than 13000 people since 2014 now the filmmaker all exempt souls and 24 sailors detained since last year in russia are currently being transferred from moscow to kiev. the 75 russians heading in the opposite direction. and for more on this story we're joined by kiev post editor i'm correspondent matthew cup tie in kiev matthew tell us what's happening right now. well right now we're getting creasing information about preparations for the arrival of these prisoners we're hearing that family members have been have arrived at the accused airport to meet them we're seeing officials arriving at the airport there even been reports that the ukrainian president has announced he has gone there meanwhile in the russian side the editor in chief of russia today a news service in russia has publi

-blower, who was accusing president trump of making and elicit unknown promise to ukraine's president. rushed to judgment again, claiming that president trump, well, he wanted ukraine to dig up dirt on joe biden. we witness to the level of hysteria that he was reporting. we have seen this now for over three years. and now that the russia, russia, russia, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment collusion failed, well, they are accusing president trump of colluding with the ukraine. we know from john sullivan, ukraine admits to helping hillary clinton. but the media mob, they only care about interference in our elections if they can use it to bludgeon trump. they cared about russia, but not the dossier. many in the media mob predicting this will be the end of the trump administration. they been predicting that for years. as it turns out, though so-called "whistle-blower" wasn't even in question. whoops. this was not the first to have information. this was hearsay. look at this. even fake news cnn buried in a report they did over the weekend, the following line. "the whistle-blow

essentially pressing the president of ukraine to investigate his chief political rival, former vice president joe biden. it just underscores the extent to which, politically speaking, this is going to be tricky for president trump, craig. here he is at the u.n. holding these critical diplomatic talks and yet answering very tough questions about all this, about these notes that were just released of his july 25th phone call with the president of ukraine. take a listen to what president trump had to say just moments ago. >> just so you understand, it's the single greatest witch hunt in american history, probably in history, but in american history. it's a disgraceful thing. the letter was a great letter, meaning the letter revealing the call that was done at the assistance of myself and other people that read it. it was a friendly letter. there was no pressure. the way you had that built up, that call, it was going to be the call from hell. it turned out to be a nothing call other than a lot of people said i never knew you could be so nice. >> reporter: i've been talking to the presid

president improperly pressured the ukraine investigate his political rivals. what do you think? is the idea of a president a bridge too far? oppose anu support or impeachment inquiry into president donald trump. we will keep it simple. if you support the inquiry, we want to hear from you at (202) 748-8000. tell us why. if you oppose an impeachment inquiry, we want to hear from you at (202) 784-8001. we want to hear your reasoning. you can always text us your (202) 748-8003. once again, things are moving quickly in washington when it comes to this impeachment inquiry that democrats have opened into president donald trump. this is a look at the new york times on what is going on in washington. democrats moving quickly to escalate their imprisonment inquiry -- impeachment inquiry. they subpoenaed mike pompeo on friday. once again, we want to know from you whether you support or oppose this impeachment inquiry. we have a call already from washington. the caller imposes -- opposes the inquiry. why do you oppose an impeachment inquiry? caller: i'm actually in california. i oppose it beca

want to talk through everything that you know about the bidens and ukraine. and then everything you know about the bidens and china, so the american people who watch this program are aware of it. they are not getting this. "new york times" in washington mos"washingtonpost" or any othee networks, where you are basically being prevented from explains what took place. then i want to talk about to me is a nonsensical hullabaloo about the president of united states, the transcript and all of the rest of that. let's walk through this. let's begin with the bidens and ukraine from the top. >> well, hunter biden is joe biden's son. john, that still alive, he lost beau biden tragically, until his father became vice president, he was a lobbyist in washington d.c., working for the on-line gambling industry, he had no background overseas in any of these area, once his father became vice president high started a private investment firm, half of capital provised by chris hynes, that john kerry's stepson, and another partner john kerry's financial co-chair in 2004. ukraine part begins in 2014, in f

ukraine was also buzzing with protests against the new authorities in kiev this region with the population close to russia geographically and culturally feared that the ultra right leanings of the newly formed government would bring me own nationalism to their lands. and they have their reasons. the status of the russian language in ukraine has been a stumbling block for many years implementing russian as a 2nd state bank which was one of the main campaign promises president going to fulfill in 2012 the government passed a law making it the 2nd official language in the southern and eastern parts of ukraine the areas where the russian speaking. elation makes up a majority ukrainian nationalist groups and initiated massive protests opposing the law and observing viewer might see some familiar faces there on a 5 month. part of our last. on february 23rd 2014 the very next day after the regime change the new government voted for an a no meant of the official status of the russian language and even though later this decision was vetoed by the acting president alexander turchynov it s

tonight clearly demonstrates his blatant abuse of power and corruption in the country of ukraine. in other words, a quid pro quo, a real quid pro quo and abuse of power and corruption at an extraordinarily high level with a lot of money at stake and a pay to play scheme and a subsequent cover-up. all in an effort that would allow his son to walk away scot-free very rich and capitalize off of him being the vice president while he was vice president. of course, stop a criminal investigation and he used your money to do it. we now have evidence he has been lying to we the american people. it's the russia collusion conspiracies except this time we don't have to wait three years to get to the truth and the hoax, that which donald trump was innocent of. great irony is democrats, they are once again as the ones guilty of it. john solomon will be here and break that news in just a moment. i do want to address what is the radical destructive delusional democratic party in the media mob, their allies in crime which has now descended into complete and utter madness. nonstop rage, hatred for thi

conference about the call between president trump and the president of ukraine. he says it is a shakedown of a foreign leader. and that he betrayed his oath of office. mr. schiff: good afternoon. i now had a chance to review and detail the notes of the call between the president of the united states and the president of ukraine as well as the legal opinion drafted by the department of justice in an effort to prevent the whistleblower complaint from coming to our committee and i have to say i am shocked by both. the notes of the call reflected conversation far more damning than i or many others had imagined. it is shocking at another level that the house would release these notes and felt that somehow this would help the president's case or cause, because what those notes reflect is a classic mafia-like shakedown of a foreign leader. they reflect a ukrainian president who was desperate for u.s. support, for military support to help that country in a hot war with putin's russia, which people face a very dangerous and continuing and destabilizing action by their aggressive neighbor

, everybody. we are with the president of ukraine. he's made me more famous that i have made him. [laughter] pres. trump: i will say he's got , a great reputation. he's very, very strongly looking into all sorts of corruption and some of the problems they have had over the years. i think it's one of the primary reasons he got elected. his reputation absolutely sterling. it's an honor to be with you. we spoke a couple of times as you probably remember. they'd like to hear every single word. will give them every single word. then they'll say what about today? i think the press would like to stay in the meetings come about we have lots of witnesses if you'd like to have them. but the country of -- our country is doing phenomenally well. we have the best economy we ever had. we have the best employment numbers that we ever had. we have now almost 160 million people working which is more than we ever had. we are doing very well in every respect. i have a feeling that your country's going to do fantastically well, and whatever we can do. pres. zelensky: thank you very much, mr. preside

reacts to the white house release of notes from his call with ukraine's leader. will any republicans break ranks with the president and will his witch hunt refrain stick? >> the fact is the president of the united states in breach of his constitutional responsibilities has asked a foreign government to help him in his political campaign at the expense of our national security as well as undermining the integrity of our elections. that cannot stand. he will be held accountable. no one is above the law. >> i did read the transcript. it remains troubling in the extremely. it's deeply troubling. >> there's no pressure ever. it's the single greatest witch hunt in history. >>> gad dood day, everyone, i'm andrea mitchell here in new york. the fourth american president to face a formal impeachment inquiry, the day after house speaker nancy pelosi launched the probe, the white house released its log, notes, or transcript, if you will, of what was said in that call. the new bombshell this morning, the president saying to ukraine's president, quote, there's a lot of talk about biden's son and a

when they say he froze military aid to ukraine and republicans say he did nothing wrong when he asked the president to investigate joe biden, a political rival. and let's listen. >> president trump is trying to look into the interference by russia so it doesn't happen again. i thought you would be want to be concerned to make sure that doesn't happen again. >> shocking evidence? that is a collusion they claim happened in ukraine and it happened in ukraine and hillary clinton and george thoos company was funding? >> you accept it's not true? >> i accept it is true. >> it is based on hearsay and we will not impeach a president on hearsay. this is a sham. this is a political smell to this. >> well, they had a lot to say but the democratic chairman of the house intelligence committee isn't buying it. adam schiff is defending the inquiry and says the whistle-blower is planning to testify. listen. >> all that needs to be done at this point is to make sure that the attorneys that represent the whistle-blower get the clearance thats they need to be able to accompany the whistle-blower t

president trump. it involves ukraine. this comes from "the washington post." you might remember house democrats have been examining whether the president and his attorney, rudy giuliani, sought to manipulate the ukrainian government into helping the trump re-election campaign. they were doing that before this complaint. now, something that may seem confusing as you go through the facts tonight is that the subject phone call that we now know took place in this time frame that people are looking at when this complaint came in, who did the president speak to, who was the leader at that time, he spoke to the president of ukraine. now, that call was already the subject of curiosity by congress because they were looking into these earlier efforts in part announced by mr. giuliani about his intentions of trying to get to ukraine to figure out some things about some of mr. trump's political opponents. so that's where it stands. we happen to have the man in the middle tonight. the president's counselor, former mayor rudy giuliani. good to have you on the show. >> i'm glad i'm on tonight becaus

, president zelensky out of out the rooting corruption. zelensky said we here in the ukraine are trying to drain the swamp much like you the swamp in drain the united states of america. this isn't a call about leverage. threats.t a call about this was a mutually appreciative call between two leaders who are to cleanup some of the garbage in their respective countries that is polluted politics. the president does ask for a favor from president zelensky on behalf of is our nation. the favor we seek is cooperation his government and attorney general bill barr as we work to determine what the ukraine may have been in any way involved in 2016, not 2020, but in the 2016 efforts to interfere with election. states the president even references get strike, attempting to to the bottom of these improper actions which, again, may have the ukraine and john solomon with "the hill" has great deal of reporting on that question. zelensky ran against corruption. t's appropriate in a conversation about that election victory they would discuss and eference what are obviously mutual goals between the united st

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. and if you're wondering if donald trump would be stupid enough to enlist a foreign government in dirtying up his opponent again after the russia cloud that hung over the first two years of his presidency, seems like we should take his word for it. >> your campaign this time, if russia, if china, if som

had the phone call with ukraine's president and sparked whistleblower complaint earlier this week. officials did confirm calls aside from the ukraine conversation did reach it there. these attempts further illustrate the extraordinary effort taken by trump's aides to limit the number of people with access to his conversations with foreign leaders. this went into place a year ago, when there were conversations leaked between president trump and the leaders of mexico and australia. pamela brown, cnn. >>> curt volcker reportedly decided he could no longer be effective in his post. the whistleblower writes, volcker advised officials on how to deal with president trump and his lawyer, rudy giuliani. volcker will be questioned next week. >>> next week is when the house impeachment inquiry could begin. three committees have subpoenaed mikepompeo. here's manu raju. >> reporter: the secretary of state has been subpoenaed by house chairman, regarding what the state department did and knew and tried to facilitate meetings with rudy giuliani, the president's personal attorney and ukraine offi

trump. something, "the washington post" reported, involving the nation of ukraine. something involving the president making some sort of promise to a foreign leader in a phone call. that whistle-blower's complaint was reviewed by the intelligence community's inspector general. that inspector general founding the whistle-blower's complaint to be credible and urgent and under federal whistle-blower law, that should have set in motion a nondiscretionary basically automatic series of events, which should have culminated in the intelligence committees in congress being given copies of that whistle-blower complaint very quickly, within seven days of the determination that the complaint was credible and urgent. it turns out what the intelligence chairman was so upset about is that the trump administration had stepped into the whistle-blower process to block the complaint from being handed over to congress as required by law. and this part of the story has been emerging bit by bit through published reports. it's not totally clear yet. we're going to speak with a reporteder er reporte

personally ordered a halt to $400 million in military aid to ukraine, passed by the way by both houses of congress. official u.s. policy between the two branches. he dispatched his personal attorney, not a u.s. government official, using the u.s. government and the state department to setup a variety of meetings with ukrainian officials to pressure them to start an investigation into a political rival. and then trump calls the ukrainian president to personally pressure him to investigate his political rival. in a sort of almost darkly comical twist the republicans prior to the release of these notes had setup a threshold of quid pro quo and when these notes came out, they said oh, there's no quid pro quo. but there is a very obvious implied quid pro quo. ukrainian president zelensky said i would also like to thank you for your great support in defense. we are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps, specifically we are almost ready to buy more javelins from the united states for defense purposes. javelin, a weapon the u.s. is selling ukraine. we're ready, lay it on us. we're

but talian in the ukraine. live from moscow thanks for joining us and r.t. international daniel hawking is here with you tonight's welcome to the program. the white house has released the transcript of a controversial july phone conversation between donald trump and the leader of ukraine but out of me as a lenski so the center of an impeachment inquiry that's moving forward against the us president claims he abused his powers to try and smear a potential election rival with the details his kaleb open 3 minute conversation 5 pages of text here and donald trump certainly does mention joe biden and his son hunter biden and the issue regarding a prosecutor in ukraine there's a lot of talk about biden son body didn't stop the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great i will have mr giuliani give you a coup and i move so we're going to have attorney general who and we will get to the bottom of it i'm sure you will figure it out now the initial allegations from the democrats cited an unnamed whistleblower and sai

went on with ukraine? i'm not even sure he heard the question as he left the east room. but in the oval office when he was sitting down with the prime minister, he did not really answer the question whether or not he spoke with the ukranian prime minister about former vice president joe biden, at one point saying it doesn't matter what he discussed. but there are plenty of contradictions here that the president offered up to reporters when he was sitting down in the oval office, at one point describing the whistleblower has being partisan and part of a hack job, but at the same time saying he doesn't know who the whistleblower is. the white house is not saying at this point whether or not they know who this whistleblower is specifically, who the individual is who filed that whistleblower complaint that's being blocked by the administration in terms of being turned over to congress. but at this point, brianna, we have a lot more questions than we have answers, and the white house at this point appears to be stonewalling to congress when it comes to getting information on this complaint,

meets with the president of ukraine this comes as the white house releases the official notes from his call in which some say president trump pressured ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son. it was something else the president said, comments on trade with china, sending stocks higher after a slow start to the day. take a look, shares of tobacco stocks philip morris altria, shares down 2% right now. we'll have much more on this story straight ahead as we mention, we are moments away from president trump meeting with the ukrainian president, hours after releasing those official notes from that phone call >> there is a sense that all sides are hunkering down for the battle ahead president trump up there in new york defiant this morning, he was adamant that those notes from his july 25th phone call show nothing improper. and in fact the president has his back >> the president himself just came out with a station saying there was no pressure put on him, and there wasn't. the way you have that built up, that call, it was going to be the call from hell it turned out to be a nothing

that obviously our lives. we have to do all the steps to finish these horrible war ukraine's president as a mass for us in a swap is the 1st step in easing tensions with russia. and so on on come on santa maria and this is the world news from al-jazeera. because they got only what you see in the movies like those and the times clips you watch on you tube was a. 100 still missing in the bahamas amid warnings of a staggering final death toll from hurricane dorian. ready to take nuclear advancements to a whole new level iran says they can enrich uranium to weapons grade material and she is back in court sudan's deposed president was denied bail as. he faces some tough questions. there's been a major prisoner exchange that's been hailed as the 1st step in easing tensions between russia and ukraine $35.00 prisoners have been released by each side this includes $24.00 ukrainian sailors the ones who were captured near crimea and among those released by ukraine is a witness in the downing of malaysia airlines flight m.h. 17 that has angered the netherlands which lost many of its citi

ukraine's leader. the actions of the trump presidency revealing dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our national security and the trail of the integrity of our election look it's just a continuation of the it just gets worse we'll show you a little history if she does that they all say that's a positive but really from the election how can you do this if you haven't even. maria has been following the developments she joined me a little earlier in the studio to break down the case. these new allegations will be added to what the 6 house committees are already investigating about trump and if they did issue a committee decides that base time their research evidence enough for an impeachment they will be a democrat controlled house of representatives and democrats a known for supporting any impeachment idea so they are strongly in favor of it so we can say that it is highly likely that donald trump will be impeached but you have to remember that impeaching the president does not mean removing the president from the office for all that the sena