i want to hand it over to chris and "cuomo prime time." chris? >> thank you, anderson. i am chris cuomo and welcome to "prime time." we have more breaking news on our watch. another one of the president's top guys is about to tell all. he could back up most damaging impeachment testimony to date. what does it mean? what do you say? let's get after. it. all right. here's what we have to get into tonight. bill taylor's testimony may be about to get some backup. a current white house official named mois i

chris, pretty slow news day. not sure what you can do. >> a deluge of developments, and certainly the devil is therein. we have mikey sherrill. she's one of those new democrat members of congress. she was in the navy. she's a lawyer. she was one of the ones that signed on to that letter saying okay, now we have to impeach. what do they see? what does she see in today? what matters most in these developments? and how does it make a case for impeachment? now, on the other side we have mark wayne mullen, republican. and he's going to make the case that everything today doesn't change the calculus and there is nothing impeachable in it. we're going to have tests on both sides. you get to decide. well, not you. you'll be home doing something else. >> no, i'll be at home watching, coughing. chris, thanks very much. i'll see you in about five minutes. coming up next, breaking news in yet another whistle-blower complaint. >>> on this busy night there is breaking news on another whis e whistle-blower complaint. the "washi

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i want to check on chris and see what he's working on. chris? >> no joke, anderson. it was no joke. we're going to take a look tonight at what's going on with turkey and syria two different ways. one in militarily in terms of the political calculations. then we're going to try and slip into why that doesn't transfer, that sense of right chus indignation and putting policy before politics that we're seeing on that issue on what they have to know this president did with ukraine. they know it was wrong. why aren't more people saying that? impeach or not, that's a different conversation. >> right. >> but the idea it isn't wrong -- so we have the president's attorney on tonight, jay sekulow. he wants to talk about the case for the president there and on taxes. i'm surprised he wants to take us on about asking for the president's taxes. we'll do it now. >> all right. chris, see you about ten minutes from now. still to come, i'll talk to beto o'rourke about why he beyhiliev some republicans might favor president trump's impeachment. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the room

i want to hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> i am chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." a first-hand witness to the president's phone call on ukraine is due to testify tomorrow. brand new reporting, this man may solidify what should be an obvious point. what do you say, let's get after it. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> all right. so now we're expecting a new testimony tomorrow. we're just getting in information in. we are trying to understand what it will mean for us. but, look, a white house national security official, all right, the main ukraine expert, he is called the top

joining me now is democratic senator chris coons, a member of the foreign relations committee. senator coons, thanks for being with us. to people who have been following this region closely, it is not stunning how quickly this situation has deteriorated after the president made the decision that he did. when you hear people in the administration sort of pushing the idea that it was not the -- the president did not, in effect, green-light turkey's attack on the kurds, do you buy that? >> i don't buy that at all. frankly, this is what happens when an untested, unconventional president, who doesn't rely on the advice of his diplomats and military advisers, wanders into a very complex region and engages in erratic and ill informed foreign policy. frankly, after this development, many of our enemies are encouraged and some of our closest allies alarmed. i am gravely concerned, anderson, about what this means not just for the kurds, who fought bravely alongside us in the efforts against isis, but for our -- the extent to which our allies in the region of the world view us as reliable

let's check in with chris. see what he's working on for "cuomo prime time." >> it's about sorting through the noise and figure out which piece fits in the puzzle, why the president was playing these games in ukraine. he's at a rally right now blaming everybody except the people responsible -- his mouth and now his acting chief of staff's mouth. mick mulvaney admitted that there was a quid pro quo for the dnc. by the way, coop, not a bad cover story for the president. not about biden. it's about the dnc. sure it's an easy conspiracy theory but we believe it in good faith. that they have now withdrawn and it's one more piece in a puzzle that is really coming together to show that this president abused his office, and that's his concern. we have one other congressman who was in there today listening to the latest diplomat to go bad on this president and top investigators to help us figure out what's necessary in the case. >> all right, chris, look forward to it seven minutes from now. see you then. >>> if you like

i'm going to hand it over to chris for cuomo "primetime." chris? >> thank you very much. i am chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." i can't believe it, but there is another dossier in the mix. the irony is staggering and troubling. we have new information and people to test what they're going to do about it. what do you say? let's get after it. another crazy day. the president happy to answer all kinds of questions about how bad the whistle-blower is, how bad the democrats are, all the things that they did and all you need to do is look at the perfect call. but when he got asked about that call, listen to this.

i want to head over to chris for cuomo "primetime "primetime." >> i am chris cuomo. welcome to "primetime." it turns out that this president had his campaign manager directing policy on ukraine. let's get after it. >> sources say the united states president directed his secretary of state of energy, rick perry, and two top state department officials to go to jewel yeenl f -- giuliani's blessing for the meeting, quote, if they

let's check in with chris, see what he's working on for "cuomo prime time." chris? >> biggest day we've had because any question of doubt is gone, anderson. there is no question people are portraying this as a dark day for the president. i decided not to look at it like that because it's perspective. the light of truth shown brightly today, and it came from team trump. the man who was top diplomat in ukraine, taylor, told us what happened, when, in meticulous detail. he cannot be dismissed as some radical unelected diplomat. he was asked to do this job. >> that's what stephanie grisham put out today. >> that's why she has to be questioned as many in that administration. we know what happened. we'll lay it all out. >> we'll see you in about 6:30 from now. >>> testimony by the u.s. special envoy for syria, ahead. motor? nope. not motor? it's pronounced "motaur." for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. for those who were born to ride, saturpain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven stronger and longer on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all da

we'll head over to chris cuomo for "cuomo prime time." >> i am chris cuomo. ukraine was concerned about being dragged into the election even before that infamous scull phone call. but this hey be worse. what were these republicans doing storming the castle? what do you say? let's get after it. >>> we have new information. cnn confirms months before that notorious july phone call withu president, and after that first call, zelensky met with his team and discussed the concerns that they were being dragged into a u.s. election. where is the transcript of that call? obviously they were aware. the white house readout only says they spoke about

i'm chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." congress has finally heard from someone who was on that damning phone call between the u.s. president and ukraine's president. we're getting new word on what he disclosed. but is there any real question remaining about what happened here? we're going to ask an impeachment player and our investigators on another big night. what do you say, let's get after it. all right, lieutenant colonel

got to go to chris and see what he's working on tonight. chris? >> i'm going to dismiss this with where we are in left and right. this probe into rudy giuliani is broader and has been going on longer than we knew. it's not just about ukraine now. it's about his relationships with turkey and who was paying him and what did this president know? and more importantly, what did this president perform, in acco accordance with the interest of rudy giuliani. we ishave mccabe and baker. the different legal diagrams where this could lead and the concerns for the rest of us. >> to see what rudy giuliani was advocating to the president regarding turkey and how that related to his business interests, that's one of the fascinating angles on this. i'll look forward to it, chris. six minutes from now. >>> justice against a sandy hook conspiracy theorist who spread lies about the shooting the father of one of the children that was killed. rent cultures ♪ and found that the past can create new memories... leading them to discover: we're woven together by the mome

over to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> very well done, anderson. thank you. >>> i'm chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." the white house fully admits to ukraine quid pro quo, then tries to take

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let's hand it over to chris for "cuomo primetime." chris? >> i love you in the mock neck. i love your eyes peering into the distance of where the news will take us. >> who knows where it will take us. >> that's what that look tells me. i am chris cuomo. welcome to "primetime." we have more news dropping on our watch tonight. the state department's inspector general has requested an urgent briefing. why? we don't know. we do know what it is related to within that own department. we'll tell you. could it be a ukraine dimension? there is no indication that it is but there's lots to cover. what do you say? let's get after it.

randi kaye, new york. >> we'll hand it over to chris for cuomo "primetime." >> i am chris cuomo. this is "prime tootime." tonight we'll show that people put in place by this president thought what he was asking from ukraine was wrong. proof of an obvious expectation by ukraine that investigating biden would get them the

chris. >>> thank you, anderson. i am chris cuomo and welcome to primetime. and more proof comes out that this president had his personal attorney directing policy on ukrain. what happens now? let's get after it. so here's the latest. sources tell cnn when you chronchro ukrain's president sought to meet with president trump, the united states president directed his secretary energy, rick perry, and two top state department officials to go to giuliani for his blessing on the meeting. go to rudy for the president's blessing. the quote.

i want to head over to chris right now for "cuomo prime time." >> thank you. i am chris cuomo. and welcome to prime time. are democrats about to snag their biggest impeachment witness yet? we have big news on that front. and we have a key senate player here tonight with a ukrainian connection of his own. plus, one of the biggest assaults on a key witness, colonel vindman is about to get blown up in this show in minutes. so what do you say, let's get after it. the president's former national security adviser john bolton, is he the next big witness. a source tells cnn he was invited for next thursday. his lawyer said tonight it's not going to happen without a subpoena. that's arranged easily enough these days. meanwhile, a bolton top nsc deputyre

i am chris cuomo. welcome to "primetime." we have more news dropping on our watch tonight. the state department's inspector general has requested an urgent briefing. why? we don't know. we do know what it is related to within that own department. we'll tell you. could it be a ukraine dimension? there is no indication that it is but there's lots to cover. what do you say? let's get after it. >> it's going to be a another big,

chris? >> i am chris cuomo and welcome to "prime time." looks like a subpoena storm is about to head down pennsylvania avenue. what do you say? let's get after it. >>> the white house is now officially stonewalling the impeachment inquiry. several democratic sources tell cnn that means it's likely time to stop asking and start demanding witnesses make their way to the hill, associates of rudy giuliani, state department officials, including the former ukraine ambassador who was forced out. she's still on

first, let's check in with chris. >> we're going through the vindman testimony. there was a lot in the opening statement to go through. now we have some reporting context for it. we know that the testimony obviously matters to this president and his proxies because they're going after this guy like no one else we've seen testify yet. reveals something about the president and also their inability to deal with the facts. so where are we in the state of play of this process? we'll go through that tonight. >> chris, see you in about ten minutes from now. look forward to that. >>> did president trump know the isis leader al baghdadi was whimpering and crying before his death? we robinhood believes now is the time to do money. without the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. >>> it's still unclear where president trump might have learned when president trump learned abu bakr al-baghdadi was before he was killed. a white hous

time to check with chris cuomo. >> one of the obvious missteps was going after this guy, vindman. ken burns, the great documentarian has a quite from vindman at 10 years old about what it was like coming to this country when his family left ukraine, he was only 3. really powerful stuff. tonight what we're going to do is talk about once again we're all in on the state of play here and showing how rudy giuliani has been awfully quiet lately. and with good reason. we got senator chris murphy here to talk about where democrats' heads are in the senate on this situation and a man at the center of one of the biggest hitmen on vindman. >> appreciate that about seven minutes from now. coming up, meet ten people whose work is going to inspire you right now, the ten ten cnn heroes for 2019 have just been announced and how your vote can give one of them $100,000 to continue their work straight ahead. when you take align, you have the support of a probiotic and the gastroenterologists who developed it. align helps to soothe your occasional digestive upsets, 24/7 with a strain of bacteria you

chris murphy sits on the senate foreign relations committee, met with ukraine's president shortly before the transcript of the phone conversation with president trump came out. he joins us. thanks for being with us. i want to ask you about jim acosta's reporting. i'm wondering what your assessment of the vice-president's involvement is here. i believe he met with the president of ukraine. he has tried to stay out of the fray. do you -- do you have any sense of what his involvement may be? >> well, if your reporting is correct, it's extraordinary the vice-president has chosen to skip town over the course of the next few weeks to stay out of this story. i think it may also be a little bit of reconstruction of history to suggest the vice-president is the one that persuaded the president to release the aid. the president released the aid right after the whistle-blower complaint was lodged. shortly before the appropriations committee was going to require that the next year's aid be spent. remember, everyone in trump's orbit knew what was going on dating back to may. in may, rudy giuliani was

i want to hand it over to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> i am chris cuomo and welcome to "prime time." so many people see this as a dark day for the president. we have finally seen the light of truth. we know what happened and that light shone brightly today from an unlikely source, team trump. the top u.s. diplomat to ukraine said a quid pro quo was clearly in play. the president was orchestrating a shadow effort to manipulate ukraine to get dirt on the dnc and the bidens. people with power to decide the president's fate are here tonight to answer the real only question that remains, what should the consequence be? it's a big day. there are big questions.

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i want to check in with chris and see what he's working on for "cuomo primetime." >> so the argument becomes to the left, what are you going to do about it, what do you believe this rises to the left of and why? and the right, how can you ignore saying this is wrong? you can argue all day about whether or not it's impeachable. i honestly see both sides of that argument, but you cannot ignore what happened. you cannot ignore that it was wrong, and you cannot ignore it was an abuse of office. so how was that done? we'll test both sides and we've got anthony scaramucci for the mindset of where the right is. >> certainly seems like there's a lot of republicans who have figured out a way to just ignore it. >> look, you got the jim jordans, right? i believe that's the irrational right, that they are with this president out of feelity. i don't know that that will apply to the main. they have to worry about their personal dignity at some point, anderson. i'm an optimist. >> you sure are. >> many cog up next, t-- coming house trying to get us to unsee what we all saw on national television. s

i want to go to chris for what's on "prime time" tonight. >> i'm going to dismiss it as noise because this probe into rudy giuliani is broader and has been going on longer than we even knew. it's not just about ukraine now. it's about his relationship with turkey and who was paying him and what did this president know and more importantly what did this president perform in accordance with the interests of rudy giuliani. this is a big deal. we have mccabe and baker, the big names from the fbi helping us out now at cnn as part of the team. the different avenues all diagrammed about where this could lead. >> to see what rudy giuliani was advocating to the president regarding turkey and how that related to his business interests, which you're going to be looking into. that's one of fascinating angles. i'll look forward to about six minutes from now. ♪ (vo) the big dogs. the old dogs. the deaf, blind, the different. subaru presents the underdogs. these shelter dogs still love unconditionally. they're just hoping to find their human, who does too. to help, subaru is establishing national

check on chris and see what he's working on. chris? >> no joke, anderson. it was no joke. >> yeah. >> we're going to take a look tonight at what's going on with turkey and syria in two different ways. one is militarily in terms of the political calculations and why so many on the right and left are upset about that. then we're going to try to slip into why that doesn't transfer, that sense of righteous indignation and putting policy in front of policy in front of what they have to know what this president did with ukraine. they know it was wrong. why aren't more people saying that? impeach or not is a different conversation. the idea that it isn't wrong, so we have the president's attorney on tonight, jay sec law. he wants to talk about taxes. he wants to take us on about asking for the president's taxes. we'll do it now. >> see you ten minutes from now. >>> still to come, i'll talk to beto o'rourke why he believes some may favor president trump's impeachment. we'll be right back. s happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol

chris. >>> i'm chris cuomo and well welcome to "prime time." looks like subpoena storm is about to head down pennsylvania avenue. let's get after it. the white house is now officially stone walling the impeachment inquiry. several democratic sources tell cnn that means it is likely time to stop asking and start demanding witnesses make their way to the hill. that could include associates of rudy giuliani, state department officials including a former ukrain ambassador forced out. she's still on the state department's payroll. there could be pressure to stay home, just as ambassador sondeland was ord oered to stay home.

co chris cuomo is off tonight. there is new reporting in "the washington post" on conversations with putin, as well as viktor orbon and the president. in them, the two foreign leaders sought to reinforce the president's notion of ukraine as a dysfunctional, corrupt state, a country that russia has invaded. this was happening as his tv lawyer, rudy giuliani, was pushing conspiracy theories about ukraine to the president and with hundreds of millions of dollars in american military aid on the line. i spoke about this and more with democratic congressman and house intelligence committee member jim himes. congressman, what do you make of "the washington post" reporting the idea that vladimir putin might have helped color president trump's view of ukraine? it does seem another example of something that at this point is shocking but i guess not surprisi surprising. >> yeah, i read that story and i guess i'm not surprised. i didn't happen to be in that particular moment of the temperature. i'm not at all surprised if that

>>> chris cuomo is off tonight. enough breaking news to write a week's worth of headline, rudy giuliani -- attorney general barr was tied to wider efforts to discredit the mueller account of the 2016 election interference. also the president calling for the man investigating him, congressman adam schiff, suggesting he maybe should be arrested for treason. that in new reporting on how deeply concerned that people close to the president were and perhaps still are about his conduct on phone calls with foreign leaders. there's no reporting on a president who does not grasp the impeachment jeopardy he is so clearly in. more with all of this now from caitlin collins who joins us from the white house. the president invoked the prospect of a civil war or raised the specter of it on twitter. >> reporter: that gives you an insight into how the president is viewing all this. that's why you're seeing the president lash out the way he is on twitter, quoting people by saying he could lead a civil war like fracture. impeachment is

also cites this moment from giuliani's interview with my colleague, chris cuomo, in which he eventually admits he asked ukraine to look into joe biden. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> no. actually, i didn't. >> you never asked anything about hunter biden, 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 senko, who was appointed, dismissed the case against -- >> you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden. >> of course, i did. >> you just said you didn't. >> the subpoena also demands giuliani turn over all the tax phone records and other communications he cited repeatedly in tv interviews as proof he was working for the administration in his dealings at the direction of the state department with ukraine. joining us now, former fbi general counsel james baker, former deputy assistant attorney general, elliot williams. both are cnn legal analysts. james, how big of a development is this? giuliani from the whistle-blower's account, by his own admission, seems to be at the center of the inv

i'm anderson cooper in for chris cuomo. the latest the former ambassador to ukraine who testified today at the state department being, quote, attacked and hollowed out, unquote, by politics masked as diplomacy. the president said he did not know this three-time ambassador who spent 33 years in the foreign service. >> well, she may be a wonderful woman, i don't know her. she may be very much a wonderful woman. if you remember the phone call i had with the president, the new president, he didn't speak favorably. but i just don't know her. she

chris wallace does it sunday. shep smith is a unique voice on fox. it's a loss for the country that he is suddenly leaving. i suspect there's more to come about why he left. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. thanks to you for joining us. anderson starts now. >>> good evening. we start a two-hour broadcast with breaking news. cabinet official who told the washington host he didn't have control over the, quote, tone, message, the public face and approach, unquote of his department has announced his departure. the department of homeland security chief is out. it occurs the same day a judge said the administration could not use military funding to build the border wall. here with more tonight is cnn kaitlan collins. what do we know about his departure? >> reporter: this is sudden. the president tweeting e iing t. ever since he first got named to this job under, of course, an acting position, people never envisioned him taking the job in a permanent role. he was at odds with the president and some of his top advisers, including miller, and their ro

i'm anderson cooper in for chris cuomo. the latest the former ambassador to ukraine who testified today at the state department being, quote, attacked and hollowed out, unquote, by politics masked as diplomacy. the president said he did not know this three-time ambassador who spent 33 years in the foreign service. >> well, she may be a wonderful woman, i don't know her. she may be very much a wonderful woman. if you remember the phone call i had with the president, the new president, he didn't speak favorably. but i just don't know her. she may be a wonderful woman. >> so just, you know, facts matter, that's actually not true what he just said. it wasn't the president of ukraine who was saying negative things about the ambassador, it was actually president trump speaking to the president of ukraine speaking unfavorably of her on that now infamous july phone call, which would indicate he does know her or of her. today in her testimony, marie yovanovitch said the president was very familiar with her and her work in ukraine an