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Hour. But i want to begin with the big picture here. Joining me now the frank bruni, katherine rampell, max booth, author of conservatism why i left the right. Wow, its a big table. Hello, everyone. Frank, im going to start with you. The president said today, this is what he said about cancelling the taliban can you call it summit or negotiations at camp david. Here it is. No, actually, in terms of advisers, i took my own advice. I like the idea of meeting. Ive met with a lot of bad people and a...

Again. At the moment the president is chairing a session on religious freedom. The u. N. General assembly will be marked by big issues like how to navigate tensions from iran and important debates on the climate. The president just made a lastminute appearance, actually, in the audience of a major u. N. Climate summit. But we begin this hour over the ugly fight of the whistleblower complaint that followed the president to new york. I had a phone call with the president of ukraine. The one who ha...

What are you hearing . This development with the complaint coming out being declassified and reading it is different than what weve seen already. The transcript was yesterday of the phone call. The transcript as the white house describes it. This is the whistleblowers thoughts and who he talked to. Not specific names but the number of people. It goes into concerns about locking down all the records of that phone call. The process of where they believe that this was a coverup. And the challenge h...

Text message to a fellow diplomat. Quote, i think its crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a political campaign. Now as lawmakers asked taylor today why he sent that text, they are working to protect the person who sparked the ukraine investigation, the anonymous whistleblower. Chuck schumer demanding they explain how they are protecting this persons identity when they question whether the person even needs to be protected. We have a brandnew poll on impeachment. It Shows Growing ...

Bottom of the hour. Right now congress they are on recess. The president is still on vacation. But efforts are still under way to address gun reform in this country. Talks between the white house and senate have begun. Our congressional reporter lauren fox is in washington this morning. Lauren, good morning. Look, Mitch Mcconnell has weighed in on this, the president has weighed in on this. Our reporting is that ivanka trump was calling members of both parties yesterday. How serious is this effo...

Impartial jurors. With opening arguments scheduled to begin in just a few days. And within the last 48 hours, weve seen new bombshell allegations from Rudy Giulianis former righthand, lev parnas, who exposed more about the president s role in the ukraine scandal. And new evidence from the nonpartisan Government Accountability office, which determined the white house broke the law by withholding military aid to ukraine. So while there are plenty of facts and evidence behind this impeachment, ther...

America is the most renowned democracy on the planet. A government that is supposed to be for and by the people. And, yet, so many of us take a pass on exercising our most fundamental right of all, voting. A little more than half of the people in this country who can vote bother to show up at the polls, even when the stakes are highest, in a president ial election. In nonpresident ial years, turnout is much worse. So whats wrong with our democracy . As we head into the 2020 elections, that quest...

Area. To the path of the hurricane center, taken over the next 24 hours near bahamas. It looks to parallel the coast. Looks like the closest is to the Kennedy Space center and two of our models show landfall and that will be monday to tuesday night. We will be watching areas from South Carolina to georgia closely too and looks like that storm will be near you. I never thought in Elementary School growing up learning about elections in america that one day i would be talking about the worlds grea...

Booker, senator from new jersey in u. S. Politics. Tonight were going to be joined live here on set by senator booker for an exclusive interview about his decision to end his campaign and what this past year has been like for him in this rolypoly president ial primary. Before senator booker tonight, we are also going to speak with the leader of the democrats in the United States senate. Senator Chuck Schumer is here tonight at a very crucial time. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now confirming that s...

Afghanistan today. U. S. Defense secretary mark esper said about a thousand troops are withdrawing on the ground and in the air and are now being repositioned to western iraq from northern syria. The troops are not headed home, contrary to how the president has been selling it. U. S. Secretary esper said they will be in operations to defend iraq and to conduct counterisis missions, according to esphe ie. A brokered ceasefire in syria seems to be holding, however, one syrian and civilians have be...