G7 summit at his resort if in florida the white house claims there is no conflict of interest. General mattis had a lot to say and joked about President Trump. James clapper is the former direct tr to have national intelligence. Joining us now. Mick mulvaney conceded there was a quid pro quo. Only to come out later denying what we heard him say. The white house has a huge truth problem. This is another example of what some months ago the corporation aptly and correctly characterize as bad case of truth decay. This started the very first day of the administration with sean spicer lying about the size of the crowd in the mall. And that has continued and gotten more brazen and more frequent. And this assault on the truth is a bad thing for our democracy or any democracy. Well, it started officially as the administration but started long before with donald trump and his whole, you know, Conspiracy Theory about the former president , the lie about where he was born. I mean thats probably th
And Marie Yovanovitch said under oath, what was said about lutsenko. Who else was involved in this Concerted Campaign against you . Some members of the press in mayor giulianis circle. Who from ukraine . In ukraine, i think well, mr. Lutsenko, the prosecutor general. Mr. Shokin, his predecessor certainly. And i believe you testified earlier that mr. Lutsenko had a reputation for being corrupt. Is that right . Thats correct. Lets go to one of the reporters breaking this story. Matt zapatosky reporter for the Washington Post. What are you learning . Reporter basically at the same time that rudy is working with mr. Lutsenko on this effort to oust ambassador yovanovitch, to investigate the president s political opponents, rudy is trying to strike up a business deal with him. Hes trying to arrange a contract where rudys firm will get 200,000, or 300,000 as a retainer fee purportedly to do some work helping lutsenko with an Asset Recovery idea he wanted to do in the u. S. A little confusing
Honest in saying how hes going to pay for this and taxes are going to go up. Im sorry, elizabeth. You have not said that. I think we owe it to the American People to tell them where were going to send the invoice. This was the first debate since the impeachment inquiry launched over President Trump pressing ukraine to help find dirt on the bidens. He said the voters should focus on the president s corruption instead of hunters previous work in ukraine. This president on three occasions, three occasions, has invited foreign governments and heads of government to get engaged. The fact is its outrageous. I did my job. I never discussed a single thing with my son about anything to do with ukraine. No one has indicated i sfloo not entirely true. Hunter biden told abc and the new yorker over the summer he had spoken with his father about the energy company. One of the surly debates came with Peter Buttigieg and beto orourke about the use of guns. I expect my fellow americans to follow the la
We know theyre mostly minorities and i think the president of the United States and especially our military leadership should be keenly aware of that. Theyve got work to do and so does the president. So does congress. The cnn special hour the white house in crisis, the impeachment inquiry. Im going to take you through the top headlines on the impeachment inquiry into donald trump. And one saying the president is going after disloyal republican leaders, calling mcconnell up to three time it as day with panic demands to rally the troops and one day after the white house dedeclared war on the impeachment inquiry, democrats are launching their counteroffensive with what could be an avalanche of subpoenas. A few influential democrats think its important to hold a formal vote onb the impeachment inwithquiry. Well get into all of it tonight with legal analyst and impeachment attorney ross garber, former u. S. Attorney and cnn fact can checker, daniel dale. But lets begin with cnns saursaurah
Anthony scaramucci says he can no longer support President Trump because of his racially charged rhetoric. And the mooch says republicans should make a change for 2020. It is a responsibility of people in the Republican Party okay to say, hey, man, we need to put a relief pitcher in here. You pitched six strong innings but youre throwing it up against the backstop now. I really believe that. Lets see what happens. Im a loyal republican. I tried to be loyal to him, but lets face it, hes gone off the rails so we just have to call it for what it is. We begin the hour, though, with the attorney general talking for the first time about Jeffrey Epsteins apparent suicide. This morning in new Orleans William barr calling epsteins death a, quote, failure. I was appalled, and indeed the whole department was, and frankly angry, to learn of the mccs failure to adequately secure this prisoner. We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a tho