Patrick learning a quick campaign lesson. Entering the race just last week means you get the last spot on the dinner speaking order. I have a chance tonight to introduce myself. Maybe ill do so briefly so that you can get home. Because events like this are fabulous, as good as they are, but i still believe they should end the day they begin. Well get back to 2020 a bit a big courtroom Development Just this morning that could dramatically up the president s legal jeopardy. Lawyers for House Democrats say they are now investigating whether President Trump lied to the special counsel Robert Mueller. House democrats saying they need access to the raw grand jury materials collected during the Mueller Investigation to determine if the president of the United States committed perjury. That happens as we start an already big week in the impeachment inquiry. Public testimony from those with firsthand knowledge because they work inside the trump white house. Witnesses today will testify over thr
Documents. Hundreds, showing an effort to come up with a after the fact justification for why President Trump chose to keep the money from ukraine. And the review came after the white house learned of that whistle blower complaint. Lets start at the white house with our correspondent there. Any response from the white house on this . The White House Councils office has declined to comment on the story in the Washington Post. The omb put out a statement saying, the emails were trying to comply with the law every step of the way, they say that these emails show theyre following procedure, but as you pointed out, this request by Mick Mulvaney to find reasoninging for withholding aid to ukraine, came after that decision was already made, it also came after the White House Council learned there was this Administration Official that was unhappy with the way the president was handling ukraine policy who ultimately filed that complaint that led to impeachment proceedings. Notably, theres a dis
Way of millions heading home. We start with the ukraine scandal. We know that President Trump has made a habit of attacking the whistleblower who brought this scandal to light. Now were learning according to the New York Times the president knew about the whistleblower and the report long before the rest of us, also before congress and before the white house finally relented and released the military aid to ukraine. Our Jeremy Diamond is in West Palm Beach where the president is spending the holiday at his maralago resort. How does this change the picture . Well, this revelation that the president was briefed on this whistleblower complaint in late august is extremely significant. Until this New York Times report yesterday, we did not know whether or not the president had been briefed on it at all before that aid to ukraine was released. Indeed thisrevelation does shed light on the president s decision on september 10th to release the hold on aid to ukraine. That happened on september
The debate in iowa live on cnn, light on personal attacks, heavy on policy, climate, free college, health care, and especially foreign intervention. The gravity of the moment is clear. The candidates addressing priorities as commander in chief. They denounced President Trumps handling of iran and other crises. Isis is going to reconstitute itself. We have to pull our forces out. Americans have to leave the entire region. And quite frankly, i think hes flatout lied about saying the reason he went after the reason media the strike was because our embassies were about to be bombed. Two great Foreign Policy disasters of our lifetimes were the war in vietnam and the war in iraq. Both of those wars were based on lies. And right now what i fear very much is we have a president who is lying again. We have one general after another in afghanistan who comes in and says, you know, weve just turned the corner. And now its all going to be different. Then what happens . Its all the same for another
Cooper was about to give her deposition. That as the president tries to cast a serious ceasefire announcing he is lifting sanctions on turkey. And then there is the president s lets call it a surprising claim that he is building a wall in colorado. A state which i am sure you are aware does not border mexico. And this is unbelievable. Remember when thencandidate trump said he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and not lose any votes . Well, now one of the president s attorneys arguing in court that he could kill somebody and not be charged. Weve got more on that. Plus, new questions about the president s trip to his golf resort this summer and who picked up the tab. But we are going to begin with the anger in washington. And republicans storming a closeddoor deposition today. Heres what they were saying just before it all went down. It should be the people of this country who decide whos going to be the President Trump, not nancy pelosi and not adam schiff behind closed doors. The mil