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First campaign event in las vegas since the release of the ukraine phone call transcript. our claudia cowan is there with the latest. hi, claudia. >> hi, neil, thats right. his first public campaign ended just a few minutes ago. biden will address a crowd of 200 or so reporters and the media. if the statements are any indication he will continue to blast president trump and brush aside any concerns that he and his son did anything wrong at a pair of fundraisers yesterday in southern california j...

Without going through rudy giuliani. he is all over the call with zelensky and frankly all over the place in what he is telling us hes been doing. so lets try to dive into what were learning. with me now are kelly owe dodo, shes cover capitol hill for years, richard engel and peeter baker. kelly, i want to start with you. you had one of the first scoops of the day that seemed to confirm yet another aspect of the whistleblower report, a portion of it at least which is that yes, there is a differe...

This whistle-blower acknowledges he or she did not have firsthand knowledge of most of what transpired here. does that give you pause? >> and theyre right. this was a secondhand account and thats why if you watch the hearing yesterday, i very specifically asked director maguire whether the whistle-blowers complaint as it was written up, how closely it matches up with the phone call transcript, the phone call between the president and the president of ukraine, and in his words he said that the tw...

>> if you think this is dramatic read the transcript from this phone call and tell me if that is dramatic because most american people go what is this about? >> reporter: mcguire is denying the washington post report that he threatened to resign if he could not speak freely to lawmakers and issued this statement, quote, at no time have i considered resigning my position since assuming this role on august 16, 2019. i never quit anything in my life and im not going to start now. im committed to le...

To give ukraine. and why it was put on hold, why it was released. did that have anything to do with the offer of help on -- you know, getting dirt on biden? thats a story the white house has put out different versions of. you want the full story there. rudy giuliani, what was his story in all this? was he putting pressure on behalf of the administration? >> he says yes. >> he says yes, but he also says he was doing it at the instigation of the state department. what was that connection? what are...

Just the call. there are other unspecified matters about which we have no information. now the inspector general and the key sections of the phone call transcript, catherine herridge reporting live at the department of justice. hello. >> we were first to report today on sections of the transcript and we were first review and there are other sections that are definitely worth noting. the first one is president trump and this is specific again about former vice president joe biden and his son, hun...

Protect his future run for president of the united states. >> i am sick and tired of this presidents conversations with foreign leaders being leaked to the media and democrats on capitol hill. i dont remember one of those happening under obama or any other president. our president has to be able to speak to other heads of state without this kind of tierney taking place. >> began with this first conversation with australia, donald trump made clear he does not plan on releasing his phone call tran...

Feared. the story about the phone call transcript was also leaked to somebody by the press. perhaps, somebody who wanted flynn out and reportedly many people did. now, there is word vice president mike pence, who defended flynn, was not in the loop on all the white house new. all those draws broke the camels back and late last night, it was over for the new nsa chief. we will be joined in moments by congressman peter king of the house intelligence committee on where this goes from here because t...

Began last november right after the election. democrat said intel officials believed the russian lakes of clinton crony emails were to blame for their election loss, , president obama level distinctions and expelled russian diplomats. president-elect and team pushed back. they argue that, no, they won my heart campaigning and winning over democrats. now, we know, intelligence operatives taped sensitive conversations between general flynn, then, the incoming nsa had to, and the russians, talking ...

Australia. lets talk about mexico, shall we? according to a phone call transcript, president trump actually made an offer to the mexico president to help him deal with their drug cartel problems using the term "bad hombres." cnns shasta darlington is live in mexico city with reaction on that. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. thats right, whats interesting about this conversation is that it was supposed to be lower the temperature after donald trump signed an executive order saying...