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Steps of defending himself from charges that he may have abuses officer had a conflict of interest. not at events, not in any interviews. instead hes focusing on potential wrongdoing by the current president, who they all hope to challenge next year. one issue where democrats generally do feel like they could generate a lot of enthusiasm for their side, especially with young voters, his gun control. thats the issue that has them all in nevada today. biden came out with a new gun control plan thi...

Giuliani and now for the white house. in terms of what we know about this, im going to quote to you a little from the memo. they say they do not take this action, quote, lightly, but given the stonewalling coming out of the white house, they had no choice. they said they had given two deadlines to the white house to comply with these requests. they blew both of them on september 16th as well as september 26th. they say weve already seen that based on the july 25th phone call, that it took overwh...

Ordered the rough transcript of the call with the ukrainian president to be put on a specific server. walk us through how that would happen. they would have to be directed, right? >> one would think. its an unusual move. i dont recall during my time there the lawyers being the ones to direct this to happen. "the new york times" article that came out late yesterday suggests that those lawyers didnt begin to take that action unthele they were tipped off by cias general counsel who were approached ...

Election and what is what is what are the numbers tellus so when i can you actually and last night i talked about where the polling had been and where it had been is in the high to mid in the mid to high thirtys in favor of impeachment that was based off of the russian investigation and any other potential wrongdoing that people see trump doing you know what we see now and this is preliminary polling so more polls are going to come out is when they ask the question if president trump pressured a...

Defenders. do you think its appropriate for the president of the united states to call the president of another foreign country, in this case ukraine, and ask that president to dig up dirt on one of his political rivals? >> i dont believe thats what happened, katy. you have allegations of impropriety or potential impropriety from the former vice president of the united states while he was vice president of the united states. that is something that needs to be looked into regardless of his curren...

For the service they give to the country. >> you could hear how choked up that fellow veteran was. that was so nice they do that. all right. thats it for us. "newsroom" with poppy harlow and jim sciutto starts right now. all right. good monday morning, everyone. im poply harlow. >> its monday. im jim sciutto. a stunning admission and reversal by president trump. will it be enough to make democrats now act? the president now confirming that he spoke to the president of ukraine about joe biden a...

Is our constitution doesnt really have that like third party ombudsman that you can go to, to lodge complaint, or say you have someone arbitrary or something, but that is apparently what the president wants. down in houston with the president yesterday, i think mitt romneys most critical republican but i spoke to senator cornyn on the intelligence committee and he came pretty close to calling, for saying that congress would investigate. that is different than calling for an investigation. >> wha...

I think this could be something closer to betrayal given what we have learned from "the washington post" this evening. its always dangerous to speculate on the origins of potential wrongdoing during this administration because there is so much of it to go around but let me offer one theory that i think comports with the second line of thought that ben put forward. ive always been curious about a july 31st phone call between president trump and vladimir putin. this is a phone call that president ...

That would be carelessness. i think this could be something closer to betrayal given what we have learned from "the washington post" this evening. its always dangerous to speculate on the origins of potential wrongdoing during this administration because there is so much of it to go around but let me offer one theory that i think comports with the second line of thought that ben put forward. ive always been curious about a july 31st phone call between president trump and vladimir putin. this is ...

Wind 10,000 feet at 82 miles per hour. that doesnt mean its at the surface, but its high. >> that means it is getting worse. chad, thank you for keeping an eye on that for us. meanwhile, this story, the va is investigating 11 suspicious deaths at one of its hospitals in wuj. the probe was launched after the family of an 82-year-old patient filed a claim citing a medical examiner who concluded mcdermot died by homicide. >> this is string of suspicious deaths that happened at this va medical cen...