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I want to get to nbc white house correspondent kristen welker, here in new york traveling with president trump. kristen, theres a lot going on here. we just heard from the president a few moments ago. try to break it down for our viewers and listeners on satellite radio. where do things stand right now for the president? >> reporter: well, you heard president trump again striking a defiant note as it comes to this latest controversy, craig, effectively saying that this is yet another democrat, q...

Ukraine to fire the countrys top prosecutor viktor shokin. he was a former general prosecutor of ukraine investigating the owner of burisma that hunter wokked for. at the time, the former vice president biden spearheading u.s. efforts to tackle corruption in ukraine. a position that was supported by other western countries and many within ukraine. criticism grew against the decision to serve on the board but he was a private citizen at the time. however, despite president trumps claims, the form...

Iran in a second, but i just feed to understand, is it the position of the administration that it is acceptable for politicians to pressure foreign leaders to look into and investigate political rivals because that is what is being said, being reported happened on this phone call and it alarms a lot of people. >> i wasnt on the call but i have no reason to believe that the president pressured or anything else any foreign leader. this was largely a congratulatory call and theyll be a meeting this...

Campaign in which -- >> i know what im up against. i know what im up against, a serial abuser. thats what this guy is. that eabuses power everywhere he can. and if he sees any threat to his staying in power, he will do whatever he has to do. but this crosses the line. im calling the president to release the transcript of the call to let everybody hear what it is, let the house see it and see what he did. thats what im calling. >> the presidents team has suggested that biden leveraged his positio...

Ukraine. i, for one, find that to be concerning and to me that is the issue perhaps that should be further investigated. >> i dont understand. so it is okay for donald trump and eric trump jr. to do business all over the world and okay for ivanka trump to have copyrights approved all over the world while president trump is president and while joe biden was vice president his son shouldnt be able to do business dealings? >> again, i dont want to go into more of the details other than to say -- >>...

Ukrainian prosecutor there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by another -- either joe or hunter biden. and another known, the president has not denied and continued to not deny this morning that he discussed the former vice president in his call with the ukraine leader. the issue of the president pressuring ukraine to investigate his rival came to light as part of a whistleblower complaint that the white house is keeping from congress much to the chagrin of the trump appointed inspector general f...

Democratic front-runner as a challenger is making a move. if iowa is the key to the democratic nomination, is it up for grabs? hello, im jake tapper in washington where the tate of the union issen meshed in another scandal involving a foreign leader. president trump is defending himself as his administration is facing an uproar over new reporting that he presses ukraines president vladimir zelensky eight ways according to the "wall street journal" to investigate joe bidens son during a phone c...

Concerning and to me that is the issue perhaps that should be further investigated. >> i dont understand. so it is okay for donald trump and eric trump jr. to do business all over the world and okay for ivanka trump to have copyrights while president trump is president and while joe biden is vice president his son shouldnt be able to do business dealings? >> again, i dont want to go into more of the details other than to say -- >> well youre setting a precedent that the president is violating. >...

To be clear, there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by either hunter or joe biden according to the ukrainian prosecutors and this week congress is set to press the trump administration over the decision to block lawmakers from seeing a whistleblower report we know deals with that phone call. joining me now house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff, democrat of california. do you want to respond to what you just heard of what the president said and said biden did something wrong and there...

Kind and we may very well have crossed the rubicon here. >> there was a tweet from mitt romney of utah saying if the president asked or pressured ukraines president directly or through his personal attorney, it would be troubling in the extreme, critical for the facts to come out. cnn jeremy diamond is traveling with the president in ohio. to be clear as weve been saying, there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by biden or his son but it is not, the president is not letting up in these allegation...