Its thursday, november 14th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. There just wasnt any surprises. There wasnt any bombshells. Made a compelling and clear case. This was damning. Both sides claim victory after the first day of public testimony. You talking about the witchhunt . Is that what youre talking about . I hear its a joke. I havent watched. I havent watched for one minute. Reporter a legal said e setback for the president. The federal court ruled that congress can seek eight years of the president s tax returns. Hi, had everyone rning fo president. The massachusetts firefighter is dead. He was killed fighting a house fire. Lieutenant menard heroically and selflessly saved his crew. Reporter the mayor of venice, italy, says the worst s venin its ees. Than 50 years at least two people have dead. Reporter deadly winter storms shattering cold temperature records. From the great lakes to the northeast, its cold. All that a High School Resource officer showed off his moves to celebrate his final day on the job. Hammer time and all that matters you girls talked the talk. Country musics biggest night. The cma awards. He said heres your one chance on cbs this morning. Bullet point number two, second sentence, ambassador taylor recalls that mr. Morrison told ambassador taylor that i told mr. Morrison that i conveyed this message on december 1, 2019, in connection with Vice President s visit to warsaw this is what i sound like when i explain the kardashians to my dad. Khloutct moving on to bullet point two, second sentence [ applause ] this mornings eye opener is presented by brought to you by toyota lets go places. When you put it like that, you got to follow very closely. Can get murky. Make it simple. Well try right now. Yes, we are. Welcome to cbs this morning on. That note, we begin with this date one of historic impeachment hearings produced a very startling claim. It directly ties President Trump to the effort to pressure ukraine to investigate former Vice President joe biden and his son, hunter. The top u. S. Diplomat in ukraine, thats bill taylor, testified that a member of his staff overheard a call between the president and the ambassador do the european union, thats Gordon Sondland. Taylor says that sondland told the staffer the president cared more about investigating the bidens than about ukraine. At the white house, President Trump said he knows nothing about that phone call with sondland, and he called the impeachment inquiries a, quote, joke. Nancy cordes covered yesterdays first public hearing. Good morning. Are we going to hear directly from this the staffer . Reporter yes. He is based at the u. S. Embassy in ukraine, but hell be here on capitol hill tomorrow testifying behind closed doors. His story appears to undercut the republican argument that there is little direct evidence of the president s intent. What this call indicates as other testimony likewise has indicated is that the instructions are coming from the president on down. Reporter the new revelation comes from a u. S. Embassy staffer, david holmes, sitting at an restaurant with ambassador to the eu Gordon Sondland, when sondland placed a call to the president. The member of my staff could hear President Trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. Your staff member hears the president asking about the investigations, meaning barisma and the bidens in 2016, and ambassador sondland told President Trump that the ukrainians were ready to move forward . He did. Reporter the story was relayed by the top u. S. Diplomat in ukraine, bill taylor, who testified that sondland told him repeatedly that mr. Trump would not release u. S. Aid to ukraine until that nation agreed to investigate his campaign rival, joe biden. He said that President Trump wanted president zelensky in a public box. Well what did you understand that to mean . To put zelensky in a public box . I understood that to mean that President Trump through ambassador sondland was asked for president zelensky to very publicly commit to these investigations. Its a witchhunt. Its a hoax. Im too busy to watch it. Reporter President Trump was asked about his phone call during a joint press conference with the visiting president of turkey. I know nothing about that. First time ive heard it. The one thing ive seen that sondland said was that he did speak to me for a brief moment, and i said no quid pro quo under any circumstances. Reporter his press secretary, stephanie grisham, also resnd otw dismissing yesterdays witnesses who are diplomatic veterans as two bureaucrats are a Foreign Policy gripe. Republicans insist information was secondhand. We got six people having four conversations in one sentence, and you just told me this is where you got the clear understanding and youre their star witness. Let me just say that i dont consider myself a star witness for anything they do. You dont i dont. Reporter democrats praised the witnesses, republicans say they still want to hear from the anonymous whistleblower. In is one witness, one witness that they wont bring in front of us, they wont bring in front of the american people. Thats the guy who started it all. Id be glad to have the person who started it all come in and testify. President trump is welcome to take a seat right there. [ laughter ] reporter the next public impeachment inquiry comes tomorrow. It features maria yovanovitch, the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine who was smeared by the president s personal lawyer and then recalled to washington earlier this year. Ambassador sondland is one of eight witnesses scheduled to testify publicly next week. Hell be grilled about why he had to change his story after he was contradicted by so many other witnesses. All right, thank you so much. 60 minutes correspondent John Dickerson joins us for day two. Two for two with John Dickerson, always good to sort is out. Anybody with a cell phone knows its so easy to overhear the conversation when youre talking to somebody else. What is the significance of this latest revelation . Well, anybody with a cell phone knows you dont have this kind of conversation on a cell phone. Security exactly. Talk about the irregular channel. Now, we should be clear something has been alleged, and part of what this process will be is nailing down all the details of this. What exactly was discussed. Does somebody overhear the right thing, and so forth. What was important about taylors testimony is theres an allegation of another instance in which the president appears, accoin h o focused on the bidens and the biden family. Why is that important is because, one, half of the president s defense and again, republicans still have multiple defenses of the president , not all of them aligned. One of the defenses is that the president cared so much about corruption, the counterargument is no, he cared about corruption by one fan, the family thats running against him in this election. This is, though, the first supposed connection to President Trump himself that were hearing in the evidence, correct . How effective is this for the democrats . Well, its the central case. If we go up to 30,000 feet, the facts is that the american president has an amazing and enormous authority in Foreign Policy. And hes granted that by the constitution. And whats at issue is whether he used the authority for himself or for the country. And hes talking about the biden family, hes using it for himself, is the allegation from the democrats. So thats why its central to their case. Ive heard the republicans say, listen, there was no investigation of the bidens, that ukraine did, in fact, get the aid. Really nothing to see here. Thats their strongest argument. Because we should remember when we think about this, there are three ways to think about evidence here. One is whether it builds a case for impeachment. One is whether it gives publicans enough evidence to go to their constituents and say whatever they need to say to get reelected, come is really, i mean, lets not honest, in politics thats what this is about is whether you can justify your vote one way or the other. Finally, we have to think about this in the election contest. Were thinking about if the evidence comes through, whether its worth giving the about the another four years. For republicans trying to get to an argument about whats happening, thats a strong point. In law, i havent found a lawyer who said if you try to commit some kind of illegal act, its okay if it doesnt succeed. So theres no theres no lawyer who says that. In the nixon case he was driven from office for things he wanted to do but werent carried off. Republicans were right to not use the standard when they investigated people who wanted to undermine the trump election. Donald trump was elected, but that wouldnt stop the investigation into people who tried to undermine that election. So its a good political argument for the moment. But it doesnt necessarily hold up all the way through. Any evidence that this has penetrated the public . No, none. I dont think for the moment. We might not expect it to. There should be a high bar for impeachment, and for the the challenge for democrats is to put together this puzzle, make sure each piece has integrity. Thats going to take a long time. The fact they got one interesting piece about there phone call is good for them, as they try to build this long case. Weve got a long time to go before the minds are changed. Theres a lot to sort out. Thank you. For more on the key testimony and whats ahead in the impeachment inquiry, we invite you to go to our website, cbsnews. Com impeachment. The group of democrats looking to replace the president is a little bigger this morning. Former Massachusetts GovernorDuval Patrick is launching a campaign. He released this video this morning, nearly a year after saying he would not run. I admire and respect the candidates in the democratic field. They bring a richness of ideas and experience and a depth of character that makes me proud to be a democrat. But if the character of the candidates is an issue in every election, this time is about the character of the country. Patrick will go to New Hampshire today to add his name to the ballot for the 2020 primary there. With there announcement, he will with this announcement, he will no longer be a cbs news contributor. Ed okeefe is covering campaign 2020. Why is patrick entering now, this late in the game . Reporter anthony, he apparently thinks theres still room for one more. He told us on this broadcast last month he doesnt think former Vice President joe biden is cutting it. And now he plans to run as a moderate who can bring his party and the country back together. The 63yearold served two terms as Massachusetts Governor. The first africanamerican to do so, and the only democrat to hold the job this century. Its the work he did before and after his time as governor thats likely to raise questions. He once served as the top lawyer at the oil Company Texaco and most recently worked for bain capital. That could could be scrutiny. How patrick can quickly build a campaign, raise millions of dollars needed, and attend the debates is unclear. No one in the modern era has entered the race this late in the game and prevailed. Another potential candidate is former new york mayor michael bloomberg. Do we know if hes made a decision yet . Do you think the patrick decision affects this . Reporter well see. He has not decided whether to run. Cbs news learned, however, that bloomberg will not file paperwork to appear on the ballot in New Hampshire which holds the first primary in february. If he runs, bloomberg is expected to focus on winning contests held on super tuesday on march 3rd, thats why hes already filed to appear on the ballot in alabama and arkansas and is working on getting on the ballot in tennessee. Okay. Thank you. Well talk with Duval Patrick in our next hour. His first tv interview since joining the democratic president ial race. Learn how he plans to stand out in this very crowded field. As the impeachment hearings were underway on capitol hill, President Trump was meeting with turkeys president at the white house. Cbs news has confirmed that there was a surprise confrontation when turkeys president , president erdogan, met with mr. Trump and others in the oval office. Paula reid is at the white house. Good morning. Whats this all about . Reporter a surprise indeed, tony. During this meeting the president brought several republican senators into the oval office to meet with turkey its leader in a hope to ease some the hard feelings because several of these senators have been critical of turkeys action, particularly in northern syria. Now were told during this meeting, the leader of turkey pulled out his ipad and showed a propaganda video depicting the u. S. Allies, the kurds, as terrorists. Apparently the turkish leader thought that he could sway some of these senators by showing them this clunky propaganda video. Apparently the senators took turns pushing back on the turkish leader. They came to pressure turkey to buy american weapons systems. And encourage them not to purchase weapons from russia. Paula, thank you very much. This morning the death of an American Teacher in the Dominican Republic is being investigated as murder. Police found Patricia Anton in her apartment on the countrys northern coast. Her hands and her feet were tied up. Officials say the 63yearold woman was strangled. Our national correspondent, jericka duncan, is following this story. Terrible news today. Are there any leads on who may have done this to her . Reporter good morning. Police have not yet indicated there are any suspects, but theyve revealed that antons death may be part of a burglary. Investigators say multiple items were missing from her apartment, including a cell phone, a laptop, a television, sheets, and a pair of sports shoes. Patricia anton hailed from michigan and dedicated her life to helping children. She was a consultant at an Elementary School in the d. R. And has lived there for at least five years. The schools web site says she had more than 20 years of teaching experience and was previously a legislative aide at the Michigan State capitol. Anton is one of at least 11 americans know who died in the d. R. This year. The rest have been tourists, and the reasons range from Natural Causes to death possibly linked to tainted alcohol. Now antons body will now be taken to a lab in Santiago City for further testing. Police are urging anyone with knowledge of the crime to come forward. We will reached out to the state department for comment but have not heard back. Tony . Troubling details there. Thank you so much. Police are investigating a series of Student Deaths at the university of Southern California in los angeles. Consider this since the fall semester began in august, nine students have died. There the school says three were by suicide. Police are looking into whether drug overdoses played a role in some of the deaths. The university sent a letter to students on tuesday warning about the dangers of drug use, particularly opioids. We do know that in many cases not at usc but in our community fentanyl has been mixed with other drugs, and has led to many deaths and overdoses. Hundreds of students gathered on campus last night to talk about these losses, nine since august. Disturbing. A firefighter in massachusetts has died while searching if i burning home for searching a burning home for potential victims. Lieutenant jason menard was on the top floor of this building in worcester, massachusetts, when he became trapped. He helped two of his crew escape but could not save himself. Lieutenant menard was 39 years old. He was about to leave on a disney vacation about w his wife and vacation with his wife and three children. Menard was honored yesterday with a procession through the city of worcester. The details of that story are hard to hear. Millions of americans will soon get some relief from those bitter cold temperatures gripping much of the country. The arctic front has made its way through florida and off the east coast. But there is still some lingering cold with record lows possible this morning in the northeast. 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