Ohio, because he called out, please, let the money go. I said, rob, i hate being the country thats always giving money. When ukraine helps europe and the European Countries far more than they help us. Theyll like a wall between russia and europe. Theyre like a wall. Theyre a big, wide, beautiful wall. And he said, you know what . But the important. And in fact he came out and said that. This was my only reason, because i dont like being the sucker country. We were the sucker country for years and years. Were not the sucker country anymore. But i gave the money, because rob portman and others called me and asked. But i dont like to be the sucker, and European Countries are helped far more than we are. And those countries should pay more to help ukraine. Ask a question, please. Thank you, sir. What about mr. Biden . About biden . What did you look, biden and his son are stonecold crooked, and you know it. His son walks out with millions of dollars. The kid knows nothing. You know it and so do we. Go ahead. Ask a question. The question, sir, what do you want president zelensky to do about Vice President biden and his son hunter . Are you talking to me . Yes. Just a followup of what i just asked you,er is. Listen, are you ready . We have the president of finland. Ask him a question. I have one for him. I wanted to followup on the one i gave you. Did you hear me . Did you hear me . Ask him a question. I will, but ive given you a long answer, ask this gentleman a question. Dont be rude. No, sir. I dont want to be rude. I wanted you to have a chance to answer the question i asked you. I answered everything. Its a hoax. Whos playing in the hoax people like you and the Fake News Media we have in this country and i say in many cases the corrupt media because youre corrupt. Much of the media in this country is not just fake its corrupt and you have some are very fine people too. Great journalists and reporters but to a large extent its corrupt and its fake. Ask the president of finland a question please. Okay. Ill move on now. Mr. President , in your opening remarks you said to President Trump that you had been to some museums today and that you respected the u. S. Democracy and encouraged him to continue it. Are you concerned that thats not happening . And my second question to you, sir, is the wto rule today in favor of the United States saying that the United States can now impose tariffs on european goods, because of illegal subsidies against airbus. A wig bin for the United States. Right . It was a never had wins with other president s did you . Having a lot of wins with the wto. Started 10 or 15 years ago, but excuse me. The wins are now because they think i dont like the wto and they want to make sure im happy. Because all of those it countries were ripping off the United States for many years. They know that im wise to it. Weve had a lot of wins. This was a 7 billion win. Not bad. But i think the question is for me. The question is if youre concerned the president will impose those tariff, and the effect that might have on the economy. Yes. First of all, when i return returned to your democracy i want to tell that im impressed with what American People have gained during these decades, for some years, very impressive democracy. So keep it going on. To wto, i have a lot of respect to multilateral and to international institutions. So wto has given now a decision which is, well, quite tough with europe. But i just say that the wto has said its opinion, and thats that. And i just want to finish by saying, its an honor to be with the president of finland. Hes done a fantastic job. Very popular, beloved over in finland. The wto has been much better to us since ive been president , because they understand they cant get away with what theyve been getting away with so many years which is ripping off the United States, and, please remember the president s last remarks. That we are a great democracy. We are a great the unite is a great democracy. And im airing what im airing because we are, in fact, a democracy. And if the press were straight and honest and forthright and tough, we would be a far greater nation. We would be a far greater when we dont have the cnns of the world who are corrupt people. Thank you very much, everybody. Mr. President welcome to a special edition of the lead white house in crisis, and you just saw there a president in clear crisis. Im jake tapper. We have breaking news. President trump just now said he will cooperate with House Democrats in their impeachment inquiry. They are warning the white house they will subpoena the white house for documents on friday. We should note the president also called the impeachment inquiry, the greatest hoax and called it a fraudulent crime. You can take his impression of willingness to cooperate as you will. President trump also just accused congressman adam schiff, the chairman of the house Intelligence Committee, a democrat from california, of helping to write the whistleblower complaint. We should point out that one of the whistleblowers lawyers who i just contacted, just asked him, is there any truth that schiff or the committee helped the whistleblower write the complaint in any way . And the lawyer said, absolutely not. That was a response to a New York Times story on how the whistleblower reached out to congressman schiff before filing the complaint. Theres a lot that the president just said i could spend probably about an hour and a half Fact Checking it. Let me make a couple notes. In addition to the accusation that schiff helped the whistleblower write the complaint, which the whistleblowers lawyer said absolutely not. No truth to that. The president said biden and his son are stonecoaled crooked. Note that the cnnian prosecutor said he has seen no evidence that hunter biden the former Vice President s son did anything wrong and there is no evidence that former Vice President joe biden did anything wrong but the president keeps making this charge over and over. There are some other less incendiary things the president said such as the fact the u. S. Gives money to the cb cynthukra nobody from europe does. In actualitiy the European Union gives much more than the United States does, though the United States contributes quite a bit. I could go on and on but we only have a couple of hours. Talk about some of the issues the president brought up. Run the tape, the quote when President Trump was asked if hes going to cooperate with these subpoenas from the house committees investigating during this impeachment inquiry. Well, i always cooperate. This is a hoax. This is the greatest hoax, this is just a continuation of whats been playing out, john, for the last, since my election. This is a fraudulent crime on the American People, but well Work Together with shifty schiff and pelosi. Bill crystal, the president doesnt always cooperate. What did you take from that . The particular ed is not cooperating. Secretary of state pompeo is refusing to allow certain people to testify. Thats at the president s direction. The president can call up the secretary of state and say let them testify. Many, many witnesses ranging from hirs personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani to others that have wr requested, attorney general barr. You can do that and get away with it some. Biden, schiff, whatever you want. At some point many people will want to know the truth and to know the truth you do need certain documents and certain witnesses. The attack on the whistleblower, if i just say is particularly noxious. So far as we can tell this man or woman went through all appropriate procedures. Inspector general said so and the direct of intelligence, a trump appointee set the whistleblower acted appropriately. And met with chairmanen schiff to let him know there was a complaint bottled up nap w. A month after probably the actual complaint was submitted through channels. That attack is an example of trumps total disregard for legal procedures or in this case for the truth. And dana, what are the house chairm chairmen going to do if the white house, if pompeo, if Rudy Giuliani do not comply with the subpoenas, and let us remind viewers that the legislative branch of Congress According to the system set up hundreds of years ago has oversight over the executive branch and have a constitutional responsibility to do this. What are they going to do if they dont comply with them . Use it as meat on the impeachment bone. Meaning, theyre always planning an impeachment inquiry. They are going to add it to the list of evidence behind the idea that the president is obstructing, which is a potential impeachability offense depending what it is. Obstruction of congress. Remember, impeachment is what Congress Says it is. Its a political obviously constitutional but you define it is highly political. What you saw just now in that press conference and probably even more so with the event that you saw before it in the oval office, this is why beneath the spin, the few out there in the president s party is spinning is deep concern, jake. Deep concern, that he is, hes unhinged and that what he is doing worked maybe during the year and a half of the russia investigation, but this is different. There is there is frustration with these kinds of performances by the president. What hes done on twitter, with the whistleblower and beyond. It is not giving them a strategic road map to beat back impeachment. Its making them all hide and run for cover. Glad you brought up the mueller investigation. I forgot to fact check. President trump said they couldnt find one damn thing have to do do with collusion. Not true. No evidence that was prosecutable when it came to conspiracy toy cooperate with russia in russias interference in the u. S. Election. Thats not the same thing as not able to find one damn thing. And let me ask you, do you think that this fight over subpoenas will ultimately end up in front of the u. S. Supreme court . It should, because, of course, this is the president of the United States trying to say, youre actually not coequal branches of government. If you can thumb your nose at congressional subpoena power, keep in mind the First Amendment was an afterthought to the constitution. Impeachment was baked into the res fi of the american democracy. Founding fathers said this is absolutely going to be part of it and Gave Congress the authority to have particularly impeachment Oversight Authority and that compulsion and powers if you then say if youre the president of the United States im not going to respect that, it is about cooperatings remember why were here. Were here and know there is a whistleblower complaint because the president did not cooperate with the whistleblower protection act in the first place. It was exposed the to the American People because they did not follow proper channels. Now if the Supreme Court or judiciary does not weigh in and say hold on. We have to flex our power. Frankly, if we dont assert our own power to show you you can be checked, what becomes of the judiciary later on . There is a, an alliance formed inadvertently by the president thumbing his nose at congress saying judiciary step up to the plate. Youre next on the menu. And, talk about the fundamental issue here. Which is, according to the transcript, which is in alignment with the whistleblower complaint according to the president s own director of National Intelligence, the president pushed, asked, requested, that the president of ukraine investigate the president s domestic political rivals, joe biden and his son hunter biden . That is just a fact. He asked the president of ukraine zelensky to do that. Jeff mason a very kind and excellent reporter from reuters tried to get President Trump to answer the question just now. What did you want him to do with regard to the bidens and very tellingly, President Trump would not answer that question. He would not repeatedly answer that question and its hard to imagine another fair, know, evenkeeled reporter whos interviewed this president many times in the oval office. President trump would not answer that for a reason. And was rude to jeff. Incredibly rude to him, which, of course, is his prerogative i guess. Thats hardly news here. The reality is this. It is the that conversation, a rough transcript, if you will, that started all of this. I think its important as we go forward here to not guest wret up in the process. Thats point. What happened last week is the big point, the road map through all this. What President Trump was asking for. That is not what he would talk about today. He coggedcogged called it a. During the ben gauzy investigation peoples frequently met. Thats not unusual. All the time. All the time. Sounds sexy, perhaps, but that is how it works. They go to the committees staff for guidance on how to proceed. In fact, if i can interrupt one second. Sure. One of these whistleblowers honors mark zaid, represented the ben gauzy five and worked closely with then chairman darrell issa to bring those whistleblower stories to the floor. Its a specialty. Some lawyers specialize in drunk driving cases, some here in washington, in whistleblower cases. That is what you do. Which is why chairmanship spokesperson is not saying, theres nothing wrong heres. Its what they were doing. Forward guidance. The president believes he caught chairman schiff in something here. This is pro forma. This is how it works. Taken, you know, stock of everything, right now we know that what dana said earlier, the Biggest Development so far today and the day is young is that there could be more articles of impeachment because of obstruction of congress. And tying together these two points. The Reason Congress asked, didnt subpoena first, asked people to voluntary testify, because they are following up on things outlined in the whistleblower complaint or suggested by the transcript or by other evidence thats come to light. Theyre not randomly, lets have this person, that person. Theyve been focused, i have to say. They have the responsibility to investigate and the way you investigate is asking for documents and asking for sworn testimony. This is not hard. Its not even that trump makes it seem nancy pelosi is throwing occupy subpoenas left and right . Theyve been reasonably disciplined. They werent cookies as he said . Okay. Not a as we speak the state Department Inspector general is on capitol Hill Briefing staffers and members who are here about something. Something that could be very significant to what we have been talking about. Questions about whether or not the state department is going to cooperate. Right. And the ig only goes to the hill when he oh shr has had difficulty resolving it internally at the state department. An urgent matter. Go to congress because he hasnt been able toll get the secretary of state or whoever to deal with whatever the complaint was. Its striking. A whole new avenue of information on this in the next hour. I want to play this sound, because i think its so important that President Trump refused to answer this question, because, remember, first President Trump said this was a perfect call. Then evidence came out from the white house that President Trump indeed asked the president of ukraine to investigate his domestic political rivals, which many experts and authorities including former republican congressman charlie dent on the show one day ago said is a clear abuse of power. President trump has said he did nothing wrong. Very few republicans have been willing to come forward and say, oh, yeah. This is absolutely fine. His most loyal supporters have, but generally speaking there has not been a Mass Movement of republicans saying this is great. I want every republican or democratic president to call Foreign Countries to investigate republicans and democrats in this country, because, of course that would be exactly against what the founders of this country thought was appropriate. Here is jeff mason, excellent reporter in my opinion with reuters asking President Trump what did you want president s s zelensky to investigation ar former Vice President joe biden and his son hunter. Take a listen. Are you talking to me . Just a followup. We have the president of finland. Ask him a question. I have a followup, did you hear me . Did you hear me . Ask him a question. I will. Ive given you a long answer. Ask this gentleman a question. Dont be rude. Case of emergency break, glass, president of finland is under that glass. Why not answer the question if its perfect and theres nothing wrong . Remarkables so glad you played that. Weve all had experiences with the president interviewing the president. Most of us. I envy you so mitch. And watthe thing about it, hs answers the question. The fact he didnt answer that question is because he didnt want to, and it goes back to the most important thing in all of this. Which you mentioned, which is, this summary, no the a transcript as the president said a verify batum transcript. It is not. Thank you. As a parenthetical. Quick note. And this is on the actual statement that the white house put out. Front pa