Patriots amid accusations of Sexual Assault and misconduct. After answering football questions. Im done with the rest of it. Yo, this is not happening right now what the [ bleep ] . Youve got to see this. A car crashes into a mall near chicago and then keeps driving right through it. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi. Good morning we begin with Vice President joe biden accusing President Trump of abuse of power asking the president several times to investigate his son hunter in an attempt to undermine his chief political rival. In a statement the former Vice President said this, quote, if these reports are true then there is truly no bottom to President Trumps willingness to abuse his power and abase our country. Were covering all angles. Cnn Senior National correspondent is in kiev, ukraine. We do want to start in washington with you, sarah. The conversations with foreign leaders are, quote, always appropriate. What else is he saying about these phone calls this morning . Good morning, christi and victor. It is clear this controversy is not going away for President Trump despite his dismissals yesterday of questions about this story and sources tell cnn that in a july phone call with the ukrainian president , President Trump asked the ukrainian leader of former Vice President joe biden and theres no evidence that trump asked for anything in return and that is the result of the controversial whistleblower complaint, and an unknown person filed into the watchdog in august. Theyre trying to get their hands on that complaint despite putting up roadblocks by the administration. Adam schiff said democrats are not giving up. Take a listen. The Inspector General found these allegations credible, but he only had 14 days to investigate them. So they deserve a thorough investigation. Thats what were intent on doing and come hell or high water thats what were going to do. Trump yesterday described this story as ridiculous, speaking next to the australian Prime Minister who was visiting. He also described the whistle blower as a partisan person despite also admitting that he does not know the identity of the person who filed the complaint. I dont know the identity of the whistleblower. I just know its a partisan person meaning it comes from another party. I dont have any idea, but i can say it was a totally appropriate conversation. It was actually a beautiful conversation. Cnn has reported the white houses Councils Office and the acting intelligence director Joseph Maguire will be testifying before lawmakers so we can expect more answers about this call and perhaps others that can be part of the complaint later this week, victor and christi. Sarah westwood, we appreciate it. Thank you. Cnn correspondent Matthew Chance joins us now from kieva. Matthew, earlier you said the ukrainians are mortified that theyve been dragged into this american political debate. Have they mentioned what they if they have any intention of doing anything about it . Well, look, theyre in this building right behind me which is the president ial administration in the center of the capital kiev and president zelensky is in there with his closest aides trying to work out what their strategy is going to be. They are very uncomfortable and theyre stuck within a rock and a hard place and they dont want to anger the current president , president bush because hes important for them and the relationship with the United States and ukraine is the most important Strategic Alliance that ukraine has, but theyre also mindful that they dont want to anger who could be the next president in 2020 it could be joe biden who is the next president. Theyre keeping their lips well and truly sealed and that might change as the thinking evolves and at the moment its no comment. Add to that that theyve got this meeting in new york next week face to face. Theyve been pushing since the election of the ukrainian president with the u. N. General assembly and they want that to be about military aid, diplomatic support in their battle with russia, but at the moment it will be overshadowed by this controversy. Its inevitable that theyll have to break their silence at some point, christi. Ill take it for you, matthew. Matthew chance in kiev. Thank you. Xan wu and garrett gath. Xan, you point out to give Congress Information about the whistleblower . What are congress options here . Congress has to probably go to the courts. There is one alternative path within the statute where the whistleblower could ask to deliver their complaint to congress, but the way thats set up is they have to get some guidance from the agency which obviously is not forthcoming because maguire doesnt want him to testify so this illustrates a problem where no law is capable of reading into the facts ahead of time. Someones refusal to actually abide by it and enforce it in this case. The executive is claiming confidentiality in terms of classified issues and theyll also be claims executive privilege and it sets up a direct conflict between the executive refusing to let the legislature do its job. You know, garrett, there may be some people thinking gosh, we just got out of the whole scenario with the Mueller Report. Now we have this again. Do you get a sense that there are people looking at this saying i think i have confidence in the 2020 election . Yeah, and i think that one of the things that seems very clear as we line up the time lines is this controversy almost began the moment that the mueller testimony wrapped up, that mueller testified on july 21st, the first of the telephone calls that part of this complaint started july 25th and its almost as if donald trump precisely understood the road map and what he could do that sort of fell within the lines that mueller had already decided was not a crime and wanted to sort of charge ahead. Shan and i were saying this is like a robber going out and robbing another bank because he knows exactly how to do so. There were no real consequence and no charges out of the Mueller Report that came out of that. He does have many analysts say he has a lot of latitude in conversations that he has with foreign governments, is anything that you see to this point, is it criminal . Does it fall under abuse of power . Is there anything beyond that that could be here . In terms of the potential criminal charges and we dont know that much about the facts yet and theres a buffet of charges. Theres bribery, all sorts of things, Campaign Finance violations and abuse of power is written all over this, of course. I think the doj and the white house are obviously going to suppress this and theyll try to make it murky and muddy. First, the statute or the law is not discretionary. It says shall deliver report to congress and theyre not doing that. Second of all, whatever the president may say about his conversation, he, from the reports, is asking that his private, personal attorney be involved in this. Giuliani, his personal, private attorney has no Government Role and its obviously of a personal nature for him. So i want to ask you, garrett, when we look ahead to 2020, what is the potency of President Trumps assertions against or allegations against ukraine and Vice President biden. Im wondering what the risk versus the reward is for him with his base as we head into 2020. The risk versus report for his base is to continue to muddy the democratic opponent whether the facts support this. I think the challenge for the country Going Forward and shan was touching on this a little bit in his answer just now is that most of our systems and most of our laws are not written to deal with a National Security threat if the National Security threat is the president of the United States and that we sort of see these systems and processes sort of struggling to respond to a president who is willing to prioritize his own politics and his own election above the National Interests of the country and that he sees those as completely inseparable and that becomes a really big challenge particularly on the Foreign Policy realm where the president of the United States receives an enormous amount of discretion from the courts and from the legislative branch in terms of National Security decisions. Shan wu, garrett graff, thank you, gentlemen. Good to see you. The new England Patriots. Theyve had enough, after 11 days the team has decided to show Antonio Brown the door. 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