Something how worried he is about his reelection campaign. Also expected to put more pressure on House Democrats in their impeachment investigation. President trump admits he did discuss joe biden and his son in a conversation with the ukraine president over the summer. The phone call was congratulatory, that we dont want people like Vice President biden and his son adding to the corruption already in the ukraine. Reporter the Democratic Front runner on the campaign trail. This appears to be an overwhelming abuse of power. To get on the phone with a foreign leader who is looking for help from the United States and ask about me and imply things if thats what happened. Reporter the president s closest adviser is demanding investigations into biden despite no evidence of wrong doing. I think if Vice President biden behaved inappropriately and was protecting his son in a way that was corrupt, i think we need to get to the bottom of that. Reporter telling reporters sunday he hopes officials will release details of the call, but some advisers urging the opposite. I think that would be a terrible precedent. Conversations between World Leaders are meant to be confidential. Reporter a source telling cnn the call with the ukrainian president was part of the initial whistleblower complaint which raised concerns about multiple actions. The white house still refusing to turn that over to congress. Nancy pelosi sending a letter to all members of Congress Calling the stonewalling a serious possible breach of duties by the president. They will be entering a schapter of lawlessness which will take us into a new stage of investigation. I dont know whether the whistleblower complaint is on this allegation. But if it is or isnt, why not remove the whistleblower complaint. Hes afraid for the public so see either one of those things. Reporter cnn has learned that pelosi and adam schiff were in close coordination all weekend. Formulating a strategy on how to proceed. As some democrats blamed congress for not starting the impeachment process sooner. You know i have been very reluctant to go down the path of impeachment. But if they are withholding military aid at the same time that he is trying to brow beat a foreign leader into doing something with dirt on his opponent during a president ial campaign, that may be the only remedy. Reporter in that same letter, the House Speaker called on the acting director of National Intelligence to turn the whistleblower complaint over to congress by thursday. And clear a path for the whistleblower to speak directly to congress. The president is in new york for the United NationsGeneral Assembly where he is expected to meet with the president of ukraine. Back to you, john. All right. Joe johns at the white house. Keep us posted. Because we keep on hearing from the president about this. Possibly will Say Something else in the next few hours. Want to bring in dana bash and margaret talev. Dana, its your reporting that adam schiff and nancy pelosi were in contact before they both came out with what were very new positions on investigating the president. Adam schiff saying weve crossed the rubicon and now maybe impeachment is something to look at. And nancy pelosi saying a whole new stage of the investigation. Whats going on here . Whats going on is that the pressure that we have been talking about and we have been seeing for months reached a completely new level last week. With corey lewandowski, we cant forget that, and the frustration, anger really among a lot of democrats that he wasnt held in contempt right then and there when he was not answering questions, never mind not treating the members of congress with the respect they felt that they deserved. But then of course this. The whole question of ukraine and the idea that the acting dni is not urn thing over the whistleblower complaint. The fact that adam schiff who has not been in the impeached proud, hes been cautious. Hes been in lock step with members of the leadership who have been saying hold on. Were not there yet. The fact that he used the i word and then as you said, i was told that i had coordinated closely with the House Speaker this weekend. She released the letter notably did not use the i word. Did not use impeachment. But nonetheless, her letter was extremely tough. A lot of focus on the fact she said this if theres no reaction from the administration, it would put the investigation into a whole new level. But she actually wants immediate action. What she was trying to do, im told, in this letter is appeal to not just democrats but republicans. There are a lot of them who have said theyre retiring, so they dont have any kind of political strings on them to push the dni to really come on thursday and deliver the report to congress that has the information about the whistleblowers report. Margaret, nancy pelosi didnt use the i word. She used the e word. She said this is an emergency and needs addressed immediately. We dont know what it will look like. But it will look like the president is at the uga with the world watching and shes running the tables in washington. There are things changing inside her caucus now as dana was mentioning. There are a number of kind of either centrist democrats or democrats in vulnerable districts who are now more interested and open to the idea of impeachment. There are republicans in the senate as well as the house who are uncomfortable with the notion of what the president may have done and want to see this transcript themselves. She understands that the internal pressure on her is increasing to do something. If she does not shift accordingly, it could be a moment for her. And to put the republicans on the hot seat. As James Carville was quoted today saying the politics of this have changed. You might be able to take an Impeachment Vote in the house now and force republicans in the house to explain their vote against it. Not saying they wouldnt vote against it, but if they did it puts them in a difficult position. Which brings me to mitt romney who put out this Statement Last night. If the president asked or pressured ukraines president to investigate his political rival either directly or through his personal attorney, it would be troubling in the extreme. Critical for the facts to come out. I dont know if he saw the news this weekend to the president admitting having that conversation. However, if mitt romney says the facts need to come out, is that what youre getting at . Saying there are more republicans saying to release the transcript. Put the pressure on them. Absolutely. When when mitt romney became a senator and knowing his history with not having a high opinion of the president how much he was going to push back. And he has been very careful to pick his moments. This is a moment. And this is notable. The fact that he decided to tweet it. Yes, it is true that the president admitted it. Rudy giuliani paved the way last week. But mitt romney is saying we need more than that. We need what nancy pelosi called for which is the actual whistleblower complaint to come to congress so there could be a full report to get to more than, okay, yeah, i did it. Okay. What exactly did the president say and, you know, the context around that. And so that is significant when it comes to the senate, but in the house, you still dont have never mind a Critical Mass of democrats. But you dont have the 218 as far as the math im looking at to get to impeachment. Were not quite there yet. But more importantly historically. Last time this happened, it was bipartisan. It was largely republicans who voted to impeach president clinton but there were democrats on board. Thats not happening now. Thats why the part of Nancy Pelosis letter where shes calling on republicans to help pressure the white house on this issue is really important. As dana points out, times have changed since there was a bipartisan vote on impeachment. I guess my question is why would impeachment have to be this belabored experience that all the democrats seem to fear if they are doing the count of their vote right now . If something has changed this weekend, can they just quickly take a vote and all be on the record . They know its not going to happen in the senate. They know the president s not going to be officially impeached by the senate. But shouldnt if they believe people should be on the record, can they do that quickly . I think yes is the short answer. But there is a longer answer. Which is that nancy pelosi has part of her concern has always been okay lets say the House Democrats vote. Just posterity. Thats it. Thats why this could be potentially a pivotal change. Its one thing after the Mueller Report is out. This is something. This is something new. This actually goes to youre going to hear the word collusion and thils continues to move forward. But its not going to be ironically we the gs arussians,s going to be whether he tried to hold up military aid to a u. S. Ally at a time they needed it to defend themselves. We are still talking about russia. And i just think that while the calculus has changed for the democrats, they are still trying to understand would the American Public be behind them . Is it worse for them if they do or dont proceed on this front . And can they use the pressure of it to get anything that they want out of the white house . And the one other dynamic i think is important to point out is the democrats who have been calling for impeachment since day one, the aocs of the world. They have reached a different point in their rhetoric as well. And that is theyre blaming not just, you know, republicans and the white house for stonewalling. Theyre now blaming their own leadership for letting the white house get away with it. And thats pretty intense stuff. And the fact that theyre willing to go there and willing to go there loudly also gives you a sense of where the dynamic is inside the house caucus. Theres also a house transcript. Theres one tangible thing to fight about. And the whistleblower complaint. Sure. Two tangible things and a tangible person. Theres the Inspector General of the Intelligence Committee who thinks this is of urgent concern. So there are many more tangible things here, perhaps, than we had during the whole mueller investigation. Maybe that will give democrats the if they want to go that way, to dig in here. Thank you for your reporting. It is day one of the u. N. General assembly but President Trump will not be at one of the biggest summits of the day. 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Obviously today is the Climate Change summit at the nga. So i think there would be something made of that as well. Its interesting. Lets remind people what happened one year ago when the president spoke at the United Nations. He may be speaking to a different audience today than he was one year ago. Remember this . In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. Americas so true. Didnt expect that reaction, but thats okay. He was laughed at at the u. N. Last year which is really something thats never happened before by a community very skeptical of the u. N. Pulling out. But now with the World Community believing that iran was behind this attack on the Saudi Oil Fields, i wonder if the audience is different and if the reception of the president trying to be tough on iran in some way will be different. That was a weird moment last year. I mean, it really was. But the world now recognizes where President Trump has taken his engagement whether its in north korea or whether its in iran which has led to an escalation of tensions in the region. Or many other issues, how he positions himself lets say on the cashmere issue between pakistan and india, i think theres a recognition in that room now that the president plays a huge role in stability. The indians have moved to create greater control in cashmere. Thats provoked a backlash in pakistan. Meeting with pakistani Prime Minister today, for example. So im not sure that people will laugh, because i think theres a sense that how the president acts and what he says on these key issues and now a moment of such big importance, if the United States and President Trump doesnt stand very clearly behind saudi arabia, they believe iran will feel emboldened to strike again. Secretary of state pompeo called it an act of war. 23 it was proven iran was behind this, actually missiles taken on their soil, that would be huge. This is an immense escalation. I think the moment of the president s words are now less of a laughing matter. Theres all sort of concern here in the u. S. And debate about what the u. S. Response should be to an iranian attack on the Saudi Oil Fields if it should be a military response. What do the saudis want . Any escalation of tensions there is terrible for the whole region. It is terrible for them. Would be terrible for the iranians, terrible for the united arab emirates. They dont they say they dont want military escalation. What they want is what they want is iran to understand that it cannot do this again. And they would far rather see that as we saw last weekend they have a lot at stake. These attacks on the oil field, although they took down their oil supplies by a half, what actually appoints in the chain, early points in the chain that can be rebuilt relatively quickly. If they are targeted oil wells, for example, that would be much harder and much more difficult to put back in the box, so to speak. So theyre vulnerable and the rest of the region is too. We know youre standing inside or right next to those Saudi Oil Fields like a day ago. Not sure how youre sitting with us right here. Time travel. Thank you for being here. One other note, President Trump will meet with the president of ukraine on wed