Interpretation, and a serviceman is accused of sending bondfacing man. Beating trump soon . Mr. Trump insists south korea is set to feel spurn. Were watching the United Nations where trump is scheduled to meet a counterpart this hour. Im wolf blitzer here in the situation room. Were following breaking news this hour, including President Trumps controversial phone call with ukraines president. Mr. Trump is now saying it would have been okay if he pressured the ukranian leader to investigate joe biden, although he continues to deny he did. Hes now openly accusing biden and his son of corruption of such magnitude that a republican in the same position would, in the president s words, be getting the electric chair. Meanwhile, House Democrats have just threatened to subpoena secretary of state mike pompeo unless he hands over documents tied to the ukraine controversy. Well talk about the breaking news and much more with congresswoman Jackie Speier of the intelligence oversight and Armed Services committees. And our kornts and analysts are al correspondents and analysts are also standing by. Lets go to Kaitlan Collins at the United Nations. This ukraine talk has overshadowed the day. Reporter a lot of it has to do with President Trump who brought it up as soon as he stepped on u. N. Headquarters, going after the former Vice President , saying he didnt pressure ukraine but saying it would have been okay if he had. The world stage overshadowed tonight with questions about his conduct during a phone call with a foreign leader. We had a perfect phone call with the president of ukraine. Trump insists he didnt cross the line over the president of ukraine. , he questioned ukraine to investigate his political rival. Though trumpl is formally accusing him tied to his sons job. Biden says trump is abusing his power to smear him and should release the transcript. Donald trump is doing this because he knows ill beat him like a drum. Trumps readmission has reunited democratic calls on capitol hill for his impeachment, warnings trump dismissed today. Its just a democratic here we go again. You can clear this up by releasing the whistleblower report. Quite. Instead he questioned the patriotism of that whistleblower, asking if the person is on our countrys side. One question surrounding call s islil islily. Dp the president thretton cut off aid. His attorney may not be sure, but trump insisted he didnt. I put no pressure on him whatsoever. I could have. They said the question could be cleared up if the white house released the transcript of the call. Perhaps youll see that, prams you wont see that. It depends on what we want to do. Aides are explaining how trump can question that when he does business on hotels he still owns. So trump can do that while trump is president , but while the Vice President was Vice President , his son couldnt do business deals . Trump planned to skip the Climate Summit at the United Nations today. Now, wolf, there is no efrd tvi that joe biden did anything improper here, the president hasnt provided anything to that effect, but it doesnt mean he wont keep mish r push tg as thanks to headquarters, hely. Katelan collins, many. Our senior con gregs achl correspondent manu raj. They just put out the statement to mike pompeo saying he must put out a letter to attorneys of the ukraine conversation or theyll subpoena those documents. Just last week saying he did discuss the bidens with ukraine officials. Republican senators have been w wary about criticizing this president. I spoke to Chuck Grassley about the concerns being raised, about the whistleblower. Grassley has long advocated for whistleblower protections, and i questioned the accuracy of this whi whistleblower . Its also being said this whistleblower may have been involved in treasonous activity. Since i know a lot of whistleblowers, i suggest the whistleblower come and talk to me. Is that an appropriate use of office, do you think . Would you maybe, through your news media, you can i think well go up here. Through the news media, maybe you can get the whistleblower ploer norks r any contact with the president not call it contact in any way. One democratic senator wants a bipartisan investigation on his committee to look into the matter. Thats why we need to see the transcripts. So before we make a full judgment, with the idea that potentially the president of the United States is trying to influence american aid contingent on trying to get dirt on a political opponent, i hope thats not true. Warner would not say if it would mount to an impeachable offense, but House Democrats more and more, wolf, are voicing concern or saying its time to move forward. One democratic told me he had reached a tippy point on impeachment. The question is will the House Speaker go on in that route . Shes sharp in her rhetoric but still has not braced moving forward with impeachment. Democratic congresswoman is here. Listening to the president today, do you believe he has essentially admitted to what has been reported, that he did, in fact, put pressure on the new ukranian president to investigate his potential 2020 rival . I dont know that we can ever believe anything that the president says, wolf. I do think what hes technically done is declassified the kplanlt complaint by the whistleblower. If hes declassifying it, the classified version should be sent to the house and senate as required by law. It is required that the director of National Intelligence shall submit a complaint to the committees. And i feel very strongly that until we see that complaint and the breadth of it, were not in a position to make any statements. I know you want that whistleblower complaint, but you also want the white house to release the transcript of this phone call between the president and the ukranian leader. Would you accept a partially redacted version or have the agreedupon source review the transcript as the president suggested . I will not be confident anything coming from the white house thats redacted. Because what we have seen over and over again from attorneys inside and outside the white house, they will do the president s bidding. They are not putting the law first, and this lawless presidency is becoming more and more absurd. Well, let me just follow up. Is the transcript enough, or do you actually want to hear the audio in addition to reviewing the transcript because there are some who believe the transcript could be altered, for example. I would be confident getting the transcript, because my sense is, knowing nothing, i might add, that the whistleblower based his interpretation on the transcripts. I could be absolutely wrong. It could be from signal intelligence, im not quite sure. But none of this is going to come to fruition unless we can actually see the complaint from the whistleblower. And let me be really clear. This offense is so egregious by bribery that if true, the president tried to get the ukranian president to do an investigation of joe biden and his son not for purposes to benefit the country, but for purposes of benefiting his reelection. It just reeks of corruption. Earlier today the president asked why he would give money, the United States would give money to a country he believes is corrupt. Are you concerned the president was dangling military assistance to influence the ukranian president . Well, it certainly appears to be that way, but we actually give money, forms of foreign aid, to many countries who are showing themselves to be of great democracies. Certainly with the election of this most recent president in ukraine, they have become more democratic in their approach. So this 250 million is a commonplace contribution in foreign aid to a country that is showing democratic principles. The chairman of your intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff, now says impeachment in his words may be the only remedy that is coequal to President Trumps conduct. Youve been supportive of opening an impeachment inquiry, but do you now believe the sefd the evidence is there to go ahead and actually impeach . I want to see the complaint, i want to see the transcript. I believe that the director of National Intelligence has an obligation to present that to us when he testifies on thursday. If he does not, i feel very strongly that this is a case where inherent contempt should be imposed, and we bring that resolution to the floor. Its privileged. It can come immediately to us on a daily basis until he turns that over. He testified to speak publicly on thursday. What will you do in that hearing if he still hasnt handed over to your question the whistleblower complaint. I will create a resolution, to come to the house for inherent contempt of the acting director mcguire. Congresswoman Jackie Speier, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, wolf. Ly an american soldier accused of using bombmaking material over the weekend. Every day at marcos, get two medium, onetopping pizzas for just 6. 99 each. Hello to the italian way. Hello primo. Doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacistrecommendeding . Memory support brand. You can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. I mean, if you havent thought abfrankly, youre missing out. Uh. The mobile app makes it easy to manage your policy, even way out here. Your marshmallows. Get digital id cards, emergency roadside service, even file a. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. 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And what he says is Major News Network headquarters and the cs, thats the informant, tells him that would certainly make a statement, and then smith says, a large vehicle bomb. Fill a vehicle of various explosive materials, then fill a pingpong ball, drilling them, injecting them, put the ball in the tank of the vehicle skppg but what was very concerning here for authorities, certainly, is that he knew how to make bovbov bombs. He talked about how to make bombs on facebook. That is what alerted the fbi, and they waited. Back in august is when they started working on this investigation yet again, and thats when he made these statements. Now hes charged with essentially putting these postings on faes facebook. They didnt identify the news network that was supposedly targeted, right . No, they didnt identify that, not in the court papers. They didnt look at who he was targeting. He said possibly target politicians, he mentioned beto orourke. But other than that, there was no mention of any specific target, wolf. All right, thank you for that update. Very disturbing developments. Joining us, former fbi supervisory agent. Hes the author of a brand new bo book. Thanks so much for coming in. Thanks for writing this book. I want to get to it in a moment. But there is a lot we dont know about the moelt, this person was someone who was a member of the military, someone who would be tranld in warfather f. This news media outlet may have been among his target of attack. I want to dig into some more. Let me also get your thoughts on these latest developments on this phone call. The president has now admitted that he may have pressured president zelensky to investigate the bidens. Why is that so concerning from an fbi. Here we are talking yet again about another Foreign Government perhaps interfering with thely. And the fact that his own apparently attorney would be reaching out, trying to get a forei Foreign Government to decide whats coming your way, especially should they decide to open an investigation. You just published a critically important excellent new book about what it was like inside the fbi during the russia investigation. What do you hope, josh, that read erd wiers will take away a they get through this book . Weve heard a lot of voices throughout the clinton case, throughout the russia investigation. One specific voice, though, we havent heard comes from the rank and file on the fbi, who has been on the seegd is critical in certain aspects of the fbi. Not every decision they made was perfect, but i hope the agent understands this is a discussion in the middle of a political battle here in washington and a seemingly endless attack on the president of the yumpl. Explain what this cause is all about. Thanks, wolf, for letting me mention that. This book is about a controversial period of time, the last three years with the clinton case, with the trump case. One thing that is not controversial and this is one key thing i try to do with this vehicle, wolf, is use this as a vehicle for good. There is still fbi agents that are dying today from 9 11related illnesses that are now manifesting some 18 years lafr later. In doing that, i sent a fund to get a lot of kids off to college. I hope your readers or viewers, whether they agree with the book or disagree with the book, theyll understand its going to a good cause and try to shine some light on this very important charity, taking care of those surviving children who pay the ultimate sacrifice. So nice of you to do that. The book is entitled crossfire hurricane inside Donald Trumps war on the fbi. John champion is the Josh Campbell is the author. Would President Trumps ukranian call set a dangerous precedent . 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