Than rob portman of ohio because he called up, 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. They are like a wall between russia and europe. They are like a wall. They are big wide beautiful wall. He said you know what its important. This was my only reason. I dont like being the sucker country. We were the sucker country for years and years. We are not the sucker country anymore. I gave the money because rob portman and others called me and asked me. But i dont like to be the soccer and European Countries are help far more than we are, and those countries should pay more to help ukraine. Thank you, sir. Reporter what did you want to know about biden . President trump biden and his son are stone cold crooked and you know it. His son walks out with millions of dollars. The kid knows nothing. You know it and so to be. Go ahead. Reporter what did you want president zelensky to do about Vice President biden and his son, hunter . President trump are you talking to me . Reporter it was a followup. President trump we have the president of finland. Ask him a question. Reporter i have one for him. I wanted to followup on the one i asked you. President trump did you hear me . Asking the question. Ive given you a long answer. Dont be rude. Reporter no, sir. I dont want to be rude. President trump ive answered everything. Its a whole whole casino was playing into the hoax, people like you and the Fake News Media that we have in this country ans the corrupt media because youre corrupt. Much of the media in this country is not just fake. Its corrupt. You have some very fine people too. Great journalists, great reporters. To a large extent its corrupt and its fake. Ask the president of finland a question please. Reporter okay, ill move on. Mr. President , in your opening remarks, you said to President Trump you had dentist museums today and that you respected the u. S. Democracy encouraged him to continue it. Are you concerned thats not happening . My second question is the wto ruled today in favor of the United States saying that the United States can now impose tariffs on european goods because of legal subsidies against airbus. President trump it was a big won for the United States. Were having a lot of winds of the wto. The windsor now because they dont like all of those countries were ripping off the United States for many years and they know im wise to it. Weve had a lot of winds. A 7 billion win. Not bad. Reporter the question, sir, are you concerned the president will impose those tariffs and the effect it may have on the economy. First of all, to return to your democracy. I want to tell that im impressed. With the American People have gained during these decades. A very impressive democracy. Keep it going on. To wto, i have a lot of respect to multilateralism and to international institutions. Wto has given the decision which is quite tough with europe. The wto has said its opinion and thats that. President trump i just want to finish by saying its an honor to be with the president of finland. Hes done a very fantastic job, popular, beloved 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 for so many years which is ripping off the United States and please remember the president s last remarks. That we are great democracy. We are the United States is a great democracy. I am airing what im airing because we are in fact a democracy. If the press or straight and honest and forthright and tough, we would be a far greater natio nation. We would be a far greater one when we dont have the cnns of the world who are corrupt people. Thank you very much everybody. [indistinct questions] shepard the president with a ramped up rhetoric to a new level it seems fair to say at the white house today in a joint appearance with the president of finland. I am Shepard Smith in new york. Live coverage from fox news. A few matters to go over. The president spoke of the phone call with the ukrainian leader which is at the center of the democrats ongoing impeachment proceedings. The president said ask the president of ukraine to help dig up dirt on the political opponent, the ask itself is not permitted under law. The president of course made a lot of accusations about those who are players in the investigation. Thats the bottom line. The president of the United States asked the president of ukraine to help dig up dirt on his political opponent. The ask in and of itself is not permitted by law. On the matter of the memo, the president said there was a comma by comma verbatim transcript. On ukraine, the president said why is the United States giving all the money to ukraine. Why are we the sucker country as he put it, while the europeans dont give. Actually the United States withheld at the president s direction for a short time something around 400 million, just shy of 400 million in money and military arms and otherwise. For a short time. That 400 million to the United States. According to factcheck. Org the European Union has contributed to ukraine since the russians annexed crimea after invading the country in 2014. The European Union has contributed 16. 4 billion in grants and loans. Twothirds of all aid to ukraine has come from the European Union since the russians invaded ukraine and annexed crimea in 2014. Continuing coverage on this fox station and on Fox News Channel on satellite and cable and more later on your late local news for those of you watching on local stations. For now, im Shepard Smith. Fox news new york. On the Fox News Channel, on satellite and cable, we continue. After an epic News Conference at the white house, a level to which at least we in this newsroom have not seen. A busy day of breaking news, Major Movement in the push for impeachment. The state Department Inspector general set to meet behind closed doors with congressional staff, a briefing that could give critical new information of congress. Bernie sanders in the hospital with heart trouble. All of his appearance is canceled until further notice. We are hearing about his condition and the plan for his campaign. A fiery plane crash, a vintage world war ii bomber goes down with passengers on board. Rescuers rushed to the burning wreckage. Our reporting this afternoon begins with todays developments in the impeachment inquiry. Theres a lot of noise. Here are the facts. Right now the state departments Inspector General is on capitol hill to deliver a rare closeddoor briefing. The secretary of state confirmed he was on phone call with the ukrainian president at the heart of the congressional investigation. President trump saying only legitimate whistleblowers deserve protection. The whistleblowers source, he says, is a spy. All of that as democrat adam schiff accuses the president of endangering the whistleblowers safety and intimidating witnesses. The president called schiff names, said he lied to congress, said he should be forced to resign and should be looked at for treason, while President Trump again called himself a very stable genius. Live look on capitol hill in the closeddoor meeting that could give new context to the president contacts with ukraine. State Department Inspector general requested the meeting himself and he could give congressional investigators new ammunition in their impeachment push. We could know soon enough. Earlier today secretary pompeo talk to reporters and said yes, he was on that july 25 call in which President Trump asked for an investigation into his political opponent, joe biden. I was on the phone call. The phone call was in the context of i have been secretary of state for a year and a half. I know precisely what the american policy is with respect to ukraine. Its been remarkably consistent. We will continue to try to drive those set of outcomes. Shepard the nations top diplomat did not answer any questions about whether the president asking ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent raised any red flags for him. Here at home, President Trump is on a profanity laced attack which has continued from morning tweets into the afternoon. The president ripped on the whistleblower and House Democrats during a meeting of the oval office. President trump has said he deserves to face his accuser, even though whistleblowers identities are protected by federal law. I reported he says whistleblowers deserve protection but only if they are legitimate, as he put it. He called this whistleblower biased and part of a political hack job. Today President Trump went after that person sources. President trump the whistleblower wrote not that conversation. He wrote a vicious conversation. In other words, he either got it totally wrong, made it up, or the person giving the information to the whistleblower was dishonest. This country has to find out who that person was. That person is a spy in my opinion. Shepard a spy. For his part, President Trump insist his conversation with the ukrainian leader was perfect. The white house released a memo of the conversation. The president today called it a word for word transcript. The white house reports officially it is not an exact verbatim transcript. Earlier House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff told reporters that President Trumps comments about the whistleblower put that persons safety at risk. This is a blatant effort to intimidate witnesses. Its an incitement of violence. I would hope and we are starting to see members of both parties speaking out against attacking this whistleblower or others. Shepard all of this as House Democrats ramp up their impeachment inquiry, demanding more documents from the white house about President Trumps dealings with foreign leaders. We have team fox coverage for the nations capital. Mike emanuel with the latest. Rich edson with an update from the state department. First to john roberts of the white house where President Trump just wrapped up an extraordinary News Conference. John, that level ive never before never before seen. That was something, shep. My calling from reuters, the president got quite testy. One of the things that all of us came into the east room wondering was after the president said many, many times how transparent the white house had been and how cooperative it had been with the Mueller Investigation providing millions of pages of documents and allowing literally anybody who robert millers team wanted to interview to be interviewed. With the white house show that same level of cooperation with the house impeachment inquiry . Heres what the president said. The three house committees looking into the impeachment inquiry gave notice they will be sending a subpoena to the white house for documents and other materials. Will you cooperate with those subpoenas . President trump well, i always cooperate. This is the greatest hoax. Its a continuation of whats been playing out, john, for the last since my election i would say. Well find out soon but probably even before my election. Theres a big piece of news that broke the for the president and the president of finland Sauli Niinisto came in and the New York Times was reporting the whistleblower had met with a member of adam schiffs staff on the House Intelligence Committee prior to the whistleblower complaint being filed with the Intelligence CommunityInspector General and that the staffer had passed along at least some information to the House Intelligence Committee chairman. I spoke with other members of the committee who said they had a briefing from adam schiff and they got a notion that he knew about the complaint long before the complaint became public and that he knew who the whistleblower was and what was in it. I wrestled with the president a little bit because i had said to him going into it, when he called on me, i wanted to ask him to question. He didnt seem to want to take a second question but i pressed him on it, insisting was a question he would probably want to answer. Heres the exchange. There is a report that came out just before you and president niinisto walked out here that the whistleblower met with the staff member of adam schiff. President trump i love that question. It shows that schiff is a fraud. I love that question. Thank you, john. Can i finish asking . President trump theres nothing to finish. The whistleblower according to the report met with members of adam schiffs staff. President trump i hate to say that its the New York Times. I cant believe they wrote it. Maybe they are getting better. Your response that that happened and that schiff may have learned some of what the whistleblower new. President trump its a scandal that he knew before. I think he probably helped right it. Even the New York Times says its a new level of scrutiny on adam schiff, shep. I didnt care where the president like the question or not. I thought it was important question to ask since the news was breaking literally just before the president walked out on stage. Shepard the story from the New York Times to which we all woke up this morning, the president pushing back on it, that he wanted alligators and or snakes in a moat around the southern border and that he wanted spikes on top of the wall that would pierce peoples flesh. The white house was asked about that earlier and didnt deny it openly. The president has made a statement. One of the things i can confirm about that particular discussion is the president did at one point, we dont know how serious this was, ask cant we just shoot them in the legs to slow them down . The white house did not deny that. The president didnt even talk about it. But on this idea of alligators and snakes, the president did push back quite forcefully. Listen. President trump i want that awol and they wanted a moat. A moat, whatever that is. Not a word i used but they use. A moat. In the moat i wanted alligators and snakes. And i wanted the wall to be a fence electrified. I wanted sharp spikes at the top. Never said it, never thought of it. I put up something on social media today. I said im tough on the border but not that tough. Okay, it was a live. Former acting ice director tom homan was quoted in the New York Times story saying the president was frustrated and i think he took a moment to hit the reset button. The president wanted to be fixed quickly. Tom homan told fox news he was misquoted in the article saying the quote in the paper was my response to a different question. That was response to question why do i think the president removed Kirstjen Nielsens secretary. That was my answer to that question. When i saw the New York Times, they put my quote in response to a different question, its unfair, not true, inaccurate, disgraceful. We dont know for sure, shep. If the president was thinking about alligators, snakes, walls, spikes but he suggests he wasnt thinking about that but we know he said cant we just shoot them in the legs . Shepard you cant get past the tone and the rhetoric. Its something that you cant miss. I wonder if you have any insight on how hes doing. It feels like things have changed. Well, i think the president is deeply concerned and deeply affected and feels deeply aggrieved by the house impeachment inquiry. He believes he did nothing wrong. I think you can see his level of frustration and perhaps anger with everything thats going on. In the tweet he put out this afternoon where he used the full capitalized version of b. S. , although it was the 16th time hes done that. It seems that we ramped up to a new level. The anger he showed with jeff mason today and jeff is someone that he calls on all the time. Hes a terrific correspondent. The president respects him but today, a flash of anger. Shepard and i wondered if it was about the question. Possibly that. Jeff was insistent, what did you want to ask zelensky to do about biden . Thats a question all of us have wanted know the answer to. The flashes of anger i think show a different level of frustration and perhaps Something Else that we havent seen up until now. Shepard john roberts, our man at the white house, thank you. Rich edson continues live at the state department. Two separate state department tracks playing out. The first is the Inspector General steve lennox. He is arrived on capitol hill and is briefing senior Staff Members of several house and Senate Committees about this urgent issue he wants to bring out. The state Department Inspector general operates ge