And divide we are seeing right now. Shepard kristin fisher, live in washington. The final bell is ringing on wall street. The dow is up in a pretty big way, up 167 points. A your world with neil cavuto starts now. Neil the scene right now the Intercontinental Hotel in New York City where the president s do to address reporters any minute. He thinks hes put this entire issue to rest with the transcript of the infamous phone call with the leader of the ukraine back in july. Democrats are not so sure. We are going to be getting to read from john roberts and the second also bret baier and also senator rick scott. I want to take a peek at the corner of wall and broad because youre probably wondering in the middle of this why were stocks up . They dont think anything will convict. The president will survive it. Wall street is not red or blue. Its just green. They love money and making lots of money and they think this president is the surest ticket to continue that they dont want
that disruptive. That was there read. What is john roberts read . Good afternoon, neil. The president has taken a lot of questions most recently sitting together with volodymyr zelensky, President Of Ukraine. The president will take more questions. One of the Big Questions i think on my mind at least is will the president declassify the whistleblower complaint which we are told is now on capitol hill. Several members of congress have already looked at it. Ironic when you think about the whistleblower complaint as it was described as thirdhand knowledge potentially also involving some open sourced material like news articles. People who have actually read the transcript of the call that was released earlier today may know more than the whistleblower did when that person actually filed the complaint with the Intelligence Community inspector general. In the bilateral meeting together with president zelensky, President Trump and zelensky both agreed that there was no
pressure put on the ukrainian president to investigate anything. The scent to how zelensky put it and then the president. I think you read everything. So i think you read text. Im sorry, but i dont want to be involved to democratic often. Elections. You read that nobody pushed it. Pushed me. President trump in other words, no pressure. Neil, take a look at how far we are today away from where we were earlier this week and even yesterday when we had been led to understand that the president pushed zelensky about eight times to investigate joe biden and his son hunter. There is three citations contained in the transcript of the president mentioning i will get Rudy Giuliani at Attorney General barr to call you about these investigations. And then yesterday the lead story all day was wasPresident Trump holding back some 391 million in legal, military, and other aid to ukraine if zelensky didnt open an investigation into joe biden . Now we are learning that the one piece of military hardware, the javelin shoulder fired missile, was not even part of the 250 million in lethal military aid the president was holding back. There appears to be at least on the surface no overt quid pro quo but that didnt matter. House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff who said this earlier today. There is no quid pro quo necessary to betray your country or your oath of office. Even though many read this as a quid pro quo. Im not concerned whether it is a quid pro quo or not. Ukraine understood what this president wanted. He made it abundantly clear. He made it redundantly clear. He had his emissaries making it clear. And ukraine needed no you
knew what he needed to do if it wanted to assistance. When you look at the transcript, its clear theres two investigations President Trump is interested in. One is an investigation of what happened with ukraine and the 2016 election and allegations that the then Ukrainian Government was helping Hillary Clinton get elected. What about the involvement of a Company Called crowd strike which investigated the hack of the dnc server and pointed fingers at russia. What else do we know about that . And then there was the investigation into joe and hunter biden that the president mentioned to zelensky. You can understand that the president wants to get to the bottom of what happened in 2016 because hes still incensed about this idea that he didnt win fair and square but i think one of the questions to ask the president this afternoon in addition to whether not he will declassify the whistleblower complaint is why did he ever asked zelensky about biden . Neil thank you very, very
much. The whistleblower complaint really at the center of this hall is to be released to the house Intelligence Committee later this hour. What can we expect from that western mark the host of special report, bret baier. It accelerates and accelerates. Its amazing and it wont stop. Its the beginning, the beginning of the beginning not the end of the beginning and i think you heard adam schiff. He put words in the ukrainian president s mouth and then we heard from ukrainian president. Neil what is the ruling on a high crime or misdemeanor without a quid pro quo outside of trying to get them to get some information on the bidens. Is It Impeachable . Bret they can call it an abuse of power, that the president they would allege, try to talk to a foreign leader to get them to investigate a political opponent and they can use that to make a case for high crimes and misdemeanors. Currently the house does not have the votes, and thats why theres not about moving forward formally. But to johns point neil they are getting close. Bret they are at about 200. They are getting closer. To johns point, a lot of what we knew coming into today before we saw the transcript, the reporting was off. Eight times. At most you could make maybe four or five times in the transcript. The holding back specifically of the money. Today you had the Washington Post move a story that the acting director of National Intelligence threatened to resign if he wasnt allowed to testify freely. 2 minutes later, he puts out a statement saying at no time have i ever consider resigning my position since assuming this role on august 16, 2019. Ive never quit anything in my life and im not going to start now. My point is we are in the same boat as we were at the beginning of the Russian Investigation where stories and things that are said, instead of facts, are being looked at first. We all should take a pause and look at what we are seeing in front of us. Neil do we know that this
transcript of this conversation, is the only transcript of the only conversation . Could there be other conversations where this aid did come up . Bret we dont know. It seems like they are referencing another call. It may be one before this. One would assume just going to be a request for that transcript as well. Theres all this talk about is it really a legitimate transcript. Two cia officers in the Situation Room transcribed this. The officials said this is as accurate as it can be. Bret i am neil im not a lawyer but i watch a lot of legal shows. One thing that i was interested in reading, the president referring to the biden situation, theres a lot of talk about bidens son, that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out whatsoever you can do with the Attorney General, referring to bill barr. That would be great. Biden went around breaking that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it, it sounds
horrible to me. Again, i dont know, high crime and misdemeanor but this is a president engaging a foreign power to insert himself in an election. Democrats arent going to let go of it. Bret never, no. They think this transcript is worse than they expected it to be. You have statements that they cant believe they put the transcript out. Republicans looking at the same transcript say where is the there there . Neil it is that i am dangling something over you that you might not get if you dont satisfy it. Bret thats why adam schiff says you dont need a quid pro quo. Some republicans like mitt romney say hes deeply troubled. Susan collins has it raises serious questions. Theres a few others who have not. Largely republicans are holding the line. Neil lets say those senators will say it they think its impeachable. You need twothirds of the
senate. Bret thats the political process. You get over that hurdle in the house. In order to convict, you need is senate and you dont have the votes there. So as you look politically, whats the next moment . The next moment is the election. If democrats its a tight rope. They have to convince america that this is the right move right now based on what they are seeing that transcript. Neil or they are not getting overzealous. Its happened in the past for both parties. Bret we have seen whats happened as a result. Neil great seeing you. Lets get the read from rick scott. Senator, what do you think of what brett was outlining . Where do you think its going . First of all, we have to get the facts we have to do it in a methodical manner. Chairman richard burr who runs Intelligence Committee and the senate, he is reviewing exactly what happened he will come out with information. He is a responsible senator wants to do the right thing. We do need to understand what joe biden did. We need to understand exactly what we know that he bragged about getting the prosecutor fired. Lets get the facts out. Then we can make a decision. The democrats, if trump changes shoes, it must be an Impeachable Offense. Every day it is in ph. In the meantime, we are not passing a budget. The fiscal year ends in a few days and we dont have a budget. They dont care about it. How do you relitigate who won back in 20. Trump won. There is an election in 2020. Go to work to try to win back the next election. Neil were you surprised regardless of the legality or for lack of a better term the constitutionality of it where the president of the United States is talking to a leader of a foreign power about inserting himself into another u. S. President ial election. Does that on any level bother you . Does everybody including President Trump, do they ask questions i dont ask . Do they focus on things i dont focus on . Thats not the issue. The issue is is it in Impeachable Offense and should we go back and do the work that American Citizen sent us to d. C. To do . Pass a budget, do a Prescription Drug package. It makes no sense. This place is completely dysfunctional. Nobody wants to get anything done up here. They hate President Trump so lets figure out how to impeach the guy. Neil he didnt help his cause by getting on the standard with a leader of another countr country. I am going to focus on results. Look at the economy. Hes engaging in deals that president obama sat there and did nothing. North korea, china. The horrible iran deal. Look at people in European Countries investing in nato. Lets look at what we should care about and quit, wire the
democrats they hate the guy. Everything is about they hate donald trump. Go with the next election if you hate him so much. Neil its a good point but two of your republican colleagues, Susan Collins and mitt romney are concerned about it. Are you concerned about it . Speak with the way i look at it is before you start engaging in what somebody did, lets get the facts and then tell me what the law is. No one so far has ever said to me this is i can read a statute or read the history and this is what the guy did wrong. No one. Neil i was mentioning the markets earlier and they were up on the belief, a relief rally, when something they fear happening doesnt look at least today to be happening. Do you agree with it that this will ultimately fade away . Back to some of these issues
that you care about. Or they did Everyone Hyperventilate Sonnet up to the election . If this one fades away, democrats are going to focus on something else. They are not stopping. They believe for whatever reason that impeaching donald trump is good political fodder. What ive been up here for nine months, people dont want to solve problems up here. They want to run the next race. The markets want to focus on something, they ought to focus on what happens if iran is able to shut down Oil Production in saudi arabia. Then what happens . Thats what they are to focus on because thats the Biggest International issue we should be dealing with, not because President Trump had a conversation with a ukrainian leader. Neil apparently the ukrainian president is on the wires thinking only the u. S. Side of the trump call will be published. It was a little surprising that his comments on and what he was saying would also be included. He was a little surprised at that. Are you surprised that he got caught up in it to the degree where people in his country are saying year are caught in the juicy tidbit. Absolutely. If you look at what The Democrats are doing, theyre going to make it very difficult for any president to interact in Foreign Policy because i guess in the future every conversation, no one can have a candid conversation. And have a discussion because somebody will say somebody did something wrong and then we will have an investigation. Im fascinated up here. Ive been here nine months. Im fascinated they dont want to solve problems appear. Neil you are getting a baptism by fire. Rick scott of florida. Democrats still pushing impeachment and they think theyve got more than enough smoking guns. The president about to answer reporters questions as to whether they do. After this. Over 400 and owning gold. Is easy. With Rosland Capital, a trusted leader in helping people acquire precious metals. Call Rosland Capital today at 8006308900 to get started. Gold bullion, lady liberty gold and silver proofs, and our premium coins, can help you preserve your wealth. Call Rosland Capital at 8006308900 to receive your free Rosland Guide to gold, Gold Precious Metals ira and silver brochures. With rosland, there are no hassles, no gimmicks, and we have the fastest shipping around. Time tested. Easy to own. Make gold your new standard. Call Rosland Capital today at 8006308900. 8006308900. Thats 8006308900. Enterprise car sales and youll take any tradein . Rom thats right great here you go. Well, it does need to be a vehicle. But i need this out of my house. vo with fair, Transparent Value for every tradein. Enterprise makes it easy. So chantix can help you quit slow turkey. Rkey. Along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. With chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting so when the day arrives, youll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. When you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. Stop chantix and get help right away if you have changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, depressed mood, suicidal thoughts or actions, seizures, new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, sleepwalking, or lifeth decrease alcohol use. Use caution driving or operating machinery. Tell your doctor if youve had Mental Health problems. The most common side effect is nausea. Talk to your doctor about chantix. Im about to capture proof of the ivory billed woodpecker. What . . . No, no no no no. Battery power runs out. Lifetime Retirement Income from tiaa doesnt. Guaranteed monthly income for life. Nooooo neil republicans have been saying no smoking gun, move on. Democrats doubling down saying an Impeachment Inquiry is necessary. The transcript from the president s conversations with the ukrainian president confirm it. Catherine herridge has the latest. Good afternoon. In the last hour, we received a statement from the acting director of National Intelligence, joe maguire, he is the Intelligence Chief who is scheduled to testify publicly tomorrow and he is denying published reports that he threatened to resign if he could not be forthcoming with lawmakers tomorrow. That Statement Reads at no time have i considered resigning my position since assuming this role on august 16, 2019. Ive never quit anything in my life and im not going to start now. Im committed to leading the Intelligence Community to address the diverse and complex threats facing our nation. A number of key sections of the transcript will be at the heart
of maguires testimony tomorrow. Having reviewed the transcripts 10 minutes in, the president has two requests for the ukrainian president. One has to do with a firm called crowd strike, a cybersecurity Forensics Firm that did the review of the hacked servers with the dnc and the dccc of my memory serves me correctly. If you follow me for one second, remember the fbi did not physically review the evidence in that hack. They relied on the assessment of crowd strike. The president states i would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through