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Viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news on the rapidly escalating warfare between the president and House Democrats. Tonight, the Oversight Committee has voted along partisan lines to subpoena a former white house official seeking testimony about the handling of security clearances. Democrats are expected to authorize more subpoenas tomorrow as part of their fight to get the full unredacted Mueller Report. President trump is lashing out about that, calling the move ridiculous and a disgrace. I got reaction a little while ago in my interviews with the chairman of the intelligence and J ....
Chairman Elijah Cummings released a memo on the interview with tricia newbold. In 18 years on the white house staff she has worked with republican and democratic investigations. She told investigators, the 25 individuals had a wide range of serious disqualifying issues, including foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct. Now, a source tells cnn both Jared Kushner and ivanka trump are on the list of 25. Important to note here, the president is legally entitled to order a security clearance for anyone he wishes. Chairman cummings comparing the clearance overrides to Hillary Clintons use of private email server as secretary of state. If the violations are accurate, and i do think they are as ms. Newbold has told us, i think this is a million ....
A surge, an additional 750 Border Agents to the the part where they feel most stressed. If you wanted to make an already unstable situation much worse, you do what the Trump Administration is doing. We have right now two big caravans coming up from guatemala, massive caravans. Walking right through mexico. So mexicos tough, they can stop them, but they chose not to. Now theyre going to stop them. If they dont stop them, were closing the border and well keep it closed for a long time. Im not playing games. We need leadership from the oval office to collaborate with the leaders of this hemisphere. Even three months to go before the first democratic debate, a bunch of candidates are sharing the same stage here in d. C. These are people who are dialed in on this race and they want to hear specifics from these candidates. And this is just not votes, infrastructure support, vo ....
We used to, ethical, straight, telling the truth, supporting our allies, all of those good things. Joe bidens comments there a shorter version of his formal Campaign Announcement where he directly rebuked President Trump and warned that another four years would, quote, forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. Biden enters the race at the top of most primary polls and Morning Consult poll gives the former Vice President an edge over President Trump but this isnt joes first rodeo. This is his third run for the highest office in the land and the previous two didnt end very well. 2020 promises to be just as challenging for biden, who now at 76, seeks to win over a party thats grown in ....