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China's president in a june phone call to investigate joe biden and his son. let's bring in now vivian solana, the white house reporter for the "wall street journal" and also michael isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for yahoo news who's also the author of "russian roulette: the inside story of putin's war on america and the election of donald trump." lots to get to. good evening to both of you. michael, first cnn's reporting that the president raised carbide ebide nen his june phone call with xi jinping. is this why he urged china to investigate the bidens today? >> great reporting b...

>> nathan, thank you. a bipartisan group of u.s. lawmakers is headed to ukraine. that happened just before president donald trump reportedly asked ukraine's president to look into allegations against former vice president joe biden. .nearly $400 million in aid was eventually released to ukraine. one of those lawmakers who is making the trip spoke with cnn about it. listen. >> we're going to have to be very, very careful. one because of the tooask that e six of us have so yes, we're going to have to be very careful. with the military, those are straightforward questions. we don't have to danc...

Facilities to favor the u.s. president. >> they benefit president trump, but presumably against what the united states would do in the absence of this kind of effort. >> the trump organization has promised to donate the profits of foreign entity spending at these properties. and when he became president, trump handed the day-to-day operations of these companies over to his sons. but some groups are still suing the president. brian todd, cnn, washington. democratic presidential candidate joe biden is no stranger to attacking president trump, but after he and his family were targeted in the uk...

Coast. questions continue to grow about what the u.s. president donald trump said to his ukrainian counterpart igniting calls for impeachments. we'll have details on that for you, where it all stands in just a moment. first cnn has learned that the president's other calls with world leaders were held to a higher secrecy than others. >> we have learned the white house efforts to limit access to president trump's conversations to foreign leaders extended to phone calls with russian leader vladimir putin and the saudi leader. those calls, both with leaders who maintain controversial relationships...

>> taliban want to take on government and put on them pressure so they can convince america and the afghan government to come back. >> the police situation, he says, shows that afghans cannot make decisions on their own and what happens is only because of a single tweet, all destiny has changed. if gahni gets over 50%, he can avoid a second round in november. but even that clean result won't provide a path out of the brutality holding lives hostage here. nick paton walsh, cnn. >> jennifer glass joins this hour from kabul, afghanistan. good to have you on the line. >> good to talk to you, georg...