>> well, john, thank you for having me tonight. and i have to say i don't work for president obama anymore, but i can pretty much guarantee you he was not thinking about president trump while writing a eulogy. that said, we have reached a really strange point in american life where if you say nice things about someone, if you say someone has integrity or they're honest or they're honorable or they're not a racist or they're respectful to women, people say, whoa, you're attacking the president. and that says something pretty remarkable about our president and about where we are as a country right now. >> when he says that being nice doesn't make you a sucker or when he goes on the riff about the meaning of "honorable," you don't think in any way that was meant as some kind of a comparison? >> i think that we're at a moment when there are a lot of people who are not living up to their responsibilities. i would point out -- this is my own opinion -- that it's not just trump, right? when you talk about people who are not acting honorab

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little johns, yeah! $3, what?! >>> i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. >>> more damning testimony out of the impeachment testimony, john bolton describing rudy giuliani as a hand grenade and the pressure on the campaign to describe rudy giuliani as a drug deal. >>> and joe biden's son hunter speaking out for the first time, admitting bad judgment vovinvolg

i'm john containing. thank y -- john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. a national security aide defies a subpoena, telling congress he will not testify unless a judge decides if the impeachment proceedings are legitimate. >>> plus congresswoman katie hill is resigning

read the response. >> stephanie grisham said about john kelly, john kelly's comments that it was him who was preventing the president basically from an impeachment inquiry, stephanie grisham, the press secretary, said i worked with john kelly and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our president. >> i love this woman. she comes up with the most amazing quotes. it's incredible. maybe that was the problem there, the genius of the president was too much for him. he's -- nobody can keep him from doing anything that he feels like doing, and if you're a serious member of the cabinet, one of the major people, it's your responsibility to try to lead him in the right direction. most of these people are not great status guys coming in here who -- and women who just know a lot of stuff and have a lot of stature of their own who could argue things, certainly. >> gale collins, thank you for being with us. we wish we could get hints from you. there is a top tier? >> there is a top tier. yeah, i'll give you a hint, there's one person that drives everybody nuts and that person is getti

an aide said, john kelly never said anything like that. if he would have said that, i would have thrown him out of the office. he wants to come back into the action like everybody else does. white house press secretary stephanie grisham responded saying, and we quote, i worked with john kelly and he was totally, unequipped to handle the genius of our great president. >>> allegations of improper relationships have cost an up-and-coming congresswoman her job. [♪] check your free credit scores at creditkarma. here's to progress. >>> welcome back. california congresswoman katie hill has resigned. she was facing allegations of improper relationships with staffers. hill called stepping down the hardest thing she's had to do it. also called it the best thing for her constituents. she admitted to an inappropriate relationship with a campaign staffer before taking office. there is a separate allegation of a relationship with a staffer in her congressional office. >>> houston astros owner jim crane apologizing for stephanie epstein. the astros tra

you've got john r. bolton, the national security adviser. gordon sondland, who is a trump donor and ambassador to the european union who was going to testify on thursday to congress. then you've got fiona hill today, right? and then you've got mick mulvaney who is acting white house chief of staff. you've got rudy giuliani, the president's personal attorney. now, just -- i just want to read this. and just tell me what you think of this one graph here. it says mr. bolton, because he was so concerned about what they were doing over there, instructed fiona hill, who is gonna -- who testified today. the senior director of russian and eurasia affairs to notify the chief lawyer for the national security council that mr. giuliani was working with mick mulvaney, the acting white house chief of staff, on a rogue operation with legal implications. ms. hill told the investigators according to two people familiar with her closed-door testimony. that's a pretty big statement right there. >> it's huge. it means that inside the white house at the very inne

jen psaki, john dean and jeff toobin. it is starting, especially given ambassador sondland's testimony. he has either seemed to have forgotten about a lot of things that occurred. there was a bunch of stuff he said he didn't remember, or he was flat out not telling the truth. someone here is not being accurate. >> right. and clearly at this point, it appears that ambassador sondland is on one side of this in terms of his story line and everybody else who has testified is on the other. >> and it just so happens that ambassador sondland is a trump supporter, donor to the president and that's how he got the job of ambassador. he's not actually a career diplomat. >> that's true. foreign service officers, career diplomats and we're seeing this with bill taylor, they take meticulous notes and see it as part of their job to protect the institution and also stand between political movements, political appointees and bad actions. this is obviously a terrible case of that, and the national security of the united states. that's what

so, john gantz, good to have you on. thank you for coming on. >> thanks for having me on. >> let me read what you wrote. "the power of the modern presidency is bolton's career legacy. when trump and his defenders question the legitimacy of today's inquiry they're not just speaking bolton's language they're using his talking points." tell me what you mean. >> well, john bolton sort of came up in washington at a time where the presidency was really at its lowest point. right? arrived in washington after watergate. a nixon white house intern and he actually thought congress really overreacted to watergate and spent much of his career sort of much of the 1980s defending the president and the white house from investigations into foreign policy. he fought against iran/contra. actually fought against congress' invest sgigs a drug deal. as the impeachment fight shapes into a battle between congress and the white house over the ability to hold the president accountable for foreign policy it's hard to imagine john bolton coming ou

john avlon has our reality check. john, explain the discrepancy here. >> war and peace. life and death. and that's the power of the presidency. and that's what we're seeing in syria right now. where president trump's impulsive order to remove u.s. troops after a call with turkey's autocrat is causing chaos and slaughter. and it's given an anticipated victory to four american adversaries, russia, iran, syrian government and islamic state. who could have seen this coming? basically anyone who was paying attention, except, apparently, president trump. and so, faced with the realtime consequences of his actions, he's defaulting to its comfort zone. a parent of disinformation. trump's initial tweet storm may have gotten the faithful, but not brent mcguirk. mr. president, with all due respect, none of this is true. none of this is true might sound a bit like a blanket statement, kind of harsh, but let's break it down. he claimed u.s. troops were supposed to be in syria for just 30 days. well, because video exists, let's go back to the 2015 white house press conference. >> how

john bolton could be heading to capitol hill soon. >> john bolton is a very important witness. he has very relevant information and we do want him to testify. >> reporter: this as eu ambassador gordon sondland clarifies reports of his congressional testimony earlier this month. to open investigations in exchange for a white house meeting with ukraine's president amounted to a quid pro quo. >> i would not dispute what -- what the attorney is saying. >> reporter: vice president mike pence refusing to say if he was aware of the stipulations sondlan and bill taylor outlined in their testimony. >> what i know that the transcript of the president's call with president zelensky there was no quid pro quo. in all of my interactions with president zelensky we focused entirely on president zelensky's agenda. >> if the federal judge rules that kupperman isn't required to testify it could give the trump administration to either impede or slow down the inquiry. in the meantime it's going to be a very busy week here on capitol hill at least six other witnesses scheduled to testify, john. >> b

the other person who is emerging as a star witness here is john bolton. every single witness that is going in is talking about bolton's role. bolton's role in expressing concerns, being really worried, objecting to what was going on. really undercutting the notion that this was some sort of legitimate national security or white house policy that was going to be pursued. again, if john bolton decides he wants to testify, there is almost nothing the white house can do to actually stop him. >> can i just add -- >> jeffrey, as you know, there's a lot of speculation that bolton could turn out to be like john dean. >> well, bolton, i think, is of enormous, enormous significance. because one of the objections that republicans have made, particularly to ambassador taylor, is that his information is hearsay. he didn't have direct conversations with president trump. john bolton saw donald trump every day. that's what the national security adviser's job is. and so, if bolton testifies in detail about his interactions with the president, on the subject of ukraine, th

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say, it's john bolton and others. i don't think republicans want to pin all of their hopes for john bolton to be a john dean kind of figure and that's what they did with bob mueller expecting him to forward their case and it didn't really happen that way. >> bianna, do you think he could turn out to be a john dean-type figure in this? >> of course, he is a key witness the democrats want to hear from. and you hear from all of these witnesses the past few weeks who have expressed his own alarm at the president's policy and giuliani's role throughout all of this. but at the same time, we always not media seem to find out when he disagreed with the president vis-a-vis iran or north korea policy, and that information tended to be leaked, and you heard about divisions between him and the president when it came to foreign policy with regard to those two hot spots around the world. one thing we didn't hear from and what republicans can ask them point-blank, if you were so alarmed, how come you didn't speak out or resign earli

bolton and john bolton's people left, john bolton left, and he was on the july 25th phone call, he heard it with his own ears and he was mentioned 15 times in the opening statement. but what our reporting is, he is a bit of a wildcard, and some of the reporting is he may testify that he did hear that favor, that the president wanted, the deal that he wanted struck with ukraine, in terms of getting some dirt on the bidens, but that he wasn't necessarily, he didn't necessarily immediately hear it as wrong. so we just don't know what he will say behind closed doors. >> we don't know until actually we see the deposition what his point of view is. but i think he remains a very valuable witness here. taking a step back, the nsc, the national security council, is in effect, a coordinating council. they work, it was created to coordinate between state, between defense, between the intelligence agencies, so he was in a unique position to know what everyone was doing. not only what bill taylor was doing and what mike pompeo was doing but what rudy giuliani was doing. so i think the democrats will

this as we're learning more about john bolton's concerns that politics was influencing mr. trump's ukraine policy. >>> transcript omission. new questions tonight about the white house record of the president's very controversial phone call with ukraine. a major witness revealing that key words were left out of the transcript, including a reference to joe biden. >>> isis raid images. the pentagon just released the first video from the u.s. raid that led to the death of the terrorist leader abu bakr al baghdadi. what do the images reveal? >>> and hurricane force. ferocious winds stoke california's rapidly growing wildfire disaster. the flames threatening thousands of homes and coming dangerusly close to the reagan presidential library. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in theuatithe "situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following breaking news on what could be one of the most important witnesses yet in the impeachment investigation. sources tell cnn that house democrats have invited

so it's up to john bolton. the official policy of the white house outlined in the letter from the council was no one can talk ever to congress about this. but we have seen in people like taylor's testimony that a lot of people are ignoring that instruction and we'll have to see whether bolton will. many of the many fascinating aspects of the testimony today was that it raised the possibility of so many more people testifying, including bolton. including mike pence. william barr, the toernl attorney general. lots of people implicated by the testimony. >> john i wanted i want to read part wlaf ambassador sondland said last we can. said inviting a foreign government to undertake investigations for the purpose of influencing an upcoming u.s. election would be wrong. withholding foreign aide to pressure a foreign government to take such steps would be wrong. i did not and would not participate in such undertakings. now, according to taylor's testimony today, i mean that's exactly what he did at the behest the presid

little johns, yeah! $3, what?! >>> welcome back. white house is calling the death of isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi a devastating blow to the brutal and ruthless terror organization. >> video now shows the aftermath of the raid in syria and we are learning that president trump's decision to withdraw u.s. forces from the country did have a major impact on the operation. barbara starr has more details from the pentagon. did -- was the impact pushing up this operation? >> well, it's not clear yet, really, that it accelerated the operation per se. we don't really know. what sources are telling us is they really did need the assistance of the kurdish forces on the ground. they needed a u.s. military presence on the ground to make it all work. u.s. troops are withdrawing. they did work around it. we've reported that a significant number of the u.s. troops flew from bases in iraq and they did make it all work. at the end of the day, this one worked fine. but if you have less u.s. forces on the ground inside syria, it pr

john kelly's just been very public about it. and as the white house became more and more controlled by trump himself, as he weakened every strong fifedom in that white house over the first two years it became very clear what was going to happen. he was no longer going to be hemmed in by any sort of sage advice by people whon the system and understand the executive branch. it was entirely predictable what john kelly was talking about that eventually he would do something self-destructive because he didn't have anyone there to push back and the current chief of staff who is acting chief of staff never even was confident enough to want or take the full chief of staff title is widely considered in washington to be subservient to trump, weak, and not someone who is going to push back the way that john kelly not always but a lot of the times did. >> let me read the statement from stephanie grisham the white house press secretary. i worked with john kelly. he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great president. sher mich

>> there has, john. the white house press secretary stephanie grirnl saying the white house democrats are wasting time and money with these requests for information, although we should point out this is not a request. this is a subpoena and it's something they have to comply with. we should point out in that statement coming from the press secretary, john, they're not saying we're not going to cooperate with this. that same sentiment goes for the vice president's office. they also released a statement this afternoon because they had been requested that they turned over information relevant to this investigation and they're saying they don't take this seriously at this point and don't see it as a serious matter. but, again, in that statement they're not saying they're not turning over information. that's important. >> it is important. jim, to what extent is the white house concerned with the release of these text messages which plaint as clear a picture as you can get of a quid pro quo. >> i think they ar

this is what she says, the former national security advisers john bolton said. "giuliani is a hand grenade who's going to blow everybody up." "i am not part of any drug deal they are cooking up." a. what do you think of this shadow foreign policy huddle between giuliani, sondland and mulvaney and the fact the ambassador is even talking to the president like this and, b., that it's john bolton who had a real problem with it? >> very interesting, actually. it doesn't surprise me that somebody like john bolton would see the problem in this type of behavior. right? end of the day, no matter what people think of his political beliefs or his foreign policy standing, he was a career service diplomat. this is somebody who had a long experience in national security and so he was very easily able to identify when something was awry. something led to ieither krupss fishy. and the fact you have political elites, political appointees ov security process, up until, certainly in my experience, up until this point there was a sanctity about not abusing foreign policy processes

i'm john containing. thank y -- john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. a national security aide defies a subpoena, telling congress he will not testify unless a judge decides if the impeachment proceedings are legitimate. >>> plus congresswoman katie hill is resigning amid allegations of inappropriate relationships. brace now for a bruising special election. >>> and the president says the death of the isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi, makes america safer. he gives america a heads up about that saying he doesn't trust top democrats. >> we had a great weekend for our country. we captured a man that should have been caught a long time ago, so that was a big, big day and a big weekend, and we're very happy about it. >> back to that story a bit later, but we begin this hour with a no-show. charles kupperman failing to show up for a deposition on capitol hill, this after he filed on friday asking the judge to rule whether he has to comply with the subpoena. they said, we want to assure you your clients, again, that it is not dr. kupperman who contests your cli

mcmaster speaking out and john bolton said this was wrong. when you have so many people that are so respected and people may or may not agree with their politics, very senior who clearly think this is wrong, does thshgs daviis, david, star affect republicans? >> you know, i think the thing that might affect republicans is republican voters. the thing that is frightening republicans is the prospect of being tagged by trump and losing primaries, but i want to make a point on bolton and mcmaster for that matter. i think gloria was on the same show was that he scorned bolton. he humiliated bolton and bolton is an institution in washington and even though there are people who don't like the things he's done and he's got a lot of relationships. >> yep. >> his fingerprints in my view, are all over a lot of these stories because he was a witness to a lot of these things and this is the most obvious example. i think this will be a problem for the president and all of these people he scorned have no reason to do him any favors here. >> go ahead, gloria

but it happened. >> it did, john. but the bumbling front office of the astros is on full display here while they were terrible on the field so far in the first two games of the world series. we've seen this same kind of lack of understanding of the magnitude of a problem when you're taunting, you have an assistant general manager taunting three reporters who happen to all be women in support of an alleged domestic abuser in 2019. now, the general manager of the astros jeff luhnow did apologize and here's what he had to say. >> first of all, apologies to stephanie and the rest of the people that were involved in the incident. his behavior was inappropriate and not representative of who the astros are. that original reaction by the astros was wrong. and we own it as an organization. >> that said, there are a lot more questions, still, john, about this. while the astros are playing on the field, there are questions if they are aware of the magnitude of the issues involving women in the media and domestic violence in our

and actually you just mentioned john thune. but john thune just walked back that -- those comments to me just moments ago. in fact, saying that what taylor was saying in his view was secondhand and thirdhand information, and talking to other republicans today, they're making very clear that they are also on the president's side. >> are you okay with what was -- came out in the bill taylor testimony that the president, that the president apparently had directed the military aid to be withheld in exchange for a public declaration of investigations that could help him politically? >> did he talk to the president? >> he talked to -- >> oh. that's hearsay. here's what i can -- >> you don't think he's trustworthy -- >> here's what i can't get over. if rudy giuliani had a 15-page statement saying he did nothing wrong, wouldn't you want to know more? would you accept that statement? i've got nothing against bill taylor. it's the process. you're asking me do i believe something based on a statement that hasn't been tested. >> until we g

senator john kennedy of louisiana, thank you so much. we appreciate having you on. >> thank you, jake. have a good weekend, man. >> you too. >>> the subject of scrutiny since the president took office and now the trump family may look to get rid of the d.c. hotel and wait until you hear the trumpian reason why. t-mobile's newest signal reaches farther than ever before... with more engineers, more towers, more coverage. it's a network that gives you... with coverage from big cities, to small towns. introducing t-mobile's 600mhz signal. no signal reaches farther or is more reliable. and it's built 5g ready. >>> in our money lead, the trump administration is considering selling the rights to license the trump hotel right here in washington, d.c. i want to get right to christina learning. what is the rational behind the potential sell. >> reporter: well the trup organization is saying because of the controversy that surrounds this hotel but that is part of the story. in a statement eric trump who runs the trump organization on a day to day b

john? >> thank you very much. >>> among the powerful speakers at yesterday's ceremony on capitol hill, congressman emmanuel cleburne. listen. >> our hearts are made heavy by the transition of our colleague, our family member, our loved one, the mahogany marylander, elijah cummings. >> what lovely words. joining me is emmanuel cleaver. thank you for being with us. and yesterday was so deeply moving to watch that. and i think one of the things that made it so moving to so many of us was it was people in both parties, both chambers coming together as one. just talk to us about the emotion in the room. >> well, there was a lot of emotion because for many people there, elijah cummings was a symbol that we never thought we would have leave us. and the symbol was this. extremely intelligent. able to work with anyone. the people who clean the halls, the people in the cafeteria, they all loved elijah cummings. and i think there were probably 120 people in there at least who thought he was their best

have a great afternoon. >>> john, thank you. i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. underway right now, one warned that trump would be an authoritari authoritarian. another called him a xenophobic bigot, and now they're riding an impeachment war. america's top cop looking to fuel some of the president's biggest conspiracies. plus, rudy giuliani has said he's not always acting as the president's lawyer, so is he entitled to attorney

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there was john mccain. even after the arizona senator's death, the president called him, quote, last if his class. again, not true. then there's former defense secretary and general james mattis who was, quote, one of the most effective generals according to the president until this month, when he was, quote, the world's most overrated general. joining me now is khizr khan, a gold star father whose son died in iraq. he and his wife were attacked by the president and his allies. his son was a 27-year-old army captain in iraq when he was killed in 2004. his actions saved the lives of several others, and for that he was awarded a bronze star and a purple heart. one soldier who served with captain khan in 2016, quote, he didn't wear his heritage on his shoulder. he wore the american flag like we all did. mr. khan, thanks for being with us. i'm wondering what you thought when you heard the president's attacks on lieutenant colonel vindman, a decorated soldier who still carries shrapnel in his body from an ied at

he works for john bolton. john bolton works directly for the president, and he is the person who was in charge of coordinating ukraine policy. and he, of all people, should know what the real terms of the relationship were. was it american national interest? or was it the president's political agenda, his personal, political agenda, the key factor in the relationship. >> he looks like he's david gregory tall. >> he's that tall. he's that tall. >> that tall, david, or maybe taller, i don't know yet. >> nice to see people of normal height. >> tim morrison also announced his resignation. it's not immediate. he is still -- when he testifies, he'll still be at the national security council, still working in the white house, but he announced it's imminent. and so the feeling is that will free him up, i guess, to speak more candidly. >> and we don't know that that means that he's going to go out of his way to criticize the president, but i do think it's stunning to see a parade of witnesses, particularly those who ar

little johns, yeah! $3, what?! >>> i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. >>> more damning testimony out of the impeachment testimony, john bolton describing rudy giuliani as a hand grenade and the pressure on the campaign to describe rudy giuliani as a drug deal. >>> and joe biden's son hunter speaking out for the first time, admitting bad judgment vovinvolg his work overseas, though insisting he did nothing improper. >>> u.s. forces are angry at president trump, accusing him of betraying the kurds. >>> a lot has changed since the last faceoff. an impeachment inquiry, a new frontrunner and a heart attack. the hill is alive now with the sound of investigations todayment congress is back in full session today, both the house and the senate getting back to work. the three house committees did not observe the break as they worked on the impeachment investigation. the house intelligence, foreign affairs and oversight committees heard testimony yesterday from fiona hill. she's a former top adviser t

as for the wisdom of that move, cnn's john avlon with a reality check. john? >> all right, guys. human scum. radical, unelected bureaucrats, never trumpers. these are just some of the attacks trump and his allies have leveled against those who have testified in the impeachment inquiry. that's before they repeated this ugly talking point about vindman. >> seems very clear that he is incredibly concerned about ukrainian defense. i don't know that he's concerned about american policy but we all have an affinity to our homeland where we came from. >> sean duffy was questioning the loyalty of vindman was she he was born in ukraine. laura ingraham suggested he was a spy. vindman came to our country at the age of 3 as a refugee from communism. here he is with his twin brother who also serves in the white house. that kid grew up to become a highly decorated soldier and diplomat. and that pile of ribbons on his chest is the purple heart he received in iraq. he's the first member of trump's own west wing to testify before the impeachment inquiry. and he did so with the ukraine expert. his

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ask john bolton, okay? the situation with iran where we unilaterally left with allies, and could have put pressure on iran to back them off, how they involved themselves in the middle east and developing bl g ballistic missiles and as a group come together to work to make sure that china started living up to trait ruleses. doing it alone and implications and damage will have to be calculated over a few years. it's unbelievable. >> adding to that is this impeachment inquiry and you have career officials now coming out and testifying and's how much does it bother you, anger you, that it took a whistle-blower speaking up and out to blow the lid off this thing? >> well, i mean, the call was, you know -- maybe it would have been shelved but it wasn't. we have whistle-blower because they can come and do things and need to be protected. if all of a sudden knows who they are and they're lives are turned upsidedown and people say if you're challenginging the president people ought to know who you are. somebody in th

and we'll hear more of him. >> is he john dean? >> you know, he doesn't have the -- he didn't have direct conversations with the president. that's the difference. >> and that is a big difference. >> yes it is. >> you had kfrgconversations wi nixon. >> thank god were recorded. >> and, you know, another thing that you hear republicans saying and complaining about is, this whistle-blower, we need to -- how can this whistle-blower's identity be protected. we need to know what we're dealing with. the president has said i demand knowing who my accuser is. >> i'm sure you have thoughts of that because you had to -- you required federal protection during some of this time. you got death threats, and we see that all the time now. >> it's true. and the whistle-blower should be protected. that's a post-watergate law. i think 1989 before they got around to the whistle-blower law. it's been very effective. it creates very unique problems for lawyers who have attorney/client privilege, whether they can turn around and be whistle-blowers. but tha

>> i gave him a c, john. look, you noted in our poll down nine points, that's not the direction you want to go and it's not as though his numbers in iowa look like better, i would say that his numbers in iowa are worse right now than his numbers in new hampshire. there are people who say doesn't matter, he is still way ahead in south carolina, still has the black vote behind him, that's all that matters. maybe. but i will tell you momentum matters in these campaigns and if you are the perceived front runner and you lose iowa, new hampshire, i don't know if you -- that support sticks around all the way to south carolina. >> chris cillizza, professor, a pleasure to have you on. >> hey, john -- >> i'm told you're not done yet. i tried to shut you up, but there's more. >> how dare you. i have one more. a plus my washington nationals game seven tonight and f minus minus minus minus minus for the umpires. there's only one person more thin-skinned in this world than major league baseball umpires and he resides in th

not only from john kasich and representative rooney. mitch mcconnell in the washington post today calling syria a great mistake. that is a big deal. as is the "new york times" oped. these are people making big, bold statements. you kind of have to take people for where they are. john kasich came before the camera and made a major announcement. i was frustrated to see later why doesn't he support removal right now. you know what, let republicans take a minute to let the gravity of the moment sink in. the combination of the admission of the quid pro quo from the white house podium and the syrian disaster that is unfolding before our eyes, everyone needs to just reflect on that. we are not going to throw out the president right now. but give it a minute. >> he said i want to see the articles of impeachment. he said i want to see the evidence. you know, when talking about the ukraine, you know, the mulvaney admission where he said get over it. you said don't get over it. we can't get over it. it is criminal activity. >> i can't get over it.

john avalon is with me today in for john berman. great to have you. >> good morning. >> so the house impeachment inquiry shifts into high gear. lawmakers are returning to washington from their two-week recess. this includes an interview a few hours from now with fiona hill. she's the president's former top russia adviser. on thursday, eu ambassador gordon sondland, at least he's scheduled to testify this time at least under subpoena after his initial voluntary deposition was blocked by the state department. now, according to "the washington post," he is expected to tell lawmakers there was a quid pro quo involving the ukraine investigation although he did not believe it was a corrupt quid pro quo. >> also this morning, "the new york times" obtaining a disturbing and extremely violent video shown at a conference by pro-trump group president trump's miami resort last week. it shows a fake president trump head on the body of a man in a church of fake news assaulting and stabbing critics in the media. the clip ends with him driving a st

you heard john kasich. he's changed his mind and is now calling for impeachment after mick mulvaney admitted there was a quid pro quo with ukraine, tying aid to an investigation of the dnc server in 2016 and the election interference. one republican congressman, francis rooney from florida is also saying it's troubling. watch this. >> whatever might have been gray and unclear before is certainly quite clear right now that the actions were related to getting ukraine to do some of these things. it's certainly very, very serious and troubling. >> so with the white house admitting this and then walking it back, is this a turning point for republicans? >> we're starting to get there. listen, this has been a major week and a lot of republicans thinking their support of donald trump as we've seen not only from john kasich and representative rooney, but mitch mcconnell publishing an op-ed in "the washington post" today, calling syria a grave mistake is a big deal, as is "the new york times" op-ed from admiral mccra

that of john bolton. for the first time, house democrats expecting an official from inside the white house to testify in the impeachment inquiry. tim morrison, a top russia and europe adviser on president trump's national security council who listened in on the july 25th call with ukraine's leader is scheduled to appear next week. sources telling cnn he's expected to corroborate key elements of top u.s. diplomat to ukraine bill taylor's testimony tuesday. >> bill taylor's testimony was devastating to the president. and bill taylor essentially laid out a quid pro quo between the trump administration and the president with the ukrainian leader. >> reporter: two sources telling cnn morrison will contend he didn't see anything wrong with what the trump administration did although one says there will be, quote, nuance. sources say republicans worry his testimony could fuel the democrats' push towards impeachment and they hope it will lack first hand knowledge of the president's actions. they are negotiating wi

hold on, john. let's listen to republican jim jordan. >> -- who has a bias against the president who worked with vice president biden the day after the now famous phone call between president trump and president zelensky. the so-called whistle-blower gets a readout from somebody on that call, writes a memo. he uses terms like this call was scary, frightening. but what does he do? he waits 18 days before he files a complaint. ad who is the first person he goes to see in the first people he goes to see in that 18-day time frame? chairman schiff's staff. chairman schiff's staff. 435 members of congress, only one individual, one member of this body knows who this person is who started this whole darn crazy process. chairman schiff. and what's this resolution do? gives him even more power to run this secret proceeding in a bunker in the basement of the capitol. this resolution continues the unfair and partisan process. just two days ago, two days ago we were prevented from having the witness answer our q

this is deputy secretary of state john sullivan. he was acting secretary of state when tillerson was fired. he is the president's choice to replace jon huntsman in moscow. he's not a never trumper and he's reminding americans was values of our civil service, and of our professional foreign service. this is a great, this is a learning moment for a lot of americans. he is making it clear. he is thinking beyond the trump presidency. he's thinking about american values and american national security and you just don't do this if you want to protect our national security, you do not mix domestic political matter, your re-election with our national security and he made it clear under oath because he remembers who he's working for. he's working for the american people and not the president. >> he could have said i don't answer hypotheticals and there are many who would have, but he did not and he answered that question honestly. thank you all very much. >>> next, new video tonight of the mission that killed the isis leader al baghdadi and

"inside politics" with john king starts right now. >>> welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. so much to cover today. we're standing by for a news conference from ft. worth, texas. the attorney of a man who shot a woman inside her home when he responded to that home when a neighbor saw her door open. he asked police to come to that house to see if anything was going on. a single bullet fired by the police officer. the woman died. the family is going to speak momentarily with their attorney. paul callaghan is standing by. paul, the police have added a version of the body cam video. the family is gathering, i assume, to get answers in this case. what are your thoughts? >> john, i think it's a tough case for the police officer, because in terms of looking at that tape, a police officer has the right to use deadly force when he reasonably believes that serious force or deadly force is going to be used against him. and in this case all he knew was there was sort of a vague complaint about an open door at a residence, and he walks around. it looks like he's going past a gate of some

he said, john has something to tell you. and dean told us that this same group had broken into the office of ellsberg's psychiatrist. he says, oh, your jaw just dropped beneath the floor. >> in 1971 daniel ellsberg had been a defense consultant, decided that the war was wrong and so he took this vast volume of secret papers and he leaked it to the "new york times." >> i felt that as an american citizen i could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the american people. >> the pentagon papers never mentioned the name richard nixon, but its leak drove richard nixon nuts. >> i think it is time in this country to quit making national heroes out of those who steal secrets and publish them in the newspapers. >> this is a product of the president's paranoia about his ability to control his own government. >> they actually broke into the psychiatrist's office of ellsberg. now, come on! somebody's psychiatrist's office files are raided by people who are commissioned by the white house? >> it's one thing to disclose b

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"inside politics" with john king starts right now. >>> welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. the house impeachment inquiry reaches out to john bolton for possible testimony. the president's former national security adviser reportedly called rudy giuliani a hand grenade and likened his foreign policy to a drug deal. >>> plus a flip-flop for joe biden. he began the campaign with a promise not to accept help from big money superpacs. but now he has a superpac green light and his writings call hypocrisy. >>> and elijah cummings funeral in baltimore. on hand, two former presidents and the former secretary of state. >> his integrity and character,

bolton -- >> did you say john dean or john bolton? >> he may be called to make a statement. >> look, i think in many ways john bolton holds the keys to the kingdom here. and i don't know if he'll testify in public. my guess is he might. and it could be his revenge on donald trump. but while he wasn't on the fateful phone call with president zelensky and asking questions why wasn't he on the call but he could give the insider view of ukraine policy. and how the national security team viewed what ought to be done in ukraine. and how the freelancer rudy giuliani in tandem with the president reviewed ought to be done in ukraine. we know that bolton is anti-putin, anti-russia and this must have driven him crazy. and look at the time line. it may be nothing. but bolton was fired or resigned on september 10th. and the ukraine aid money was released on september 11th. now i don't know that there is any relationship but i think that question ought to be asked to him. and don't forget, he was also the guy who called it a drug deal when ambassad

alex fiona hill testified yesterday about john bolton and john bolton told her to go to white house council because he was so concerned about what was going on in regards to president trump, rudy giuliani, and ukraine. what do you make of that jaw-dropping fact? >> that it's jaw dropping. it's really stunning. we can't come up with enough adjectives. we cannot overstate this, kate. here you have the most senior foreign policy aide in the white house, john bolton, the national security adviser, telling a senior member of his team, fiona hill, that he was so uncomfortable with the way the president was carrying out the relationship with ukraine that the lawyers should know about it. bolton has been pretty quiet since he lost his job at the white house. but fiona hill was telling lawmakers there was what she called a rogue operation going on. bolton compared it to a drug deal. at the center of this which many democrats have called a shadow foreign policy with ukraine is the president's peshl lawyer who we know was trying to dig up dirt on joe biden and his son in ukrainian. hill said yesterday