Any moment: Trump speaks after WH releases transcript; WH transcript shows Trump asked Ukraine to investigate Biden; Trump denies "Pressure to probe Biden despite transcript evidence;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the lead. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Jake Tapper. |
| 0:08.0 | We begin today with Breaking News and the politics lead. |
| 0:10.0 | We are in day two of what well could end up proving to be a long national nightmare. |
| 0:16.0 | Any moment President Trump is expected to take questions from reporters as the threat of impeachment |
| 0:21.0 | hangs over his presidency. |
| 0:22.8 | We are entering a moment in history. |
| 0:25.8 | Today the White House released a rough transcript of the July 25th phone call |
| 0:29.3 | in which President Trump clearly asks Ukraine's President Zolinsky to work with Rudy Giuliani, |
| 0:34.4 | the president's personal lawyer, an attorney general Bill Barr, |
| 0:37.4 | America's chief law enforcement officer, to investigate his potential 2020 |
| 0:42.1 | Democratic opponent Joe Biden and Biden's son Hunter. |
| 0:45.5 | Of the Biden's we should note again, the Ukrainian prosecutor has already said there is no |
| 0:50.5 | evidence that they did anything wrong. |
| 0:53.2 | The context of the President's call, Mr. Trump was holding up hundreds of millions of dollars |
| 0:57.4 | in military aid to Ukraine, aid that Zelensky desperately needed to fight off Russian aggression. |
| 1:03.0 | So much of what we do know about the scandal has already been admitted by the president or by Rudy Giuliani, |
| 1:09.0 | or stated out in the open. |
| 1:11.0 | Sitting with Zelensky this afternoon, for instance, the president attacked |
| 1:14.2 | Hunter Biden while noting that Zelensky is known for anti-corruption. He also brought up the aid |
| 1:19.5 | that the US is now providing Ukraine. When Biden's son walks away with millions of dollars from Ukraine and he knows nothing |
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