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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Candidates poised to face off in Democratic Presidential Debate

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Awaiting Pelosi news conference on impeachment probe; Guiliani, Budget Office defying impeachment inquiry subpoenas; State Department official raised alarm over Giuliani this past spring; Democrats assessing support for vote to authorize impeachment probe; 2020 Democrats about to debate against backdrop of impeachment probe.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is CNN breaking news.

0:07.0

I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room.

0:12.0

We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world.

0:16.0

We're following two breaking stories this hour, including tonight's CNN New York Times,

0:21.0

Democratic presidential debate.

0:23.0

For the first time, 12 candidates will take the stage here in Westerville, Ohio, a key battleground state among them.

0:30.0

Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren, who are now locked in a very tight battle to be the

0:34.3

front runner and Bernie Sanders returning to the campaign trail after suffering a heart attack

0:40.3

also breaking very fast moving developments in the impeachment inquiry

0:44.0

We're awaiting a statement from the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who's meeting with Democrats right now to discuss their impeachment strategy

0:52.2

Also President Trump's personal lawyer just their impeachment strategy.

0:52.8

Also, President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani

0:56.2

and the Office of Management and Budget

0:58.2

defying House Democrat subpoenas

1:00.6

for Ukraine- related documents.

1:03.0

Meanwhile, State Department Ukraine expert

1:05.1

George Kent is testifying in the impeachment inquiry.

1:08.7

So first goes straight to Capitol Hill.

1:10.9

Our congressional correspondent Sunlens-Rifani is on the scene for us. Sunland with a deadline

1:15.3

tonight the president's lawyer is refusing to comply with that

1:19.2

congressional subpoena. That's right. Well if if Rudy Giuliani, who of course has emerged as a central figure in this impeachment inquiry, he now is officially in defiance of that

1:35.0

the congressional subpoena. House Democrats had wanted documents and information related to Rudy Giuliani's role in the role that he played in.

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