CNN: Pelosi expected to announce formal impeachment inquiry; Trump to release Ukraine call transcript tomorrow

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🗓️ 24 September 2019

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Now: Pelosi meets with house Dems as impeachment momentum grows; Schiff: whistleblower wants to speak to house intel committee; Biden: if Trump continues to obstruct, impeach him; Source: Pelosi told Dems: "Here we are. A moment of truth"; Sources: Pelosi said "We will have an impeachment inquiry"; Democrats leave meeting on Trump impeachment inquiryTo 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
0:02.0	This is CNN Breaking News.
0:06.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we start today with Breaking News and our politics lead.
0:10.0	This is a historic day.
0:12.0	Within the hour, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is
0:14.2	expected to announce a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
0:18.7	Multiple sources confirmed to CNN. Right now, Speaker Pelosi is meeting with House Democrats behind closed
0:24.0	doors on Capitol Hill. At least 160 members of Congress now support
0:29.6	starting impeachment proceedings including even some from congressional districts that Trump won in 2016.
0:36.7	The scandal involving President Trump reportedly pushing the Ukrainian president to investigate
0:41.2	Joe Biden and his son Hunter clearly crossing a line
0:44.4	for many Democrats. This afternoon President Trump announced by tweet that he
0:48.5	will release the quote complete fully declassified and unredacted transcript, unquote, of that phone call with the Ukrainian
0:55.3	president tomorrow. Two important caveats on that. One, this is a White House that has falsified
1:01.1	information before from showing a
1:03.1	doctored hurricane map to promoting a video that an outside group
1:06.4	altered of a CNN reporter.
1:07.9	So who knows if this transcript will actually be complete.
1:12.0	Second, the whistleblowers complain about
1:14.0	President Trump is about more than just that one phone call according to
1:18.0	members of Congress who have been briefed by the intelligence community
1:21.2	Inspector General. CNN sources said that the Inspector General referenced a the intelligence community inspector general.
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