Democrats issue new subpoenas in impeachment inquiry; Most republicans not criticizing Trump for urging China & Ukraine to investigate Bidens; Trump makes numerous false claims in barrage of tweets Saturday, Sunday, Monday

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 7 October 2019

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Rick Perry: I asked Trump to call Ukraine on energy, not Bidens; Two key witnesses testify in impeachment inquiry this week; Trump unleashes on Dems & whistleblowers in twitter rant; Source: Mulvaney said Trump would win 45 states if impeached; Some republican allies dismiss Trumps request to China and Ukraine as a joke; Portman now forth GOP senator to criticize Trump for asking China & Ukraine to investigate Biden; Trump: whistleblower got Ukraine call "completely wrong"; Fact: WH transcript aligns with whistleblower complaint; Trump: Schiff & Pelosi should be impeached; Fact: House members cannot be impeached; Sources: Dems considering disguising whistleblowers face and voice if they testify before congress; Trump pulls U.S. troops from northern Syria leaving Kurds vulnerable to Turkish military forces, some in GOP say he's abandoning allies; Nikki Haley: Trump leaving U.S. allies "to die"; Trump: "I'm not siding with anybody" on decision to move troops; Trump threatens to obliterate Turkish economy for retaliation on U.S. troop withdrawal; NBA apologizes to China over GM's pro-Hong Kong tweet;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	President Trump changes the focus from Ukraine by abandoning US allies in Syria.
0:07.6	The lead starts right now.
0:09.7	Breaking today, the impeachment investigation expanding the new subpoenas now even
0:14.6	targeting the Pentagon as House Democrats try to get the full story on
0:18.6	President Trump leaning on Ukraine for election help. The sounds of silence why so many Republicans are
0:27.6	refusing to step up and say that the president asking foreign powers to
0:32.1	investigate his domestic political opponents
0:35.2	is just wrong.
0:36.2	But the president's biggest defender in the Senate is slamming his decision today to pull troops
0:42.3	out of northern Syria.
0:43.7	Top Republicans now fearing the move is going to leave allies to die
0:48.1	and is a gift to Russia. Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapp and we start today with our politics lead and the
0:57.6	strategy of the White House and its allies of spinning, dismissing, and
1:01.9	outright lying to the American people on full display
1:04.8	today as the impeachment investigation expands.
1:07.7	Some Democrats slap brand new subpoenas on the Trump administration.
1:11.6	Today the three House committees leading the charge on impeachment, intelligence oversight
1:16.1	and foreign affairs, subpoenaed both the President's defense secretary and his budget chief,
1:21.5	not only demanding documents about President Trump's interactions with Ukraine. and his
1:25.0	with holding of hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid for Ukraine
1:29.0	but also information on the president's personal lawyer
1:32.0	Rudy Giuliani and the ways in which Giuliani
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