House committees subpoena Pompeo over Ukraine docs; Sources: Dems could impeach Trump by Thanksgiving; Schiff: subpoenas, hearings coming as soon as next week. 2-episode special edition of The Lead.

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🗓️ 27 September 2019

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WH admits for first time its lawyers directed moving call transcript to highly secure system; Trump attacks whistleblower who sounded alarm on Trump's call for Ukraine to investigate Biden; Sources: Dems could impeach Trump by Thanksgiving; Schiff: Intel Cmte preparing for hearings as soon as next week, subpoenas going out "expeditiously"; Intel Dem: Giuliani, Barr likely to be called to testify; Schiff: subpoenas, hearings coming as soon as next week; WaPo: Pence was expected to attend inauguration in Ukraine, Trump instructed him to cancel trip; Sen. Scott: Whistleblower complaint is "hearsay"; GOP lawmakers grapple with how to react to whistleblower; Former Ukraine prosecutor to Wash Post: Hunter Biden "did not violate anything"; Pelosi: Attorney General Barr has "gone rogue"; 3 House committees subpoena Secy Pompeo; Giuliani named 31 times in complaint, says he's the real "whistleblower"; "This is Life with Lisa Ling" premiers Sunday at 10p ET/PT.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.
0:05.0	Welcome to the special edition of the lead, the White House in crisis.
0:08.8	I'm Jake Tapper and the biggest development today, top Democrats in the House earlier today laying out
0:13.2	their plans for when and how they will move forward with the
0:16.6	impeachment inquiry into President Trump. House Intelligence Committee Chairman
0:20.0	Adam Schiff tells CNN that he's preparing to move quote as expeditiously as possible.
0:24.3	Schiff tells us that his committee is preparing for hearings as soon as next week.
0:28.5	In just a few hours, the full House of Representatives will go on recess for two weeks but sources say members of the
0:33.6	House Intelligence Committee which is leading the impeachment
0:36.2	investigation have been told to be prepared to return to Washington DC. Those
0:41.2	sources are also detailing how quickly Democrats hope to potentially finish this process,
0:46.4	potentially impeaching President Trump by Thanksgiving of this year.
0:50.8	The other seismic development today in Washington, the White House acknowledging
0:54.4	yet another key part of the whistleblower complaint about President Trump is true.
0:59.8	White House officials admitting that they did move records of President Trump's call with the
1:03.6	president of Ukraine to a highly secure computer system, a move that a White House official
1:08.8	told the whistleblower was, quote, an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely
1:15.2	sensitive from a national security perspective, unquote.
1:18.9	CNN Senior White House correspondent Pamela Brown joins me now.
1:21.4	And Pamela, not only is this the first time the White House has admitted this
1:25.0	it also proves yet another big part key part of the whistleblower's story is true
1:30.8	it does lend credibility to a key part of the complaint Jake and
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