Judges rule against Trump Admin three times in one day; Dem Chairs: Subpoena issued to Yovanovitch after White House, State Dept told her not to testify;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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NYT: Former Ambassador to Ukraine testifies Trump pressured State Department to remove her; NYT: Former Ukraine Amb. blames Trump, Giuliani for her removal; NYT: Yovanovitch testifies Trump fired her based on "false claims by people with clearly questionable motives"; Sources: National Security Adviser to slash career NSC staff and add political appointees; Source: President Trump sent WSJ Op-ed "Ukraine smoke and mirrors" to all senators; U.S. Official: Turkish artillery fire hit just hundreds of meters away from U.S. Special Forces in Syria ISIS claims responsibility for car bombing in Northern Syria; Trump threatens "powerful sanctions" against Turkey; Why did Trump pull U.S. troops in Syria now?; 2020 Dems take on LGBTQ issues at CNN Town Hall; Wildfire rips through Northern L.A.; 100,000 residents evacuate;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 scoring a hat trick of terrible news from the courts today.
0:06.0	The lead starts right now.
0:08.0	Bad news for President Trump all around today,
0:11.0	from his tax returns to hopes for his border wall to the
0:14.6	scandal that could find him impeached. President Trump once called her bad news
0:19.7	on his now infamous Ukraine call today a career diplomat delivering a
0:23.0	blistering attack on the president's conduct in front of the very people
0:26.8	who could vote to impeach him and breaking just minutes ago turkey nearly
0:32.3	bombing US.S. Special Forces, apparently by accident, after President
0:37.3	Trump opened the door for that country to go into Syria. So why does it seem like President
0:41.7	Trump is always bending over backwards to do Turkey's bidding?
0:45.6	This is CNN Breaking News.
0:51.6	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we start today with breaking news a series
0:54.8	of devastating news today for the Trump administration including losing three
0:59.0	court rulings President Trump lost his appeal to stop a house subpoena to obtain his tax returns.
1:04.4	A federal judge in Texas ruled that President Trump's national emergency declaration to build a border wall
1:09.7	is unlawful and yet another federal judge today blocked the Trump administration
1:15.1	rule that makes it more difficult for immigrants who rely on public
1:18.2	assistance to obtain legal status. Now amid all these rulings, a key witness in the impeachment inquiry
1:25.2	came forward. The former ambassador to Ukraine pointing the finger directly
1:29.5	at the president today as she testified to members of Congress behind closed doors.
1:34.4	According to a copy of her opening statement obtained by the New York Times in Washington Post,
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