Special Edition (1): The White House in Crisis; House Intel: We didn't review whistleblower complaint in advance; Combative Trump attacks Schiff, impeachment inquiry "hoax";

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Trump on impeachment inquiry: I always cooperate, but "this is a hoax"; Trump without evidence, claims Intel Chair Schiff helped "write it"; Now: State Dept Inspector General holding "urgent" briefing on Capitol Hill over Ukraine; Trump attacks Democrats for focusing on "bullshit"; Putin defends Trump over impeachment inquiry, says "nothing wrong" with Trump-Ukraine call; Putin jokes that Russia will interfere in 2020 U.S. election; NYT OP-ED: There may be another cover-up by the DOJ and Trump Admin involving the Ukraine call; Ex Obama & Trump adviser: Trump's Ukraine call should have been looked at by FEC as campaign violation;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	Welcome to a special edition of the lead White House in crisis and you just saw
0:06.2	there a president in clear crisis. I'm Jake Tapper. We have some breaking news.
0:10.9	President Trump just now said that he will cooperate with
0:14.0	House Democrats in their impeachment inquiry. They are warning the White House
0:17.4	they will subpoena the White House for documents on Friday. We should note that
0:21.6	the president also called the impeachment inquiry
0:24.5	the greatest hoax and he called it a fraudulent crime so you can take his
0:29.9	expression of willingness to cooperate as you will. President Trump also just
0:34.8	accused Congressman Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee
0:38.9	a Democrat from California of helping to write the whistleblower complaint.
0:43.4	We should point out that one of the whistleblower's lawyers who I just contacted,
0:48.4	I just asked him, is there any truth that Schiff or the committee helped the whistleblower write the complaint
0:56.3	in any way and the lawyer said, quote, absolutely not.
1:00.9	That was a response to a New York Times story on how the whistleblower had reached out
1:05.6	to Congressman Schiff before filing the complaint.
1:09.0	There's a lot that the president just said I could spend probably about an hour and a half
1:12.4	fact-checking it.
1:13.2	Let me just make a couple notes.
1:15.4	In addition to the accusation that Schiff helped the whistleblower write the complaint, which
1:20.7	the whistleblower's lawyer said absolutely not.
1:22.4	There's not no
1:22.8	truth to that he the president also said that quote Biden and his son are
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