Special Edition: White House in Crisis; Witnesses: Quid pro quo connected Mulvaney; Michael Bloomberg expected to enter Dem race; Sessions announces Senate run: Trump "has my strong support";

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🗓️ 8 November 2019

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Witness: "No Doubt" what Trump was demanding on Ukraine call; Trump says there should be no public impeachment hearings; Mulvaney ignores subpoena, skips deposition on Capitol Hill; Bolton's lawyer says he has "relevant" info on Ukraine probe not yet disclosed; Sources: Trump and Giuliani remain in touch; Wash Post: "Anonymous" author said Trump officials considered resigning "en masse"; White House blasts anonymous book as "a work of fiction", calls author "coward"; Former NYC Mayor & billionaire expected to enter Dem 2020 race; Bannon: I viewed Stone as access point to Wikileaks; Witness: Top Trump Amb. implicated Mulvaney in withholding aid; Trump says he's not concerned about testimony so far; Bolton's lawyer says he has information on Ukraine meetings but he won't testify until court resolves subpoena question; Biden on Bloomberg: "He should jump in the race"; Trump on if he will endorse Sessions: "We'll have to see"; Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces Senate bid; Bon Jovi's org donates $500,000+ to new homeless vet housing; New Jon Bon Jovi song "Unbroken" honors veterans service; Go to Ebay.com/HFOT to bid on action items;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.
0:03.0	Welcome to this special edition of The Lead White House in Crisis.
0:08.0	I'm Jake Tapper live in Washington and we start today with this breaking news deposition testimony released this
0:13.7	afternoon by the House of Representatives suggests that Ukrainian
0:17.0	government officials were directly told by the White House that they needed to
0:21.4	investigate Joe and Hunter Biden if they wanted a White House meeting with House that
0:24.0	the they needed to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden if they wanted a White House meeting with
0:24.9	President Trump and that that agreement was directed by the acting White House
0:29.7	Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
0:31.0	Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert in the White House, described a July
0:36.4	10th meeting with Ukrainian government officials in the basement of the White House when
0:41.2	Gordon Sunland, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, quote,
0:45.0	said that he had had a conversation with Mr Mulvaney and this, meaning investigations,
0:51.0	is what was required in order to get a meeting.
0:54.7	Vynman was then asked, quote, did he explain what the investigations were that were
0:58.7	needed?
0:59.7	Vynman replied, he was talking about the 2016 elections and an investigation into the
1:05.2	Biden's and Barisma. This was in the lead up to the infamous July 25th phone
1:10.5	call between President Trump and Ukrainian President
1:13.4	Zilinsky when Trump continued to press that case.
1:17.2	Questioner, was there any doubt in your mind as to what the president, our
1:20.9	president, was asking for for as a deliverable.
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