Trump admits he discussed Biden with Ukrainian president; House Dems appear closer to launching impeachment against Trump; New Biden tweet: Trump needs to "release the transcript of the call"; Gore: Trump is face of climate change denial;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Trump, without evidence, claims if a republican ever did what Biden did, they'd be getting "the electric chair"; Trump: I didn't pressure Ukraine to investigate Biden, but it "would have been okay" if I did; Intel chair: "We may have crossed the rubicon" on impeachment; Mitt Romney: Trump's call could be "troubling"; as few republicans condemn Trump's call; Axelrod: Trump call "implicit or explicit extortion in plain sight"; Biden slams Trump for Ukraine call while Warren presses House to act on impeachment; Booker asking supporters to help raise $1.7M to stay in race; Feds: U.S. Soldier discussed bombing major news network, other targets; Thousands stranded around the world as tour company collapses; Trump makes brief, unscheduled stop at U.N. Climate Summit; Former VP Al Gore calls out Trump for lack of action on climate crisis; Gore: Trump is face of climate change denial;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 a serious problem for us.
0:03.0	He admitted it, a Trump advisor just told us.
0:06.0	The lead starts right now.
0:08.0	Breaking news, President Trump at the United Nations
0:10.0	seeming to admit more damning information about that phone call with the leader of Ukraine.
0:14.8	This is key Democrats say, the House may now be at the point of no return on impeachment.
0:19.9	Also, breaking today, the FBI arrests a US soldier accused of talking seriously
0:25.8	about targeting a 20-20 candidate and bombing a major news network and he likes
0:31.7	the pop-in, huge poppin guy.
0:33.6	President Trump popping in at a day-long meeting on climate change
0:36.8	as protesters around the world demand action
0:38.9	was the president's brief appearance worse than a snub. Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
0:49.0	We begin with breaking news and the politics lead today.
0:52.0	President Trump, today meeting with several world leaders at the United
0:55.0	Nations General Assembly in New York as a phone call with another world leader puts
1:00.1	his presidency into brand new peril with shocking reports that the president in July pushed
1:05.0	Ukrainian president Zilinsky over and over to investigate Joe Biden's son Hunter.
1:10.7	President Trump now has not only admitted that when he spoke with
1:13.2	Zelinsky in July he brought up the Biden's and his accusations against
1:17.2	them allegations that the Ukrainian prosecutor says he knows of no evidence to support.
1:24.0	Today the president went a step further.
1:25.7	While he denied today an explicit quid pro quo or putting pressure on Zolinsky, the president
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