Trump attacks witnesses ahead of huge week of testimony; Aide who overheard Trump-Sondland call to testify Thursday; Swing state voters torn on who they will back in 2020; New poll: 0% of SC Dem black voters support Buttigieg

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Eight witnesses expected to publicly testify this week; Amb. Sondland, who spoke to Trump about Ukraine, set to testify; House investigating whether Trump lied to Mueller; CNN goes to Kiev restaurant where Sondland called Trump; New CNN poll: Buttigieg leaps to first place in Iowa; New poll: 0% of SC Dem black voters support Buttigieg; White House stands by Stephen Miller after emails showed he pushed white nationalist conspiraciesTo 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	Trump says he's seriously considering testifying in the House impeachment inquiry.
0:06.5	Imagine the ratings, Mr President.
0:09.2	The lead starts right now.
0:11.0	Eight witnesses, three days, another phone call, and a changing story, the damning
0:17.2	testimony and presidential anger that could surely dominate the week ahead. It's the other call in the impeachment
0:24.8	investigation. The one were a diplomat overheard President Trump asking about
0:28.7	the investigations and CNN went to the restaurant in Ukraine where this allegedly all went down.
0:34.6	Plus, in the span of a couple days, Mayor Pete goes from Iowa Hero to polling at zero
0:41.2	among a critical group of voters in a critical state.
0:44.8	The troubling lack of support for him in a brand new poll.
0:47.8	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin with the politics lead today. It could
0:54.6	be the most important week of the impeachment inquiry. Eight current and former
0:59.4	Trump administration officials will testify publicly this week, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday testimony,
1:04.9	which could point directly to evidence that President Trump not only wanted Ukraine to open
1:10.1	investigations into the Biden's and 2016, but that he did so under the clear
1:15.4	threat of withholding a White House visit and hundreds of millions of dollars in
1:20.4	U.S. aid that Ukraine desperately wanted.
1:24.0	Potentially the most significant witness in this all will be Trump donor and U.S. Ambassador
1:27.6	to the European Union, Gordon Sonland in testimony released over the weekend,
1:31.5	former National Security Council official
1:33.1	Tim Morrison said that Sunland told him that he had told a top Ukrainian
1:37.2	official that quote what could help them move the aid was if the Ukrainian
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