Trump falsely claims impeachment based on one "perfect" call; Trump compares impeachment to unfairness in criminal justice system; Sen John Kennedy on Trump and impeachment; Trump family explores selling Washington, D.C. hotel

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Source: Bolton in talks about testifying behind closed doors; Sources: WH official to back up diplomat's damning testimony; "Anonymous" author of new book promises to recount conversations with president Trump; Trump on impeachment messaging: "I am the team"; Trump repeats defense of Ukraine call: it was "perfect"; Rep Gowdy in 2018: private hearings "are much more constructive"; Trump family explores selling Washington, D.C. hotel; Biden on his opponents: "I'll flat out beat them"; Biden: if elected, my children won't have White House offices: Biden knocks Jared Kushner's credentials to negotiate middle east peace deal; Gabbard says she won't launch re-election bid for congress, staying in presidential race; Obama, Clintons, among notables honoring Rep. Elijah Cummings at funeral today;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	The president may not be throwing out the first pitch at Nat's Park, but he is currently throwing out a whole lot of other stuff.
0:08.0	The lead starts right now.
0:10.0	A current White House official, one who was on that now infamous July 25th phone call
0:15.2	with the president of Ukraine, now plans to corroborate much of Bill Taylor's damning
0:19.7	deposition according to sources as John Bolton may also get his chance behind
0:24.2	close doors. It's a favorite spot for Trump associates and foreign leaders but now
0:28.9	Eric Trump says the Trump organization may be willing to unload the Trump Hotel in DC the reason why ahead the serve on the board of a foreign company while he was in office.
0:43.2	Biden is now taking shots at a different Trump relative and his job.
0:48.6	Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We begin today with the politics lead and the
0:55.0	president continuing to try to lie his way out of the Ukraine scandal as sources
0:59.6	tell CNN that a current White House National Security Council official will back up much of the damning
1:04.9	testimony from Bill Taylor, the top diplomat in Ukraine, about Ukraine being pushed to investigate
1:10.8	the Biden's.
1:11.8	White House sources have told CNN,
1:13.5	the president has a communications problem regarding this scandal,
1:17.0	but truly this isn't really a communications problem,
1:19.4	it is a facts problem, and the facts are bad for the president president so he seems to be trying to change
1:25.2	them by lying and saying for instance that the entire impeachment inquiry is
1:29.8	about one thing.
1:31.2	It's one conversation that I had with the
1:35.0	with the president of Ukraine that was perfect.
1:39.8	It's not just about the phone call,
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