WH tries damage control after Mulvaney admits quid pro quo; Trump: Energy Secy Perry leaving post at end of year; Trump praises ceasefire as violence still unfolds;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 18 October 2019

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GOP won't rule out impeachment after Mulvaney's admission; Trump deflects, distracts after Mulvaney admits quid pro quo; WaPo: Diplomat says Biden's office dismissed concerns about Hunter Biden's work in 2015; Rick Perry resigns as questions grow over conversations with Giuliani about Ukraine; Sources: Pompeo frustrated at criticism directed at him; Despite claims of a ceasefire, deadly violence continues; Turkey's President to meet Russian President Putin in days; McConnell Op-ed: Withdrawing from Syria is a grave mistake; Trump on Syria violence: "Sometimes you have to let them fight"; Hillary Clinton seems to suggest Russians "grooming" Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for third-party 2020 run; Rep. Gabbard responds to Clinton, calls her "queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption"; Hillary Clinton calls 2016 Green Party candidate Jill Stein a "Russian asset"; Former news anchors demand investigation into NBC covering up sexual misconduct; Ronan Farrow discusses bombshell reporting on Lauer, Weinstein; NASA astronauts conduct first all-female space walk;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 White House now denying the quid pro quo that yesterday it had brazenly admitted.
0:07.0	The lead starts right now.
0:09.0	President Trump said to be today quite unhappy after that attempt by the White House to
0:15.0	clean up the Ukraine controversy blew up in the president's face and turned into a
0:20.0	stunning confession of sorts on live TV.
0:24.0	Also, Trump today saying that the ceasefire in Syria is working,
0:28.0	though try and tell that to the people dodging artillery shells.
0:31.5	Now even some Republicans are saying the president got
0:33.7	played by Turkey. We're going to go live to the region and, quote, if the nesting
0:39.4	doll fits, Hillary Clinton claiming that one of the Democratic presidential
0:43.9	candidates is being groomed by Russia to play the spoiler in
0:47.6	2020 and she says it's happened before but does she have any evidence for
0:51.7	this charge.
0:52.6	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
0:58.0	We start with our politics lead, the White House today working overtime
1:02.4	to clean up a mess of its own making after
1:04.4	that top Trump aide admitted to the very act at the center of the impeachment
1:09.4	inquiry. Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney now denying that he said President Trump engaged in a quid pro quo with Ukraine
1:17.1	withholding security aid to pressure that country to conduct an into investigation that would help President Trump politically denying it.
1:25.0	But that's very clearly what Mick Mulvaney said yesterday.
1:28.0	Take a listen.
1:30.0	But to be clear, he just described is a quid pro quo.
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