White House admits Trump directed officials to work with Giuliani; White House admits to quid pro quo with Ukraine; Bloomberg: Energy Secy. Perry tells Trump he's resigning; Lawmakers mourn death of Rep. Elijah Cummings;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Mulvaney admits to quid pro quo with Ukraine: "Get over it. There's going to be political influence in foreign policy"; Source: Trump legal team "baffled" by Mulvaney briefing; House lawyer drives Dems impeachment strategy; Trump: U.S. and Turkey agree to ceasefire in Syria; Turkey: "Not a ceasefire" in Syria, just a "pause"; Romney rips Trump's Syria strategy, calls for public hearings; Adm. McRaven: Our republic is under attack from the President; Trump: Kurdish allies of the U.S. are not "angels"; Warren's campaign says she's reviewing options for funding "Medicare for all"; Biden on Warren: She needs to tell truth on funding "Medicare for all"; Trump to host G7 at his Florida golf resort;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	A Trump campaign donor just dropped a dime on the Trump Ukraine scandal.
0:05.8	The lead starts right now.
0:07.8	The White House today stunningly just comes out and admit it.
0:12.0	Yes, A to Ukraine was tied to Ukraine fulfilling the
0:15.8	President's political desires after new damning impeachment testimony
0:20.1	from a key ambassador in presidential appointee.
0:23.0	Breaking today, the president taking credit for ending a bloodbath, at least temporarily,
0:29.0	one that he helped start after he strikes a deal to pause the carnage in Syria but did the US just
0:34.9	get play? Plus best laid plans Senator Elizabeth Warren's campaign now working on
0:40.4	explaining how she would pay for Medicare for all after her health care
0:43.8	plan was attacked as a pipe dream by fellow Democrats.
0:49.4	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper. We begin with some breaking news a shocking
0:55.5	admission from the White House today an admission that aid to Ukraine was in fact
1:00.5	tied to President Trump's push for Ukraine to help him politically.
1:05.0	Specifically, to investigate what the President's own former Homeland Security Advisor,
1:09.2	Tom Bossert, is called a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election.
1:17.0	Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney confirmed the quid pro quo this afternoon.
1:22.0	We do that all the time with foreign policy.
1:25.0	We were holding up money at the same time for, what was it, the Northern Triangle countries.
1:30.0	We're holding up aid at the Northern Triangle countries
1:32.0	so that they, so that they would change their policies on immigration.
1:36.4	I have news for everybody. Get over it. There's going to be political influence in foreign policy.
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