White House In Clean-Up Mode After Pres. Trump's Chief Of Staff Admits To Quid Pro Quo With Ukraine; "A Great Day For Civilization"; "Ceasefire" Or "Pause"

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🗓️ 18 October 2019

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White House In Clean-Up Mode After Pres. Trump's Chief Of Staff Admits To Quid Pro Quo With Ukraine; 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 Stunned By Mulvaney Performance In Briefing, Says "It WAs Not Helpful"; Mulvaney Contradicts Pres. Trump Denials Of No Pro Quo On Ukraine, Admits U.S. Aid Was Tied To President's Push To Investigate Democrats; WSJ: Pres. Trump Agreed For The Need For Mulvaney To Walk Back His Comments, Personally Approved The White House Statement; Mulvaney Admits To Quid Pro Quo With Ukraine Despite Repreated Trump Denials That Any Deal Such Existed; Mulvaney Admits To Quid Pro Quo With Ukraine: "Get Over It. There's Going To Be Political Influence In Foreign Policy" ; Rep. Elijah Cummings, Key Democrat Leading Trump Impeachment Inquiry, Dies At 68; Trump Appointee Sondland: President Directed Diplomats To Work With Rudy Giuliani On Ukraine; Pres. Trump's Ambassador To EU Testifies For 10 Hours; Says President Ordered Him To Work With Giuliani On Ukraine; House Dem: Ambassador Sondland Appears To Have "Selective Amnesia"; Pres. Trump Calls Turkey Negotiations A "Tremendous Success"; GOP Sen. Romeny: "It Is far From A Victory"; Pres. Trump: "A Great Day For Civilization"; Turkey Foreign Minister: "We Got What We Wanted"; Pres. Trump Claims Credit For Solving Problem He Created In SyriaTo 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	Good evening on a night of major developments on many fronts in the impeachment inquiry.
0:04.6	We begin tonight with the one that eclipses them all and could fundamentally change the
0:08.5	course of this entire affair.
0:10.6	Today one of the president's top advisors openly admitted what he, the president and all
0:15.8	the president's people, have been denying for weeks now.
0:18.7	And now he's trying to back away from what he said, what he said in great detail several
0:22.9	times and not by accident.
0:25.0	Right now, acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, is furiously backpedaling
0:28.7	from it all, which only underscores the gravity of what he said.
0:32.8	Today, presumably with the president's approval, he told the public, told lawmakers pursuing
0:37.1	impeachment, told the world that yes, the administration withheld military aid from
0:42.2	an ally under Russian attack to get that country to take action to help the president politically.
0:48.7	Mick Mulvaney admitted there was a quid pro quo with Ukraine.
0:52.6	He didn't use those words quid pro quo, but what he describes was just that.
0:58.4	And then he said this, I have news for everybody.
1:02.5	Get over it.
1:03.7	There's going to be political influence in foreign policy.
1:07.3	Get over it, he said, followed by a half truth suggesting that we're all just a little
1:11.7	naive for somehow being surprised, equating what happened with the normal diplomatic
1:17.2	give and take between countries which this is not.
1:20.6	It appears to be for personal gain.
1:23.2	After all, if this were normal, it's hard to see why the White House has been trying
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