Witnesses who described quid pro quo testify publicly tomorrow; Roger Stone's defense rests without Stone testifying; Top Russian Official jokes about interfering in U.S. elections in 2020; Buttigieg, Biden, Warren in top tier of new Iowa poll;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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3.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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House GOP lays out defense strategy ahead of public hearings; Televised impeachment hearings begin in less than 24 hours; Schiff warns GOP about outing whistleblower in hearings; NYT: Trump has considered firing intelligence Inspector General; Testimony at Roger Stone trial contradicts what Trump told Mueller about Wikileaks; Top Russian Official on 2020 elections: We'll resolve the problem, don't worry; Transcripts show Trump repeatedly tried not to anger Russia; Transcript: Mulvaney held up Ukraine missiles over concerns about Russia's reaction; Biden renews attacks on Warren and an "elitist" attitude; New Iowa poll: Buttigieg up 14 points since August; Supreme Court justices struggling with DACA after hearing arguments today; Supreme Court allows Sandy Hook families to sue gun maker;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	This is not the reality show that President Trump wanted.
0:04.5	The lead starts right now.
0:06.5	Just hours away from a critical moment for the nation and for the future of a presidency, Republicans are revealing their
0:14.2	playbook and how they want to try to defend the president as two key
0:17.6	witnesses prepare to publicly detail efforts to get Ukraine to do
0:22.0	Trump's political dirty work. The heads up, a Trump
0:25.8	campaign official under oath totally contradicting President Trump's
0:29.3	written answer to Robert Mueller about what he knew about stolen Russian dirt and is it all just a joke
0:36.9	to Russia today Moscow saying don't worry we got this when asked about Russia's
0:41.1	plans for the US election.
0:44.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapp where we begin with the politics lead.
0:51.0	18 hours from now the first public televised hearings in the
0:54.9	impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and the Ukraine scandal.
0:58.1	Tomorrow we will hear from two Trump administration officials Bill Taylor
1:02.4	currently the top US.S. diplomat in Ukraine
1:04.8	who repeatedly described in detail what he clearly saw as a quid pro quo, saying he was
1:10.7	told, quote, President Trump wants President Zilinsky to state publicly that Ukraine will investigate
1:16.8	barrisma, that's the company that Hunter Biden once worked for,
1:20.1	and alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
1:23.7	Plus, State Department official George Kent, who testified, quote,
1:27.7	Trump wanted nothing less than President Zilinsky to go to a microphone and say,
1:31.7	investigations, Biden Biden and Clinton.
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