i won't say it because they'll say it was so terrible to say. >> reporter: how do you say jock strap in finnish? now we're finished. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> okay. have a great weekend. anderson starts now. no one's kidding around anymore. house democrats subpoena the white house, and this time stolen waulg could become an article of impeachment. john berman here for anderson. that breaking news until the ukraine story caps a day of escalating developments. it isn't just hearsay or a lone phone call or not even the president on the south lawn with an open outloud request for china to investigate a political opponent. not anymore. tonight new evidence that points to the president and/or his administration in a systematic, sustained and apparently sweeping fashion using the instruments of government for his own personal and political

gain. now it's firsthand evidence. text messages released to house investigators last night that show an effort to get ukraine to announce investigations that would benefit the president, including investigations connected to joe biden, including an explicit quid pro quo for ukraine, you do this for us, and we will give you something you want. the players did it some eagerly, others reluctantly as the president was withholding military aid. carrots and sticks. the intelligence community inspector general testified in private today. sources tell us he gave the house intelligence committee documents showing his work to corroborate the whistle-blower's complaint. we also now have the opening statement and text messages supplied by kurt volker, the president's special envoy for ukraine. here's part of a july 19th change between volker and a

republican fundraiser to the european union. he writes looks like he calls tomorrow. i spoke to zelensky and gave him a full briefing. he's got it. volker responds, good, had breakfast with rudy this morning. teeing up call with your monday. it will help with the investigation. then in the morning of the july 25th call, between president trump and the president of ukraine, he says, quote, heard from white house, assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down date for visit to washington. but that did not happen. instead by september 1st with military aid to ukraine still on hold, top u.s. diplomats ukraine bill taylor was texting sunlen, are we now saying security assistance and white house meeting are condition on investigations? to which gordon sunlen replies, call me. that's just a sampling of

evidence and a picture it paints. in the meantime, president trump also known as his own best whistle-blower, one of the south lawn again trying to sell the idea that none of this had to do with the bidens. only corruption. just listen. >> everything to me is about corruption. i don't care about biden's campaign. but i do care about corruption. what i want to do, and i think i have an obligation to do it, probably a due to to do it, corruption, we are looking for corruption. >> whether anyone believed him hardly matters because sometimes in the same breath he was also saying this. >> we are looking for corruption. when you look at what biden and his son did and when you look at oh other people, what they've done, and i believe there was tremendous corruption with biden. but i think there was beyond -- i mean, beyond corruption having to do with the 2016 campaign.

and what these low lives did to so many people in the trump campaign, which was successful despite all of the fighting us, despite all the unfairness. we are looking at corruption. we're not looking at politics. we're looking at corruption. >> and so were house democrats, only they're looking straight down pennsylvania avenue. that's where we also find jim acosta. has there been reaction to the subpoena from the white house this evening? >> there has, john. the white house press secretary stephanie grirnl saying the white house democrats are wasting time and money with these requests for information, although we should point out this is not a request. this is a subpoena and it's something they have to comply with. we should point out in that statement coming from the press secretary, john, they're not saying we're not going to cooperate with this. that same sentiment goes for the vice president's office. they also released a statement this afternoon because they had

been requested that they turned over information relevant to this investigation and they're saying they don't take this seriously at this point and don't see it as a serious matter. but, again, in that statement they're not saying they're not turning over information. that's important. >> it is important. jim, to what extent is the white house concerned with the release of these text messages which plaint as clear a picture as you can get of a quid pro quo. >> i think they are concerned about this, john. i think that is why you saw the president in almost a roboticic fashion, he sounded he was talking over and over again how he's trying to root out krup corruption. % i will tell you, i did talk to a source familiar with the impeachment deliberations going on behind closed doors inside

the white house over here, and one of the things they were looking at, john, was sending out a letter today on behalf of the white house, on behalf of the administration, saying they're not cooperating with this inquiry until house democrats have a formal impeachment inquiry vote. that letter was never produced by the white house. we're told it may come perhaps on monday. but i'm told there's a bit after an internal debate going on inside the president's impeachment preparation team as to whether or not setting off that letter is a good idea. so it sounds as though they're beginning to grasp the seriousness of this situation and it could be more serious at this point, john. >> that's an interesting delay on that. jim acosta, thank you very much. joining us, a member of the house intelligence committee, democratic congressman andre carson. i know you took part in the questioning of the intelligence community inspector general, michael atkinson today. but first i want to ask you about the subpoena delivered to the white house today. what happens if they don't

comply? >> well, then we take it a step further. people have been talking about inherent contempt and other things, but my hope is that the white house officials will do their job and be cooperative. >> that's your hope. if they don't, would you see that as grounds for an article of impeachment as it was with richard nixon during watergate? >> oh, without question. i think we're already there. i think the american people are there. democrats, republicans, and independents, people are sick and tired of the theater that is the white house, of this political pageantry, the trivializing of our government, our three systems of government, our three branches of government. you know, we still haven't dealt with infrastructure. we still haven't dealt with education. we still haven't dealt with national security in a meaningful way that doesn't

trivialize immigrants and muslim and people of color. so we have a lot on our plate that our constituents are expecting us to deal with, but because president trump doesn't want to deal with the issues at hand, he involves us in this pageantry. what he's done is self-serving and it shows he's unfit to be president. >> i'm sure next week is, in fact, infrastructure week but we'll have to see if they deliver. as to the questioning of the intelligence community inspector general, what do yid you learn inside those hearings? >> well, what i will say, i think that the inspector general takes his job very seriously. i think that he too was and is concerned about whistle-blower complaints and the safety and security of the whistle-blower. our job as a committee is to make sure that we secure those pipelines of communication that other whistle-blowers can come

forth with complaints, with criticisms, and they can do so without fear of zblalgs it's our reporting that he explained how he worked to corroborate the whistle-blower claims. is it fair to say that's what happened? >> i think that's fair to say. >> since the whistle-blower made his or her report, we've seen the notes or the rough transcript of the phone call with the president. we've now seen these text messages. so i think one question americans have is, did he provide anything more than that? are there even more witnesses or is there more evidence that the american people don't know about? >> that's why it's critically important that the white house is cooperative with congress, if they have nothing to hide, then they should be working in cooperation with our committee chairs and work in cooperation with the subpoenas that have

been issued. >> but does he have corroboration beyond that which has already been made public? >> well, i think as the days unfold, as the hours unfold, that remains to be seen. there's only so much that i can say and that i'm willing to say, but it is clear that donald trump has trivialized the presidency. he's made a mockery of the presidency. we have a president who is a developer. you would think that infrastructure would be easy for him, but he's in over his head. we've seen meltdown after meltdown. kudos to our friends in the fourth estate for informing the american people in a clear and success singt way, but members of congress have a due to. we can't be afraid, urging our republican colleagues who fear one tweet from the president could jeopardize their re-election efforts. they need to help us get donald trump out of the white house. >> the president seems to be utilizing what i would call a few good men defense, which is

now to say your damn right, i did. he's basically saying, yeah, i had this phone call, i said what i said, but there's nothing wrong with that. to what extent do you think that is convincing to people in the country? >> well, the emperor is without clothes now. i think he's surrounded himself with people who are unwilling to challenge him in a very healthy and firm way and a strong way and aggressive way. those folks who have been most outspoken and who have been cheerleaders for donald trump have unceremoniously been fired. and so he doesn't have loyalty to the people who he demands loyalty from. and so for me, as a hoosier, it's about being focused on what my constituents sent know congress to do, and that's making sure we preserve the republic. and i, chairman schiff, and other members of the intelligence committee, we serve

very honorably, we take your commitment seriously. so we want to get to the bottom of this and make sure the whistle-blower is protected and he or she doesn't face retaliation in the process. >> congressman carson, thank you very much for being with us this evening. >> pleasure. thank you. more on the breaking news as well as all we're learning from kurt volker's 9 1/2 hours of testimony to congress. in his opening statement which was released a few hours ago, he said he found himself faced with a choice, quote, to be aware of a problem and ignore it or rather to accept what it was my responsibility to try to fix it. joining us, someone who knows what that's like, john dean, also joining us, chief political analyst gloria borger and van van jones. jennife i want to start with the subpoena that has gone to the white house from these committees. what does that change? >> it's actually very important because people may remember that ever since the democrats have

taken over the house of representatives, they've sent a lot of subpoenas to the white house, many of which have not been responded to, have not had the information or testimony supplied. and the democrats have gone to court. and those cases are as court cases tend to be on a slow boat to nowhere. i mean, they are really not -- nothing is much happening. this is different because it's quite clear, as you said with congressman carson, that if the president refuses to honor these subpoenas, they are simply not going to go to court. they are going to add another article of impeachment just as there was an article of impeachment against richard nixon that the house judiciary committee passed in 1974 on the ground that he is not cooperating with congress. the difference between going to court and an article of impeachment is a big difference. >> it's part of the speed of all of this which seems to be remarkable turnover last two weeks. democrats are thousand saying we're not waiting for anything anymore. >> the speed is remarkable.

we've gone in such a short period of time from whispers and rumors to a whistle-blower complaint to an actual transcript to text messages to a confession on the white house lawn in, like, ten days. this took two years in the white house process. so we are -- things are moving very, very fast. if the democrats say we're not fooling around anymore, they're not going to go to court, give us what we want or it's going to be another charge against you, that is a big escalation to this overall drama. >> gloria, jim pointed out the official white house response from stephanie tonight it wasn't a no you're not going to get nothing and like it. they said this doesn't change anything. do you think the threat of this being an article of impeachment has changed the scenario for them? >> not yes. i don't think so. i think they can stonewall as long as they have the support of republicans.

i think they may rethink their strategy should that start to crumble. right now the strategy is this is about the do-nothing democrats, as they say. this is a kangaroo court, as stephanie said. and the republicans, if you notice, continued to defend the white house not saying what donald trump did is okay, but rather talking about democrats and saying, you know, they wanted to get rid of him since he was elected and this is nancy pelosi's revenge and all the rest of it. so should that support that he now has change, and i think it's softer than it was during mueller, obviously, because they're not defending donald trump on the issue. should that change, then maybe donald trump's strategy will change. but right now i think he continues to stonewall and say, okay, add another article to impeachment. >> they're not defending the substance, they're attacking the process. >> no, not at all. >> john dean, to you, i was asking congressman carson

whether when they were talking to the inspector general any new evidence came up. there's so much evidence out there already, including these text messages and the transcript of the phone call. do you think that the net will widen any more? will there be additional witnesses who could add more to this? >> i think there will be. each witness is appearing willingly is adding more to the list. that happened when ambassador volker was up there yesterday. it's probably -- came -- was -- i'm sure something in the inspector general's testimony the committee would like to know more about. of course, they are sending subpoenas. you must say, john, i'm not hopeful if that's going to change any of the dynamics of this. nixon totally stonewalled all of the subpoena requests. yes, it was added as an article of impeachment. he didn't care. that was the weakest article that was voted against the him,

21-17. didn't even carry all the democrats. so i think they're not particularly worried about their stonewalling strategy. >> very important context there to be sure. everyone stick around. we're going to pick this up after the break. we also have reaction tonight, sharp reaction from former vice president joe biden. later, some inning clings of reaction from the gop, but also a fair amount of avoidance. that and more as our "360" coverage continues.

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handle whistle-blowers. he talks about there will be a civil war. this is the guy that's unhinged. he is unhinged. this guy like all bullies, he's a coward. he does not want to run against me. that's what this is about. >> back with our team of experts. you saw the former vice president fighting back there. how do you assess how he is handling this as of tonight? >> he's actually making the most important point. what is all this about? why do we have all these shenanigans, all this nonsense? the idea of trump, the invincible, the trumpzilla, is not true. he is terrified of joe biden. he saw the same data we saw this summer that shows, as joe biden say says, he would beat him like a drum. they want to dirty him up, mess him um, and it's important for joe biden to point that out. at the root, that's what this is about. when you talk to republicans,

the one democrat they say, even trump supporters, they would consider joe biden, they're trying to take him out. >> there's two weeks before the cnn debate on this. i wonder how that will factor in when the democrats are on the stage with each other. >> i mean, what's been interesting is that there has been a closing of the ranks. nobody is saying, gee, we shouldn't be talking about hunter biden. all democrats understand not only is this illegitimate behavior. >> we were talking about how republicans in general are attacking the process, not the substance. >> exactly. >> but i have begun to hear an argument from republicans, current office holders and former ones also that they might be settling on an argument, well, this is all bad, but it's not impeachable. >> right. this is not criminal.

they are not talking about abuse of power. and they're sort of ducking and covering, and they're not really willing to engage on the notion that what trump did was beyond trump being trump. and of course he would never sell out the country for his own personal political gain, so there's no war room because what would you defend? the facts are the facts, so there isn't any war room. there's donald trump and his executive time tweeting. and there's members of congress right now on the republican side who are saying, well, this is really bad for us because we don't want donald trump to be his own spokesman in this case because he digs himself in a hole deeper every day. now, i will tell you that i spoke with someone today who speaks for the president regularly. and i said how does he sound to you, because we know how he sounds publicly. this person said to me, he

sounds astonishingly calm privately, given all his public fury, which makes me wonder, is donald trump doing what he does best, which is stir the pot, have a fight, and pound somebody and pound the democrats so he can win? >> jeff, you're laughing. >> donald trump is the one who got elected president, so ip we always need to remember -- >> exactly, yes. >> but the idea he's playing some four dimensional chess where getting impeached is like some secret weapon of his, that seems a little contrived. >> all he knows how to do is fight. and i think what this person was saying to me is that donald trump likes to fight. and so privately he doesn't sound the way he does publicly because he is engaging in a fight when which he likes, and that's what's driving republicans in the senate a little bit crazy. >> he may be fighting with comments that may be

impeachable. >> exactly. >> john dean, to that end, you wrote, and i want to quote here. it's very possible that president trump wants to be impeached and convicted and leave office as a martyr. you really believe that? >> i was running different combinations through my head as to why he would be behaving way he does where he walks out on the south lawn and he admits he's using other countries to get dirt on his opponents. i mean, that's just not really rational. john, what troubles me most, though, is the democrats are not really pointing out how grave his behavior is. what he's doing is he's attacking the sovereignty of our country of the he's letting other foreign nations have a say in our democracy. this is more fundamental at his level than just a simple

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more now on breaking news tonight. the tidal wave of news all week and everything we're learning about the ukraine affair. joining me now, retired lieutenant general james clapper, former director of national intelligence and cnn national security analyst. he's also author of "facts and fears: hard truths from a life in intelligence." let me ask you about this house subpoena that went out tonight to the white house for documents and information connected to the president's phone call with the leader of ukraine. if you could find out more information about what we have now read in black and white, not just there but in the text messages surrounding it, what more information do you feel there is to learn? >> well, i think it would be interesting, john, to know any supporting documentation and others who may have been witting or knowledgeable of this phone call, and i think it would be very interesting if there is an

actual word-for-word transcript because all we've seen is, as damning as it is, but it was a summary prepared by the white house. and there are some interesting format contrasts that i notice from similar memorandum of calls that i saw in the last administration, the use of ellipses and this sort of thing that arouses curiosity whether that was an actually comprehensive and accurate portrayal of the actual phone call. that's one thing i'd be interested in. >> it would be interesting because if there is a watered-down version, it would be hard to imagine what the even more damning version would be. >> it could be, but that's something, again, i think the democrats would want to examine. >> so there's a "washington post" piece out that cites a former white house official saying, quote, there was a constantly undercurrent in the

trump administration of senior staff who were genuinely horrified by things that he saw that were happening on these phone calls, referring to phone calls with foreign leaders. if that is, in fact, the case, if there are many senior staffers who were horrified, would that type of evidence be in the documentation that might be turned over in a subpoena? >> well, it could be if there were any written documentation reflecting that concern. i found that article interesting but not surprising because i think the president, as we have come to know, says and tweets a lot of cringeworthy things that probably staffers in the white house are saying he didn't say. >> where's the line? this is so important because one of the defenses we're hearing is this is just the way he talks. there's a line between just the way he talks and dangerous and

perhaps actionable, correct? >> well, exactly. i mean, if he makes some kind of a commitment that perhaps he doesn't know the history about and shouldn't make, imagine all kinds of scenarios here where he may have said things that he shouldn't have been. one of the things that struck me, of course, and has concerned me from the get-go has been how solicitous he's been with president putin of russia. that seems to be, according to postarticle, seems to be born out. >> what about china not even on a secret phone call? he pleaded with china to investigate joe biden from the south lawn. as someone who's devoted your life to intelligence and national security, how did that strike you and based on what you know from eavesdropping on conversations from china for decades, how do you think they

would respond to something like that? >> well, you know, if we weren't two and a half years into this administration, that would be jaw-dropping. i was really taken aback by that. here we're going to ask an adversary of ours, that's what china is, who, of course, is famous for use of practicing the rule of law. we're going to ask them to investigate a political opponent. and he does it brazenly and in the open. in a way he's sort of indicting himself. now, the problem is that oftentimes whatever the standard is becoming, whatever president trump says or does, that becomes the normal -- it's by definition acceptable and appropriate. well, it isn't. >> director clapper, thank you very much for being with us tonight. appreciate it. >> thanks, john. up next, the republican side. what republican lawmakers are saying and what they're not, and why not. we'll speak with two republican

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matter for american, not chinese law. senator mitt romney gave the most forceful rebuke of the president's comments saying today, quote, when the only american citizen president trump singles out for china's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the democratic nomination process, it's strange decree dual did i suggests it's anything owner politically motivated. by all appearances the president's brazen and unprecedented appeal to china and ukraine to investigate joe biden is wrong and appalling. but that was it, really, for republicans with misgivings. senator marco rubio, for instance, on the other hand says we're overplaying the president's comments. >> i don't think it's a real -- i think he did it to gig you guys. he did it to provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. like i said, he plays it like a violin. that's not a real request. >> it's our fault for actually listening to what the president

said out loud on the south lawn. joining us now, cnn political commentator and former communications director for senator ted cruz, amanda carpet, author of "gaslighting america, why we love it when trump lies to us." and rick wilson, author of "everything trump touches dies." amanda, i want to start with you. basically why is it that mitt romney is standing alone here? >> well, maybe it's because he just won election and is safe. but he's the first one to really stick his neck out in a meaningful way. but they're not going to be able to able to hide forever. marco rubio was blaming the media, playing a little bit dumb, but most of these talking points, you're going to run out of runway. last week they kept saying this is hearsay. well, here's the transcript. we're all an 5th avenue now. he did the deed in the middle of the street, admitted it, we all saw it. and so at some point you're going to have to line up on one side of the street or the other. are you going to line up behind

donald trump, the guy trying to cheat to win an election, go ahead on on foreign interference, or are you going to stand on the other side and support democracy and free and fair elections? you can't hide out in this forever. i think romney happened to figure out he had to make a choice first and was one of the first people to realize that. people have to fall in line sooner or later. >> but rick, if the transcript of the phone call isn't enough, if the text messages aren't enough, if the very public plea to china to investigate a political opponent is not enough, what will it take for republicans to be outraged at the president's actions? >> john, what we know about this president, what we know about the republican members of the senate in particular is they are terrified of this man. they are terrified of his mob, terrified of his tweeting, if he says something about them, they'll get a primary opponent or something worse will happen to them. they have lived under this cloud for three years now where donald

trump's word is law. and so, look, senator flake was correct when he said there's a good in your opinion of people -- he thought it was 30, it's probably around 25, that in a secret ballot would vote to impeach donald trump and convict him. >> really. >> yeah, really. i don't think that number is about right. they do not like this man. they lie to the people because donald trump doesn't represent any strain of conservatism most of them understand. so they're doing the best they can, making the best of it, passing their judges and hoping that's enough. but they really don't like the condition he puts them in. there are serious people there in the senate who honestly understand this thing welcome back "w" a bit more granularity and honor than, say, lindsey graham does. and they understand the threat that this poses to our country's national interests and security, that donald trump is out trying to extort foreign powers to fulfill his campaign desires. it's a dangerous position and they understand that, but they

are too afraid to make a move for the most part. >> i think there's only one thing that has a shot at changes the dynamic in the senate, and you have to make it more painful for these senate republicans to support trump than to not. and the quickest way to do this is to go straight to the heart of what mitch mcconnell cares the most about. mitch mcconnell cares most about staying senate majority leader. right now the republicans only have a three-seat majority. so there needs to be a campaign. you need to attack those most vulnerable seats, arizona, colorado, and maine. they shouldn't be able to get a coffee without somebody saying what are you going to do to make free and fair? i promise you, mitch mcconnell cares more about being senate majority leader than donald trump being president. so if he has to make a choice between those two things, he will choose himself. >> if you are the democrats, and i can't believe i'm talking to

rick wilson. but how do the democrats handle a statement like that which came from mitt romney today? from some of them, really, that's it? you're just appalled, senator romney? what are you going to do about it? is that the best response, or somehow being more receptive? >> strategically -- the problem is a lot of democrats respond to these things with emotion and not strategy. the emotion is why aren't you doing more, why aren't you setting yourself on fire? the strategic response is to open a pathway and to say this is the honorable thing to do. hope others follow him and recognize that donald trump is a man who has gone well beyond the law and the bounds of propriety. we believe this is a smart -- da

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senator is his health and quick recovery. he looked good, his wife said he's good. we look forward to seeing him back out on the trail. "the new york times" is saying there may be another whistle-blower. this one had more firsthand access or understanding of what was going on than the whistle-blower we know now from the intelligence community. now, i don't know why you need another one, now that you have volker. to your earlier point you were making with your guest, you got the text, you got volker. there's nothing anonymous about it. this is what happens when you deny the obvious, it keeps coming at you. >> that's right. who knows what this other person has to say. we're digging on that also. just ahead, whistle-blowers who have changed the course of history. stick around.

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second official is weighing whether to blow the whistle on trump's ukraine dealings. the official, a hmember of the mm intelligence community was interview to corroborate the original whistle-blower account. now randi's account. >> you tell me what you know and i'll confirm. i'll keep you in the right direction if i can but that's all. just follow the money. >> reporter: he is perhaps the most famous whistle-blower in history, known simply as deep throat. in the 19 70s, he helped take down president nixon by divulge critical information to "washington post" reporters bob woodward and carl bernstein. deep throat would set up secret meetings with woodward by drawing a clock with a specific time on page 20 of woodward's copy of "the new york times."

they would meet at that time inside an underground parking garage. >> no, i'm not deep throat. >> reporter: in fact, he was. the mystery ended in 2005 when mark felt, the number two in command at the fbi in the early 70s revealed he was deep throat. also in the 1970s, military analyst daniel ellsberg earned a rebati reputation as the most dangerous man in america for leaking a top study on the vietnam war known as "the pentagon papers." the pentagon papers showed the government mismanaged the vietnam war and lied about it. ellsberg was charged under the espionage act of 1917. ellsberg's disclosures as a whistle-blower are credited with helping end the war. >> i couldn't care less about

the punk. i wanted to discredit that kind of activity. >> reporter: decades later in 2013, former u.s. army soldier chelsea manning was convicted after selling near-- sharing 750 documents with wikileaks. >> i stopped seeing statistics and started seeing people. >> reporter: included a video of iraqi people and journalists killed by a helicopter in 2007. she was convicted and sentenced to 35 years for the leak but president barack obama commuted her sentence in 2017. the same year edward snowden started leaking documents to the public. >> reporter: a former cia

employee and nsa contractor shared documents from the national security agency about far-reaching surveillance programs. >> people's lives are at risk here because of data that mr. snowden exposed. >> he was charged of giving national security information to someone without a security clearance. he's living in exile in russia. randi kaye, new york. >> we'll hand it over to chris for cuomo "primetime." >> i am chris cuomo. this is "prime tootime." tonight we'll show that people put in place by this president thought what he was asking from ukraine was wrong. proof of an obvious expectation by ukraine that investigating biden would get them the