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it's a conversation he calls very important. >> now, they want to have a transcript of the other call, the second call, and i'm willing to provide that. we'll probably give it to you on tuesday, monday being a holiday. we'll probably give it to you tuesday, but we have another transcript coming out, which is very important. they asked for it, and i gladly give it. >> cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond is here with us. jeremy, what do we know about that earlier call, the one the president is referencing that happened before the july 25th phone call? and how does it fit into this impeachment inquiry? >> we don't know a whole lot about the call. we know it took place right after president zelensky won a landslide selection. according to the white house, they did discuss corruption. we don't know to what extent. we also know this was not a call that provoked a whole lot of concern in the white house, unlike this july call where you had national security council officials, intelligence

officials sounding the alarm about the president's call and conduct on that call. we don't see anything here. i think the timing of the president deciding to release this now is interesting. of course, this all comes as we're learning this is about so much more than just one concerning call between these two leaders. it's about a whole of government effort here by the president, directed by the president to pressure ukraine's government into carrying out these politically charged investigations and potentially as a quid pro quo holding up this security aid to ukraine. >> the other interesting thing about timing, if he's going to release that call transcript on tuesday, it's the day before the public hearings begin. now the gop has put out its list of witnesses it wants to have come forward and testify publicly. among the people on the list is the anonymous whistle-blower, the person we don't know, and hunter biden, joe biden's son. just a reminder to everybody, there's no evidence of wrongdoing by either biden. any response yet to these requests? >> it's so interesting. clearly what republicans are trying to do here is deflect

attention from the main allegations that involve the conduct by the president of the united states, instead trying to deflect to this biden issue, to the questions of the whistle-blower and who this individual is. the house chairman, adam schiff, who must agree to actually bring these witnesses forward, he's released a statement saying this inquiry is not and will not serve as a vehicle to undertake the same sham investigations into the bidens or 2016 that the president pressed ukraine to conduct for his personal political benefit or to facilitate the president's effort to threaten, intimidate, and retaliate against the whistle-blower, who courageously raised the initial alarm. you mentioned that whistle-blower, who republicans are also seeking for testimony. one of the whistle-blower's attorneys has responded in a statement, making clear that this public testimony is not going to happen. he say, my client's complaint has largely been corroborated. nonetheless, i have offered to have my client respond in writing under oath and under

penalty of perjury to republican questions. so that's to republicans directly, because of their complaints of not having had access. >> but again, everything in that whistle-blower complaint has been corroborated by multiple witnesses as well as the president's own words. jeremy diamond, thank you very much. let's talk more about this impeachment inquiry. the strategy before the democrats move this inquiry into the public realm next week. joining us now with more is cnn political commentator matt lewis, senior columnist for the daily beast, and cnn political analyst molly ball, national political correspondent for "time" magazine. matt, what do you think of the gop witness request list? >> so i think part of this is just trying to create a diversion, right. if it's o.j. simpson, o.j. simpson trial, you want to talk mark furman and the lapd. if it's bill clinton, you want to talk about bill starr and

linda tripp. i think that's part of it. some of it could also be foreshadowing what republicans are going to do in the senate when they -- if they were to control a lot more in a senate trial. right now i don't think -- i think this is really a sham and sort of a diversion. actually, we may end up seeing some of these people called when this gets to the senate. >> that's an interesting thought. i hadn't gone there yet, that far ahead. but molly, we have this response from adam schiff now. he does control who ultimately ends up testifying public because he's the chair of the house intelligence committee. of course, it's a democratic majority. he's saying he won't let the republicans hijack the impeachment inquiry with what he calls sham investigations. can schiff possibly find a happy medium between maintaining this focus on whether president trump committed an impeachable offense and not having republicans feel like they've been left out of the process? >> yeah, i mean, the democrats are obviously walking a bit of a tight rope here because they

want to convey -- these hearings are about putting on a show to the public, making a case this impeachment is warranted. so they want to create the impression this process is fair, bipartisan to the extent that it can be, despite the party line vote to open the impeachment. so they do -- they do want to seem to be giving republicans some say in this process, but as schiff said in that statement, that's not -- they're not going to let the republicans have license to turn this to a completely different subject than the main thing they're investigating here, whether it's these deranged conspiracy theories about the server or whatever or trying to go down the hunter biden rabbit hole. so they've got to find a way to keep the inquiry focused while not having it seem like a merely partisan affair. that's going to be very, very difficult to do, particularly because of the way that the republicans have chosen to approach it. >> yeah, matt, with so much

partisan acrimony going into this, how is either side going to come across as fair? >> no, that's one of the really big problems that democrats have. ideally, something like this would be bipartisan. sometimes when things aren't bipartisan, it's because the party in power doesn't reach out, doesn't build a coalition, doesn't extend an olive branch. other times it's because the minority simply decides they're not going to cooperate no matter what. i think that what we have here is essentially jury nullification. republicans have decided, at least for now, that they're going to circle the wagons and not actually participate in good conscience in impeachment of their president. so democrats are going to have to really go the extra mile to keep this from looking like it

is a sham. that's what republicans want to portray it as, this witch hunt. so democrats have a big job there. >> there's also this, the republicans, led by lindsey graham, are now maintaining that trump's team was incompetent and thus incapable of forming a quid pro quo. matt, i'm going to come back to you because you actually wrote about this specifically and just how many of the president's 2016 competitors are now his most, you call them, house-trained defenders, these men who have gone from rivals into die-hard supporters. would anything get them to support impeachment? >> i just -- i love this theory that you're too stupid to collude or too stupid to do something impeachable. i actually give the president more credit. i think he is smart enough to do a quid pro quo. so maybe i'm more of a believer in trump than lindsey graham actually is. it's interesting. i think there are a lot of people in the republican party who have become -- who have sold out, i would say, some of their

principles to defend their president. it's happened before. the democrats, i think, have done it before. republicans are doing it now. but nobody is more egregious than the people who ran against him, people like lindsey graham and rand paul, who ran against him in 2016 and lost. i think there is some sort of a stockholm syndrome there. once he tamed them in 2016, they had to come back to the senate with their tail between their legs, and man, have they decided to batten down the hatches and defend him now. >> now they've gone all in behind him. let me get to this. this happened moments ago. president trump was introduced to the crowd in tuscaloosa at the alabama versus lsu football game. the reaction quite different than the one he received when he attended the world series near the white house. listen. [ cheers and applause ]

>> people were chanting "usa, usa." molly, looks like an example of trump getting quite a different reaction on the road versus within the washington beltway. what's your response or reaction to that? >> well, it's obviously a much more friendly crowd than the one that greeted him at the world series in d.c., which is a 90% some democratic city. so really no surprise that in a red state and in the atmosphere of college football, which i think also draws a certain demographic, that the president would be cheered there. i mean, i personally think it's too bad we now have

entertainment for liberals and entertainment for conservatives and there can't be sporting events where just democrats and republicans and a president, you know, hypothetically could get a neutral reaction. i think this president in particular is so polarizing that -- but hey, now that he's found a place where he's going to get those kind of cheers, maybe he'll go to a lot more college football games in the south. >> we'll see. real quick for you, molly, the president now saying he's going to release this other call transcript with the ukrainian president. do you think that's a smart move given what happened with the last call in which he released and now it's led to where we are in this impeachment inquiry? >> that is a good point. the last time he thought it was a smart move to release a transcript, it didn't go so well for him. although, we still have not seen the full transcript, if you remember. the colonel testified there were some significant omissions from the partial transcript with those ellipses in it. that being said, i have no idea what's in this transcript or

what happened in this call. so we'll have to see whether it does get released, whether it does show something different. if it is just a normal call between two foreign leaders, the fact he was able to do that once does not in any way vindicate what happened on the other call. just because you have one good call doesn't make the other call less bad. it'll be interesting to see what exactly it is he's talking about. >> molly ball and matt lewis, good to have you here. advisers for jon bolton says he has relevant information related to the impeachment inquiry, and they're asking house democrats now to try harder to get him to testify. so why won't they? you're live in the cnn newsroom. investment opportunities beyfirsthand, like biotech.ne because your investments deserve the full story. t. rowe price invest with confidence.

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hear from first? >> bill taylor had the conversation with sondland. perhaps that was one of the very first public indications we had that there was pressure on national security people. when he asked the question straight out, why are you asking me this question about biden with respect to this matter. why is this coming up? so in a real sense, he kind of started off the public understanding because that statement has been out here for so long. and everything that has followed has tended to reinforce his question. why in the world are you asking me this?

this question that has nothing to do with anything except ukraine and the vice president. >> okay. so you think he'll be able to paint a picture for the american people that sets the stage for the rest of the testimony to follow? >> yes. it does seem this is being orchestrated. you see, we're not yet to those who were on the phone call. this high-level ambassador was not on the phone call. it looks like we're leading up to those who were on the phone call, so we start with him, who was the -- it was the big chief in charge. >> okay. your republican colleagues have a list of witnesses they want to hear from. let me read this list to you. it includes the whistle-blower, hunter biden, kurt volker, david hale, a stop state department official, tim morrison,

nellie ohr, and alexandra c chalupa. anyone here you'd agree to hear from? >> i'd have to look at all of those. i must say when you say the whistle-blower, whom we don't need anymore -- you know, we never disclose -- >> say why you don't need him or her anymore. >> everything the whistle-blower could tell us we now have firsthand accounts of. the whistle-blower was telling us what we heard. now we're hearing from the people who heard, including the phone call with the president himself that now is public knowledge. so we don't need him anymore, and i think his identity should be kept secret for another reason. we never disclose the identity of whistle-blowers, never. because we want more whistle-blowers to come forward. all they do is give us a tip. then we go from there. they don't give us the evidence. this run down of witnesses seems

to me to be full of witnesses that do not go to the central question before the inquiry. and that goes, of course, to ukraine itself. and that phone call seems to me that what is going to be important is to do exactly what a judge would do, to declare what's relevant and what's not relevant to keep this from becoming a political circus. >> okay. what about former national security adviser john bolton? seems he would be important because so much of the testimony and the transcripts we saw this week, his name was mentioned. democrats, i know, announced they weren't going to subpoena him earlier this week. but now his attorney says his client has relevant information that has not yet been revealed. so what's your plan with bolton? >> look at what bolton has done. if he wanted to testify, he could come forward because we've

already subpoenaed him. >> no, he wasn't subpoenaed. he wasn't subpoenaed, remember, because i think he chose not to voluntarily come forward, but that's what his attorney is saying. he wasn't ever subpoenaed. >> actually, you're right. a formal subpoena did not come to him. he did say he was not going to testify. now he says he wants to testify. let's look at bolton. first of all, he's seen everybody under him testify. he's the national security adviser. he's seen all those who were reporting to him testify. you must remember he was fired. so i think he wants to get back in the game and not get back into the game. he wants the president to know he was the one in charge of this. he was the one who could have kept him from being in trouble. he was the one that called this out first and said we should not be doing this. and yet, he does not in any way

want to be -- want to come forward. he would not come forward. he would not obey a subpoena, i believe, if one were issued. and as it turns out, since all of those who reported to him have, in fact, told us what they know, he would be icing on the cake, but that's icing we don't need to begin to eat the cake. >> okay. congresswoman eleanor holmes norton, thank you very much for being here. >> pleasure. surprise news on the campaign trail. another billionaire is thinking about entering the race. how michael bloomberg would change the game, especially for one contender in particular. you're live in the cnn newsroom. turn on my tv and boom, it's got all my favorite shows right there. i wish my trading platform worked like that. well have you tried thinkorswim? this is totally customizable, so you focus only on what you want. okay, it's got screeners and watchlists. and you can even see how your predictions might affect the value of the stocks you're interested in. now this is what i'm talking about. yeah, it'll free up more time for your... uh, true crime shows? british baking competitions.

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are devastated. they're mourning the loss of troy pine, stabbed to death the night of october 2nd. it happened at this popular lounge in providence, rhode island. the motive still unclear. the suspect now behind bars. >> my family wants answers. >> reporter: this past february, francisco was released from federal prison. he had served 14 years of a life sentence for selling drugs like crack cocaine, but his sentence was reduced to time served, and he was let out. why? francisco was released under the first step act, a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill signed into law by president trump last december. many lawmakers on both sides of the aisle calling the act a way to address those nonviolent offenders serving unduly harsh penalties. according to the department of justice, more than 4,700 federal inmates have been released early

since the first step act was ushered in late last year. federal officials say it appears francisco's case is the first example of someone released under the act going on to be accused of murder. >> it's a flawed system. it's a beautiful program to get people to come home that don't need to be dieing in jail. there's got to be more steps. some people have to be held accountable. >> reporter: nearly three months before pine's murder, police in providence had a run-in with francisco. this police report shows he was arrested and charged with domestic violence and attempted breaking and entering. this after police say francisco, armed with a knife, attempted to break into his ex-girlfriend's home. an attorney representing francisco in that case has not responded to multiple requests for comment. francisco's ex-girlfriend says she has concerns about her safety and did not want to speak on camera. she went on to say that francisco should not have been released, and he says that

anyone who's been incarcerated and then released should then have to check in with mental health experts. francisco was scheduled for a court appearance on october 15th regarding that incident involving his ex-girlfriend. nearly two weeks before that date, pine was killed. republican senator tom cotton, an outspoken critic of the first step act, said this case is upsetting, but it's not a surprise, letting violent felons out of prison early as the first step act did leads to more crime and more victims. but other lawmakers who helped pass the law stood by it in the wake of pine's death. >> the bill doesn't attempt to address all the ills within our system. >> reporter: congresswoman karen bass cited the pine case during an oversight hearing on the new law. >> i hope this does not detract from the need in our country to really examine our criminal justice system. >> reporter: rhode island state senator sam bell, who represents the district where pine was killed, says the problem is not with the new law but a failure

to reintegrate francisco. >> it was a failure to reintegrate him into society, or was it a failure in terms of he never should have been out in society? >> look, i mean, once you've served your time and served for a fair period of time, we should give people second chances. >> look at that smile. that's him. >> reporter: jay says despite all that's happened, he still supports the idea behind the first step act, but he also says more steps should have been taken to stop the man who was charged with the murder of his uncle. jason carroll, cnn, providence, rhode island. on this week's episode of "declassified," we take you inside the international manhunt to capture one of the most prolific russian arms dealers in the world. here's a preview. >> to arrest, we had to establish probable cause that there was a conspiracy, that he knew he was entering into a weapons deal with them. he knew these weapons were going to be used to kill americans and

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atlanta police say they have found the body of a missing college student. they say her roommate and the roommate's boyfriend are suspects in her death. 21-year-old alexis crawford was a student at clark atlanta

university. she went missing from her off-campus apartment more than a week ago. her body was found in a nearby park. cnn's natasha chen joins us now. you're getting new details from police about how she died. what are you hearing? >> yeah, ana, in the last couple hours, police say the medical examiner determined that alexis crawford died of asphyxiation. remember, he was found dead in a park in dekalb county. that's after one of the two suspects led police there. as of today, both suspects are in custody. the roommate of crawford and the roommate's boyfriend. the roommate is jordan jones. the roommate's boyfriend is barren brantley. he's being held with no bond. police originally had a missing person's report from crawford's family, who said they talked to her last on october 30th but reported her missing on november 1st after they didn't hear from her. at that point in the missing person's report, the roommate told police they weren't on speaking terms.

here's what the police chief said that could be crucial to the investigation. >> alexis described unwanted kissing and touching from barren brantley. barren, who is the boyfriend of jordan jones, jordan jones, who is alexis' roommate and friend. the case has come to one of the saddest conclusions possible and has been absolutely heartbreaking. >> right, ana, so we are hearing now from police. there is a redacted police report that crawford gave them before she disappeared just days before. it was taken from her at grady memorial hospital, where she was taken to have a rape kit administered. you can imagine this has something to do with her roommate and her roommate's boyfriend. she reported that he was touching and kissing her, that he had followed her into her bedroom. she says to police that she went

into the restroom by herself and closed the door, but the roommate found the restroom door locked and found that the boyfriend was in there with her. when the roommate knocked, he came out of there with no shirt on, and crawford was there also with just a bra on. so there is something very troubling there in that report, ana, that i'm sure police will be looking at in connection to what then happened to crawford just days later. >> thank you, natasha chen, for that reporting. up next, an eye-opening conversation with voters in a battleground state that was crucial to president trump's win three years ago. >> is there anything that he could do or anything that could happen that would make you not vote for him? >> no. >> if he shot someone on fifth avenue, would you vote for him? >> you'd have to know why he shot them. that has a truly long-term view? it begins by being privately owned.

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four of you support that. galen? >> simple fact, it's never, ever, ever going to pass through the senate. congress isn't doing anything but inquiries and hearings and inquiries and hearings. >> what they would say is there's new information, and that's the ukraine call. >> yes, there's consistently evolving information. >> so how many of you are comfortable with what president trump asked for in terms of withholding military aid for an investigation of the bidens? >> as a business owner, i wouldn't give up that kind of money if i thought something was going on. i think he had every right to ask that. >> it was a new president. why are we giving ukraine so much money any way when we have homeless veterans on the streets? like, really? go to san diego. go to los angeles. you'll see them. it's pitiful. >> that's where congress should be working. >> exactly. >> that's where they should be working. >> thank you. >> just so i'm clear, you're comfortable with withholding military aid to ukraine because you don't like the idea that

money goes there anyway? >> well, i don't know why it's going there, but i'm saying, if they have money to keep giving to everybody, why not help our own people first? >> exactly. >> are you comfortable, show of hands, with asking a foreign entity for help with dirt on a political opponent? nobody is comfortable with that? you are, crystal. why do you think it's okay? >> he's president of the united states. he should be allowed to ask for military information. >> well, this is political. >> even political information. >> does that bother you? >> didn't every other president do it? >> i can't speak for any other president, but i know -- >> they all do it. >> i don't know that to be true. >> i don't know that to be true either. >> so why are you hanging your hat on that? >> i'm just saying. i mean -- >> but you're comfortable with it because that's how you think it works. >> as a business owner, yeah. >> so you just see this as a business. >> it is. >> his business is this country.

so getting dirt to benefit him does not benefit this country. that benefits him. he's not a business leader. >> no matter what business you're in or what you're doing, there's accountability. it's bad practice. >> show of hands, how many would like the identity of the whistle-blower to be revealed and think it should be? >> that's not how it's supposed to work. the whole point is it's supposed to be one of those checks and balances where you can come forward and say, this is going on, and people don't know and it's wrong. >> it's like going to your human resources department. >> exactly. it's supposed to be a confidential thing. >> what's your response, andrea? >> i don't think it should be revealed right now. i think for historical purposes, yes, it would be nice for the american people to know what happened, who saw this. >> you're curious. >> yes. >> you're saying you're curious. >> but that could get that person shot. >> the point of the whistle-blower is anonymity. so are you uncomfortable that president trump calls for their identity to be unmasked? >> i don't think it should be

unmasked publicly. >> but what if president trump knows about it? >> that's wrong. >> it'll be public. it'll be on twitter, i assume, within five minutes. >> how many people think the impeachment process will hurt president trump? >> i think it's going to hurt everyone. >> you think it will hurt president trump. is that to say the other five of you think it will hurt the democrats? >> i think it's going to hurt everyone. when you splash mud, it hits everyone. >> and again, they're not going to get nothing done because they're doing all this, worrying about these hearings and impeachment. >> to be fair, 490 bills have been passed by the house. 65 pieces of legislation are sitting in the senate. >> because a lot of things are coming out of the house and dying in the senate. >> absolutely. >> because they won't work together. >> there's literally no compromise. >> do you guys want compromise? >> yes. >> yes. >> no one is supposed to win all the time. you don't walk away every time. >> most of us are mothers and we

want everyone to work together. >> absolutely. >> you're tired of the divisiveness. >> we are, we are. >> i think most people in the country are. >> do you think that president trump plays any role in that divisiveness? >> no. >> no. >> do you think he's being helpful? >> i think he's been helpful, yes. >> how? how is he bringing the country together? >> i'm not sure how he's bringing the democrats and republicans together. however, i do think he's trying to get stuff done. >> let's go around and one word for these past three years, how you would describe the trump presidency. >> divisive. >> entertaining. you never know what you're going to get every day. >> one of a kind. definitely. >> i believe he's for the people. >> so you believe the trump presidency, for the people, means selfless?

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