Majority of House members now back some type of impeachment action against Trump.
about "a whole new stage of investigation" if the complaint weren't released. NBC News has not independently confirmed that Ukraine is at the center of the whistleblower issue.
According to a senior administration official, the White House is now preparing to turn the whistleblower complaint over to lawmakers by this Thursday, when acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire is scheduled to testify before the House Intelligence Committee and also appear behind closed doors before the Senate Intelligence Committee along with the national intelligence inspector general, Michael Atkinson.
Trump has already admitted to talking about Biden with Zelenskiy and, in discussing that conversation with reporters on Monday, tied the military aide to the country's probing of corruption. Later in the day, Trump denied any quid pro quo in which he pledged to give Ukraine the money in exchange for further probing of the Bidens.
"I put no pressure on them whatsoever," the president said. "I could have. I think it would probably, possibly have been OK if I did. But I didn't."after the release of the text record of the July call with the Ukrainian president. "It turned out to be a nothing call other than a lot of people said, 'I never knew you could be so nice,'" he said.
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