Donald J. Trump.
Once again, the president of the United States is in big trouble.
ANNOUNCER: NBC News special report.
Good afternoon, everyone. We're coming on the air
in this busy news day with breaking news,
an announcement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
of a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
Today, I'm announcing the House of Representatives
moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.
The actions taken to date by the president
have seriously violated the Constitution.
The president must be held accountable.
No one is above the law.
Holy crap.
(cheering and applause)
It's finally happening?
After two years of avoiding it,
Trump may finally face articles of impeachment,
which, believe me, he is not happy about.
It's impeachment, which Trump hates,
plus articles, which he hates even more.
Yeah. If his mom ever caught him with a Playboy magazine,
he'd be like, "I swear, I'm not reading the articles--
just looking at the boobs."
And if you thought Trump was...
(coughs): unhinged before,
I can't even imagine what he's gonna be like now.
Like, he's been crazy.
Can you imagine what he's gonna be like now?
You better keep your kids away from Twitter, people,
'cause this thing is gonna be a Category 5 tweet storm.
And this one will hit Alabama.
(cheering and applause)
But...
but how did we get here?
And what does it all mean?
Well, let's find out in our brand-new segment,
The Full Story.
-♪ ♪ -(cheering and applause)
So, how did Donald Trump land himself
on the road to impeachment?
Well, it all started last week,
with a mysterious report from a whistleblower.
ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news.
And we do begin with that breaking news.
CNN has learned that President Trump had a communication
with a foreign leader that was so troubling
to one U.S. intelligence official
that they filed a whistleblower complaint.
The Washington Post reports this involved a promise.
It is not known who the whistleblower is
or who the foreign leader is.
Yes. It was so exciting.
Trump had a mysterious phone call with a foreign leader,
and everyone was wondering what it could be.
Did he promise Kim Jong-un that he could use
his Netflix password?
Or did he promise Vladimir Putin
a role in the next Fast and Furious movie?
We didn't know.
The even more exciting question was
who is the whistleblower.
'Cause it could be anybody.
Except Mike Pence.
Oh, because he doesn't believe in blowing things.
Yeah.
Mother...
Mother says the mouth is for prayer. Nothing else.
He doesn't even blow out birthday candles.
He just uses a fire extinguisher on the cake.
"In the name of Jesus,
I extinguish these tiny wax penises."
So, the breaking news
was that someone in the intelligence community
had reported Trump for doing something shady
with a foreign leader, and it didn't take long
for the details to come out.
WOMAN: President Trump has been accused of threatening
to hold back military aid to the Ukraine
if leaders there fail
to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
MAN: The president pushed eight times
for an investigation into Joe Biden.
At the time of the call,
the Trump administration was withholding $250 million
in military aid to Ukraine that Congress had already approved.
Yeah, this is huge.
Donald Trump is accused
of holding back military aid approved by Congress for Ukraine
unless they helped him dig up dirt on Joe Biden,
which, if true, would be devastating.
It's an abuse of power, it's extortion,
and maybe worst of all, it's asking a foreign country
to meddle in America's election. Yeah.
Which is one thing, that if you were Donald Trump,
you should stay away from, right?
'Cause they'd just beaten the Russia case.
It would be like if the day after
Michael Jackson got acquitted of touching kids, he was like,
"Let's celebrate!
Slumber party at my house!"
(laughter)
And as bad as it is for America,
think about what it felt like for Ukraine.
These guys are in the middle of a war,
fighting off Russian invasion, right?
And now, because of Trump, they have to deal with this shit?
Can you imagine them on the battlefield just like,
"Comrade, Comrade, we need more ammunition!"
He's like... (coughing)
"What do you mean-- more ammunition?
No more bullets until we dig up dirt on Joe Biden!"
He's like, "Biden? Didn't they see the clip
"where he forgot Obama's name?
He's burying himself!"
(laughter)
So...
(laughter)
(applause and cheering)
(coughs)
So, this was a pretty damning accusation against Donald Trump,
because using the power of the presidency
for your own political gain is about as bad as it gets,
but according to Trump, he ain't done shit.
WOMAN: Mr. Trump dismissing the report
as "presidential harassment," tweeting...
That call was perfect. It couldn't have be nicer.
And even the Ukrainian government put out a statement
that that was a perfect call.
Yes, yes, yes.
According to the Donald, he did nothing wrong
in his dealings with Ukraine.
In fact, they had a perfect call.
(laughter)
And, uh, can I be honest?
I think he's lying.
(laughter)
You know why?
'Cause there's no such thing as a perfect call.
Something always goes wrong.
That's why we text, right?
There's always something wrong with a call.
Either the phone's cutting out,
or you're talking over each other,
or you tell them you love them, and then, there's just silence.
It's always something.
And here's another reason I think he's lying.
If Trump has nothing to hide, and he did nothing wrong,
then why is he doing this?
WOMAN: The Trump administration is facing a Thursday deadline
to hand over the complaint to Congress,
as is required by law.
MAN: The president is digging in his heels
as the White House is blocking the release
of a whistleblower complaint to Congress.
Apparently, about a conversation Mr. Trump had
with a foreign leader that raised red flags
with an administration official.
Okay, you got to admit that's hella suspicious.
Why is Trump breaking the law to prevent Congress
from seeing the whistleblower's report?
He must be up to something shady.
Or maybe he just said something really embarrassing
on those calls, you know?
Maybe it was like, "Okay, great.
"Well, it was nice talking to you.
"Oh, and by the way,
"if I drink anything after 8:00 p.m., I wet the bed.
Bye-bye! Bye!"
(laughter, applause)
So, despite a unanimous vote today
from Democrats and Republicans in the Senate
to release the whistleblower's report,
Trump and his people are trying to block it at all costs.
But the one silver lining of any Trump scandal is
that if you just wait long enough, eventually,
he'll just spill the beans himself.
The conversation I had was largely congratulatory,
was largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place,
was largely the fact that we don't want our people,
like Vice President Biden and his son,
creating to the-the corruption already in the Ukraine.
There was no pressure put on them whatsoever,
but there was pressure put on with respect to Joe Biden.
What Joe Biden did for his son-- that's something
-they should be looking at. -(overlapping shouting)
Okay, we all... we all... we all heard that, right?
Trump just said there was no pressure,
except for the pressure to get dirt on Biden.
That's the only pressure we're talking about!
(laughter, applause)
That's not a defense. That's an admission!
That's like Scar going, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm not a murderer.
"I haven't killed anyone other than Mufasa.
"In fact, he's the one you should be looking into.
"What kind of parent allows their child
to run around with warthogs?"
And in case you're wondering, in case you're wondering,
Trump's claim is that while Joe Biden was vice president,
he pressured Ukraine to fire their top prosecutor
because he was investigating a Ukrainian company
that Biden's son was a board member of.
That's the story. Now, there's no evidence
that supports Trump's accusation.
But even it did-- even if it did--
it wouldn't negate that Donald Trump
abused the power of his office
to try and dig up dirt on a political opponent.
So, that's the full story.
Ukraine, Trump, impeachment, Hunter Biden.
But there's still one key piece of the puzzle that's missing.
The whistleblower's complaint.
The spark that has started this blaze.
And if Trump refuses to hand it over,
we need to get it some way or another.
And thanks to Lenny Kravitz, we have the perfect solution.
(laughter)
If you have the whistleblower report,
please, we need you to e-mail it to...
(cheering)