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Complained that he saw and handed on. here are the two parts. in short, the icig, the inspector general, did not find of complainant could provide nothing more than a secondhand or unsubstantiated assertions, which would have made it much harder, and significantly less likely, for the inspector general to determine in a 14-day calendar. it was provided as well as other information gathered, and determined the complaint was both urgent and that it appeared credible. guys, what does this tell you ...

Announced. the intelligence committee continuing to do their work so when the rest come back theres going to be a road map and a path for how this impeachment inquiry is going to play out this fall. >> what really interests me is that the defense or the strategy if there is one that this white house and its allies have taken has been blowing up in their face at times. the inspector general of the intelligence community who is a trump appointee, felt the need to respond to things that the preside...

If congress is building their whole case around what theyre going to get from rudy giuliani, thats a big mistake. i doubt that they are. i suspect they figured out whether the former mayor will comply. probably not. im sure theyre factoring that into their decision, but its a logical thing to do and i think they would be remiss if they didnt at least try to subpoena the -- mayor giuliani. they have to do that. i mean, look, hes going to try to assert these privileges but hes talked so much in th...

Out and did that? >> that the -- >> the inspector general -- >> -- did not push back? >> yeah, publicly. >> look, what weve seen countless times now is a very, very, very broad notion of what privilege is from the president and the attorneys around him. certainly, i think these are quite thin assertions. weve seen it -- we saw it, frankly, throughout the entire special counsel investigation some months ago and as weve been talking about tonight, here again. no, im not surprised these are pushed ...

Quote, provide nothing more than second-hand or unsubstantiated assertions. you now have the inspector general, jackie, pushing back on the presidents key claim to try to discredit this whistle-blower. >> there have been very few officials through the past years in the trump administration that have actually rebuked some of the presidents false assertions. but this is an important one. and i think what differentiates the inspector general from the rest of the gop is hes not an elected official. ...

>> you know, allowing with the double standard that hes claiming robin, you can take a look at how people feel about president trumps assertions in terms of biden and 43% say that they deserve further investigation so i will let you respond and then we will wrap it up with rachel, robin, go. >> yes, absolutely, like i said investigator joe biden at this point more concerned about elizabeth warren, hes losing so much ground to her in state that is he has to win, iowa, new hampshire, so, you know,...

Presidential candidate should call out. they distractions by a president who is trying to cover up his abuse of office. theres plenty of areas where he will disagree but he will not engage in smearing the vice president or accepting any of the president or rudy giulianis ridiculous assertions. >> do you feel that the president, in the regard, president trump, signal out these tactics against joe biden because he thinks that will be the democratic nominee? >> i think hes just trying to ta tarnish...

>> i think i remain the same position today. whistle-blower got some important information correct. namely, that the president called the president of ukraine and asked him to work with him, the attorney general, to get information on joe bidens son. i find that inappropriate. no president should ask for a nation to do that. the whistle-blower also got a lot of information and facts wrong. he had a state department official on that line. the state department official was not on that line. he sai...

In his preliminary review, intelligence community watchdog michael atkinson said he found indications of, quote: an arguable political bias in favor of a rival political candidate. what went into attkissons assessment is not public. >> there was a series of factual assertions the whistleblower got right and the whistleblower got wrong. this whistleblower is not all knowing and right. the whistleblower reveals new information about the white house contacts and their sources suggesting an intellig...

Remember, this was written before the transcript or partial transcript that was released yesterday. the whistle-blower is completely corroborated in his or her assertions about that phone call. >> right. >> we begin by establishing that this whistle-blower has at least a considerable degree of credibility because he or she was correct about what was in the phone call. so now we look to the further accusation -- you know, assertions here. people will read this and judge for themselves. this does ...