the who, what, when, where and why of an investigation. and that s what the senate and the house has to do. you ve been a whistleblower. you ve been in the shoes of this person who is anonymous right now. what do you think is going through that person s mind? well, if he s like me, i didn t get a good night s sleep for probably six months. i wasn t the most popular person on the fourth floor for about six months. here s what i went through. i was a supporter of president clinton as a career attorney but i supported president clinton, i was a career lawyer, but i referred for witness tampering and obstruction two high level clinton appointees in the department of justice. and it was extremely unpleasant at best.
justice officials through their spokesperson i guess that they determined not to go further with the investigation, and that did surprise me. do you worry that those lawyers are in a tough spot here? and that they could be influenced? i certainly think that there are lawyers in a tough spot at the department of justice. certainly career lawyer whose have made, you know, years and in many cases decades out of doing criminal investigations and doing other investigations, national security investigations. i think that these people are of utmost integrity and would stick by their viewpoints but ultimately report up within the chain to political appointees and so the political appointees do ultimately have the final say on matters like this. very good point. mary mccord, thank you so much. thank you. president trump making threatening comments and accusing the whistle-blower of treason. we re going to talk about the impact of his war on u.s.
whistleblower raised concerns about donald trump s ukraine phone call through separate previously unreported channels. according to the times, turk the preliminary inquiry, the career lawyer learned that multiple people had raised concerns about mr. trump s call. joining our discussion now is amy klobuchar from minnesota. member of the judiciary committee, also a candidate for president of the united states. senator klobuchar, the times is reporting that this whistleblower was not alone spiritually anyway. we ve been wondering why only one. it turns out the whistleblower as we saw got a lot of help from other people and there were many other people concerned. i m not surprised at all. i think this is going to have to be a lot of the investigation. you can imagine that this may not have been the first time this happened. and there are people who used to
about donald trump s ukraine phone call through separate previously unreported channels. according to the times, turk the preliminary inquiry, the career lawyer learned that multiple people had raised concerns about mr. trump s call. joining our discussion now is amy klobuchar from minnesota. member of the judiciary committee, also a candidate for president of the united states. senator klobuchar, the times is reporting that this whistleblower was not alone spiritually anyway. we ve been wondering why only one. it turns out the whistleblower as we saw got a lot of help from other people and there were many other people concerned. i m not surprised at all. i think this is going to have to be a lot of the investigation. you can imagine that this may not have been the first time this happened. and there are people who used to work in that white house, who
motivation to appear here today, and i ve heard enough. as the congresswoman mentioned in the middle of the hearing lewandowski did indeed post a message promoting a website for his possible, potential senate run once lawmakers were done, house democrats used a career lawyer and a courtroom veteran, a professional at this kind of thing, serving as counsel to question lewandowski and this attorney, barry burk did get lewandowski to admit he s been less than honest, at least with the media. that was you saying on msnbc you don t ever remember the president ever asking you to get involved with jeff sessions or the department of justice in any way, shape or form that wasn t true, was it, sir? i heard that. and that was not true, was it i have no obligation to be honest with the media. they re just as dishonest as anybody else. you re admitting, sir, you were not being truthful in that