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Statutory general coin there to advise on all the activities. but the i.g. is allowed to have his own independent counsel working for him and there were many instances where they would have different interpretations of the law surrounding covert action. and where does one take that? in our system, a dispute like that. you take it to the office of legal counsel. so i cant argue with him doing that. >> this is not happening president zelensky. hes saying, it was 100% with the normal thing any pres...

Somebody. heres what they were engaged in. according to the whistle-blower complaint, according to multiple white house officials i spoke with, the transcript of the presidents call with president zelensky was placed into a computer system managed directly by national security council for intelligence programs. im sure youre familiar. this is a stand-alone computer system reserved for code word level intelligence information such as covert action. tell everybody what code word level intelligence...

To -- because the letter from the whistle-blower says i am making an urgent report. this is an urgent action so that triggers an immediate statutory checklist and the inspector generals job at that point was to say is it credible and if it is pass it along to his boss, the director of national intelligence who then would pass it along to congress but there was a circuit breaker in here because we now know the dni went to the white house and said, wait a minute, is there executive privilege? can ...

Department said when the inspector general passed this along is, well, because it doesnt involve any function of the intelligence agency or of any intelligence entity or any intelligence agency employee, it didnt fit the very narrow standards for whats called an urgent action to pass it along immediately to congress and thats why instead, the director today said the acting director said it was referred to the justice department which concluded there wasnt a crime. >> weve learned that there were...

Treat the call because of the likelihood that they had witnessed the president abuse his office for personal gain. if the whistleblower did not come forward, we would also not know the white house then allegedly attempted to cover up details of the call by moving the transcript to a separate system, a system used to store and handled classified information. according to the whistleblower, a stand-alone computer system reserved for code word level intelligence such as covert action. after that, t...

Whistle-blower notes that action and in and of itself could be a violation of the law. the president is going after the whistle-blower complaint and the whistle-blower. well show you that in a moment. but this morning in a public hearing his spy chief, the acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire defended the whistle-blower and confirmed that the notes released by the white house yesterday corroborate some of his allegations. >> i think the whistle-blower did the right thing. it w...

Behavior. im sure they went into it hoping to remain anonymous but i think in todays world the likelihood one can remain anonymous in these situations is slim so i think theres some danger to his career. the president of the united states today is standing in front of -- >> i was just going to say. what would you do right now, chief of staff at cia and hear the commander in chief talk -- speak of government officials this way. >> you know, it would be alarming. it would be shocking. i think your...

California, a member of the intelligence and judiciary committees. take that on, it seems like your committee grappled a little bit with the pace of this story. some of the questions didnt seem to reflect that were all staring at the whistle-blower complaint. you, for your part, seemed to try to really focus the acting dni on this allegation that weve been talking about. this is what your question seemed to be about. the whistle-blower writes that according to multiple white house officials i sp...

Within the administration, in that it lays out a scheme to use the leverage of the presidency, use the leverage of the vital military assistance to a foreign nation to provide or obtain dirt on a political opponent. its hard to imagine a more serious set of allegations than those contained in the complaint. the complaint goes further, obviously, than the record of the call in that it also alleges there were efforts made to conceal this scheme by moving communications on to servers that were desi...

Spies. the president has repeatedly expressed gathering intel. that includes overseas with spies who provide crucial information on hostile countries. the president says spies can damage his relationships with foreign leaders and he has dull about their credibility. >> this follows a covert action. that 2017 decision driven in part that the president was mishandling classified information. a kremlin spokesman called the reporting pope fiction. mike pompeo disputing the report calling it factuall...