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You as the chair, this committee or the senate intelligence committee. >> i wish i had the confidence of knowing that but for this hearing -- but for the deadline that we were forced to set with this hearing that we would have been provided that complaint. i dont know that we would have ever seen that complaint. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. maguire for being here today. i think its a shame we started off this hearing with fictional remarks, the implication of a conversation that to...

Counterterrorism for the national post. and jill wine bank, she served under nixons impeachment and later as general country sell of the army. and richard painter, et licks lawye etices lawyer. and "new york times" reporting that president trump told a crowd of staff from the united states mission to the united nations that he wants to know who provided information to the whistleblower about his phone call with the president of ukraine saying that whoever did so was close to a spy. quote, close ...

Carefully balanced to protect the -- our intelligence and to protect the whistle-blower. >> lets go to capitol hill to tom mall ski, hes a member of the committees subcommittee on oversight and investigations, served as assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor. congressman, good to see you. thank you for being here. one of the things we heard in the conversation between committee chair adam schiff and the director of national intelligence is will this whistle-blower be ...

Implication, right? i think this is pretty explicit, but hes saying, you do this, the investigation, if you want that, the weapons, the protection. >> very specifically about biden, he was talking about biden and he said, so if you can look into it -- and he means biden -- if you can look into it. hes asking him to investigate joe biden. >> exactly. its the classic sort of i need something from you, you want something from me, thats a quid pro quo. and thats how they do it. >> mimi roka has clos...

Have the benefit of law that they will not be punished for coming forward. i think whoever did this is an american hero, not a spy. >> what can be done? i mean, everybody who is potentially a whistle-blower in business or politics sees this kind of thing and says this is not something im going to get involved in. it stops here, im not going to have the president of the united states suggest that thats treasonist and what his implication is that we used to actually kill. we would put people who -...

>> and hes a former prosecutor, too. he said this was classic mafia style talk. >> absolutely. and nobody goes around saying what lindsey graham is suggesting. thats not how its done. no one -- you know, i dont want to say isnt that dumb, but people know their conversations are being listened to. so you say -- its the implication, right? i think this is pretty explicit, but hes saying, you do this, the investigation, if you want that, the weapons, the protection. >> very specifically about biden...

On my part sir, ever, to withhold the information to you as the chair, this committee or the senate intelligence committee. >> director, i wish i had the confidence of knowing that but for this hearing, but for the deadline that we were forced to set with this hearing, that we would have been provided that complaint but i dont know that we would have ever seen that complaint. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i thank you, mr. maguire, for being here today. you know, i think its a shame we started off ...

Shield themselves from anything that has to do with rudy giuliani, because they know that there is an implicit political implication there, right? so they want to be not at all involved in that. they work for the u.s. government. they dont work for president trump outside of his role as the president of the united states. the other thing to consider here is that rudy giuliani hasnt slowed down at all. hes here in new york. this is the united nations general assembly. we have world leaders here i...

The immy kags of -- implication is theyre going to have to come out and give information about problems if theyre talking in an honest way, but for the most part, republicans have been in lock step, not new, but for something like this, it is certainly no question. >> its interesting, you know, david chalian because youve got senator mitt romney, now senator ben sasse. you got two republicans now who are beginning to say theyre concerned about what they have seen over the past 24 hours. >>. yeah...

Conversation. i dont expect that any of them would have known the implication of what the president might have been doing there. i think they just were listening. >> would you think this is close to verbatim or would you think -- when you say summary, i think paraphrased, is that fair? >> i think they try to get down the major points as closely as they could without a recording to go and do as stenographers did. im not saying theres anyone in the situation room that tried to leave things out. im...