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It only raises the question, what is in those transcripts and in those documents? what is it that the president said? what leaders are they with? is it just regular calls with allies? is it calls with vladimir putin? it just heightens the issue of what is tucked away in this highly classified channel in the white house. >> it object lit ratliterates t the white house introduced yesterday. they hid that call away with human intelligence protocols. >> thats right. the dni indicated it had to be in...

Are detailies who operate those systems. thats where representative quigley started to come in and a ask good questions. what is mr. giulianis role? i would have followed up and said, was he meeting with the head of a security service with a foreign nation, was that business on behalf of the united states government? i thought it was interesting how the dn i felt said, i dont really know what his role is, what his position is, i dont know what hes doing, which supports a lot of the allegation. w...

To the intelligence communitys inspector general. bradley, lets go back. this is the precipitating event. lets go back to how this is supposed to work and how it did or didnt work in this particular instance. if i am in the government and i see something -- im sorry. if i have a complaint, i see something that might be a national security concern, what is supposed to happen and what did happen. >> what is supposed to happen, you submit the complaint to the inspector general of the intelligence c...

Law, soliciting in effect a foreign campaign contribution. the crux of this is the department of justice said no, that doesnt hold water or meet the standard for passing this complaint to congress, because it doesnt concern an intelligence activity or the conduct of somebody in the intelligence community and additionally the president was potentially asking for in this conversation did not amount to a thing of value. so that seems to be the rationale from the trump administration behind this bas...

This from folks at the white house and then said, hey, this might be a problem, this might be soliciting a foreign contribution, but that because it didnt involve an intelligence activity or anybody in the intelligence communitys actions it didnt fit that. nonetheless justice said it should have been referred to for criminal investigation which is what they said happened. so actually i think from dojs perspective they think they handled this right. >> what do you think, neil? >> i think there we...

Adam schiff says he wants the whistleblower to appear before his committee. >> and looks like the whistleblower is prepared to do that. he has to get authorization from the dni. >> theyre talking to the attorneys so we dont know. there is a bigger story here. it is going to get more complicated. what we see tomorrow will be one little piece of the puzzle here. if the white house is releasing it you can be sure they believe donald trump is fine in this phone conversation. >> and one thing the con...

The matter. thats why its important for congress and the american people to get the complaint, the whistleblowers complaint as the law requires and at this point see the transcript or whatever there is from the conversation. >> at this point it looks like this intelligence operative was really going by the book and filing this complaint with the intelligence community inspector general. but now you have the director of national intelligence who is saying he doesnt have the responsibility to forw...

Committee which again under the law, the law of the land should have already received this whistle blower complaint. there should have been nothing standing between the congress and getting this complaint. this is the letter that the acting dni sent. because the disclosure in this case did not concern allegations of conduct by a member of the intelligence committee or involve an intelligence activity under the dni supervision we determined after consulting with the department of justice that no ...

Practically motivated. at some point, someone had to act on an action, and that action disturbed them morally and also probably disturbed them in the fact they were concerned they might be breaking the law. the second part is probably the reason that they filed that complaint. >> and as you know, the inspector general of the intelligence committee deemed the whistleblower complaint urgent. but the acting director of the national intelligence refused to release it to congress arguing the complain...

Were back now with sam, evan and sean. so, listen, sean, i want to read part of the intel inspector generals letter to the house intelligence committee responding to the dni saying that the complaint is not in our jurisdiction. michael atkinson writes i nevertheless respectfully disagree with the acting dnis conclusi conclusion that it doesnt contain any intelligence activity and that the disclosure, therefore, need not be transmitted to the congressional intelligence committees. so what atkinso...