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Through this process and get it to the intelligence committees. its just giving it to them for their attention. it doesnt mean its going to become public. and i think its really undermining their oversight authority. and i should add, anderson, that the reporting requirement is not just for the house intelligence committee, but also for the senate intelligence committee. so it will be interesting to see whether senators warner and burr also, you know, stake out some kind of interest in getting t...

Inspector general here for the intelligence community admits that this is a credible and urgent threat. team trump fighting to keep it hidden and not allowing the inspect or general to say anything about the substance of it to congress today as you just heard. could the ig just throw his career to the wind and put this information out there or will we find another way? >> the ig is not, ive known mr. atkinson, and i think hes a very capable and level-headed man. hes not going to compromise class...

Committee, the senate finance committee, to obtain the presidents tax returns or any tax return in fact. it says, that law says that the irs shall furnish the tax returns. we have an echo of that here on the whistle blower report that is sent by the inspector general to the director. the lawsuit says the director shall within seven calendar days of such receipt forward such transmittal to the intelligence committees. together with any comments the director considers appropriate. theres no buts, ...

Light on this information so that the american people can make a judgment. and this is why by the way you have intelligence committees. you know this from having worked on the hill. they were set up precisely so that you had a venue for oversight because in the past when you didnt have intelligence committees you had huge abuses of power by the executive branch. this is precisely why you have congressional oversight intelligence. >> i want to read that section of the law ellen was just talking a...

Irs shall furnish the tax returns. we have an echo of that here on the whistle blower report that is sent by the inspector general to the director. the lawsuit says the director shall within seven calendar days of such receipt forward such transmittal to the intelligence committees. together with any comments the director considers appropriate. theres no buts, no exceptions, no nothing. and this director decided to check with william barrs justice department. and on the next page of this law, i ...

Triggered, and he was saying i wanted to turn this over and i was blocked by doing so by acting maquire. it was a doj ruling that said theres some privileged communications here. since its about the president thats understandable. the presidents conversations with foreign leaders are not the business of congress and particularly not the congressional intelligence committees, and adam schiff is saying how can that be the case if we have a whistle-blower who is an intelligence officer whos saying ...

Concern to include the justice department and white house. and i think that tells you something as your setup indicated how complicated this case is becoming, and the problem is it is not like a normal whistleblower case, at least as reported. in a normal whistleblower case, an intelligence officer might be pointing to misconduct in the intelligence community, then it would fall to mcguire to report that as required by law to the intelligence committees. but if that intelligence officer, if as a...

That the american people can make a judgment. and this is why by the way you have intelligence committees. you know this from having worked on the hill. they were set up precisely so that you had a venue for oversight because in the past when you didnt have intelligence committees you had huge abuses of power by the executive branch. this is precisely why you have congressional oversight intelligence. >> i want to read that section of the law ellen was just talking about, the definition of urgen...

The inspector general looked at it and said, this is credible and this is urgent. that set in motion stuff thats supposed to happen by wrote without any push-back. they forwarded it to the head of the relevant agency. in this case, it was determined this should be the director of national intelligence. the dni was supposed to give it to the intelligence committees in congress within seven days. the dni refused to do that. we knew the inspector general was going to be in a -- there was going to b...

Process would take its course and, you know, let whoever needs to be held accountable be held accountable. this whistleblower did indeed feel there was enough of a concern that the inspector general should look into it, and the ig, as ken noted, did deem this complaint to be credible and found that it was something within -- that met the definition of intelligence activity and something that needed to be raised. in fact the ig then took this complaint to the dni, the director of national intelli...