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Track. democrats say the law iraqs the dni to forward that complaint to the congressional intelligence committees. that has not happened. instead they are refusing to share the details with lawmakers prompting several days of harsh criticism. schiff is suggesting the orders came straight from the white house. >> according to the director of national intelligence the reason she not acting to provide it, even though the statute mandates that he do so, is because she being instructed not to. that t...

Intelligence, said that he is complying with the letter of the law. he said that this complaint has nothing to do with anyone inside of the intelligence community and that it has to do with some privilege, perhaps white house privileges and that is the reason why hes not sharing the information. we have part of the letter from the director of national intelligence that said in part, quote, because the complaint was determined not to be an urgent concern, the law did not require that the dni forw...

Require that the dni forward the complaint to the intelligence committees. now, at the same time, that same letter did acknowledge that the complaint involves confidential and potentially privileged matters relating to the interest of other stakeholders within the executive branch. now, that is raising concerns and questions about whether or not this involves something that this whistleblower may have seen that occurred potentially in the white house or other aspects of the trump administration,...

Serious credible whistleblower complaint on september 9th, even though the complaint was submitted the month before. and when chairman schiff asked to see the unredacted complaint and related records, the office of the director of national intelligence declined the request forcing schiff to issue a subpoena for the complaint which the dni is actually required by law to hand over. schiff wrote, quote, a director of national intelligence has never prevented a properly submitted whistleblower compl...

Doing tons of really lucrative business at that airport. airports staying open, good for trumps business. did i mention the airmen are also staying at trumps business while theyre there? part of the scoop that politico had friday night is that in the u.s. house the oversight committee is now investigating that matter. the oversight committee, the foreign affairs and the intelligence committees have announced today that theyre investigating what the president appears to be trying to do in ukraine...

Do think that kind of anything is possible in terms of where the news cycle is going next and where this presidency is going next, i do have to say the only place that feels like it might be a cat bird seat for this moment in american life might be if you had a seat on one of the intelligence committees. that seems like an excellent place to observe whats going on in our country right now because lets say you are on the senate intelligence committee. that means you can read all of the redacted s...

Where the presidency is going next, i do have to say the only place that kind of feels like it might be a real cat bird seat in this moment in american life is if you have a seat in one of the intelligence committees. that seems like an excellent place to observe whats going on in our country right now and the most interesting things about it because, lets say youre on the senate intelligence committee. presumably that means you can read all of the redacted stuff in todays report. and you can, y...

Internet research agencies everywhere. there was just the st. petersburg franchise. that was nutty in the morning. but by the afternoon, even the republicans on the intelligence committee, some of them were paying lip service to the fact that, yes, what russia did was bad and yes it was sere youd and yes we ought to start thinking about how to stop that from happening again. well, thats yesterday. and today this bipartisan report from the senate intelligence committee will help republicans get o...

As he was lying about his interactions with the russian government while he was holding a very sensitive national security position in the u.s. government, it also includes the basic question of whether the president is or was compromised by russia because of his hidden financial dealings with him that they could expose at any time. apparently to the extent this stuff has been looked at, it was never a mueller matter. its an fbi matter. it was and is an fbi matter. in some cases he said explicit...

Lawmakers will get more time to question robert mueller after agreeing to delay the former special counsels public testimony. >> mueller us a scheduled to appear in back to back sessions between the house judiciary and the house intelligence committees. that was set to july 17. but some lawmakers complain about the limited time of testimony which would have shut out half the panel for asking questions of mueller. both sessions are now scheduled for wednesday and that will be on july 24. up next,...