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Officials, what position it puts them in to not have that information and then to go about and do their job. >> we already know from one important intelligence official, who remains unnamed as they should, that whistle-blower, that concerned this person so much in terms of what theyre seeing out of the oval office, they had to enact those rarely used whistle-blower channels. but the whole thing is extremely difficult not just for the intelligence community but i would say the policy making commu...

Of the phone call between the president and the ukrainian leader to a secret system, to former and one in current intelligence official told fox according to the whistle-blower complaint they had minimum understanding of the system and presidential communications which are among the most restricted. joseph maguire told congress yesterday that he believed the whistle-blower acted in good faith but he said that did not equate to approve presidential misconduct. >> how the white house, the executiv...

Allies will be on the acting director of national intelligence tomorrow morning early on the hill as he testifies about his handling of the whistleblower complaint. tonight the intel team is flatly denying any reports he threatened to resign over the matter saying he didnt even consider it. katherine herridge has a look at where things stand right now. >> the nations top intelligence official, the acting director of national intelligence joe maguire testified thursday before the democrat led hou...

President has said about the whistle-blower, the intelligence official who issued this complaint and what his supporters are saying as well. that hes just some sort of pro-democratic political hack. i want you to respond to that. >> i think if the american people will be patient and let all of this information come out in its totality, they will understand the truth of this and why it is important. i think when you ask that question, im reminded that in the real world that were living in now, as...

There was some kind of criminal investigation. what they said is that the whistle-blower had a political bias. that reads, although the icig, the inspector general for the intelligence communitys preliminary review found some indications of a political bias on the part of complainant, the whistle-blower in favor of a rival political candy, the icig said the complainants allegations nonetheless appeared credible. so heres what has happens next. well have the acting director of national intelligen...

Is achievable and that is sincere and real and we cant do that if theyre not passing information on. but, again, they feel theyre in a rock and a hard spot with discrepancies in the law. >> what about the whistleblower himself? we know its a male. the whistleblower -- do you want the whistleblower on a classified, confidential basis to come before the house intelligence committee and answer your questions and tell us -- tell you guys what he knows? >> yes, absolutely. that would be ideal. what w...

Iranian nuclear facilities. >> mike: your reaction, morgan? >> lets talk about the fact of where we are. secretary pompeo has laid out for the past week before he went to saudi arabia and uae, iran committed an unprecedented attack against their neighbor saudi arabia and its important to note that secretary pompeo is right. we had many people in the news media -- we have many former obama administration officials, people who should have known better, that believed the claim of the people who wer...

Ukrainian president during a phone call on july 25th. on august 12th, just 2 1/2 weeks lat later, an intelligence official files a formal whistle blower complaint in part about that call. in that complaint the whistle blower reportedly mentions an alarming promise that the president made to a foreign leader. then at the end of august president trump moves to block $250 million in aid to ukraine, which the country uses to protect itself from its enemy to the east, russia. one month later the hold...

Of directors, listen here. >> i think its fair after what the trumps have gone through regarding russia that somebody looked at the recollection of the bidens while the vice president was a sitting vice president, the biden connection to the ukraine through his son, im somebody at the department of justice would appoint investigator to look all things ukraine like we looked at all things russia. >> right now it appear that is the president try today influence the president of ukraine by threaten...

>> right now it appear that is the president tried to influence the president of ukraine by threatening to cut off u.s. support. >> an intelligence official filed whistleblower complaint on series of events, one of those july phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine, there are reports suggesting the whistleblower did not have firsthand knowledge of the call but according to wall street journal in a july call president trump pressured ukrainian president to investigate form...