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Not clear how much they will be willing to say. >> joining us now is shane harris. hes an intelligence and national security reporter for "the washington post." he co-wrote this article. shane, thanks for joining us to share your reporting. what do you know about this phone call and the promise that was made? >> what we know essentially is what we broke in the paper last night. this communication happens between the president and a foreign leader. we dont know when and we dont know the leader no...

National security analyst ned price, and "washington post" national security reporter ellen nakashima. ellen, this breakthrough reporting by "the washington post" about what was involved in this whistleblower complaint, weve been talking about this complaint for the last few days back and forth, the refusal to testify, now the testimony as we speak by the inspector general of the intelligence community. but you and your team at "the washington post" have new reporting about what this involves. >...

Matter how explosive the charge it is supposed to, if its working correctly, bubble up and make its way to the appropriate audience. and in this case, in this rare case, a first in the memory of veterans on capitol hill, this case has been blocked from being heard, correct? >> thats right. so far the director of national intelligence, the nations top intelligence official, is refusing to disclose details about this whistleblower complaint, saying essentially that there are other equities here, t...

About. >> a flagrant abuse. how high up would the intelligence official have to be to know this kind of information? we know in the past that calls between president trump and vladimir putin, we have calls from the russian side. >> it has to be someone at the highest levels of government to do this. it has to be through an intercepted call, or someone that has seen those kind of -- >> what kind of person, if it is a flagrant abuse, that would be a seen your senior person. >> and what makes me le...

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And no matter how explosive the charge, it is supposed to, if its working correctly, bubble up and make its way to the appropriate audience. and in this case, in this rare case, a first in the memory of veterans on capitol hill, this case has been blocked from being heard, correct? >> thats right. so far, the director of national intelligence, the nations top intelligence official, is refusing to disclose details about this whistle-blower complaint, saying essentially that there are other equiti...

Deputy labor secretary. clint watts, and elise jordan who worked in the state house. people are going to say this is purely political. this is all about the deep state out to get the president, in your mind, what kind of information, what kind of conversation, would have been had that would prompt this kind of whistle blowing? >> i cant imagine anything that wasnt bad. we have seen how the fallout from it is. i cant believe that an intelligence official, it has to be someone at a very high level...

Its working correctly, bubble up and make its way to the appropriate audience. and in this case, in this rare case, a first in the memory of veterans on capitol hill, this case has been blocked from being heard, correct? >> thats right. so far, the director of national intelligence, the nations top intelligence official, is refusing to disclose details about this whistle-blower complaint, saying essentially that there are other equities here, that this involves the communications of somebody who...

President is entitled to promise any foreign leader almost anything and that wouldnt be problematic to an intelligence official unless some underlying misconduct, something sinister about it. its pointless to speculate. the bottom line, though, is the question now whether the intelligence community is trying to oversee -- the committee trying to oversee and going to get the information that they need to review this and decide whether there was misconduct. >> so today, its the inspector general o...

And someone has exposed something important or someone. and, again, i just think its stunning we have an acting dni, we have an acting department of homeland security secretary. we have -- weve had -- i mean -- >> acting secretary of defense and acting national security -- >> it just sounds lawless to me. >> well, also you cant separate the way we started from where we are now. we started about talking whether or not we are marching to war with iran. the dni was created after 9/11 to create the ...