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Who were out there opposing him. hes done this several times. he said that he could stand up in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and get away with it. >> a lot of people in his party today, though, seem very concerned about leaks and that there was almost equal animus about them as to anything the president did on the phone call. how do you feel about that? >> well, i dont see the whistle-blower as leaking. i see these people as being concerned about this country and about the secur...

The vote. at the time of the leaking of the tape discussion and before the tapes had even been released, there were only 39% of the american people who supported an impeachment. but in a very short order that flipped. and the senate flipped. and president nixon could count and recognize that his best path forward was to resign. so i think we should just let the facts lead us where we need to go and let the senate take the steps it needs to protect the constitution of the united states. >> congre...

Transcript between president trump and president zelensky to be handled he classified system done appropriately. the argument white house officials are making it was already a classified document because it was a head of state call and officials say that they did this because it was a way to cut down on leaks after the leaking of conversations that the president had with heads of state from mexico and australia and of course president putins phone call as well that leaked out. so basically offic...

Way the president has conducted himself dont forget at some of his rallies. he encouraged, you know, beating up on folks who were out there opposing him. hes done this several times. he said that he could stand up in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and get away with it. >> a lot of people in his party today, though, seem very concerned about leaks and that there was almost equal animus about them as to anything the president did on the phone call. how do you feel about that? >> wel...

Nbc news? >> ranking member, i leave to leave the intelligence community, we know how to keep a secret. >> shannon: bring in a former acting attorney general matt whitaker to get some of his reaction, great to have her with us. >> great to be her. >> shannon: looking through the complaint, i noticed in the letter, these are some of the phrases the person use. multiple u.s. government officials. more than half a dozen u.s. officials. multiple officials. multiple white house officials. that person...

An official government whistle-blower. just have your friends all get together and write it up in a really lawyerly way. the inspector general determined the whistle-blower had a political bias against the president, no shock there. in fact, he or she is represented by a law firm that actually pays for anti-trump leaking from the government. they even have one of their billboards outside of langley where the cia is. either way, the department of justice investigated a complaint, it didnt take th...

Office leak this to the washington post or nbc news? >> we know how to keep a secret. >> get matt whitaker to make corrections. i noticed in the whistleblower, these are the phrases the person used, and half a dozen us officials, multiple officials, multiple white house officials, that person says all of those individuals were sources with this complaint. how many would have access to this information and to crack down on leaking, find out who leaked the information? >> we had dozens of open lea...

Once they started leaking, they were continuing to see details go out there, so you might as well just release it. whether theyre second-guessing, i dont have the answer to that. secondly, on the political response, you know from being in the white house in the clinton years, they assembled a special team to deal with the communications strategy and other political strategies to confront the republicans then in the house who were dealing with impeachment. there is talk of doing the same in the t...

Computer system to a code word security system where intelligence matters are kept, which raises it to a much higher level of access. were getting a little bit of push back as to whether that ever happened. but if it did happen, it may be because, neil, youll remember in the early going of this administration, transcripts of telephone calls between the president and then prime minister of australia, malcolm turnbull and the mexican president were both leaked. so the united states took steps to r...

The heart of the story. basically the whistleblower complaint was backed up by the transcript released yesterday. what the whistleblower had to say, again, confirms all that we read yesterday in the transcript and the idea of the lockdown, there was no national security issue here. none. >> greg: how about the facts. >> juan: it was about politics. thats what they were protecting. in addition, according to the whistleblower, you have lawyers in the white house who are saying you know, we had sev...