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Your name was invoked earlier. you get to start us off. whats your read of the white house comfort level? because were seeing this defense emerge. president can say anything he wishes and everything he says is proper. >> well, tonight is on idyllic scene at the white house. the state dinner is wrapping up. hes in the rose garden. the marine corps band is playing "battle hymn of the republic." behind the scenes theres tumult. wall street wall street w"wall on the board about the phone call. in th...

Place to protect whistleblowers from when they come forward. the question now becomes whether or not theres politicking going on to protect certain aspects to prevent other information from being disclosed. the president yesterday speaking at the white house saying there has to be or he believes that the individual is partisan. but quite frankly, until that individual is made public, we dont know. thats why thursdays hearing in the house intelligence committee is so important. there could be new...

Subject matter of the phone call between president trump and the new ukrainian president back in july. in that call, the president pushed his ukrainian counterpart to look into these allegations that he and rudy giuliani have been floating for a while now about hunter biden, the former vice presidents son, in the ukraine. as you noted, there has been reporting tonight, according to sources that a number of the outlets have spoken to, suggesting there was no quid pro quo offered, which is differe...

Questions about this reporting over the whistleblower. it will be interesting to see who the president calls on in terms of the journalists in the room and what is asked. >> yeah, has a habit of calling on friendly outlets. the u.s. does state visits well. nothing like a fife and drum band. they are special events. in washington, senator mitch mcconnell now says that he will support an amendment that gives $250 million directly to states for election security. this is an about-face for the sen...

We are not too early in the process, to repeat again, to be very, very alarmed and in fact horrified that multiple outlets have now reported and confirmed that the president of the united states reached out to a foreign power for aid in winning an election next year. >> strategically, preet, what is the house intelligence committee need to do to try to get their hands on this whistleblower complaint? >> so i think adam schiff, as any member of congress, and weve seen this for the last couple of ...

Mr. manafort that the ukrainians themselves found out was done by elected officials in ukraine. they uncovered corruption and exposed it to the world. that has nothing to do with the other story that mr. guilliani keeps linking to the son of the vice president. theyre completely separate things, and they need to be separated as we talk about them further. >> all right. you brought some expertise, trying to explain it. doug, give advice to joe biden. how does he prevent this from being gas lit, p...

Intelligence community to file a formal whistle-blower complaint with the intelligence communitys inspector general. so that lands with a gigantic thud last night in the 9:00 hour. since that initial "washington post" reporting 24 hours ago, the main substance of that report has been matched by nbc news, "the wall street journal," cnn, "the new york times," a whole bunch of other outlets. we still dont know who this whistle-blower is or how exactly he or she came to know the alleged contents of ...

In washington has a sort of spooky and unplaceable story, "post" reporting last night it was sparked by president trumps communications with a foreign leader. "trumps interaction with the foreign leader included a promise that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the u.s. intelligence community to file a formal whistle-blower complaint with the intelligence communitys inspector general. so that lands with a gigantic thud last night in the 9:00 hour. since that initial "wa...

According to a statement fema gave us tonight, quote, the dotted line on this organization at chart represents a coordinating relationship. okay. i mean, separate and apart from whatever the personal issue is with this nominee to run fema, and whatever the altercation may have been with this guy, if there was one i mean, they have to give the guy a redo confirmation hearing at this point? so, mr. byron, tell us more about the billion dollar federal bribery scheme in region two. did they coordina...

Determine whether someone needed to be held accountable. this whistleblower mainly wanted, as harry said, to wring the problem to light, not be put in the light himself or herself. >> that is another thing that to me ties all these individuals together. the op ed in the new york times was submitted by anonymous. jim comey ultimately shared those memos because there is no more referee on the field. you cant go to the nations attorney general who prejudged and prespun and made decisions about the ...