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Everyone is going to know its going to know that is the same if don jr. said something. president wants it. when youre the president you dont get alternative processes. thats the benefit a privilege to be president. but you dont get fo side deal. thats essentially what appears to be happening across the world were seeing from saudi arabia. to mexico. and where else hes putting his money. its important we realize theres no second trump. theres no personal trump when youre president of the united ...

Of course, did the whistle-blower see evidence that someone was using intelligence for personal gain? in this case, personal political gain for donald trump. so those are the three buckets and we have to know the specifics. just getting to the prauds ioce issue. this is the challenge and why people are maybe a little bit sort of more anxious whats going on. there are processes as lisa describes that this should be working. what we have now is a political overlay stopping the process if working. ...

Director. we have a new national security adviser. the fourth national security adviser. we had a breakdown in process. and we have incredible distraction. when you have senior people having to deal with things like theyve been dealing with this week, which takes all their time, theyre not engaged in the focused work of protecting the country and i can tell you over the course now of 18 years since 9/11 it is not an accident that this country has been better protected. its not an accident that t...

Country. i have two kind of subconcerns here. one is that we have extraordinarily -- extraordinary instability at the top of some of our key national security agencies. weve had the department of homeland security has been virtually decapitated as an acting director there. i think there are probably half a dozen or more acting people in senior roles there. we have an acting director of national intelligence. the president let go of the director and the deputy director. we have a new national sec...

>> and if i can underscore a point, i think mr. litt is exactly right. this is hanging a lantern on a problem that everybody should be worried about and focused on, which is there is no easy enforcement mechanism when you find a president asking a foreign government to interfere in an election, there is no easy enforcement mechanism on that, no easy enforcement mechanism with a whistleblower on a case like this. legal processes are so outdated. every single democratic candidate should be talking...

>> oh, no, i was going to pick up on what jim said. thats right. i think the challenge here is that we have systems in place put into the intelligence community for oversight. and one of those includes a whistleblower statute which those of white house know some of the egregious behavior of the intelligence community, thats a good thing. these systems are not designed for dealing with a president. it is simply clear. when everyone says theres processes and, you know, the president should do this...

And just one second quick thing, you know, we have this mythology that the intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies will continue to do what they do and, you know, the politics is just the politics. a lot of analysts say that. oh, the fbi is just going to do what theyre going to do. i think today and in other instances, they are doing what they should be doing, whistle-blowing, going through the processes. and what weve seen time and time again is that they cant get past the politics u...

A lot of analysts say that. oh, the fbi is just going to do what theyre going to do. i think today and in other instances, they are doing what they should be doing, whistleblowing, going through the processes. and what weve seen time and time again is that they cant get past the politics unless they go to newspapers. its clear barr and the department of justice had something to do with not discloser this information. and i think thats something people should think about, whether whether these ag...

Spying on kim jong-un. we put up the timeline of the whistleblower events. and according to your reporting, was proper procedures followed? was the law broken here, in terms of the transparency and processes being followed? >> in terms of the whistleblower complaint to congress? >> yes. >> this is in dispute. adam schiff, the leader of the house intelligence committee saying, you owed us. he, by law, owed congress transmitting the substance in seven days. and mcguire is pushing back, saying even...

President can declassify information essentially as he sees fit. that said, even if the president chose to -- again, we dont know exactly whats in the complaint. to remind people of that. say it did involve some sort of declassified information. it could still be that a person heard this or heard multiple accounts and said, im uncomfortable with this. i want to tell someone about it. that person put together a whistle-blower complaint. went to the. >> i g. who looked at the information and even ...