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Undermining congress in performing its role, which is to provide oversight. so here you have a whistle-blower report that credibly implicates the role of the attorney general. we must investigate the attorney generals actions in this case. >> the complaint says that multiple white house officials listened to the ukraine call and thought that they were witnessing an abuse of office for personal gain. they said that some were directed to move the transcript to its called a code word server, a leve...

What other conversations with world leaders might be hidden away? >> thats an important question. don, theres an argument to be made here for the white house taking steps to protect information. if you recall early on in this administration, you had lots of leaks of information from calls that the president had with other world leaders. you have leaks about information from a call he had with the mexican president and with others. and so one of the key questions here is going to be was this a ki...

Information tells me that they are already in that stream of information. what they were doing is these people they probably worked with for a long time came forward and said, gosh, im concerned about this and through the process of t their job, they kept coming forward and saying i got something, i got something. >> youre the perfect group to have this conversation. thank you so. we got to talk about mike rogers. mike rogers is going to host an all-new season of declassified, untold stories of ...

Mike, you say this whistle-blower complaint is a pretty damning document, but be specific to us. is it the threats, the coverup, the abuse of power? tell our viewers why. >> well, i think its a damning document because it lays out the case in great detail and then also cites legal references along the way, including, by the way, the charge that if someone tries to declassify certain parts of it afterward, they should have to justify. it tells me that somebody in the chain of getting that informa...

>> we used to have a saying when i was an fbi agent in chicago when we were doing interviews, if you dont want us to treat you like youre guilty stop acting like youre guilty. it doesnt look good for the president to attack individuals who are legally participating in a system designed to protect someone who believes they are right. >> i got it. i got it. i got it. i just want to ask you this. we have to go but do you think because everyone is saying its secondhand knowledge or third-hand knowle...

Multiple times. it says, quote, i will have mr. giuliani give you a call and ill also have attorney general barr call and we will get to the bottom of it. and under the heading of the coverup is worse than the crime part, the whistle-blower goes on to say that in the days following the presidents ukraine call, senior white house officials intervened to lock down all records of the call, including a word-for-word transcript, moving that into a system for especially sensitive information, what you...

About how incredible, how shocking this day has been. today, just today we learned about the explosive whistle-blower accusations that the president of the united states not only abused the power of his office to pressure a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 election, allegations that senior members of his administration then tried to cover up evidence of the presidents actions. and then the president himself pretty blatantly threatened anyone who talked to that whistle-blower. you go the ...

Person who gave the whistleblower that information. >> you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right? with spies and treasons. we use to handle it a little differently than we do now. >> this as acting director maguire testified three hours defending his handling of the complaints and we have never seen anything like this. >> this is unprecedented and this is a unique situation. i will stress that i believe that the whistleblower and the inspector general have acted in go...

Steve: yeah, but the whistleblower. >> so secretive and such cover-up here is the documents. this is nuts. this is nonsense. steve: the whistleblower said they put it in the super code word protected computers that they hardly ever put things in. >> well, the whistleblower or what -- i dont even like calling this individual a whistleblower, this individual that decided to spy on the presidents conversation based on here say information thats a better way of saying it. but, whatever you want to d...

Check to make sure this wasnt a parody. goes out and says basically, the democrats are sprinting in front of evidence. and he points out what everybody promised with this story and what the reality is. for example, it turns out trump makes no promise. steve: that was the original headline. brian: that was the original headline. he makes no threat to the leader of the ukraine. he will -- he doesnt say do me a favor. he says can you do us a favor. he doesnt demand the server. he demands informatio...