domain in a way that could undermine the cabinet like joe biden and others. great reporting as always. carol lee, thank you so much for being here. coming up next, protecting the whistleblower as the president trump demands to meet his accuser. a a ali velshi and stephanie ruhle will talk to one author how hard it is to keep whistle blowers safe. stay with us. e blowers safe stay with us geico p with our renters insurance. yeah, switching and saving was really easy! drink it all up. good! could have used a little salt. visit geico.com and see how easy saving on renters insurance can be.
but there might be others who are also looking to show the president their undying loyalty and to try to blow up the democrats inquiry. they re going to have to be sure about how many people they call, what documents they demand from the white house, what avenues they actually pursue. i think the people they want to get to right away are the people who backed up the account of the whistleblower, who are still in the white house or were at the time. those are the witnesses the republicans are most worried about. charlie s right, they re staying on process, it s all about hearsay and secondhand and the whistleblower and he might be partisan. it has nothing to do with that. the lawyers moved stuff to another server, they admitted that and a transcript came out that backed up the whistleblower. those are the people who the republicans who are staying quiet and not going out to defend the president are the
what they consider to be a circus into the proceedings. this inquiry has to be fast and focused. you lose some of that focus if they invite what they would view as the giuliani sideshow to capitol hill. there s a number of depositions and a hearing scheduled for these next two weeks. thursday they expect to hear from kurt volker, the former special envoy to ukraine who is mentioned in the whistleblower complaint about having communications with giuliani about this whole ukrainian gambit. he resigned after the whistleblower complaint was made public because in part he believes that fwrrees him up, h can speak more openly to congress about what he knows. what s different about this time than all the other times the white house has stonewalled these oversight request is that adam schiff is making clear that
power and so is to be further credited for operating through appropriate channels. when you look on balance on what the whistleblower is alleging about the president s behavior and we now know about behavior within the white house involving white house officials, essentially hiding evidence of the president s behavior by hiding it in a secret server that wasn t designed to hold that kind of information, when you look at the balance of that actual allegation and the continuing evolving story we have got about how the whistleblower s allegation was handled at all levels of government in the intelligence agencies by the intelligence community inspector general, by the dni, the involvement of the justice department, the involvement of the white house counsel s office, are you equally concerned about those two things? how do you feel about the handling of the complaint vis-a-vis the overall serious about what he or she is alleging. some of these actors acted credibly.
hearing republicans talk about how this whistleblower wasn t even listening to the call himself or herself so they re not credible. well, actually, the allegations are more credible because their sources are so good. it would be one thing if the record of the call came out and it completely contradicted the whistleblower and you could argue they were wrong about the call and so they re wrong about everything else. but the whistle-blower was so remarkably accurate it further enhances the credibility of that person, which means, i think, that it is far more likely that other information in that complaint is also accurate. let me ask you about one specific thing from the whistleblower complaint which has earned a follow-up from senator dianne feinstein today. in the whistle-blower s complaint he or she says in the days following the phone call i learned from officials that senior white house