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Senate, ive got bill barr at the justice department, and as long as ive got those things, i can act basically with impunity. >> i think, though, what the president has done, what hes finally been caught doing, because we dont know that he hasnt been doing this all along, is to really ensnare his top human shields in this. i mean, the whistle-blower names bill barr and rudy as the presidents accomplices in this wrongdoing. we know from jeannes reporting that mike pompeo was on the call, so mike p...

This is whats happening with trumps whistleblower. its already been confirmed his wrongdoing, his threat to national security. so hes seeking to undermine the whistleblower which enshrined in law should be protected. because what does a whistleblower do? theyre seeking to expose wrongdoing, wrought corruption, so trump is a master at this and hell continue do so. i think hes caught this time. >> this strategy of the president, he does seem caught this time. hes not really challenging what he sai...

Sources spies and obsesses about finding out the person emphasis true identity which the law says should be protected. trump today tweeted why arent we entitled to learn ininterview the whistleblower and also the person who gave false information to him. trump is caught and refuses to admit. the fake whistleblower he tweets, isnt holding up and says he or she isnt a whistleblower after all. well, its all about part of what "the washington post" characterized as an increasingly frenetic counter a...

Tonight. we had a wild one. i hope you join me again at 6:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. and up next it is "hardball" with chris matthews. the whistleblower versus the tweeter. lets play hardball. good evening, im chris matthews in washington. for ten days now running in fact this president has attacked and attacked the whistleblower who dared tell the american people what trump was up to in trading u.s. national security for something he could use against his political rivals. it is all about trum...

Whistleblower complaint more than 30 times. alleging the presidents personal lawyer was in frequent contact with ukrainian officials, as giuliani spearheaded the effort to investigate hunter bidens business activities in ukraine while his father joe biden was vice president. there is no evidence of wrongdoing by biden. at one point, giuliani contradicted himself during a recent interview. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> no. >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden...

Is a discredited theory. it was discredited months ago. it doesnt hold up to the most basic timeline. >> well -- >> and yet, zrufdonald trump is sending his attorney general to investigate wrongdoing and people are still waiving tving bloody flag of the steele dossier. >> imagine in if this kind of network existed during watergate. these kind of things take up a mythology and they affect the body politic and enough people ever talking about it on twitter. so people in the trump administration be...

Allegation of wrongdoing. and number two, theres already an inspector general review at least of some of the ways that the fbi secured national security warrants against particular people. we dont even know if this durham thing is a criminal investigation or what is it? its gone to the extraordinary lengths of having doj people question cia officers about their intelligence estimates. and my sources are saying to me, you know, what expertise do department of justice investigators have and how we...

State department diplomats will not testify tomorrow after he himself failed to admit listening in on the ukraine call when asked about it last week. >> i havent had, uh, a chance to read the whistle-blower complaint yet. uh, i read the first couple of paragraphs and then got busy today. secret agent man? reports that attorney general bill barr has been flying to meetings with foreign leaders, investigating how the mueller probe got started. >> we really dont know what the predicate to this is...

Multijurisdictional, there was no war room, we responded as appropriate, we won that battle. and so now we know that this white house, this president doesnt believe they need a war room to wage this battle. we know that the president feels he is his best messenger. do you think hes right? >> absolutely not. i think mr. seculo and the president are in a fantasy world right now. to imagine theyve prevailed with robert mueller when there were 10 documented incidents of obstruction of justice, and t...

Will have in terms of the overall effect on people in the intelligence community being able to speak truth to power. >> reporter: now the whistle-blower has not been scheduled to testify either before the house or senate intelligence committee yet. but adam schiff still is optimistic that will happen. now at the same time democrats on the senate side and the senate judiciary committee have demanded that bill barr the attorney general and others come before their panel to testify about their know...