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Laid out my duties. if i saw something in terms of the collection of intelligence that was illegal, i had a duty to report it. and that is something that the american public has to have trust and faith in the intelligence community, that we keep secrets not protect presidents, but to protect the nation. and part of the check is the whistleblower avenue. and to think that whistleblower you saw wrongdoing, spoke out and wrongdoing committed by the person who holds the highest office in this countr...

Essentially corrupt the intelligence community, to guard a secret that potentially implicates the president in criminal wrongdoing, tells us that this administration is rotten to the absolute core. >> and michael, is there any information, any reporting as to why mr. maguire, the dni, who is a pretty respected guy, would have run right to the white house with this whistleblower report? >> well, he testified that he immediately concluded that the complaint involved, you know, potential executive ...

Second, obviously, if they were involved in directing that this be put into a different system for the purpose of hiding information that is politically damaging to the president, not because its national security sensitive information, that represents an abuse of that system and potentially an attempt to actually cover up wrongdoing or criminality. so its not at all unusual that the lawyers would be involved in providing advice to national security council staff, for example, or coordinating le...

Trump has had with leaders like putin, like mbs, might the release of those transcripts cause damage to the u.s.? isnt there a danger to releasing these transcripts publicly? >> well, there is. leaders talk to the president. they believe the conversations are confidential. to see them exposed has got to be difficult and embarrassing. at the same time that cannot be enough to keep the wrongdoing of anyone including certainly the president, from being exposed. i think as we learn what other tapes,...

Qaeda sponsored and inspired event, and they got it really at the last minute. >> all right. well, thank you very much. great to see you, chairman. and to all of you, you will have to see it. season premiere of "declassified" is this sunday night at 9:00. and thank you all so much for joining us. "ac 360" starts now. good evening. if the allegations of a whistle-blower are true, the country is now in a place it has not seen since watergate. thats how consequential, how historic this day has be...

President of the united states this morning talking at the u.s. u.n. mission saying that he wants to know who gave the whistle-blower this information which seems to according to the whistle-blower there were multiple people who the whistle-blower talked to over a period of time and also said -- comparing those people to essentially being spies and that, you know, in the good old days when we were smart, you know, we used to -- you know, spies and people committed treason essentially were killed...

Its dangerous. whistleblowers have an important role to play in unfolding, revealing wrongdoing in our government. if their complaint has been deemed by the inspector general as credible, and also, of urgent concern, and therefore, sent to the director of national intelligence, the law says the director must send it to congress. the white house intervened. the executive branch intervened. and held him back from doing that. i feel sad for him, because he is a respected professional. but for the p...

Required by law and explaining his view that it was subject to a presidents ability to claim executive privilege. >> we consulted with the white house councils office and were advised the information was subject to executive privileg, a privilege that i do not have the authority to waive. >> reporter: it was he noted an unprecedented legal situation in many ways. >> this appears to be the first intelligence committee whistleblower complaint that has ever, ever been withheld from congress. is tha...

Skin which is why this is important, what the president said yesterday about the whistleblower. >> who is the person that gave the whistleblower? who is the person that gave the whistleblower the information, because thats close to a spy. you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right, to spies and treason, sfl right? we used to handle it a little differently than we do now. >> number one, hes in a room with american diplomats. the people who we hope if they see wrongdoing...

Receiving a complaint that fingered the president and the attorney general for possible wrong doing, magire first consulted the offices of those two men, the justice department and the white house. >> you first went to the office of legal counsel. and then you went to the white house counsel? >> no, no, no sir. we went to the white house first to determine, to ask a -- >> thats all i want to know. you went to the white house first. so you went to the subject of the complaint for advice first abo...