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A cia agent according to a new york times report, met with fury by the whistleblowers attorney, he says the report put the operatives life at risk. here with reaction his station chief and fox news contributor dan hoffman. thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. lets bring up the whistleblower attorney who says any decision, any identified information on the with the blowers concerning and reckless as it can place the individual in harms way. the whistleblower has a right to anonymity. we mu...

There were people at the white house that were troubled by the nature of this conversation. i think the term cover-up is kind of vague. i think it certainly suggests that there were people at the white house who were sensitive to this who did not want this widely distributed because of the political implications. yes or no that it necessarily means anybody committed any wrongdoing in that regard. but it certainly is an indication that this was not considered appropriate. >> you know the house in...

High that it cannot be shared with congress. but the idea here that this system is being abused to conceal wrongdoing is so pernicious and the allegation the white house counsel is part of this, the white house counsel doesnt exist to be the presidents criminal defense lawyer. that is rudy giulianis some time job. i guess the other part of his job is to get the president out of criminal trouble. but the white house council is supposed to represent the office of the presidency. it doesnt represen...

These people who are all pretty torn up about this, they think theyve watched the president, violate his oath, abuse his power and he makes the complaint, takes the risk to make the complaint, and then the acting director of intelligence sends it over to the department of justice for advice on what to do for an explosive complaint like this, and he tells the dni the documents should not be passed along to congress, and the doj basically reaches in and kills it to make sure congress never sees it...

Tried to cover it up and that is yet another reason why this is such an enormous scandal. the extensive cover-up is evidence of a guilty conscience. what the whistle-blower complaint as a frenetic widespread effort to cover up and hide that phone call, the evidence of the wrongdoing, officials deciding to put the transcript of the call in a separate computer system, not the normal one pretending it was classified at a higher level than it actually was. quote, white house officials told me they w...

Prosecutor at the center of the ukraine scandal says the allegation that joe and hunter biden were involved in corruption is untrue. the whistle-blower complaint met with president trumps personal attorney rudy giuliani multiple times, at least he says so. in an exclusive interview earlier richard engel asked him about those meetings. were you in regular contact with him? >> no. it was -- there were irregular contacts. but yes, i have spoken with him maybe ten times. >> ten times? >> maybe. >> a...

Whether evidence of wrongdoing by the white house should be provided to the congress -- >> the fact that a whistle-blower followed all of the proper procedures to report misconduct, and then the department of justice and the white house seems to have weighed in to keep the complaint hidden is problematic, sir. >> let me fast forward. this was referred to the fbi by the president who actually engaged in the conversation -- no it was not. >> joining me now to help explain what we learned about pre...

Trying to essentially investigate the mueller investigators of sorts and rudy giuliani seems to be sort of hovering around that as well the point is what kind of interactions have bill barr and rudy giuliani had, especially during this period regarding ukraine? the point is this. while i think the barr part of this episode is going to be a sidebar, no pun tended, as far as congress is concerned, its still going to be of interest to find out what exactly was the president trying to use with his a...

Everyone at the olc, everyone in the just department, national security counsel. they knew what they were doing was wrong, and that in and of itself is devastating. but perhaps the most explosive new detail in this complaint comes at the very end. its in the classified appendix and the whistle-blower writes this. according to the white house officials i spoke with this was not the first time under this administration it was put into the system for solely -- think about that for a second, with de...

Corrupt abuse of power. and as you pointed out at the top of this show, the white house officials knew something had been done and they knew it when they did it. >> i want to follow up on that because were going to end up with some big fight on privilege here. its to me inevitable in the same way the nixon tapes endsed up with a big fight on privilege. what youre saying is privilege cannot be invoked as a legal matter as a means of covering up wrongdoing. >> we knew when we worked in the white h...