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They didnt find any specific evidence, however, of wrongdoing by the vice president or hunter biden. no violations of any ukrainian law. >> when he was talking to giuliani, did he get the idea or anybody in the ukrainian government that giuliani was coming in an official capacitor was it a personal capacity as a favor to donald trump personally? how was giuliani seen? >> its hard to know, frankly, whats the difference between a personal lawyer for the president of the united states or an officia...

Democracy. and i think it is every lawyers obligation to blow the whistle on that activity even inside the narrow technical statute or outside the statute. >> thats a really good way to think about it. theres also the fact that, you know, doj keeps creating this sort of -- almost feels like a magic trick with the law. brad heath had this good tweet where he says olc, because the whistle-blower reported wrongdoing by the president it shouldnt go to the house but to federal prosecutors. also olc, ...

They have made this case that this whistleblower actually isnt protected by the federal whistleblower law. so even though whistleblowers are supposed to be protected from being fired or retaliated against or prosecuted, if the white house and the justice department say, yeah, that law doesnt apply to this complaint, there is a question as to whether they will face retaliation or persecution or for coming forward. on that point, the director of national intelligence did try to give a personal ass...

Eagle-eyed observer of washington. i wonder what you think. and thats not just in the house that weve seen it, its not just senators obviously putting up different types of pressure, at least with the co-equal branch saying you got to get us the whistleblower complaint, and then the "new york times" coming out for only the second time in the history of the united states to back the impeachment of a sitting president. altogether what do you see as shifting here? >> what shifted is that we all bec...

Trying to serve his audience of one with the president but at the same time trying to get this policy ahead, and hes frustrated that rudy giuliani kept coming in and trying to, you know, make it about joe biden. and there was this kind of covert effort to try and contain the damage, try and help the ukrainians navigate this. i think they were really upset. they dont want to say no to trump because they need trump and need the aid, but they also dont want to say yes to trump because they like bid...

Protecting not just the people who make these complaints through the proper channels, but the people who are also going to be witnesses in the investigation. >> if i could just jump in on that. >> go ahead. >> i served on the intelligence committee. intelligence whistle-blowers are really essential to being able to conduct oversight over these very secretive agencies. one of the real challenges here, congress has set out an arcane and difficult procedure. given the magnitude of these concerns, y...

Was involved in investigating this energy company that hunter biden had a contract with, received money from. and cleared the company. said that there was no wrongdoing by biden, no wrongdoinging by joe biden. but today when i spoke to him, he said yes, i did clear the company and he just said that in the quote you just played, but he went on to say ive been talking with rudy giuliani to say, well, there was no wrongdoing here in ukraine, but maybe if the united states wants to find wrongdoing o...

Intelligence joseph maguire why it was he took a complaint about the white house to the white house. >> but in this case the white house, the president is the subject of the complaint. hes the subject of the wrongdoing. were you aware when you went to the white house for advice about 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 justic...

Its this. the white house knew at the time when the phone call ended just how bad it was. even in the degraded moral compass of the people who surrounded donald trump, they understood the gravity of what he had done, quoting again, the white house officials who told me this information were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call. they told me that there was already a discussion ongoing with white house lawyers how to treat the call because the likelihood of the officials telli...

Essentially watergate in the most profound sense. what watergate was about and what this is about is an attempt to corruptly distort the next presidential election. by different corrupt means but thats what its about and that strikes at the absolute core of democracy. and i think it is every lawyers obligation to blow the whistle on that activity even inside the narrow technical statute or outside the statute. >> thats a really good way to think about it. theres also the fact that, you know, doj...