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What do you think is going on inside the intelligence community as they watch this story? what are they hoping for? >> actually, i think theyre hoping for the rule of law to be followed. for the whistler blower process to be maintained, its integrity maintained. theyre not looking to talk to "the washington post" with respect to ellen. theyre pretty much nose down collecting and analyzing information for the national security. theyre not partisan people. theyre not out to to get anyone, politica...

Concerns to the white house first. and now the protection that theyre supposed to be afforded under the law is in the hands of that very same director of national intelligence. and trumps con ciliary attorney general william barr, so is there anyone else that can protect this whistle blower? congress maybe? well, here was house committee intelligence chair adam schiff on thursday. >> a lot of people have been speculating, does this involve a presidential communication, does it not and if it does...

Deeply concerned about what im watching right now. happening in the executive branch. >> i want to take a listen to something that speaker pelosi said. while she isnt moving her stance on impeachment. shes discussing another way to hold the president accountable. lets take a look. >> our founders could never suspect that a president would be so abusive of the constitution of the united states. that the separation of powers would be irrelevant to him and that he would continue any president would...

About his conduct as vice president overseeing obama foreign policy on ukraine when his son, hunter, was, in fact, doing business in ukraine. at the time, people said that was a conflict of interest. no wrongdoing was found, but the presidents trying to shine a light on that and remind people of those business interactions. alex? >> a very comprehensive reporting on a very complicated story. thank you so much, kelly, for that. joining me now is former fbi assistant director for counterintelligen...

Giuliani needs to stop asking the state department to help him. and, you know, the transcript of this phone call and every national security counsel staffer prepares transcripts of presidential phone calls. it ought to be turned over to the congress if the administration doesnt want to make it public. turn it over to the congressional committees and let them see what the president said. if the president asked eight times in one short phone call for the president of ukraine to try to examine or i...

Aid to ukraine. that hold was pulled back. they wanted ukraine to investigate joe bidens supposed role in the dismissal of a prosecutor who investigated bidens son. bidens campaign denies any wrongdoing. mr. trump assigned his attorney, rudy giuliani to the effort. on cnn last night, giuliani did not exactly settle the issue. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> no, actually, i didnt. i asked the ukraine to investigate the allegation that there was interference in the election...

Power or flouting of the law, what should give them confidence that there will be legal consequences here if such wrongdoing is established? what should give them confidence? because there are a whole host of laws and checks which have been repeatedly overruled, trampled oignored, bipartisaned. what should give folks confidence that something is going to park this time? >> ive been an institutionalist for a long time and tried to really have faith that they are going to hold through, but i do th...

There were anti-corruption activists in ukraine. there were anti-corruption activists outside of ukraine. a number of countries, including the united states, that wanted to see this prosecutor general fired, because of his lack of action on corruption. for not looking into embezzlement. so the obama administration wanted to see this guy gone. president oba vice president biden was the point man for the administration on ukraine, and he has openly said we withheld $1 billion in loan guarantees in...

Let me read from the "washington post." it says, joe biden traveled to the ukraine, as you said. it was not a demand to stop burisma prosecution and theres no evidence the prosecutor was after hunter biden, the current prosecutor general in ukraine said he had no evidence of wrongdoing by either biden. politifact. we found no evidence to support the idea that joe biden advocated with his sons interests in mind, as the message suggests. its not even clear that the company was actually under inves...

Compelling details about the whistleblower complaint that concerns president trumps communication with a foreign leader, talks that could be geared toward helping his re-election bid. "the washington post" report it involves ukraine. thats according to two people familiar with the matter. it involved some kind of promise the president made. a promise so alarming, a u.s. intel official blew the whistle. >> 2 1/2 weeks before that complaint, mr. trump spoke to the ukrainian president, zelensky. th...