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A credible and urgent complaint being withheld from congress. the purpose of the whistleblower statutes was precisely to have these types of complaints brought to the congress or to the american people to help expose that wrongdoing and obviously to remedy and prevent it from happening again. >> in his first letter to your committee, which is now almost two weeks old, he said he believed that joseph maguire, the trump-appoint acting director of national intelligence who succeeded dan coats, was ...

Reporter for the "washington post" and an msnbc contributor. kelly, i want to start with you because right now our colleagues are lining up just outside the oval office ready for the president to invite them in. it is all but guaranteed hes going to be shouted questions about this ukraine reporting. >> reporter: well, certainly the president has already put a bit of his intentional answers out there with tweets that he has put out into the universe today, and that gives us a bit of a roadmap on ...

Serious wrongdoing. something that the inspector general felt needed to be presented to congress, was squarely within the jurisdiction of the director of national intelligence, and it is unprecedented for a director to withhold that information from congress and i just want to say whats at stake here, and why this is so serious for us. the intelligence committee in both house and senate do their work in closed session because were dealing with classified information, but the result of that is ou...

Observed wrongdoing in abusive authority and possible unethical or illegal acts as reported by "the washington post" and others at the white house possibly involving the presidents phone calls with foreign leaders about ukraine and that individual has come forward and its been separately investigated by the inspector general of the intelligence community and determined to be credible, determined to be urgent and determined to be necessary to report to the congressional intelligence committees an...

This doesnt involve some policy disagreement. this involves an allegation of serious wrongdoing, something that the inspector general felt needed to be presented to congress, was squarely within the jurisdiction of the director of national intelligence, and it is unprecedented for a director to withhold that information from congress. >> joining our discussion now is tom donilon, the former national security adviser to president obama from 2010 to 2013. he has advised three u.s. presidents on na...

Joe biden was vice president and he was point person on ukraine policy, his son hunter took a job with a ukrainian gas company. republicans for years have been accusing the bidens of having a conflict of interest over that. reasonable people can disagree. good reporting in "the washington post" and elsewhere, you can go online and look at the details of this. no allegation of criminal wrongdoing has ever been levied or ethical wrongdoing against the bidens in this matter. theres a lot in dispute...

Rucker is the chief. were also fortunate to be joined by jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon notably former chief counsel to the house intel committee. jeremy bash please let our viewers know what whistle-blower status is supposed to mean in the law, how its been enshrined and protected in the law to come up the chain with protections built in. >> the law is crystal clear, brian. if you are an intelligence community professional and observe wrong doing, and you observe is ...

Raised on the call, that he didnt really present a kwid quo proceed for the cooperation on investigation and didnt mention foreign aid specifically to zalensky. >> i am going to read a couple more paragraphs from this story because even though we just saw it, it feels important. an american president based on what youre reporting in a phone call with a foreign leader urged that foreign leader to work with his personal criminal defense attorney, rudy giuliani to investigate and perhaps prosecute ...

President trump in 2016 essentially asked the russians for help, his campaign did at least. he got caught and hes now facing the music. we can debate the volume of the music. it seems if the story continues to head in the direction it has been heading, he may well be trying to do this all over again. in 2020 hes seeking help from ukraine, seeking dirt on joe biden, who he thinks apparently will be his contender in 2020. >> house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff was on this network las...

Which means there is a real risk even in coming to congress and that is obviously a supreme problem. i would love to be able to say that the president wont be vindictive, that the justice department wont be vindictive, but i cant make that assurance if the department of justice takes the position youre not covered. and the people that do come forward, theyre assured if they do, their complaint will get to congress, so a lot is riding on this. if those promises are hollow, it means these importan...