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You are required to protect whistle-blowers, no matter the voracity of what they allege. the reason for that is to ensure that wrongdoing, fraud, waste, abuse, moral, ethical lapses, whatever that, there is a legitimate and protected conduit for employees to convey that to appropriate authorities. in this case, the inspector general of the ig and, in turn, the congress. >> director clapper, is there any reason to believe that the president may know who the whistle-blower is? >> well, he may not ...

The room at a long table, a stenographer taking down what was said. you could hear a pin drop, literally, as the ambassador laid out his opening statement. im going to leave it to our chairman to characterize the testimony when the hearing concludes. >> do you get the sense from these diplomats that they wish they had raised concerns before this came to a whistleblower bringing this all to light? have they indicated, even, that they felt they had the ability to do that? >> again, i dont want to ...

Was saying, which was a powerful argument, lynching is not a constitutional process but, impeachment is a constitutional process by which, you know, the congress holds a powerful executive to account for any kind of wrongdoing. so, why the analogy? >> he uses strong language and, again, its a distraction. >> juan: i understand that. >> dagen: yeah, its offensive. it bothers me. i grew up in the rural south. i heard firsthand accounts of lynchings. nevertheless, he traffics in outrageousness. and...

Durham. durham, okay? thats an ongoing investigation, all right? so youre saying the president of the united states, the chief law enforcement person cannot ask someone to cooperate with an ongoing public investigation into wrongdoing? >> be hold the hillarys e-mails story of this election cycle. yeah, it must be the democrats who have a scandal here. and you know, it is bad to have apparently corrupt actors around the presidency who are generating stuff like this, right? bloomberg reporting on ...

Its a hole of the trump administration effort here to come up with some kind of foreign influence scandal to pin on the other side. what hes in trouble for, lets make it the democrats problem instead. the new iteration of the hillarys e-mails lock her up nonsense, which the media ran with it like it was real for years, this time the equivalent of that is this allegation that its the democrats, its joe biden, that somehow theyre the ones who have got the real scandal here. >> theres an ongoing in...

Focused on that. its clearly, its understandable. the american people will get it. and they wont like it. >> jeff mason, just on that point, what do you think it means -- jeremy diamond talked about this a little bit a few minutes ago, but what do you think it means that there is the reporting now about george kents testimony last week, that he went to a senior white house official in 2015 and waved a flag and said, it looks really bad that bidens son, hunter, is on this ukrainian board, even if...

Nixon or watergate, they had separate bodies that did this behind closed doors and presented it. they dont in this case. but republicans are able to make the process arguments and it is not in front of the public. at some point arent democrats going to have to bring this in front of the public? >> think so. and i think they will and i think the circumstances are pretty important. one, they are hearing from career foreign service officers who are not accused of wrongdoing for the most part and sh...

Wrongdoing. if its not okay for a presidents family to be involved in a foreign business, why was it okay for your son when you were vice president? vice president biden? >> look, my son did nothing wrong, i did nothing wrong. my sons statement speaks for itself. he spoke about it today. howard: joining us to analyze the coverage in new york, bob sexton, and here in the washington, marla -- national political reporter for npr. what do you make of anderson cooper declaring in advice that biden an...

You need 67 votes, which means you need 20 republicans. were all familiar with the math. but its important to remind people that there really arent 20 swing republicans who are going to say i may took a look at this trump thing unless something really dramatic happens. >> how much more dramatic does it have to get? >> i think we sit here every day and were like if they find more evidence. im like the president confessed on television. confessed to two different things that are crimes. he asked c...

See there is potential wrongdoing here. or are they narrowly focused on just the initial stage of bringing those charges out of the house and into the senate. >> i think theyre one and the same, aymin. theyre concerned about republicans in the house and in the senate, because the end goal here is for this to be successful and not fizzle in the senate. and that is why this abuse of power narrative they believe is so powerful, because they say that the president was abusing his authority and hurti...