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He said that was, quote, close to a spy. then he said, you know what we used to do in the old days, quote, unquote, when we were smart about spies and treason, unquote. we would have handled things a little differently. or, well, we used to handle it differently. some people in the audience laughed, some people seemed to be stunned. but this all took place as the odni mcguire was testifying on the hill defending the whistleblower and saying this person followed the law. >> that's right, the acting dni said that the whistleblower was operating in good faith and also was asked about making sure ...

They knew this was something that should not get out. >> we just have breaking news from the washington times. maggie haberman is on the phone announcing that president trump said to his staff he wants to know who provided information to the whistleblower and also remarked that, quote, in the old days, spies were dealt with differently. maggie haberman, what can you tell us? >> reporter: thanks for having me. the president spoke this morning at an event at the intercontinental hotel. it was for admission to the u.n. the president from the outset was hot about the whistleblower, hot about the b...

Ukraine's president in which, according to a white house transcript, president trump asks for a favor to investigate what is a conspiracy theory, that ukraine is in possession of the dnc server that was hacked by the russians and also a favor, to investigate another unfounded claim, as we were just talking about, about joe biden's actions regarding ukraine while he was vice president as his son hunter sat on the board of this ukranian energy company. the whistleblower rights, the white house officials who told me this information were deeply disturbed by what had transpired in the phone call. ...

U.s. congress to be really cleef, strategic and efficient how we handle this process, that is our job, and am ready to acknowledge we haven't always done that before. people have gotten confused, a lot of different things happening at the same time. it is on us to make sure this process feels different for people, and i hope if we do that correctly people see what we see. which is just forget about the political, you know, persuasions of this president. i don't want a future democratic president saying, hey, i'm going to go to china privately or north korea and get dirt on my opponent. i just ...

Breadth to this story, and as someone who actually was on detail to the white house both under president bush and under president obama, there are, indeed, two different systems. one for unclassified information, one for classified. seems they moved it from one to the other, and that's not good. right? again, i think what we keep doing is getting wrapped around the axle on the specifics when we know kind of the top-line message and the top-line problem here. the president used his influence to collect dirt on an opponent, and that can't be okay. >> this is a concerted effort by democrats to tr...