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The president withholding funds, withholding, resisting pressure from congress and others. after the call we're told the president directed his aides to release that funding to ukraine. brooke, we don't know exactly what played into the president's thinking and why he decided at that moment after months of resisting doing so releasing that funding but we do know several other key circumstances were happening around that time. there was this congressional pressure. the vice president mike pence who was also in the room, i'm told, for this phone call with rob portman recently returned from a tri...

Want to gather as much information from the perimeter before you go in and interview a key witness because you need to know exactly what questions to ask. so it does kind of make sense that bill barr and john durham would be going to our allies who collected some of the intelligence for us and speaking to them first, speaking to others, speaking to people in the fbi before speaking to former cia officials. it helps them hone their questions and it helps them kind of determine how they're going to approach those very important witnesses. >> katie benner, "new york times" justice reporter, congr...

Senior law enforcement and intelligence official who they have been able to identify as having played any kind of key role in opening up the russia investigation, right. but now that this has turned into a criminal investigation of the origins of the russia investigation, that means they are considering bringing criminal charges against people who had the temerity to investigate russia and whether or not the trump campaign was involved in it. you would assume that maybe you'd get to that development in a non-banana republic if the idea that russia had interfered in our election had been dispro...

Get the president's conversation wrong. that's borne out by the white house's own rough transcript. and as for the second potential whistle-blower, the "new york times" describes this person as an intelligence official who corroborated the first whistle-blower's complaint with firsthand knowledge of the call. only a few republicans are stepping up to criticize the president's actions. susan collins for one now the third republican senator to do so. collins told a newspaper in maine that it was, quote, a big mistake for the president to ask china to investigate joe biden. we have the latest now...

Bureau chief. thanks for being with us to tell us what do we know about this was a lower so the whistle blower has been described as an intelligence official we don't know his or her identity about as you said this appears to be someone with 1st hand knowledge of some of the other geisha instead were outlined in the original whistleblower complaint so that appears to be someone who can talk about directly at all that steve that relates to ukraine and to this phone call president trying had with the ukrainian president and that could be someone here who could undercut president strom's claim th...