Page 34 - Intelligence Official News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Whistleblower, the intelligence official to come directly before your committee? >> well, i would be hesitant to do that, i would like it, but keep in mind, this whistleblower followed the rules and the rules give that person someretaliatio. and there's real apprehension if they come forward without the protections of the statute that they'll be making an unauthorized disclosure, and therefore be subject to prosecution and firing from their job. so that's the tragedy here. we need a strong whistleblower statute to allow people to bring forward information that would be of concern to the commit...

For now and the trump administration resolute in its position. is this going to get dragged out in the courts? >> i agree with you the trump administration is not going to give an inch on this, and they have two not priv lis arguments as ken reported. one is they can say this doesn't trigger the whistleblower statute because it falls outside the universe of intelligence activities. >> that's very specific, intelligence related. >> exactly. now, if you're an intelligence official that got a readout or was present at the conversation, so at least they can say if it doesn't concern intelligence a...

Part of ukraine, crimea, that is viewed by the inside and other countries that is unlawfully taken by russia. there are lots of issues here. the president wouldn't talk today about whether he had any specific conversation about biden, but also encouraged people to look at the bidens. so if there is a theory about what might be at the root of concern from an intelligence official, the president certainly is stoking that by referencing the bidens. but again, we don't have specific knowledge if that is at issue in this complaint. >> and barbara, at the heart of all this is a law that requires mat...

>> imagine this whistle-blower listen to the president of the united states talk like that, like a mob guy. >> he talks about that this person -- i've been told he's a partisan, he's a high level intelligence official, he's someone known to the president. >> he's telling the truth, he must be a partisan. still ahead, you guys have more outrage than the whole democratic hafr democratic half of the house. what donald trump learned about fighting dirty from his ruthness mentor roy cohn. stay with us. mentor roy cohn. stay with us panera's new warm grain bowls are full of good.

Which foreign leaders do we know the president met with and talked to on the telephone around this time? >> that's the big question. because it centers around the communication by the president with a foreign leader and the alleged promise that he made to this foreign leader. in looking at the timeline, the complaint was filed august 12th. if we look at the weeks prior to that, he had communications with a number of world leaders, including the russian president, vladimir putin. that was a phone call, the north korean dictator in the form of letters, the emir and the president of ukraine, the ...