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Reporting on the text messages. >> jeff, let me start with you, the intelligence community inspector general just walking in, right? >> yeah, right past us about 20 minutes ago, hallie. and michael adkinson is the inspector general who determined that the whistle-blower complaint was urgent and credible. so he is likely to give members of the house intelligence committee during this briefing, he is likely to give them the fullest accounting of the complaint and how it was handled short of this commit hearing from the whistle-blower him or herself. and on that front i can tell you i reached out...

It will last at least for a few hours. we also expect adam schiff, the chairman of the commit to brief the reporters at the bottom of the staircase once this all wraps up. i'll tell you i spoke to a person close to adkinson in just the last hour examine this person reminded me of something that adkinson said during the senate confirmation, he encouraged a whistle-blower program to encourage people to come forward. that is precisely what he has done. and he also pushed back against the unsubstantiated allegation that the whistle-blower complaint form had been changed to allow secondhand informa...

Sitting here today and the american public is not aware of the allegations of the president asking for a favor of investigation into his political opponent. we're not aware of the moistureky decision to withhold aid, we're not aware of mr. giuliani's establishment of a personal state department, we are not aware of a possible retaliation against a u.s. ambassador. none of this happens but for the decision of your inspector general, michael adkinson, a man who was appointed by president trump and confirmed by a republican senate to come to this committee seven days after the complaint was requi...

That's a rhetorical question. with respect to this issue. just to clarify, mike atkinson was in our group in front of us last week, did a very good job of telling us what he did and didn't do. we now know for sure what he is able to do. as part of his investigation, he did not request records of the call from the president and the reason he didn't is he cited the difficulty of working through all of that when it probably meant that he couldn't comply with the 14-day time frame. so even he did not try to overrun the white house's executive privilege over the conversation that the president had....

This administration to ignore it. neil: well, that's your opinion, to be fair, that they are saying as well that it could sacrifice key identities, relationships, you're not buying that? >> well, i read the letter very carefully, their assertion is that the law that we're referring to doesn't apply in this situation. -- >> during the adam schiff, chairman, deeply disturbing that the white house appears to know more about this whistleblower's complaint than its intended recipient, congress. >> for sure and even the inspector general, a trump appointee sent a follow-up letter that he disagrees w...