Of the company as you point out had gone nowhere and was dormant under the other guy. do you think this is a credible take? that this former prosecutor is saying hunter biden did not break any ukrainian laws, do you take that as credible? this is not about hunter biden. this is about the president of the united states, the current president of the united states basing our foreign policy on whether foreign countries are willing to help him politically, and it s not just ukraine. are we going to give a better trade deal to china if the chinese government gives trump dirt on elizabeth warren? where does this end? this is why this is so important to our national security and why so many of us including some republicans are concerned right now. all right. congressman malinowski, i appreciate you for coming on. thank you. tonight joe biden is speaking out after the hearing on capitol hill, the former vice president at a california fund-raiser saying president trump was trying to, quote, hijack an
Word transcript of the call that was produced as is customary by the white house situation room. this set of akds underscored to me that white house officials understood the gravity of what had transpired in the call. continues, the white house officials told me they were directed, directed again, a quote, by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for coordination, finalization and distribution to cabinet-level officials and the complaint then takes it even further saying instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate system used to store classified information of an especially sensitive nature. one white house official described this act as abuse because the call did not contain anything from a national security perspective. it was sensitive from a political perspective and it was sensitive in that the president
New tonight, president trump attacking the chairman of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, who led today s hearing. trump calling the investigation a scam, calling schiff, quote, little adam schiff, with ds. out front man, who used to hold schiff s position, mike rogers. also the host of declassified: untold stories of american spice. chairman rogers, you were once the republican chair of this committee. yeah. what do you make of trump s choosing to do this today, sort of mock, try to make it light, make it personal in this way? you know, listen, it s hard to explain sometimes what the president does in circumstances like this. he would have been better off to kind of take the statesman role and talk about other things and try to move on past this particular event. but attacking it, he just fuels the fire for those people who think hey, there must be something here. those people are going to say
Concerned, and trump is using his office to interfere in the u.s. election. it is ironic considering what his director of national intelligence told congress today when he was asked specifically what is the single biggest national security threat facing the united states of america right now. i think the greatest challenge that we do have is to make sure that we maintain the integrity of our election system. the answer could have been anything. it could have been extremism. it was elections. according to the whistle-blower complaint, the greatest challenge then would be protectioning the united states from its own president because he was soliciting foreign interference in an american election because here is how concerned white house officials were following trump s phone call with the ukrainian president according to the complaint. quote, in the days following the phone calls i learned from multiple u.s. officials that senior white house officials had intervened to lock down all records of the phone call. lock down was put in quotes. especially the official word for
Credible and that s important because this is an independent lawyer who is looking at all of this and protecting this process, so presumably, this inspector general may or may not have spoken to others who were involved to try to rcorroborate this and that s where so much of the focus should be at the end of this day because you can focus on the whistle-blower if you like, or if you re a republican or the president you can threaten him and others, but it s the fact that there were others going to these great lengths to protect the president from himself that i think now becomes the heart of the matter. and bob, to that point. in the appendix of the complaint and there s some information in the appendix which is redacted and we can read in full. the whistle-blower claims and this is important. according to white house officials i spoke with again, plural, this was, quote, not the first time and this person was very careful to put in quotes as they told this person a direct