Page 29 - Point Two News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Dollars in order for his own political gain and he admitted it even on the rough transcripts and so i think what they're hoping to find out from the whistle-blower is a little more about who was involved, when did everything take place and just how deep this actually went. i think they already know that trump obviously directed this to take place but want to know how extensive it goes. >> let's say that's point one. point two certainly will be public opinion, critical in this and if this latest poll is any indication, it seems that americans are open to this process. take a look, 55% of voters...

Took place. but i think that the democrats already feel that they have plenty of information. they feel that trump leveraged, you know, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in order for his own political gain. and he admitted it even on the rough transcripts. i think what they are hoping to find out from the whistle-blower is a little bit more who was involved and when did everything take place and just how deep this actually went. i think they he already know that trump, obviously, directed this to take place but they want to know how extensive this goes. >> you speak to the evidence ther...

Whistle-blower complaints to congress, because it was a diplomatic call. that's point one. point two, we learned, and this is new today, that while the justice department told the intel community this doesn't fit the whistle-blower statute reporting requirements to congress, the right thing to do is to refer this to the justice department for criminal investigation, and that's what happened, the justice department conducted a criminal investigation about whether the president's call violated federal campaign finance laws. what we're told this morning is that career and political people in the ...

The white house would let you know publicly that there was sort of inquiry going on? >> you don't know whether the fbi has been contacted or not or if the fbi follows protocol, they wouldn't tell us, point one. point two, and i hope you'll let me finish, what we do know is this. a russian oligarch hired hunter biden, paid him $50,000 a month, gave a bucket load of money to his law firm. it may turn out that the -- i said russia, i meant ukrainian oligarch. it may turn out that the ukrainian oligarch got mr. biden's name off zip recruiter. but i doubt it. if you go to mr. biden's wikipedia page...

Understand you have an obligation, a statutory obligation to share intelligence matters with the congress. now, we don't know with respect to the details of the ukraine story that broke in the papers tonight. if it's true, of course, it would be an extraordinary story and it would certainly be worthy of serious investigation by the congress if not others. point one. point two is i think joel brenner did a good job of laying out the situation. we have here a situation where the whistleblower has followed the statute and the regulations to a tee. he or she didn't leak this information. they didn...