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Yovanovitch can connect have to do with the how and the why. how rudy giuliani was running the traps there in eastern europe outside of the normal diplomatic channels, and precisely why he was doing it. those were the questions that she raced and that's precisely why rudy giuliani sought to smear her. that's actually backed up by documentation in the whistle-blower complaint in part, but also in the packet of disinformation that giuliani sent to the state department that the ig then turned over to house investigators. so that really is what these commit staffers are going to press her about. >...

Into these types of allegations not just, you know, at let's say the nsa or pentagon, throughout the entire intelligence community. remember, this is the institution that had to look at hillary clinton's emails several, several years ago. >> michael schmidt, part of "the new york times" reporting team that has broken another scoop on this story. thank you for coming. it's really good to have you. i want to bring into the conversation congresswoman jackie speier, democrat from california. he is a member of the house oversight committee. as such she would have been afforded the opportunity to ...

This document. but as you said and as we noted, the inspector general found the allegation to be certainly enough to pass it along. >> and this intriguing detail that the inspector general actually as part of his investigation talked to some of these other white house officials who were described by the whistle-blower as potentially corroborating witnesses, did the ig do that himself? does he have a team of investigators who can go out and do that? >> i'm not sure if it was the ig or investigators, but this is a full-blown investigative office. they are in charge of looking into these types of...

No, i'm not talking about -- i'm not talking about that ultimate option, no. >> you saw the man standing with the president today. and as we mentioned, trump chose today to introduce his fourth national security adviser, robert o'brien. a californian, a lawyer by trade. he has been the state department's chief hostage negotiator. he will replace john bolton, who left the administration a week ago. >> he did a tremendous job on hostage negotiations. really tremendous. like unparalleled. you know, i think we have a very good chemistry together, and i think we're going to have a great relationshi...

Throwing you out but i apologize for what i said. he said okay, closed the straight razor and my heart began to beat again. >> turns out after a thorough investigation there was a corn pop living in delaware at the time and a former naacp president says it's true biden stood his ground. as you might imagine plenty of others very skeptical of that story. tucker? >> tucker: trace gallagher thanks for the latest on that. appreciate it. because of the skepticism that hovers over the story we dispatched our reporting team to the are a crisis. to the region and came up with what we think is authenti...