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On thursday, ambassador volker is scheduled to appear before committee, on friday the inspector general mr. atkinson will appear before the committee and testify as well. the last time the inspector general testified, we did not have the complaint. we now do. we certainly intend to ask the director about the efforts that were made to crop rate that complaint which we now know the inspector general found both credible and urgent. next week we have also scheduled a deposition or interview with the former u.s. ambassador, i don't vonn vich to ukraine and we are in discussion with other state depa...

Allies to smear the unnamed whistle-blower. several republicans have amplified a right-wing conspiracy theory tweeted in all caps by donald trump claiming falsely that immediately before the complaint in question was filed, the intelligence community changed the rules requiring whistle-blowers to have firsthand knowledge of the events they report. in a rare rebuttal, the office of the intelligence community's inspector general says, sorry, that is not true. from that rare response, "the disclosure of urgent concern from the complaint submitted august 12th, 2019, is the same form the intelligen...

Envoy to the ukraine. he resigned in the wake of being named the whistle blow er complaint. sunderland is the ambassador to the european union. volker helped giuliani get set up with some ukrainian officials and then some ukrainian officials where giuliani did some of his pressurizing to get donald trump to get the ukrainian administration to look in into. atkinson which is where this all started, atkinson files it with the acting director of national intelligence. atkinson alerts congress this exists, that's how we got to

Multiple u.s. officials who have said the president is misusing his office. sounds like the whistle-blower very soon will be in good company when congress begins to call these people to testify. >> and atkinson already testified behind closed doshs to congress. thank both for being here. still ahead, new developments. moments ago, a murder trial getting national attention. the former dallas police officer amber guyger on trial for shooting and killing an unarmed black man in his own apartment. tv announcer: it's just as powerful as the lexus rx... as many safety features as the rx, the new.....

Of the intelligence community, felt it did fall within that definition, and certainly sometimes on difficult legal issues reasonable minds can differ including reasonable legal minds including those of the department of justice lawyers at the office of legal counsel. those lawyers wrote the opinion that the complaint, the topic of the complaint, did not involve the funding or administration of intelligence activities and the subject of the complaint, that being the president, was not a member of the intelligence community. it was a very, i would say sort of technical reading of the words of th...