NOT HE DID IT NO MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE SAW HIM DO IT IN BROAD
DAYLIGHT.
DAYLIGHT. AND THAT BRINGS US TO BY FAR THE
BIGGEST NEWS OF THE DAY, WHICH
IS THIS WHISTLE-BLOWER STORY
WHICH IS NOW GOING OFFICIALLY
NUTS.
NUTS. NOW, THIS STORY’S BEEN
PERCOLATING SINCE LATE ON FRIDAY
NIGHT.
NIGHT. IT REALLY BLEW UP IN THE 9:00
HOUR LAST NIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF
OUR SHOW WHEN THE "WASHINGTON
POST" PUBLISHED THIS SORT OF
HEADLINE FOR THE AGES.
"PRESIDENT’S COMMUNICATIONS WITH
FOREIGN LEADER ARE PART OF
WHISTLE-BLOWER COMPLAINT THAT
SPURS STANDOFF BETWEEN SPY CHIEF
AND CONGRESS."
AND CONGRESS." PRESIDENT’S COMMUNICATIONS WITH
FOREIGN LEADER, WHAT’S THAT
ABOUT?
ABOUT? THE "POST" REPORTING LAST NIGHT
THAT THIS WHISTLE-BLOWER
COMPLAINT THAT HAS BEEN BREWING
IN WASHINGTON HAS A SORT OF
SPOOKY AND UNPLACEABLE STORY,
"POST" REPORTING LAST NIGHT IT
WAS SPARKED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP’S
COMMUNICATIONS WITH A FOREIGN
LEADER.
LEADER. "TRUMP’S INTERACTION WITH THE
FOREIGN LEADER INCLUDED A
PROMISE THAT WAS REGARDED AS SO
TROUBLING THAT IT PROMPTED AN
OFFICIAL IN THE U.S.
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY TO FILE A
FORMAL WHISTLE-BLOWER COMPLAINT
WITH THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY’S INSPECTOR GENERAL.
SO THAT LANDS WITH A GIGANTIC
THUD LAST NIGHT IN THE 9:00
HOUR.
HOUR. SINCE THAT INITIAL "WASHINGTON
POST" REPORTING 24 HOURS AGO,
THE MAIN SUBSTANCE OF THAT
REPORT HAS BEEN MATCHED BY NBC
NEWS, "THE WALL STREET JOURNAL,"
CNN, "THE NEW YORK TIMES," A
WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER OUTLETS.
WE STILL DON’T KNOW WHO THIS
WHISTLE-BLOWER IS OR HOW EXACTLY
HE OR SHE CAME TO KNOW THE
ALLEGED CONTENTS OF PRESIDENT
TRUMP’S COMMUNICATION WITH A
FOREIGN LEADER INCLUDING HIS
ALLEGED STARTLING PROMISE.
BUT WE DO NOW KNOW THAT WHOEVER
THIS WHISTLE-BLOWER IS, HE OR
SHE HAS JUST HIRED A LAWYER AND
A REAL HEAVYWEIGHT LAWYER WHO
IS, HIMSELF, EX-DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE AND AN EX-CIA OFFICER.
ACCORDING TO HIS LAW FIRM, HE IS
CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE
NATION’S LEADING EXPERTS ON
WHISTLE-BLOWER REPRISALS,
WHISTLE-BLOWER REPRISALS, MEANING PEOPLE WHO GET ATTACKED,
FIRED OR OTHERWISE PUNISHED FOR
LEGALLY WHISTLE-BLOWING ON
ALLEGED MISBEHAVIOR IN
GOVERNMENT.
GOVERNMENT. THIS LAWYER APPARENTLY CREATED
THE PROGRAM INSIDE THE CIA TO
INVESTIGATE AND PREVENT REPRISEA
REPRISALS AGAINST
REPRISALS AGAINST WHISTLE-BLOWERS INSIDE THAT
AGENCY.
AGENCY. SO WE DON’T MOE IFKNOW IF THIS U
WHISTLE-BLOWER RETAINED THIS
HEAVYWEIGHT LAWYER BEFORE OR
AFTER THE WHISTLE-BLOWER FILED
HIS OR HER COMPLAINT ON AUGUST
12th BUT IT SEEMS LIKE PICKING
UP THIS LAWYER MIGHT HAVE BEEN A
PRUDENT THING TO DO BECAUSE WHAT
HAS EMERGED OVER THE COURSE OF
THE PAST 24 HOURS,
ASTONISHINGLY, IS THAT THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION AT MULTIPLE
LEVELS APPEARS TO BE HANDLING
THIS WHISTLE-BLOWER COMPLAINT IN
SUCH A WAY THAT THEY MAY BE
BASICALLY THREATENING
BASICALLY THREATENING PROSECUTION OF THIS
WHISTLE-BLOWER FOR COMING
FORWARD WITH WHATEVER THIS
DISTURBING INFORMATION IS ABOUT
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ALLEGED
BEHAVIOR.
BEHAVIOR. NOW, THE COMPLAINT AT LEAST
APPEARS TO BE GETTING TREATED
HERE AS IF IT IS OUTSIDE THE
BOUNDS OF THE LAW THAT PROTECTS
WHISTLE-BLOWERS.
WHISTLE-BLOWERS. THE LAW THAT PROTECTS
WHISTLE-BLOWERS FROM AMONG OTHER
THINGS BEING PROSECUTED FOR
BRINGING FORWARD SENSITIVE
INFORMATION LIKE THIS THROUGH
THE APPROPRIATE CHANNELS.
NOW, WHY WOULD THAT BE?
IT HAS EMERGED EDD OVER THE PAST
HOURS THAT THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT LED BY WILLIAM BARR
FOR SOME REASON THEY HAVE BEEN
BROUGHT INTO THIS PROCESS.
THEY’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE
WITHIN THE WHISTLE-BLOWER
PROCESS, BUT THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT HAS NOW BEEN BROUGHT
INTO THIS AND IT APPEARS THAT
THEY HAVE PROVIDED SOME SORT OF
LEGAL ARGUMENT, WHICH NOBODY HAS
SEEN, BUT THE LEGAL ARGUMENT IS
REPORTEDLY THAT THIS COMPLAINT,
THIS WHISTLE-BLOWER COMPLAINT,
ISN’T A REAL WHISTLE-BLOWER
COMPLAINT AND SHOULDN’T BE
TREATED THIS WAY.
THIS WHISTLE-BLOWER SHOULD NOT
BE TREATED AS A REAL
WHISTLE-BLOWER WHO WAS PROTECTED
BY THE LAW.
AND, THEREFORE, THIS
WHISTLE-BLOWER COMPLAINT DOESN’T
NEED TO BE HANDED OVER TO
CONGRESS.
CONGRESS. THAT APPEARS TO BE THE LEGAL
ANALYSIS PROVIDED HERE BY THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT UNDER WILLIAM
BARR, NOBODY KNOWS WHY THEY WERE
EVEN CONSULTED BUT THIS IS
APPARENTLY HOW THEY HAVE INSERT
INSERTED THEMSELVES INTO THE
PROCESS.
PROCESS. CNN IS REPORTING TODAY IN
ADDITION TO THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT GETTING INVOLVED
HEREBY THE TRUMP
HERE THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE HAS
BEEN DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE
HANDLING OF THE COMPLAINT WHICH
IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT IS
BIZARRE, RIGHT?
BIZARRE, RIGHT? HERE’S CNN’S REPORTING "THE
WHITE HOUSE AND JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT ADVISED THE DIRECTOR
OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE THAT
THE COMPLAINT REGARDING
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOT COVERED
BY LAWS COVERING INTELLIGENCE
WHISTLE-BLOWERS."
WHISTLE-BLOWERS." IT SEEMS CLEAR FROM MULTIPLE
SOURCES INCLUDING CONGRESS THAT
THIS IS THE ADVICE WILLIAM BARR
AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HAVE
PROVIDED ON THIS ISSUE.
CNN IS REPORTING IT’S ALSO
ADVICE THE WHITE HOUSE IS
PROVIDING AS WELL.
THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND.
THE FACT THAT THE WHITE HOUSE
WAS CONSULTED ON THIS AT ALL,
THIS IS A WHISTLE-BLOWER
COMPLAINT ACTBOUT ALLEGEDLY VERY
TROUBLING BEHAVIOR BY THE
HIGHEST RANKING OCCUPANT OF THE
WHITE HOUSE.
WHITE HOUSE. SO YOU BRING THAT COMPLAINT TO
THE WHITE HOUSE TO ASK HOW YOU
SHOULD HANDLE IT?
I MEAN, THAT, ITSELF, IS A
COMPLETE DEVIATION FROM HOW
WHISTLE-BLOWER COMPLAINTS ARE
SUPPOSED TO BE HANDLED.
YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE
SUBJECT OF THE COMPLAINT, THE
PERSON ABOUT WHOM THE COMPLAINT
HAS BEEN REGISTERED AND ASK THEM
HOW THEY THINK THIS MATTER
SHOULD BE TAKEN UP.
IF THIS MATTER WAS, IN FACT,
BROUGHT TO THE WHITE HOUSE, HAS
THIS WHISTLE-BLOWER’S IDENTITY
BEEN PROTECTED EVEN TO THE WHITE
HOUSE?
HOUSE? BUT THAT’S APPARENTLY HOW THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS HANDLING
THIS MATTER.
THIS MATTER. AFTER THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY’S INSPECTOR GENERAL
MICHAEL ATKINSON MET BEHIND
CLOSED DOORS WITH THE HOUSE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE FOR HOURS
TODAY, THE CHAIRMAN OF THAT
COMMITTEE, ADAM SCHIFF, RAISED
THE PROSPECT PUBLICLY THAT NOT
ONLY IS THIS UNKNOWN
WHISTLE-BLOWER POTENTIALLY AT
RISK OF BEING RETALIATED AGAINST
NOW AND POTENTIALLY EVEN
PROSECUTED BY WILLIAM BARR, BUT
THE INSPECTOR GENERAL WHO
RECEIVED THE COMPLAINT MIGHT
ALSO BE AT RISK HERE FROM THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND THEIR
REPRISALS.
REPRISALS. >> AND THE INSPECTOR GENERAL IS
DOING HIS VERY BEST TO BE VERY
CAREFUL THAT HE FOLLOW THE LAW.
AND IN SOME RESPECTS, THE
INSPECTOR GENERAL IS IN THE SAME
POSITION OF THE WHISTLE-BLOWER
WHICH IS IF THE INSPECTOR
GENERAL STEPS ONE FOOT OUTSIDE
OF WHAT HE’S AUTHORIZED TO DO,
THEN HE IS NOT PROTECTED.
AND SO THIS SHOWS HOW SOMEONE IS
TRYING TO MANIPULATE THE SYSTEM
TO KEEP INFORMATION ABOUT AN
URGENT MATTER FROM THE CONGRESS.
>> WHETHER OR NOT THE INSPECTOR
GENERAL, HIMSELF, IS AT RISK OF
BEING PROSECUTED BY WILLIAM BARR
FOR THE CRIME OF RECEIVING THIS
WHISTLE-BLOWER COMPLAINT ABOUT
THE PRESIDENT’S BEHAVIOR, THE
INSPECTOR GENERAL APPEARS TO BE
DOING EVERYTHING HE CAN UNDER
THE LAW TO TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT
THIS COMPLAINT IS ACTUALLY
INVESTIGATED.
INVESTIGATED. AND THAT IT IS ACTUALLY HANDLED
OVER TO THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEES IN CONGRESS WHICH ARE
SUPPOSED TO HAVE OVERSIGHT OVER
THINGS LIKE THIS AND WHICH ARE
SPECIFICALLY SUPPOSED TO RECEIVE
WHISTLE-BLOWER COMPLAINTS
WHISTLE-BLOWER COMPLAINTS WITHOUT ANY INTERFERENCE FROM
THE SUBJECT OF THE COMPLAINT.
THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE TODAY
RELEASED A LETTER TODAY FROM THE
INSPECTOR GENERAL IN WHICH THE
INSPECTOR GENERAL SAYS THAT HE
CONSIDERS HIMSELF TO BE BOUND BY
THE ADMINISTRATION’S DECISIONS
BUT HE RESPECTFULLY DISAGREES
WITH THEIR DETERMINATION THAT
THIS COMPLAINT DOESN’T HAVE TO
BE HANDED OVER.
HE SAID, "THE COMPLAINANT’S
DISCLOSURE NOT ONLY FALLS WITHIN
THE DNI’S JURISDICTION BUT
RELATES TO ONE OF THE MOST
SIGNIFICANT AND IMPORTANT OF THE
DNI’S RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE."
AMERICAN PEOPLE." HE ALSO COMPLAINED THAT WHILE
THE BACKSTOP HERE IS SUPPOSED TO
BE THE WHISTLE-BLOWER HIM OR
HERSELF SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO
CONVEY THEIR COMPLAINT DIRECTLY
TO CONGRESS, THROUGH SECURE AND
LEGAL CHANNELS MADE AVAILABLE TO
THEM FOR THIS PURPOSE, THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION APPEARS TO BE
BLOCKING THE WHISTLE-BLOWER FROM
DOING THAT AS WELL.
THE INSPECTOR GENERAL ALSO SAYS
HE ASKED FOR PERMISSION TO AT
LEAST CONVEY THE GENERAL SUBJECT
OF THE COMPLAINT TO THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES TODAY
AND HE WAS DENIED PERMISSION TO
DO SO.
DO SO. SO, THE INSPECTOR GENERAL GOT
THIS COMPLAINT, HAS TRIED TO DO
THE RIGHT THING WITH IT.
THIS INSPECTOR GENERAL WHO
LOOKED INTO IT, FIND IT
CREDIBLE, FOUND IT TO BE URGENT,
FOUND IT SOMETHING THAT NEEDED
TO BE INVESTIGATED, THAT NEEDED
TO BE HANDED OVER TO CONGRESS,
HE IS NOW IN THIS ANGUISHED
POSITION SAYING WHAT THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION IS DOING HERE IS
BLOCKING HIM FROM PROTECTING
THIS WHISTLE-BLOWER WHICH HE’S
LEGALLY OBLIGATED TO DO, TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION IS ALSO BLOCKING
HIM FROM MAKING SURE THIS
SERIOUS AND PROPERLY CONVEYED
COMPLAINT IS DELIVERED TO
CONGRESS.
CONGRESS. IT’S HIS STATUTORY
RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT
AND THEY’RE BLOCKING HIM FROM
DOING IT SO HE’S ABSOLUTELY
STUCK AND CONGRESSMAN SCHIFF IS
SIGNALING THAT THAT INSPECTOR
GENERAL MIGHT, HIMSELF, FIND
HIMSELF PROSECUTED OR RETALIATED
AGAINST JUST FOR RECEIVING THIS
COMPLAINT AND TRYING TO DO THE
RIGHT THING UNDER LAW WITH THIS
MATTER.
MATTER. CONGRESSMAN ADAM SCHIFF IS GOING
TO BE JOINING US LIVE IN JUST A
MOMENT.
MOMENT. WE STILL, OF COURSE, DO NOT KNOW
WHAT THE COMPLAINT, ITSELF, IS,
BUT I HAVE TO TELL YOU, THE
"WASHINGTON POST" JUST MOMENTS
AGO POSTED THE NEXT BIG
DEVELOPMENT IN THIS STORY.
THIS IS A STORY FROM "WASHINGTON
POST" WHICH HAS JUST POSTED, IT
CITES TWO SOURCES IN SAYING THAT
THE WHISTLE-BLOWER’S COMPLAINT
ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP INVOLVES
THE NATION OF UKRAINE.
THERE’S BEEN A BUNCH OF
SPECULATION ABOUT THIS OVER THE
COURSE OF THE LAST 24 HOURS.
IN PART JUST BECAUSE OF THE TILE
TIMELINE HERE.
TIMELINE HERE. I DON’T MEAN TO BE WEIRD, THIS
IS GOING TO SOUND WEIRD, BUT
DON’T TAKE IT THAT WAY.
IF YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS
SHOW OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS,
YOU ARE PROBABLY BETTER EQUIPPED
TO UNDERSTAND WHAT’S GOING ON
HERE, THIS LATEST VERSION OF
THIS STORY.
THIS STORY. YOU ARE PROBABLY BETTER EQUIPPED
TO UNDERSTAND WHAT’S GOING ON
HERE THAN YOUR FRIENDS WHO HAVE
BETTER THINGS TO DO AT 9:00 P.M.
EASTERN ON A WEEKNIGHT.
SO, THIS STORY, THIS PART OF THE
STORY IN THIS NEW DEVELOPMENT
THAT THIS COMPLAINT ABOUT
PRESIDENT TRUMP MAY INVOLVE THE
NATION OF UKRAINE, THIS IS --
THIS OUGHT TO RING A BUNCH OF
BELLS FOR YOU BECAUSE WE’VE BEEN
COVERING THIS PRETTY
INTENSIVELY.
INTENSIVELY. TWO WEEKS AGO ON SEPTEMBER 5th,
THE "WASHINGTON POST" RAN THIS
ON THE EDITORIAL PAGE AND EVEN
THOUGH IT WAS ON THE EDITORIAL
PAGE, IT CONTAINED THIS
REMARKABLE CLAIM.
REMARKABLE CLAIM. SEE THE HEADLINE THERE.
"TRUMP TRIES TO FORCE UKRAINE TO
MEDDLE IN THE 2020 ELECTION."
MEANING THE 2020 U.S. ELECTION.
EXPLAINING THAT THE NEWLY
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE
APPEARS TO BE A REAL REFORMER
AND A REAL SMALL "D" DEMOCRAT
AND THAT, THEREFORE, OUGHT TO BE
A CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION IN
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. "POST" ARGUES THAT NEVERTHELESS
THE NEW UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT HAS
RECEIVED THE COLD SHOULDER FROM
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
HE, QUOTE, HAS SO FAR FAILED TO
WINNING THE BACKING OF PRESIDENT
TRUMP.
TRUMP. NOT ONLY HAS HE REFUSED A WHITE
HOUSE VISIT, HE SUSPENDED THE
DELIVERY OF $250 MILLION IN U.S.
MILITARY AID TO THIS COUNTRY
THAT IS STILL FIGHTING RUSSIAN
AGGRESSION IN ITS EASTERN
PROVINCES.
PROVINCES. SOME SUSPECT MR. TRUMP IS ONCE
AGAIN CATERING TO RUSSIAN
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN WHO, OF
COURSE, IS DEDICATED TO
UNDERMINING UKRAINIAN DEMOCRACY
AND INDEPENDENCE," BUT THE
"POST" SAYS "WE’RE RELIABLY TOLD
THE PRESIDENT HAS A SECOND AND
MORE VENAL AGENDA.
TRYING TO FORCE THE UKRAINIAN
PRESIDENT TO INTERVENE IN THE
U.S. 2020 ELECTION BY LAUNCHING
AN INVESTIGATION IN UKRAINE OF
THE LEADING DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
JOE BIDEN.
JOE BIDEN. MR. TRUMP IS NOT JUST SOLICITING
UKRAINE’S HELP WITH HIS
PRESIDENTIAL RE-ELECTION
PRESIDENTIAL RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN, HE’S USING U.S.
MILITARY AID THAT THAT COUNTRY
DESPERATELY NEEDS IN AN ATTEMPT
TO EXTORT IT.
SO, AGAIN, WE STILL DO NOT KNOW
IF THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THIS
WHISTLE-BLOWER COMPLAINT IS
ABOUT THAT’S CURRENTLY BLOWING
UP PROVERBIAL WASHINGTON.
SHANE HARRIS FROM THE
"WASHINGTON POST" TONIGHT IS
REPORTING THE WHISTLE-BLOWER
COMPLAINT HAS SOMETHING TO DO
WITH UKRAINE, BUT THE TIMELINE
HERE MAY BE INSTRUCTIVE.
THIS IS WHAT WE KNOW OF THE
TIMELINE.
TIMELINE. PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS A PHONE CALL
WITH THE NEW PRESIDENT OF
UKRAINE JULY 25th.
THREE DAYS LATER, THE DIRECTOR
OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, DAN
COATS, IS OUT.
HE SUBMITS HIS RESIGNATION.
LESS THAN TWO WEEKS LATER
THERE’S A STRANGE INCIDENT IN
THE WHITE HOUSE FIRST REPORTED
BY CNN IN WHICH THAT OUTGOING
DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE DAN
COATS FOR SOME REASON STEPS INTO
A MEETING BEING LED BY HIS
DEPUTY SUE GORDON AND TELLS HER
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MEETING IN
BUNCH OF A FEW
FRONT OF -- FOUR DAYS LATER THE
WHISTLE BLOWER COMPLAINT IS
FILED WITH THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY’S INSPECTOR GENERAL.
THREE DAYS AFTER THAT DAN COATS
AND SUE GORDON LEAVE THE WHITE
HOUSE.
HOUSE. BEFORE THAT WEEK IS OUT,
PRESIDENT TRMP SAYS PUBLICLY,
THAT SHOULD BE FORGIVEN.
RUSSIA AND VLADIMIR PUTIN SHOULD
BE LET BACK INTO THE G8.
POLITICO IS FIRST TO REPORT
TRUMP PUT ON HOLD $250 MILLION
IN MILITARY AID TO UKRAINE,
MONEY THAT WAS APPROPRIATED BY
THE CONGRESS TO HELP UKRAINE
STANDS UP TO RUSSIA.
BEFORE THE NEXT WEEK IS OUT, THE
WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES THAT IT IS
CUTTING ALMOST THE ENTIRE
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION BUDGET IN
EASTERN EUROPE THAT IS
SPECIFICALLY DESIGNATED TO HELP
OTHER NATIONS ON RUSSIA’S BORDER
STAND UP THEMSELVES AGAINST
RUSSIAN AGGRESSION OF THE TYPE
FACED BY UKRAINE.
TWO DAYS AFTER THAT, THE
"WASHINGTON POST" PUBLISHES ITS
OP-PED ABOUT TRUMP ALLEGEDLY
DEMANDING HELP FROM UKRAINE FOR
HIS RE-ELECTION EFFORT AND
THREATENING TO DENY CREW CRANE
U.S.
U.S. UKRAINE U.S. MILITARY ASSISTANCE
UNLESS AND UNTIL HE GETS IT AND
NOW THERE’S A NEW ACTING
DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE THAT ISN’T LETTING
THE WHISTLE-BLOWER COMPLAINT
THAT’S REPORTEDLY ABOUT UKRAINE
BE BARDFORWARDED TO THE INTELLIG
COMMITTEES WHICH THEY’RE LEGALLY
REQUIRED TO DO.
SOMEWHERE OUT THERE RIGHT NOW IN
AMERICA IS A WHISTLE-BLOWER FROM
THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WHO
HAS GONE THROUGH CHANNELS AND
DONE THINGS BY THE BOOK AND
SOUGHT WHISTLE-BLOWER PROTECTION
UNDER LAW TO ALERT CONGRESS IN
GOOD FAITH ABOUT A SERIOUS AND
URGENT MATTER THAT REPORTEDLY
INVOLVES THE PRESIDENT, HIS
COMMUNICATIONS WITH FOREIGN
LEADERS, SOME SORT OF PROMISE
THAT HE HAS MADE TO FOREIGN
LEADERS, AND POTENTIALLY SOME
SHENANIGANS INVOLVING THE NATION
OF UKRAINE.
OF UKRAINE. BIT BY BIT, THE SUBSTANCE OF THE
COMPLAINT SEEMS TO BE COMING TO
THE SURFACE WHILE HOUR BY HOUR,
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION APPEARS
TO BE FIXING ITS CROSSHAIRS ON
THE WHISTLE-BLOWER.
THE WHISTLE-BLOWER. AND ON ANYBODY WHO HELPS HIM OR
HER MAKE THIS STORY KNOWN.
AT A FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL, THIS IS
REPULSIVE.
REPULSIVE. IN TERMS OF HOW WHISTLE-BLOWERS
ARE SUPPOSED TO BE TREATED IN
OUR COUNTRY OR IN ANY.
BUT THIS IS ALSO ONGOING.
THIS IS LIVE.
IT’S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
SHANE HARRIS JOINS US NEXT.