moo vice president met with vice president mike pence met with zelensky. as president trump had me make clear we have grave concerns about issues of corruption. reporter: whatever the alleged promise that the whistleblower says the president reportedly made, democrats in congress are vowing to get to the bottom of those claims. they deserve a thorough investigation. that s what we re intent on doing, and come hell or high water, that s what we re going to do. reporter: house intel chairman, adam schiff, saying come hell or high water he s going to get his answers. he s going to be asking next week in an open session questions of the acting director of national intelligence, joseph maguire, who had blocked that complaint from the whistleblower at the behest of the white house and the department of justice from congress. he will also be appearing at some points in the week, we don t know when yet, in front of the senate intelligence committee. that will be a closed door hearing
dealings. we have joe maguire, acting d&i, in front of the committees next week. joseph maguire has a tough line here, where he has a complaint from someone in his own intelligence community, but it s about his boss. so if you were in the house or the senate next week, what would you be asking of acting d&i month gier? i would ask him who told him he could not disclose this to the house or senate. we believe, we know that it s the department of justice, it s barr and olc essentially be a. why this piece is less relevant, if you do an analogy to the mueller report, this is the obstruction of justice part of it. this is just a sort of piece which they re trying to hide this information from coming out. and so it s relevant because obviously we want the information that the whistleblower knew, but it surely seems already we know a lot of it already. trump has not denied it. giuliani has already said it. so if you re in the senate or
the united nations general assembly next week. so this issue sure to remain front of mind. alex? yeah, that s right. acting d&i joseph maguire testifying to the house and senate intelligence committees. lots of questions for him. thank you so much. now this is a very complicated story involving lots of different people, lots of different strands. so let s take a quick look at how we got here. what should have been a routine call between world leaders was anything but. on a july 25th call between president trump and his ukrainian counterpart, trump pressed him to work with his personal lawyer, rudolph giuliani, on digging up dirt on joe biden s son. the white house said the two presidents discussed strengthening the relationship without giving specifics. ukraine said they talked about the investigation of corruption cases which inhibited the interaction between ukraine and the usa. in may the president s lawyer, rudy giuliani, said he was going to ukraine to push the new
they know that barr and maguire and the olc lawyers are stopping the processes because they are protecting the political person, namely donald trump. so this is why we re in a new era about sort of how do we protect our democracy. let s be clear here, from intervention by a foreign government in 2020. you know, read the report, right. 2016 and now 2020. this is deja vu just in plain sight. but let s not be blinded by the fact that it s in plain sight. it s happening. okay. we could be talking about this incredible story all evening. we have to leave it there. thank you so much, juliette, s.e. thanks. be sure to tune in in just under an hour to s.e. cupp unfiltered here on cnn. now as 172020 candidates swarm iowa today, one candidate is making an urgent plea to voters to keep him in the race. that s coming up. at verizon, we re building the most powerful 5g experience for america.
the house, you re going to just push maguire. maguire is i don t feel sorry for him. he s in an impossible position. he s chosen to be in that impossible position. i am so tired of all of these people in leadership positions not defending the covert operatives or intelligence who are getting information to protect the u.s. government. yes, he may be in a bind he has a solution. he absolutely has a solution which is to go public. it is absolutely clear he can do that or quit. but this is the stage we re at now, you know, to be to be blunt about it. and these intelligence operatives this one in particular he did everything by the book. he filed the complaint with the inspector general. intelligence community famously apolitical. but then when the president was asked about this whistleblower, he called him or her a partisan. and then when asked if he knows who it is, said that he doesn t know the whistleblower s identity. so let s listen to how several