expecting to hear anything from secretary of state blinken today. he is going straight from the airport to dinner with the amir of qatar and secretary of defense lloyd austin also here and the facts that the leader of this relatively small middle eastern country is having dinner tonight with the two most senior members of president biden s cabinet shows you how indebted the biden administration feels to qatar right now for pulling this evacuation off. in terms of what is happening in mazar sharif is confusing and the state department is not doing very much to make it less confusing. their line basically is we don t have people on the ground. we don t control the air space and these are private charter planes so we don t really know what s going on here. we do know as you said, there are a number of flights waiting to take off and the taliban have said they are not going to let them go, and so even without knowing all the details, even without knowing how many or
inspector general, august 12th. in the preceding weeks they have him talking they have him on a call with vladimir putin on july 3/1 july3 31st, talking with at let two letter with kim jong un, maybe meeting with the leader of pakistan, netherlands and amir of qatar. somebody says they heard something as an intel official that troubled them enough to lodge a formal complaint to the i.g. how unusual? boy, i m about ready to blow a gasket. that is extremely unusual and ilesseni le listened to presidential phone calls under george w. bush in 2001. can you explain to me, a, why it s the u.s. intelligence
important in terms of figuring out which foreign leader the president was speaking to and to whom this promise was allegedly made. that s according to the washington post. this complaint we know was filed on august 12th. so if we look at the communications the president had with world leaders in the month prior, there are quite a few of them. among them, a phone call with russian president vladimir putin. letters were exchanged with north korean dictator kim jong-un, the dutch prime minister, the amir of qatar. we also know there were phone calls with the prime minister of israel and the new president of ukraine. so there are a number of possibilities here. jim and poppy, as you know well, we get so-called read outs from these communications from the white house. the white house can, of course, say really what they want. in the case of the call with russian president vladimir putin, the white house said the two world leaders discussed forest fires in siberia. but what we do know is t
branch. the whistle blower alleges in communication between the foreign leader and president trump, president trump, according to the washington post made that leader a promise. what he allegedly promised is unknown as is who the foreign leader was. the complaint was filed on august 12th just days before then director of national intelligence dan coats as well as his deputy were pushed out by the president on august 15th. it was after the president had communicated with other world leaders in the previous weeks including the president of ukraine, the prime minister of israel, dictator of north korea, the amir of qatar and the president of russia. we have learned the acting dni will testify next week not just to the house intelligence committee but the senate intel and closed session in the senate. one hand a very serious