violations of law or rule or regulation. the whistle-blower complaint speaks to motive on the interference in those elections. so if the president s communications about the complaint, the complaint itself shows there s motive to interfere, that then attaches him to the overall problem of whether there s a violation of law. strong arming of foreign leaders, i would be surprised if donald trump was the first american president to strong arm a foreign leader. but i think if you look at the handling of the classified information in the situation room, look at the federal election laws. that s what tells us whether there was a challenge here. and the question of strong arm a leader to interfere. thanks very much. okay, jim. acting director of national intelligence joe maguire s congressional testimony got a lot of attention last week. but one of his revelations flew under the radar. john avalon has our reality check.
and i think that once this impeachment inquiry gets going, we ll learn a lot more about what happened. and i have a feeling that this time where there s smoke there s fire. you have been calling for impeachment proceedings well before this latest ukraine reporting. what makes this moment so different that the house speaker was now willing to launch a formal inquiry? i think this is something that people out there can understand. this is the facts of this he s trying to strong arm a leader into investigating a political opponents by with holding aid. it harkens back to what he did in the 2016 campaign. asking russia basically to locate e-mails. it s the same playbook to try and dirty up the political opponent with false accusations. but the american people can get this. this sound like the corrupt
doesn t matter what i said. or it was normal conversation. but now, this is diverging from his play book because he certainly wasn t this forthcoming in the mueller investigation right away. and i think that once this impeachment inquiry gets going, we ll learn a lot more about what happened. and i have a feeling that this time where there s smoke there s fire. you have been calling for impeachment proceedings well before this latest ukraine reporting. what makes this moment so different that the house speaker was now willing to launch a formal inquiry? i think this is something that people out there can understand. this is the facts of this he s trying to strong arm a leader into investigating a political opponents by with holding aid.