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mike, you say this whistle-blower complaint is a pretty damning document, but be specific to us. is it the threats, the coverup, the abuse of power? tell our viewers why. well, i think it s a damning document because it lays out the case in great detail and then also cites legal references along the way, including, by the way, the charge that if someone tries to declassify certain parts of it afterward, they should have to justify. it tells me that somebody in the chain of getting that information legally and normally as a part of their course of business got this information. and i think that s exactly why the i.g. said i m taking a look at the person because they didn t do a full investigation. remember, they had to do a precursory view of the material and see is it credible and is it of concern. i think that s why the i.g. came to the conclusion, probably a good person, a person that would have access to this information. it s certainly laid out very,
this story has coverups at the highest levels, a secret store system for transcripts, potential abuse of power for political gains. remind you anything? certainly it s reminiscent of the 1970s. but there is this big difference. we need to assess the gravity of the situation and at the same time remain calm. what s different between what richard nixon did and what donald trump has already admitted to is this it involves a foreign power. the whole scandal of watergate, the widespread criminal conspiracy led by the president of the united states had to do with this country, it was all domestic. there wasn t a foreign power involved. i think oscar wild said the truth is never pure and rarely simple. here on the basis of what we already know, we have a pure truth and it s pretty simple.
them up. and a lot of what we ve learned today from the whistle-blower s complaint matches what we ve already learned and what we saw in the rough transcript the white house released of the president s call with the president of ukraine. house intel chairman adam schiff says this what this whistle-blower said about the nature of that call has been borne out in great detail by the call record that has now been released. so in a very substantial part, this whistle-blower has already been found to be credible. so let s go through this. in the very first paragraph of the complaint, the whistle-blower lays out the main allegations and they are shocking, saying the president used the power of his office used the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 election, including, quote, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the