that. martha: with regard to the whistleblower, clear investigation report, not seeing his name, this person s name. we don t know if the investigation report is accurate, although this is sort of bounced arounda quite a bit. what is your thinking from journalistic perspective on this whistleblower, given the circumstances that surround this whole situation? brit: remember the whistleblower system internal government system designed to protect people inside the government from being retaliated against for reporting wrongdoing by their superiors or by others in their agencies. it is binding on people inside the government. it is presumably binding on congress, i m not sure about that. it is certainly not binding on the news media. so someone is a whistleblower and issues a report that leaks out and turns into a huge, big controversy as has happened in this case, we in the media are under no obligation legally or
abrams, a woman who claimed nbc news silenced her story of sexual assault. mrs. abrams made the accusations against russell simmons. we reached out for comment and received response after the story aired pointing to prior statements he made denying the allegations of forced sexual assault and statements that he says support him. the decision by some news organizations not to move forward with the story was appropriate in their mind. so, did the white house whistleblower get outed? an investigative report the tonight and whether or not the media has the right to share it. saturdays happen.
that they are aware who al-baghdadi is and what just happened. i m not convinced many have a clue what the story was, are you? i m not convinced they were georgetown students, oh, my god, martha, who could ever could kill a leader of isis. martha: without [bleep]. that was really bad. those are the best and the brightest. here is the deal, we know he was not on seal team six, we know that. he is the commander in chief. he gives the orders. the military executes the orders. he ran on destroying isis and he did it appear they were saying anybody could have done it. barack obama could have done it but he didn t do it. remember he didn t have a strategy. he said he didn t have a strategy. maybe if they had spend more time trying to kill isis instead of setting up trump or rush of collusion, they would have gotten all the credit that they want. martha: i mean, to me this
back against false claims, fals like. in fact, the numbers have gone up, martha, in the midst of impeachment nonsense. actually, there is what we call hidden trump voter, new york times did a story with the trump women, half of the campaign is comprised of women, more than half, this hidden voter is a group of women out there, who maybe didn t vote for donald trump for the first time around for whatever reason, but they want to vote for him now and just because they are not talking to people about it, we are getting the sense from our fundraising numbers. martha: what is driving them? lara: for a lot of people, right now they see how politicized people are, that impeachment inquiry, it is a coupe against the president, that is not this country or what the united states of america is about. they are seeing great results from this president, promises made, promises kept, they felt
blasting the organization supposed nonpartisan analysis pointing out person conducting the interview previously donated to van dyke s opponent in montana. all i can say about this letter, i think it is a shameful xeerz in political bias, i have no context or ability to evaluate any of the accusations that are made here. the aba has lost credibility neutral arbiter, should be treated no differently than any other special interest group. it is. the trump administration so far has had more than 160 nominees put on the federal bench, five of those were also given labels of not qualified by the aba. i should point out, we did reach out to american bar association and have not heard back from them. martha: thank you very much. update on a story we brought you last wednesday night about