president s main domestic political rivals. in the rough transcript of the president s call with the president of ukraine, remember that transcript was released by the white house itself, there is this, and i quote, there s a lot of talk about biden s son, that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it, it sound horrible to me. let s please remember this, okay? there s no evidence of wrong doing by either the former vice president or his son. but let s continue on here. in the same paragraph the whistle-blower says, quote, the president s personal lawyer, mr. rudolph giuliani, is a central figure in this effort. attorney general barr appears to be involved as well.
we used to have a saying when i was an fbi agent in chicago when we were doing interviews, if you don t want us to treat you like you re guilty stop acting like you re guilty. it doesn t look good for the president to attack individuals who are legally participating in a system designed to protect someone who believes they are right. i got it. i got it. i got it. i just want to ask you this. we have to go but do you think because everyone is saying it s secondhand knowledge or third-hand knowledge, maybe this whistle-blower is taking the information from somebody so close to the president they don t want to be revealed. has anybody thought about that and the whistle-blower is the messenger and the person who has the information is feeding the whistle-blower the information that they re so close they don t want the president or anyone that s close to him to know about it. is that possible? mike? it s possible but the way i read this, don, is somebody in the chain of receipt of thi
as a result of the courageous whistle-blower, we have seen extraordinary grievous wrong by a president in a systemic way over a course of time to blackmail another leader of another country, a democracy suffering from oppression, invasion by russia, so i hope everybody gets that this is a very somber, very sober time, but also at the same time we must do the job well and as expeditious as we can to get as much of the facts before the american people quickly. are you worried at all, you come from a save democratic district, montgomery county, pennsylvania, but you have freshmen not from districts that are safe democratic seats. are you worried there could be blow back, that this could rally president trump supporters, alienate independent or swing voters, send a message that you re not focused on health care, the economy, and
to hurl insults and wild accusations. but this is not just trump being trump. this is different. this is the president of the united states straight up saying that officials from his own white house who expressed their concerns to the whistle-blower are like spies. think about that. he s accusing them of treason. and with a nod and a wink talking about how we handled spies and treason when we were, his word, smart. prison? execution? i don t know. what do we do with spies? hanging? what does that mean? i m just going to say that if you re being accused of sounding like a gangster in a movie, maybe don t talk about killing people you think of as your enemies. it just shows you how threatened this president must feel by the whistle-blower s complaint and what it alleges about his actions and the attempt to cover
what s the plan? how quickly will this move? well, thanks for having me on. i don t know how long it s going to take, but it makes sense that we are conducting this part of the investigation because the whistle-blower s complaint went to the inspector general of the intelligence community. and so we have jurisdiction over the intelligence community so i think this is the roo ight placo start. the house intel chairman adam schiff told my colleague wolf blitzer earlier he s hoping witnesses will cooperate voluntarily. what if it doesn t happen? could we see subpoenas? we could. you know that the acting dni maguire today technically appeared under a subpoena. he wasn t willing to necessarily comply immediately, so we may have to resort to subpoenas, but hopefully others will volunteer. certainly the whistle-blower we hope will voluntarily come