against or prosecuted, if the white house and the justice department say, yeah, that law doesn t apply to this complaint, there is a question as to whether they will face retaliation or persecution or coming forward. on that point, the director of national intelligence did try to give a personal assurance today that as far as he s concerned the whistleblower should at least be allowed to come forward to congress. director, do i have your assurance that once you work out the security clearances for the whistleblower s counsel that that whistleblower will be able to relate the full facts within his knowledge that concern wrongdoing by the president or anyone else, that he or she will not be inhibited in what they can tell our committee, there will not be some minder eer fo white house or elsewhere sitting next to them telling them what they can or cannot answer. do i have your assurance they will be able to testify fully and freely and enjoy the
one of the moms in flint, michigan, she is deeply skeptical of a need for a delay and is worried that people won t ever see justice for all of the upheaval in their lives. listen. i m afraid they re looking for seriously limitations when charges can be made. those that were already headed to trial it s been proven what s happened. as a mother of one child with legionnaires and another with profound lead damage, and the husband the same, this is inexcusable. it s just there s no excuse. let s go back to flint and city council woman monica galloway is with us now. she has been getting an earful from her constituents. i know you weren t optimistic about the previous investigation. first, why is that?
many. i spoke to a 52-year-old man, just a little while ago, paul mcintosh. he s lived here his whole life and he wears his flint pride on his head with his baseball cap and he said it s getting harder and harder to trust basically prosecutors especially after he heard the news they were going to wipe the plate clean and start fresh. obvious you hear from prosecutors and their explanation for this. but when you hear from many of the residents who say they won t believe it until they see it, mr. mcintosh is saying this feels more like justice denied versus justice delayed. the prosecutors are defending this decision to drop charges and went over. what went wrong in the original prosecution, why do they need to start over? well, what you hear from the current attorney general, michigan state, you know, top cop she said there was a large amount of evidence that went largely unpursued here.
in flint, michigan, outrage over tainted water has passed the boiling point. it s been four years since the city declared a state of emergency and three years since criminal charges were filed. now in a stunning move prosecutors have dropped all pending criminal cases. they say the entire investigation was flawed and needs to start again from scratch. cnn s paolo sandoval is in flint where the anger and frustration i imagine is palpable. people are marching there this weekend. what are you hearing? it absolutely is, ana. it s a new layer of outrage we are getting from the community here, having spoken to many of the residents here in flint. they have been searching for a form of justice for quite some people. many years ago this is when it started and now there are the largely unanswered calls for accountability that are simply fuelling that frustration for
republicans. they re good americans. who try to do their job. developing the right intelligence to be able to make sure that our country can be able to protect itself. for them to do their job requires that they take risks. and they have to put their lives on the line often to be able to get that kind of information. so when the president and the justice department say, well, wait a minute we ll now investigate whether the cia did the right thing, there s no question that it impacts on the morale of the c i a because the very government they re part of and trying to help is now turning on them. and questioning whether or not they did the right thing. i m sure that ultimately no matter who visits this issue that they ll find that the cia did the right thing.