speaker pelosi is using. the conduct that the whistle-blower describes is a consciousness of guilt to move the president s transcripts from an open system into a more classified system as an abuse of the classified system, but demonstrates that those individuals knew it was wrong. what s really concerning to me is that the president brought the culture of corruption to the white house and there are so many people involved in this who never did come forward. do you have any reason to believe the white house is going to let the other officials i think in the whistle-blower complaint, the whistle-blower says maybe as many as a dozen people were aware of this. would the white house let other officials cooperate with the congressional investigation? we have seen that has not been the case thus far? we are going to seek that, but we don t expect that. we have seen the stone walling of the past. here we are not powerless anymore.
august 12th and the whistle-blower says over the past four months more than a half a dozen have informed me of various facts related to this effort. the whistle-blower seems to be saying this effort by trump, giuliani and possibly barr has been going on since april which is when the ukrainian president took office. the whistle-blower says i was not a direct witness to most events. this line has already been used to try to undermine the complaint with the president calling this another political hack job. the whistle-blower voices concern the actions by the president and others pose risk to u.s. national security and undermine the u.s. government s efforts to deter and counter foreign interference in u.s. elections. the complaint details the july 25th phone call between president trump and president zilinski and says he used the remainder of the call to
questioning the integrity of the whistle-blower and attacking the democrats in control of the committee. on page one, the complaint reads, quote, i was not a direct witness to most of the events described. this seems like a very important line to look into. i want to congratulate the democrats on the roll out of their latest information warfare operation against the president. the intelligence committee is not an appropriate place to try articles of impeachment. he offered testimony that boosted the whistle-blower in many ways saying that he or she did the right thing and followed the law every step of the way and acknowledged the transcript of the president s phone call with the president of the ukraine boosted the complaints credibility. would you say that the whistle-blower s complaint is remarkably consistent with the transcript that was released. i would say that the whistle-blower s complaint is in alignment with what was released yesterday by the president. and as
obviously, a classified briefing, she wasn t at liberty to give details. i spoke with house intelligence committee member who we saw a moment ago and had more room to talk about his side of the proceedings. i want to get to your questioning of the acting director of national intelligence. but first, overall, what is your reaction to the substance of the whistle-blower complaint? we are in the midst of a national nightmare involving presidential extortion and the whistle-blower complaint lays out that the president sought to use our taxpayer dollars to benefit himself in a presidential election. and we are also in the midst of an ongoing cover up. if the allegations are true, i m wondering what does it say to you that senior officials work to move or as they say lockdown details of the call with the president of the ukraine? does it imply that those officials knew the conversation was problematic and that this was you have said it s a cover up. that s obviously the phrase that
boss. the bizarre comment by the president s lawyer rudy giuliani who told a writer that when this was all over, he would be the hero, not the whistleblower. we have reporting now on how quickly the word was spreading in the administration with the whistle-blower complaint. evan perez joins us with that. it appears the administration was grappling with what to do about this complaint. we know the complaint first came in on august 12. it appears on august 14th is when the general counsel for one of the intelligence agencies reaches out as required to the justice department to alert them that there is been this complaint from an employee from this agency and that it has to do with this phone call that involved the president, the ukrainian president back in july. so that sets on the course that we see has now come forward, because we know according to the new york times which first reported the story that they also were notified at the white