we have been talking about the past couple of days, judge, you are saying it s confounding to her that we are getting press releases from the production company. from baldwin s people, we were not getting basic information from police. we still don t know what gun was used? all these days later. we don t know what type of rounds inside the guns. we don t know the basics of what happened. it s just a lot of leaks and a lot of pressure reports and pr being turned out there. now, we hear the sheriff s department is not having a press conference until wednesday. you are a in the newsroom for a long time and be a reporter. this is sort of buy harry, is
reaction of the icig where he said it was credible and urgent. and i don t recall receiving a urgent whistleblower complaint. i could be wrong. but i don t remember that over my six and a half years. interesting. the idea that the president is concerned about corruption in corruption around the world and corruption in ukraine i mean, you well know the reality of many goems th regimes we deal w around the world. if you are concerned about corruption in ukraine, would you be focusing on things that happened allegedly occurred years ago? i mean, it would seem to me there would be more current examples you would have access to the intelligence on if you really wanted to stop current corruption under the new regime, no? well, exactly. and to be clear the last the obama administration had similar concerns about corruption in
to testify before the house intelligence committee, happening on thursday. tonight he issued a statement. reading i have sworn an oath to the constitution 11 times in my 36 years of public service and few views it a a covenant with every american that will well and faithfully zmarj duties of my office in light of recent reporting i want to make clear that i have upheld my responsibility to follow the law every step of the way. the statement continues as public servants the men and women of the intelligence community have a solemn spolkt to do what is right which includes reporting wrong doing. i m committed to protecting whistleblowers and ensuring every complaint is handled appropriately. i look forward to continuing to work with the administration and gles to find a resolution regarding this important matter. another item, on what is truly a historic day. joining us to talk about it cnn chief legal analyst. gloria bourjer and david axelrod, host of the axe files and former adviser
conscientiously that allowed intelligence community employs who had a complaint, grievance whatever it was to protect the classified information. it wasn t exposed publicly. right. and by the way, to insulate the employee in question from a potential retaliation. so i was very consistent about that my whole six and a half years as dni. i wonder wlau make there is a lot we don t know obviously. what we know based on what the president himself has said and his stories have changed over the several days. how concerning is it just what the president has already said? well, as others have said, it seems to me that, you know, the president hiss own worst enemy here. the gradual unfolding of his acknowledgement that, yes, he brought up the biden in my and their potential corruption. and then compounding that, i think, was the story changing
phone call tomorrow morning not enough for house democrats will get a chance to question the acting director of nash intelligence who stopped the complaint dpr being forwarded to congress. and the whistleblower. nor is it enough for the senate who which took rare bipartisan action on the whistleblower complaint as we mentioned at the top that is not even half of it. let s engine with jayme acosta with the breaking news. what are learning about the possible release of the whistleblower complaint itself? terse, we understand white house white house officials are being looing at this could come sout as soon as tomorrow. my enclosings report that the president weighed in on decide pd on his own he wanted to see the complaint released. we re not sure what form it comes in. whether we will see all of it. bup it s a curious change of events. the white house essentially blinked in all of this. if we see all of it. we re not sure if we will see all of it. but recall last week when the superio