Department that essentially says the president is above the director, therefore the president is not subject to the jurisdiction of the director, therefore it doesnt meet the definition of urgent concern, therefore the Inspector General is done. The Inspector General cant investigate anymore. Thats the Inspector Generals reading of the Department Opinion, that he is no longer allowed to investigate this. Is that your reading as well . Chairman, not necessarily the president , but the allegation has to relate to the funding, administration, operation of an Intelligence Activity within the responsibility and the authority of the director of National Intelligence. Okay. Im just trying to get to whether the president is somehow beyond the reach of the law. No, sir. No person in this country is beyond the reach of the law. Well, thats the way it should be but im trying to figure out whether thats the way it is as a practical fact. The Inspector General believes that based on the opinion tha
accession council. they meet privately without the new king present. then the new king comes in. he s going to make a declaration, a tribute to the late queen, he will be formally declared king charles iii. and then we ll have this quite colorful proclamation from that gallery, and then immediately after he goes into audiences with senior members of clergy, the archbishop of canterbury. there s no time for him to draw breath. and no time to waste. because at the end of the day, this is all about continuity. when you talk to people who are going that you grieving process, wlof whether or not they have met the queen in the past, they say they are concerned about that continuity. that s why this is important today. you have covered as a journalist, prince charles now for years. how do you think he ll be coping with all of this?
we ve now sat through three hours and 22 minutes of testimony from the country s acting dni, on the job for 42 days. a senior intelligence official telling me moments ago that congress has the roadmap, they have what they need in that complaint. yeah, i thought that there was way too much focus on process in this hearing and not enough on substance. i understand that there are constraints about what this witness was going to testify to. but i do think they got bogged down in, you know, why didn t he give it to congress. congress has it now. and it is an unbelievable inspector general report. unbelievable. and i don t think the public watching this got the full impact of what s in that report. the whistle-blower complaint, dwlof the we don t have the full ig report yet.
was pleased with it. she also met with vice president pence. it does seem like vice president pence is the one wlof gone to doe very and the two families today have had a tremendous impact on them. the one thing we re critiquing something is how the white house is handling something that trump didn t have to handle. there is a part of this where, if you like what he did but i think he s learning right, he s a new president. maybe one over the thing to have out of this is on this kind of question we give the president the benefit of the doubt to improve. no matter what you say to some families it s going to be per receivered in a way and you ve got to be able to say his son is a marine, he s got cultural competent. he deals with this on a daily
will tell us it has almost thousands of parameters that can be plugged into a computer program that the ntsb utilizes in addition to the cockpit voice recorder puts the time frame and when that all comes together we re just going to get a better reference to what happened. all right. again, a lot of question marks here still. we know there is a whole lot of search effort being directed to that part of the ocean. we appreciate both of you joining us, les and david. thank you for this. we ll keep you around today. there are more questions. it seems to be developing by the hour. short break here. next up on new day, the weather certainly hindering the search for this missing debris. we re going to take a look at that and how long it could actually takes those crews, all of the ships and air support to get within a clear view wlof wh is in the water. stay with us here on new day.