to believe there was government misconduct. hill s lawyers asked the white house to add any comments they wanted to make to that. but the white house lawyers said absolutely nothing apparently that actually did inhibit hill s testimony today. there have been no reports of any of the testimony delivered to the impeachment committees about donald trump s dealings with ukraine that are in any way favorable to donald trump. no one s coming out of those depositions saying, here s all the favorable things said for donald trump in those in those under oath depositions. every new witness appears to be adding more corroboration for the whistle-blower s complaint that started this investigation. that whistle-blower complaint said that the president was trying to seek help from ukraine to investigate joe biden. this is not the way trump
block her from testifying, but according to the correspondents, they said there were areas she could not possibly testify. they said those areas were direct communication with the president, phone calls, foreign heads of state. they immediately wrote back to the white house, sunday, the day before the testimony, and said they did not believe the white house legal reasoning, and they said some of the information that has already come into the public s fear can no longer be considered privileged, and hill s lawyers also made the legal argument. that is correct, the executive privilege disappears when there is reason to believe there is government misconduct. hill s lawyers told congress to add any comments they wanted to make to that, but the white
the vietnam war known as the pentagon papers. the name has come out as the possible source documents, that of daniel ellsberg. reporter: the pentagon paper showed the government mismanaged the vietnam war and lied about it. ellsberg was charged under the espionage act of 1917 with theft and conspiracy. but the charges were later dropped due to government misconduct. ellsberg s disclosures as a whistle blower are credited with helping end the war. i couldn t carele less about the punk. i wanted to discredit that kind of activity. reporter: decades later in 2013, former u.s. army soldier chelsea manning was convicted after sharing nearly 750,000 military and diplomatic documents with wikileaks related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan. i stopped seeing just statistics and information and i started seeing people. reporter: included in the leaked material, a video of iraqi civilians and journalists
mismanaged the vietnam war and lied about it. ellsberg was charged under the espionage act with theft and conspiracy, but the charges were later dropped due to government misconduct. his disclosures as a whistle-blower were credited with helping end the war. i couldn t care less about the punk. i wanted to discredit that kind of activity. reporter: decades later in 2013, former u.s. army soldier chelsea manning was convicted after sharing nearly 750,000 military and diplomatic documents with wikileaks, related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan. i stopped seeing just statistics and information and i started seeing people. reporter: included in the leaked material, a video of iraqi civilians and journalists being killed by a u.s. helicopter in 2007. she was convicted and sentenced to 35 years for the leak, but president barack obama commuted her sentence in 2017. the same year manning was
reputation as the most dangerous man in america for leaking a top secret government study about the vietnam war, known as the pentagon papers. the name has come out as the possible source of the times pentagon documents. it is daniel elsburg. it showed the government mismanaged the vietnam washing. he was charged under the espionage acts with theft and conspiracy but charges were later dropped due to government misconduct. i couldn t care less about the punk. i wanted to discredit that kind of activity. reporter: decades later in 2013, former u.s. army soldier chelsea manning was convicted after sharing nearly 750,000 military and diplomatic documents with wikileaks, related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan. i stopped seeing just statistics and information and i started seeing people.