back up the whistleblower whose accusations about president trump s phone call with the president of ukraine now form the basis of the fourth impeachment investigation of a president in the history of the united states of america. the new york times headline tonight, second official is weighing whether to blow the whistle on trump s ukraine dealings. the new york times reports, a second intelligence official who was larnlgd by president trump s dealings is weighing whether to file his own formal whistleblower complaint and testify to congress, according to two people briefed on the matter. the official has more direct information about the events than the first whistleblower. the second official is among those interviewed by the intelligence committee inspector general to corroborate the investigations of the original whistleblower. the inspector general, michael atkinson, briefed lawmakers privately on friday about how he substantiated the whistleblower s account. it was not clear
back up the whistleblower whose accusations about president trump s phone call with the president of ukraine now form the basis of the fourth impeachment investigation of a president in the history of the united states of america. the new york times headline tonight, second official is weighing whether to blow the whistle on trump s ukraine dealings. the new york times reports, a second intelligence official who was alarmed by president trump s dealings is weighing whether to file his own formal whistleblower complaint and testify to congress, according to two people briefed on the matter. the official has more direct information about the events than the first whistleblower. the second official is among those interviewed by the intelligence committee inspector general to corroborate the investigations of the original whistleblower. the inspector general, michael atkinson, briefed lawmakers privately on friday about how he substantiated the whistleblower s account. it was not clear
tom? missing for days now. thank you. new to a headline tonight, president trump s personal attorney rebecca jarvis under fire for his plan to travel to ukraine and actively push for investigations that could help the president s re-election. he wants to provide information that could hurt vice president joe biden. here is abc s mary bruce. reporter: tonight, in a bizarre move, rudy giuliani, the president s personal lawyer, says he is seeking help from ukraine to politically hurt joe biden, trump s top 2020 rival. i guarantee you joe biden will not get to election day without this being investigated. reporter: as first reported by the new york times, giuliani says he ll travel to ukraine and ask its government to dig up information about actions biden may have taken as vice president and is urging ukraine to look into the origins of the special counsel s russia investigation. giuliani says that information will be very, very helpful to my client, and may turn out to be hel
national security reporter with tonight s scoop at the washington post. adam, i appreciate you joining us on very short notice. congratulations on this scoop. thanks for joining us. the headline tonight, top intelligence official, director of national intelligence, dan coats, told associates, contemporaneously at the time, in late march, that the president asked him if he could please intervene with fbi director james comey to try to stop the fbi russia investigation, particularly as it pertained to national security adviser mike flynn. again, there s no allegation here in terms of the washington post reporting that dan coats committed his concerns about this to writing, as has been reported about similar concerns regarding james comey himself and the nsa director, admiral mike rogers, but you can expect dan coats to be asked about this tomorrow in open session. we ve got more on that coming up. stay with us. over our neighbor s fence.
leadership. either he s unaware of that or he doesn t really care about those dividing lines that are supposed to separate the investigators, the intelligence community from the politics. and so he is frequently crossing that line in ways that make people feel uncomfortable. and that s, i think, what this is potentially an example of and potentially something more, if coats were to offer a full recollection of the conversation that he had with the president. which he may be asked to do tomorrow, as soon as tomorrow morning when he testifies in open session before the senate intelligence committee. adam entous, washington post national security reporter with tonight s scoop at the washington post. adam, i appreciate you joining us on very short notice. congratulations on this scoop. thanks for joining us. the headline tonight, top intelligence official, director of national intelligence, dan coats, told associates,