the complaint is now in the hands of congress. this afternoon, members of the house and senate intelligence committees were able to view the document containing the allegations against trump. i found the allegations deeply disturbing. i also found them very credible. i can understand why the inspector general found them credible. i think it a travesty that this complaint was withheld as long as it was because it was an urgent matter. it is an urgent matter. democrats ought not to be using the word impeach before they had the whistle-blower complaint or read any of the transcript. republicans ought not to be rushing to circle the wagons and say there s no there there when there s obviously lots that s very troubling there. tonight, 220 members of the house that is a majority support some type of action regarding impeachment. last night at this time, that number was 188.
scandals in the trump era, and that has caught him off guard clearly. he did not anticipate he d be spending the week at the united nations dealing with the specter of impeachment. but it s also going to be moving quickly from here because an important development today on capitol hill was speaker pelosi and her democratic lieutenants decided they thought the details from the call that were released in that rough partial transcript this morning were so incriminating and so damning about the president that they aim to narrow the focus of their impeachment proceeding around this issue of ukraine, that that s enough to get the president, enough to impeach him, and that they re going to speed up the time line. this morning all the talk obviously was about that reconstructed conversation. now, tonight the talk is increasingly about the members of congress who have seen this whistle-blower s complaint. one of them, jackie speier from california, democrat from california, was on this networ
maguire, the dni did deny threatening to resign. the wall street journal is reporting in terms of joseph maguire s background, quote, maguire was viewed as a steady hand by democrats and republicans alike when he was named by mr. trump. the political winds in washington and the glare of congressional hearings are a long way from mr. maguire s roots, which lie in the secretive work of special operations units that conduct dangerous missions to battle terrorists and retrieve hostages. he spent 36 years as a navy s.e.a.l. andrew, jackie was getting into this, but in terms of the very peculiar situation that maguire finds himself in here, you ve got this whistle-blower s complaint. it reached the inspector general. it said this needs to go to congress. then you had maguire saying no. what can you expect from him tomorrow? i think the question that
essentially smear paul manafort during the 2016 election and that itself helped put trump in this world of trouble that ultimately resulted in the special counsel probe. and so inside trump world this is, you know, treated as gospel essentially. and more or less they want to find out what happened there, and they want to do it as an effort to essentially prove that this entire episode, that the special counsel probe was, in fact, a witch hunt. so it s made the entire operation paranoid. they re obsessed by it. but it s also fed a bunch of conservative journalism as well. a name that continuously pops up here in our reporting is john solomon, a very well known conservative, investigative reporter who has written recently for the hill. so that s one thing that s going on here. the second thing is and this is what we were trying to figure out today because it was mentioned in this document that was released, this memorandum is whether or not donald trump feels that the missing 30,000
alarms not only about what the two men said in a phone call but also about how the white house handled records of the conversation, according to two people briefed on the complaint. the whistle-blower identified multiple white house officials as witnesses to potential presidential misconduct who could corroborate the complaint, the people said, adding that the inspector general for the intelligence community interviewed witnesses. atkinson also found reason to believe the whistle-blower may not support the re-election of mr. trump and made clear the complainant was not in a position to directly listen to the call or see the memo that reconstructed it before it was made public. today the white house released its notes from that call between trump and the ukrainian president zelensky. that was made on july 25th, exactly two months ago. the document, which is not a verbatim transcript but is based off of notes and recollections of a conversation, the document confirms reports that trump a