conversation. so the president is aware deflection is a better strategy. the idea of trying to attack and vilify the democrats, the better strategy on a political issue. but you know what it doesn t do, it doesn t change the fact that the conversation as given to us by the white house suggests there was something sinister and nefarious and criminal. and listen to what the president said about the whistle-blower him or herself. the whistle-blower was so dishonest. the whistle-blower said terrible things about the call. but he then then i found out he was second-hand and third-hand, in other words he didn t know what was on the call. the inspector general of the intelligence community appointed by president trump said that is not true. that the whistle-blower did know some things firsthand and also that it is irrelevant. you don t have to know everything firsthand to be a whistle-blower. and we have the transcript as you say, the underlying documents which he hasn t challenged
community whistleblower whose complaint about the president s phone call and more, the trump administration is blocking from congress a complaint that the inspector general of the intelligence community appointed by trump called credible and urgent. consider, however, how much of this is playing out in front of our eyes and ears. in may, the president s lawyer, rudy giuliani, told the new york times that he was going to ukraine to push for this investigation into the bidens to do so, in fact, to help his client, president trump. quote, i m asking them to do an investigation that they re doing already and that other people are telling them to stop, giuliani told the times. and i m going to give them reasons why they shouldn t stop it, because that information will be very, very helpful to my client and may turn out to be helpful to my government, unquote. then in june, president trump told george stephanopolous that he would accept dirt on a 2020 opponent from another country. your