line that if democrats were to impooch and remove the president from office there would be some kind of coup. these are the words we haven t really heard from a president of the united states in our lifetime, and yet, brooke, we re watching it in realtime. the question, of course, whether or not the president will repeat all that here in the east room but seems to be fired up. i ll tell you talking to a trump adviser in the last several minutes who watched what the president did in the oval office, this adviser saying, isn t the president a great messenger. look the way he went off. we ll inside trump world and the entrusted circle of advisers and aides are cheering him on into this fight and see this as despite this being a lot of provocative behavior being a a with to energize his base heading into the 2020 election. brooke? all right. talk to you in a little bit. stand by for that news conference. thank you very much. go to kaitlan collins also there at the white house. kaitla
remember from the 90s who was an early trump supporter because he helped to lead impeachment from the republican side of the house. would he make a run for the senate? how do you do that if you have lawyers in the white house who were complaining about the president and set up this separate file? so if the white house is doing its damage control, isn t the president, knowing donald trump, going to say, who are these people? the whistleblower complaint, read it. it s unproven allegation. but backed up credibly by the release of the memo of the ukraine call. so to the lawyers, if you re introducing, as the judge would say, the witness at least has threshold credibility, let s hear more. and that s why the democrats would go ahead with the investigation. the president just trashes
documents. the white house shouldn t even have this complaint. the president says everybody has seen it. that in itself is a huge problem, but we re not going to rely on the administration or its minions leading the justice department to tell us about anything that s in it. were you at all spriedsed by the president moving towards releasing the full transcript? do you trust the white house enough to take that transcript and believe that that is an actual representation of what transpired? no, i think sadly it s the case you described that we cannot trust the administration with respect to anything that it produces. and so there are a couple of issues here. there s the issue of whether whatever transcript they provide is the only transcript of this conversation or whether there are other read outs of that conversation and whether they cherry picked and picked the best read out of that conversation, but there are also issues about whether this is just one piece, for example, of what
seen it. that in itself is a huge problem, but we re not going to rely on the administration or its minions leading the justice department to tell us about anything that s in it. were you at all surprised by the president moving towards releasing the full transcript? do you trust the white house enough to take that transcript and believe that that is an actual representation of what transpired? well, you know, sadly, i think it s the case as you described that we cannot trust the administration with respect to anything that it produces. and so there are a couple of issues here. there s the issue of whether whatever transcript they provide is the only transcript of this conversation or whether there are other readouts of that conversation and whether they cherry picked and picked the best readout of that conversation, but there are also issues about whether this is just one piece, for example, of what the whistle-blower may be complaining of. after all, this isn t the president s on
not full blown impeachment. you had congress woman alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeting saturday night late night basically blasting her own democratic leadership writing, quote, at this point the bigger national scandal isn t the president s law breaking behavior, it is the democratic party s refusal to impeach him for it. now, prominent republicans are cautioning against a rush to judgment. bottom line is, i don t think he should have done it but that s a far cry from what some are claiming to know is fact when we don t know fact. reporter: some republicans are questioning the push for impeachment on a whistle blower report that none of these lawmakers have read. dana? dana: one other question. tell us about this process. there s an impeachment inquiry. where does that go? what happens next? reporter: well, that can be stretched out for a long period of time. you remember the ben ghazi select committee. that could give all kinds of