Behind the impeachment effort on the hill, all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a thursday night. Well, good evening once again, and tonight happens to find us here in london, but all the news, of course, is back home where this was day 980 of the Trump Administration, and the case for impeachment has just in the course of this one day escalated quickly and on Live Television with the release of that whistleblower complaint focusing on trumps july 25th phone call with the president of ukraine. Put simply, this document, this whistleblower is accusing the president of abusing his power and further accuses the National Security structure around him in the white house of trying to cover it up. The complaint directed to the heads of the house and Senate Intelligence committees was filed august 12, about two weeks after trumps phone call. Quote, i have received information from multiple u. S. Government officials that the president of the United States is using the power of his offi
The acting dni director appear before the House Intelligence Committee. That will be fascinating. Hey, willie geist, what an extraordinary 24 hours. You can go to the night before and before we actually got to see what the white house called the trump. People were predicting that it was going to be much ado about nothing. The next morning of course it kploiexplodes and republicans are shocked that the white house released that transcript. And news continued breaking throughout the day and, of course, last night you had the whistleblower report read and apparently so disturbing that republicans on and off the record were saying that it was far worse than what the white house released in the morning. Ben sasse who has been strangely silent over the past year, ben sasse coming out and talking about it being very troubling. Ben sasse was a tell to me saying what he read in that report, which by the way we may all see at some point today, the whistleblow whistleblower complaint as it has be
Feel bad for secretary pompeo who is a graduate of the United States military academy at west point which, you know, instills in graduates and the cadets and when they graduate duty on the country and just a reminder, i think, of people that are in the trump orb is not unlike the moth that flies too close to the hot candle. And this is of course, the two answers are going to be on highlight films now for some time to come. I would note that the question at the press conference that he had in italy, he didnt address at all whether he thought that what went on and what transpired during that phone call was appropriate or not. No, he dodged that question even today as he admitted the truth that he could have admitted to Martha Raddatz as she asked the very direct question ten days ago. What do you think he might have been trying to hide . Why not say i heard the conversation . I dont know. Im not a mind reader, but i think there was a, perhaps, a certain amount of guilt pang, i think, tha
The papers and say a lot about the coverage of the New York Times. Trump asked for favor in the call. Trump called transcript insane in the ukraine. Kraine on dems parade no. Laws broken. Brian congratulations back and for the congratulations on your win. I kind of ran my campaign off the template you gave me. Im an outsider like you are the outsider. In case you didnt know he was a comedian. They wanted to blow up everything in a respectful way because there is so much corruption in the ukraine. So he and the president started talking. Obviously there was respect there we later find out it was the second call the two had. And then at which time he says listen, i would love to get some javelin missiles. You know the javelin missiles that barack obama wouldnt sell the ukraines even though they were being cut up by the russian army at the time . The president said yeah. He goes and i would like to say this, can you find out about x, y, and z, look into. So corruption there and to me i re
Complaint from inside the administration that has set off this latest battle with congress. The Washington Post has already reported the complaint, which was filed with the Intelligence Community Inspector General, involved Donald Trumps private communication with a foreign leader that included some sort of promise. Importantly the New York Times reported today the whistleblowers complaint is said to involve multiple acts by the president. But now tonight a short time ago the Washington Post breaking the latest on this story in a four biline piece that includes Carol Leonnig who will join us in just a moment. She and her colleagues report quote, a whistle blower complaint about President Trump made by an intelligence official centers on ukraine. According to two people familiar with the matter. That call is already under investigation by House Democrats who are examining whether trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani sought to manipulate the Ukrainian Government into helping trumps reele