Here, sky rocketing tensions with iran and the new warning today from its foreign minister. What would be the consequence of an american or saudi military strike on iran now . Allout war. The secretary of state just responded to that. Our team is here following the latest developments this hour. Nbcs ken delaney is joining us to talk about his reporting on the wristhistleblower and rober costa, political reporter and msnbc political analyst. And guys, just a warning weve been looking at that live shot of the microphones and may see lawmakers leave their meeting with the Intelligence Community Inspector General any minute, so if i interrupt you im giving you apologies in advance. Start with you here, you write in your piece a whistleblower complaint about a private president ial phone call would be an Extraordinary Development likely without precedent in u. S. History. So walk us through what we know and what we dont know so far . What nbc news has been able to confirm is that this comp
The present life. President trump another witch hunt, here we go again. Its adam schiff and his crew making up stories and sitting there like whatever you want to call them. Its a disgrace. Its terrible thing for our country. They cant do any work. They are frozen. Theyre going to lose the election, they know it. Thats why theyre doing it. It should never be allowed, whats happened to this president. Despite that, i think ive done just about more than any president in his first 2. 5 years in office. If you look, i think very few could compete with the things weve done for our military, for the economy. We have the best economy anywhere in the world, by far. We rebuilt our military, so many things that are so incredible. With tax cuts and regulations. I have to put up with adam schiff on an absolutely perfect phone call to the new president of ukraine. That was a perfect call. But adam schiff doesnt talk about joe biden, and his son, walking away with millions of dollars from ukraine. A
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
What are you hearing . This development with the complaint coming out being declassified and reading it is different than what weve seen already. The transcript was yesterday of the phone call. The transcript as the white house describes it. This is the whistleblowers thoughts and who he talked to. Not specific names but the number of people. It goes into concerns about locking down all the records of that phone call. The process of where they believe that this was a coverup. And the challenge here as you read this is that, you know, you will be reading it as if its the bible, not knowing that what the motivations are and knowing the credibility of these people. And there is no pushback on the other side as far as questioning this anonymous person. Thats what this hearing today is really going to lead to and i think some of the questions will go down that road to the director of National Intelligence. Sandra dana, the questions could have been changing in the last few minutes as now th
Controversy, republican senator at the center of it all. He will answer key questions about the timeline and address allegations about that call between the president and the ukrainian leader a cynical shakedown designed to influence our election. Hello and welcome to fox news night, im Shannon Bream in washington. Lets start with Gillian Turner breaking down the transcript to tell us what really did and didnt happen on that phone call between President Trump and ukraines president , good evening. Good evening. President trump said administration has now officially handed off that infamous whistleblower complaint to congress. As of this hour its in the hands of the Intelligence Community. I fully support transparency on the socalled whistleblower information. Even though it was supposedly secondhand information. Which is sort of interesting. Whatever is in his complaint was enough to compel the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community to determine it was urgent. We dont know a l