Reading this breaking news from the New York Times. Tonight, about the preliminary attempts the whistleblower made to get this story reported within a Whistleblower Forum before writing this very detailed document that we finally saw today. And there are so many extraordinary details on it, including the part of you read about william barr being notified about this very early on. And in the New York Times reporting about that, it says a member of the Justice Department went to the white house to read what is now being called the transcript of the phone call. And then went back to the Justice Department and briefed william barr about it. That means william barr was briefed that his name is in the transcript. Repeatedly. Repeatedly. Right off the bat. And that the central claim that the whistleblower was concerned about, the president imploring this foreign country to help him out with some dirt on his country in the 2020 election. That central scheme is one in which the president implic
But there is this weird situation where the whistleblower theoretically can convey that information directly to the committee. But its almost impossible to do so legally without the channel being opened for that person. And the Trump Administration wont open the channel. So schiff has to be totally responsible in terms of what he can promise that person in terms of retaliation, protection from prosecution, all of those things. I mean, this is incredibly high stakes for everybody involved at this point. Yeah. And as we saw in the Inspector Generals letters to the committee today that adam schiff released is the Inspector Generals work hard to try to open the door for the whistleblower to go straight to the committee and eventually the Inspector General just had to tell the committee that hes reached an impasse with the acting director and the acting director is blocking the way with the support of attorney general william barr. Yeah. And schiff is now warning that the Inspector General
Volker. Washington post reporting george kent testified about the meeting in his under oath closed door adopti door deposition. George kent met with investigators despite being directed by the state department not to do that. According to officials familiar with the investigation, the state Department Directed george kent not to appear and sought to limit his testimony. The House Intelligence Committee issued a lastminute subpoena organized him to appear, and he complied with that subpoena. George kent is the second current Top State Department official to defy a request not to comply with the houses impeachment inquiry, a request given to him by his employers is he state department. The first was marie yovanovitch, former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine who President Trump ordered to be removed from her post. She is still state department employee, but she did testify. The New York Times reports george kent raised concerns to colleagues early this year about the pressure being directed at
The New York Times. Tonight, about the preliminary attempts the whistleblower made to get this story reported within a Whistleblower Forum before writing this very detailed document that we finally saw today. And there are so many extraordinary details on it, including the part of you read about william barr being notified about this very early on. And in the New York Times reporting about that, it says a member of the Justice Department went to the white house to read what is now being called the transcript of the phone call. And then went back to the Justice Department and briefed william barr about it. That means william barr was briefed that his name is in the transcript. Repeatedly. Repeatedly. Right off the bat. And that the central claim that the whistleblower was concerned about, the president imploring this foreign country to help him out with some dirt on his country in the 2020 election. That central scheme is one in which the president implicated william barr multiple times
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