information today inside the declassified report are allegations of a u.s. president abusing his powers to get reelected next year with the help of ukraine s president and there is an allegation of a cover up that officials inside the white house have trying to lock down and keep secret evidence of that abuse today u.s. president trump again called the allegations part of a witch hunt being carried out by the democrats trying also likened the whistleblower to a spy suggesting he or she should be punished for treason and on capitol hill lawmakers heard from the head of national intelligence joseph mcguire a former navy seal who had only been the nation s top spy one day when the whistleblower report landed on his desk i believe that everything here in this matter is totally unprecedented it was the latest bombshell in a fast unfolding story allegations of a quid pro quo that u.s.