Department that essentially says the president is above the director. Therefore, the president is not subject to the jurisdiction of the director. Therefore, it doesnt meet the definition of urgent concern. Therefore, the Inspector General is done. The Inspector General cant investigate anymore. Thats the Inspector Generals reading of the public opinion, that he is no longer allowed to investigate this. Is that your reading as well . Not necessarily the president , but the allegation has to relate to the funding and operation ability with the director of National Intelligence. Im trying to get to whether the president is somehow beyond the reach of the law. No, sir. No person in this country is beyond the reach of the law. Thats the way it should be, but im trying to figure out whether thats the way it is as a practical fact. The Inspector General believes that based upon the opinion that
you requested of the department of justice, he is no longer allowed to look into this because it d
2020 candidate. We expect President Trump will address the impeachment inquiry and the memo of his july phone call with the president of ukraine. Thank you for watching. Deadline white house with Nicolle Wallace begins right now. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york where we are moments away from the first president ial press Conference Since House Speaker Nancy Pelosis announcement that she would begin Impeachment Proceedings into donald trump. And, donald trump, if youre listening, everything you say may be used against you in the court of public opinion. Donald trump manifesting his own destiny in terms of the Impeachment Proceedings now underway in congress by attempting to run a political Hit Job Operation on joe biden and his son by asking a foreign leader to investigate them. The white house revealing in notes today from the president s call with the president of ukraine that trump pushed the leader of a foreign country to work with his personal attorney
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protected. my point is this. the department of justice has said because this doesn t meet the statutory definition, because this involves the president, the inspector general has no jurisdiction to investigate. now, if this inspector general has no jurisdiction to investigate because the president is above the agency, no inspector general has jurisdiction to investigate. that s the that is the effect of that opinion. do you disagree? i believe that the opinion was based on the reading of the statute and whether or not the situation here is compliant and comes underneath the statute. the office of legal counsel opinion was that based on the criteria you re required to have in order to support this legal statute, it does not. it also said that because of that, it is not a matter of the
so the igs can t do it, according to the department of justice. the fbi can t do it because it doesn t meet their threshold that makes it worthy of investigation. so at this point, this committee and this congress is in a position to investigate. and i want to ask you, going to the whistleblower complaint, whether you believe these allegations are worthy investigation. the whistleblower says, i have received information from multiple u.s. government officials that the president of the united states is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 u.s. election. you would agree that should be investigated, would you not? chairman, the horse has left the barn. you have all of the information. you have the whistleblower complaint, you have the letter from the icig, you have the office of legal counsel opinion, and you have the transcript of the phone call. i m confident dthere is going t
bid. you would agree that that should be investigated? not necessarily, sir. it was investigated by the federal bureau of investigation. no, it wasn t. it went to the department of justice concluded that this wouldn t violate the election laws. now, no one can understand how they could reach that conclusion after the two years we ve been through, but nonetheless, they didn t authorize the fbi to investigate it. you would agree someone should investigate this, wouldn t you? if i didn t, i would not have referred it to the justice department and the fbi. then i m glad we re in agreement. the whistleblower says, they told me that there was already a discussion ongoing with the white house lawyers about how to treat the call because of the likelihood and the officials telling they had witnessed the president abuse his office for personal gain. you would agree that should be investigated, wouldn t you? all i know is that s the allegation. right, and it s credible, and