So to another point, you know, one of the issues that arose out of the russia investigation last congress was a question over the latitude provided to the u. S. President to conduct foreign affairs. In 2017, i asked then cia director brennan how he viewed statements made by president obama to russian president medvedev regarding more flexibility to negotiate after his 2012 election. And president medvedev replied he would transmit the information to vladimir and that medvedev stood with president obama. That was in an open hearing. Director brennan wouldnt entertain my question and insisted on not answering, due to the fact that the conversation was between the heads of government. Thats what he said. He further claimed he was avoiding getting involved in political partisan issues, which brings me to a similar question related to this whistleblower complaint. One, you said this executive privilege is unwaverable. I think thats consistent with cia director brennan. Congressman, only the
Important for americans to hear. But on page one, and im not going to improvise for purposes like the chairman of this committee did, im going to quote directly. On page one, the complaint reads i was not a direct witness to most of the events described. Like a very important like to look into and i think the American Public love questions in particular about that line. My question to you is, for the record, the dig fully investigate the allegations into this complaint at this time . Has the ig fully investigated the allegations of the complaint . Earlier, i believe that the Intelligence Committee Inspector General did a thorough investigation of the 40 day timeframe that he had, and under that time to the best of his ability made a determination that it was both credible and urgent. Thate no reason to doubt he did anything but his job. When you talk about a full investigation, the veracity of the allegations in the complaint, there were many references to white house officials. Do you
While futures are off their highs following the release of that complaint but we will still be up about 50 points on the dow, up maybe 4 on the s p, 4. 5 on the nasdaq. We were higher than that before the whistleblower complaint was released. We have come down a little bit but not that much. Look, this is going to be a very big day for politics and of course, for your money. You are going to see Speaker Pelosis news conference. Thats in our 10 00 hour. The speaker owns the impeachment process. She favors quote, a quick, narrow impeachment probe focused on ukraine. Hold on. Theres a great deal happening on the corporate front as well. First off, peloton goes public at 29 a share. This is another big name ipo which is losing money and its facing lawsuits from music stars who want more money for appearing on the peloton workout screen. We will show you the first peloton trade. How about this. An aboutface for mcdonalds. Yes, they are planning a meatless burger. Watch beyond meats stock go
The. We were first told about it a week and a half ago and told very specifically that the whistleblower did not want to get any of this information out. They didnt want it to leak out, so there were only a few potential groups of people that would have known about this complaint. Is. Too people within the Inspector Generals Office and the whistleblower and whoever that was whistleblower gave this information to. So what im trying to ascertain, how it would run in the Mainstream Media. They have the basics of it it involved the president of the United States talking to a foreign leader. So, did anybody, you or anybody in your office leak this to the Washington Post or nbc news . Ranking member, i lead the Intelligence Community we know how to keep a secret. As far as how that got into the press i really dont know. I know its all over the place. Its been reported by different media for the past several weeks. Where they get their information from i dont know. So it was not from the Inte
Beginning at 8 00 eastern. Well hear from adam schiff. Well stay here live. We want to know what you think as well. 2027488920 is the number for democrats. Republicans use 2027488921. For independents thats 2027488 2027488922. Well take a look outside the Rayburn Office building where we expect to hear the chair of the Intelligence Committee adam schiff to hear about the testimony of Joseph Maguire who took over as acting director of National Intelligence august 16th, just over a month ago one day after dan coates stepped down. President trump announcing that coates would step down from that position. The phone call with the craukra president happening in late july this year and the acting dni taking over on august 16th. The whistleblower complaint was filed in mid august as well on august 12th. Were live here on cspan 3. Lets go out live and wait for congressman schiff to come to the cameras. The whistleblower complaint was released this morning just as the committee came into session