lawmakers about the whistleblower complaint that sparked nancy pelosi s impeachment inquiry into the president. katherine herridge has details on what insiders say happened today. according to sources familiar with the intelligence community watchdog quote session with lawmakers, michael atkinson said was lower did not disclose contact to the democrat led house intelligence committee before the mid-august complaint was filed. the sources said atkinson revealed the whistleblower was a registered democrat, prior working relationship with high profile democratic politician and atkinson says he had no knowledge of how schiff s statement mirrored the substance of the was lower complaint before was declassified and made public. we ve not spoken with the whistleblower, we would like to. reporter: acclaimed republican committee members question. the chairman should be disqualified from running an
information on hunter biden, the former vice president s son. kurt volcker, the ambassador was relatively unknown until his name came up several times and was a lower complaint, the former special envoy to ukraine resigned shortly after the complaint went public. tonight after his 10 hours of closed-door testimony on the hill republicans say was a transparent and credible witness who gave no indication of a quid pro quo by the president s with respect to ukraine. katherine herridge reports from capitol hill. reporter: former special envoy to ukraine kurt volcker navigated congressional security, and the closed-door interview with investigators, he resigned after the whistleblower complaint alleged he tried to, quote, contain the damage from rudy giuliani s ukraine investigation and advise the new ukrainian leadership how to, quote, navigate demands the
republicans saying it undercuts adam schiff s claim. they are calling for the transcript to be released immediately and we got something new from house democrats who say the evidence works in their favor. stick around for the acting director of citizenship and immigration services responding to a police officer suspended for cooperating with federal immigration officials and we will get his response to opponents of the president s immigration policy and charges tonight. we have fox team coverage. katherine herridge with everything you need to know about the ukraine witness our position that did not go as democrats hoped. the president s new strategy in response to democrats impeachment push. donald trump on the offense, the president is scheduled to
but this report actually vindicates the administration, they say it shows pence delivered the white house s message to allies that they should step up their aid to countries like ukraine and they also point out us military aid was eventually released. much more to come. new questions being asked of the chairman of the house intelligence committee. katherine herridge tackling the big one. what did adam schiff know, when did he know it. confirmation the whistleblower reached out to the democrat-controlled house intelligence committee raises new questions about their motivation and potential political bias. democratic chairman adam schiff s spokesman confirmed, quote, the whistleblower contacted the committee for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence community. s office deflected questions on time and whether the whistleblower contact occurred days or weeks before the complaint was declassified adding, quote, at no point to the comm
who has apparently vanished. breaking news from overseas, dozens of protesters in court after he today meant to mark the anniversary of the communist takeover of china. a teenager shot. hong kong police say he would be the one facing charges. the young leader of the pro-democracy movement joins us from hong kong with a message for america. we began with fox team coverage, katherine herridge with the attorney general digging into, mark meredith with a closer look at hunter biden but we begin with jillian turner only developments in the democrats ukraine investigation. what are they up to tonight? democrats are claiming mike pompeo is the fact witness to the impeachment inquiry. using only at the moment, planning a press availability for tomorrow. democrats demand he interfered with efforts to interview state department employees who may