those set of outcomes. shepard: the nation s top diplomat did not answer any questions about whether the president asking ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent raised any red flags for him. here at home, president trump is on a profanity laced attack which has continued from morning tweets into the afternoon. the president ripped on the whistle-blower and house democrats during a meeting of the oval office. president trump has said he deserves to face his accuser, even though whistle-blowers identities are protected by federal law. i reported he says whistle-blowers deserve protection but only if they are legitimate, as he put it. he called this whistle-blower biased and part of a political hack job. today president trump went after that person sources. president trump: the whistle-blower wrote not that conversation. he wrote a vicious conversation. in other words, he either got it totally wrong, made it up, or the person giving the information to the whistle-blower was di