it s coming fast and furious and alley is back with us to break it down because you ve sent in so many questions to him and this is where we are bringing you your answers. okay. we have a lot of documents, obviously, already at congress disposal when it comes to this impeachment inquiry. can the house impeach trump just on written documents or need to call witnesses and do any other investigations? so the short answer is yes, the constitution very broadly gives the house sole power of impeachment. whatever the house really decides is good enough is good enough. now in 1998 when bill clinton was impeached, the house impeached him based solely on the ken starr report. there was no additional witness or investigation but i think we re looking at a different investigation. there are still so many unanswered questions and i think the house needs to continue to doing an investigation. we re already seeing new information come forward, the texts last week now a second whistle blower. at a
being killed by a u.s. helicopter in 2007. she was convicted and sentenced to 35 years for the leak but president barack obama commuted her sentence in 2017. the same year manning was convicted whistle blower edward snowden began leaking classified government material to the media in a documentary film maker. the more you re ignored, the more you re told it s not a problem until eventually you realize these things need to be determined by the public. reporter: snowden a cia employee and nsa contractor shared documents for the national security agency about far-reaching surveillance programs. peoples lives are at risk because of data that. reporter: among other things, snowden was charged with giving defense information to someone without a security clearance and revealing classified information. he s living in exile in russia.
will more career public officials come forward with more information? there is a second whistle blower but courage tends to be contagious in this situation and third, will more republicans start to show cracks, start to show some support for an impeachment inquiry? we ve seen romney leaning that way and collins giving indicators and this more than anything else will determine ultimately the fate of this presidency. thank you and thanks for staying with us for all four hours and keep your questions coming in. viewers at home, submit them at cnn.com/opinion. we ll be right back. this is the family who wanted to connect. and find inspiration in new places. leading them to discover: we re woven together by the moments we share. everything you need, all in one place.
phased at the news of another whistle blower and a short time ago the white house sent out an official response. let s bring out jeremy dunn. the president tweeting a lot today. anything about this second anonymous person? what we have heard from the president is continued criticism not only the first whistle blower but the second whistle blower, as well. falsely alleging that this second whistle blower has only second-hand information when the opposite is true. what we learned is the second whistle blower has firsthand information to corroborate the initial whistle blower s complaint. we are getting a statement from the white house press secretary and essentially it says there is nothing to see here. here is the statement. it doesn t matter how many people decide to call themselves whistle-blowers about the same telephone call. a call the president has already made public. it doesn t change the fact that he has done nothing wrong. now despite that statement, what we do know is that
the vietnam war known as the pentagon papers. the name has come out as the possible source documents, that of daniel ellsberg. reporter: the pentagon paper showed the government mismanaged the vietnam war and lied about it. ellsberg was charged under the espionage act of 1917 with theft and conspiracy. but the charges were later dropped due to government misconduct. ellsberg s disclosures as a whistle blower are credited with helping end the war. i couldn t carele less about the punk. i wanted to discredit that kind of activity. reporter: decades later in 2013, former u.s. army soldier chelsea manning was convicted after sharing nearly 750,000 military and diplomatic documents with wikileaks related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan. i stopped seeing just statistics and information and i started seeing people. reporter: included in the leaked material, a video of iraqi civilians and journalists