now have figured it out, the entertainment i made to the president of ukraine, a good man, a nice man, was perfect. reporter: back to a quick response from the whistle-blower s attorney who tweeted the intel community whistle-blower is entitled to anonymity and law support this and the individual is not to be retaliated against. doing so is a violation of federal law. lobbying grenades from his social media bunker, the president tore into chairman adam schiff for mocking mr. trump s call at a hearing last week. tweeting adam schiff made up a fake and terrible statement. arrest for treason it is a disgrace. this whole thing is a disgrace. there has been tremendous corruption and we re seeking it. it is called drain the swamp. there has been corruption on the other side. it has been corruption like you ve never soon. reporter: white house aides have grown frustrated with him clinging to a bogus conspiracy theory that it was ukraine and not russia that meddled in the 2016 election
targets. reporter: that s right, wolf, president trump is continuing to lash out at the whistle-blower complaint that s launched these impeachment proceedings. the president stayed behind closed doors for most of the day as the white house wrestles with whether it s time to start setting up a team to advise him and counsel him on his strategy and so on. they believe the ukrainian investigation is getting worse for the president, more than usual. taking cover in his social media bunker, president trump is painting the mysterious whistle-blower as a turncoat who can t be trusted, tweeting, he hadn t a whistle-blower at all. in addition, secondhand information, there may not have been somebody else, a leaker for spy feeding it to him or her. a partisan operative. but one key part of the whistle-blower s complaint is adding up as the white house
the most damaging allegations in the complaint. let s go to the chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. the president has been on a twitter tirade over this. he certainly has, wolf. president trump is continuing to lash out over the whistle-blower complaint that s launched these impeachment maneuverings on capitol hill. the president was behind closed doors most of the day as the white house wrestles with whether it is time to beef things up in terms of its team for the fight that s coming up on capitol hill. one source close to the white house told me this afternoon a lot of people in the president s orbit believe the ukraine investigation is worse than usual for the president. taking cover in a social media bunker, president trump is painting the mysterious whistle-blower as a turn coat that can t be trusted, sounding more and more like the so-called whistle-blower isn t a whistle-blower at all. in addition, all secondhand information that proved to be so inaccurate, there may