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we are not fooling around here, though. behind closed doors in a secure facility, the state department watchdog met congressional staffers, offering what was characterized as an urgent briefing on ukraine. one democrat described curious documents. this packet of information is simply meant to advance the conspiracy theory that mueller s findings, that there was a sweeping systematic campaign by russia to interfere with our campaign, was alicia s. kurt volker, who resigned after his name surfaced in the whistle-blower campaign. republicans accused democrats of searching for a crime. they ve been trying to impeach him literally from the day he was elected. and they know the transcript is not enough. fox news asked whistle-blowers legal team if there was a single contact or multiple. they told us our client officially filed concerns in august, adding there was no contact between the legal team and congress until nearly a
because family members may not understand. i came from a navy family and my family had a really difficult time understanding why i was taking on the chain of command. there s family trust issues. there can be professional trust issues. then you wonder about your whole career because especially if you re young you ve just mapped out a different course for yourself. you don t know where it goes and it could go on for another 20 or 30 years. that s why many people don t speak out about many controversies at work. dan, thank you so much. thank you. we have more on our breaking news. the president increasingly rattled over the impeachment inquiry saying the intel chair committed treason as democrats up the pressure. plus we re waiting for this mysterious briefing on capitol hill by the state department watchdog as democrats accuse the secretary of state of trying to interfere with witnesses. $9.95 at my age?
my question, to john s point, is are there more whistleblowers? if this whistleblower is protected and i hope the whistleblower is protected but it s a big if because look at what s going on in the country. but if this whistleblower is protected, will there be more whistleblowers? could that be what we re talking about here? does this always start to unravel? i don t know the answer to that, but donald trump can call it the deep state. the inspector general is somebody that he appointed in the intelligence community. sometimes when you rail against people for a couple of years and call them deep state and say they re not patriots and they re not doing their job, sometimes it comes back and hits you. we re waiting for two events now. president trump s news conference and also the state department watchdog s urgent briefing on the hill. plus i m going to speak live to a former whistleblower.
there s trump hotel stationery dividing it up and then basically a reese of clippings series of clippings, some undated, unspecified memos that basically make ambassador jovonovic look bad that target hunter biden and say he s been making millions and millions of dollars. but nothing is really authenticated or verifiable. so it s kind of worthless. one of the reporters why did the i.g. give it to the fbi? is this an assumption that somebody was why give it to the what was the thought of why they needed to hand it to the fbi if it s, as you said, sort of standard issue propaganda? you hate to call it that, but in this town we re used to it. well, as i understand it from the i.g., most of it was way outside of his jurisdiction. it did not relate directly to department of state employees in its entirety. some parts of it did. but he basically felt like it should be turned over to someone, and i there are things in here that could be