call to zelensky for, you know, winning his election. that s why there were 12 people on the call. and then in the midst of that call, the president, who is highly undisciplined asks a foreign leader to put a political hit on his opponent. and then his whole staff goes into cover-up mode trying to hide that information, hide that transcri transcript. only one person stood up for the constitution. only one person in that circle so far. there are others that are coming out now, but one lone, courageous american decided to come forward and say, this is not right. this is not right. this violates the constitution. the president should not be doing this. i was surprised that there was only one whistle-blower. now others are coming forward and we re getting much more evidence. so i m relieved over that fact.
not okay. and to say he is protecting our civil servants, no one stood up to protect the reputation of the ambassador who was doing her job in the ukraine, a professional career official, smeared in that transcri transcript. steven mil seler is going on th sunday talk shows, calling them a deep state operative. this is charged unbelievable language and no one is standing up for that person except for the head of the national director of intelligence in is uncharted territory. congress has to take it s time, and the truth will come out. we ll see if they will testify tomorrow. s he is a private citizen now. we hope the truth comes out but in your opinion as a long time state official under three presidents, on both sides of the
intelligence committee. that transcript we don t have. that was closed-door testimony. we do not know if donald trump junior got himself into any sort of trouble in terms of false statements when it came to his testimony before any of these committees on wikileaks or anything. but we do me that ronl erroger has been indicted for lying about his contacts to wikileaks and appears that the grand jury that indicted roger stone for those seven felony counts is still at work and still taking evidence towards some potential future indictment that touches on those same basic sets of facts. and again, i feel i would be remised to not point out that there is now a long trail of fairly insi lly insisting claim multiple committees on congress, that there were in fact problems with the testimony of donald trump junior. and if we are now at the part of the mueller investigation and russia investigation where
transcripts thereof, that s property of the committee and the committee has to vote to release it before the special counsel can get it and the special counsel needs an official transcript before they can take legal action on that basis. well, the committee can t meet to take a vote to release anyone s transcript until they have all their members, right? until the membership of the committee is set and so far republicans won t appoint their members and so nothing can happen on the intelligence committee whatsoever. we reported on that apparent delay last week, the republican house leader ke eer kevin mccar asked about it and said it s a logistic problem, in terms of when the house speakers election. he said the republican members would be named very soon. definitely this week. we ve been through monday. we ve been through tuesday. those members still have not been named. congressman adam schiff said the first order of business once his committee is formally convened
picked ci arks da director was describing it as a hostile service that embedded actors like russia. donald trump junior was communicating with wikileaks after the public claims even after everything we learned about how wikileaks worked with the russian government to help them interfere in our election during 2016. now we know two of the three congressional committees donald trump junior testified before asked him details questions about interactions with wikileaks. we know he was asked detailed questions about communications with wikileaks in the senate judiciary committee because it was released publicly so we can see that transcript of that testimony. the washington post also reported that donald trump junior s communications with wikileaks were the subject of x extensive discussion when he testified to the house