reporter: so the president continues to go after the whistleblower, even though he has said he doesn t know the identity, and jake, as president trump is dangling the possibility of the transcript release, he has been known to say in the past he ll be transparent, such as testifying to robert mueller on russia, and then not doing it, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out, jake. i want to play these latest comments from president trump about the bidens once again just because they re so strikingly bizarre. joe biden and his son are corrupt. if a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they would be getting the electric chair by right now. again, the ukranian prosecutor has said he knows of no evidence of wrongdoing by hunter or joe biden. he s talking about the electric chair. it s hard to imagine any democrat saying what president trump is saying without the republican right flank going
prejudice against trump? he said no. his clients have called for the transcript release and the former f.b.i. agent is pleased his side of the story is now public. sandra: you also have news on the steele dossier as a florida court has unsealed records in a defamation suit against buzz feed. according to the newly released deposition. an aide to mccain gave the dossier to buzz feed. for nearly two years david kramer one time at the state department refused interviews with fox news and our questions over his handling of the dossier which came to his attention during a canadian security conference. it was funded by fusion gps. kramer told the court he believed he was singled out by its author christopher steele to lend credibility to the democratic opposition research. i think they felt a senior republican was better to be the recipient of this rather than a
trump, his continued efforts to discredit nonpartisan investigation of what happened with russia. that s what this testimony was about, what the dossier is about, and what we should be pursuing. we should be pursuing what actually happened here. let the facts go where they will. and i think that s what this transcript release helps us to determine. without any judgment on whether this was right or whether this was wrong, it s a unilaterally move. and it signals a break with the republican judiciary committee chairman, chuck grassley, who we just heard from. what kind of indication is this that the only hope for finding a bipartisan decision on the russia election meddling is going to come from the senate intelligence committee, and from no other committee on capitol hill? well, i think what we re going to find is that the mueller commission and investigation is going to show what the facts are.
be the ones that actually hear that. there will be a transcript release. there s no way the audio is going to reach the public domain. it s only through this cockpit voice recorder, which is the other box, which the tpl would ultimately listen for the ping. is that correct? there s no other way an investigator can tap into any kind of audio in the cockpit, correct? that s exactly right. that data is only captured on that flight recorder, that s right. staying with you, one of our senior international correspondents has been reporting here from malaysian investigators that they believe that this plane was flown by someone. this is their quote. flown by someone with good flying knowledge of the aircraft. and the government sources told him specifically that that left turn, they re treating the turn as a criminal act. either by one of the pilots or someone else onboard. obviously, they know a lot about this investigation, they being the investigators, that we don t know. so what c