elk. frowith that, enjoy the elk froa distance and enjoy the rest of your saturday. we ll be back tomorrow. and the news continues from new york. take care. arthel: a political firestorm sweeping across the nation s capital. house democrats subpoenaing america s top diplomat. president trump firing back on twitter, and adding to the drama, an abrupt res is resignation. l hello. i m arthel neville. eric: i m eric shawn. the u.s. envoy for ukraine has resigned after his name was mentioned in the intelligence community whistleblower complaint. house democrats are intensifying their i impeachment inquiry afr secretary of state bomb way yowo documented the trump administration s dealing with ukraine. this as the president continues
mincing words about all this yesterday. he s going rogue. i think where they re going is the coverup of the coverup. that s very sad for them and to have the justice department go so rogue. they have been for a while. now it makes matters worse, that the attorney general was mentioned, that the president was mentioned and yet the justice department directed the director of national intelligence to take this to the white house. which he said yesterday was unprecedented. reporter: unpress. eric: jerry nadler weighed in earlier this week. he quoted, tweet, the president dragged the attorney general into this mess at a minimum, ag barr must recuse himself until we get to the bottom of this matter. should he? jamal jaffer joins us, former chief counsel and senior advicer for the senate foreign poll you
to weigh in on this, tweeting, quote, could you imagine if the do nothing democrat savages had a republican party who would have done to obama what the do nothings are doing to me. oh, well. maybe next time. the democrats have a lot to say about that. we have live coverage with the latest reaction, spanning the nation s capital. lucas tomlinson this washington bureau. mark meredith is at the white house with the latest from there. reporter: president trump is out on the golf course this saturday, he is golfing with lindsey graham along with two others. the president has been tweeting and repeating some of the comments we heard during the mueller probe. the president tweeting out this morning, quote, presidential harassment. the be president is getting some backup from key lawmakers on capitol hill, claiming house democrats are r determined to impeach, not legislate and investigate.
role. that s a question that if my colleagues wants to ask, that s fine. i ve had some concerns. again, double standards are a greatly of concern to me. i ve seen it play out all throughout this entire year. so if you have no problem with, for example, john kerry talking to zariff and rouhani and undermining the president but you have a problem with rudy giuliani and his role here, that s fine. arthel: those are two different things. you have private citizen giuliani, which we re not showee have security clearance or not. and you have a former secretary of state. nancy pelosi is taxing three committees with overseeing the initial phase of the impeachment inquiry. what do you think these committees most likely will hone in on and what does it tell you about the direction of the inquiry? they re just trying to find anything to come up with any type of a charge in order to impeach the president.
advice about whether you should turn over a complaint regarding the white house? mr. chairman, as i said in my opening statement, i believed that everything here in this matter is totally unprecedented. that individual works for me, therefore, it is my job to make sure that i support and defend that person. dana: one of the biggest take aways, it accuses the white house of putting the transcript of that call in a separate computer system mostly used for classified information. it reads in part, quote, in the days following the phone call, i learned from multiple u.s. officials that senior white house officials had intervened to, quote, lock down, unquote, all records of the phone call, especially the official word for word transcript of the call that was produced as is customary by the white house situation room. this set of actions under scored to me that white house officials understood the gravity of what had transpired in the call. and president trump firing back after arriving