dealings. we have joe maguire, acting d&i, in front of the committees next week. joseph maguire has a tough line here, where he has a complaint from someone in his own intelligence community, but it s about his boss. so if you were in the house or the senate next week, what would you be asking of acting d&i month gier? i would ask him who told him he could not disclose this to the house or senate. we believe, we know that it s the department of justice, it s barr and olc essentially be a. why this piece is less relevant, if you do an analogy to the mueller report, this is the obstruction of justice part of it. this is just a sort of piece which they re trying to hide this information from coming out. and so it s relevant because obviously we want the information that the whistleblower knew, but it surely seems already we know a lot of it already. trump has not denied it. giuliani has already said it. so if you re in the senate or
the united nations general assembly next week. so this issue sure to remain front of mind. alex? yeah, that s right. acting d&i joseph maguire testifying to the house and senate intelligence committees. lots of questions for him. thank you so much. now this is a very complicated story involving lots of different people, lots of different strands. so let s take a quick look at how we got here. what should have been a routine call between world leaders was anything but. on a july 25th call between president trump and his ukrainian counterpart, trump pressed him to work with his personal lawyer, rudolph giuliani, on digging up dirt on joe biden s son. the white house said the two presidents discussed strengthening the relationship without giving specifics. ukraine said they talked about the investigation of corruption cases which inhibited the interaction between ukraine and the usa. in may the president s lawyer, rudy giuliani, said he was going to ukraine to push the new
whistleblower complaint as the ukraine witch hunt. striking out yesterday in the oval office, and again today on twitter, against this whistleblower complaint and trying to paint it as some kind of a partisan exercise. that, of course, alex, ignores the role that the inspector general for the intelligence community has played. this is somebody who was appointed by president trump, confirmed by the u.s. senate last year. and he, in fact, has taken the extraordinary decepof going to step of going to congress and making clear he disagrees by the acting director of national intelligence to not share this complaint with those congressional lawmakers of those relevant intelligence committees. so that all continuing to play out. but alex, this is not going anywhere. we know that next week the acting director of national intelligence is expected to testify on capitol hill. and the president for his part, he is going to be meeting actually with the ukrainian president on the sidelines of
president to investigate joe biden and his son s links to a gas company. he canceled the trip, but then in july went to madrid to meet with an aide to president zelensky to talk about biden. biden s son, hunter, had served on the board of a ukrainian gas company which ukraine s prosecutor general was supposed to be looking into. but in 2016, joe biden, as vice president, played a prominent role in getting the prosecutor fired because he had been ignoring corruption. biden joining other countries and groups in the widespread push to get ukraine to clean up its act. fast forward to 2019, and president trump, his lawyer, and many supporters pounced, accusing biden of helping out his son. now there are questions about whether that push by trump and giuliani is tied to the late august move by the white house to put a hold on $250 million in military aid for ukraine which was later released. on september 1st, vice president
bring health care to all americans under a medicare for all system. mr. vice president, you want to be president of the united states, you need to be able to answer tough questions. i guarantee you if you re debating donald trump, he s not going to let you off the hook. mr. vice president, there s a saying in my community, you re dipping into kool-aid and you don t even know the flavor. joining the table, rick stengel, former editing manager for time magazine. a big picture question about biden last night. obviously came into it as the front-runner but all sorts of questions that i think really revolved around his performance. was he going to show people he was up to it? that s the question so many people were asking after the first debate. did he succeed last night? what was your sense of biden s performance? generally the consensus is he succeeded and managed to hold on to enough voters and policies and he was air articulate enough. i will step back because this is a differ