we have not been presented with a complaint, so we don t know precisely what it has to say, but we do know the inspector general did a preliminary investigation, found that those conditions were met, those are the conditions required by the statute that it be an urgent concern that it go to a flagrant or serious abuse. and the inspector general found that needs to be provided to congress. mm-hmm. the process allows him to provide it first to the director of national intelligence, and then the dni has seven days to give it to us. there s no discretion. it says, they shall give it to us. they can add their comments to it. they can say, we didn t find it credible or urgent or whatever, but there s no discretion to withhold it. but we would later find out from the inspector general that they had never presented this to us. how long ago did this happen, do you know? i think three or four weeks ago, the complaint was filed. the inspector general then had two weeks to do the investi
another of a series of efforts to cover up misconduct, conceal it from the congress, conceal it from the american people. but you don t just to be clear, you don t know who this alleged whistle-blower is or what they are alleging? i don t know the identity of the whistle-blower. they haven t contacted you or their legal representation ha t hasn t contacted you? i don t want to get into any particulars. i want to make sure that there s nothing that i do that jeopardizes the whistleblower in any way. but here s the other thing. the director of national intelligence is supposed to not only forward the complaint to us, they re supposed to instruct the whistle-blower how they can communicate with congress. they re unwilling to do that. they don t want the whistle bloeler blower talking to congress. they don t want us to know the substance of this complaint. and they ve put out a statement, the office of dni put out a statement today saying, we are currently reviewing the request
the records until donald trump and his attorneys have the opportunity to go to court. but the same issue has come up in washington when congress is trying to get the tax returns from the accountants as well as from the internal revenue servi service. the accounting firm is saying, look, we re going to abide by a court decision, but you have to tell us what to do. we re not you, the judge, not simply rely on the subpoena. david, what do you make of the fact that the d.a. is asking for the past eight years of returns, i think, as you said, going back to 2011? why do you think that date? well, there have been a lot of questions throughout donald s career about whether he was laundering money for people. i and other people have taken apart some business transactions he did that make no sense from a normal business perspective but would make a lot of sense if you were helping someone illicitly move money around.
if they had and followed the law, they would have provided the materials to our committee. they brought in outsiders to this process. now, whether they were imposed on the dni or the dni sought a justification to withhold this from congress, we don t know. i want to ask you about something that congressman eric swalwell, your colleague on the intelligence committee tweeted, today responding to the president s attack on the mueller report. he wrote, quote, that s cute. you think we re done with the mueller report, stay tuned. the intelligence community not done with the mueller report? we are still investigating some of the issues raised in the mueller report. for example, in bringing michael cohen before our committee, he lied about the moscow/trump tower project that president trump was pursuing even as he was saying he had no business dealings with russia. we re trying to determine were others involved in the creation of that lie. just lastly, president trump suggested today th
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