it s a lot to keep up with, but the reports are and the confirmation first reported by abc this morning is that a second whistle-blower is now involved. now, my take on this is this is another sign that the legal whistle-blower process is working. checks and balances are looking. look, i was going to start the show today by bemoaning how dark these days are. a president blowing his top, asking foreign government to find dirt on hits opponents. calling the press corrupt. chuck todd was right, this national nightmare is upon us. frankly it will get worse before it gets better, but i think there are reasons to be optimistic right now. i think the ugly truth is coming out, congress is getting to the bottom of it. and the nation s leading news outlets are leading the way blowing the scandal wide open. decoding it to the text messages and other messages.
or tried to interfere more in the 2016 election. the russians or the obama administration. maria: yeah, do you think william barr would put adam schiff under oath? well someone needs to put adam schiff under oath. we can t remove a president in a whistleblower process where there are legitimate questions about the role that adam schiff and his team played in that and i m promising you that when you read the inspector general transcript from friday, you ll agree with me that those are questions that adam schiff and his team are going to have to answer and there s no reason, maria that transcript can t be released tomorrow and it should be. maria: we will leave it there congressman always a pleasure, thanks very much. you bet. thanks maria. maria: an important note that john ratcliffe just said that the inspector general report he s expecting we will get it within two weeks that is the fisa abuse report. it is now in the hands of william barr. we ll see if we get that report that will
the inspector general of the community has been trying to through this process and before the documents were public to verify, corroborate, learn more about what was in the complaint about the president s conduct and other related issues to it. and once they engage with the inspector general, any of those officials get that whistle-blower protection. so at least two individuals now are saying that they have knowledge, have insight and are formally challenging the president s account on this through the whistle-blower process. it is important in part and not just adding to the numbers, but we have seen how the president has tried to chip away of the credibility of whistle-blower one, and suggesting a partisan bias and suggesting that the person was not directly involve and the hearsay argument that the president s personal lawyer rudy giuliani has promulgated, and now if there is a second individual or more with personal
reveal and so will anybody else? as a matter of law, and i did a study, because everybody is asking this question, but it appears to me, only limited protection of the identity of whistle-blowers through the official whistle-blower process. if the whistle-blower has talked to an inspector general which is the case with both of the people, the inspector general is forbidden under some circumstances of revealing the identity unless the inspector general believes that it is coming ow, and so there is a little bit of wiggle room there, but it is a limit on the inspector general and not on the president or the president s chief of staff or personal lawyer or cia director or anything else if they find out through some other mean, and it does not seem to me that the law binds their hands from putting that person s name out into the public. shannon, you saw the battle on the morning talk shows over the president s behavior, and this is a sample of the democrats and republicans
overboard, would that help schiff win and i m told lessons from that and what republicans thid he did wrong are helping guide him now. dana bash, cnn, washington. for more on that i want to bring in a person who served as staff director. good to see you nchl that mocking that schiff admits to, did that undermine his credibility, give the president an opening for this kind of unrelenting attack? i think the president is looking for any kind of opening he can get against schiff given how credible the chairman has been at eliciting the evidence of what the president did. i think really it s hard for him because the republicans are trying to make it about his conduct, about the whistle-blower process, and not focus on the president s own actions. clearly the president in your