investigation, committee members or staff are fact witnesses about contact with the whistleblower and the whistleblower process. democrats say their colleagues are missing the big picture. a profoundly important thing by alerting the intelligence community and intelligence committee of the state, lacked. reporter: the newly released remarks from thursday s session from the special envoy to ukraine show he drew a distinction between rudy giuliani s investigation and us government policy stating really giuliani continues to have a negative view of ukraine based on assertions of actions in 2016 and this viewpoint is likely making its way to the present, rudy giuliani does not speak for the us government. public text messages between senior diplomats indicate
michael atkinson said he did not disclose his contact with the democrat-led house intelligence committee. the whistleblower was a registered democrat who had a prior working relationship with a high-profile democratic politician and atkinson said that he had no knowledge of how an schiff tweet in late aug about ukraine aid and rudy giuliani neared the substance of the whistleblower complaint before it was declassified and shared with congress. the chairman could have been more precise in his earlier media appearances. democrats and republicans today, disagreed on the significance. chairman schiff should be disqualified fromming running an investigation where his committee, members or staff, are fact witnesses about contact with the whistleblower and the whistleblower process.
lawmakers the whistleblower did not disclose his with the democrat led intelligence committee. ache can i son revealed the whistleblower was a registered diplomat who had a high working relationship with a high profile politician. he had no knowledge of you who a schiff tweet in late august about ukraine aid and rudy giuliani as well as other statements apparently neared the substance of the whistleblower complaint before it was declassified and shared with congress. schiff s spokesman says the chairman could have been more resize in his earlier media appearances. democrats and republicans today disagreed on the significance. chairman schiff should be disqualified from running an investigation where his committee members or staff are fact witnesses about contact with whistleblower and the whistleblower process. this whistleblower did
and then waited for the director of national intelligence to give him the go ahead to present this document and the complaint to the committees which of course the dni declined to do and it wasn t until it became public through the media that the president made all of this available to us. so take a listen to your republican colleague john ratcliff and his reaction to the inspector general s comments today. chairman schiff should be disqualified from running an investigation where his committee members or staff are fact witnesses about contact with the whistle-blower and the whistle-blower process. so he s referring to a new york times story since corroborated and confirmed by chairman schiff which is that the whistle-blower talked to a staffer on the house intelligence committee, somebody on the democratic side and
everything that we learn, every development that comes out. but especially the first witness that s being interviewed kurt volker and the text messages that come out. you handle a lot of whistle-blower complaints. handle a lot of whistle-blower cases. how does this one stack up? of course it s unprecedented. we ve tucked about this. but the evidence being presented now. this is complete validation of pretty much the entirety of what the whistle-blower set forward. i want to raise the idea that a lot of people have complained that the whistle-blower process is flawed, deficient doesn t work well and has issues. but this if you get practical guidance and if you let the political powers that be do their jobs. the whistleblower brought the kblan complaint. it went through the process. the details have come out. the political players are doing