inquiry, we doll that, it being loos now based on evidence piling up, what we heard from the whistleblowers past week and conflicting statements, like we re moving in that direction at pretty quick pace. jordan warns it can grind work to a halt in congress. carley: that is what happens on capitol hill. thank you so much. on the whistleblower front, here is jonathan turley s take on what they had to say during congressional testimony last week. jonathan: deal on the table to extend and weiss allowed it to run. why did he tell whistleblowers he didn t have this authority? why when prosecutors signed off it mysteriously die. all those are serious questions and why the scandal is becoming one of the most significant of
action that made sure that the white house could not cover this up, which appears to be what they were trying to do. well, it s worth underlining, too, that richard burr, the chair of the senate intel committee, a republican, richard burr, not exactly a member of the squad, came out and said this is standard operating procedure the way this went down. sam stein, i want to play a clip from this very show september 17th, chairman schiff was on the show and you asked him a question that has raised some eyebrows in the last 24 hours. congressman, a couple questions here on this whistleblower front. first off, have you heard from the whistleblower? are you do you want to hear from the whistleblower? what protections could you provide to the whistleblower? and you said that the dni is refusing to turn over this stuff citing a request from a higher authority. the insinuation left for me and others was that the president himself had intervened. is that the insinuation you sought to provi
whistleblower complaint that has not been submitted to congressional intelligence panels as required. mcguire s office declined schiff s request stating that dni is withholding the complaint from the committee because, in part, it involves confidential and potentially privileged communications by persons outside the intelligence community. a lot to unpack here and congressman schiff joins us now. congressman sam stein has the first question for you. hey, congressman, a couple questions here on this whistleblower front. first off, have you heard from the whistleblower? are you do you want to hear from the whistleblower? what protection cos you provis provide to the whistleblower? and then you re citing a request for the higher authority, the insinuation left at least for me and others was that the president himself had intervened is. that the insinuation you sought to provide and, if so, what basis do you have for making that insinuation?