Effort over two weeks. If you we were first told about it a week and a half ago and we were told very specifically that the whistleblower did not want to get any of this information out, they didnt want to leak out. So there were only a few potential groups of people that woulhave known about this complaint. You and your people within your office. Yes, sir. The people within the Inspector Generals office. And the whistleblower and whoever that whistleblower gave this information to. So what im trying to ascertain is, how would it run in all the Mainstream Media outlets . Even though they got a lot of it wrong, but they had the basics of it that it involved the president of the United States talking to a foreign leader. So did anybody you or anybody in your office leak this to the Washington Post or nbc news . Ranking member, i lead the Intelligence Community. We know how to keep a secret. As far as how that got into the press, i really do into the kno. But as you said, it has been repo
The. We were first told about it a week and a half ago and told very specifically that the whistleblower did not want to get any of this information out. They didnt want it to leak out, so there were only a few potential groups of people that would have known about this complaint. Is. Too people within the Inspector Generals Office and the whistleblower and whoever that was whistleblower gave this information to. So what im trying to ascertain, how it would run in the Mainstream Media. They have the basics of it it involved the president of the United States talking to a foreign leader. So, did anybody, you or anybody in your office leak this to the Washington Post or nbc news . Ranking member, i lead the Intelligence Community we know how to keep a secret. As far as how that got into the press i really dont know. I know its all over the place. Its been reported by different media for the past several weeks. Where they get their information from i dont know. So it was not from the Inte
Told very specifically that the whistleblower did not want to get any of this information out, they didnt want it to leak out. So there were only a few potential groups of people that would have known about this complaint, you and your people within your office. Yes, sir. The people within the Inspector Generals Office and the whistleblower and whoever that whistleblower gave this information to. So what im trying to ascertain is how would it run in the all the Mainstream Media outlets . Even though they got a lot of it wrong but they had the basics of it that it involved the president of the United States talking to a foreign leader. Did you or anybody in your office leak this to the Washington Post or nbc news . Ranking member, i lead the Intelligence Community. We know how to keep a secret. As far as how that got into the press, i really do not know, sir. I just know that its all over the place and as you said its been reported by different media over the past several weeks. Where t
Here you and i are a competitive disadvantage because neither one of us are lawyers and that may be a badge of honor for some of us. You have lawyers on your staff. Sir i do congressman and your lawyers have looked at this large concern definition thoroughly and if given you advice yes congressman if the black letter law was so clear and black letter how is it that weve got different attorneys given as you in the united different opinions. Thats rhetorical question. That that with respect to this issue. Just to clarify my caucus and was in our group in front of us last week did a very good job of telling us what he did what he didnt do we now know for sure what it is that he was able to do as part of his investigation he did not request records of the call from the president and the reason he did as he did the difficulty working through all of that would have probably meant that he couldnt comply with a 14 day timeframe so even he did not try to. Overrun the white houses executive priv
The chair reserves the right to recess at any time. The president ial oath of office requires the president of the United States to do two thing things, faithfully execute his or her office, and protect and defend the constitution. That oath cannot be honored if the president does not first defend the country. If our National Security is jeopardized or undefended then to successfully execute the office is moot there is no country, there is no office to execute. And so the duty to defend the nations foundational for the president ial responsibilities. But of the second responsibility to defend the constitution quicks what does that really mean we are not speaking of a piece of parchment parchment with the institutions of our democracy to defend the system of checks and balances the constitution and trying to defend the rule of law upon which the idea america was born to be a nation of laws. We do not defend the nation there is no constitution. But if we do not defend the constitution, t