see it in black and white. and that is just what they are claiming that the president really could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot someone in cold blood. not only are they now claiming that he could not be indicted for doing that, they are now claiming he could not be investigated as to whether or not he did it no matter how many people saw him do it in broad daylight. and that brings us to by far the biggest news of the day, which is this whistle-blower story which is now going officially nuts. now, this story s been percolating since late on friday night. it really blew up in the 9:00 hour last night in the middle of our show when the washington post published this sort of headline for the ages. president s communications with foreign leader are part of whistle-blower complaint that spurs standoff between spy chief and congress. president s communications with foreign leader, what s that about? the post reporting last night that this whistle-blower complaint that ha
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themselves on a story that we have been covering pretty intensively for the last couple of weeks. it s this astonishing policy decision by the trump administration to specifically target dying kids or kids who are receiving medical care that was keeping them alive in this country and that they can t get in other places. the trump administration specifically targeted those families last month and sent them these letters. boilerplatelete letters advisin them they had 33 days to stop their life-saving medical treatment and gettous of th out country. with no way to appeal, no second chances, nothing. initial contact, final declaration. trump administration never announced this policy decision. they just sent out these letters and i guess maybe hoped that they would get to do this without too many people noticing because, hey, it s just immigrants, so who cares. well, those brave families went public with the fact that they had received these letters. in some cases, these kids went
if the department of justice is taking the position you re not covered. and, you know, the people who do come forward, they re assured that if they do, their complaint will get to congress. and so a lot is riding on this if those promises are hollow, then it means these important sources of information about wrongdoing are going to dry up. congressman adam schiff, chairman of the house intelligence committee, sir, thank you so much for your time tonight. i know this is an ongoing fast-developing story. we d love to have you back whenever we ve got further developments to talk about, sir. thank you. thank you very much. all right. much more to come tonight. stay with us. stay with us
light after so many years of silence we may be able to make a difference. and there is this story about getting people to put their names to the story. finding the victims. once you found the victims, once you re hearing the story, once you re recognizing the similarity between all the stories, getting people to put their names on them. but that s not it. that doesn t get you to where you need to be. and jodi, i feel like the decision to write this essentially as a journalistic thriller is to put at the center of the story this idea of provable fact. it s not just accusation. it s not just coming out. it s about telling the story in a provable, objectives way. absolutely. in part because these events have come to mean so much to so many people, we realized that people did not know the true surprising story of how this unfolded behind the scenes. and so we wanted to put that to paper and to take you into all of these situations. the first very tentative phone calls with these actres
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