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You put it all together and the democrats dealing with him obstructing congress at every turn on legitimate congressional oversight and inquiry, they don t have a choice. bill, i want to ask you about how the republican party specifically republicans on capitol hill are going to process this. let me first show folks what has played out in the last couple of hours though. mitt romney, trump critic certainly from the 2016 campaign, now a senator from utah, he was asked and here is what he had to say. i think that it would be very helpful to get to the bottom of the facts to follow the law to get us there, that would include the whistleblower as well as the transcript of the conversation. and if they don t? well, that is up to the house to decide how to proceed. but it is very much i believe in the public interests to get this resolved and be able to move on. so there is mitt romney, former republican nominee obviously calling for that whistleblower complaint to be made availabl ....
Investigation and congressional investigations of that, the white house is pretty much stonewalled on just about every request they ve had from congress. they exerted executive privilege to prevent former aides from testifying. they refused to hand over documents. so this is just another example where they re not going to give an inch. so far and some of these cases are making their way through the court system but so far it has been a pretty effective strategy for the white house and has put democrats kind of on the defensive and confused about their next step. i think the way the trump white house views it is they re going to fight every single thing and win or lose ultimately it s a win to sort of be aggressive toward the democrats, put them on the defensive, and make them fight for every bit of information. anita, there has ban school of thought out there, certainly you heard this during the mueller investigation, the mueller saga, some political level, some strategic level the ....
Investigation. and they, senator or speaker pelosi in her letter she sent to members yesterday used the strongest language she has used so far and implied that the lack of turning information over is part of the problem, too. and ashley, following up on that, procedurally it is my understanding when there is a whistle blower complaint like this the inspector general deems to be of an urgent nature that procedurally congress is then supposed to have the opportunity, intelligence communities are supposed to have the opportunity to review that whistle blower complaint. obviously the white house administration is currently fighting that. what is your sense in the trump white house? is that a battle they think they can win long term or is there a sense this is ultimately going to come out in some form? well, i would put it sort of in a more historical context. this is one of many battles. if you look back to the mueller ....
When he was running for president. he said that he would sit down with robert mueller. that didn t happen. so this could be one of those loosy with the football kind of things and likely will be. the president in his remarks did mention something that is a legitimate concern which is that these foreign leader calls happened under the idea that they are not going to be made public. that the contents and in particular transcripts won t be made public. earlier in the president s administration there was major controversy when some of these transcripts were leaked. there are legitimate concerns about publicly releasing these sorts of things. it isn t just the transcript. it is also this whistle blower complaint that is being blocked from congress. i think what s happening now and where democrats look to be headed is saying the white house, the trump administration is actively blocking an ....
Intelligence community used when this whistle blower complaint was brought to him. he saw this, evaluated it, and judged it to be an urgent, credible national security issue that needed to be brought to the attention of the congressional committees and leaders of congress. so, i mean, i do think that there is real national security concern here. and across the intelligence community, which i cover, i mean, the idea that a president would use the levers of government for political gain is deeply troubling. so beyond how this plays out in the white house there is this other dynamic of how it plays out across the entities in the state department, the pentagon, whose moneys were being withheld possibly for political purposes. tamara, what can we expect? we mentioned here in terms of democrats and where they re going from here, all of these new calls for impeachment tonight. meeting of the house democratic caucus tomorrow. ....