The Ukrainian Government adopted a unilateral position in favor of one candidate. More than that, certain oligarchs certainly with the approval of the Political Leadership funded this candidate or female candidate to be more precise. And if there was ever any doubt about who benefits from this unfounded theory put forward by President Trump and his associates, President Putin made it clear very recently when he said thank god no one is accusing us anymore of interfering in u. S. Elections. Now theyre accusing ukraine. In the face of clear evidence, not only from Intelligence Community experts, but from his own National Security team that russia, not ukraine, interfered in the 2016 election for the benefit of donald trump, President Trump still pressed the Ukrainian Government to announce an investigation into this Conspiracy Theory. Why . Because it would help his own
political standing. President trump even saukt sought to with hold an Oval Office Meeting from the president of ukraine
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congress and the acting director of national intelligence about the reported now promise that the president allegedly made to a foreign leader. tonight we will talk with someone who was inside the closed-door house intelligence committee briefing today with the inspector general who is at the heart of this controversy. we re also really lucky to be joined tonight by two intelligence community experts who have a lot to teach us. joel brenner is the former inspector general at the national security agency. he was quoted in the original breaking news report from the washington post last night. unique perspective on this story. and tom donilon, you have seen him dozens of times in situations with president obama including that memorable photograph from the situation room during the killing of osama bin laden. and harvard law school s recognized authority on constitutional law, professor laurence tribe, will join us later in this hour.
it s not even his complaint. he s just trying to take care of it and protect that whistleblower. he may himself be in their legal crosshairs by doing so if they continue down this road. it s dystopic. and we have a former inspector general joining us tonight. so we will get a view from someone who s been there about how to make sense of all of this. excellent. thanks, lawrence. thank you, rachel. we have so much ground to cover for you tonight in helping us all understand the day s developments in the whistleblower standoff between congress and the acting director of national intelligence about the reported now promise that the president allegedly made to a foreign leader. tonight we will talk with someone who was inside the closed-door house intelligence committee briefing today with the inspector general who is at the heart of this controversy. we re also really lucky to be joined tonight by two intelligence community experts who have a lot to teach us. joel brenner is the form