Will be back tomorrow night. 8 00 p. M. The show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. Hopefully, with great cheer and not bitterness. Sean hannity, speaking of cheer, is a new york tonight. Sean all right, tucker. I think we have Breaking News tonight. Good show, tucker. Its going to take the full hour to get all of us in. We are going to break this down. Will give you all the news and information the mob will never give you. Heres whats happening. Well start with a summary. The psychotics, and to trump hysteria, it is now completely overtaken the entire Democratic Party. What is happening is dangerous to this country. It is grossly political. It will forever alter how any president in the future, in his constitutional role as commanderinchief, will be able to communicate freely with other World Leaders. The world is less safe and secure tonight as a result of yet the latest partisan witch hunt. Well break it all down. What we have, though, at the root
this had enormous chilling effect on both the folks that would come forward to report wrongdoing in that administration but also intended to suppress officials in the conduct of their duties. to this day we see folks being too scared to come forward, too scared to come out and speak up against the corruption they re witnessing. and i think that was the wholest. it undermines democracy, good order and governance. and i think it is absolutely important for me, the victim in this case, to attempt to hold these folks accountable. we have a very strong case. there is a great deal to believe that donald trump and his inner circle, including don jr., ska serena, hahn and rudy giuliani all conspired to retaliate against me, to attempt to silence me, and punish me for reporting wrongdoing. okay. let s talk specifically here.
american people deserve to know who the whistle-blower is. democrats have resisted that pressure so far arguing that lives could be at risk and releasing the name could scare off future whistle-blowers. there is also the question of the law pertaining to this. whistle-blowers are protected from government retaliation which means they can t be demoted or fired. they have a limited right to remain anonymous, government officials cannot reveal their name. when it comes to their media as brit hume pointed out last night, all bets are off. there is an internal government system to protect people inside the government from being retaliated against for reporting wrongdoing by their superiors or by others in their agencies. it is binding on people inside the government. it is not binding by the media. martha: charlie hurt s and richard fowler, national syndicated radio host and
that. martha: with regard to the whistleblower, clear investigation report, not seeing his name, this person s name. we don t know if the investigation report is accurate, although this is sort of bounced arounda quite a bit. what is your thinking from journalistic perspective on this whistleblower, given the circumstances that surround this whole situation? brit: remember the whistleblower system internal government system designed to protect people inside the government from being retaliated against for reporting wrongdoing by their superiors or by others in their agencies. it is binding on people inside the government. it is presumably binding on congress, i m not sure about that. it is certainly not binding on the news media. so someone is a whistleblower and issues a report that leaks out and turns into a huge, big controversy as has happened in this case, we in the media are under no obligation legally or
right, which includes reporting wrongdoing. i m committed to protecting whistle-blowers and ensuring every complaint is handled appropriately. i look forward to continuing to work with the administration and congress to find a resolution regarding this important matter. another item on what is truly a historic day. joining us to talk about it, cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, gloria borger, and david axelrod. jeff, there s a lot we don t know. there s a lot people in congress don t know. what do you want to know that you re not going to know by the end of tomorrow or that we may know if this transcript is released and the whistle-blower is allowed to say something? right. these stories tend to get more complicated, not less complicated the more you dig into them. just for example some of the things we need to know, how many contacts were there between the president of the united states and the president of ukraine? was it just this one phone call?