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Into the skicif, the secure are where they can view classified material. they re doing that as we talk right now. and all of this is happening ahead of some potentially explosive testimony tomorrow from the inspector general who deemed that complaint urgent and credible and the nation s spy chief who initially blocked who they initially blocked from essentially going to congress with this whistle-blower complaint. so a lot more drama as a source has told nbc news that the spy chief, the director of national intelligence joseph maguire actually vowed to resign if he could not testify to congress. saying, quote, he never considered resigning but not that he never threatened to, for what it s worth. of course there s been a ton of political reaction today as the allegations surrounding the president are now essentially the center of a formal impeachment inquiry. we ve got a lot oh gto get to, t to unpack. let me go to white house ....
Whistle-blower know that we are going to do everything possible to protect you. thank you. did your address have to do with the ukrainian phone call, sir? adam their there, the chairman of the house intelligence committee. he was just speaking to reporters there. didn t give a lot obviously but he has seen the whistle-blower complaint. you know it s some discipline there when he didn t take a single question there at that point. matthew continetti, i m going to repeat the question so people remember. it was it is it does seem to that republicans those that are comfortable with supporting the president here are trying to make the claim, well, he didn t do anything illegal. and you were saying and you were making a point about previous impeachment so go ahead. right. in those cases it was the president was impeached on the basis of committing some crime. a law that was on the books? correct. okay. what s interesting about this episode is even though there is thi ....
With the viciousness, and when you see little adam schiff go out and lie and lie and stand at the mic. smart guy, by the way. stand at the mic and act like he s so serious. and then he goes into a room with nadler and they must laugh their asses off. they must laugh their asses off. but it s so bad for our country. people have said rush limbaugh, great man, sean hannity said it, a lot of people have said it, mark levin. they said they don t know if one man anywhere in the world with all the men they know or woman that could handle what i ve had to handle. and i think that s true. but i handle it. to me it s like putting on a suit. all right. how about one more question question on the economy. a question on the economy. go ahead. sir, hi. go ahead. hi, mr. president. vpi tv from caracas, venezuela. ....
He said i cannot believe it. you were so i didn t think you had that in you to be so nice. i was nice. i m nice to a lot of people. people don t understand that. but i was. he was shocked that it was such a nice call. he said there is nothing here. and all fair people say the same thing. but i don t like the precedent, steve. i don t like it where you re dealing with heads of state and to think that their call is going to be released. but i felt that and, you know, we spoke to ukraine about it. mike actually called up his counterpart and we spoke to ukraine about it because we wanted to because it could have been if they didn t want us to do it, we would not have done it. but he actually said that was a very innocent call. you can release it all you want. and are you now braced to a long impeachment saga? well, i thought we won. i thought it was dead. it was dead. the mueller report, no obstruction, no collusion, you ....
To the end of it. you mentioned the folks who have been implicated by association here. the attorney general by the president. the state department by rudy giuliani. i would add the vice president who the president casually suggested during that press conference the democrats should go after his phone call with zelenskiy. i imagine there are democratic committee staffers writing that down and pursuing that avenue right now. i mean, there is so much farther than democrat investigators can and likely will go with this. now in terms of people to watch, i would take issue with potentially house republicans breaking away from the president on this. you look at the house republican caucus right now. the focus that are left tend to be the diehards. no, i get that, garrett. i get that, but you know there are 20 or 30 who could have peeled off and he was afraid of that. that s all. reporter: maybe. maybe. i think the ones that are more interesting to watch are senate republicans. i was out ....