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Is that promising an explanation or insight into how the united states gets some of its most precious secrets? it has to be something troubling enough that it not only triggers this complaint but then prompts the inspector general regarded as so urgent and concerning that congress needs to know about it. that s right. a trump appointee deems it of such urgent concern. greg miller, thank you for helping us understand this reporting. terrific work. joining us now is cnn national security analyst john turner. the former director of communications for u.s. national intelligence. john, thank you very much for being with us this morning. you just heard all of the reporting from the washington post. what do you make of what we re finding out about this whistle-blower complaint? alisyn, i m sorry, i missed your question. can you say that again? i had some feedback? just tell me your take on the ....
Not allow that to happen on his watch as president. okay. so this complaint, this concern was raised with the intelligence community inspector general. a trump appointee who then determined and did what? well, so that s right. that s an important step here because this is a complaint registered or filed by an employee of one of our nation s intelligence services. but then immediately it is evaluated by the inspector general as you mention a trump appointee who deemed it an urgent concern. right? he sees this as credible and worrisome enough that it meats a threshold that he believes requires immediate notification to congress. and that s where things get messy. that is where the director of intelligence, the acting ....
Breaking news. cnn has learned it was president trump s communication with a foreign leader that led a u.s. intelligence official to file a whistle-blower complaint. the washington post reports that the president made a promise a promise that was so troubling to this official it prompted the official to report it and even more importantly it prompted the intelligence community inspector general a trump appointee to deem it was of urgent concern. joining us now, john avalon cnn political analyst and rachael bade for the washington post. a trump appointee thinks this is of such concern congress needs to know. the question is what was the promise, to whom, and what does it say about the president s notion of intelligence? what it says about the president is that the president of the united states appears to be a security risk. the intelligence community is concerned that the president can t be trusted with classified ....
Intelligence community. in this case you had an individual who did the absolute right thing. they raised this concern. so this has a chilling effect on the process, the proper process. and so for other individuals out there who have legitimate claims, legitimate concerns, they might think twice before going to the inspector general. and that s absolutely the opposite of what we would want to see in cases like this. thank you. a lot is going to happen with this case today and you re following it. i think you re exactly right a lot is going to happen today. i can t imagine the white house can stay silent on this for six hours. based on my forensic analysis of how he s. responded to news, there s no way he ll stay silent here. i m very curious to see what he ll say about this. you re monitoring twitter so you ll be the first to know. political upheaval strikes one of the most visible leaders. justin trudeau under fire for this photo shows him dressed in ....
Jurisdiction. it s not up to us to notify congress. we ve also suggested that this might trip on executive privilege argument which always points to the president or senior officials at the white house. it is interesting to me because as we know the president does have power to declassify information. we also know the president has been loose with classified information. he just has. this has been an issue dating back to oval office meetings with the russian ambassador. he tweeted maps from iran. but there is a distinction here, maybe, and it may be an important one between classified information and a promise. this may not be the divulging of classified information. this was something that was promised of such national security concern that this person went to the inspector general. sfl ye yeah. and so what is that? is that promises the suspension of u.s. intelligence operation? ....