water are slowly being restored. i'm brianna keilar. erin burnett out front starts right now. out front next, breaking news. the state department inspector general just requesting an urgent briefing on capitol hill about ukraine. one congressional aid calling the request highly unusual and cryptically worded. plus, a key witness mentioned multiple times in the whistle-blower's complaint about the president's call to ukraine, agreeing to testify, how key could he be? and 2020 democrats reporting new fund-raising number, tens of millions of numbers raised. what does this mean for the crowded field going forward? let's go "out front." good evening, everyone. i'm kate bolduan in for erin burnett. out front tonight, we have breaking news in the fast-moving impeachment investigation. the state department inspector general has just requested an urgent briefing tomorrow on

capitol hill. according to sources the meeting is related to documents on ukraine. the timing, unusual to say the least, given one, that congress is on recess, but also because of the fact that just hours before the secretary of state mike pompeo made clear to house democrats that he's not going to comply with their requests in this investigation. just a short time ago house democrats responded to pompeo saying this, any effort to intimidate witnesses or prevent them from talking with congress including state department employees is illegal and will constitute evidence of obstruction of the impeachment inquiry. interesting word choice there because just this morning pompeo said the very same when he told the house essentially to back off writing this in part, i'm concerned with aspects of your request that can be understood only as an attempt to intimidate, and bully, and treat improperly the distinguished professionals of the department of state. pompeo said he would not

tolerate such tactic and this is all to depose state officials. man y manu raju, what do you know about the state department ig tomorrow? >> i am told by multiple congressional sources that this request for the private briefing in a secure room in the u.s. capitol tomorrow came after mike pompeo made those remarks to send that letter to capitol hill saying essentially that the state department was not ready to comply with the state request and the subpoena related to the documents with the ukraine matter and the scheduling for depositions for five former and current state department officials. i am told about an hour after that pompeo letter came out and the inspector general sent a cryptically worded letter, highly unusual letter to several house and senate committees asking for an urgent briefing.

now in this very brief and vague letter the inspector general says that he has obtained some documents from the legal adviser of the state department and also says as it relates to the ukraine matter. it is uncertain, of course, what exactly this mean, but of course, what drove this impeachment investigation was a separate inspector general of the intelligence community who deemed a whistle-blower's complaint urgent and credible. it was a complaint as we know now raised concerns about the president's phone call that he had with the ukrainian president which the whistle-blower alleged was part of president trump's, fort to get ukraine to interfere in the 2020 elections. now will the inspector general of the state department offer anything different, offer more information remains to be seen or perhaps provide more documents that mike pompeo is not willing to provide, still uncertain, but this vaguely worded letter has gotten a lot of attention among staff members on capitol hill and lawmakers

and staff members will be in this briefing tomorrow and we'll see how this affects the impeachment investigation going forward, kate. >> yeah. fascinating how this is playing out today. thank you so much, manu. i really appreciate it. out front now is jamie ras kkin and he's a member of the oversight as well as judiciary committee. what do you know about this briefing or meeting with the state department's ig? because we are told it will include staffers from your committee. >> yeah. i don't know anything about it other than it's happening, and it appears to be in response to the letter that secretary pompeo sent to congress, and that lettere has some kind of pr he appears to think that he can stop the witnesses from coming in to testify. the humorous thing about it is that he's posing now as the great defender of the professionals in the state department when apparently, he

was on the phone call listening in with donald trump and the president of ukraine as trump trashed the u.s. ambassador to ukraine and called her the woman and said that they were going to get rid of her. he didn't do anything to defend her at that point, but now that he basically wants to put the state department in lockdown in terms of information. he's pretending that somehow he's defending the personnel who works there. >> i'll ask about pompeo in a second, but about this meeting tomorrow, i know that all of the reporting will be attended by committee staffers. will you be at the meeting? why not go to the meeting? >> you know, i may go to the committee. i have not spoken to the chair or chief of staff. >> that might be them right now. i'm just kidding. >> on the -- about the secretary of state mike pompeo and him

saying that the house is trying to intimidate and bully state department employees. i know you say it's almost comical, but is that what you -- is that what the committees are trying to do? are you trying to make the state department comply. all of this is about the bullying of donald trump who withheld $391 million in military aid that congress had voted to go to our besieged ally, ukraine, which is fighting against russia and vladimir putin. donald trump held it up. he delayed it and then engaged in the now infamous conversation where he said though there is something that we want from you and that's something, of course, was the information that he thought would be damning about joe biden and joe biden's son. >> congressmen, the key question, i think at this moment is if pompeo doesn't comply, if

he stonewalls, if he can, then the real question is what are you going to do about it? what do you propose? >> well, this is the situation that we've confronted all along now with the trump administration. >> with little success. >> with little success because we've never seen an administration this lawless or this reckless before in u.s. history. >> be that what it may, the reality that you're working with is you have an attorney general who has been held in contempt of congress and that has gotten you very little on the back side of it. >> here's what we've got. here's what we've got. one, we can hold them in contempt and try to go to court and that reports to the department of justice which reports ultimately to bill barr who is clearly part of the new racket operation so that's not going to work. we have inherent powers of contempt that we haven't used yet and they go back to the 19th century when the supreme court said in anderson versus dunn in 1821 that congress has the exact

same powers to enforce its orders that a court does. so he's temping us, he's essentially inviting us to go back into dust off those old powers. >> that includes finding them or arresting people. >> we can find them on a daily basis and arrest them like my constituents who were arrested in the last congress who were 19 high school kids from bcc and montgomery blare high school who were sitting in paul ryan's office to do anything about gun safety. they were arrested and taken down to d.c. jail and i went to bail them out at 1:00 in the morning. >> do you think that's going to happen? >> know that we know how to arrest people. we do have police power in the capitol, but that's not all, and we can interpret obstructionism at this point and one is obstruction of justice and we can go in civilly and we can try to get it prosecuted and we also can interpret it to be an implicit or tacit concession or

admissi admissions of the factual --? you take that and move on with your investigation. >> we'll take that as an admission that you're throwing up everything as a roadblock. we're not messing around. >> i think this is key. i'm just excited about this, obviously. -- just excited why i keep cutting you off because i have so many questions. when you get to a point when you say enough is enough and we've asked you and you now move forward with the vote regardless of you could be looking at a situation where you get no information and no more information from the administration? >> well, look. all of the information we've got indicts the president of extraordinary crimes against the united states. essentially, was there a shakedown of a foreign government to extract or produce political dirt on an opponent using his leverage, $391 million in military aid and then that's a total sellout of our

constitution, our election and our system of government and our people and then they tried to cover the whole thing up and we're trying to get more details so we can have a more complete understanding and if that's all they leave us with that's all they leave us with and we're going to act. >> i keep hearing soon. when is soon? >> well, there, i know the media always wants to know, but we'll keep you on the edge of your seat because there are still remarkable things that we know that will be coming out soon about the criminality and the corruption of this white house. the fact that attorney general barr is overseas looking for evidence or looking to create evidence in order to debunk the mueller report produced by a distinguished republican prosecutor appointed by a republican is just an amazing turn of events and you have to ask yourself what is it they're looking for because the mueller. >> reporter: s while there was a lot of evidence of contacts

between the trump campaign and in fact, there wasn't enough evidence to indict for conspiracy. so what they're obviously going after is the finding that mueller made that there was system attic a systematic campaign by russia to destabilize the election and they're still doing the bilddin of vladimir putin. >> this is right before the house of representatives right now. thank you, congressman, for coming in. appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. out front next, breaking news. we are learning one person in the impeachment investigation will speak. one of the most powerful republican comes out against the president slamming the attacks on the whistle-blower. is it starting to show any cracks and a new poll on what the republicans think about the president's call to ukraine's president. is the president's defense working? if you're 65 or older, even if you're healthy,

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breaking news, tomorrow's deposition with the ukraine, is off, but kurt voekel, he's a special envoy to ukraine who just resigned. he is still planning to meet behind closed doors on thursday. volker is mentioned multiple times in the whistle-blower's complaint about president trump pushing ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son. including this part which says, quote, based on multiple readouts of these meetings recounted to me by various u.s. official, ambassadors volker and sandland reportedly provided advice to the u crawnian leadership about how to navigate the demands of the president had made with mr. zelensky. former director of the nixon library, tim naftali and nia

love. nia, what do you think this means that volker is going to be talking? he's mentioned in the whistle-blower complaint multiple times. how key could he be? >> well, he's the person that rudy giuliani -- >> i think you said nia. >> sorry. thank you. >> my whole life, and so, yeah, this is the person that rudy giuliani has been talking and he's waiting around his phone and those text messages and he's sort of the conduit between rudy giuliani and folks in ukraine and we do know that after this conversation that the president had with zelensky. at some point you've got this ambassador volker going over and talking to zelensky. what did he say? was he actually counseling zelensky in terms of how to deal with the president? how much did he know about this idea of whether or not there actually was a kind of quid pro quo in terms of the money held up? we'll see, if he's a democrat

and you see that he resigned and he's now not necessarily under the auspices of this administration because that freed him up to be much more candid because we see pompeo trying to put the brakes on the folks in the state department cooperating with his impeachment inquiry. >> the fact that just returning to some of the breaking news that we're talking about, the fact that we have the state department's ig requesting an urgent briefing with hill staffers and on ukraine documents tomorrow, what can that mean? >> there's so much we don't know about and first of all, it feels highly unusual for the inspector general of the state department on ask to brief this committee. second, we know that it's related to ukraine documents and in addition to what nia just mentioned about giuliani's communication, it appears that there were a number of people from the state department there, five state department employee, who they've asked for testimony and documents and so there's going to be a lot material there potentially. so what this says whether it's because there are issues with turning it over or there are

people saying not to turn it over, we have no idea and it's bad to speculate other than to say it's highly unusual and it's going to mean something quite important for the committee. >> and with so many committee staffers that will be there and it's an interesting thing that they're coming together for this briefing and the timing of it is right, and it also comes at the very same time that the secretary of state is making clear that he's not going to comply, tim. at this point it's basically anything that the house is requesting. what kind of dynamic does this set up? >> well, kate, the speaker pelosi's decision to create an umbrella of six committee impeachment committee changes the rules and there are things that a committee can ask for from the state department that the state department could refuse that it can't refuse if it's an impeachment inquiry. that was a precedent established

by george washington in 1776 and he responded with the advice of the third secretary of state timothy pickering and said you can't get those materials, but you can if it's an impeachment inquiry. i'm sure the state department lawyers understand that there is a constitutional requirement to respond to an impeachment inquiry and that's one of the key pow ears on interesting. >> that's one of the key powers that speaker pelosi has basically given these house committees by saying this is officially an impeachment inquiry. so i think what'sf state is moving in another because we have a secretary of state who is deeply ignorant of historical and constitutional precedent. >> well, on that exact point, congressman love, you served in congress with mike pompeo. you know mike pompeo. you see what he's doing now making clear that he's not going to volunteer when it comes to the investigations and request. what do you make of his position? >> okay. so i think that mike pompeo is

acting in a way that shows that he is not trusting the process. the fact that speaker pelosi didn't do an impeachment inquiry as a vote on the house floor he believes that he doesn't have to comply. he believes that the proper way of actually going about this is to do a house vote making sure that everyone knows where all of the dems stand. i haven't heard of any republican in the house of representati representative that says they would support an impeachment and they're saying, look, if you want to force the administration to comply with this you have to make sure that you're going through with what he believes is the proper way. he does not trust this process at all. >> trust it or not, congresswoman, why would you not want to clear the air or state department of any of these accusations if there's nothing there there and just comply? >> look, i agree. i think that he just does not trust the process and they're

actually saying if i tell you, a lot of members of the house of representatives are saying, why not just hold a vote on the floor so that way, being able to go out and have teeth when we're asking for you to comply with this information. so i think that that's one of the -- this is the -- look, there is this political, believe it or not, there is a political game being played with the american people where you have got one aspect of the house of representatives that does not want to put people on record and you've got an administration that doesn't want to just hand over information because they don't trust the process. i'm just telling you what the two sides are behaving the way that they are. >> i think the congresswoman is exactly right. they are trying to put democrats in a position of having to actually put some skin in the game with votes, and they believe that nancy pelosi doesn't actually have the 218 votes and she had the 218 people

say they're for an impeachment inquiry and it's different to get on the floor and get those folks to vote, but listen, i imagine even if there was a formalized vote or impeachment inquiry, do we really think that -- exactly. >> can i just say that secretary pompeo can make this argument and that's a much better argument to make if that is indeed what's going on here and that they want there tooba know, official resolution that by the way, is not required in the constitution, and why not make that argument, if that's what's going on here make that argument and instead of stone calling and giving the question that you consider the whole question to be illegitimate. >> we're in a fascinating moment right now. thanks, guys. appreciate it. president trump is facing new pushback from one of the most powerful republicans in the senate over his attacks over the impeachment inquiry? should the white house be concerned right now? senator lindsay graham going through great lengths to defend

president trump. oh, how times have changed. >> impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.

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qualifies as a whistle-blower the protection laws are just not part of whistle-blower protection law or any agency policy, this after trump demanded to learn the identity of the whistle-blower ask tried to discredit the allegations claiming they couldn't be believed because they included second-hand information. a be bee philip abby philip is . >> reporter: kate, it's not know avalanche by any stretch of the imagination, but chuck grassley is notable. there have been a few republicans who happened to speak up and mitt romney and ben sasse about what's in the call, and grassley's criticism strikes at the heart of the president's counter argument against this whole saga, but it's coming from someone who the white house has taken criticism from before and the president has not been particularly willing to fire

back on grassley. as you pointed out, he is very senior and comes from a politically very important state and this is not the first time he's been willing to say to president trump directly and he doesn't like the direction he's going in either in his rhetoric or in his policies and so i think that's one the reasons why you've seen the president really refrain from firing back at grassley as he often likes to do when people challenge him. i mean, even if you look at the way that he responded to mitt romney it was quite different. the president tweeted out a video mocking mitt romney for losing the 2012 election. the response to grassley has been marketedly different, and it remains to be seen what effect grassley's commentary will have on other republicans, most of whom have been very much hesitant to criticize president trump in the wake of this whistle-blower scandal. there is clearly, according to some republicans, a lot of quiet disagreement with the president and not much has been public, but coming from grassley, i

think, this is a different moment here for president trump. >> it's a different ball game and will the response be different? thank you, abby. everyone is back with me. nia malika henderson, what does it sig in i phynify to you? what effect do you think it has? >> the president is his own person and seems to want to demonize this whistle-blower and suggest that he's going to out him and needs to challenge him. i think the question is does it make a difference with people like lindsay graham, people like tim scott, people on the house side who have been criticizing this whistle-blower essentially saying oh, it's hearsay and first, if you don't have first-hand knowledge or if you have second or third-hand knowledge it does not really koucht count as the whistle-blower and this is the critique that you've heard from republicans and here is grassley, a senior statesman,

a real republican and he was a republican along before donald trump was a republican and septembering that sober wing of the republican party so we'll see if it has a quieting effect among the republicans out there who were pushing this talking point about the whistle-blower and trying to undermine him and discredit him or her, whoever it is. >> him or her. the first line of defense that they line up. congresswoman, do you agree with grassley? what do you think? >> i absolutely agree with him. he's doing his job. he is saying, look, if anybody else wants to come forward and they have important information they have to be protected, and so, you know, that gives grassley quite a bit of credibility and i do find it interesting that the president didn't attack grassley the same way he attacked so many other people who have come up and just asked the question -- >> and they haven't checked twitter in two minutes and still appropriate, right? to say that's always really interesting and this is a president who requires 100%

loyalty and if you come after him you better make sure that it's worth it. so it's probably why you hear so many people they're carefully picking their words and they're choosing very carefully and i think senator grassley is, like, i've been here for a long time and i know exactly what i'm doing and this is what's right and we have to protect our whistle-blowers and that means other people won't come forward with important information. >> grassley is on an island on himself and that's not an outrageous position to be taking. >> right. >> what we've alluded to, ann, how other republicans have responded quite differently to what's played out. if i have to generalize here, it falls into basically two camps and how they've reacted so far and it's one, the complaint's based on hearsay and the whistle-blower so it can't be believed. two, the rule it is of what can be reported as a whistle-blower

complaint were just changed to accommodate this whistle-blower with allegations coming at least in part secondhand. the intelligence community's ig is the one who actually spoke up about this and responded and essentially said that is wrong. >> that's right. those points that you're making are absolutely wrong. why are they so focused on this hearsay argument, i wonder? >> right. you're right about the inspector general who said the rules haven't been changed and they've been the same rules for over a year and that's a really important point to hearsay is an argument, and hearsay is a complicated thing and we sit with law students and they don't even understand what it is. it relates to courts and this isn't even a court. so the idea that hearsay applies here or is the issue here is really for lawyers. it's absurd, frankly, but it sort of sounds like oh, i've heard of that, hearsay is a statement that somebody else makes and it is very important to know that all of us make comments all of the time to law enforcement and police act on

911 calls on information that are given and you can use that second-hand information to start an investigation, but what's really important here is the whistle-blower said i have both first hand and second-hand information. >> right. >> number one, number two, you have the source of the information donald trump not only corroborating it publicly and we also have the memorandum of the tape. and so it really is, and lastly, you have a lot of corroboration for what the whistle-blower has said and it is an absurd argument and it's a smoke screen that on its face until you push through it people can say i've heard that. >> in a world where the sound bite matters that's where it is today and the ig in the rare statement coming out to say that is wrong is a really remarkable thing for me to see. leading on the historical perspective, we've seen some criticism from other republicans like senators romney and ben sasse, but we are nowhere near a tipping point and no one should pretend that the senate or republicans are there at all. why not historically speaking?

what does the nixon model teach folks here today? >> well, first of all, the nixon process was very different and most of the investigation had happened and a lot of it was public so the public knew about the enemy's list and the public knew that there was a taping system and the public knew there was an insider named john dean that was a part of the cover-up and it was a saturday night massacre that was a public event that got democrats and republicans say there was an inquiry and there was a lot in the air already whereas now the investigation is just starting and so what i expect to see is serious republicans who are institutionalists will say things as marco rubio did which is i will wait for the facts and that is what we'll wait what happens and the facts will come out and there's more to come and i'm not suggesting where this is

going, but where every day there's just a little bit more information. so i suspect that there won't be first of all, tipping point in the nixon case came after the impeachment articles were passed and the real heroes in terms of the process, the profiles and courage were not the leaders of the republican party and there were republicans in swing districts and who said i've seen the evidence and the president is guilty. so i'm not even expecting leaders of the republican and rank and file to be partisan. >> that's fascinating, guys. i appreciate it. out front next, president's controversial phone call with the president of the ukraine is working. plus the new 2020 numbers are out and what does it mean for the race going forward?

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tonight, a new poll showing only 40% of republicans believe president trump talked to the ukrainian president about investigating joe biden. the problem, this is something that the president himself has already admitted. look no further than the call transcript that was released and the president in his own words. >> all of the corruption taking place it's largely to the fact that we don't want our people

like vice president biden and his son creating to the corruption already in the ukraine. >> out front now, cnn political commentator joe lockhart. he, of course, was president clinton's secretary. >> sure. >> 40% of the republicans in this monmouth poll believe reality isn't reality. this is a fact that president trump brought this up to -- brought this up in the call, and i think this is important, this poll number is important because it says a lot about what folks are listening to. >> sure. >> or taking in when it comes to the -- when it comes to impeachment. what do you think this actually means, though, that people don't want to hear it? people -- that it's too complicated or too early on? >> it's a little of those things. mostly it's the polarization of media, which is if you sit and watch -- you believe only your

news source. >> if you sit and watch channels you would think you're in between planets that fox news presents whatever donald trump wants them to present and whatever the reality is. this one is not that hard to understand and we are very early in the process so that's why i think there is some ignorance out there about the underlying fact, but they're not hard to understand, and that's a problem for trump because me has admitted this. he has released documents and evidence admitting, corroborating his own admission. >> i also think this is also bad -- this is also bad for democrats, to see numbers like this because if you can't lay out the case, you can't convince people what happened, and you can't explain to people what happened and -- >> i think that goes to how early in the process this is. and one of the problems with the trump and white house defense is it's not sustainable because when he is basically saying this was a perfect call, a perfect

call. >> right. >> and then more and more information comes out that undercuts him every day, you've seen it. the hearsay argument now gone. this is just a rogue whistle-blower now, you know, gone. they would be much better if they'd just come out earlier and said, you know, you know how the president is. he doesn't -- he doesn't stand on diplomatic norms. he had a couple of things he wanted to talk about and in no way did he imply he was threatening them. he didn't do that. they did nothing wrong and this was perfect, i'm perfect. >> i do want to ask you because it has gotten a lot of play today and in the past couple of days, the republican response to taking on the whistle-blower and defending the president, and of course, you look back at the past to inform the pressent and the future. when you look back at clinton impeachment you have republican lindsay graham who is strongly defending president trump by now, but a lot of moment that

the days are returning to in 1999 with the piechment proceedings. listen to this. >> you don't even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic because impeachment is not about punishment. impeachment is about cleansing the office. impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office. >> different time, different process, different place. when do you think in living through that process, what do you think when you hear that in today's light? >> i didn't believe he was being sincere then and i don't believe he's being sincere now. lindsay graham has been very clear. he's talked on the record in a "new york times story" about the reason he defends trump the way he is and he has to be re-elected and in north carolina it is this way. >> it is political survival and

it does say something about his character. >> these are serious issues neither sides should play politics with. >> both sides are playing and it is political. that's the problem. >> you know, listen, i think -- again, it is a political issue, but if you compare tim jordan and lindsay graham to how nancy pelosi has conducted herself, holding back for months and months and months, under withering criticism from democrats about why aren't you going further, i think the democrats had the upper hand about being more serious about the issue. >> is this early days or a democrat is about to move soon as democrats are saying and i'm not sure where we are, but it's good to see you. >> sanders, buttigieg and harris all bringing over big bucks and what does it mean for the path forward and jeanne moos on the path to the white house. >> hey you. saturdays happen.

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the story line. where elizabeth warren was very much rising. and bernie sanders has come forward with a big number. tonight he brought up a $1.02 week ad run in iowa. he wants to project he sees it as a three-way feet. but it's left the where the money coming from. the two big unknown was you who big is warren numbers is this it could be the top of the field and then how might rough might it about for joe biden? is it possible joe biden comes in fourpgt behind warren and sanders and pete buttigieg. >> regardless there are a handful that have staying power because of the cash. and then you have president trump's numbers. and what he raised -- what he has raised along with the -- can with the rnc. his campaign has now twice as much carbon hand than obama did at this point in 2011. what does it mean for any

democrat that's the nominee taking him on in the general. >> this is an' normz war chest. you combine the mona president trump can spend on tgs, facebook ds adz all over social media with the power of his twitter account which he has shown an ability to frame the message to frame hits opponents. epps positioned to be very strong general election nominee while the democrats fight it out. >> good to see you per capita. >> god tooz you. >> thanks for being here. a lot of money. youfrpt forget the witch mount jeanne moos on the mouse hunt that consumed the white house.

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. a mouse in the white house. and more. here is jeanne moos. >> a runaway mouse, a hunk of cheese and out of control catering cart, almost enough to take your mind off impeachment.

>> there he goes. >> the mouse in the white house with be. peter alexander tweeted, a mouse literally fell owl of the ceiling in the white house booth and landed on my lap. the press gave chase. the rogge ended up in the brechg room. inspiring a tweeted cartoon showing a cornered rodent and endless jokes about the rats jumpingship. it's the whistle-blower it's preferring to remain anano mouse. someone tried to tape sticky side up or the wedge of cheese from the journalist str a show who crashed the photo-op between the italian prime minister. asking pompeo to give it to president trump before being hustled away. the stunt meant to protest

possible tariffs on italian food products, pompeo patted his belly. without cheese as bait, the press gave up the bait back at the white house. but the mouse wasn't the only thing running amok in news cycle. like a rodent in circles this catering cart spun wildly. >> it hit the airplane here is goes. >> to the rescue an american airlines team member rammed a cart with this vehicle. that's how the ramp instructor did it. but someone spun the rescue into a political meme labeling the out of control cart as the trump administration with nancy pelosi and republicans looking on helplessly. boom here comes the whistle-blower. >> that's how do you it. >> nothing mousey about this whistle-blower. jeanne moos.

cnn, new york. >> important note is the mouse is still running around the white house. just saying. >> thanks for joining us. alaska 360 starts now. ac 365 starts now. and good evening from washington we begin with tonight with breaking news with all the signs of something big. cnn has learned gnat state department's inspector general has sent what sources describe as an urgent email requesting a bipartisan congressional staff briefing tomorrow related to documents on ukraine. one congressional aide called the email highly unusual and cryptically worded. this comes at the end of a day that saw the state department and three house committees battling over depositions from key players in the ukraine story. with allegations of