we start with the breaking news from "the washington post." trump told two senior officials in that meeting in 2017 that he didn't care about moscow's attack on the u.s. election, the election which the russians helped donald trump win the presidency. white house officials were worried of the president's message to the russians according to "the washington post." the last few minutes, we have been discussing the new york times' breaking news story. the white house used a highly classified system to hold the phone records of donald trump's calls with vladimir putin and the saudi royal family. on monday seven freshmen house democrats cowrote an op-ed piece. the piece was entitled "these allegations are a threat" to all we have sworn to protect. joining us is one of the coarthurs of that. jason crowe. congressman crowe. he was one of those seven democrats who published that piece in "the washington post." i want to get your reaction to the breaking news which is a confirmation of the whistleblower's report of the treatment or presidential phone c

let me get your reaction to what the "washington post" is reporting tonight. >> sure. it's obviously another instance of something that's highly unusual and deeply troubling. if these records are being restricted beyond even those with the need to know. so normally these would be handled in a classified manner, and even beyond that, only those that truly have a need to know the information would have access within the security white house system. but putting these records of phone calls that the president has with other foreign leaders into this stand-alone system for especially classified compartmented code word information is troubling because it indicates an apparent attempt to hide that information either because there is misconduct on the part of the president or even potential criminal wrongdoing. that's obviously deeply concerning from a national security perspective as well because it could indicate that there is even a counterintelligence concern at the highest level in the office of the president. >> i want to go to the role of the national security lawyers of

that is according to "the washington post" reporting. and that whistle blower's complaint is supposed to be forwarded to the house intelligence committee, senate intelligence committee. the trump administration is refusing to do that. the chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff has issued this statement tonight. the intelligence community inspector general has agreed to appear before the house intelligence committee for a briefing on the handling of the whistle blower complaint tomorrow morning, september 19th, in a closed session at 9:00 a.m. the acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire has agreed to testify in an open session before the committee next thursday, september 26th at 9:00 a.m. the intelligence community inspector general determined that this complaint is both credible and urgent and that it should be transmitted to congress under the clear letter of the law. the committee places the highest importance on the protection of whistle blowers and their complaints to congress. ben rhodes, the house

this is all according to "the washington post." the complaint was triggered by a promise that the president made to that foreign leader. the big question this morning, of course, is what exactly was that promise? and to whom was the promise made? >> one thing is clear, though. a trump appointed inspector general evaluated this complaint, found it to be of urgent concern which means, by law, it must be reported to congress. the law says that should happen after the judgment call is made. yet so far congress has not been provided with any information. in effect, the director of national intelligence ignoring what is the legal requirement here. >> cnn has a team across washington covering this story from capitol hill to the white house. let's begin this hour with our national security correspondent alex marquardt. we know which leaders the president spoke to in the weeks, you know, preceding this. what else can you tell us this morning? >> the timeline here is very important in terms of figuring out which foreign leader the president w

now "the washington post" is first to report what this may be. fact, the president, as is claimed in "the washington post" reporting tonight, made some sort of claim to a foreign leader, a, quote, promise, a promise that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the u.s. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint, i imagine that this one person is probably not the only person who knows what that promise was. they're coming forward now that the country knows how serious this may be, i imagine will be the start of this story. we've got much more ahead on this ahead. stay with us. ty and a beverage distribution supervisor. now i'm a director at a security software firm. wow, you've been at it a long time. thing is, i like working. what if my retirement plan is i don't want to retire? then let's not create a retirement plan. let's create a plan for what's next. i like that. get a plan that's right for you. td ameritrade. ♪ that's ensure max protein, with high protein and 1 gram sugar. it's a sit-up, banana! ben

joining me is carol lennic, national investigative reporter for the "washington post." carol, the reporting coming out of the post tonight is fast and furious on this. congratulations to you and your team for doing it. but it seems that someone's talking about the fact that yeah, not only did the president do this but there's context around it that should make it yet more worrying for americans. >> i think -- thank you, ali. i think what we're learning is in dribs and drabs what i assume must be painful for some people in the white house and the justice department, we're learning day by day more information about the nature of the president's interest in ukraine and his personal effort to reach down into state and department of defense funding and hold it back from the ukraine while he was, you know, days away from talking to the president and according to our sources pressuring the ukrainian president to investigate biden's son. >> you know, i read to my audience the key paragraph in this story a couple of times, but i want to go a couple paragraphs lower where it says

carol leonnig of "the washington post" remains with us. let's add to the conversation a second. pulitzer prize winning recipient from "the washington post." phillip rucker is the bureau chief. we're fortunate to be joined by jeremy bash, notably former chief counsel to the house intel committee. jeremy bash, please let our viewers know what whistle-blower status is supposed to mean in the law, how it's been enshrined and protected in the law to come up the chain with protections built in. >> well, the law is crystal clear, brian. if you are an intelligence community professional and you observe wrongdoing and you observe it in the context of our responsibilities as an intelligence community professional and you make a complaint about that, either to the congressional committees or to the inspector general, you cannot be retaliated against. you can't be fired. you can't be prosecuted. and so we have an individual, a very courageous individual in our country tonight who clearly observed wrongdoing, an abuse of authority, possible unethical or even illegal acts, as reported by "the

that's all the fault of the washington post but our thanks to carol, phil and jeremy. appreciate it. >>> coming up tonight, a former fbi special agent weighs in on just what we're talking about tonight. what this means to the intelligence community when we come back. of 5g with ultra wideband, so more screaming, streaming, posting fans... can experience 5g all at once. this is happening in 13 stadiums all across the country. now if verizon 5g can do this for the nfl... imagine what it can do for you. and my side super soft? be firm? with the sleep number 360 smart bed you can both... adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. so, can it help us fall asleep faster? yes, by gently warming your feet. but can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. will it help me keep up with him? yup. so, i'll wake up ready for anything? oh, we've got your back. so, you can really promise better sleep? not promise... prove. and now save up to $500 on select sleep number 360 sma

"the washington post" is first to report what this may be. , in fact, the president, as is claimed in "the washington post" reporting tonight, made some sort of claim to a foreign leader a, quote, promise, a promise that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official to file a formal whistleblower complaint, i imagine this one person is not the only person who knows what the promise is. they're coming forward now that the country knows how serious this may be, will be the start of the story. much more ahead on this. s. [dogs barking and whimpering] [dogs whimpering] ♪ the all-new 2020 ford explorer limited hybrid. can tow up to 5000 lbs and has an epa-estimated range of 500 miles per tank. it's the greatest exploration vehicle of all time. but when i started seeing things, i didn't know what was happening... so i kept it in. he started believing things that weren't true. i knew something was wrong... but i didn't say a word. during the course of their disease around 50% of people with parkinson's may experience hallucinations or del

remarkable reporting from "the washington post." this breaking news. president trump in that oval office meeting with two senior russian officials the day after he fired james comey according to "the washington post" tonight in addition to telling them that firing james comey took off a lot of pressure from him in terms of the russia stuff, "the washington post" newly reporting tonight that one of the other things the president said in that meeting was that he was unconcerned about russia having interfered in our election because, no big deal, the u.s. does the same in other countries. had done the same in other countries. it's remarkable to get something new about that conversation now two-plus years after the fact. it's being reported in the context of this new alarm, that is, the center of this impeachment proceeding about how presidential records, how records of the president's contacts with foreign officials are being submarined or being held and in some cases according to a whistle-blower sort of misclassified in order to try to hide evidence of w

"the washington post" adds this. the call is part of a broader set of facts included in the whistle blower complaint that is at the center of a showdown between the executive branch and congress. and "the new york times" reports mr. trump's desire for a ukrainian investigation mr. biden is part of secret whistle blower complaint that is said to be about mr. trump and at least in part about his dealings with ukraine according to two people familiar with the matter. one unnamed source told "the wall street journal" that the president did not mention foreign aid to ukraine on the phone call with president zelenskiy. "the washington post" has new details tonight about the trump white house's role in preventing the acting director of national intelligence. from following the law that requires him to deliver the whistleblower plaint to the committee. "the washington post" reports white house counsel pollone has been engaged in the matter since shortly after whistle blower action surfaced, officials said, helping identity le

"the washington post" went after you this weekend. you would say -- that your reporting was part of the reason that the former ambassador to the ukraine yukonovich was recalled from the he bass i in may. and take you to task for your reporting. i think in the eyes of every other reader and listener to you, i think they find everything you are doing exemplary and often at the forefront of the reporting nationally. >> it's funny to watch "the washington post" call my reporting faulty after the narrative they created on russia. the theory is i wrote a faulty story and that caused the ambassador to be fired. it's just the opposite. i was hearing president trump was trying to get her fired and i reportedut why. a house committee chairman raised concerns that the ambassador was bad mouthing donald trump to foreign leaders. then a group of ukraine prosecutors hired a group of attorneys in washington because they believed she was interfering in internal matters with ukraine. two days before "the washington post" wrought story that i got her u

here's what the "washington post" is reporting now. quote, president trump told russitwo senior russian officials in a 2017 oval office meeting that he was unconcerned about moscow's interference in the u.s. election in 2016 because the united states did the same in other countries. an assertion that prompted alarmed white house officials to limit access to the president's remarks to an unusually small number of people. the po"post" citing three forme officials with knowledge of the matter. quote, a memorandum summarizing the meeting was limited to a few officials with the highest security clearances in an attempt to keep the president's comments from being publicly disclosed. according to this new story in "the washington post," president trump lamented to russian foreign minister sergey lavrov that all this russia stuff was debt mental to relations to russia. he means the interference of russia in our immediately previous election. it is not clear if a memo document that go may 10, 2017, meeting with lavrov and kislyak was placed into

the "washington post" reports president trump's interaction with the ukrainian president troubled the member of the intelligence community who filed the whistle blower report. in an interview with "the wall street journal," rudy giuliani said that he did meet with top ukrainian officials about the prospect of an investigation in june and in august. the journal reports, he said he met with an official from the ukrainian prosecutor general's office in june in paris and met with andriy yermak in madrid in august. mr. giuliani said in an interview this month that he assured him the ukrainian government would get to the bottom of the biden matter. he said his meeting was set up by the state department and said he briefed the department on their conversation. later "washington post," which confirmed part of the "the wall street journal" reporting adds this. the call is part of a broader set of facts included in the whistle blower complaint that is at the center of a showdown between the executive branch and congress. and "the new york times" reports mr. trump's desire for a ukrainian invest

by the way called over to the "the washington post" as we always do and asked the subject of the segmentt. did this happen? and "the washington post" refused to respond to our question and instead issued this absurd little statement about how much they like phil rutger. but i just want you to confirm for us that this is a really important question. this is not a small thing whether or not have you broken an agreement. >> official offense. have yofire-able offense.you thg to work in washington again? this is a very difficult situation for her. granted she bears some responsibility here. clearly you should know that given the acrimony between the press and the administration, and given the fact that there is complete mistrust between the press and the administration and vice versa, the last thing you do is go out to dinner, get overserved, it's like sodium pentagon alcohol at that point an -- pentagon thatand st. no one cares that madeline westerhowt was burned. it was embarrassing to the president. >> tucker: human being anymore. everyone has to be political all the time because of creeps

tonight "the washington post" reports donald trump told the russians that, quote, he was unconcerned about moscow's interference in the u.s. election because the united states did the same in other countries an assertion that prompted alarmed white house officials to limit access to the remarks to an unusually small number of people. that's according to the three former officials who have knowledge of the matter. but in an interview with lester holt just one day later, he treated russian interference more seriously. >> if russia hacked or did anything having to do with our election, i want to know about it. >> well, it is already intelligence virtually for every intelligence agencies that said that did happen. >> i'll tell you this. if russia or anybody else is trying to interfere with our elections, i think it is a horrible thing and i want to get to the bottom of it. i want to make sure will never ever happen. >> now, you may recall there was no u.s. news media at that may 2017 meeting in the oval office. only russian outlets were involved. "the new york times" reported, trump told

there is yet another bomb shell report from "the washington post." it is about what trump told two russian officials, foreign minister sergei lavrov on the left of your screen and sergei kislyak on the right in the infamous meeting in the oval office in may of 2017. the day after he fired former fbi james comey. donald trump told the russians quote "he was unconcerned of moscow's interference in the u.s. election because the united states did the same in other country and assertion that prompted officials to limit access to the remarks to unusually small number of people." in an interview with lester holt just one day later, he treated russian interference for seriously. >> if russia hacked or did anything or having to do with our election, i want to know about it. >> well, it is already intelligence virtually for every intelligence agencies that said that did happen. >> if russia or anybody else is trying to interfere with our elections, i think it is a horrible thing and i want to get to the bottom of it. i want to make sure will never ever happen.

just in the last 90 minutes or so "the washington post" has reported speaker nancy pelosi is quietly asking top allies and lawmakers whether the time has come to impeach president trump. quote, pelosi according to multiple senior house democrats and congressional aides has asked colleagues whether they believe that trump's own admission that he pressured a ukrainian leader to investigate a political foe is a tipping point. she was making calls as late as monday night to gauge support in the caucus and many leadership aides who once thought trump's impeachment was unlikely now say they think it is almost inevitable. just in the last hour, "the washington post" is also reporting that trump ordered a hold on military aid to ukraine days before his call to that country's president. "the post" reports, quote, trump told his acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which trump is said to have pressured the ukrainian president to investigate the son of former president joe biden according to thre

the washington post reported me to a statement, saying one of the best and most reporting in the news business never violated washington post standards or policies. the new york times wasn't off the dinner because you get around the off the record restriction because you were told this by somebody who was off there. >> well, if he's taking that information off the record and giving it to somebody, that is a violation of those policies, the way i read it. now, i don't know what was agreed to. rucker is a really good journalist. i think at some point you need to hear how he handled it. i want to hear the conditions that he agreed to. it may not have been strictly off the record. >> he didn't respond to my e-mail this morning. the post is defending him. the sad thing she's 28 years old. they were having drinks and she said she shouldn't have said and now she's out of a job. >> this woman should not even be a national story. howard: yeah, i think if she hadn't lost her job, obviously this might have gone unnoticed. charlie, great to see you. >> any time. howard: thanks for stopping by as

that's according to "the washington post." d white house officials to limit access to the transcript of that conversation, a pattern mentioned in that damning whistle-blower complaint. joining us former house republican intelligence committee chairman mike rogers and eric ericsson. chairman rogers, what do you make of this new "washington post" report now? >> it's very concerning for me if it in fact is true. the president seems to have a very hollywood, sinister struvif what american intelligence is about and not concerned with the russians and how they conduct themselves around the world. a, it's absolutely wrong and, b, it's a little offensive because you're telling our adversaries it's kind of okay to do what you do, keep at it. that is, in my mind, a little bit dangerous. the russian, by the way, will take it that way. >> eric, just from your standpoint, i'm wondering how you see just the events of this past week. i follow you on twitter and stuff. there's so much to talk about but what do you make of this? how serious do

officials tell the "washington post" that it involves a promise the president made to a foreign leader that was thought to be so troubling it prompted a u.s. intelligence official to file a formal whistle blower complaint with the inspector general. the post says it is unclear which foreign leader the president was speaking with or what he promised but nbc news has learned from a former u.s. intelligence official that it involves a phone conversation. the entire or deal is at the center of the latest battle between the trump administration and congress. after the acting director of national intelligence, joseph mcguir mcguire overruled the inspector general's complaint that it was urgent concern after failing to turn over to congress as require by law. adam schiff accuses the trump administration of illegally refusing to turn over the complaint. and schiff announced last night that the inspector general has agreed to meet with the committee behind closed doors this morning at 9:00 a.m. we are told mcguire has agreed to testify in open session. one week from today. the white house did n

let me read from the "washington post." it says, joe biden traveled to the ukraine, as you said. it was not a demand to stop burisma prosecution and there's no evidence the prosecutor was after hunter biden, the current prosecutor general in ukraine said he had no evidence of wrongdoing by either biden. politifact. we found no evidence to support the idea that joe biden advocated with his son's interests in mind, as the message suggests. it's not even clear that the company was actually under investigation or that a change in prosecutors benefited it. that's three. there are probably 20 more, but go on. you read one as well. >> the missing piece of the analysis for mr. giuliani is that he makes it sound like joe biden was acting on his own, when he was acting as an agent of the united states as its vice president. so that would mean that the whole government was trying to protect hunter biden. and again, hunter biden was in a position -- >> the european government as well. >> -- that created conflict for the father. that's right, that people were moving on this prosecutor, the ti

officials speaking to "the washington post." the paper is reporting that the president's interaction with that foreign leader included what's being called a promise, a promise so troubling that it led the whistle-blower to file a formal complaint. that complaint was reportedly filed on august 12th during a period of weeks when the president had interactions with at least five foreign leaders, including vladimir putin and kim jong-un. again, as i said, there are so many details, i don't want your eyes to glaze over. we're going to explain it and break it down for you where everyone can digest it, okay? much more on that stunning breaking news coming up in just a moment here. >>> and cnn has learned that the house speaker nancy pelosi, in a meeting today, said that former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski's testimony was so far beyond the pale, she thinks he should have been held in contempt right away. where did you hear that last night? on this show, from guests on this show. there's also the president's fired national sec

" just moments ago posted the next big development in this story. this is a story from "washington post" which has just posted, it cites two sources in saying that the whistle-blower's complaint about president trump involves the nation of ukraine. there's been a bunch of speculation about this over the course of the last 24 hours. in part just because of the t e timeline here. i don't mean to be weird, this is going to sound weird, but don't take it that way. if you have been watching this show over the past few weeks, you are probably better equipped to understand what's going on here, this latest version of this story. you are probably better equipped to understand what's going on here than your friends who have better things to do at 9:00 p.m. eastern on a weeknight. so, this story, this part of the story in this new development that this complaint about president trump may involve the nation of ukraine, this is -- this ought to ring a bunch of bells for you because we've been covering this pretty intensively. two weeks ago on september 5th, the "washington post" ran this on th

this comes from "the washington post." been examining whether the president and his attorney, rudy giuliani, sought to manipulate the ukrainian government into helping the trump re-election campaign. they were doing that before this complaint. now, something that may seem confusing as you go through the facts tonight is that the subject phone call that we now know took place in this time frame that people are looking at when this complaint came in, who did the president speak to, who was the leader at that time, he spoke to the president of ukraine. now, that call was already the subject of curiosity by congress because they were looking into these earlier efforts in part announced by mr. giuliani about his intentions of trying to get to ukraine to figure out some things about some of mr. trump's political opponents. so that's where it stands. we happen to have the man in the middle tonight. the president's counselor, former mayor rudy giuliani. good to have you on the show. >> i'm glad i'm on tonight because what you just

"the washington post" reports the president made a promise that was so troubling to this official, that it prompted that official to come forward to report it. according to "the washington post," white house records show that president trump spoke with at least five heads to state in the weeks before this complaint was filed. >> including just for the record, you see it right there, vladimir putin. now the inspector general said the complaint was credible and of urgent concern. that language is crucial. it meets a crucial legal threshold. and the person using it is a trump appointee. still, the acting director of national intelligence has refused to turn the complaint over to congress. in just a few hours, that inspector general will brief the intelligence committee behind closed doors we assume on the complaint while the acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire has now agreed to testify in open session next week. joining us now is greg miller. he's a correspondent for "the washington post" who cowrote this fascinating story. let me read more. trump's interaction with a f

this comes from "the washington post." ts have been examining whether the president and his attorney, rudy giuliani, sought to manipulate the ukrainian government into helping the trump re-election campaign. they were doing that before this complaint. now, something that may seem confusing as you go through the facts tonight is that the subject phone call that we now know took place in this time frame that people are looking at when this complaint came in, who did the president speak to, who was the leader at that ti

"the washington post" has it, just went up on their website. t to read the lead from this "washington post" story. i'm quoting, "president trump told two senior russian officials in a 2017 oval office meeting that he was unconcerned about moscow's interference in the u.s. election because the united states did the same in other countries. an is assertion that prompted alarmed white house officials to limit access to the remarks to an unusually small number of people, according to three former officials with knowledge of the matter. joining us right now is retired cia chief of russia operations steve hall. steve, first of all, this story is just now breaking. i'm wondering what your reaction to this. if "the washington post" reporting is correct, the president telling, you know, russians, russian ambassador sergey kislyak, that he's unconcerned about what russia did in the election. >> anderson, i mean the word horrific comes to mind. i mean first of all, it's tacit acknowledgement that the president was aware or understood that the russians had,

this is what "the washington post" is reporting. laint on august 12th, ath kun son who was the dni submitted it to -- sorry. atkinson submitted it to maguire two weeks later. by law maguire is required to transmit within seven days. but in this case, he refrained from doing so after returning from legal guidance to officials at the justice department. of course that's interesting because we know that sometimes the justice department has seemed lately to be protective of president trump. >> right. to be the president's lawyer instead of the people's lawyer. obviously we are to a great extent dealing in the dark here. we don't know what the whistle-blower was complaining about. one thing i think is important to point out is that virtually all presidential phone calls with foreign leaders are tape recorded. presumably this whistle-blower wasn't sitting there listening on the phone whale this exchange went on. so the whistle-blower probably listened to an audiotape. that seems to me to be obviously the critical piece of evidence. simply

this was first reported days ago by the washington post. a call trump made to the ukrainian leader. >> this is a punk, a punk who is snitching. >> someone that is part of the deep state. >> spying on the president of the united states. >> the trump whistle blower may not be a whistle blower at all. >> that's the rhetoric. that's what's happening on the right. this shows how polluted our information environment is. scoops do breakthrough. scoops have been breaking through all week long. trump and his media wing men will do anything to deny, deflect and distract. that's what's happening right now. they are smearing a person whose secret complaint. some are saying the whistle blower story is a bust. but we still haven't seen the complaint yet. it is like william barr coming out and spinning the mueller findings before any of us were allowed to read it. the press needs to provide clear explanations of what is going on. this is a very complicated story. but here is the big picture from the washington post this morning. he wrote this on the front

yet between the trump administration and congress. new "washington postreporting reveals for the very first time that the whistle blower complaint involves an alleged presidential promise to a foreign leader from that stunning account in "the washington post." quote, the whistleblower complaint that has triggered a tense showdown between the u.s. intel community and congress involves president trump's communications with the foreign leader. that's according to two former u.s. officials. trump's interaction with the foreign leader included a, quote, promise that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the u.s. intel community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the inspector general for the intelligence community. congressman adam schiff on the stakes of the crisis said this. >> we do know that the department of justice has been involved in the decision to withhold that information from congress. we do not know because we cannot get an answer to the question about whether the white house is also involved in preventing this in

just in the last hour, "the washington post" is also reporting that trump ordered a hold on military aid to ukraine days before his call to that country's president. the post reports, quote, trump told his acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which trump is said to have pressured the ukrainian president to investigate the son of former president joe biden according to three senior administration officials. also late tonight, seven freshmen democrats with national security backgrounds wrote an op-ed in "the washington post" saying that if the allegations against the president are true, they represent, quote, an impeachable offense. house democrats will hold a caucus meeting on tuesday afternoon, and nancy pelosi will meet tomorrow with chairs of committees that are investigating the president. we are going to get to all of the latest action on capitol hill in just a moment. >>> but first to recap where we stand at this point, on sunday the president acknowledged he discussed biden with

but the call over the "the washington post," as we always do, and ask the subject of the segment, forment. the "washington post" refused to respond to our question tha to statements. i want you to confirm for us. this is a really important question. this is not a small thing if you're a journalist. the question would be a broken off the record agreement. >> it's a fireable offense. in my opinion. now, you have taken this career of this 28-year-old in madeline westerhaus. do you think she's ever going to work again. grant t she bears some responsibility here. clearly, you should know, given acronym between the press, and the administration and given fact there's complete mistrust between the last thing you do is go out to dinner, get over served. and you start talking, thinking you can tile trust the people that you're with. in this case, it's a means to an end. no one cares madeline westerhaus was burned here by someone. they only care about the message, which i of cree organizations like the "washington post," which are pure political, designed to effect political outcomes. they don'

terrific reporting from "the washington post." jian, good reporting. >>> an apology from justin trudeau after a photo of him in brownface went public. not what the prime minister needed. the existence of the photo was first reported by "time" magazine. trudeau said he did not realize at the time that his actions were racist. >> in 2001, when i was a teacher in vancouver, i attended an end-of-the-year gala, where the theme was "arabian knights." i dressed up in an aladdin costume and put makeup on. i shouldn't have done that. i should have known better, but i didn't. and i'm really sorry. >> trudeau admits he put on similar makeup for a high school talent show. he is tied in his re-election bid with andrew scheer, who said he was shocked and disappointed in the prime minister's actions. he called it open mockery and racism. election day in canada is october 21st. >>> john bolton with blunt criticism of president trump at a private event in new york. bolten slammed the president's approach to iran, north korea and afghanistan. and, q

and then there's this stunning detail published overnight in "the washington post." quote, the complaint also alleges the pattern of obfuscation at the white house in which officials moved the records of some of trump's phone calls from the computer network from where they were normally stored. >> joining us now, democratic member of congress val demings. she is a member of the house intelligence committee. she has read the classified version of this whistle-blower complaint. thank you so much for being with us. that complaint has now been declassified. a redacted version has been turned over to congress. we are told that complaint goes beyond the notes from the phone call that we've all seen now where the president asked the leader of ukraine to investigate joe biden. goes beyond just that phone call. can you tell us in what way? >> well, good morning, john. it's good to be with you. look, this is not a good day for america. this is a dark day for america. but we are -- we did review the classified version of the complaint version of the report on yesterday. we are l

but you and your team at "the washington post" have new reporting about what this involves. >> yes, we reported last night the substance of the complaint involved a phone call that president trump had with a foreign leader. and we don't know for sure yet just who that leader was or w t what -- he supposedly made a promise, trump did, to the leader and we're trying to report out what that promise was. it was concerning enough that an intelligence official reported it to the inspector general of the intelligence community on august 12th. and that launched the series of events that we are now reporting on. >> now, ellen, i know we can't say exactly -- we don't know precisely who the foreign leader was, what call it was. but a lot of attention is being focused on a late july call with -- between the president and vladimir putin precisely because the readout from that -- from the kremlin initially was very different from what was me la -- belatedly acknowledged from the white house. the kremlin reported it first and after a series of calls from reporters here in washington, the white house

the white house press secretary stephanie grisham posted a tweeted saying about the "washington post" story, this is actually not true. we would have gone on the record to say that if the "washington post" had given us more than six minutes literally to respond. that is the only response at this point coming from the white house press secretary. in reaction to this "washington post" story. which if it's accurate as being reported now suggests that there is a very serious schism inside the administration to have the director of national intelligence, acting director, you guys pointed out, to be so up in arms over this threatening to resign, that's a very, very big story in the middle of this complicating the issue whether or not the whistle-blower complaint will be released anytime soon. to anybody's satisfaction. >> you mentioned a schism within the white house. talking, kaitlan and i all had reporting from a couple days ago in the midst of this, there was already a white house divided over this issue of ukraine. i remember one of the quotes from one of your notes on this is like, thi

we're joined by white house reporter for the "washington post" and white house editor for axios. margaret, you're covered washington for some time. there was a law here that requires something clear. dni has to report this to the house in a certain time frame. hasn't done either thing. he's testifying behind closed doors. it's not clearest going into detail. what's happening here? why can the administration ignore what the law is? >> jim, we're looking at two things. one is the specific case. is the ig going to feel empowered by law or that it's appropriate to talk behind closed in that confidential setting with lawmakers or is there an effort by the administration to hold that person back. we really don't have full visibility on that. we have not heard publicly from the white house today. but we know that the acting director, the acting dni is in a dialed back position. then there's the broader issue, we saw it earlier this week in corey lewandowski's testimony about the white house's posture and those close to the president whether they are now or were inside the administration,