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what is the reasons that the agency had to take the action against the whistle blower after they blew the whistle? when we get a document that is 100% redacted, there is no way to get to the bottom of the information that we really need. >> does it appear to you that at least the use of the redaction is selective and inconsistent to the point that it might raise suspicion that it is being used to cover up problems at tsa. is that fair? >> i can't get to what is motivating them in their reasons for redacting, but it does raise concerns. >> thank you. dr. goe wwadla, ms. learner provided redaction example, and were you aware that there were redactions in this matter? >> yes, sir, i am aware that we assert the attorney/client privilege in certain instances. >> can you explain why the documents that ms. learner provided today were redacted? >> sir, i don't know the exact specifics of the case. >> you couldn't from reading that slide. >> certainly. we would have to go back into the log and determine the exact n nature. >> ms. learner stated in the testimony that even the date, the author a

has this affected your ability to enforce whistle-blower protection? >> ic our lawyers are doing it amazing job with the resources that they have. we did request additional funds but as the edmonton did the opening statement those that are assigned to do the investigation of the hundreds of retaliation cases one to create delays to get people the relief that they needed the staff is frustrated because they would like to spend appropriate time of the case. there would be very helpful. >> you received more than 350 whistleblower retaliation cases from employees quick. >> correct. >> last year? >> it is about the same level. >> and as the resource constraint show how quickly you can resolve that extreme cases that you currently have? >> one of first guarded in special counsel to have maybe 30 cases now it is 60 or 70 cases per examiner. that means it takes much longer and should be fully investigated if there is the time in their life with a charitable work place situation we may not appeal ways to get to their cases as quickly as we ought to. when i firs

the problems for whistle—blowers, your foot! the problems for whistle— blowers, one your foot!nefits of these open societies is our whistle—blowers, benefits of these open societies is our whistle— blowers, they benefits of these open societies is our whistle—blowers, they don't generally face being offed by the state any more. journalists want to know everything but as citizens we don't necessarily want everything to be no. there are a lot of things our spooks are doing that i want them to do. let's say the proposition was, could you bagh a jihadis televisions so could you bagh a jihadis televisions so when they are having a conversation about who to bomb you could pick it up, i am in favour. i would be in general not in favour of that being known so the jihadis could stop it happening, so we would share that. insofar as that is what is being explored, i am antsy about other people discovering it will stop we are conflicted. the big question in a democratic society is what oversight you have about what spooks are doing so you can be relatively sure they are doing the things he

peter nefinger, testified last may that the tsa would base its response to allegations of whistle blower retaliation on osc's findings. but now tsa is withholding the documents osc needs to complete the investigation. on one hand you have the tsa administrator saying we're going to base our conclusions on the findings of osc but the tsa won't give autopsy of tll of th information to the osc. i do not want to hear about how volume nous the documents are and how many you've given them. there is one metric that is important to me, the percentage. if you dare go to the place to tell us about how many documents you turned over every time you do so, we will ask you what percentage of the documents did you actually turn over. tsa is one of the agencies in most need of the osc's work. since 2012 the osc received approximately 243 cases from tsa employees alleging retaliation for blowing the whistle. a lot happens very few blow the whittle. when they blow the whistle, to have 243 people say that there's retaliation is a number that is a flashing red light and scares us. the committee is constantl

>> he had told me like a whistle blower-type person had given him some information that was new thatke to the last administration and part of this investigation. he briefed me about it. didn't know the content of it. only knew the nature of it and that he was going to brief others. >> did you ask to see the documents yourself? >> he didn't have documents, so i didn't. >> did you encourage him to then tell the president about it? >> no. i told him to add to his investigation. >> you at no time said you should tell president trump about it. >> he was going to brief everybody. i already knew. he just said he came into possession of new information that he thought was valuable to this investigation and he was going to go inform people about it. >> but he hasn't. i mean he hasn't even informed the republican committee. >> i haven't seen the actual documents. i don't know that he's been in possession of them yet. let me just say this. it's very important that we allow and encourage whistle blowers to talk to congress. >> can you help me understand this though. if it's a whistle blower, why

more than $37 billion of that is because of whistle blowers. will you vigorously enforce the false claims act to recover taxpayers dollars lost to fraud? mr. rosenstein: yes. we have enforced that in my office in the district of maryland. our civil assistant u.s. attorneys have an affirmative civil enforcement program and we srnl will continue to enforce that. chairman grassley: then i would imagine on the second point whether it's whistle blowers in regard to the false claims act or whistle blowers generally, would you commit to ensuring that the department of justice attorneys work collaborative with the whistle blowers in regard to the fraud under the false claims act, but the protection of whistle blowers generally? mr. rosenstein: yes, senator. i would certainly make sure whistle blowers receive any protection they are entitled to by law or regulation. ms. brand: yes. that's really important to you. and whistle blowers are protected by the act and other statutes and regulations. i support that. chairman grassley: three letters i want to pu

. >> chairman, as far as the sources of these documents, was he a whistle blower around the nsa? >> we don't -- as you know, and i've said this several times, we don't talk about sources at this committee. we want -- we want more people to come forward. the good thing is we have coed to have people come forward vol taurly to this committee and we will continue that. and i will tell you that will not happen if we tell you who our sources are. >> but i mean as far as the situation in terms of a whistle blower or is it someone who wants to be hidden -- >> yeah. i'm not going to get into that. we want people to come forward and we will protect the identity of those people at all costs. >> are you going to brief adam schist on the full extenlts of what you've seen? he's made it sound sort of like he was kept in the dark. >> i was hoping to get the documents today. it doesn't sound like we're going to get a full accounting. hopefully they come in today. >> the ones from the letter? >> the ones from the let their mr. shift and i sent that were ta'u on march 15th. >> different than the o

investigates some examples of issues to be recorded to the whistle blower program face of misuse of city government money equipment supplies or materials exposure activities by city clez deficiencies the quality and delivery of city government services waste and inefficient government practices when you submit a complaint to the charitable online complaint form you'll receive a unique tracking number that inturgz to detector or determine in investigators need additional information by law the city employee that provide information to the whistle blower program are protected and an employer may not retaliate against an employee that is a whistle blower any employee that retaliates against another that employee is subjected up to including submittal employees that retaliate will personal be liable please visit the sf ethics.org and information on reporting retaliation that when fraud is loudly to continue it jeopardizes the level of service that city government can provide in you hear or see any dishelicopter behavior boy an employee please report it to say whistle blower program more

we have procedures to whistle-blowers to come to the committee.en they come to the committee, they are protested and provide whatever materials and information they have. and they're protected. that procedure wasn't followed here. if we're talking about not people from the agencies and whether the times has it right or has it wrong. if we're talking about national security council staff, they can go to white house council. they're already mechanisms and places that they can go to share this information. if the object here was to give it to somebody to give to it the president, makes it more bewildering that wasn't taken to the president, particularly if one of those individuals is the director of intelligence at the national security council. they have frequent access to the president. they don't need our chairman to deliver something that they can deliver themselves. obviously -- so to me, this looks like nothing like a whistle-blower case. and again, the white house needs to answer. this is a case in which they wish to effectively launder inform

the -- it is so important to protect whistle blowers. it is the right time to recognize two very brave whistle-blowers, the stepanovs who came forward in 2010. we didn't have the power to investigate it, but what i can tell you during that time is that when they came forward, our ultimate goal was to protect their safety. we had information from them that came from the -- about corruption, from russia about corruption, we didn't know who to hand it to. so we were in a difficult position and we had no power to investigate. no question when they came forward. >> so who had the power to investigate? >> nobody. except the national federations, so the government, or the international athletics association. it wasn't until 2015 that the code changed and gave us the power to investigate. >> what a broken system. what a broken system. up to that point. how else can you look at this? you've got these new reports, had the -- thank you god for the investigative journalists that blew the doors open on this. now you have the reports, now you're going

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. >> was hit a whistle-blower clacks. >> and have said this several times not talk about that we wantore people to come forward we continue to have people come for voluntarily and we want to continue that and that will not happen if we tell you to our sources are. >> in terms of a whistle-blower greg. >> i will not get into that because we want people to come forward. we will protect the identity of those people idol cost. >> will you be briefing? to make guests was hoping to get the documents today it sells like not a full accounting but maybe coming in over the weekend from the of letter that we sent. >> i mean that what your source gave you. >> the letter should encompass everything that i have seen. >> to believe when you have uncovered is from what was released quick. >> i have been very clear on this for many weeks now. there was no wire tapping. that did not happen. >> members of congress have suggested off the record that this may have been orchestrated by the white house spin my guess i can deny that because exactly as i told you, were you here on wednesday? i cannot hear and

but if those whistle-blowers, potential whistle-blowers or intelligence officers are worried that the chairman of the committee may turn right around and take their testimony to the white house, which is one of the subjects of the investigation, they're not going to come forward. so there's a whole bunch of reasons why this investigation is, at best, under a very dark cloud. >> you're investigating the white house and its role, potential role in the last campaign, and yet the chairman of your committee sneaks down there in the evening. he says weekly he goes down there, comes out, and then goes back down there the next morning with a report that he got from the white house. does that sound like a masquerade to you? why would you go to the white house, pick up some unclear information, then race back down there the next day to very dramatically announce you've got something that might be of interest to them and refuse to share that with either democrats or republicans on your committee. what makes sense of that? try if you will. >> i'm with lindsey graham and john mccain. i've never se

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. >> [inaudible question] >> was it a whistle blower in the nsa? >> as you know and i have said this several times we don't talk about sources. we want more people coming forward. the good thing is we have continued to have people come forward voluntarily to this committee and we want to continue that. that will not happen if we tell you who our sources are. >> as far as the situation in terms of a whistle blower or someone who wants to be hidden? >> i am not going it get into that. we want people to come forward and we will protect the identity of those people at all costs. >> are you going to brief schiff? >> i was hoping to get the documents today. it doesn't sound like we will get a full accounting but hopefully they come in over the weekend or earlier in the week. the ones due on march 15th that mr. schiff and i sent in the letter. we won't -- the letters should cover everything i have seen. >> do you believe what you have recovered is validation of the tweets? >> i have been very clear on this for many weeks now. there was no wiretapping of t

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five, increase support for whistle blowers around the world. those who value this clean sport, this is our moment. not just about olympic athlete, wu about every child on the playground that has a dream. if we don't puch, win, we'll fin find yourselves right back in this same position staring another system in the face that has abuses its on athletes. robbed other and we'll be wondering why we tonigdidn't do. >> thank you. first of all, thank you for inviting me to testify today on antidoping issue in sport. the agency was established in 1989 to monitor the sport. the code harmonizes policies in all sports and all countries. wata oversees and works with cooperation in a networkover stake holders in government and sports movements. >> we heard today that the united states is the largest national contributor to wada, who funds wada at $2.5 million, over $27.5 million annual budget. wada has come a long way in 18 years. out of u modest resources. the world antidoping cope is in its third it ration. the code has introduced consistencies to the anti

>> yes. >> reporter: at lowe's salt was scarce and snow blowers and shovels sold out by early evening some were desperate and resorted to gardening tools. >> out of shovels and looks like i have to buy this cheap metal one here. >> about to try another lowe store and the 7-11 to see if they have shovels. >> reporter: allentown under a snow emergency and residents are bracing for the worst. >> very busy, we had a lot of calls people prepping for the storm calls that block drains and leakages. >> with all the snow coming down what they predict it may be a long night ahead of us. >> reporter: long night indeed for those trying to clear the streets. now city officials are asking residents to keep the roads clear and even opened up some downtown parking garages for those residents who live downtown to park in them while the street department can keep the roads clear but if you have to be out drive carefully, live in allentown christie lleto channel six. >> new jersey governor chris christie declared a state of emergency and closing all state offices for nonessential employees, commuters ar

snow blowers replace the sound of the school buses in many neighborhoods. chris was forced to clear his driveway by shovel after the machine gave out. >> it's wet and heavy. >> the roads were mostly clear. in gaithersburg a truck managed to slam into this traffic light. the main drag in poolesville shut down. crews and cherry pickers worked diligently in the wind and cold. metrorail on saturday schedule. two women visiting from kentucky took the red line to the national museum of african american history and culture in lieu of cherry blossoms. >> it's n but we will make the best of it. >> now the parking lot home to the snow to melt snow mountains. vibrant budding trees muted by the 11th hour cameo. official start of spring less than a week away. >> from white to brown. i hope the cherry blossoms in d.c. fare better than here. >> if the snow blower wasn't bad enough, chris lost power overnight. dropping down to 61 before the electricity was restored. roadways clear here. 30 miles north is where we join tom roussey in mobiletrak7. how is it looking there? to

we invite whistle-blowers to come forward. in fact, we've had many people come forward to the committee in recent weeks, because there's been so much attention on this and we want to continue to encourage that. if we start talking, disclosing sources and methods, who's ever going to come forward to the committee to bring us information. >> in addition going to that secure room to look over these documents, do you have other meetings at the white house? did you meet with the president or any of his aides while you were there that night? >> no. and i'm quite sure people in the west wing had no idea i was there. i go over there a lot, go over there often for meetings and briefings to meet foreign dignitaries, those sort of things. i go to all of those agencies. it's part of the role of oversight. and all of our members go to the executive branch. >> but you understand how it would look. the next day, you're coming out. you're giving the president some comfort, and he said, you know, he was somewhat vindicated, if you will. you'll

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>> we need to protect whistle blowers. there are federal whistle blower protections. and i participated in trying to expand whistle blower protections in the past as a member of the armed services committee. the folks who are doing this, i -- i think they're doing it because they are so gravely concerned about what it means that the nation that general dunford, the head of our joints chiefs of staffs, says is the principle american adversary in the world right now was able to do this. we have to get to the bottom of it to protect our electoral system. >> thank you senator tim kaine. >>> to texas republican, congressman wil heard. what's your reaction to what you heard from a.g. sessions earlier? >> i think he made the right decision in recusing himself from this. any potential impropriety or perceived impropriety, you don't want that in future investigations. it's so important in talking about the integrity of our election systems. >> we are living in a hyper partisan environment right now because of that. do you believe the american public deserves an independent inv

whistle blowers.s story sounds eerily familiar when you meet brian smorts who worked at the denver v.a. last noe when he says things got so bad he had to quit. smors, a veteran himself was working as a pier support specialist when he found 3500 veterans on secret wait lists at v.a. facilities in denver, golden and colorado springs. again the v.a. declined to address the allegations on camera and instead referred us to the office of inspector general who confirmed it identified wait time and other issues in recent public reports and testimony in front of congress regarding colorado v.a. facilities. >> it looked like some kind of game that they were playing with veterans' mental healthcare and i was very upset. >> reporter: after smothers reported to the attorney general they say the v.a. retaliated. >> they gave me no work tasks to perform i was supposed to sit in a room across from the people who are done wrong. do nothing keep door open so they could k50e7 an eye on me. >> pervasiveness of retaliatio

investigates some examples of issues to be recorded to the whistle blower program face of misuse ofcity government money equipment supplies or materials exposure activities by city clez deficiencies the quality and delivery of city government services waste and inefficient government practices when you submit a complaint to the charitable online complaint form you'll receive a unique tracking number that inturgz to detector or determine in investigators need additional information by law the city employee that provide information to the whistle blower program are protected and an employer may not retaliate against an employee that is a whistle blower any employee that retaliates against another that employee is subjected up to including submittal employees that retaliate will personal be liable please visit the sf ethics.org and information on reporting retaliation that when fraud is loudly to continue it jeopardizes the level of service that city government can provide in you hear or see any dishelicopter behavior boy an employee please report it to say whistle blower program more

that snow blower definitely coming in handy. chestnut hill, lauren mayk. >> thank you so much. if you have to leave the house, how are roads across the region right now? >> francesca ruscio tracking those road conditions. >> a lot of people had off today because of the snow. now tomorrow morning that's going to be a different story. take a look at these road conditions. a lot of them are mostly wet as of right now. the blue route is pretty shiny because of the wetness at baltimore pike. but the main concern is the ice. once those temperatures start to drop and we start to see that icy conditions really starting to kick in for tomorrow morning, it's going to create hazardous road conditions for tomorrow. route 73 at 38 in maple shade, new jersey, very light cars right now. if you have to be out and about, take it slow and use caution. back to you guys at the desk. >> that's really one of the biggest concerns tonight, the wet roads freezing again, causing those dangerous conditions out there because the temperatures are really goi

something to the president they can deliver -- so ves and, obviously to me, this looks nothing like a blower case and, again, i think the white house needs to answer is this, instead, a case effectively sh to aunder information through our committee to avoid the true source of the information? the white house really needs to answer. you met this r morning, you said you wanted to a timeline. is that still the case? do you have anything more to share on that? i have to say, we've been a bit overtaken by events during the day. our witness list. they have theirs. so we have exchanged witness lists. is that there g was a lot of common agreement and we may have something more to say by the end of the day, frankly, as in every day in this investigation, you wake up and think it's going to be one kind of day and turns out to be a different day. so that is something we're still try to on and we'll resolve if not today then tomorrow. the two individuals mentioned in the new york times to y, do you want to speak those people or staff authority in. rep. schiff: i certainly think bottom of get to the gen

investigates some examples of issues to be recorded to the whistle blower program face of misuse of city government money equipment supplies or materials exposure activities by city clez deficiencies the quality and delivery of city government services waste and inefficient government practices when you submit a complaint to the charitable online complaint form you'll receive a unique tracking number that inturgz to detector or determine in investigators need additional information by law the city employee that provide information to the whistle blower program are protected and an employer may not retaliate against an employee that is a whistle blower any employee that retaliates against another that employee is subjected up to including submittal employees that retaliate will personal be liable please visit the sf ethics.org and information on reporting retaliation that when fraud is loudly to continue it jeopardizes the level of service that city government can provide in you hear or see any dishelicopter behavior boy an employee please report it to say whistle blower program more

. >> you need a snow blower. >> know we need a neighbor with a snow blower and young kids that can do this. >> there has not been a lot of shoveling and digging out cars this winter and some hope it's the last snow this winter. >> don't want to see nothing. i'm about landscaping and planting trees and putting in pavers and stuff like that. i don't like the snow. >> people were excited by the snowfall since we had a mild winter and some say they are definitely ready for spring, no more snow. reporting in allentown, gray hall, channel 6 "action news." >>> well, here in philadelphia snow and ice remain on a lot of the side streets. manayunk is a section notorious for the narrow roadways, difficult to navigate after a snow storm and parking is tricky. and children on the way to school needed help from parents and crosses guards walking over icy roads and sidewalks. parents left extra time because they knew it wouldn't be a quick trip. >> through the whole walk, the kids were playing with the snow and they loved it. >> here in center city, there was huge snow piles all over but not a lot o

you are urged to take it easy and never put your hands inside a snow blower. as for ruth, she says if you have to go out, wear good shoes. >> war bootear boots. >> hopefully she'll be all right. more than 100 montgomery county high school students had the most magical snow day ever at disney world. about 160 of them from perkiomen high school couldn't fly home yesterday morning, so they had to spend another day at disney. their flight left florida a few minutes ago. they will land around 10:00. fun is over for them. >>> to some of the best you have sent us of how you're spending this snow day. these kids didn't get a full day off, so they spent some time having fun before school. this is on a tiny pond in gloucester county. [ laughter ] that's infectious. check this lit guy out. he love he loves one-way snowball fights. he peels in laughter as his siblings throw snowballs at the window. >>> and bethlehem is digging out after the snow came in fast and furious a viewer sent us this time lapse of the snow moving in yesterday. it will not be melting any time soon.

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let's listen to paul ryan answering that question today. >> he had told me that like a whistle-blower type person had given him some information that was new. >> did you encourage him to then go tell the president about it? >> no. but i told him to add it to his investigation. >> so you at no time said whatever you find out, you should probably go tell president trump about? >> he was going to brief everybody. i already knew he was going to go and brief. so what chairman nunes said he is came into possession of new information that he thought was valuable to this investigation, and that he was going to go and inform people about it. >> have you ever heard of a situation where a congressional investigation results in the chief investigator running to the target and telling them information that they got off of national security intercepts by, quote whistle-blower? >> no. and jeremy bash, who is the chief of staff at the cia, and also worked at the house intelligence committee, he said in his entire career, he has never heard of anyone ever doing this on the intelligence committees, is

whistle-blowers is important. so we've been able to be aware of malpractice and wrongdoing throughout the federal government, because of the whistle-blower program. and that's different than going to the press on some piece of information, when you have other vehicles out there to, to get that information to the right people. so it's a fine line, but -- because i think deep throat now would be considered a whistle-blower. >> interesting. congressman hurd, always appreciate your perspective. you're always welcome here on "new day." be well, sir. >> you too, have a good day. >>> we are following some breaking news now. large electronic devices being banned from some international flights coming to the u.s. from parts of the middle east and africa. aviation officials are citing, quote, a security concern. let's see what that's about. cnn's barbara starr is live at the pentagon with all of the breaking details. what have you learned, barbara? >> reporter: good morning, allisa alis alisyn. these are direct flights, som

. >>> do you have your shovel salt and snow blower ready? we're talking to folks all around the area as they prepare for what could be a white-out this week and it's not here just yet. the nor'easter is certainly on the way. a winter storm warning is coming possibly making a mess for the beginning of the work week. good evening i am natasha brown, thanks for joining us, we're tracking a nor'easter and the possibility of six to 12 inches of snow in march. "eyewitness news" reporter joe holden has been taking shoppers through the center city stocking up ahead of the possible storm. first we'll begin in the weather center, with justin drabick who's monitoring this as it inches closer and closer. >> good evening. we're seeing developing stages of the system, the energy starting to move into the central u.s., which will help ener energyize this coastal storm. the storm system moving in and cold air meeting up with each other. potential for widespread snowfall. nothing happening tonight. clear skies right now. that's just allowing the temperatures

really it might have made things easier for the road crews and for the homeowners who have snow blowers. for the first time in 14 months matt pulled out his snow gear in meyersville and cleared the street near the elementary school. it took two helpers the afternoon to clear his dad's driveway. >> just a little more slippery than i thought it would be. as you could see our driveway is very sloped. >> reporter: a different problem. a snow removal operator mistakenly smacked down a traffic light, shutting down a busy intersection all day. still so many road not just in northern montgomery county, but here in frederick county. it's going to refreeze tonight. big decision tomorrow for local school districts. we're just off the phone with both frederick and montgomery county schools. what they had to tell us coming up tonight at 6:00. for now live in frederick, scott macfarland. >>> did you hear that wind in scott's microphone? it's blustery. this is what it looks like in columbia, maryland this morning. it had a topping of sleet on it by the time you got off. we caught up with someone visit

from a whistle-blower. that story has been exploded. we haven'tdentified the particular identification but we identified them as white house officials and nunes confirmed that. they are young aides who have access to highly classified information. they can access it via computer inside a security computer inside the white house. nunes visited them there the other night, he has said. some real questions are being raised about why they were rooting around in classified information looking at fbi intercepts involving americans. the other issue is the idea that somehow nunes obtained this independent to vindicate donald trump has been -- is completely in question now because he got the stuff from the white house, who could have delivered it to donald trump themselves, ayman. >> let's look to the michael flynn situation. he's asking immunity for, what, he can reveal all without prosecution, so it's just a super hyperpartisan type right now and it would be the appropriate thing to do under these circumstances, th

they also to want make sure they have gas for the snow blowers.fact it's been so busy here today, you can see they have the traffic cones out here to make sure people stay in line. you only have to walk a couple of feet to grab your grocery cart and head on into the 24 hour grocery store still busy tonight. patience needed not line at the gas pumps. and at the supermarket checkout. >> unbelievable. unbelievable. i can't believe it. >> reporter: the rush to the grocery aisle began around noon, crowds already cleared out a lot of the bottled water and restocking the milk fridge four times. winter supplies also made a late season reappearance hauled out front and center. >> went through a pallet and a half on rock salt already. >> reporter: shoppers telling us getting here early is the key. >> i came to get some snacks and stuff. >> reporter: so they don't have to leave the house when the storm arrives. >> i'm going to stay in because i'm afraid of the ice. >> reporter: pennsylvania's governor has a checklist too, that includes a huddle with emergenc

, do you see them as whistle-blowers? >> well, at this point absolutely not, but however as we go forward we will see which is why special commission is necessary in dealing with this matter. i will say that the intelligence committee is a place, a safe haven for textbook whistle-blowers but i think what is happened right now is very questionab, the way it was handled is very questionable and so the questions that you're raising are so important as a part of the fourth estate, it's so critically important because as we're dealing with the president who is accusing president obama of things that are very unfortunate. we have a president who is saying things and his i am pulse siffty is really bringing down the reputation of the united states and bringing down the moral of those staffers on both sides of the political aisle in the administration, in the intelligence community who worked so very hard and i think it's darkenning the cloud that already exists over not only the white house but of congress and the american peopl

my wife is a teacher, i went out and gassed up my snow blower. they think i jinxed them. you can go through there, that's okay. they say i jinxed it. tonight you'll be sure i am one of those people sitting outside praying for the first flakes to be falling, otherwise i'm in the doghouse, guys. we are live in newark on main street, tim fur long, "nbc 10 news." >> we do not want you no the doghouse. that's why we have first-alert glenn "hurricane" schwartz here to keep an eye on the latest changes to this forecast. glenn? >>> tim, you won't be in the doghouse because there's no storm this is a big storm. it's just a matter of details. there's traffic live on i-95 south. it's not going to look like that tomorrow morning. as a matter of fact, you may not even be able to see the road from that camera tomorrow morning when there would be a rush hour. we have a blizzard warning. that's the latest information north and west of philadelphia. it's all snow. at least 12 inches. and many places north and west are going to get a lot more than that. heavy snow on the i-95 corridor incl

investigates some examples of issues to be recorded to the whistle blower program face of misuse of city government money equipment supplies or materials exposure activities by city clez deficiencies the quality and delivery of city government services waste and inefficient government practices when you submit a complaint to the charitable online complaint form you'll receive a unique tracking number that inturgz to detector or determine in investigators need additional information by law the city employee that provide information to the whistle blower program are protected and an employer may not retaliate against an employee that is a whistle blower any employee that retaliates against another that employee is subjected up to including submittal employees that retaliate will personal be liable please visit the sf ethics.org and information on reporting retaliation that when fraud is loudly to continue it jeopardizes the level of service that city government can provide in you hear or see any dishelicopter behavior boy an employee please report it to say whistle blower program more

investigates some examples of issues to be recorded to the whistle blower program face of misuse of city government money equipment supplies or materials exposure activities by city clez deficiencies the quality and delivery of city government services waste and inefficient government practices when you submit a complaint to the charitable online complaint form you'll receive a unique tracking number that inturgz to detector or determine in investigators need additional information by law the city employee that provide information to the whistle blower program are protected and an employer may not retaliate against an employee that is a whistle blower any employee that retaliates against another that employee is subjected up to including submittal employees that retaliate will personal be liable please visit the sf ethics.org and information on reporting retaliation that when fraud is loudly to continue it jeopardizes the level of service that city government can provide in you hear or see any dishelicopter behavior boy an employee please report it to say whistle blower program more

democrats used to actually like whistle-blowers.re seeing the corruption up close and are alerting congressman to what they see and now the democrats are against that? don't democrats care about the u.s. government perhaps, you know, incidentally spying on government officials or incoming administration? i think they care if it were obama. steve: right this is the way it's supposed to go. if somebody has information and there's a hearing, you go to somebody in the committee and say, hey, i have secret information, and then they try to get whistle-blower protection; right? >> that's how it normally goes. but in this case, what they're doing with nunez is that they are using the classic tacts, demonize him, try to drive him out of his position of head of the committee, get people like lindsey graham and others to go after him, keep the media drumbeat going until they hope they drive them out. now there can't be a credible investigation. look at all of these people who are coming out saying he's not leading an objective indication. no