acting dni maguire a bit of a break on this. host: let's hear from jane in olympia, washington, on the republican line. caller: i am concerned that this is a set up by democrats to distract from criminal activity which is about to be exposed by thearr and durham regarding hillary clinton paying for the dossier. thisactually questioning whole thing, and i am an independent voter. i voted for obama. host: she is talking about the investigation going on, the origins of the mueller investigation. do you know anything about that? guest: i know what has been in the public. i know that trump's former advisor says the theory had been completely debunked. it was fully laid out in the mueller report, an explanation for the steel dossier. i also know that the steel almost no role in the opening of the investigation of russian influence because that began before the dossier was even created. i understand the caller's concerns because i am sure that that is chamber of news yelling this fact into the ecosphere echoes in her world, but the tru

but i'm quite sure that the intelligence community and specifically the dni, acting dni is doing allprotect him. >> and, finally, we heard the president in those comments yesterday, even, allude to the possibility completely unfounded not based in fact that it could be adam schiff. just listen to what the president said. >> was there actually an informant? maybe the informant was schiff. it could be shifty schiff. in my opinion it's schiff. >> beyond the obvious, it's not, what's the dangerous in that, that the sitting president of the united states saying that a sitting member of congress, chair of the house intelligence committee, could be the whistle-blower? >> well, first of all, i don't know how -- i mean, what this implies, i guess, is that somehow adam schiff was party to or listened in on the original conversation and then provided that to somebody in the intelligence community who then was going to write a whistle-blower complaint, which on its face is absurd. >> yeah. >> it's just another case of the president trying to change the narrative, distract, et cetera. but on its

the whole idea of putting dni together was to make sure to coordinate. is a natural reverse division of the cia hat follows up. a spy network, they coordinate with the fbi. thin they have -- then they have to have permission by the attorney general or the dni head. this guy or girl -- lou: it's a good thing they pulled him out of the field because he got it so wrong it's ridiculous. >> the president needs to pull in the characteristics a director and fbi director and dni and say who signed off on this. someone signed off on this in order to move this thing forward. if they didn't, throw them in jail for falsification of a document. lou: the idea that you would have the temerity to change something that's statutory. the whistleblower's changing from first-hand to second-hand knowledge. >> undermining the national security. this president has done more for national security and any president in modern times. lou: we have the complaint issue, it may well be nothing this guy has to say according to the "new york times" reporting, he's a male, it would be thr

he is not even the full-time dni. he is the acting director of national intelligence. as he said, he is still using his gps to figure out where the office is. he is that new. mcguire needs a bit of a break in this one. host: james in olympia, washington. caller: i'm concerned this is a set up by democrats to distract from criminal activities which are about to be exposed by a.g. the hillaryng clinton paying for the steele dossier. i am questioning this whole thing. i'm an independent voter. i voted for obama. host: the origins of the mueller investigation. do you know anything about that? guest: i know it has been in the public. advisor saysr dhs the theory had been completely debunked. i know it was fully laid out in the mueller report. there was a nice one nation for the steele dossier. i know the steele dossier played almost no role in the opening of the investigation of russian influence because that began before the dossier was created. i understand the caller's concerns. the echo chamber of news that keeps yelling this fact into the thosphere echoes in her world.

this is a person -- the inspector general put it nicely at the dni saying that he -- excuse me, tom -- how in the world can that not be a person who is politically so biased as to be unbiased as to be unworthy on instant trust of third-party hearsay. >> why are we even talk about adam schiff. he's head of the intelligence committee. lou: i was talking about the whistleblower. >> i am going back to schiff. the point is, it shows the impropriety and unprecedented aspects of this impeachment inquiry. the head of the intelligence committee in the ordinary course would never be involved. this would be an unprecedented application of impeachment going through someone like schiff who is compromised because of his contacts with these problematic witnesses, to put it charitably, on the outside. this president is right to say i am not going to cooperate with this faux impeachment. and i use this word quite seriously. there is nothing constitutional about this. when you are abusing power to take out a president, you are in a coup territory. every time your listeners hear impeachment, they should

the dni process with the was, did you see anything wrong with the process? guest: the process worked the way it was supposed to up until the penultimate step. -- someone who is an employee must file a complaint with their inspector general or the inspector general of the intelligence community. they file this thing. then they say this is supposed to be in icwa complaint. they have to spell that out. the inspector has 14 days to look it over, to do a preliminary investigation to see if it is credible and see if it pertains to urgent concern. is not a generic term. it's in the statute. something that is a flagrant violation of law or executive order, something involving an intelligence matter. anything that happens after of urgentretaliation concern. that, he goes to his director at the dni. he says i have deemed this to be an urgent concern. you have seven days to make your comments on it. that's where it broke down. instead of sending it up to the hill, which is mandatory under the statute, the dni instead whetherto second-guess or not it was an urgent conce

the dni was told that he could not hand over the information to congress, and the i.g.d to be so upset about this, the i.g. alerted congress to what was going on. and so that was really what changed everything. this was about a week before the complaint was released, and we're told that was when other people in the west wing, top officials like the chief of staff mick mulvaney, stephanie grisham, the press secretary, and other top officials were then looped in on what exactly was going on with the complaint and the concerns over the call. >> pamela, kaitlan, thank you both so much. >>> house democrats say they will subpoena u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland after the white house contacted him early this morning to block his scheduled testimony today. sondland was pulled into the ukraine phone call scandal when former u.s. envoy to ukraine, kurt volker, provided text messages that he had, including with sondland, to congress. impeachment a huge issue on the 2020 campaign trail, especially for joe biden, and kate beding fie bedingfield is joining us. k

in the press. >> host: clearly in the inspector general as it accepted the report. >> and said the dni doesn't turn over to congress, that's what led to this conversation at the end of the day the whistleblower complaint had been declassified by the administration and everyone can read it now. >> host: here we go to providence kentucky, can on the independent line . >> caller: i know it takes a majority in the house to vote for impeachment but actual numbers with the makeup of the house today, actual numbers, how manywould take ? >> guest: i think the majority of the house in anything, they lost one today because chris collins has resigned from the house but it's around 218 in the house so with a full majority about 218 . >> host: let's go to jd in maryland on the republican line. >> caller: i want to say there's a big difference as you know being an attorney and all there's a big difference between inappropriate and illegal . i don't think what trump did was illegal but what i saw biden do his own admission and implicating obama as well , you need to look that up. he implicated obama.

even as the administration dnies the original troop pull back contributed to the deteriorating situation. >> turkey committed this action. they decided to make despite the protest. >> the administration says it is ready to impose severe sanctions. >> what's the old up? >> the sanctions could be starting small. or max pressure. which would destroy the economy. >> republican senator who has been uncharacteristically critical to have the president's decision. writing quote good decision trump to work with congress to impose crippling sanctions. schumer is demanding a vote opposing the decision which would undo a strategy that crippled isis. >> we have never had a president like this. who makes such important decisions on a whim. that leads to such detrimental effect. >> the syria defense force warns attacks will continue to allow isis fighters to flee prisons leading to a resurgence of the terror group. if the u.s. won't stop the turkish attack it will turn to russia for help. >> out rage over the u.s. decision to pull troops played outd on the street of san francisco today. we have the tha

i think that's the pattern that was followed with the dni. so it could be the same thing here.ne thing we should point out here, anderson, is that we do have these checks and balances built into our government. i don't think any president loves inspector generals -- inspectors general. every president has been stung by an inspector general's report, but the fact that they are independent and have traditionally maintained their independence is really important to the function of government. >> david gergen, i mean how much knowledge at this point could the white house possibly have about whatever is going on over at the state department? i mean would the white house be aware of what the inspector general is meeting with them about tomorrow? >> well, they should be, especially, you know, in the case of what we just saw with the intelligence community, when the inspector general got the report, he did let maguire know, who is the boss of the department, the acting boss. and i would assume before the inspector general speaks tomorrow, that there will be some notification. but that

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and the president claimed that the dni did not say that the whistleblower's complaint was consistent with the released transcript. the facts in his testimony on capitol hill last week, the dni said that the documents were, quote, in alignment. the president claimed house intel committee chairman adam schiff probably helped write the whistleblower complaint. the facts? the new york times reports that schiff and his committee learned about the whistleblower's concerns before the complaint was filed but there is no support to the claim that schiff helped write it. the president claimed mueller's russia investigation and allegations of collusion were a scam. the facts, mueller's report concluded that russia interfered in the 2016 election to help donald trump, that the trump campaign welcomed that help, but that investigators were unable to establish that the campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government. and while zelensky does mention giuliani first, it came after trump's i would like you to do a favor though. on crowd strike, the server and 2016. and the only one to me

i think the act iing dni last wk made it quite clear: this individual, whoever he or she is, acted exactly with their professional responsible ilities and with th law. and that ought to be respected. >> so what happens now? when you said graham's not the decider on this. the president wants to know who it is. he want it is the know who the people are who informed the whistleblower. he thinks they're traitors. he thinks we should do what we used to do with them. ie, execute them. the president has put a target on this person's back. is there a way to get the necessary information and make sure whistleblower number one and potentially number two, are actually protected? >> that's a great question. i think this has put a more significant burden on the investigating committees of the house of representatives to bend over backwards in whatever arrangements they are making to speak to the whistleblower or learn about the complaint to do so in a way that protects the information. that's one o the reasons why myself and our colleagues put our name to this letter. shouldn't have to do this. it shou

can we just underline right now that inspector general was appointed by donald trump and the acting dni who said that the whistleblower acted in accordance with the law, was appointed by donald trump? this is not a deep state conspiracy. these are all trump appointees. some appointed in the last month or two or three or four months. trump appointees who are all saying that this went by the book. >> that is absolutely right. and joe maguire, the acting dni who was subject to some criticism from congress now seems to be in good standing because the folks i've talked to feel like he handled himself well in a difficult position in that hearing. you know, he doesn't want to trash his boss, the president of the united states. he's fighting to keep the whistleblower anonymous and that's important. >> ken, let me ask you again about these trips the attorney general is making around the world on behalf of the president looking into american intelligence agencies and maybe there's a good answer to this, but i can't seem to find one. why is the u.s. attorney for the state of connecticut who's usua

remember, the acting dni also made this case too defending the act of the whistleblower himself. in terms of this whole situation and protecting the whistleblower's identity, grassley seems to be a lone voice right now. >> anyone who criticizes the president, if you're a whistleblower or a partisan hack or you're not to be trusted. >>> up next we're waiting to hear from the president directly. we'll play that tape when it comes in to us. he's in the oval office with the finnish president. from the couldn't be prouders to the wait did we just win-ners. everyone uses their phone differently. that's why xfinity mobile let's you design your own data. now you can share it between lines. mix with unlimited, and switch it up at anytime so you only pay for what you need. it's a different kind of wireless network designed to save you money. save up to $400 a year on your wireless bill. plus get $250 back when you buy an eligible phone. call, click, or visit a store today. >>> take you straight to the oval office. the president of the united states with his finnish counterpart. >> things t

martha: it raises the question of how politically motivated and it is to remind everyone, even the dni, when he went through this process and spoke in front of congress, said there was an indication that there was a political bias on the part of the whistle-blower but that given what was in his report, he felt it was irrelevant and that they should move forward based on the content of his report. all of this is obviously going to give a republican -- republicans and supporters of the president more fuel to the fire that this is cooked up in some sense by people who are inside the white house, connected to the cia agent who was old so working there and passing it along to the whistle-blower who gives information to a house aide in adam schiff's office. >> dana: fuel for president trump supporters but with the president's comments about the whistle-blower giving fuel to the democrats? >> juan: yeah, his line which has been pretty hot. on the one hand, people sort of marking. talking about traitors and spies and you know how things happen with treason. when you think of it seriously, you

you were obviously in dni during the start of the russia investigation.n you hear kaitlan's reporting that the president is now talking to boris johnson and others, does it make sense to you? >> no, it doesn't, anderson. it just show the lengths to which this administration will go to try to discredit the entire russian meddling, i guess. i recall early on in this presidency when president trump alleged that, you know, the obama administration was surveilling trump tower, which is ridiculous, or that president obama had asked the brits to monitor him, which was ridiculous. in fact, it prompted a rare public statement by gchq, which is the british equivalent of our nsa, national security agency, to completely rebut the president's allegation. so i don't know what the expectation here is because this reporting was done in good faith by foreign service officers or law enforcement or intelligence officials who thought we should know about, you know, these activities. so do they expect now that because there are political leaders who he thinks are more in tune

that the whistle-blower has gotten information second and third hand, something that his own acting dnias said is not the case, that some of the information is actually firsthand. the president also taking new aim at adam schiff, calling him "shifty schiff," saying it was a perfect conversation, u.s. say, saying the press should be ashamed for asking about all of this, and then he was pressed on whether some republicans are concerned about the threats of the whistle-blower. the president saying, i don't care about that. so more defiance there. he also said, andrea, that the report that was written on the phone call was a perfect phone call, and again, used that to kind of underscore his argument that he thinks he didn't do anything wrong. so far this is the tactic, this is the strategy we're seeing from president trump, defiance. what we're not seeing is sort of an all hands on deck approach to communicating with the public but why he thinks he didn't do anything wrong. now, officials here had indicated that that was going to take place, that was going to start in earnest this week. so

this is a theory that has been debunked goes against what our fbi and cia and dni said. they said it was russia. mulvaney said the money was withheld until ukraine investigated the bidens. what difference does this make? the first is an active investigation even if it is a nonsensical theory. mulvaney said it is not unusual to pressure companies to participate in active investigations but to investigate the biden was part of the deal because the white house released a transcript of the call, a memorandum quoting the president as saying, we have a favor to ask, though, while talking about weapons. marcus. >> thanks, scott. >>> happening today, pg&e executives set to face questions over the controversial power shutoffs we experienced last week. the cpuc called an emergency meeting to ask executives what was learned from last week outages and what could be done to make sure the process is smoother in the future. the ceo released a letter acknowledgeing there needs to be better communication with customers after the website was not working for many customers during the outag

acting dni maguire a bit of a break on this. let's hear from jane in olympia, washington, on the republican line. caller: i am concerned that this is a set up by democrats to distract from criminal activity which is about to be exposed by thearr and durham regarding hillary clinton paying for the dossier. thisactually questioning whole thing, and i am an independent voter. i voted for obama. host: she is talking about the investigation going on, the origins of the mueller investigation. do you know anything about that? guest: i know what has been in the public. i know that trump's former advisor says the theory had been completely debunked. it was fully laid out in the mueller report, an explanation for the steel dossier. i also know that the steel almost no role in the opening of the investigation of russian influence because that began before the dossier was even created. i understand the caller's concerns because i am sure that that is chamber of news yelling this fact into the ecosphere echoes in her world, but the truth of

. >> now where we have enough inspectors general from the dni or whether it be the state department. almost need a program suddenly inspectors general are at the forefront of so much import. but today the state department inspector general, i have to say, he took a pack and showed material over to the committee. there was an email amongst the other documents that he took from john solomon, the hill's intrepid investigative reporter to one victoria toensing and joe digenova. and the left has been making, trying to make hay out of that because solomon had -- by the way, the two of you have been such -- let's put it this way. such a problem for them. they couldn't help but try to make something of it. your reaction to that email? >> that's so twisted. first of all you need to know that original email because we checked it today, said would you please take a look at this so i don't make any factual errors? how terrible for a journalist to do that. some people don't do that. they just make false allegations against people. that's why john sent it to us because he knows we snow ukraine. wh

would say that of all the whistleblower complaints that i ever saw during my six and a half years at dniis was the best written, best prepared footnoted and caveated as appropriately as it should be. and the law prescribes that once a whistleblower complaint is submitted, it goes directly to the inintelligence community and inspector general which became statutory during my time as dni and accordingly, acts independently. the inspector general makes a determination about is the complaint credible? i don't recall ever having one declared to be urgent. and so that was done. the whistleblower complied meticulously with the provisions of the law. and for me, it was one of the most credible, compelling such complaints i've ever seen. should it be investigated? absolutely. that's the whole premise of the whistleblower protection act is that a serious, credible complaints of wrong doing should be accordingly investigated. >> mike, what's your feeling about the same issues? was it credible, urgent and should it be investigated? >> well, i can't judge whether it's credible because i think you hav

it became statutory during my time as dni. accordingly, index independently. the attorney general makes the determined if it determination about if it is credible. i don't recall ever to have one declared urgent. so that was done, the whistleblower complied and meticulously with the provisions of the law. and for me, it was one of the most credible compelling such complaints i've ever seen. should be investigated absolutely. the whole premise of whistleblower protection act. is that a serious credible complaints of wrongdoing should be accordingly investigated. >> your feeling about the same issues. was it credible urgent and should be investigated ? >> i can't judge both of it's credible because i think you have to investigate it and determine the technologies and there is a person within to know certain things are not know certain things. operably other people who would have to be talk to. when i would say is the self. obviously it is a matter of significant concern. any investigation or not be passionate fair, thorough and expeditious. should what should i

listen to what former national dni james clapper said on cnn. >> isis is more than just al-baghdadi. somewhere in the neighborhood of 18,000 fighters remaining. i don't if they have anyone who would have the symbol i can importance of al-baghdadi. but i don't think we can say at this point we can stop worrying about isis. lou: somebody stopped worrying about isis, including mr. clapper, in the obama administration. the obama administration allowing isis to grow to the strength that president trump had to take on. the left-wing national media trying to downplay the president's accomplishment. leaders death will damage isis, but not destroy it. and three ways the al-baghdadi raid undermines trump's chaotic policy. they are trying to downplay another one of president trump's victories. colonel mcgregor. it's a stunning thing to see the national left-wing media continue to carry out their nasty negativity against this president in the midst of a wonderful accomplishment by our military, our special operations forces, delta force. an extraordinarily successful mission. my god, ways wrong

and you said that the dni is refusing to turn over this stuff citing a request from a higher authority. the insinuation left for me and others was that the president himself had intervened. is that the insinuation you sought to provide and, if so, what base zois you hais do you making that insinuation? >> i'm sure the whistleblower has been advised as the law requires by the inspector general or the director of national intelligence just as to how he is to communicate with congress. and so the risk to the whistleblower is retaliation. will the whistleblower be protected under the statute if the offices that are supposed to come to his assistance and provide the mechanism are unwilling do so. but we would love to talk directly with the whistleblower. >> sam, you spoke to chairman schiff last night. i want to read the quote again. quote, we have not spoken directly with the whistleblower. how does he explain that when clearly at that point the whistleblower had come to chairman schiff's committee? >> so we talked to a couple minutes last night. he expressed regret for not having been mor

former dni james clapper and john brennan, the 15th deadline approaches, federal judge gave the doj toide whether to charge andrew mccabe. this has sparked reaction in washington, lindsey graham had this to say. >> tell us what happened with the fisa warrant application, the counterintelligence mitigation properly opened? is there any wrongdoing by doj and the fbi? someone has to watch it. here is what you can't do. what happened to donald trump in the house has done a lot of damage. >> jerry nadler and adam schiff issuing a statement saying these reports raise profound concerns the department of justice and william barr lost its independence and became a vehicle for donald trump's political revenge. that the parts of justice may be used as a tool for political retribution or help the president with a political narrative for the next election. the of law will suffer irreparable damage. meanwhile, related, we got news the doj inspector general michael horowitz saying his report looking at fisa applications is nearing completion and coming soon. we begin friday into the weekend with a lo

. >> reporter: your own dni said the call transcript was consistent with the complaint. >> no, no.'t say that. you have to take a look. >> so we did. under oath acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire said this about a summary of a call between the president and ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky one day after the white house released it. >> the whistle-blower's complaint is in alignment with what was released yesterday by the president. >> reporter: the complaint highlights mr. trump's request for zelensky to investigate joe biden and his son hunter. democrats argue to uncover dirt for the 2020 election. house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff pushed back on mr. trump's attacks. >> the president of the united states asked that leader a favor, though. and no attack on the whistle-blower or anyone else is going to change those underlying facts. >> reporter: today president trump punted a question about his motive during a joint press conference with finland. >> what did you want president zelensky to do with regard to joe and hunter biden? >> biden and

when the head of the dni, clapper, who says we don't spy on the american people, and if there aren'tharges against this guy for leaking information to the "washington post," this is an outrage. >> there are three crimes here with flynn. we know the obvious one, the leaking of the flynn classified phone call. we know now there is potential falsification of evidence. sidney powell is making a staggering claim that the fbi manipulated the interview summary of flynn to make it look like he lied when he didn't. then you have the additional crime of false representations before a court. this isn't like jay-walk. this is real stuff. somebody is going to be found to have committed these crimes. judge jeanine: apparently what they are saying is the intel operatives working with the fbi conspires to take down not just the president, but those around him. obviously there was a target on him. and the editing of flynn's 302 which are those documents considered so precious and so clear in terms of what happened after an interview, then after the fact we find out, dan, we found this out a long time

dni, try to do better on they are turning to ai. erik schatzker joined us to explain.t is about time someone intelligenceicial to the recruiting process because this industry, for all of its efforts, is still dominated by white men who are typically elite college educated. that is going to need to change. it needs to not just because if -- because of changing times but because these firms recognize the bigger your talent pool, the better the quality of your recruiting and ultimately the better your employees. we are talking of investment bankers, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring. the same logic as i say it applies to companies worldwide applies to wall street. the challenge is volume. it is difficult to fan out across hundreds of universities in the united states and opened the recruiting process to the degree that it can capture everybody unless you put technology to work. that is what this is designed to do. it is a screening process that surfaces candidates regardless of skin color, background or any other traits that might sway a recruiter. tell us about the

dni inspector general has set a lot of people within the intelligence community who have been working with the whistleblower and going through his complaint, a lot of that was corroborated. memo, the in the call memorandum of the call, a lot of that being corroborated. place to getrous into the credibility of the whistleblower. host: on was a lowers, the new york times editorial board, one of their op-ed pieces " public servants guarding the republic." in defense of the whistleblower and others saying the deep state is alive and well but it is not the sinister anti-democratic cabal of trump's fever dreams but a group of public servants. this is the president from just a few minutes ago with a book recommendation over twitter. 'exonerated' book the failed takedown of president trump by the swamp ." we will keep monitoring the president's twitter page. jeff from indiana, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. i got for c-span. c-span, you are definitely fair and balanced unlike fox news. for fascistsonym over exaggerating. these republicans are still as a -- upset with obama. oba

f -- dni-- dni fhie chief about proper protocol. so when do you think?t might not have been a personal staffer for the couldss's office and it have been a democratic staffer on that committee. it is not clear in the article. ryan is up next in greensboro, north carolina. republican line. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i would just like to say that i believe our president has done a great job for this country. he has been put through the ringer by the democratic party and their founds and he has been that he has not done anything unlawful. if anything, the democratic party has not done anything in the last 10 years. -- what has the democratic party done to represent our country? the president took n -- an oath of office. the democratic leaders took an oath to protect and serve this country. so far, i have not seen anything but the democrats are actually serving the country and protecting this country by. however, in his campaign, he made it clear what he was going to do. job that i had for 22 years that was outsourced when obama and bid

described john brennan as the instigator of the russia hoax and the witch hunt and james clapper, the dni, he was the leaker. he is the guy who was leaking information to cnn and of course he was rewarded with a job on cnn. >> laura: we mentioned that his investigation timeline is expanding into 2017. i wonder if it's anything to do with another bombshell fox news up tonight? multiple sources telling us that former special counsel robert mueller was pursuing the fbi director position when he met with president trump in may of 2017. that is something mueller denied on camera, testifying under oath this summer. >> did you interview the fbi director job one day before you were appointed special counsel? >> my understanding, i was not applying for a job. i was asked to give my input on what it would take to do the job which triggered the interview you were talking about. >> so you don't recall on may the 16th 2017 you interviewed with the president regarding the fbi director job? >> it was about the job but not about me applying for the job. >> see your statement is that you didn't interview

the dni put out information that that is a misunderstanding and the rules always permitted it. i have not sorted through the details of who has the better, but there is a debate on whether the phone had -- the form has changed, or the change was already in place. .hat is an ongoing debate the inspector general has inspected the report. guest: ultimately it does not matter, whistleblower complaint is out and has been declassified and everyone can read it. host: we go to providence, kentucky. ken on the independent line. caller: i know it takes a majority in the house to vote for impeachment, but actual numbers with the makeup of the house today, actual numbers how many would it take? thank you. host: i think a majority for anything, they would lose one today because chris collins has resigned. it is around 218 in the house. with the full majority, 218. , and maryland, on the republican line. caller: there is a big difference, as you know, between inappropriate and illegal. i do not think what trump did was illegal. what i saw biden do, by his own admission and implicating obama

with the acting dni. he's become the president's target on twitter. saying schiff illegally made up a fake and terrible statement pretended it to be mine as the most important part of the call to the ukraine president. and read it allowed to congress and the american people. it bore no relationship to what i said on the call. arrest for treason? fact check this. >> i did a fact check of what schiff said. i said that what he said was confusing. a confusing paraphrase. trump can make an argument it was misleading. it's not illegal. the constitution has a clause that says you can say whatever you want in the house or senate. or in the committee of the house and senate. and it's not illegal. much less treason. we have seen over and over the president allege treason for things that are just not even close. making up his own definition of a word that has an actual specific meeting in the constitution. >> it bore no relationship. it sounds like someone helped him write that. >> who knows. >> doesn't sound like him. thank you. we'll be right back. $9.95 at my

if they let the dni and the intelligence community testify what is their official argument as to why sondland can't? >>. >> we're trying to work that out. at times they let officials testify. other times they're engaged in political and legal warfare. and this is a show down that will not end any time soon, but this is p a white house reacting more than strategizing. they're not sure day in and day out what this white house will do, but they're trying to pre v preserves them. >> what do democrats do now technically. when we see subpoenas blocked or ignored or witnesses not show up and speak, they say we will take this to the courts. technically what happens next. >> there are things that we can do. >> there is a lot of other evidence that suggests. volume two outlines ten instances of obstruction of justice. that is all there for the democrats if they want to use it and i'm not sure if i understand why they don't. >> thank you, gentleman, this is not the only big story this morning, we have to talk syria. next more fall out from the president's late night decision to pull troops out

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as banks try to do better on dni, they are turning to ai. -- erikatzker joins schatzker joins us fromn to explain. erik: it is about time someone brought artificial intelligence to the recruiting process, because this industry, for all of its efforts to become more diverse and inclusive, is still dominated by white men who are typically elite college educated. and that is going to need to change. it needs to not just because of changing times, but because these firms, like so many other companies, recognize the bigger your talent pool, the better the quality of your recruiting, and, ultimately, the better your employees. we are talking about investment bankers, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring. the same logic, as i say, it applies to companies worldwide applies to wall street. the challenge is volume. it is very difficult to fan out across hundreds of universities in the united states and open up the recruiting process to the degree that it can capture everybody, unless you put technology to work. and that's what this tool is designed to do. it is a screening process that surfa

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