the intel guys are collecting on me, a politician.t what the intel guys do. >> unless they have reasonable suspicion. >> suspicion of what, chris? >> hold on. remember when trump was talking to medvedev and remember the right was reasonably worried, what the hell does that mean? why's he saying something like that? there was curiosity. what was he planning, what was he thinking? there was a need for checks and balances, oversight. they wanted to dig. was that wrong? >> there's a difference between saying does the congress have the right to ask the white house questions have to right to critique to white house on political issues and engagement between foreign leaders. there's a difference between that and the intelligence oversight committee saying you have a responsibility to report to us you the intel guys when you think, you think the president does something inappropriate that's not illegal. the president can make promises overseas. that's not illegal. it might be inappropriate. good luck to adam schiff and others to go hold the w

that all falls within the jurisdiction of the intel committee and that's why the intel committee will be taking the lead. because of this subject matter. >> understood and all very interesting including you telling us a little about the meetings and the trgss. i have a tougher question for you, sir. a lot of people are impressed with what you and the speaker and chairman schiff are doing this week. and you just hated out the urgent national security case. and yet the house is going to then go on recess tomorrow. do you really think that is consistent with the claim that this is a national security emergency? is that a good idea? should you and the speaker rethink that? and stay at work on all this? >> i think two things will happen. one, it is important given the solemn and serious nature of what we have to do given the impeachment inquiry. everybody should have an opportunity to go back home and talk to their constituents on the ground, in american, in an intimate way to communicate the approach that we've taken. at the same time, the intel committee is going to proceed with hearings

how are we doing in terms of intel support to cyber stations? we thought our way through the right policies? are we meeting the requirements from the joint staff? how does dia organize for support to cyberspace? or is it just another intel thing that's plugged into the multi-domain world? jump ball. >> i'll take a stab. having seen it at least from nsa's perspective, i think we're postured better than people think mainly because cyber is a domain that is inherently intelligence driven. people are in the domain. intelligence analysts are in the domain when they do the collect and help an operation to occur. to think that it's broken and that there is not sufficient intel support to cyber perhaps reflects some people who aren't entirely familiar with what actually happens inside of an ops room. that might seem a bit harsh, but it's true. it's very hard to describe just how much intelligence is going into a cyber operation without it being inside the ops room. so, i'm actually more optimistic than most people on this issue. >> okay. anybody else? s

the president came out after the words of the intel chief.lked with the house publicly, he's in with the senate privately now. >> yeah, look, i think the fact that the transcript of this conversation came out yesterday sort of deflated the whistle-blowing testimony and hearing we had with a maguire. >> harris: was at the intention of the white house? >> i think they got out of it, but there was nothing wrong with this conversation. this conversation is what i would expect my president to have. when i look at this conversation, i don't hear a lot of pundits and people talking about the fact that zelensky was leading the president into why he won his race. the ukrainian president. basically saying there was all this corruption and he was draining the swamp. that's what the president was talking about. he basically opened the door to the conversation. >> harris: i will say this -- we had on ken starr, former counsel in the impeachment of bill clinton. do me a favor are the words of the president ends up saying. we know that from the transcript.

first, the intel support, and now cyber, and what does that look like. so who's responsible for providing that intelligence to the new space command? and is that being developed and how would you assess it at this point? >> well, so i think -- everybody. it's going to -- i'll start with the obvious, right. so u.s. -- let's talk about the war fighter. u.s. space command, general raymond is -- one of his very first initiatives was to make sure that we engrained in u.s. space command a very close partnership with intelligence community. i think it's off to a terrific start. and the nexus of that is at the national space defense center at shreiver air force base, in the name of that, it's the national space defense center. not the joint, not a combined -- it's a national space defense center because the intelligence community is a vital component of that center and also of the command writ large. i think we now have a j2 and deputy j2 on station in colorado springs to help with the stand-up of u.s. space command. it's the only complete team we really have. w

what are we doing in terms of intel support for cyber? we saw our way to the right policies meeting requirements from joint staff and combatant command. the cia organized for support of cyber or is it just another intel thing that's plugged into this? jump ball. >> having seen it from nsa's perspective i was a part and i think we are actually postured better than people think. mainly because cyber is inherently intelligence-driven. people are in the domain intelligence analysts are in the domain when they collect and when they actually help an operation to occur. so to think that it's broken and that there is not sufficient intel support to cyber perhaps reflects some people who aren't entirely familiar with what actually happens inside of an office room. that may sound a bit harsh but it's true. it's very hard to describe just how much intelligence as going into a cyber operation without being inside the ops room so i'm more optimistic than most people on this issue. >> anybody else? what does the future look like and what you need to tr

will lookuse intel into the investigation of ukrainian scandal. at some point they will conclude and send the information to judiciary and we will look at it. if necessary, we will hold a hearing for articles of impeachment. host: that is because articles of impeachment have to go through the judiciary committee? caller: if there were going to be articles of impeachment it would first come through the judiciary committee. host: do you think those articles will be narrowly focused on ukraine? caller: i don't know the answer to that. evidence andat the make a decision. liket to say impeachment, the power to declare war are two of the greatest powers. it has to be -- two of the gravest powers. it has to be our last option. to make a decision based on our constitutional duties. host: do you have any sense on how long the process could take? something that might happen before the end of the year? caller: i believe if there would be articles of impeachment passe d, it would happen before the end of the year. host: congressman ted lieu taking your phone

as we just heard, house intel chairman adam schiff did not know whether the white house was involved or what pressure was put on acting intelligence director joseph maguire. we are hearing contradictions between the trump appointees. one hand, inspector general, a trump appointee saying it was a credible and urgent complaint from a whistle-blower. then the acting intelligence director joseph maguire saying in his eye it does not meet the definition of an urgent concern. now president trump earlier today denies he said anything inappropriate on any calls with foreign leaders but, of course, this episode, erica, could simply deepen the president's skepticism of the intelligence committee. he's had a strange relationship with intel agencies since the start of his presidency. >> that is putting it mildly. sarah westwood at the white house this hour. thank you. with those breaking details, as we just heard, that closed door house intel meeting with the inspector general and intelligence committee wrapping up a short time ago. get straight to our reporter on capitol hill and chairman schif

it was all about intel from space. everything-- every component and every piece of what you heard here on that, has a counterpart in intel force space. how do we understand what's going on in space? how do we harness partnerships with industry and with allies to get better space situational awareness and we're using the term now space domain awareness, it's bigger than space situation awareness. frankly in the same-- i know that spacey and nj struggle with the collation of what's happening in the terrestrial spheres, including in space, it's a data problem what's going on in space as well. it turns out space is pretty big. huge. only getting bigger in many senses both from a cosmological and realize everything that we've said and the challenges with regard to init he will from space, commercial allies and such have a component in the intel force space arena. >> good point. so all of that data out there and you really are trying to leverage as much as you can from all of your partners. let's talk about the security and

the intel community disagreed with his foreign policy views so they tried to destroy him.hat's an observation of what happened. two weeks after he took office, somebody decided to leak the president's phone calls with foreign leaders -- imagine that. imagine having to run the country when you can't even speak confidentially with their counterparts in other countries, how does that help america? you may hate trump, you should still be against that but that kind of thing has been happening ever since. if that is an administrative coup d'etat. it's not an overstatement to say that's what it is. a lot is at stake here. if these people whose names you don't know who were never elected to anything succeeded in taking over the government and running things in real life, we're done, our democracy won't recover. the president, not just this present but future presidents will be figureheads, they will be beholden to a praetorian guard of intelligence officials in washington. if they do fight consensus in washington in any way, they will be sabotaged and hurt. that's what they are tr

it is frightening to the bone isn't it byron. >> earlier in the show i think you said top intel leadersd or pretend to do believe, in this dossier, the fact is we know now that they had meticulously line by line tried to verifier the allegations in the dossier not just moscow sex stuff but all the allegations of collusion the like, and they nevverified any major allegations intel chiefs knew that january 2017 when they presented to it the president. >> at the are liars they are, in my book traitors by a ron york i don't request you to concur to agree but do i thank you for all as usual your great work. >> thank you allow. >> byron york, in pennsylvania fighting to pray. what in fighting to pray? is we will explain when we come back pastor robert jeffress joinsnsnsnsns termites, feasting on homes 24/7. we're on the move. roger. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. termites never stop trying to get in, we never stop working to keep them out. terminix. defenders of home. baptize bap. >>> joining us pastor robert jeffries member white house faith initiative pastor first dall

the house intel committee is a lead on this. they will track down all the different witnesses and the administration can either provide the information if there's nothing to hide, or if they don't in the american people can draw the inference they are hiding a lot from both congress and the american people. >> host: what is the judiciary committees role? judiciary had taken the lead when it came to the mueller investigation and various other aspects, so what do you do now in the judiciary committee? >> guest: the house intel is going to take a lead undoing the investigation of this ukrainian scandal. at some point they will conclude it and send information to judiciary and then we look at it and if necessary we will hold a hearing and draft articles of impeachment and have a markup on, because articles of impeachment had to go through the judiciary committee? >> guest: if there were going to be articles of impeachment would first come out of our judiciary committee tremor do think those those articles will be narrowly focused on

today the agency and other intel agencies like it aren't simply policymaking arms of government.t times they clearly want to be the government itself, they want to run everything and they do for moments. that's the main lesson, by the way, of donald trump's phone call with the ukrainian president. we learned today that the official who filed the so-called whistle-blower complaint against the president was a career cia officer detailed to the white house. the official did not agree with the president's foreignid policy views, so he felt entitled to veto those views and bring the u.s. government to a standstill, which he did. that's really the meat of the story. we know this because the complaint was released today to the public. you can read it if you want. if it tells us nothing we didn't already know from a transcript of the phone call. if trump talked about a variety of issues with the president of ukraine, including possible corruption involving joe biden and his son. trump never mentioned military aid or any kind of quid pro quo. you may not like what trump said, but it's har

joseph maguire, the chief intel, the acting intel chief right now. he's expected and then go behind closed doors with his senate testimony today. we are awaiting his arrival from one section of capitol hill to the other, and as that happens, sometimes mics and cameras are there and we are all over it just in case. are we seeing it? there you go. >> kennedy: ask and you shall receive, harass! >> harris: sie? cubicle. what i was asking about previously, they started buying posters and have the performance we had with house intel. i don't know. we don't have the answer to tha that. jeanne is madly nodding that yes, they could. >> jeanne: leasing the democrats messes up your look at corey lewandowski pray that was not a good hearing for the democrats. i always say to know what you are going to get before you put it out there. nancy pelosi is very good at counting votes before he goes to the floor. the democrats in these committee hearings -- >> ed: she pointed to something else. the lewandowski meeting was mishandled, and some of the robert mueller testi

time ago on two breaking stories this morning, the fallout over the whistleblower complaint as acting intel chief now getting set to testify in capitol hill in the coming days, tensions with iran ahead of un assembly gathering in new york, join me ahead in sunday morning futures to react to all of that, senator lindsey graham, he will be here, the top republican on the house intelligence committee also here, congressman devin nunes joining me momentarily, also with me retired four-star general jack keane, preview of my special report on artificial intelligence, airs tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on fox news channel, all the stories coming up right here on sunday morning futures. ♪ maria: breaking news this morning, president trump hitting back at democratic front runner joe biden amid controversy over a whistleblower complaint, multiple outlets it was prompted by july phone call where the president asked the president of ukraine to investigate biden's son, here is the president a while ago before heading to houston later today for an event with the indian prime minister. >> that c

time ago on two breaking stories this morning, the fallout over the whistleblower complaint as acting intel chief now getting set to testify in capitol hill in the coming days, tensions with iran ahead of un assembly gathering in new york, join me ahead in sunday morning futures to react to all of that, senator lindsey graham, he will be here, the top republican on the house intelligence committee also here, congressman devin nunes joining me momentarily, also with me retired four-star general jack keane, preview of my special report on artificial intelligence, airs tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on fox news channel, all the stories coming up right here on sunday morning futures. ♪ maria: breaking news this morning, president trump hitting back at democratic front runner joe biden amid controversy over a whistleblower complaint, multiple outlets it was prompted by july phone call where the president asked the president of ukraine to investigate biden's son, here is the president a while ago before heading to houston later today for an event with the indian prime minister. >> that c

ainsley: intel.at investigating what would be impeachment. meanwhile steven miller was ready for combat when he went on with chris wallace yesterday. he was very confident in saying everyone has got this backwards when it comes to the whistleblower. >> the president is the whistleblower here. the president of the united states is the whistleblower. and this individual is a saboteur trying to undermine a democratically elected government. the president correctly pointed out that the behavior of this individual is close to a spy. i don't know hot individual is. all i know is at some point, chris, we have to focus on the real scandal. which is three years of deep state sabotage. brian: it's got to be frustrating for the president. because people in his own midst seem to be very comfortable turning on us. and if you felt that conversation wasn't appropriate, why don't you become the whistleblower? why are you somebody that goes and whispers into it, according to the "new york times," cia male and whisper

what did the intel committee do? they had a press conference and talked about it.lowing up the balloon. there are five individual world leaders donald trump talked to about the same time frame and they said in the report that i read it isn't a question of the law. they are not even asserting anything was illegal. jillian: iran threatening and all-out war if the us or its allies take military action against them. the iranian foreign minister says the country will not blink to defend its territory. the us has been weighing its options after lamia ran for attacks on saudi oil facilities. donald trump about to slap iran with more sanctions but the us has granted iranian leaders to attend the un general assembly next week. iran's presidency the country will not negotiate with the us under any circumstances. a power struggle brewing in israel. benny gantz claims victory over benjamin netanyahu. election results are not official but gantz is rejecting netanyahu's offer to share power. is relapse longest-serving prime minister proposing a unity government and rotating the

and he told them that we have this ongoing investigation and so what did the intel committee do? and had a press conference and talked about it. they blabbed, that's the blowing up of the balloon. the gop is going to pop it because there are five different individual world leaders that president trump talked to about the same time frame and they said it right in the report that ii read, it's not a question of the law. they are not even asserting anything was illegal. >> laura: this is really important. i'm so glad you mentioned this ari, i have to get you in on this, because even people who aren't fans of the president are making this point. that the president can say anything he wants to to a world leader, basically. he's the chief executive officer of united states of america. what is your perception of how's this thing was marketed over the last 36 hours? >> it's a fuse that the press wants to light on fire becausers it's anti-trump and so of course they run with it. but the analogy i give is if you're batting 0 for 19 and then you keep swinging, you're either going to be one

it is frightening to the bone isn't it byron. >> earlier in the show i think you said top intel leaders dossier, the fact is we know now that they had meticulously line by line tried to verifier the allegations in the dossier not just moscow sex stuff but all the allegations of collusion the like, and they nevverified any major allegations intel chiefs knew that january 2017 when they presented to it the president. >> at the are liars they are, in my book traitors by a ron york i don't request you to concur to agree but do i thank you for all as usual your great work. >> thank you allow. >> byron york, in pennsylvania fighting to pray. what in fighting to pray? is we will explain when we come back pastor robert jeffress joins us stay with us. this is how it made me feel. it was like that feeling when you pull your green sock out of the dryer and then the very next sock is the other green one. and then you pull out two blue ones. and you keep going till you've matched every single sock in perfect order. and the owner of the laundromat is so impressed, he hangs a picture of you next to th

remember he compared intel agencies to the nazis soon after he took office.attacked intelligence officials in public. denied u.s. intelligence findings on russian interference in the u.s. a e lection on iran's compliance with the nuclear deal on north korea's continued expansion of its nuclear program, brooke. this has enormous consequences for the u.s. intelligence community and how they respond to key threats to u.s. national security. brooke? >> jim, your reporting has been outstanding. thank you for that. still with me, john garamendi, congressman, staying with me. thank you, sir, for that. let me add to that. we also know just from the in the "new york times" today the cia director at the time john brennan thought the information was so sensitive he sent it to then president obama in a separate special sealed envelope. kept it out of obama's daily intel briefing but flash forward to president trump. doubting these sources, saying essentially my relationship with foreign leaders is far more important. congressman what do you think trump's motivation is fo

have house intel chairman adam schiff questioned for treason. in a series of tweets he posted like every american, i deserve to meet my accuser, especially when this accuser, the so-called whistleblower represented a perfect conversation with a foreign leader in a total inaccurate and fraudulent way. then schiff made up what i actually said by lying to congress. his lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great chamber. he wrote down and read terrible things and said it was from the mouth of the president of the united states. i want schiff questioned at the highest level for fraud and treason. in addition i want to meet not only my accuser, but also the person who illegally gave this information, which was largely incorrect to the whistleblower. was this person spying on the

alan, that used to hold the intel accountable and now they are in bed with the intel community. >> the problem is -- of course putin knew this guy was leaving russia and he knew where he was going to the united states for the theory is if you don't poke the bear, nothing's going to happen but when the media starts poking the bear and starts confronting russia in a very public way with what happened, that hurts the likelihood that this man will survive. i think he now has to be protected. his whole family has to be moved. not because of anything this administration did but because of what the media has done, leaks to the media from former officials in these leaks just have to be plugged. leaks are becoming so partisan, their weapons and they become weaponize leaks in a partisan war. that's just not right. >> laura: yeah, i think going to this poor guy's house. reporter from the house. >> this is such a joke that they send a reporter to the guys house. failed russian hoax. your story doesn't work anymore. what's the next thing? okay, let's blame trump for exposing a spy in russia. even w

he was sharing confidential intel on twitter just two weeks ago. there is literally nothing that this man won't do in service of his own interests, including putting people, our service folks, our congress people, everyone who cares about american democracy at risk. and because of that, i think that nadler is saying i want you to know that i have resolved this, because that then creates the context for other people to get on board. because it means the has looked at some of the evidence, if not all. he sees the larger picture, and he has tried to now lead news that way. and we're long overdue for that leadership. frankly, they're behind the step of the american people. and so now it's time to get out front and lead the charge. >> what do you think of what adam schiff is trying to do here? >> look, adam schiff is a really smart, well educated lawyer. he knows exactly what he is doing. the administration is illegally concealing information from his committee, which is an incredibly important committee. it's responsible for the security for the united

you chaired the intel committee. adam schiff now chairs it.'re holding a major public hearing tomorrow morning about all of this. take me through the key questions you would ask him and what will get the most clarity and answers to the american people. >> well, first and foremost, i think the committee's responsibility is to the ongoing adversarial intelligence threat, terrorist threat, cyber threat. i hope they spend time on doing that because remember, you can't let this thing engulf everything that the government is doing, or shame on all of us. the community, the intelligence community, needs robust oversight. it needs both encouragement, it needs advice from counsel and of course it needs money, all of those things the intelligence committee when it's fully functioning can do that. i think at the end of it you will not be able to avoid some of the questions and i wouldn't get down to try to get too many details or too many movements in an intelligence committee hearing but i would press the director for either the report or allowing -- he

that's really going to be a matter for the senate intel committee, the house intel committee to decideit should be redacted and parts of it released, or whether it really is sensitive enough that they need to keep it closed off for the investigation. at the moment, it is not even open for all members of congress to take a look at. it is in a protected room where those in the intel committee can go and take a look. i think, for public transparency, there's going to be calls for that to be released. when you're with such high—stakes here, an impeachment investigation, when you're dealing with such high—stakes here, an impeachment investigation, but they are those who will argue that, because of this is such a significant moment, that it should be guarded until all the facts are in place. let's take a look at some of the day's other news: president hassan rouhani of iran has warned that the gulf region is on the edge of collapse, amid tensions between his country and the us. the us and saudi arabia have accused tehran of being behind the recent attack on saudi oil facilities. iran denies

if the intel being gathered by japan is not going to south korea or south korea is not showing inteljapan as these launches are happening, that is a concern for japan's national security. david: it raises the question of what the u.s. role should be with respect to u.s. -- these two allies. the united states essentially withdrawn from the role when it comes to south korea and japan? >> i think the u.s. has been slow to play a role but i also wonder given the domestic political drivers in both countries that have led to this dispute intensifying, i'm not quite sure what the u.s. could do in this situation. i think would require a much harder stance to both countries saying, look, there are more important issues. fundamentally, i think you have in a administration and south korea, conservative in japan, and they view the nature of the relationship in fundamentally different ways. i think they conceive of their interests as far as the other country is concerned quite differently. that is not something the u.s. is necessarily going to be a list say, look, you have to be able to sit down

intel official blew the whistle. >> 2 1/2 weeks before that complaint, mr. trump spoke to the ukrainian president, zelensky. the president threatened to hold aid to ukraine. that hold was pulled back. they wanted ukraine to investigate joe biden's supposed role in the dismissal of a prosecutor who investigated biden's son. biden's campaign denies any wrongdoing. mr. trump assigned his attorney, rudy giuliani to the effort. on cnn last night, giuliani did not exactly settle the issue. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> no, actually, i didn't. i asked the ukraine to investigate the allegation that there was interference in the election of 2016 by the ukrainians for the benefit of hillary clinton. >> you never asked anything about hunter biden? never asked anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked about how the case was dismissed against -- >> so, you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> you just said you didn't. >> we need a chris cuomo face there. that warranted a quo cuomo face there. the phone call be

committee members spent hours behind closed doors with the intel community inspector general. michael atkinson. democrats are clearly indignant they were not told about the complaint in the first place and that officials are still decline to reveal details about it at all. chairman adam schiff suggesting a short time ago that this is a completely unprecedented effort to illegally withhold information from congress, efforts that could reach all the way to the white house. >> we can't get an answer because the department of justice and director of national intelligence will not authorize the ig to tell us. and the inspector general is doing his very best to be very careful that he follow the law. i believe that there is an effort to prevent this information getting to congress, and if the assertion is accurate that department of justice made and dni affirmed that this involves a privileged communication, then at one level or another, it likely involves the president or people around him. >> now, atkinson, the inspector general, is expected to brief the senate intelligence commit

. >> are they protected if their issue and intel doesn't goat the congress as it's supposed to? >> the inspector general, it's unprecedented what's happening in the united states congress. their refusal to participate, to submit subpoenas and to testify, there's no question about that, which is why i think, speaker pelosi is singularly focused -- she wants him in jail where he belongs. if you look at all the things he's done, it's almost as if it was any other american rngs t, would be in jail. she's focused singularly because the truth of the matter is, i agree. i understand the significance and the importance of maybe putting a star next to his name but we could vote tomorrow. we will vote. if it came up, the members of the house overwhelmingly would vote to impeach but he still would be sitting in office. he would still be damaging this country. the one thing that that -- this could be something that will be a star on us as a nation for decades, if not for longer. the example and the only example to show that we are standing up for the rule of law is to ultimately for the man

the cia informant who provided intel to the u.s. from the highest levels of the russian government was extracted for his own safety. "the new york times" reports on the dramatic move. "the move brought an end to the career of one of the cia's most important sources. it also effectively blinded american intelligence officials to the view from inside russia as they sought clues about kremlin interpeerference in the8 midterm elections and next year's presidential contest." a scary thought considering the broad consensus from inside and out of trump's government about ongoing russian attacks on our elections. >> we acknowledge the threat. it is real. it is continuing. and we're doing everything we can to have a legitimate election that the american people can have trust in. however, they stepped up their game big-time in 2016. we have not seen that kind of robust effort from them so far. >> the russians are absolutely intent on trying to interfere with our elections through -- >> is it fair to say -- >> -- foreign influence, in particul

the intel community shared a classified version of the report. senior u.s. intelligence officials considered extracting one russian asset at that time but did not do so according to the former senior intelligence official. the meeting in may 2017 raised new concerns in the intel community which continued to grow. i should note this because none of this happened in isolation. weeks after this decision to extract this covert spy, the president met privately with russian president vladmir putin at the g-20 summit in hamburg. intelligence officials expressed concern the president may have improperly discussed classified intelligence with russia. this is knowledge of the intel's community response to that trump-putin meeting. >> what's been the administration's response to your reporting? >> i reached out to the white house. a u.s. official suggested there was media speculation about a covert operative but could not point to any public reporting. the cia director told cnn, cnn's narrative that life or death decisions based on anything other than object ifr aive a

this individual's intelligence was key to the intel community's assessment that when russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, they did so at the direction of the russian president. and the intention was not just to disrupt american politics but to advantage donald trump over hillary clinton. so a very key source at the highest levels who is now lost to the u.s. and that's a significant loss. a little background here. we should be clear the concerns about the safety of this source prior to the extraction developed over months. it was first during the end of the obama administration when the source was offered extraction. the administration became concerned, precisely because intelligence from the source was included in that assessment of russian interference in the election. but those concerns grew during the early months of the trump administration and i'm told by a former trump administration official directly involved in the discussions of this extraction that the president's repeated mishandling of classified intelligence contributed to that decision to take this person

that's something acting intel chief joseph maguire is going to have to grant them. that is being worked out. house intel chairman adam schiff says it's important that the whistleblower's identity also be protected in the course of acquiring this testimony. this as allies of president trump were out in full force today defending the president, attacking the whistleblower and questioning their motives. but the whistleblower's testimony is just one small part of a broad range of things related to the ukrainian controversy that house democrats are looking for. they want to see all kinds of documents related to president trump's now infamous call with ukrainian president zelensky and get testimony from a number of different witnesses. on friday we saw secretary of state mike pompeo subpoenaed by three different congressional committees. they are looking for documents from pomp greo and the state department by friday. they're also looking for depositions from top state department officials including curt volker. there's going to be a lot of pressure on the white house to

, as you mentioned, as we speak, the inspector general testifying behind closed doors to the house intel committee. and then next week, the acting dni himself is expected to testify in open committee to that very same committee. can be sure, jim, that this morning those house intel members are drilling down with that inspector general trying to get some answers about who this foreign leader was and what this promise made was. jim? >> and why it will raise such alarm. alex marquardt, thanks. >>> let's go to manu raju. the inspector general speaking to lawmakers now. do we know, particularly as alex notes, that the dni is in effect looking for some middle ground. do we know the ig is going to detail this whistleblower complaint or try to give something but not everything on this? >> we don't know that, jim. in fact, we're waiting for him right now to arrive. he's expected to come around this corner, but in this secure facility below us are several entrances in and out. so people who come to testify behind closed doors, members themselves can oftentimes slip in and out of the eyes of the me

did any suggestion of this come up in today's meeting with the intel ig? >> not at all.hink the ig, while a trump appointee, is a very straight arrow. he was on point and stressed other things that are extreatmently important. but the issue of subject matter was not brought up or discussed. >> what you discussed -- what's your concern level about what you heard? >> well, let's say this. he talked about the fact that it was urgent and credible, that it was corroborated, and it involved one of the most important functions that the dni carries out, its responsibilities to the american people. that's scary enough. and he stressed the fact that -- i guess i'd put it this way in a democracy, we have an intelligence community that operates in secret. and that's necessary. but that system only works in a democracy when there is a functioning oversight by the congress. and when there is the opportunity for whistle blowing. what the ig stressed today is all that is at risk with the dni's action blocking the law, blocking this complaint going to congress as is prescribed. >> so the

>> the intel committee is going full steam ahead. >> full steam ahead. ahead mean in the context of a white house that is pushing back on so much, that hasn't been very cooperative about anything? and what does full steam ahead mean about timing for any articles of impeachment, which is the big enchilada. lawmakers see impeachment hitting the house floor as soon as around thanksgiving. that would be fast indeed. so we've been following all this. this is what i'll tell you. if in the end the articles of impeachment hit the house floor before or after thanksgiving or really any time before the end of the year, no one will remember this two-week recess. but if things change, and this week has shown how fast they can change, if speaker pelosi is further into 2020, people will be looking back to this friday night, back to this recess and asking, was that the time when the white house was on the run constitutionally and the momentum got lost? >>> coming up, i'm going to fit in a break and show you how this ukraine scandal has donald trump's favorite tv network

moments after the complaints went public, chief joseph maguire testified to the house intel committee. he defended the whistleblower and his own handling of the complaint. >> i am not familiar with any prior instances where a whistleblower complaint, touched on such complicated and executive issues. i believe this matter is unprecedented. >> all of this has come fast and fierce. jessica schneider with more from washington. washington. >> the details of the whistleblower's complaint are now fully revealed. and the stunning allegations are two-fold. first, that president trump sought out ukraine's interference for the benefit of his 2020 election campaign. and second, that the white house tried to cover it up. the whistleblower said that senior white house officials locked down all records of that phone call. and they said they were directed by white house lawyers to remove from electronic transcript from the computer system it would normally be on and transfer it to a second system only used for highly sensitive materials. all of this, in what some are saying amounts to a cover-up by t

in my hand, new information about that whistleblower claim that the dni has not sent to the house intel committee. this is their explanation for why it's not going to happen. where it stands, what is likely to follow, we'll take you through it on our watch. today of the first impeachment hearing did hauling in the president's ex-campaign manager help or harm the democrats' potential be obstruction case? cuomo's court is about to convene. it's the perfect night for it. and if the president really loves hispanics, more than the country as he said last night, he sure has a warped way of showing it. we have a trump loyalist caught in the middle of the latest mega rally madness. and sean spicer drawing you a deep stage conspiracy after his "dancing with the stars" debut. we have some hard truths for our lime lad. what do you say? let's gets after it. all right. so look, on the impeachment front, democrats had to know what they were going to get from corey lewandowski at this first official impeachment hearing -- nothing but a fight. >> how many times did he direct you to deliver a message to

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the director of national intelligence, the acting director is going to be before the intel committeeext thursday in a public hearing. i think that will be the appropriate time to find the information out. >> bret: the president seemed to say, hey, listen i can talk to world leaders however i want to. but you should look into this. you seem, when talking to reporters today, worried about the joe biden ukraine thing a lot more than you were with the whistle-blower thing. is that fair? >> what's fair here is the president should be able to talk to every world leader. tonight he's going to have the prime minister from australia. it's important that we have relationships. but think for one moment, any conversation that you have, who's listening and why are all these other people listening and only selectively trying to put something out? we have watched this pattern before going after this president, because people disagree with how the outcome of the election took place. i think this country has gone through three years of this. this part has got to stop. the idea of what they are going

congressman murphy, a member of the house intel and oversight committees joins us., i appreciate your time. i know it's been a very busy day for you, so we are very grateful that you're on. the reporting is that house speaker nancy pelosi is tasking your committee to take the lead on the impeachment inquiry. what's the plan? how quickly will this move? >> well, thanks, thanks for having me on. i don't know how long it's going to take, but it makes sense that we are conducting this part of the investigation because the whistle-blower's complaint went to the inspector general of the intelligence community. and so we have jurisdiction over the intelligence community, so i think this is the right place to start. >> the house intel chairman adam schiff told my colleague wolf blitzer earlier that he is hoping witnesses will cooperate voluntarily. but if it doesn't happen? could we see subpoenas? >> we could. i mean, you know that the acting d.n.i.maguire today technically appeared under a subpoena. he wasn't willing to necessarily comply immediately, so we may have to res