i'm sure this is not where joe maguire wanted to find himself here the allegation, we should say, weallegation is. it appears to be bsomething significant enough, however, that when the inspector general for the dni received this, he called it an urgent matter under the law, thought it was credible as well. what we've deduced is it seems to have been made by someone who works in the intelligence community, so at one of the spy agencies, but who was detailed at one point in time to the national security council and the white house. this has set up this interesting jurisdictional question where the dni said, well, this appears to be a complaint outside of our purview, so they then went to the justice department which said, you've got some issues here that might involve privileged communications. well, there's not much in the way of privileged communications that the dni would not have in his purview above the dni level so that kind of points to the president. we're doing a little 20 questions here, and it seems now like not revealing about an allegation possibly involving misconduct by

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my perspective, the acting dni joe maguire, who i know well and i have had a lot of deelgalings with him, he's a straight shooter in my mind. i'm sure he consulted with his general counsel to make sure that what he was doing would be consistent with the law. but, unfortunately now i think the justice department has become involved. it wouldn't be surprising if joe maguire's general counsel consulted with the department of justice. it's clear that our attorney general is a highly politicized individual who will use the instruments of power of the department of justice to protect his client, donald trump. and so i don't know to what extent joe maguire is being coerced, intimidated, threatened by the department of justice to not take these actions. they could even be saying there could be legal action taken against him if he were to go forward and share this complaint. so this is clearly a very abnormal, very worrisome situation where the whole intent of the whistle-blower act is being flouted by the trump administration and it's preventing information that truly should go to the commit

refi now at newdayusa.com >> dana: we are awaiting joe maguire to lead the senate. he's been in there doing a closed door hearing on the senate side. you saw him earlier this morning in the open session. he's been testifying now for about five hours, so i'll bet he's ready to leave and get a sandwich. joining me now, mary anne marsh, brendan buck, former adviser to speaker paul ryan. let's talk about that hearing. maryanne, democrats and republicans have very different views on this. let's get your take from the hearing. >> i think nancy pelosi, when she spoke to the nation, said donald trump betrayed his oath of office, betrayed national security, betrade our election. >> dana: she said all that before she had seen the transcript ors the whistleblower complaint. >> i don't know about that. she is in the gang of eight, so we don't know what she may have seen. that said, just with the call summary alone, let alone the whistleblower complaint and the hearing today, it is evident that laws were broken. >> dana: which law do you think was broken? >> where do we start? t

here is the comment from the dni, the acting dni before congress, joe maguire, in his testimony this week, take a look. >> i believe that the whistle-blower and the inspector general have acted in good faith throughout. i have every reason to believe that they have done everything by the book and follow the law. >> chris: that is the director of national intelligence, joe maguire, a lifetime servant of this country, a navy seal, he says that the whistle-blower was acting in good faith and action by the book. on what basis do you say that this was a partisan hit job? >> stephen: first of all, if you read the seven-page nancy drew novel for the whistle-blower put together, it drips with condescension, righteous indignation and contempt for the president. it's also ludicrous on its face. it describes an elaborate cover-up that also, by the way, the president discussed on sean hannity, april 25th. what kind of secret cover of are you also discussing on the airwaves of fox news? furthermore, the inspector general found evidence of political bias in the individual, which is not disputed by

bill mccraven in his book describes joe maguire as his dearest friend. of course mccraven himself has been very critical of donald trump, saying at one point he was a humiliation to the country. through your actions you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage, worst of all, divided us as a nation. again, joe maguire is considered very nonpolitical, bill mccraven as well but said this is a matter of leadership. of course donald trump has criticized bill mccraven, calling him a hillary clinton fan and obama backer and he should have apprehended osama bin laden faster. >> which is why it's going to be so interesting to watch his testimony today which has been kept under very tight wraps. he appears to be caught in the middle between the white house who didn't want this released publicly, the department of justice who didn't want this released to congress and the duties he felt he had as the acting director of national intelligence. >> that's right, george. "the washington post" had reported that he had threatened to

i think a big question for joe maguire will be, where did you come down on this? you agree with the lawyer, did you not? were you prepared to say, this was the reading of the statute and i'm going to do what it says. but he is caught betwixt and between with the white house, the justice department leaning on him and the dni's office. it's obviously an extraordinary case given that the president is the subject. it will be fascinating to see if he's willing to share that tomorrow, why he did what he did. we know he wants a chance to stand up for his integrity. i'll be interested to see if he gives us a window into his decision-making. >> that was the last thing i was going to ask you, shane. as a reporter knowing what you know about this story with the very intriguing reporting from you and your colleagues today about this threat to resign by director maguire if he was forced to stonewall congress and forced to deny them information he believes they should have, what do you think that we should be watching for when we see that testimony? obviously we're looking all

acting director of national intelligence joe maguire's congressional testimony got a lot of attentionne of his revelations flew under the radar. john avalon has our reality check. tell us more. >> that's right, guys. look. amid all the noise, you might have missed this. joe maguire's answer about the most urgent threat america fa s faces. >> i think the greatest challenge that we do have is to make sure we maintain the integrity of our intelligence system. >> got that? and that's the essence of the whistle-blower complaint. quote, the president of the united states is using his power to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 u.s. elections. here's what makes it worse. the call to the ukrainian president came one day after mueller told congress this. >> over the course of my career, i've seen a number of challenges to our democracy. the russian government's effort to interfere in our election is among the most serious. >> he said that deserves the attention of every american. that's why "the washington post" report was such a gut punch this weekend. that during a 2017

>> first, i thought joe maguire did a masterful job in a very difficult circumstance.dni for, what, six weeks? he was in a very tough place. and there are a couple of reasons for this. one, the ambiguity of the law itself. intelligence community whistleblower protection act with which is silent, not surprisingly, on this subject. what happens when the objective of the complaint is the pez of the united states? it doesn't treat that. so i think -- i'm sure he had a lot of discussions with his general counsel and i think he did the correct thing institutionally, which is to consult, or perhaps his general counsel did, with the white house general counsel's office and/or the office of legal counsel in the department of justice, which is the senior level authority, senior voice for legal issues in the executive branch. that was the right thing to do institutionally. politically, was it the right thing to do, to consult with the target of the complaint? and i hope and i'm sure he did, have a discussion about the pros and cons of doing that with his general counsel. having s

reporter: president trump watched part of the hearing with dni joe maguire in front of the house intelligence committee today. he says he thinks house intel chair adam schiff is focusing on the wrong thing. the real topic of national security interest should be around former vice president joe biden and his son hunter. >> it is adam schiff and his crew making up stories but adam doesn't talk about joe biden and hits son walking away with millions of dollars from ukraine. then millions of dollars from china. he doesn't talk about joe biden firing a prosecutor and if that prosecutor is not fired he is not going to give them money from the united states of america. reporter: acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire was receipt he hadly asked today why he decided not to rush the whistleblower complaint over to congress within a week time frame. maguire says this complaint is unprecedented compared to others he has seen or his office has seen because to his knowledge this is the first time a complain involved someone with executive privilege and also someone who was not a member of

steve: there he is addressing the acting dni joe maguire. that the inspector general did find some political bias but maguire said he did not question the whistleblower's motivation. >> nor should he because you don't want to put a chilling effect on any whistleblower in any situation. steve: otherwise, you are going to stop having them. >> exactly as a prosecutor you want to have whistleblowers. you do. now, whether he is going to be credible, he or she when it comes out who this person is, whether they had an ax to grind. they know his or her attorney is a democrat donor. and he had no first hand knowledge of the facts of the phone call. steve: what do you think going forward after what we heard yesterday did his testimony help the democrats or hurt the democrats' cause? >> i think it hurt them tremendously. because now why are knowing he was not representing the facts of the case, schiff. i think joe maguire did a great job testifying. this guy is a military hero. and every single democrat tried to tear him down, call him a liar, say he wa

. >> the acting director of national intelligence joe maguire appeared before the house intel committee moments after the whistleblower complaint was released and he was asked about those coverup allegations. >> so would you also want to know though, considering that you are the director of national intelligence, and transcripts are being moved into a secret intelligence system, whether other transcripts perhaps, maybe the president's phone calls with vladimir putin, with mbs of saudi arabia or erdogan of turkey or kim jong-un, would you want to know if those were also being improperly moved because the president is trying to cover up something? >> congressman, how the white house, the office of the executive, the executive office of the president and the national security council conduct their business is their business. >> maguire also told lawmakers he believed the whistleblower acted in good faith, breaking with president trump, who called the complaint a quote political hack job. however maguire was grilled on first alerting the white house of the complaint before the justice depar

we just had the nation's top spy, the acting director of national intelligence, joe maguire, testified that the nation is in a unique and unprecedented situation. he testified that he doesn't know who the whistle-blower is, that he has never discussed it with the president. at this point he believes the whistle-blower has acted in good faith and follow the law. joe maguire defended his decision not to immediately share the whistle-blower complaint with congressional committees. he said he followed the letter of the law, and that the complaint did not meet the legal standard for an urgent concern. maguire said it has to be classified in nature, a violation of the law, and it had to do with either funding, the administration, or operational intelligence activities. in this case he said it did not meet the standard because it had to do with a diplomatic phone call between the president and the president of the ukraine. maguire said he took this issue to the justice department internal lawyers for the executive branch, the office of legal counsel, and they also agreed that it did not be th

there were members of the house who were outraged at joe maguire having to testify publicly.have been something that happened behind closed doors, as it did with your committee. help us understand that tension, air something so the public knows what's going on -- >> in a case like this, you have to balance it. actually i don't think it's a bad thing that the house and senate might strike that balance differently, but in the end what you want to do is have the secrecy that's required to protect the whistle-blower, for example, which is incredibly important, but at the same time build public confidence in the process. remember, you know, what went on during watergate, it was one of the critical components of that was making sure the public understood what the testimony was and the evidence that was being developed by the committee looked like. we're going to have to do that here, too. anybody in washington who makes the assumption that the american people have their mind made up here hasn't spent any time in the heartland of this country. that's a place where people are working

when joe maguire, the acting director of national intelligence goes before the committee tomorrow, there are questions about how much you can say in open form. that's one of the biggest points here, so maybe they had to declassified us so they could explore this in a robust fashion. here are the other questions going into the hearing tomorrow, what is the role of the dni in the whistle-blower complaint, and could they dni assess the credibility of the whistle-blower? i talked to a number of the members from both sides of the aisle coming out of the intelligence committees after they got the briefing and saw the document. chuck schumer, the senate democratic leader said he was more troubled by seeing this. adam schiff said, he is the chair of the house intelligence committee, that the whistle-blower laid this out in a very clear fashion. >> shannon: so where do republicans stand on what we know so far on the fallout? >> so far they are standing behind the president. kevin mccarthy if the house minority leader introduce a resolution basically to condemn house speaker nancy pelosi, saying t

joe maguire has already pushed back. the "washington post" had a piece that he was said to resign if he wasn't allowed to speak freely on capitol hill. moments later he puts out a statement in which he says at no time have i considered resigning my position since assuming this role in august 16th. i've never quit anything in my life and i'm not going to start now. so that pushback already happened because of a media story yesterday. expect that to continue. >> sandra: ahead of this the president appears to have just tweeted out a moment ago saying democrats are traig to destroy the republican party and all it stands for. stick together, play their game and fight hard, republicans. our country is at stake. the president just a moment ago. >> remember yesterday also the white house realizes they're in a battle not just about a document and a whistle-blower, this is about his presidency. i would imagine that the white house woke up this morning like after a big night out and then you wake up in the morning and you have to s

after consulting with the justice department, the top lawyer for the acting director joe maguire said the complaint was not standard. congressional notification was not required. today, speaking to reporters at the u.n., president trump went on the offensive. >> did you tell the year ukrainian leader. >> president trump: no i didn't. no identity. joe biden said about his son. joe biden, it's a very dishonest he did. >> a separate source told fox news that it weakens the complaint, but not does not necessarily undercut all the complaints. >> sean: new york city mayor, rudy giuliani. all weighing in tonight's, along with john solomon and peter schweizer. they have written and investigated this extensively. it's pretty clear, the media's four day anti-trump binge was yet another false, totally misguided, and as usual, they got it all wrong moment. but despite so much terrible reporting and misplaced hysteria, we got a big thanks to the media mob. they've highlighted joe biden and the country of ukraine. biden's conduct is now rightly in the spotlight. this may be the end of joe biden's c

. >> they want joe maguire to come to the hill thursday and testify it. >> shepard: catherine herridge, thank you. he swore an oath to defend the united states but, investigators say is heart still belongs to hezbollah. even after he became an american citizen he scouted terror targets to take out. among them some of the country's highest profile landmarks. today that man faces a judge, coming up as the reporting continues this monday afternoon. >> shepard: we are finding out more about a u.s. army soldier accused of killing a left-wing activist and bombing in major news network. they said the investigators knew how to make a bomb and share instructions online. >> the justice department arrested in the soldier discussed on facebook how to build bombs and discussed potentially helping others with an attack in the united states. there was even talk of an alleged bombing of an american news network however, we have not yet learned which one. he was stationed out at fort riley in kansas, which is about an hour west of tweak out and he has been there since july of this year. smith was alleg

my point is, why focus on the process that joe maguire had to go through? a process man.nd of seem that way, right? is going to follow -- "it didn't rise to urgent." all of that. why focus on that? ride try to explain all that to the public, to the voting public come in a political process lea, potentially? why focus on what you allege have been viewed the whistle-blower? >> because there's none in big u.s. law that says when there is a whistle-blower complaint that is deemed to be urgent that it is to be conveyed to the united states congress within seven days. they had a concern that the white house try to somehow deflect and confuse and stop maguire, and they see that as part of the story. >> harris: about to slow you down. we are coming right back. i'm going to bring it back. stay with me. ent loan debt i hae i'm embarrassed to even say i felt like i was going to spend my whole adult life paying this off thanks to sofi, i can see the light at the end of the tunnel as of 12pm today, i am debt free ♪ not owing anyone anything is the best feeling in the world, i cannot s

reporter: democrats want the top five acting director of national intelligence joe maguire to come thursday released the whistleblower complaint on a number of grounds. liz: thank you for your reporting. president trump arriving at the united nations, he was quick to criticize joe biden in the growing ukraine scandal. >> the one that has the problem is biting. if you look at what he did, i did not do it. what biden did is a disgrace. liz: the president acknowledged that he did discussed the vice president with ukraine president back in july. but now he says that he is mowing over and releasing specifics about the call. >> the problem is, when you're speaking a foreign leaders, you do know what they do. and feel that they should not be speaking openly. >> let's take it up with justice department officials, he joins us from washington. your reaction to all of this? >> first of all, it is remarkable that we are hearing that the whole thing has been set in motion by a whistleblower pretty was not an eyewitness who is in the room or on the phone call, the president had with ukrainian president.

we have joe maguire, acting d&i, in front of the committees next week. joseph maguire has a tough line here, where he has a complaint from someone in his own intelligence community, but it's about his boss. so if you were in the house or the senate next week, what would you be asking of acting d&i month gier? >> i would ask him who told him he could not disclose this to the house or senate. we believe, we know that it's the department of justice, it's barr and olc essentially be-- a. why this piece is less relevant, if you do an analogy to the mueller report, this is the obstruction of justice part of it. this is just a sort of piece which they're trying to hide this information from coming out. and so it's relevant because obviously we want the information that the whistleblower knew, but it surely seems already we know a lot of it already. trump has not denied it. giuliani has already said it. so if you're in the senate or the house, you're going to just push maguire. maguire is -- i don't feel sorry for him. he's in an impossible position. he's chosen

. >> the nation's top intelligence official, the acting director of national intelligence joe maguireed thursday before the democrat led house intelligence committee. tonight he's denying on the record media reports that he threatened to resign if he could not speak freely to lawmakers, quote, at no time have i considered resigning my position. since assuming this role on august 2019 i never quit anything in my life and i'm not going to start now. i'm committed to leading the intelligence community to address the diverse and complex threats facing our nation. based on department findings the top lawyer for maguire, the intelligence community general counsel found the was lower complaint about the president's call did not meet the statutory definition of versions and congressional notification was not required. this legal opinion released by the justice department tells us a lot more about the was lower. they heard about the president's call to white house officials confirming the early reporting that the whistleblower did not have firsthand or direct knowledge of a. the intelligence c

. >> now, does the acting intelligence director, director of national intelligence, joe maguire, is heonstrained by the white house counsel or the attorney general or his subordinates telling him that he does not have the authority to pass this on to congress? >> it's unprecedented that they would even be involved, the department of justice and the white house. again, the law is very clear that once the inspector general sends -- he has 14 days. so an individual says their complaint is urgent and credible. the inspector general has 14 days to investigate that and say yes it's urgent and credible or no, it's not urgent and credible. in this case he said yes, it's urgent and credible. once that happens, it's sent to congress. there's no discretion or involvement of outside agencies. it would be completely lawless to direct the director of national intelligence from sending that to congress. >> the president tweeted today that people shouldn't think he's dumb enough not to know that people are listening in by practice, national security teams, including detailees from the cia and other in

, we are looking forward to a public testimony by the acting director of national intelligence, joe maguire. david: many thanks to enter adjutant. bill, give us a final thought. you have covered washington for many years. what really does this change in the practical manner? bill: i think a week ago, a lot of people thought impeachment was probably starting to be a little bit of a dying issue. more democrats calling for it but not a ton of momentum behind it. i think the big question will be how does this resonate publicly? how does the general public look at this issue? i think of it focuses on weapons or aid to ukraine, i think that will be more complex of an issue than we had a clear idea from a transcript where the president says i would like you to take a look at buys president joe biden and his son. that is when people will say wait a second, is this an abuse of power or not? the more it focuses on ukraine and the aid, i think that will probably be distracting for democrats. david: typically in washington, things are not all that clear. bill faries, thank you. really appreciate it. to

with the justice department, the top lawyer for the acting director of nationalin intelligence, joe maguireid the complaint was nonstandard, did not meet the statutory definition of urgent, and congressional notification was not required. "the information within the present complaint however is differentt in kind from that involved in any past cases. because the complaint involves confidential and potentially privileged communications by persons outside of the intelligence community, the dni lacks unilateral authority to transmit such materials. speaking to reporters at the u.n. today, president trump went on the offensive. >> did you tell the ukrainian leader that they would havel te aid only if the investigator joe biden and his family? >> no ide didn't. no i didn't. i didn't do it. but joe biden said it about his son. joe biden was very dishonest, what he did. >> on the whistle-blower lacking direct knowledge of the call, a separate source told fox news that weakens the complaint, but does not necessarily undercut all allegations. democrats want his testimony on thursday, tucker. >> tuck

whistle-blower has, through his attorney, notify the director of national intelligence, the acting director joe maguire that he plans to go before congress. we do not know in what forum or what format at this point, but i would imagine that he behind closed doors interview, select intelligence committee staff will probably be in the offing as well. we're going to her a lot more about this tomorrow. not only for the fact that the transcript will be released of that telephone call and the president is promising it's going to be in its entirety, unredacted, because bret, if there was one reduction in the transcript, you can bet the people would say the entire thing is invalid. >> bret: they are already saying on twitter. they're saying it's going to be adjusted. >> i don't know how you say that before you seen anything but the other big element tomorrow is president trump tomorrow afternoon's meeting with ukrainian president and they will have a press conference afterwards so we are going to hear a lot more about this. this is going to be good for them, they are going be the democratic party, which is now

but the senate, which also talked with the dni director, joe maguire, talked to him behind closed doors. the house chose to do it very publicly. david? david: fascinating stuff. thank you very much. >>> amid all of this, president trump announcing a new timetable for a china trade deal. a manufacturing ceo paul wellborn sat down with the president. he's going to join us next to tell us what they talked about and why he is making a 4 billion dollars case against beijing. >> they want to make a deal. do you know why they want to make a deal? because they are losing their jobs and because their supply chain is going to hell. and companies are moving out of china. all money managers might seem the same, but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios. fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of o

transcript that came out in the whistle-blowerer's somewhat redacted complaint and in the testimony of joe maguirehere anything here that is legally obvious? or is this a political matter that needs to be dealt with through the impeachment process exclusively? >> well, i think one of the lessons of the mueller investigation sfrrks -- it's important to frame it in the lens of impeachment as opposed to technical violations of statutes passed by congress. you could make the case this is a case of campaign finance laws, it's a crime,s it is abuse of contract because of the huge prei think the thick that makes it compel and it is permeating in a way that the mueller investigation never did. the harm is faux to ukraine to pro effect frk -- and it was decided by congress that that was in the best interest of our national security and president trump vie rated th. >> charlie, i often look to you in your writings as somebody who real ra which have been issues for the last few presidents, probably none more than they are now. but there's an element of the stort that's kind of interesting, the whistle-blower

i don't -- obviously, somebody stepped in and told joe maguire not to send this information over, the acting dni. i think there's nothing in his military training that should tell him to do that. he should seek counsel and it's clear that his counsel would have told him, or at least the inspector general would have told him to send that over to congress. so i think he made a misstep and frankly speaking he's acting. so if he wants to get confirmed by congress this is not the right approach politically even for him. >> well, with the republican senate it could be the only approach at this point. congressman krishna moorthi, what did you hear today in the briefing about ukraine? >> i can't comment on that specific allegation, or that issue because we don't know the substance of the complaint. but i want to point out one thing. the purpose of the whistleblower statute was also to allow the whistleblower to bring a complaint in the right way through the right process so that we could act upon it in congress in the appropriate manner. but if we don't act upon it and this information doesn'

so i'm very sympathetic to joe maguire, the acting dni.hink he's got caught up in the politics of this. and it's true that the office of legal council and the department of justice is supposed to be the final arbiter about legal issues across the executive branch. but the bigger point here is the observation of wrongdoing, and this employee attempted to use the prescribed by the congress procedure for protecting classified information or potentially sensitive information and also protect himself or herself. and i really worry about the employee because that person now is kind of hanging out there in limbo. so for me, i never had a case that was characterized as urgent. by my inspector general. i never interrupted or in any way delayed in the interest of transparency the processing of whistleblower complaint that came up during my tenure. >> next level of the analysis. doesn't matter, jim, because the president can say whatever he wants. and even if he said to ukraine's president, listen, you know, you have a problem with corruption, and i

chris: again, this person that you're accusing of all this, the director of national intelligence, joe maguirelong servant of this country, said was acting in good faith and going by the book. enough of with the rhetoric. let's talk about some specific facts in this. why did president trump use his private attorney, rudy giuliani, and as we just reported, two other private lawyers to try to dig up dirt from the ukrainian government on joe biden rather than going through his state department? >> first of all and most importantly, when we keep talking about, quote, digging up dirt, it's an interesting choice of words. one of two things is true, chris. either the ukrainian government or people associated with it possess real, actual knowledge of corrupt dealings by the biden family or they don't. if they do, is it not in the interests of all americans to know what that is? chris: we're going to get to the bidens, but i've asked you a specific question, i'd like a specific answer. the president has the state department, he's got the cia, he's got the pentagon, he's got a number of other agencies.

there's also the issue of how joe maguire, the director of national intelligence, is handling this whistle-blower has so far not shared with congress. there's a big issue there as to whether the dni is being political, whether he is doing trump's bidding. and of course the really big issue, which we don't know the answer to, is what the heck is -- what did trump say to this foreign leader? what did he allegedly promise? what is the content of this conversation? and of course the speculation centers on a july 31st call that he had with vladimir putin ostensibly to discuss forest fires in siberia. but we know that trump has often been deceptive about his dealings with putin in the past and has, in fact, lied about the nature of his contacts with the russians. >> susan, you say that this latest development makes it completely impossible to believe that the dni reasonably concluded that it was not an urgent matter and that they would try to hide this from congress. tell me why you think that. >> yes. so the question here has always been why exactly the dni was refusing to forward this whistle-blowing

. >> frank, we mentions the director of national intelligence, joe maguire, will be testifying in front of congress tomorrow. what questions do you think are most important for him to be asked? >> well, the questions write themselves. so, first, why did you choose to not comply with the clear mandate that you turn over this urgent and credible whistle-blower complaint to congress? number two, who did you consult about that? name names at the department of justice that you consulted with when they initially told you you didn't have to turn it over. do you have any evidence that the attorney general weighed in on this? who at the white house spoke with you, if mien? do have any evidence president trump was briefed or weighed in on this decision? moving forward, what level of investigative effort did you take to look into this through the inspector general? did you have discussions with the inspector general in and then i want to know even more. are you aware of any further intelligence information that tends to corroborate this allegation? what else is out there throughout the intelligenc

you saw joe maguire testify today, and he's a trump -- recent trump appointee that didn't want to sort of be out of step with the president it didn't feel like to me. but these people who inside the government feel like they have concerns that president trump is abusing his power, those would be the most compelling witnesses for the house to get in front of them to sort of push this impeachment inquiry forward. >> and matt, while i have you explain to the folks watching who may not follow this quite as closely as you do why the attorney general is in such a bad place tonight. >> well, the attorney general got involved in this whistle-blower complaint because the director of national intelligence kind of reached out to him and said what should we do with it? and bill barr's justice department decided that it should not be turned over to congress. further, bill barr's justice department treated this like a criminal referral. in addition to weighing whether it should be turned over the congress, the director of national intelligence said hey, this might be a crime. the president might hav

four days later the ig receives the complaint from the whistleblower , who the current acting dni, joe maguirerespected former navy seal said today under oath he believes the whistleblower is acting in good faith and did the right thing. liz? liz: jennifer griffin at the pentagon thank you so much. coming up the democrat roadmap to the white house is getting clearer by the day. dodge all of your questions about how their policies will slam your pocket book and elizabeth warren is out with a new plan a government take over of housing, and cars, along with healthcare and capitalism and loans and the whole energy sector and more. that story coming up plus president trump has another victory, another central american country that being honduras now joins guatemala and el salvador to enable u.s. to send migrants back to their countries the opposition mounting and also that big fire work display between thomas ho man, that story, coming up. at fidelity, we believe your money should always be working harder. that's why your cash automatically goes into a money market fund when you open a new account.

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four days later, the complaint was received from the whistle-blower joe maguire, a respected former navyelieves the whistle-blower is acting in good faith and did the right thing, shep. >> shepard: jennifer griffin live. thank you. i'll talk to republican congressmen about this in a moment. first a democratic congressman, ted lou of california. he's on two of the panels that are part of the formal inpeachment inquiry. thank you. good afternoon. >> thank you, shep. >> how concerned are you that the whistle-blower process will become more difficult now, that future whistle-blowers might step back and say what's going on right now is too much for me? >> thank you, shep, for your question. let me first say that i served active duty in the united states military because i believe america is an exceptional country. one of the things that makes us great is our shared understanding we're all americans and it's wrong and no american president should ever solicit a foreign government to target an american political opponent. the whistle-blower did the right thing by bringing this to the inspector

spokesperson confirming that the nation's intelligence chief the acting director of national intelligence joe maguiretestify before the house intelligence committee thursday. within the last hour maguire issuing this statement standing by his actions. i want to make clear that i have upheld my responsibility to follow the law every step of the way, he wrote. as public serve vangts, the men and women of the intelligence community have a solemn responsibility to do that is right which includes wrongdoing. i am committed to protecting whistleblowers and making sure the complaint is handled appropriately. the committee found the complaint about the president's call was not standard did. not meet the statutory definition of urgent and congressional innovation was not required. this undercuts democrats' claims today that there is a legal requirement to share. a former white house official tells fox news a transcript of all presidential calls are handled by the situation room between four and five intelligence officials typed as the conversation unfolds. their individual transcripts are cross rearchessed so

, the inspector general, savannah, found it credible but it was the decision of the acting dni, joe maguire who will be testifying in the next half hour to take this to the justice department. that's where the justice department got involved. attorney general bill barr is going to have to answer for why he made the decision, or at least his department made the decision to quash this, to make sure it was never forwarded to congress as the law requires. and of course one of the big questions is, is that because bill barr was part of the discussion between the president, rudy giuliani, and others to have this engagement with the ukraine? i think one thing that's important, savannah, is that notwithstanding whatever the whistle-blower says or doesn't the reaction has been defiance but behind the scenes there is real concern what this means for the president politically. i want to make two points on what we are reading and learning from the complaint. there is a classified appendix that is attached to this

. >> danny, we will be hearing from joe maguire this morning starting at 9:00 a.m.s testimony. what you are looking to hear from him this morning? >> overall, what we're looking for in this entire analysis is what was requested, what was in the transcript, and i keep calling it a transcript, the summary, and what is left out of that transcript, we need to collect evidence and get a much bigger picture of what is going on in this, i mean in the last couple of days, like i said, we have gotten enough from that memo alone that really damns the president, but overall there is a lot more information on the way that we need to be keeping an eye out for it. >> what do you make quickly, what do you make of the fact that william barr has been invoked by the president, in this memo, but in multiple time, but then is unaware of or has not been instructed to actually follow through. does that in itself provide a window of defense for the president or is it alarming we invoke his personal lawyer and the department of justice attorney general? >> that is really concerning this. a

. >> let's talk about the testimony that we are going to see from joe maguire, the acting dni this week, and given the increase in pressure by democrats in general, what you are expecting here? >> i think he is going to basically try to dodge this as much as possible, because he has still been appointed by president trump and he has been leading the effort to prevent this whistleblower complaint from coming to light and so we can't expect that much from this testimony. they are still saying that it is legally protected, but sea, you have two positions, president trump is saying, well, we're going to look at it, maybe we will release it, and then secretary mnuchin and other administration officials are on the, let's block it, it's not worth coming out yet, they're still investigating, so they're really not on the same page. >> is there at all a risk that the democrats here or those calling for possible impeachment or even investigation, further investigation into this, overplay their hand? and do you think that everyone who is in the democratic party, including the front-runner joe biden

the question is whether or not joe maguire, the director of national intelligence, will appear tomorrowf the house intelligence committee adam schiff set up for thursday morning. at the moment it does not appear that he's going to appear because his office has pushed back saying they want more time to comply with the records request. they want por time to discuss this matter with the committee. but they have threatened to issue a subpoena if he doesn't show. we'll see ultimately what he decides to do but a lot of questions, jake, about what exactly this is about. >> manu raju on capitol hill. thanks so much into i want to bring back phil mudd. so you heard that, phil. according to the letter from the general counsel from maguire it was about stakeholders within the executive branch and involved potentially privileged matters. >> what is going on in russia and north korea and dpirt. say there is a dispute between those in the intel and the white house and stakeholder and the white house is a stakeholder and that is potentially privileged information. i suspect this relates to em bear ago

in a letter to acting director of national intelligence, joe maguire, the whistleblower's legal teamays trump's remarks about identifying the whistleblower have quote heightened our concerns that our client's identity will be disclosed publicly and that as a result, our client will be put in harm's way. house intelligence committee chair adam schiff said this on abc this week, that his panel has reached an agreement over the whistleblower to testify before congress. however, an attorney for the whistleblower tweeted last night that no agreement had yet been reached with congress. and that discussions remain ongoing. >> a majority of americans say they approve of congressional democrats push to impeach president trump and 55% say they back house democrats impeachment inquiry of trump according to a new cbs news poll. and 45% say they do not approve of the probe. when asked about the legality of trump's actions on ukraine, 28% said they were proper, 31% said they were not proper, but legal, and 41% said his actions were illegal. meanwhile, 63% of americans said they found president tru

staff, and the director of national intelligence's office about a potential appearance thursday by joe maguire, tacting director to appear. his office has already balked and said he would not appear behind closed doors for testimony about this whistle-blower complaint. but i just asked adam schiff directly whether he would subpoena maguire. schiff declined to comment, saying he would issue a statement later tonight. i also asked schiff, what about the president was directly involved in preventing this complaint from being turned over to congress. he also would not comment about that. said he had planned to discuss more about this later. now, wolf, this complaint was deemed by the intelligence community's inspector general to be credible and urgent. but the department -- the director of national intelligence's office did not view it the same way, saying it did not meet the legal standard of an urgent concern, saying this in a letter to congress, saying, because the complaint was determined not to be an urgent concern, the law did not require that the dni forward the complaint to the intelligenc

tomorrow's testimony by joe maguire is going to be a significant event on capitol hill. we have not been able to confirm at this point because we just got the information, whether or not he did threaten to quit. we will try to run it down for you. it will be an interesting moment on capitol hill tomorrow. >> shepard: no doubt, john roberts life for us at the united nations. thank you very much. there's more to the whistle-blower complaint than just the call. there are other unspecified matters about which we have no information. now the inspector general and the key sections of the phone call transcript, catherine herridge reporting live at the department of justice. hello. >> we were first to report today on sections of the transcript and we were first review and there are other sections that are definitely worth noting. the first one is president trump and this is specific again about former vice president joe biden and his son, hunter. "there's a lot of talk about biden's son, that biden stopped the prosecution and all the people want to find out about that so whateve

right now is whose decision was that really, donald trump's, bill barr, the attorney general or joe maguire, the acting dni. >> now sort of massive legal battle seems to be going down between the house and white house. up in the graphic we were showing we talked about what we don't know. let's be transparent about that. things that nobody seems to know at the moment including who that foreign leader actually was. we do have some indications of who president trump spoke with in july and august, potential possibilities here. can you walk us through those f if. >> i haven't had a chance to review those records. you're absolutely right. we don't know, you know, the president has a number of phone calls with foreign leaders all the time and we don't have clarity on what this could be. >> right. >> whether it's an ally, an adversary. the idea of a promise, the president is entitled to promise any foreign leader almost anything and that wouldn't be problematic to an intelligence official unless some underlying misconduct, something sinister about it. it's pointless to speculate. the bottom line, t