to is in a position influence and acting director of national intelligence? he has not been on the job very long, to do something completely is speaknted, which and opinion about if he has to provide this to congress. ofre are a limited number options also indicate privilege, so the shorter answer is we don't know, but there certainly [indiscernible] director of national intelligence. quakes in your letter, you suspected this was to protect the president. >> i believe there was an effort to prevent this information getting to congress, and if the thistion is accurate that involved a potentially privileged communication, it likely involved either the president or people around him. >> [inaudible] >> we will hear more, we will learn more next thursday when the director of national intelligence testifies, and we are exploring with the house general counsel what our options are. i would imagine if it comes down we have to go to court to get this or that, we will have a ary good case to see temporary restraining order because the inspector general has set this on

the director of national intelligence will reconsider. that by understanding law he is required to provide this to us. we will look at whatever remedies we have. we will look to whether he is abiding by the law and make a decision. we will use whatever leverage we can but at the end of the day we are determined to validate the whistleblower process to make sure people can expose wrongdoing. what is at stake here goes well beyond this complaint and this president to whether any oversight is possible and if any whistleblower is affected. >> president trump and melania trump will host their second steak dinner of the administration. watch guest arrivals and dinner toasts. our live coverage begins friday on c-span online at cspan.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. the c-span radio app. >> paul murray is commentator and host of pulmonary life for sky news australia. thank you for being here.>> it's an absolute pleasure. >> told us about the prime minister, who is he? >> morrison is a conservative politician stop at times is far more w

and i hope that the director of national intelligence will reconsider. because it's my understanding that by law, he can provide this to us, and indeed, by law he is required to provide this to us. but we will look at whoever remedies we have, dlug when the director of nationalintelligence comes to the drotable. we will use whatever we can, but at the end of the day, we are determined to validate the whistleblower process so people know they can expose wrongdoing. what's at stake here goes well beyond this complaint and this president to whether any oversight is possible, any whistleblower is protected, and we're determined that validate that authority of the congress. >> you were watching adam schiff there, the democratic chairman of the house intelligence committee. we're joined now by mike rogers, the former chairman for the house intelligence committee, a republican. he is now a cnn national security commentator back with alex mopart as well. first to you, chairman. what we heard from schiff is that essentially he didn't think this was a problem of t

wasrepresentative schiff left with no choice because it was the director of national intelligence continues to be indirect violation -- be in direct violation of the law. host: phone lines for democrats, (202) 748-8000, republicans, (202) 748-8002, independents (202) 748-8002. you brought up being a national cochair of the bernie sanders campaign. i wanted to talk about the story in "the washington post." bernie sanders has a problem and her name is elizabeth warren. guest: i disagree with that premise. bernie sanders has a campaign that is focused on working families, working parents, and now they have been left out of the trump economy. how eez going to help them with helping the kids go to college, he has an extraordinary grassroots base. senator warren is running a strong campaign, but frankly, more of bernie's expanding coalition is going to come out of the vice president boat, and i believe he will be the nominee. host: are you concerned about the news of the cnn des moines poll? guest: i'm not. everyone will say it is a three-person race between warren, biden, and bernie sanders. he

oversight committee during 911 and after 911 when they created the office of the director of national intelligence. the bill happen to be written by my mother and then ranking democrat on the intelligence committee and now speaker nancy pelosi so i know this very well i lived it the whole point of having a director of national intelligence the united states is because in the attacks of 9111 of the things that we learned in 2001 was that there was a bit of information that the cia might have there's a bit of information the f.b.i. might have but the 2 couldn't talk so what you needed was one director of national intelligence who could take all the information from defense from justice from state from various agencies and put it all together and present it to the president and say this is the composite picture of what's happening and so is somebody in that office of the director of national intelligence saw all those agencies saw all those pieces of evidence being put together if you will with respect to ukraine and made a whistleblower report saying the law has been broken the constitutional duty h

and it is a sad fact that the director of national intelligence would agree to be bound by that view, that the director of national intelligence would adopt the view that he had no jurisdiction over an effort to seek foreign interference in our election. that will be the subject of our hearing with the director tomorrow. what's more, the department of justice's opinion doesn't even preclude the director from providing that complaint to our committee and, yet, he has withheld it in violation of the law. the fact that the president of the united states would invoke the attorney general sends a further message to the ukrainian president that this is not just me asking, this is not just rudy giuliani asking, this is the united states government asking , and we plan to effectuate that through the department of justice, whether those steps have taken place or not, or whether the whistleblower complaint and all that's followed after that revelation. so here we have the president of the united states engaged in a shakedown of a foreign president, a president of the united states, even as he's

the watchdog in the nation's intelligence agencies was behind closed doors with the house intelligence committees for hours. today the chairman of that committee congressman adam schiff says it sends a dangerous precedent. >> if in a matter within the jurisdiction of the director of national intelligence you have an employee of that community or contractor in detail who follows the law, makes a complaint, and it is possible for the subject of that complaint to essentially quash the complaint or keep it from

of the department of national intelligence. at some point the inspector general, now we have his letter right here, says this is an urgent and credible concern. and forwards it on to the director of national intelligence, mr. maguire who we're about to hear from. at what point and on what basis does that whistle-blower complaint not then get transmitted to congress as dictated by law? at some point the department of justice comes in. explain how that all came together. >> urgent concern is a term of art in the law. under the law when someone makes a complaint like this it must be passed on to congress if it involves an intelligence community activity or an intelligence community people. what the justice department said here is, and you may view this as an overly cramped reading of the law but this is their conclusion, that, in fact, because it was a discussion between the president of the u.s. and another country, that it did not involve an intelligence activity and it didn't involve intelligence personnel. so for that reason i

the nation's top intelligence official. however, if he appears to be, you know, biased in some way towards the white house, then that is going to turn off not just democrats but republicans in the senate who would vote on his nomination at the end of the day, because while the president is typically given broad latitude by his own party to nominate whoever he wants when it comes to this particular position, the director of national intelligence, republicans and democrats tend to want someone who can speak truth to power. who can, who is not afraid to go in and tell the president things he doesn't want to hear, that have to do with a very sensitive matter of national security. they felt that dan coats played that role. they didn't feel, by the way, that john ratcliffe, who is a republican from texas who is on this very committee will be grilling the director of national intelligence today, they didn't think that he was going to be up to that role and so the president floated his name and about a week later withdrew it. so yo

the dni's staff -- it says the dni, director of national intelligence, shall provide congress the full whistle-blower complaint. this thursday the acting dni will appear before the house intelligence committee. at that time, he must turn over the whistle-blower's full complaint to the committee. he will have to choose whether to break the law or honor his responsibility to the constitution. >> and tonight in response, the acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire released a written statement saying, in light of recent reporting on the whistle-blower complaint, i want to make clear that i have upheld my responsibility to follow the law every step of the way. the law tells the director of national intelligence that he must deliver the whistle-blower complaint to congress, and he has refused to do that. the whistle-blower's attorney, andrew bakaj, wrote a letter to joseph mcguire saying, i am providing you formal notice of our intent to contact the congressional intelligence committees directly. that provoked a reply from jason klitenic, the general counsel of the office of

we have an acting director of national intelligence. president let go of the director and the deputy director. we have a new national security adviser. the fourth national security adviser. we had a breakdown in process. and we have incredible distraction. when you have senior people having to deal with things like they've been dealing with this week, which takes all their time, they're not engaged in the focused work of protecting the country and i can tell you over the course now of 18 years since 9/11 it is not an accident that this country has been better protected. it's not an accident that the professionals have the focus, the processes in place that have protected this country. so this instability at the top, lawrence, and i think you'd agree the great distraction created here in all this chaos i think is really dangerous to the country. >> yeah, i want to go to the possibility of the ways this might come out. it seems like if the director wants to just continue to block this it doesn't look like the law provides a way around tha

this is you know we news live from berlin a firestorm in washington the director of national intelligence testifies in congress. is totally unprecedented the question did the president like donald trump to break the law by inviting the president of ukraine to interfere in next year's u.s. presidential election also coming up. former french leader jacques chirac dies at the age of $86.00 the president scores a towering state's charming get nicknamed the bulldozer a living obscene moron according to one tribute. to the man they look at the lead takes the world championships get underway on friday in their car tartly speak with olympic silver medalist betty hyde learn about sports cold beer to the ongoing fight against doping in sports through to. the heart thank you so much for your company everyone in washington a congressional panel has grilled the acting director of national intelligence about a whistle blower's complaint that has prompted democrats to open an impeachment inquiry against president donald trump josephson acquirers said the complaint concerning a president's was unpreceden

it's really important, though, to ask the director of national intelligence, when you have a statute res you after seven days upon receiving from the inspector general a credible and urgent whistle-blower complaint, why he didn't automatically send it to the house intelligence committee and the senate intelligence committee? somehow word got to the white house or to the attorney general, and i guess one of the questions we need to ask tomorrow is why did he contact them or was he contacted by the white house because they had somehow gotten wind of this. >> that seems like the sort of thing that should be sort of clarifiable at that testimony. congresswoman jackie speier, from the great state of california, looking forward to the testimony tomorrow. thanks for helping us understand it in advance tonight. >> thank you. >> joining us is senator chris murphy of connecticut, sits on the foreign relations committee. i want to speak with senator murry because he met with the ukrainian president and visited with ukrainian government officials in ukraine and has some unique insight here. senat

it's a letter to the director of national intelligence from the whistleblower's lawyer. quote, dear acting director ma gier. my firm represents a member of the intelligence community who has reported an urgent concern to the inspector general. they submitted a disclosure on august 12th through established procedures promulgated by law. within the statutorily mandated period, the inspector general concluded that my client's disclosure was both credible and urgent as the underlying information disclosed meets the standards set forth under law. in accordance with u.s. whistleblower law i am providing you formal notice of our intent to contact the congressional intelligence committees directly. accordingly i request direction on doing so in accordance with appropriate security practices. i thank you in advance for your time and attention to this matter and i look forward to your forthcoming guidance. so that's dated today, a letter from the whistleblower's lawyer to the dni, the director of national intelligence. the director of national intelligence has now written back in a

action that the whistleblower's reporting and they take that to the national director of national intelligence and within 7 days. director of national town just supposed to report that finding that was a floor account that complaint to congress but that wasn't done in this case instead the director of national intelligence who is in the hot seat today decided to get the opinion of the justice department and the white house as to what to do next. and the justice department in the white house instructed the director of national tellers to rome a drone the wire he see there to not take it to congress and that that's this complaint did not qualify as a whistleblower complaint and so they're going to grill him today on why he decided to deviate from protocol in that respect so we'll have to wait and see again we're expecting just to deliver his opening statements shortly and jewels. >>san francisco supervisor matt haney and staff are learning how to use nar can to help save the lives of people who may overdose on drugs the training comes the day after haney introduced claring a publ crisis in san f

intelligence community, michael atkinson saying the national director of intelligence is keeping him from executing two of his most important duties and responsibilities. white house, acting director of national intelligence have blocked atkinson from sharing with congress details of a whistleblower complaint which could involve communications between president trump and a foreign leader, according to three sources. cnn's alex marquchl uardt kicks off our coverage. >> reporter: a deadlock over an unseen, potentially explosive complaint by a member of the intelligence community about the president that in communications between a foreign leader and president trump he, according to the washington post, had made that leader a promise. what he allegedly promised is unknown, as is who the foreign leader was. but it was enough of a blockbuster claim for the intelligence community inspector general to feel forced going to congress, claiming that the whistleblower complaint is being blocked by the white house, and office of director of national intelligence because they believe it's not an i

a whistleblower, the inspector general has 14 days to investigate and then the director of national intelligence has seven days to report it to the intelligence committees -- in the law. it says shall. it doesn't say may, should. it says shall. and that's a very fraught with meaning word in legislation. but this administration is blocking the d.n.i. from conveying that to the intelligence committees. the d.n.i. is at the present time breaking the law at the direction of the administration. it's really unfortunate. so to the substance of the -- we don't know -- >> well, we sort of do. the president has, in so many words, said that he's raised these questions with the ukrainians and he's in effect admitted that. he's intervened on the quote-unquote biden issue. ms. pelosi: again, and he has referenced that and if that is the case, that the president of the united states would ask a foreign government to assist him in a political way, that would be wrong. >> would it be impeachable? [laughter] ms. pelosi: let me just say that everything we've been doing up preserving about that republic that benjam

so on friday night, chairman schiff subpoenaed the director of national intelligence demanding that he turn over the complaint and all relevant information about that urgent and credible whistleblower complaint from the department that handles the government's most sensitive intelligence. the deadline for that subpoena, the deadline to receive that information under that subpoena was tuesday, september 17th which, oh, was today chairman schiff said on friday night if the dni failed to turn over the complaint, that the acting director of national intelligence should expect to be testifying to congress at an open hearing two days later this week on thursday today was the deadline for the dni to comply with that subpoena or not it looks like the dni chose not to comply with that subpoena tonight congressman schiff confirmed to reporters that he has not received that whistleblower complaint as required by law, and now also required by congressional subpoena i mean, i guess technically it still is tuesday for a few more hours. check your watch but i'm not sure how many people are left burni

i am committed to leading the intelligence community to address the complex threats facing our nation. >> the members are starting to take their seats in the house intelligence committee. walk us through what we expect to happen. opening statements from the chairman and the ranking member? >> we are going to hear opening statements and then they're going to go back and forth between the two sides asking questions. there is no question on the hill that republicans are in the middle of a very tricky position. it's notable that they're very tight-lipped this morning heading into this hearing room. over the last 24 hours we of course have been seeing republican here on the hill largely falling in line, backing the president. he insist that the democrats are playing politics and looking for i mueller 2.0 here but we are seeing some notable signs that that republican support is cracking. so far they are small cracks but cracks nonetheless. we heard from senator mitt romney, senator ben sasse, that they do have concerns about what they have read not just in the summary of the call but in thi

the director of the national intelligence, and the acting director is on the way to testify before the senate intelligence committee. bill clark of roll call tweeting that dni mcguire is arriving for the afternoon session with the committee. and maggie hagarman says that the president told staff that he wants to know who provided the info to a whistle-blower ant - his call, and that is close tho a spy, and in the old days spies were dealt with differently. and another thing, there is business going on at capitol hill, and the senate has voted with a vote to fund the government. and nancy tweeting this that republicans are, 15 of the republicans did not vote in favor of that continuing resolution. let's hear next from dvn nunez who is the ranking republican on the republican committee, and his opening questions. >> did you or anybody in your office leak this to the washington post or nbc news? >> ranking member, i lead the intelligence community and we know how to keep a secret. as far as how that got into the press, i really do not know, sir. i know it is all over the place, and as you

director of national intelligence a joseph mcquire is still testifying i understand on the complaint of the whistleblower what did he say so far. going to break it down you're right has been testifying now for a few hours and it began very much with the focus on the humbling of the whistle blower complaints and now it seems to have moved on more to the contents that we heard from the acting director of national intelligence from the very get go and he said i'm not partisan i'm not political he also when pressed several times by democratic members of this committee he said i speak to the president and anything i say that a president is confidential when asked whether you know this have been discussed this complaint had been discussed with president trump now he also said that the white house did not and did not direct me to withhold the information neither did the office of legal counsel mcguire also added that we know that there are foreign powers trying to get us to question the validity of our elections that republicans are keying into the fact that the whistleblower acknowledges t

, the office of the director of national intelligence on that issue, savannah. >> stand by. i want to go to jeremy bash, our national security analyst, chief of staff at the pentagon, and you're looking at the complaint as well. one of the things that had been reported prior to the release of this unclassified version of the complaint was that there was more than just the call at issue. it was now seen that the hearing -- the notes of the situation room call, the quasi-transcript i've been calling it. we've seen what's in the call. is there more than in this complaint than that that would tend to corroborate the central allegation here, which is that the president misused his office to try to get political dirt on an opponent by asking a foreign country to intervene? >> yes. for example, one of the things, savannah, that the whistle-blower mentions is that on august 2nd, a week after that phone call between president trump and president zelensky rudy giuliani held a follow-up meeting to have direct follow-up from that phone call. there was an effort under way launched by pres

do return of national intelligence acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire who said no person in this country is beyond the reach of the law adam schiff said well that's the way it should be i'm trying to figure out if that's the way it is as a practical 5 salo i'm kemal santa maria welcome to this continuing coverage on al-jazeera for the past well over 3 hours we've been watching that hearing on capitol hill relating of course to the whistleblower report which was released just before the hearing began in relation to a conversation between presidents trump and selenski of the ukraine. correspondent on capitol hill today heidi you've been as we have listening to the whole thing that's been a lot to take in what's been the well the most important thing i guess for you that you've seen to relate to our viewers. well sure mcquire was very adamant he said that he believed the whistleblower in this case did the right thing in his words and he said that he believed that the allegations within this complaint were valid and were credible which is why he sent them on to congres

president about this complaint my conversations with the president because i'm the director of national intelligence are privileged and it would be inappropriate for me because it would destroy my relationship with the president in intelligence matters to divulge any of my conversations with the president of the united states but just so we can be clear for the record you are not denying that you spoke to the president about this complaint what i'm saying congressman is that i will not disclose privileged conversations that i have as the director of national intelligence with the president has the white house instructed you to assert that privilege no sir i just it's just a member of the executive committee i mean executive branch as a member of the national security council and also met the homeland committee and events you know i have just have to maintain the discretion and protect the conversation with the president the united states that thank you director i appreciate that answer apparently the clock is broken but i will yield back the balance of my time thank you congressman mr conaway and u.

in this case the director of national intelligence. now, under the law the director of national intelligence has to provide that complaint to congress within seven days. since 2010, since the statute was set up, every time there has been a whistleblower complaint congress has gotten the complaint, even frankly in case that is weren't urgent. in this case you have the director of national intelligence who in blatant disregard for the statute, in blatant disregard for the inspector general's findings that this was urgent, refused to give that to congress. and what was asking the inspector general is, has this ever happened before? and he said no. and i said, is this normal? he said, no. the statute requires the complaint to come to congress zboo congressman. rho, chap khanna. join in the conversation. republicans 202-78-8800. independent. 8002. we talked about the caucus meeting this morning. if impeachment proceeds, what does it accomplish if republican senators choose to line up behind president trump? >> well, first of all it's the co

thank you for joining us. >> acting director of national intelligence, joseph was our capital this week is applying on his handling of the whistleblower complaint regarding president trump. watch the house intelligence committee hearing sunday on c-span beginning 11:00 a.m. eastern. >> c-span's "washington journal" live everyday with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up saturday morning, the american vaping association for discuss health concerns relating to vaping and e cigarettes. the relationship between the u.s. and ukraine. in our spotlight on marketing segment, bloomberg, issues with oversight of generic pharmaceutical. march see spans "washington journal" live at 7:00 p.m. -- 7:00 a.m. eastern saturday morning. during the discussion. >> satellite booktv, 7:45 p.m. eastern, black books matter party in washington d.c. publisher audrey, angel, author of the history of the black dollar in correspondent april, author of under five. >> at the end of the day, they never realized they would question bill clinton. the first black president and i stand with our founding father

he went on to say, relates to one of the most significant and important of the director of national intelligence's responsibilities to the american people. thursday, the inspector testified before the house intelligence committee stating that the acting director of national intelligence stopped him from disclosing -- blocked him from disclosing the complaint. this is a violation of law. the law is unequivocal. it says, the director of national intelligence shall provide congress the full whistleblower complaint. for more than 25 years, i have served on the intelligence committee as a member, as a ranking member, as part of the gang of four even before being in the leadership. thes there when we created office of the director of national intelligence. exist before 2004. i was there even earlier when we wrote the whistleblower laws and continued to improve them to ensure safety of our whistleblowers. i know what there was and we proceeded with balance and caution as we wrote the laws. i can say with authority that the trumpet ministration's actions -- the trump administration's actions undermined bo

>> yes, it was. >> would you also want to know considering you're 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 and mbs or turkey or kim jong-un, would you want to know if those were being improperly moved because the president is trying to cover up something? >> congressman, how the white house, the office of the executive office of the president and the national security counsel conduct their business is their business. >> it is your business to protect america's secrets, is that right? >> it is all of ours, this committee as well. >> if there is cover-up activity because the president is working improperly with the foreign government it could compromise america's secrets. >> there is an allegation of a cover-up. i'm sure an investigation might lead credence or disprove that. right now all we have is an allegation. second hand information from a whistle-blower. i have no knowledge whether oats a true or accurate statement. >> the department

that's because of the good work of our national intelligence agencies including the f.b.i. and our military intelligence. >> harris: local law enforcement. buck sexton, former c.i.a., was saying some of the things you said, too, that we're getting a lot of things right at this point. american airlines will have more investigating to do and this man right now behind bars. thank you. fox news alert on this as we await canadian p.m. justin trudeau will face reporters after a third instance of black face. laura engel has the latest. laura. >> you know it seems hard enough to apologize for two previous times the canadian prime minister admitted to wearing brown or black face. now his own political party is telling global news agency that a third video uncovered of a person wearing black face is in fact justin trudeau. we've obtained the video which reportedly shows the canadian prime minister in the early 1990s in black face. third instance of racist dress to come to light in just the last 12 hours for the popular prime minister. "time" magazine first published this photo from th

before i was in the leadership i was there one when we created the office of the director of national intelligence that did not exist before 2004 i was there even earlier in the ninety's when we wrote the whistleblower laws and continue to write them to improve them to ensure the security of our intelligence and the safety of oversell blowers i know what their purpose was and we pursued it with balance and caution as we wrote the laws i can say with authority the trumpet ministrations actions undermine both our national security and our intelligence and our protections of the whistleblowers more than both this thursday the acting d.n.i. will appear before the house intelligence committee at that time he must turn over the whistleblowers for complaint to the committee he will have to choose whether to break the law or honor his responsibility to the constitution on the final day of the constitutional convention in $787.00 when our constitution was adopted americans gather on the steps of independence hall to wait the news of the government our founders had crafted they asked benjamin franklin what

intelligence community until the president nominates and the senate confirms the next director of national intelligence. i accepted this responsibility because i love this country. i have a deep and profound respect for the men and women of our intelligence community and the mission we execute every day on behalf of the american people. throughout my career, i have served and led through turbulent times. i have governed every action by the following criteria. it must be legal. it must be moral. and it must be ethical. no one can take an individual's integrity away. it can only be give and way. if every action meets those criteria, you will always be a person of integrity. in my nearly four decades of public service, my integrity has never been questioned until now. i am here today to state that as acting dni, i will continue the same faithful and non-partisan support in a matter that adheres to the constitution and the laws of this great country as long as i serve in this position for whatever period of time that may be. i want to make it clear that i have upheld my responsibility to follow the law eve

this is you know when you fly from berlin a fire storm in washington the director of national intelligence testifies in congress. that everything here in this matter is totally unprecedented the question though did president donald trump break the law by product the president of ukraine to interfere old in next year's u.s. presidential election also coming up former french leader shocked shocked dies at the age of 86 the president was a towering statesman charming good nicknamed the bulldozer a living oxymoron according to one tribute. band the athletics a world championships get underway on friday in qatar we speak with the olympic silver medalist betty heilig about her career and the ongoing fight against doping in sports. on whale ark it's great to have you along everyone in washington a congressional panel has girl the acting director of national intelligence about a whistle blower's complaint that has prompted democrats to open an impeachment inquiry against president donald trump well joseph some of. wires that the complaint concerning a president was unprecedented and defended his h

so in this case, the director of national intelligence is supposed to send that urgent, credible complaint to the intelligence committee. headed by congressman adam schiff in the house. and you've only got seven days to do it and don't have a choice in the matter. that's the part that just isn't happening. we have an acting director of national intelligence, appointed recently by president trump. that acting director of national intelligence got this whistle-blower complaint from the inspector general. it's labeled urgent, it's labeled credible. according to adam schiff's office, instead of sending the thing on to the intelligence committee, which the law says they must do, and they must do within seven days, they instead consulted with the justice department about what they should do with this whistle-blower complaint. they then sent adam schiff a letter saying, no, we're not giving it to you. yes, it exists. you're not getting it. telling chairman schiff that the complaint wasn't going to his committee, it wasn't going anywhere, because in the view of the director of national intelligenc

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the acting director of national intelligence grilled today, asked why he held onto the whistle-blower's complaint. why he went to the white house first and not congress. he acknowledged the whistle-blower did the right thing. and tonight, what the whistle-blower's complaint now public reveals. he says white house officials were alarmed by that phone call with the ukrainian president and that some allegedly tried to lock down the transcript on a separate computer system to keep it from view. >>> meanwhile, as this was playing out today, president trump behind closed doors here in new york city, and a recording now surfacing of what he said. furious and unloading, comparing the whistle-blower and white house sources to spies. and telling people in the room, "you know what we used to do with spies and treason." some in the room shocked. >>> the first major snowstorm set to hit. the winter storm warning tonight. several feet of snow. rob marciano with the track. >>> the stunning new numbers just in from the cdc. the number of vaping-related deaths and illnesses soaring. at least 12 patients

president trump at center of a major standoff between house democrats and the director of national intelligence. sources now tell cnn in a briefing today the intelligence inspector general, who deemed the complaint urgent suggested to lawmakers that the whistleblower had concerns about multiple actions. also breaking right now, a new jersey man facing terrorism charges for allegedly scouting possible targets for iranian-backed militant group, hezbollah. we'll talk about all the breaking news with congre congresswoman. analysts and reporters are also standing by. first let's go to our congressional correspondent manu ra jchl u on capitol hill. they want answers about this whistle blower complaint about the president but aren't getting much. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. with the intelligence community's inspector general. we're told that in that briefing he referred to, quote, multiple sequence of events and alleged actions that took place, suggesting there could be more than one action at the heart of this whistleblower complaint. the inspector general was very careful not to say that the pr

tomorrow morning on the house side, we will hear from the acting director of national intelligence and the inspector general of the intelligence community in an open setting before the house intelligence committee. and then those two gentlemen will appear in a closed setting. >> the senate intelligence committee. this pertains to the ukraine question. the thing we have heard from republicans, including president trump, the chief talking point is there was no quid pro quo. there was no explicit ask. democrats make the point no quid pro quo that was needed. the top-line takeaway you get from reading the memo is that the president leaned on a foreign power to effectively dig up discredited dirt on a domestic political rival and not only that offered the services of his personal attorney and attorney general. it is misuse of the presidency and misuse of the department of justice, which the president overseas. earlier todayive got a chance to speak with nancy pelosi and john louis, they were outside attending an end gun violence rally. take a look. do you think impeachment is inevitable, si

cnn that the white house and the department of justice told the office of the director of national intelligence that the whistle blower's complaint was not theirs to release arguing it's not an intelligence matter because it involves the executive branch as in the president. cnn has learned there were multiple acts that concerned the whistle blower that amounted to enough of a blockbuster claim that the intelligence community inspector general felt forced to go himself to congress giving closed door testimony today. >> we can't get an answer because the department of justice and the director of national intelligence will not authorize the ig to tell us. the inspector general is doing his very best to be very careful that he follow the law. >> reporter: the inspector general not only falls within the dni jurisdiction but relates to one of the most significant and important dni responsibilities to the american people. when the ig spoke to the house intelligence committee he didn't provide details about the complaint. ham strung by someone trying to manipulate the system. >> that whole purpose is

it was >> would you also want to, know 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 them bs of saudi arabia or erdogan of turkey or kim jong-un -- would you want to know if those were also be improperly moved because the president is trying to cover up something? >> congressman, how the white house, the executive office of the president and the national security council conduct their business is their business. >> while, affectionate your business to protect america secrets, is that right? >> it's all of our. this committee as well. >> and if there's cover-up activity because the president is working in properly with a foreign government, that can compromise america secrets, is that right? >> congressman, there is an allegation of a cover-up. i'm sure and investigation and before this committee, might lead credence or disprove that, but right now, all we have is an allegation, an allegation for secondhand inf

intelligence community until the president nominates and the senate confirms the next director of national intelligence. i accepted this responsibility because i love this country. i have a deep and profound respect for the men and women of our intelligence community and the mission we execute every day on behalf of the american people. haveghout my career, i served and led through turbulent times. i have governed every action by the following criteria. it must be legal, it must be moral, and it must be ethical. individual'ske an integrity away. it can only be given away. if every action meets those criteria, you will always be a person of integrity. in my nearly four decades of public service, my integrity has never been questioned until now. i'm here today to unequivocally will that as acting dni, i continue the same faithful and nonpartisan support in a matter that adheres to the constitution and the laws of this great country as long as i serve in this position for whatever period of time that may be. i want to make it clear that i have upheld my responsibility follow the law every step of the way

we're getting our eyes on it and this all comes just moments before the acting director of national intelligenceut that complaint now you're looking at live pictures from inside the house intelligence committees hearing room this morning he's going to face lawmakers questions about why he initially refused to share that whistleblower complaint with congress despite. >>being required to do so. she can see everyone getting into place here ready for that hearing to begin. karen case is live on capitol hill with the latest yesterday, some key lawmakers here on cash. the whistleblower complaints surrounding president trump's july 25th phone call with the president of ukraine and now now this morning ahead of a key hearing on the matter we are starting to learn more details

>> yes, it was. >> considering you are the director of national intelligence and transmits are being moved into a secret intelligence system, whether other transcripts like conversations with vladimir putin are saudi arabia or turkey , 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 office of the president and the national security council conduct their business is their business. >> it's actually your business to protect america's secrets. >> it's all of ours, this committee as well. activityre is cover up because the president's working improperly with the foreign government, that could compromise america's secrets? >> there is an allegation of a cover-up. i'm sure an investigation before this committee might leave credence or disprove that but right now, all we have is an allegation with secondhand information from a whistleblower. whether or not that is a true and accurate statement. department justice opinions that you are not responsible for pr