peter maguire, thanks forjoining us from sydney on this latest development in the trade war. and europe, crypto currencies are very much the business of the private—sector. however, in asia, china's central bank is set to launch its own digital currency, while india is cracking down on non—government additional currencies. so is the future of crypto private, public or both? earlier i spoke to the chief executive of circle, the company behind a us dollar backed crypto currency, and asked him to describe the difference between his crypto currency and the us dollar. the idea behind the us dollar coin is you want all the benefits of crypto currency, the ability to send and receive currency at the speed of the internet. so, in seconds instead of days or hours et cetera and virtually at no cost. instant, nearly three. you want very high levels of security. most importantly you want your dollars to be what we call programmable and what we can get with technology, one of the advantages, is you can write code that allows your money to be programmable, just like content on the internet

lesser, maguire said he would be fine with the whistle-blower testifying and tonight top democrats say they are still working to make that happen, but no new discussions have taken place. >> peter, thank you. the president is firing back after today's hearing and the release of the whistle-blower's complaint. chief white house correspondent hallie jackson on the president's response and the mood inside the white house.sehd aggried.>> iust watched a littlt of this on television. it's a disgrace to our country it's another witch hunt. here we go again it's adam schiff and his crew making up stories and sitting there like pious whatever you want to call them. the democrats are going to lose the election they know it that's why they're doing it. and it should never be allowed what's happened to this president. >> reporter: blasting democrats after privately doing today to the anonymous whistle-blower at a closed-door meeting in new york. >> basically, that person never saw the report who is the person that gave the whistle-blower -- who is the person that gave the whistle-blower the information that's close to a spy. you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart wi