Who is the trump whistleblower
Who is the Trump whistleblower?
got new details emerging in Trump's
impeachment inquiry The Whistleblower
New York Times reporting was a CIA
officer who worked at the White House
very fast movie situation let's go to
Jessica Smith who is live in Washington
DC for the very latest on everything
Trump related Jess
yeah these this New York Times article
has new details about the whistleblower
as you mentioned the New York Times
reports that the whistleblower was a CIA
officer who worked in the White House
but has since gone back to the CIA The
Times reports that the officer was
likely an analyst by training and had
detailed knowledge of American foreign
policy and how it relates toward Europe
when the Acting DNI testified today he
said that he did not know who the
whistleblower was but he said that he
believed that the whistleblower did act
in good faith and he said at some point
he would allow the whistleblower to
testify before Congress though that
would be behind closed doors the
president has been blasting the
whistleblower slamming that person for
coming out with secondhand information
in LA Times has a recording of the
president at a closed-door event today
and he was attacking the aides who
helped the whistleblower who talked to
the whistleblower saying they're close
to a spy and I want to read you this
exact quote from the LA Times
they say the president said you know
what we used to do in the old days when
we were smart right
the spies in treason we used to handle
it a little differently than we do now
congressman Schiff has come out with a
response to that quote on Twitter he
said that this is a reprehensible
invitation to violence against witnesses
in our investigation so a lot of new
details coming out quickly and we do
know the Acting DNI was supposed to
testify before the Senate Intel
committee in private this afternoon so
we'll see if lawmakers on the Senate
side have any more to say once that
wraps up miles hey Jess Rick Newman is
there any indication of cracks among
Republicans on Capitol Hill I mean are
they basically saying yeah we agree with
Trump we should probably shoot CIA
analysts and put them in prison or
whatever Trump was suggesting there
where they started it say publicly that
they're uncomfortable with this you know
the earring today when they were
questioning Acting DNI most of them were
sticking up for president Trump they
were really using the same lines that
we've heard from the president being a
Russia hoax or blaming the media for
this we did hear from congressman Mike
Turner who said that the call was
inappropriate but then he went on to say
that the complaint wasn't exactly what
we thought it was he said the call was
inappropriate but then he kind of
backtracked a little bit there I think
that was the closest we've seen to a
crack
we know Senator Ron Johnson who says he
has no problem with this call he
actually told reporters today that he
was uncomfortable with the cover-up that
that was that was troubling the when the
complaint alleges the aides tried to
lock down details of the call so maybe
starting to see a few more Republicans
say that they're uncomfortable with some
of this but I'd say the vast majority
are really still sticking with the
president just this whistleblower
complaint which became public for the
first time today it talks about several
people in the White House who supposedly
spoke to this whistleblower and it says
they those people at the White House who
do have first-hand knowledge of what
went on with regard to the call and the
transcript and where it was archived and
so forth that they were very
uncomfortable with what was happening I
think the word is disturbed the obvious
question for the Intelligence Committee
or other committees in Congress are they
trying to identify those White House
aides and potentially call them to
Capitol Hill as to testify well we know
chairman Schiff said that there would be
additional witnesses that they wanted to
talk to he wouldn't get into specifics
about who those people were but he did
say that the committee plans to call
more witnesses look at more documents he
says the whistleblower laid out a
roadmap for the investigators so I do
expect they'll probably try to figure
out who those people were that were
involved in the call the complaint says
that about a dozen people were witness
to that call between the president and
the president of Ukraine so we'll see if
they try to find out who any of those
Witnesses are and bring them in we don't
know that just yet but they say again
the whistleblower laid out a roadmap for
investigators all right Jessica Smith
with the latest from Washington DC
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