![]() ![]() we're seeing chairman schiff come and take his seat, admiral maguire also in place. > we're seeing chairman schiff - thank you, terry. they knew he had done something wrong and the whistle-blower also says it wasn't the first time that a call with a foreign leader had been shifted from the normal place it was stored to a more secret place. if it's no big deal, why did his aides shift the record of this call from the normal computer system to a code worded system, according to the whistle-blower's complaint, simply to protect the president politically. witnesses identified, dates, places, names, a trail leading to the president of the united states and undermining his own defense. > this whistle-blower complain because these are checkable facts. of course it was during richard nixon's time that he was only forced to resign when republicans broke. > terry moran, the republicans, whether or not they fall in line behind the president, is so key. we know some are waiting to make that determination based on what they hear here today. the big question is are those cracks going to deepen after what we hear today and will we see even more democrats coming out and adding to that growing chor chorus. 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 this whistle-blower complaint. ![]() so far they are small cracks but cracks nonetheless. 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. over the last 24 hours we of course have been seeing republican here on the hill largely falling in line, backing the president. Tight-lipped this morning heading into this hearing room. they're going to want to talk to those white house officials who, according to this complaint, they are likely going to want to dig into all of the other documents and the witnesses that are outlined in this complaint. you have democrats saying that this is screaming for further investigation. you have the chairman of the committee, adam schiff himself this morning saying this should never have been withheld, that it exposes serious wrongdoing and he's saying that this report is the road map now for their investigation going forward. at any moment the director of national intelligence is going to step into that room around the corner from me and take the spotlight and the first question he's likely to face is why did he stop members of congress from seeing this report. > reporter: george, they have read this complaint and democrats and even some republicans are describing what they see here as deeply disturbing and trouble is. when he comes forward on this committee this morning, the members of the committee have already read this complaint. i want to go to mary bruce for more on this. we're looking at the hearing where admiral joseph maguire, the retired general, now acting director of national intelligence expected to testify on why he withheld it from congress and why he believes > that is likely to come up in this hearing. so the tension within the government, the inspector general saying get this done, get this investigated, the justice department looking at it and saying, no, there is a direct conflict between those two points of view, george. we now know as of yesterday's reporting that he not only referred it to the justice department for a possible criminal investigation of the president of the united states, he also referred it to the fbi director. ![]() also goes on to state that he wants this to be further investigated. so, the inspector general is saying, here's why you have to investigate this thoroughly, is because this potentially affects national security and foreign policy. States would result in an extraordinary threat to national security and foreign policy.
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