House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff confirmed on Sunday that his committee had made an agreement with the whistleblower at the heart of President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scandal to hold a hearing.
“Have you reached an agreement yet with the whistleblower and his or her attorneys about coming before the committee and providing the information firsthand?” asked “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos.
“Yes, we have,” Schiff responded. “And as [Director of National Intelligence] Maguire promised during the hearing, that whistleblower will be allowed to come in and come in without a minder from the Justice Department or from the White House to tell the whistleblower what they can and cannot say. We’ll get the unfiltered testimony of that whistleblower.”
The Democratic lawmaker told Stephanopoulos that his committee plans hold the whistleblower’s hearing “very soon.”
“You know, it will depend probably more on how quickly the director of National Intelligence can complete the security clearance process for the whistleblower’s lawyers, but we’re ready to hear from the whistleblower as soon as that is done,” Schiff said. “And we’ll keep obviously riding shotgun to make sure the acting director doesn’t delay in that clearance process.”
Watch Schiff below:
Adam Schiff says the whistleblower will testify "very soon" pic.twitter.com/ynEkItrpnv
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) September 29, 2019
Cue the 24/7 watch of who enters or leaves the premises…
An unfiltered testimony from someone with inside information about the Trump administration…man, the White House must have brains all over from the heads exploding. I wonder if this will be public, they may keep it private to protect the whistleblower…I hope it’s public though, Americans really need to hear from this person and why they decided it was critically important to make the complaint.
I expect the administration to sue to stop this from happening though, there is no way they can survive this kind of testimony, as names will be named and more witnesses will be brought into the light. And, when (not if, the courts have to allow this) they testify, we’ll see the Republicans in full on panic trying to tie the WB to everything from Benghazi to Clinton’s emails…someone will call them a liberal plant, liar, whatever they can. The desperation will be lovely to watch.
Zero chance I think, but they will probably be quick like a bunny with the transcript.
A fleet of black-windowed SUVs can come in handy here. Some decoying, etc to protect America from White ISIS.
Is it wrong that I’m smiling?
Hells no!