Good evening.

If the allegations of a whistleblower are true, the country is now in a place it has not

seen since Watergate.

That's how consequential how historic this day has been.

And that's how serious the allegations are and the formal complaint made public today.

And we should say again, at this point they are only allegations.

But they certainly painted a damning picture of a president of using the power of his office

for personal gain and abusing it once more to cover it up.

Allegedly misusing a system designed to guard the country's most sensitive secrets to

instead conceal evidence of wrongdoing and doing that more than once.

The complaint implicates senior administration officials, including the Attorney General

of the United States, who may have used the power of his office to keep this complaint

from coming to light.

But it did.

And the president is continuing to lash out, making a veiled threat against the people

apparently in the White House who gave the whistleblower information.

The president's comments caught on tape at a breakfast this morning and obtained by

the Los Angeles Times.

The report, you'll hear him mention, is the record of the July 25th phone call in which

President Trump repeatedly pressed the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden.

Basically, that person never saw the report, never saw the call, meaning never saw the

call.

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