The Whistle-Blower’s Complaint

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The whistle-blower complaint at the center of the impeachment inquiry was released on Thursday as the Trump administration official who had declined to turn it over — Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence — testified before Congress. Here’s the latest from Capitol Hill. Guest: Julie Hirschfeld Davis, the congressional editor for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: The complaint accused President Trump of pressuring Ukraine’s leader to investigate a political rival and alleged that the White House tried to “lock down” the transcript of the call.Here’s what we’ve learned about the whistle-blower.Read a declassified version of the complaint, with annotations, and eight takeaways from the document.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, Unlikable Barrow, this is The Daily.
0:09.2	Today, the whistleblower complaint at the center of the impeachment inquiry is released
0:16.4	as the Trump administration official who had refused to turn it over testifies before Congress.
0:23.2	The latest from Capitol Hill. It's Friday, September 27th.
0:38.1	Julie? Yes, I'm here. Hey! Hey! Good morning, I'm Kenneth Lutton.
0:42.1	And I'm Jane Orman here at the top. I think so. This Thursday, number one, the impeachment inquiry
0:46.4	in Washington. So how does Thursday begin? So Thursday begins with everyone anticipating
0:52.4	possibly seeing what is in this whistleblower complaint. The whistleblower complaint about President
0:57.4	Trump's phone call to Ukraine is expected to be declassified and released today.
1:01.8	The day before, we had all gotten to see a copy of a version of a transcript of a call between
1:07.8	President Trump and the President of Ukraine. And we knew that the whistleblower complaint was
1:13.2	related to that call. Julie Davis is the congressional editor at the times.
1:18.0	But it was also clear that there was more to the complaint than just that call. And we were all
1:23.7	waiting to see whether it would be released and what it would say. We start with the Fox News
1:29.1	Alert, the explosive whistleblower complaint declassified overnight. And in just a few hours,
1:35.2	the director of national intelligence will have to answer to lawmakers about that report.
1:39.8	When we woke up Thursday morning, everyone was anticipating a big hearing that was going to take
1:44.7	place on Capitol Hill. Soon we will hear what McGuire has to say, but there are questions about what
1:49.8	we will hear from him. How far can the DNI get in an open session? Where the acting director of
1:55.2	national intelligence, Joseph McGuire, who was the official who was in possession of this whistleblower
2:00.8	complaint, but had withheld it from Congress, was going to come and testify. And as it turned out,
2:06.3	a few moments before the hearing began. We've got breaking news as we come on the air in the
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