Eight o'clock now in the east, the whistleblower complaint at the heart of the Democrats' impeachment inquiry into President Trump has now overnight been declassified.

It could be released as early as this hour.

Now the whistleblower complaint details what happened after that Trump-Zillensky phone call back on July 25th.

Somebody told this person about a phone call they were not part of.

Did they have a political agenda? Did the whistleblower have a bias?

This is a cover up. This is a cover up.

Think about what we're talking about right here.

Think about what the Democrats have just done to this country in the last week, or in the last two years.

On Thursday, just two days after Nancy Pelosi announced an official impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump,

the House Intelligence Committee released the full whistleblower complaint to the public.

This person claims to have heard from multiple U.S. officials that senior people at the White House intervene to lock down, as the phrase the letter uses, all records of the call, especially the official transcript.

The complaint isn't especially long, but it will take your breath away. It says President

Trump tried to use his office to, quote, advance his personal interests. And then his administration

tried to cover it up. It comes just as acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire,

is about to testify on Capitol Hill about these matters. I'm Dahlia Lithwick, filling in for

Mary Harris. You're listening to What Next? And this story is moving really fast. So I'm going to ask

Slate Senior Editor, Jeremy Stahl,

to come on and join me and go over

what the heck happened in the last several hours.

We recorded this conversation Thursday afternoon.

We had just watched Acting Director of National Intelligence,

Joseph Maguire, testify in front of the House Intelligence Committee,

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