This is CNN breaking news.

Welcome to a special edition of The Lead, The White House in crisis.

I'm Jake Tapper.

And what has been a non-stop and truly unprecedented day of news, President Trump apparently

furious about the whistleblower whose allegations now threaten to bring about his impeachment.

Sources tell CNN that Mr. Trump behind closed doors earlier today said he wanted to know who in his administration

spoke with the whistleblower and according to the New York Times which first reported the story

President Trump then said,

because that's close to a spy. You know what we used to do in the old days

when we were smart with spies and treason, right? We used to handle it a little

differently than we do now, un unquote an apparent reference there to

executions as well as a misuse of the term treason but the president's

over-the-top response comes in context comes after a key moment in the Trump

impeachment inquiry. Today we got our first look at the full whistleblower

complaint about the president, the one that sparked this whole impeachment

investigation, this whistleblower sounding the alarm the one that sparked this whole impeachment investigation

this whistleblower sounding the alarm about President Trump using his

power to get Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election and the White House, according to the whistleblower, then trying to lock

down records of that phone call, hiding the transcript in a computer system where only the most

sensitive national security information is typically stored.

Today House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it is clear what this sounds like to her.

This is a cover-up.

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