In this program, chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge summarized the notes of the whistleblower who learned second-hand information about President Trump's phone conversation with the president of Ukraine. The notes were written on July 26, which was shortly after the July 25 phone call had occurred and before the transcript of the call had been prepared. Herridge reported that at the heart of the notes, the whistleblower was outraged and expressed concern about issues of "national security," due to President Trump's conduct. But the words of the transcript released by the White House do not reveal anything remotely resembling a breach in national security.
The heart of the matter in the ruckus raised over the phone call was Trump's request for Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden's dealings with the nation at the time when he was in the powerful position of Vice-President and was using his power to leverage his son's business opportunities in Ukraine. Based on internet research, Tucker's staff came up with the transcript of a conversation with President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in which Clinton used nearly the same wording as Trump in requesting a favor from Blair to conduct an investigation for American political purposes.
One of Tucker's guests was former State Department official Peter Van Buren, who offered views on the apparent second whistleblower who has come forward with claims of knowledge of the Trump phone call. Van Buren claimed that the second individual is likely the source for the information provided by whistleblower #1. In other words, the pair of leaker-whistleblowers are simply repeating the same information they generated while working in tandem prior to the release of the transcript and working only on second-hand information. For Van Buren, this is an old CIA trick known as a "feedback loop" that is designed to make a source appear more credible than it really is.
Tucker concluded that at face value, the stories of the two whistleblowers are a moot point because we have the transcript of the phone conversation that allows us to make up our own minds about whether or not there was any malfeasance committed by the President.
The heart of the matter in the ruckus raised over the phone call was Trump's request for Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden's dealings with the nation at the time when he was in the powerful position of Vice-President and was using his power to leverage his son's business opportunities in Ukraine. Based on internet research, Tucker's staff came up with the transcript of a conversation with President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in which Clinton used nearly the same wording as Trump in requesting a favor from Blair to conduct an investigation for American political purposes.
One of Tucker's guests was former State Department official Peter Van Buren, who offered views on the apparent second whistleblower who has come forward with claims of knowledge of the Trump phone call. Van Buren claimed that the second individual is likely the source for the information provided by whistleblower #1. In other words, the pair of leaker-whistleblowers are simply repeating the same information they generated while working in tandem prior to the release of the transcript and working only on second-hand information. For Van Buren, this is an old CIA trick known as a "feedback loop" that is designed to make a source appear more credible than it really is.
Tucker concluded that at face value, the stories of the two whistleblowers are a moot point because we have the transcript of the phone conversation that allows us to make up our own minds about whether or not there was any malfeasance committed by the President.