The Whistle-Blower’s Complaint

The Daily

• Episode: The Whistle-Blower’s Complaint
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• Duration: 00:26:08
• Published: 2019-09-27 11:51

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.