'The Inspector General determined that the matter is 'urgent' and therefore we face an emergency that must be addressed immediately,' the Speaker of the House wrote in an open letter to her colleagues on Capitol Hill.
Pelosi condemned the Trump administration for blocking Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire from providing Congress with the whistleblower complaint.
If the Trump administration"persists in blocking this whistleblower from disclosing to Congress a serious possible breach of constitutional duties by the President, they will be entering a grave new chapter of lawlessness which will take us into a whole new stage of investigation," the Democratic leader said
Pelosi also called on Republicans to"join us" in insisting that Maguire"obey the law," rather than act in the interests of Trump."We must be sure that the President and his Administration are always conducting our national security and foreign policy in the best interest of the American people, not the President's personal or political interest," she wrote.
Trump has argued that the allegations, like others previously levied against him, are merely"Witch Hunt schemes" aimed at smearing him."Now that the Democrats and the Fake News Media have gone 'bust' on every other of their Witch Hunt schemes, they are trying to start one just as ridiculous as the others, call it the Ukraine Witch Hunt, while at the same time trying to protect Sleepy Joe Biden," the president tweeted on Saturday.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during a signing ceremony for a newly passed budget agreement at the U.S. Capitol July 31, 2019 in Washington, DC. Pelosi on Sunday urged that the whistleblower complaint"must be addressed immediately."
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