House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff revealed the whistleblower who filed a complaint about President Trump’s communications with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reached an agreement to testify in front of the committee.
Schiff told ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos that the whistleblower would likely testify “very soon” but added that it hinged upon acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire clearing “the security clearance process.” Maguire testified in front of Schiff’s committee last Thursday.
The whistleblower complaint filed last month regarded a July 25 phone call in which Trump urged Zelensky to open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, for potential corruption. The younger Biden worked for Burisma, a leading energy company in Ukraine that had been the target of previous investigations.
While the complaint focused entirely on second- or third-hand accounts, one of its major allegations has already been confirmed. It alleged that White House officials “had intervened to ‘lock down’ all records of the phone call, especially the word-for-word transcript of the call,” and the White House has confirmed the validity of that claim.
