The Whistle-Blowers Complaint

Published: Sept. 27, 2019, 9:51 a.m.

b'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 \\u2014 Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence \\u2014 testified before Congress. Here\\u2019s the latest from Capitol Hill. Guest: Julie Hirschfeld Davis, the congressional editor for The New York Times. For more information on today\\u2019s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.\\xa0\\n\\nBackground reading:\\xa0The complaint accused President Trump of pressuring Ukraine\\u2019s leader to investigate a political rival and alleged that the White House tried to \\u201clock down\\u201d the transcript of the call.Here\\u2019s what we\\u2019ve learned about the whistle-blower.Read a declassified version of the complaint, with annotations, and eight takeaways from the document.'