He provided a readout of the call to two “cleared U.S. government officials with the appropriate need to know” about Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, he testified. One of them was a State Department official, and the other was “the individual in the intelligence community” thought to be the whistleblower. Nunes seized on the opportunity to press Vindman for more details about the whistleblower, demanding to know the specific agency to which he or she belongs before Schiff intervened. “You have said — even though no one believes you, you have said you don’t know who the whistleblower is,” Jordan retorted to Schiff. “So how is this outing the whistleblower?”As the impeachment inquiry has marched on, the whistleblower’s legal team has said they have received numerous death threats.

Source: Huffington Post November 19, 2019 17:37 UTC