President Trump used the power of his office to solicit foreign intervention in the 2020 election, according to a whistleblower’s complaint to Congress made public Thursday. Trump has called the accusation “phony” and the impeachment inquiry taken up by Democrats in the House of Representatives a “witch hunt.”
Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Leon Panetta, former secretary of defense and CIA director under former President Obama.
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