John Solomon

Those are very strong words from the DNI.

We don't know the reason why it was kept secret.

We do know one thing from documents that we got from Tulsi Gabbard.

The whistleblower was pressuring the Inspector General of the Intelligence Committee not to turn over the evidence of bias.

He was worried that if people found out about his biases, his connection to

Joe Biden and Ukraine policy, his dislike of Republicans, that he might be undercut.

And so he was pressuring the inspector general.

We don't know whether that was a factor, but what we do know is the evidence remained classified and therefore couldn't be introduced at the trial for the public or the senators or the impeachment managers to have that benefit, let alone the president's own lawyers.

We don't know whether what Michael Atkinson did rose to the level of a crime or not.

So I am reporting today that the new inspector general of the intelligence community is reviewing all of the whistleblower urgent concern cases of the last few years to see if they were properly handled in light of what they learned here.

That is going to get into two very important cases.

This one that we just talked about Ukraine and another one where efforts to notify the president and the Congress

about potential Chinese infiltration of voter registration databases in 2020 was suppressed.

And the fact that those are getting a fresh look with a new sheriff in town is certainly, I think, something that the public might be interested in.

Whether that results later in a criminal referral, whether someone in Congress does it, we don't know yet.

I think the president will start off with an explanation or a bold declaration.

We're only going to be there a short time more.

Days to three weeks probably is the window I'm hearing inside the military.

So a few days to a few weeks, depending on what they can get done.

We'll be out of there soon.