The Whistle-Blower’s Complaint

<p>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 — Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence — testified before Congress. Here’s the latest from Capitol Hill. Guest: Julie Hirschfeld Davis, the congressional editor for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/thedaily" target="_blank">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The complaint accused President Trump of pressuring Ukraine’s leader to investigate a political rival and alleged that the White House <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/whistleblower-complaint-released.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank">tried to “lock down” the transcript of the call</a>.</li><li>Here’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/who-is-whistleblower.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank">what we’ve learned</a> about the whistle-blower.</li><li>Read a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/26/us/politics/whistle-blower-complaint.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank">declassified version of the complaint</a>, with annotations, and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/whistleblower-declassified-report.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank">eight takeaways</a> from the document.</li></ul>