YOUR DEPOSITION THAT YOU DID

NOT KNOW THE WHISTLEBLOWER.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL VINDMAN YOU

TESTIFIED YOU DID NOT KNOW WHO

THE WHISTLEBLOWER WAS.

>> I DO NOT KNOW WHO THE

WHISTLEBLOWER IS.

>> HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU

TO NAME THESE PEOPLE AND THEN

OUT THE WHISTLEBLOWER?

>> PER THE ADVICE OF MY COUNSEL

I'VE BEEN ADVISED NOT TO ANSWER

SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT

MEMBERS OF THE INTELLIGENCE

COMMUNITY.

>> ARE YOU AWARE THIS IS THE

INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE THAT IS

CONDUCTING AN IMPEACHMENT

HEARING?

>> OF COURSE I AM.

>> WOULDN'T THE APPROPRIATE

PLACE FOR YOU TO COME TO TO

TESTIFY WOULD BE THE

INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE ABOUT

SOMEONE WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE

COMMUNITY?

>> RANKING MEMBER, PER THE

ADVICE OF MY COUNSEL AND THE

INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE CHAIRMAN,

I HAVE BEEN ADVISED NOT TO

PROVIDE ANY SPECIFICS ON WHO I

HAVE SPOKEN TO WITH INSIDE THE

INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.

WHAT I CAN OFFER IS THAT THESE

WERE PROPERLY CLEARED

INDIVIDUALS, A PROPERLY CLEARED

INDIVIDUAL WITH A NEED TO KNOW.

>> THIS IS -- YOU COULD PLEAD

THE FIFTH, BUT YOU ARE HERE TO

ANSWER QUESTIONS AND YOU ARE

HERE UNDER SUBPOENA.

SO YOU CAN EITHER ANSWER THE

QUESTION OR PLEAD THE FIFTH?

>> EXCUSE ME.

ON BEHALF OF MY CLIENT WE ARE

FOLLOWING THE RULE OF THE

COMMITTEE, RULE OF THE CHAIR

WITH REGARD TO THIS ISSUE.

AND THIS DOES NOT CALL FOR AN

ANSWER INVOKING THE FIFTH OR

ANY ISSUE LIKE THAT.

WE'RE FOLLOWING THE RULING OF

THE CHAIR.

>> COUNSELOR, WHAT RULING IS

THAT?

>> COUNSEL IS CORRECT.

WHISTLEBLOWER HAS A STATUTORY

RIGHT TO ANONYMITY.

THESE PROCEEDINGS WON'T BE USED

TO OUT THE WHISTLEBLOWER.

>> I HAVE ADVISED MY CLIENT

ACCORDINGLY AND HE WILL FOLLOW

THE RULING OF THE CHAIR.

IF THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE OR

YOU WANT TO WORK SOMETHING OUT

WITH THE CHAIR, THAT'S UP TO

YOU, MR. NUNES.

>> WE HAVE ATTEMPTED TO

SUBPOENA THE WHISTLEBLOWER TO

SIT FOR A DEPOSITION.

THE CHAIR HAS TABLED THAT

MOTION AND HAS BEEN UNWILLING