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From the September 24 edition of Fox News' Hannity
ED HENRY (FOX NEWS CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT): I spoke to a senior administration official a short time ago who said that the White House is not just releasing the transcript of this July 25 phone call tomorrow. They'll be releasing other documents, including a look at what the inspector general at the intelligence community found about the whistleblower who started this whole thing alleging some wrongdoing by the president. Here's the key information: I'm told by this senior administration official that the inspector general found that the whistleblower had quote-unquote "political bias" in favor of a rival candidate of President Trump in 2020. Now this official did not have the specific information as to whether or not the whistleblower -- in some sort of a background search, they found that the whistleblower supports Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren. I do not have the name of the 2020 candidate. But this senior official is telling me we're going to learn tomorrow, and we're learning for the first time tonight here on Hannity, that the whistleblower -- who has been held up as a truth-teller, you know, who is just sort of down-the-middle and just trying to lay out the facts as they see them about President Trump -- actually, as the inspector general did an investigation here to get at the root of whether or not any of the allegations against the president are true, found some sort of political bias. I don't know if they found emails, if there was an interview with the whistleblower.
But this senior official is telling me that the inspector general found political bias in favor of a rival candidate of President Trump. I can guarantee you, based on what I'm hearing tonight from this official, that we're going to be hearing a lot more about this tomorrow. This official, who is familiar with the transcript of that call, also told me that there is no smoking gun in this transcript, that it's nowhere near as inflammatory as Democrats and some of the media have suggested. But I will add that this senior official told me that there are at least a few words in the words of this official — a few words in the transcript — that are going to raise eyebrows, and are going to cause political headaches for the White House. As you can imagine, there is going to be a lot of back-and-forth about the context of the call, the details. But this senior official, who has seen the transcript of the call, is telling me there's absolutely no smoking gun in there that's going to prove anything incriminating.