Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Demands Lawmakers Read The Whistleblower Report

(Business Insider) Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York derided US senators for not having read the declassified version of the whistleblower complaint by Thursday afternoon. Several US senators cited numerous reasons for not reading the nearly nine-page report that an unnamed whistleblower working in the intelligence community filed in response to a phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25. Republican Sens. James Lankford of Oklahoma and John Hoeven North Dakota said they were in a congressional meeting and did not get a chance to read the complaint by Thursday afternoon according to CNN.