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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Sunday that his panel has reached an agreement to secure testimony from the anonymous whistleblower whose detailed complaint launched an impeachment investigation last week into President Donald Trump.

Schiff, D-Calif., said he expected the Intelligence Committee to hear from the whistleblower “very soon” pending a security clearance from acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire.

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“We’ll get the unfiltered testimony of that whistleblower,” Schiff said on ABC News’ “This Week,” noting that Maguire said in a hearing Thursday that he would allow the whistleblower to testify privately without constraints.

The whistleblower kicked off the impeachment saga that came to a head with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement Tuesday of an “official impeachment inquiry.” In that nine-page Aug. 12 complaint filed with the inspector general of the intelligence community, the whistleblower accused Trump of “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election” – in particular, through a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.