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And dana dash and josh campbell is with us. author of a new book "cross fire hurricane" and josh, we talked before the break. the fact were learning the white house and doj stepped in here. there is a federal law that dictates what the process is for these complaints. the next step in that process should be the dni doesnt necessarily go to the white house or the doj but the dni forward that to congressional intelligence committee? >> suspicious a lot of questions we have no answers to. wondering...

It is because the inspector general disagrees with the director of national intelligence, because the director of national intelligence doesnt want to give this information to congress. clear from manus reporting that the i.g. went as far as he could go without really doing kind of subverting what his boss wanted him to do, but still he made it pretty clear. this is a five-alarm fire in the intelligence world. the other way it is very gray, josh can speak to this better than i can is technically...

Complaint involving the president himself. cnn learn both the white house and the department of the justice were actively involved in withholding the complaint from congress according to multiple sources. director of market symbintellig share the report and including a promise of president trump to a foreign leader. the dni wont release the complaint was deemed credible and urgent by michael atkinson he refused to give details in a closed doct closed-door meeting saying hes not authorized to do ...

Members mind wanting to go in and debt the details of this conversation. they left unsatisfied and adam schiff highlighting doj had a role in withholding the information from congress and at the time did not know if the white house was involved in withholding details of this complaint from congress but it was confirmed the would us is involved in withholding the complaint. chairmanship, a portion of the letter the inspector general read and we obtained ourselves makes clear he doesnt agree with ...

Jurisdiction. its not up to us to notify congress. weve also suggested that this might trip on executive privilege argument which always points to the president or senior officials at the white house. >> it is interesting to me because as we know the president does have power to declassify information. we also know the president has been loose with classified information. he just has. this has been an issue dating back to oval office meetings with the russian ambassador. he tweeted maps from ira...

Dnis responsibility to the american people. this is whats being withheld from congress right now. >> reporter: and schiff went on to later say that complaint withheld from congress he believes is an unprecedented departure from the law and says they are talking to house general counsel, erica, to potentially, pursue legal avenues to get that information. >> sunlen serfaty, thank you. and adding to a series of concerns over how the president is handling classified information. how hes handled i...

House is also involved in preventing this information from coming to congress. we do not have the complaint. we do not know whether the press reports are accurate or inaccurate about the contents of that complaint. >> cnn sunlen serfaty is live on cli capitol hill for us. >> reporter: the chairmans the committee left that clearly frustrated and unsatisfied with the level of information that they received. the fact in that meeting behind closed doors, the intelligence committee, i. gmplgg. essent...

Know, places like the subway systems, the times square and, you know, trying to figure where there were soft spots to possibly stage an attack, or to provide that information back to the terrorist group. also did this in washington, d.c. as well. so a lot of information as part of this again nine-count indictment were learning from the southern district about this man. this person is now in custody with these nine charges and i expect to hear more. doesnt sound like anything was thwarted, stoned...

Intelligence community inspector general michael atkinson. the icig looked at it said it was credible. urgent. the only body vested by the law to actually make that determination at the front. then they are supposed to pass that determination on to the dni, pro forma before it goes to the congress spell generals committees. thats where this process has completely come to a halt. the i.g. made an independent determination and odn sichlt obstructing that determination. >> back to the fact that you...

President can declassify information essentially as he sees fit. that said, even if the president chose to -- again, we dont know exactly whats in the complaint. to remind people of that. say it did involve some sort of declassified information. it could still be that a person heard this or heard multiple accounts and said, im uncomfortable with this. i want to tell someone about it. that person put together a whistle-blower complaint. went to the. >> i g. who looked at the information and even ...