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Urgent concern because it does not relate to intelligence activity." the letter involves confidential and potentially privileged matters relating to interests of other stakeholders within the executive branch. confused? stay with me. house inkel committee chairman adam shiffman says he expect maguire to show up under subpoena if necessary. the office of the director of national intelligence and cnns national security analyst. step back with me. so glad youre with us for your expertise on this on...

Dont think the u.s. steps in and theyd love to be the swing producer or the one who steps up because of the pressure on oil prices with consumers. it plays well with the white house. to nics point, its almost an international coalition not only to patrol the straits of hormuz but they cant spend all that on military defenses and that as well. breaking overnight, the acting director of national intelligence, a refusal to hand over the complaint. the complaint was deemed credible and urgent but ...

Comfortable where they are. thats good news for consumers. the other thing to underscore, the saudis do not want conflict, but they want international support, not just to keep the waterways open in the strait of hormuz, but to protect them because what has been happening doesnt work. they have to protect the mother ship going forward. >> all right, john defterios live for us in saudi arabia, just past 12:00 there. thank you. breaking overnight, the actor director of national intelligence jose...

The law says they must transmit that to the intelligence committee within seven days. dni is refusing to do that. and the reasons theyre asserting are just completely outside the law. the idea that this person isnt a member of the intelligence community, lacking jurisdiction, thats not what the law says. it says, if its related to intelligence activity, thats whats going on here. and theres this vague assertion of privilege, something the white house has been a fan of, rahal asserting this very ...

That press conference in an interview with aramco. that i dont think they need to tap the strategic reserve of the united states. they dont think oil and gas prices should move high e but theres a gigantic elephant in the room. how long is saudi arabia going to stay in yemen if theyre going to suffer these attacks on their installations, christine. >> oh, yeah. john defterios in jeddah. thank you, john. acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire refusing to hand over documents. th...

Correspondent is here to break all of this down for us. whats the reason here that this acting director is giving for not turning over this whistle blower complaint? >> this was a letter that we obtained from the office of the director of national intelligence. its a politely worded letter from the general counsel to adam schiff. but the message is clear, were not going to comply with this subpoena because we didnt have enough time, just two business days, but more importantly because we disagre...

Really? house intel chairman adam schiff is fighting back against the stonewalling now. we are following the latest here. alex, what is going on? >> reporter: well, kate, what we have here is the acting director of national intelligence rejecting politely but still rejecting this subpoena from the house intelligence committee that the chairman adam schiff issued on friday night. the acting dni saying its for two reasons. first, there wasnt enough time. the subpoena came friday night. he had two ...

Well, thats a pretty narrow category of people involving basically the president and people around him. so i think its pretty clear. what the problem is here. and as, i think the two stories you just related demonstrate, its part of a pattern of the white house basically taking the view we ken gauge in corrupt conduct and we have a privilege to conceal that from congress and the american people. thats the root of the problem here. >> quick follow-up here because its vague in developing. do we kn...

>> we have not spoken directly with the whistleblower. we would like to. but im sure the whistleblower has concerns that he has not been advise dollad as the law rs just as to how is he could communicate with congress. so the risk for the whistleblower is realtation. will the whistleblower be protected under the statute if the offices that are supposed to come to his assistance and provide the mechanism are unwilling do so. but we would love to talk directly with the whistleblower. in terms of o...

And a new interview, attorney general william barr weighing in on president trumps allegation that treason was committed in the course of the investigation into his campaign. >> you dont think they committed treason? >> not in a legal matter. >> but you have concerns about how they conduct the investigation? >> yes. but sometimes people can convince themselves that what they are doing is in the higher interest. the better good. they dont realize that what they are doing is really antithetical to...