it's up to the chair, the ranking member, and these committee members to decide what to do with that information. i am in no position to tell the chair or the committee to do an investigation or not do an investigation. >> okay, i find it remarkable that the director of national intelligence doesn't think credible allegations of someone seeking foreign assistance in a u.s. election should be investigated. let me ask you this -- the whistle-blower further says, "in the days following the phone call, i learned from multiple u.s. officials that senior white house officials had intervened to lock down all the records of the phone call." do you have any reason to believe that the whistle-blower's allegation there is incorrect? >> i have no idea whether it's correct or incorrect, sir. >> someone should find out though, right? >> excuse me? >> someone should find out if it's incorrect, shouldn't they? >> i don't know if it's an incorrect allegation. i just do not know. again, that is the business of the executive branch of the white house and the office of the white house --