the state department declined to comment for the article. >> and i know this is a bit of a semantic, maybe it isn't, depends who has jurisdiction of this, who has this transcript? is this in the state department or is this in dni? is this in the white house? i say that because there seems to be some argument that this isn't the purview of the intelligence committee. if it is not, is it the purview of foreign relations? you know, is that semantic matter here? >> that is one of the key legal questions being fought over now between democrats on the house intelligence committee and the director of national intelligence and their legal guidance from the justice department. again, i mean, what types of notes and transcripts, our story doesn't go into detail what types of notes there may or may not be, but deciding whether or not there's an intelligence activity involved here is one of