it's not even his complaint. he's just trying to take care of it and protect that whistleblower. he may himself be in their legal crosshairs by doing so if they continue down this road. it's dystopic. >> and we have a former inspector general joining us tonight. so we will get a view from someone who's been there about how to make sense of all of this. >> excellent. thanks, lawrence. >> thank you, rachel. we have so much ground to cover for you tonight in helping us all understand the day's developments in the whistleblower standoff between congress and the acting director of national intelligence about the reported now promise that the president allegedly made to a foreign leader. tonight we will talk with someone who was inside the closed-door house intelligence committee briefing today with the inspector general who is at the heart of this controversy. we're also really lucky to be joined tonight by two intelligence community experts who have a lot to teach us. joel brenner is the former