represents. we don't know if they have spoken yet to the inspector general. are we right about that? >> reporter: it's hard to know if the figure described by another news outlet is the same individual. what we can say is in the area of this sort of national security law, the attorney team, and there are multiple lawyers involved representing whistle-blower 1 now has among their clients additional officials who they're characterizing as whistle blowers. so is it a second or more? they're using the term multiple. what we don't yet know is what pieces of story might they corroborate from the july call. do they have new information? is their type of job description providing some other window into the event? those are the big questions. it's our understanding that the whistle-blowers, as defined by the legal team, have in fact, spoken to the inspector general. and that makes sense because in order to be labeled a whistle-blower under the law,