knowledge, that is going to undercut the criticism coming from the white house and making it harder for them to they the whistle-blower is the problem instead of the underlying issues. alex. >> so with the hearsay potentially taken off of the table, kelly, an idea of how the narrative gets changed by the white house going forward? >> well, i have reached out to the white house today to seek their response, and they have not given us any comment about this development, and we have not seen anything reflected in the president's tweets specifically about an additional or multiple whistle-blowers. so they may be still trying to formulate how they want to respond. chipping away at the credibility is something they will likely continue to do, but at the same time there may be some safety in numbers or some greater security on those officials who feel that there is something they want to report now that it is not one whistle-blower standing alone and at least according to the legal team. >> all right. kelly o'donnell at the white