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Whistle-blower if he or she is watching, there's one more week, one week from today where the dni, the acting dni claims he's going to testify. if at that point next week this whistle-blower complaint doesn't substantively be conveyed to the house or senate intelligence committee, it's time for you to come forward directly to those committees. >> so that as they say gets your attention and this is going to be all about trust. the whistle-blower has to be able to trust these committees of congress for this to work. >> this is why we have this whole checks and balances system in place. if we can...

Lawrence, between an i.g. investigation and the president's being subjected to criminal process. i think the issue as to whether he can be subjected to criminal process would be very difficult if he can't be indicted. i'm going to let my former teacher larry tribe talk about that one. but that has nothing to do with whether the inspector general or the congress could investigate criminal behavior. and if there is criminal behavior here and if the privilege is being asserted to shield criminal behavior, i think the privilege falls apart. no coincidence here. >> let me go to a line in the law he...

Jurisdiction, i think the most significant problem here is that the president says because a sitting president cannot be indicted, which is a theory, not a president, he can't even be investigated and he can't even be subjected to criminal process. even robert mueller disagreed with that. he said absolutely a president can be investigated because you might want to charge others around him like members of the trump organization or you can charge the president after he leaves office and so i think that on procedurally and on the merits this will fail. it's most likely a stall tactic. >> let me a...

But i want to point out one thing. the purpose of the whistleblower statute was also to allow the whistleblower to bring a complaint in the right way through the right process so that we could act upon it in congress in the appropriate manner. but if we don't act upon it and this information doesn't get to us in the appropriate manner i fear there will be leaks and these leaks are already starting. and that's in part why we've learned there's speculation about what's in those -- in the complaint. and there might be some leaks of classified information. we should do the right thing, and this sh...

Election. the president's lawyers don't point to a single line in the constitution to support their position because there is no line in the constitution that says the president is not subject to criminal process. in fact, the supreme court ruled that president richard nixon was subject to criminal process when they voted unanimously to enforce a criminal subpoena issued by a special prosecutor who was conducting a criminal investigation of president nixon. president nixon then complied with the subpoena and handed over audiotapes that showed the president engaged in a criminal conspiracy, and...