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And dana dash and josh campbell is with us. author of a new book "cross fire hurricane" and josh, we talked before the break. the fact we're learning the white house and doj stepped in here. there is a federal law that dictates what the process is for these complaints. the next step in that process should be the dni doesn't necessarily go to the white house or the doj but the dni forward that to congressional intelligence committee? >> suspicious a lot of questions we have no answers to. wondering, is this another weekly scandal kind of in the era of trump? this feels different. this is, appea...

It is because the inspector general disagrees with the director of national intelligence, because the director of national intelligence doesn't want to give this information to congress. clear from manu's reporting that the i.g. went as far as he could go without really doing kind of subverting what his boss wanted him to do, but still he made it pretty clear. this is a five-alarm fire in the intelligence world. the other way it is very gray, josh can speak to this better than i can is technically -- technically -- i believe that a president, any president, can declassify information. it's jus...

Complaint involving the president himself. cnn learn both the white house and the department of the justice were actively involved in withholding the complaint from congress according to multiple sources. director of market symbintellig share the report and including a promise of president trump to a foreign leader. the dni won't release the complaint was deemed credible and urgent by michael atkinson he refused to give details in a closed doct closed-door meeting saying he's not authorized to do so. adam schiff the committee's chairman spoke about the justice department and its involvement in...

Members' mind wanting to go in and debt the details of this conversation. they left unsatisfied and adam schiff highlighting doj had a role in withholding the information from congress and at the time did not know if the white house was involved in withholding details of this complaint from congress but it was confirmed the would us is involved in withholding the complaint. chairmanship, a portion of the letter the inspector general read and we obtained ourselves makes clear he doesn't agree with this decision to have the jurisdiction essential outside the odni. here's schiff recalling a porti...

Jurisdiction. it's not up to us to notify congress. we've also suggested that this might trip on executive privilege argument which always points to the president or senior officials at the white house. >> it is interesting to me because as we know the president does have power to declassify information. we also know the president has been loose with classified information. he just has. this has been an issue dating back to oval office meetings with the russian ambassador. he tweeted maps from iran. but there is a distinction here, maybe, and it may be an important one between classified infor...