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Dni's responsibility to the american people. this is what's being withheld from congress right now. >> reporter: and schiff went on to later say that complaint withheld from congress he believes is an unprecedented departure from the law and says they are talking to house general counsel, erica, to potentially, pursue legal avenues to get that information. >> sunlen serfaty, thank you. and adding to a series of concerns over how the president is handling classified information. how he's handled it in the past. take a look at some of what we've seen. hard to forget in may of 2017 the presiden...

House is also involved in preventing this information from coming to congress. we do not have the complaint. we do not know whether the press reports are accurate or inaccurate about the contents of that complaint. >> cnn sunlen serfaty is live on cli capitol hill for us. >> reporter: the chairmans the committee left that clearly frustrated and unsatisfied with the level of information that they received. the fact in that meeting behind closed doors, the intelligence committee, i. gmplgg. essentiald he didn't have the authority to reveal the details of the substance of the whistle-blower's com...

Know, places like the subway systems, the times square and, you know, trying to figure where there were soft spots to possibly stage an attack, or to provide that information back to the terrorist group. also did this in washington, d.c. as well. so a lot of information as part of this again nine-count indictment we're learning from the southern district about this man. this person is now in custody with these nine charges and i expect to hear more. doesn't sound like anything was thwarted, stoned any attack from happening but key in the sense this person was providing serious information back...

Intelligence community inspector general michael atkinson. the icig looked at it said it was credible. urgent. the only body vested by the law to actually make that determination at the front. then they are supposed to pass that determination on to the dni, pro forma before it goes to the congress' spell generals committees. that's where this process has completely come to a halt. the i.g. made an independent determination and odn sichlt obstructing that determination. >> back to the fact that you're concerned that was happening but michael atkinson, i.g. for the intelligence committee you see...

President can declassify information essentially as he sees fit. that said, even if the president chose to -- again, we don't know exactly what's in the complaint. to remind people of that. say it did involve some sort of declassified information. it could still be that a person heard this or heard multiple accounts and said, i'm uncomfortable with this. i want to tell someone about it. that person put together a whistle-blower complaint. went to the. >> i g. who looked at the information and even if declassified the i.g. said it's a credible complaint of urgent concern. that should still mean...