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According to a source. in the past the white house has blocked information from being turned over to congress involving foreign leader conversations with putin and trump, for example, but what makes this different is this involves a whistle-blower complaint to dni protect under the law so this really is unprecedented. president trump for his part, he has tweeted that he would never say anything inappropriate to a foreign leader and we know from officials that the president is often informal and spontaneous in his calls in conversations with foreign leaders. in fact, those calls and conversatio...

>> someone trying to manipulate the system, a system designed to protect the country and allow congress which has oversight to see whistle blower complaints if deemed credible and urgent and this was. >> and team trump is hiding this information and pamela brown is out front in washington and what is the trump administration's explanation for keeping the complaint under wraps? >> erin, so much of this is shrouded in secrecy and we have learned that the white house and doj have revised the nation's top intelligence agency that this whistle-blower complaint involving president trump isn't protec...

Dni still hasn't complied with the request yet to turn over information on this complaint though the dni isn't expected to testify next week. we should also note that the white house has declined to comment. erin? >> thank you very much, pamela. a lot of new information there. out front now, a member of the house intelligence community who is inside that briefing from then spector general today. democratic congressman congressman krishnamoorthi. >> thank you, erin. you were inside the room with the inspector general who was prevented by sharing details of the report with you, but was supposed ...

As the congressman was saying in your earlier segment he doesn't have to be investigating someone in the ic. he only has to be investigating a serious or flagrant abuse relating to the operation or administration of the ic and the justice department seems to be saying this is beyond his scope of his jurisdiction. they're not making an important distinction between the ig's powers to investigate and the ig's obligation to report to the congress. no one's saying that the inspector general of the intelligence community has the right to investigate the white house and he's a creature of statute an...

You know, right now we're wondering why this complaint is not being turned over to us. mr. maguire has said a couple of things that are concerning. >> he, of course, is the acting chief of the dni. >> yes. mr. maguire, the chief of the dni has said that the individual about who the complainant made the complaint is outside of the intelligence community and that is somehow invoking some kind of privilege and it shields any wrongdoing and second, this is something that it doesn't matter whether it's outside of the intelligence community as long as it relates to the intelligence community and tha...