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There is a line where they define urgent concern, and it, you know, urgent concern involves a flagrant abuse of power, a problem relating to an intelligence activity that is, dot, dot, dot, within the responsibility and authority of the director of national intelligence. and i believe that's where they got that. however, it seems apparent to me that the inspector general for the intelligence community determined that this was an intelligence community activity within the purview of the odni and, therefore, this was something that, you know, he could take a look at. >> did your sources have any...

Process would take its course and, you know, let whoever needs to be held accountable be held accountable. this whistleblower did indeed feel there was enough of a concern that the inspector general should look into it, and the ig, as ken noted, did deem this complaint to be credible and found that it was something within -- that met the definition of intelligence activity and something that needed to be raised. in fact the ig then took this complaint to the dni, the director of national intelligence, which he was supposed to do by statute. and at that point the dni was supposed to, within sev...

Intelligence activity. and if the inspector general finds that it meets that standard and after looking at the information finds that it's credible, he has to send it to the director of national intelligence who shall,,quote/unquote, within seven days, tell congress about it. and so that is what -- the way the law is written, it sounds like the inspector general makes the determination that this meets that standard, and then there is no choice. congress has to know within seven days, it can stay classified, it can be behind closed doors but it can't be kept hidden. and the trump administration...

On the whistle-blower complaint we told you about at the top of the hour. this complaint filed by a member of the intelligence community about president trump's phone call with an unidentified foreign leader. let's go right to ken dilanian who coffers national security and intelligence. ken, what have you learned? >> our colleague julia ainsley heard from a department of justice official that the doj's office of legal counsel was involved in and consulted with director of national intelligence on its decision to withhold this complaint from congress and to make the legal argument that the fact...

In this letter we obtained, the acting dni says that first of all he didn't have enough time to supply with the subpoena. just two business days. but then this is the crux of the matter. he says he doesn't carry this complaint to be of urgent concern. why? because even though the whistle-blower does come from the intelligence community, the complaint according to this is about the executive branch, the trump administration. now the inspector general of the intelligence community had found this complaint to be of urgent concern. but maguire said it isn't because it doesn't relate to intelligenc...