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Correspondent is here to break all of this down for us. what's the reason here that this acting director is giving for not turning over this whistle blower complaint? >> this was a letter that we obtained from the office of the director of national intelligence. it's a politely worded letter from the general counsel to adam schiff. but the message is clear, we're not going to comply with this subpoena because we didn't have enough time, just two business days, but more importantly because we disagree this is of urgent concern. those are the words we're looking at here. according to schiff, the...

Really? house intel chairman adam schiff is fighting back against the stonewalling now. we are following the latest here. alex, what is going on? >> reporter: well, kate, what we have here is the acting director of national intelligence rejecting politely but still rejecting this subpoena from the house intelligence committee that the chairman adam schiff issued on friday night. the acting dni saying it's for two reasons. first, there wasn't enough time. the subpoena came friday night. he had two days to respond. the second much bigger reason he touched on is he disagrees this whistleblower co...

Well, that's a pretty narrow category of people involving basically the president and people around him. so i think it's pretty clear. what the problem is here. and as, i think the two stories you just related demonstrate, it's part of a pattern of the white house basically taking the view we ken gauge in corrupt conduct and we have a privilege to conceal that from congress and the american people. that's the root of the problem here. >> quick follow-up here because it's vague in developing. do we know what the nature of the issue is what the whistleblower's coming forward about? what can you ...

>> we have not spoken directly with the whistleblower. we would like to. but i'm sure the whistleblower has concerns that he has not been advise dollad as the law rs just as to how is he could communicate with congress. so the risk for the whistleblower is realtation. will the whistleblower be protected under the statute if the offices that are supposed to come to his assistance and provide the mechanism are unwilling do so. but we would love to talk directly with the whistleblower. in terms of our information about the source of the resistance to providing this information to congress, you kn...

And a new interview, attorney general william barr weighing in on president trump's allegation that treason was committed in the course of the investigation into his campaign. >> you don't think they committed treason? >> not in a legal matter. >> but you have concerns about how they conduct the investigation? >> yes. but sometimes people can convince themselves that what they are doing is in the higher interest. the better good. they don't realize that what they are doing is really antithetical to the democratic system have. >> melissa: in the meantime, the attorney general rejecting criticis...