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That's why he's gone forth in doing this. and then there's the privilege issue, if you'd like me to talk about that as well. apparently, justice is saying there's an executive privilege here. the executive privilege would not stand up in light of either a criminal matter either a normal criminal matter or a high crime and misdemeanor if that were involved. and i think, lawrence, that's why the president has just now taken this outlandish position that not only can a sitting president not been indicted but he can't even be investigated. because if he can't be investigated, nobody could raise th...

Investigate certain things within the intelligence community. the other is to report certain things that come to his attention, whether he investigated them or not. that's what this is about. so when the white house or the justice department says that the i.g. has no business investigating this matter, it's beyond his remitt, that's irrelevant. this is a matter that pertains to the operations and administration of the intelligence community, and that's why he's gone forth in doing this. and then there's the privilege issue, if you'd like me to talk about that as well. apparently, justice is sa...

Reporting specifically referred to a promise by the president, and that there was reference to more than one conversation, there may be more. the fact is we're seeing only small portions of the story, and until we see it all, we're not really going to know what the implications are. having said that, as you pointed out, the mere fact of the president asking a foreign government to intervene and try to dig up dirt on what he views as his primary opponent for the presidential election is something that i think people could view as extremely troubling. if i can go back a second to the question yo...

Who worked for the president wouldn't want to run it by justice particularly because there might be a privilege issue. presidential communications with a foreign leader might be considered confidential. so when he did that, the doj apparently balked and issued an opinion saying no, this doesn't fall within the narrow confines of that intelligence whistleblower law and that is where we are. so he went to the hill and he was not able to talk in detail about the complaint. >> john, is this some the sort of raw intelligence? what is the type of things that an intelligence analyst would be seeing t...

So this is an unknown privilege, very consistent with the administration's wide assertion of different privileges. we don't know who the whistle-blower is but based on the complaint being made to the intelligence communitien inspector general we can presume it's somebody in the intelligence community and should evolve in some way intelligence matters. >> someone in the intelligence community, based on the pushback and privilege it likely involves the president or those close to him? >> the complaint itself because now the letter is saying the back and forth between the administration and congr...