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Their initial attempt for revealing the allegations through the cia was unnolding adding that in both cases the original accusation was vague. they go on to write that the staff member following the committee procedures suggested the officer find a lawyer to advise and meet with an inspector general with whom he could file an official whistleblower complaint. the aide shared some of what was conveyed to chairman schiff but not the whistleblower's identity. in a statement for nbc news he said in port the whistleblower contacted the committee for guidance and how to report possible wrongdoing wi...

House? >> yes, mike. a lot of concern about how it was handled. now, what experts in this whole process have said is that the general counsel of an agency has an obligation to sort of do that. they're not the inspector general. in fact, that's why people are advised to take complaints to the inspector general who's independent, not the general counsel who sort of has to inform everyone. because this was a serious complaint about the conduct of the president of the united states. and it was only natural that you would go -- start circulating it around the government to investigate it. it also w...

The cia inspector general had alerted the white house counsel's office, the very subject of the complaint about the contents of it and had brought in officials at the justice department and the whistleblower was worried that it was going to be essentially covered up. so he goes to the house committee. the house committee says file a complaint with the inspector general. he does that. the next thing schiff learns about it is that the complaint is being withheld. congress gets notified by the inspector general we have this urgent concern complaint but the white house and the justice department i...

What base zois you hais do you making that insinuation? >> i'm sure the whistleblower has been advised as the law requires by the inspector general or the director of national intelligence just as to how he is to communicate with congress. and so the risk to the whistleblower is retaliation. 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. >> sam, you spoke to chairman schiff last night. i want to read the quote again. quote, ...

Fwroing congress's attention. and the staff will always give thimm them the same answer. don't tell us anything classified, we're on an unsecured phone most likely, get a lawyer and go to the inspector general, file your complaint and it will get to us eventually if it's an urgent concern. and most of those complaints never end up getting to them because they're often not very serious. this one was quite serious. but there's no evidence that schiff's office or schiff's aides helped this whistleblower write this complaint. and we don't even know exactly what schiff knew about it. i mean, he kne...