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The intelligence community. so here's where it gets sticky. if the i.g. -- here's the law since watergate. if the inspector general finds something to reach a certain level of what they call urgent concern, they are supposed to turn it over to congressional oversight committees. house i tentel would be the logl place for something intelligence related, especially in light of the tacit agreement after watergate whereby congress agreed with the intelligence community to handle confidential national security security information in a certain way, hence what you got with the gang of eight, only ce...

If the i.g. -- here's the law since watergate. if the inspector general finds something to reach a certain level of what they call urgent concern, they are supposed to turn it over to congressional oversight committees. house intel would be the logical place for something intelligence related, especially in light of the tacit agreement after watergate whereby congress agreed with the intelligence community to handle confidential national security security information in a certain way, hence what you got with the gang of eight, only certain leaders will get certain sensitivities. let's assume i...

President said to this foreign leader, what the president promised this foreign leader was of such foreign concern that congress and oversight committees had to know about it. and yet it's being killed. do you have any idea what the nature of the conversation was, david? >> joe, we're going so to have a moment one of our washington reporters who wrote a piece which is as much as we know according to this article this involves a promise that allegedly was made by president trump to some foreign national that was so worrisome to somebody in the against community became aware of it. it seems in e...

About. >> a flagrant abuse. how high up would the intelligence official have to be to know this kind of information? we know in the past that calls between president trump and vladimir putin, we have calls from the russian side. >> it has to be someone at the highest levels of government to do this. it has to be through an intercepted call, or someone that has seen those kind of -- >> what kind of person, if it is a flagrant abuse, that would be a seen your senior person. >> and what makes me lean that direction as well is the ig for the dni right, atkinson, he said his assessment was that thi...

The justice department to give him legal guidance, and that became -- >> because -- >> he consulted the justice department. >> the dni, joseph maguire, instead went to the -- or it might have been the white house who -- and advised maguire to go to the olc, the justice department, and get an opinion. atkinson, the ig, i don't believe went to the justice department. atkinson works for maguire. and atkinson is not -- was not authorized by law to divulge the complaint to the congressional committees on his own. and i think his hands are tied there. and to a certain extent, i think maguire feels h...