not clear what the ag's role if any was in this matter and the underlying matter at all. eric: the democrats say that the picture's already in, it's clear that he's doing the president's bidding, they accuse him of acting like the president's personal lawyer by the actions the justice department apparently took by not releasing this material, by not sending it to congress and you heard nancy pelosi calling it the coverup of the coverup. of tto you, does that hold any water? >> there's a very fair debate going on about whether or how the whistleblower complaint should have been delivered to congress. the question is whether this was a matter arising under the intelligence role of the dni. there was apparently a debate within the justice department, whether that was the case, they decided no which is why they advised the dni not to release it. it involved the use of the intelligence system at the white house where they stored the material and whether the underlying discussions came under the purview. these are lee l gal debates and