another battle with one another. >> this is a clear example of someone that is part of the deep state, somebody part of the deep state in the intelligence community, taking advantage of this whistleblower procedure and trying to create this firestorm. >> the whole point of the whistleblower statute is to encourage those to report but have a legal mechanism to do so the director of national intelligence has made the decision not to share the complaint with congress. >> we've seen this before. the democrats, adam schiff get all spun up and say the president did something wrong. when the facts come out it is the opposite. the president didn't do anything wrong and they were spinning this whole thing up. >> john roberts tops the hour for us and live from the north lawn this morning. >> we're on the south lawn of the white house where the ceremony welcoming for the state visit will happen any minute here as soon as hail to the chief and it's time for us