Overheard. The lead writer of the story standing by for us. Plus, with the iran matter swirling we need trumps Fourth National security adviser, by all accounts appointed in the nick of time. And one of our guests tonight believes the democrats are headed for big trouble if they ever let what happened yesterday happen again. All of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 972 of this trump administration. And as we said, we have a big story in the Washington Post tonight. It involves a whistleblower complaint from inside the administration that the intelligence Inspector General considers credible and urgent. Tonight the post puts it this way, saying this whistleblower complaint involves president Trumps Communications with a foreign leader. According to two former u. S. Officials familiar with the matter, they go on to write trumps ipt interaction with the foreign leader included a promi
Now time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening. Good evening. Well be joined by one of the three the Washington Post reporters, as you know, who broke this story tonight. But before you go, i want to read to you the law on the Inspector General. You were discussing this in the last hour as the news was breaking during your hour. I managed to get my hands on the law. It is fascinating. Because there is nothing i see in the law that supports the withholding of this Inspector Generals report. Yeah. It says, on receipt of a transmittal form the Inspector General under sub paragraph b, so when the Inspector General sends this on to the director, the director shall within seven calendar days of such receipt forward such transmittal to the Intelligence Committees together with any comments the director considers appropriate. Its very clear there, rachel. It does not say the director can only forward this if it involves a person under the directors jurisdiction. And that seems