it is also appropriate for people outside the intelligence community to say what is presidential privilege. in other words, should you be talking to the congress about a presidential conversation. what kinds of political corruption. this isn t an intelligence issue, it is an issue of political corruption. what kinds of political corruption should be referred to congress. so i think that the process here is interesting. it is unique. some of did you look back and say i m not sure it was right. the real question now is, and i think this will all fall in the background, whether the congress will move forward or not. the process is weird, but this whole thing is weird. and the congress is trying to move forward. they say that they are going to investigate what they have learned from this complaint and they call it a roadmap. we know mike pompeo, evan, has received three subpoenas, a subpoena from three different house committees. what happens if pompeo just stonewalls congress? well, l
saying what is this about and so on. so we know that after that on august 14th, that is, the intelligence agency discusses on a phone call with the white house lawyer, john eisenberg, they have a phone call in which this issue comes up. and then it becomes a little more murky. because at the justice department, they are not sure what do with this, they are asking the cia, intelligence agency, where this person work beworks, whether or not this is a formal complaint. turns out there is no formal complaint until later that month when the inspector general comes forward with the official complaint from the whistleblower. so again, still a lot of open questions at the justice department as to what was going on behind the scenes. we know there is a lot of memos that were being prepared and sent up the chain of command to see what to do with this because we know that the justice department doesn t really launch