it does not say the director can only forward this if it involves a person under the director's jurisdiction. and that seems to be the sticking point that the director is clinging to at this point. >> or that the director can only forward this if it doesn't implicate executive branch privilege in some way, which seems to be the other thing they're claiming. >> not a word about that. >> one thing, lawrence, i would be very interested in figuring out is whether -- remember the way this happened, went from the whistle blower to the inspector general for the intelligence community. the inspector general gave it to the dni. dni gave it to congress. where it goss stuck is that last point. what i want to know is if the inspector general who is going to testify tomorrow, can the inspector general hand it over given that the dni is weirdly defying the law and sitting on it? >> in my reading of the law the inspector general cannot but listen to who can. there's more to this law. it says if the inspector general