For months, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have been considering a drastic,

historic move. An action that's been set in motion only three other times in the history

of the United States of America. A tug of war has been playing out in the halls of Congress

between the party's liberal base and more moderate Democrats over whether or not to take

serious action against the President. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has long resisted such action.

You don't bring an indictment or you don't bring an impeachment unless you have all of the facts

the strongest possible case so that the President is held accountable one way or another.

But then last week, things started to change.

Congress had been trying to gain access to a whistleblower complaint from someone inside

the intelligence community. But the Acting Director of National Intelligence, Joseph McGuire,

would not turn over the complaint or offer details about what was in it.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has until tomorrow to respond to a subpoena

issued by the House Intelligence Committee. It's all shrouded in mystery. It's having to do with a

whistleblower complaint at the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff calls a quote,

urgent concern. And that tension between Congress and the DNI was growing. When on September 18th,

the Washington Post first reported what this complaint was actually all about.

Well tonight, the Washington Post has just broken this news. A scoop that suggests that

Chairman Adam Schiff was on to something. The headline is this, Trump's communications with

foreign leader are part of whistleblower complaint that spurred standoff between spy chief and Congress.

That once slow deliberate decision-making that had been unfolding inside the Democratic Caucus

at the House of Representatives suddenly began to move very, very quickly.

That's where we'll pick up this extraordinary story. The story of how in just this week,

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