Good evening.

We begin with breaking news on the whistleblower.

Now, one of two and what we're learning about the extreme measures being considered to

safeguard his or her identity should they testify before the House Intelligence Committee.

This individual's complaint is, of course, what started this impeachment inquiry.

And even though the law is designed to protect those who come forward from retaliation, this

is in a different legal together.

It's apparently some of these security precautions being considered.

CNN, Sunlin and Sirvady joins us now with that.

So what have you learned about these so-called extreme measures?

Yeah, these discussions Anderson are underway between the committee and the lawyers for

the whistleblower.

All to protect the identity of the whistleblower, when and if he or she ultimately decides

to come forward and speak before the committee.

There are a whole host of options being considered, things like masking, this person's image,

masking their identity, potentially going off-site away from Capitol Hill to hold this briefing

in a secure room off Capitol Hill and also limiting the number of people in the room and

who's in the room, potentially limiting it between staff and members of the House.

So a lot of things being sorted out right now and, of course, all to, again, underscore

the security and the identity of this whistleblower is protected in a source tells CNN tonight

a democratic source in the House Intelligence Committee says that this was all prompted because

of concerns that Republicans on the committee could leak the whistleblower's identity.

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