Good evening.

We left you last night with something of a mystery.

What prompted a whistleblower inside the intelligence community to raise what the community's top

watchdog decided were, quote, urgent concerns.

And why haven't those concerns been brought before Congress as the law requires?

Tonight, there's new reporting from CNN and from others on the substance of the complaint

and why this is turning into something the White House from the president down is treating

as a very big deal.

First and foremost, we've learned that this directly concerns the president.

In part, his communications with and allegedly his commitment to a foreign leader.

In addition, three sources now tell CNN that both the White House and Justice Department

are involved in blocking the complaint.

Separately, the New York Times is reporting that the complaint alleges multiple acts by

the president that, according to their report, quote, go beyond any single discussion with

a foreign leader.

Now, some of the reporting surrounds what Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community's

inspector general, told the House Intelligence Committee behind closed doors this morning.

One source familiar with the briefing tells CNN he referred to, quote, a sequence of

events and, quote, alleged actions.

Another source disputed he provided any substantive detail.

So as to handing over the actual complaint, committee chairman Adam Schiff had this to

say, we do not have the complaint.

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