KING: Another standoff between the Trump administration and House Democrats, this one over a whistleblower complaint. The exact nature of the complaint is not clear but House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff demanded that the Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph McGuire turn it over. By last night, the DNI's office refused, writing in a letter obtained by CNN that that time frame is unreasonable and that McGuire won't be attending a congressional hearing slated for tomorrow. Chairman Schiff says the inspector general who oversees the DNI deemed the whistleblower complaint to be, quote, credible and urgent. The DNI's top lawyer disputes calling it that. The DNI general counsel also wrote the complaint involves, quote, potentially privileged matters with other stakeholders within the executive branch. So here's a confrontation. We know nothing about the details except that it involves intelligence. Where are we going? Well -- and more importantly, Chairman Schiff knows nothing about the underlying details except that, you know, it involves intelligence. He did say in the letter that he initially wrote to McGuire that this complaint and the inspector general's look into it has been shared with the Justice Department. So there's some suggestion that there -- that potentially it could have been shared with the White House as well or that involves the White House. Mr. Schiff has made a lot of suggestions along those lines but really, we don't know and he doesn't know what's in the complaint. So what you have is kind of this standoff. But given that it involves intelligence information, it's not that unusual for the DNI to be saying, wait a second, we need to wait before we come to Congress and talk about it.</s>KING: Right. But there was a time when the intelligence matters were separated at least to a degree from the partisan suspicion and polarization, not anymore. OK, we'll stay on top of that story. Up next, while gun policy talks continue on Capitol Hill, a very grim new public service announcement debuts. It's meant to help prevent school shootings.
Acting DNI Chief Misses Intel Deadline Over Whistleblower Complaint