7:35 p.m. ET, September 24, 2019
White House prepares to release whistleblower complaint
From CNN's Pamela Brown and Evan Perez
The White House is preparing to release to Congress the whistleblower complaint as early as tomorrow, according to two sources familiar.
One source added it is under review and going through declassification and could be released within hours of the release of a transcript of President Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to a person familiar with the situation, Trump
pressed Zelensky in a phone call to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter.
What we know about the whistleblower complaint: CNN had earlier reported, citing a source familiar with the case, that the complaint was prompted by concerns over communications between the President and a foreign leader. The alleged whistleblower didn't have direct knowledge of the communications that partly prompted the complaint to the inspector general, an official briefed on the matter told CNN on Thursday. Instead, the whistleblower's concerns came in part from learning information that was not obtained during the course of their work, and those details have played a role in the administration's determination that the complaint didn't fit the reporting requirements under the intelligence whistleblower law, the official said.