the president using terms like treasonous and traitorous and you know what we do with traitors or what we used to do with them. i believe he s put this whistleblower at risk. that s most important. underneath that but as important to a certain extent is the chilling effect it has on the whistle-blower system as a whole. the intelligence community operates in secrecy. it has to keep us safe, but that only works in an open government. if the whistle-blower system works and the oversight of congress works, he has imperilled all that. two bad things can happen when there is no whistle-blowers. bad deeds go unknown and unpunished and leaks happen. and when leaks happen, that threatens our sources and methods, it puts people at risk and makes us less safe. i when you talk about bad deeds going on and unflagged, i want to ask your response to a story