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and we know that from the whistleblowers. they ve come and talk to us. we weant tomake thes whis whistleblowers. tl re wi well want to get them publicinka as quickly as they re willing to do it. i think many of them areny , sean, because, as i said the other bee day on so many of them have been retaliated against. against. i mean, we ve had several of them who ve been suspended, had their security clearance revoked, which after they ve come and talk to our committee staff. so we expect to hear from them.one, we expect them to sit for depositions. actually met one of them, talked with on who s already publi went public last week in florida. so we expectflore expect that t. that s where we re going to start this investigation. and we ll also hear from people who have been targeted, like the parents who were targeted via the apparatud vis at merricw garland, put in place with his memo. we re going to talk to those. people as well.l talk to thos all right.well. so the issue i have my sourc
life. but that isn t the government that we have. so i think the question is why do we have a country in which whis whistleblowers feel compelled to flee. there are lots of people on capitol hill when you listen particularly to the progress f sieves, ron biden, mark udall, who certainly would have listened to mr. snowden. there were perhaps other ways to do this. i understand this is a man wanted for trial, so i can see why he wouldn t want to come to the undited states, but you re not suggesting the other countries has more freedom of the press and more open society? i don t think anyone thinks he s going cuba. ecuador and venezuela has all sorts of things to criticize