agencies or with the defense department or homeland security. that information would then go to of course the national security advisor especially if it was an imminent investigation. and then for some reason that information, probably part of the daily brief, gets to trump. and that may include, look, we know that country x has an asset in isis. and that asset is highly vulnerable but willing to share information with us. and something as casually as that said to the russians then will release a series of responses by other countries who do not have our best interest in mind. >> so julgia, michael said at the very least our intelligence officials and the white house tried to minimize the damage to what's the president did in the oval office. so is leaking this to "the washington post," does that further damage u.s. security? >> no, i mean again as i said the intelligence committee i think is trying to protect itself. because if this whole thing exploded or if the operation