meet with top officials tomorrow at the white house. but you say it would be better to have the gang of eight get this briefing rather than two republicans, the chairman of the intelligence committee and the chairman of the oversight committee? >> absolutely. and if there's information as trous troubling as we think it might be, mr. schumer and ms. pelosi should be apart of that. one other thing, particularly highlighted in the last week, that was on a wednesday we were told by the department of justice and fbi, this is so sensitive, we can't show it to you. this will endanger human lives and national security. two important thoughts on that. number one, we are the select committee on intelligence. we are designed and created just for this exact purpose. of course we can protect that. and the second thing is, they told us that they couldn't show it, it was too sensitive on a wednesday. and yet before we had seen the information, because we have not