congressman castro, a democrat that serves on the intelligence and foreign affairs committees of the thank you for joining us tonight. >> thanks for having me, jim. >> you may have heard your colleague from the other chamber, senator blumenthal call this abuse of power. illegal abuse of power. do you agree with that? >> i definitely think it is an abuse of power and i think there is an argument that it violates first amendment rights of john brennan. the reason is because it is government taking action through the president against political speech and political speech is among the most protected speech under first amendment law. so i suspect that all of us will find out whether that's the case or not. john brennan could pursue an action. and if he does, a judge and curt will make a ruling on that. putting that aside for a second, it is certainly an abuse of power. let's be clear about this, john brennan's problem is he spoke truth to power to a thin skinned president, and that's why he