parties, saying this is not right what the president has been doing, revoking security clearances, why did you sign on with this and what is the message from folks like yourself? >> pretty simple. yesterday you saw the former faces of the intelligence community, people who did congressional testimony, people who might have appeared in clips on cnn. today you're seeing the people behind them. my peers, the people of my generation and there's one simple reason dozens of us signed up. there's republicans, democrats, people across the cia signed on to this letter that just came out. when i spent my career, we looked at adversaries an potential adversaries, china, russia, china, one of the characteristics of those adversaries or potential adversaries, people like vladimir putin tried to prevent their opponents from speaking and they used legal and illegal means to do so. it the president can call us