interested in providing intelligence to the united states government. >> rolf, president trump doesn't have a career in diplomacy or intelligence. if somebody -- doesn't have a lot of experience with intelligence. they can inadvertently reveal information that they shouldn't even if they aren't intending to. i'm wondering again, rolf, i know there's probably a lot you can't say on the details of this. but the removal of a high-level russian asset, i mean if it's true that the person had been in place for ten years, that seems like an extraordinary amount of time, and i imagine the danger just increases with each passing year. does it leave a void if somebody like that, you know, is exfiltrated? >> yeah, of course it would leave a void, anderson. but i prefer to focus on three important successes of this reported exfiltration. and like steve, i can't confirm it because i simply don't know, which is also good news. if someone like i were aware of this operation, that would be a