administration repeatedly mishanded classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy. now, that is shocking. and many pro-trump allies and commentators tried to tear down that reporting and say it might not be true. do you stand by that reporting now a week later? >> 100%. we would not have gone there if we didn't trust the source's involvement, information, and level of involvement in that those discussions. this is an important story. any story involving intelligence, particularly the sensitivity of an overseas spy whose safety was of concern, and therefore led to an extraction is going to be particularly difficult. so the way we approached it was, no one question, we talked to multiple people that this extraction of infiltration had taken place. we did speak to someone high-level who said that trump's handling and his administration's handling of informati factored into that decision. the agency disputed that, but the agency's explanation for the exfiltration seemed not just too