that i have been in touch with, he's clearly worried in a way that he hasn't been before. there is some shaking of the republican ranks. >> it is interesting. his comments about these people in the white house who gave information to the whistle-blower are essentially spies and it's treasonous. >> he wants to see these people dead. >> his view is that by people telling the truth about something that happened, if what the whistle-blower is saying is accurate, that is tantamount to a treason against the country, when in fact, it is just reporting something that the president has done that is apparently inappropriate. >> this is exactly right what you said. and this is also why people like mattis and tillerson and mcmaster concluded that not only was this president really fundamentally corrupt putting