through this process as the law requires? >> my first concern is the safety of the whistleblower. the president using terms like treasonous and traitorous and you know what we do with traitors or what we used to do with them. i believe he's put this whistleblower at risk. that's most important. underneath that but as important to a certain extent is the chilling effect it has on the whistle-blower system as a whole. the intelligence community operates in secrecy. it has to keep us safe, but that only works in an open government. if the whistle-blower system works and the oversight of congress works, he has imperilled all that. two bad things can happen when authorize no whistle blowers, a bad deeds go unknown and unpunished and leaks happen. and when leaks happen, that threatens our sources and methods, it puts people at risk and makes us less safe.