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You don't throw that out the window, you try to work through retitle, try to have a good life, a secure existence. to throw that up in the air and say i'm going to risk all this because i just heard the president say i've got to act. >> you have to understand about the intelligence community is they are very, very sensitive to the idea that anybody would handle classified information as being bought by a foreign power. personally enriched by an overseas interest and they look out for that very carefully. when you're being paid off by a foreign power to do something or to provide information. s...

It would be alarming to them because mieke and i come from the intelligence world in one way or another, and i'll tell you that when you make a commitment or a promise in that world, that means something. and if you're doing it clearly in the interest of the country, that's something a president does. but if it's in your own interests, that's a compromising act. you've compromised yourself to make a promise or a commitment to a foreign power to serve yourself. and that would send off all kinds of alarm bells. >> trump says the president of the united states said today, mieke, i would never do ...

Whistle-blower protection act which keeps us all safe. and secondly, we should not assume because we really do not know what this is -- we do not know what this is, but we should not assume it was simply an act of the president sharing classified information with a foreign leader because he possesses the authority to declassify material. therefore, if it was him and we don't know, it's probably something else. and thirdly, of a serious nature, of a flagrant nature, that's the law. and thirdly, i think we just have to stop and pause here. what inspector general michael atkinson did is frankly a...