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Believe based on that, that we will have to take a serious look at articles of impeachment. chris: what's your reaction to the report this morning that there is now a second whistleblower, a second intelligence agent -- apparently, he has not filed a complaint yet with your committee, but he or she, i should say, has spoken to the intelligence community's inspector general? >> let me just say this, chris, let's deal with the first whistleblower. i believe this is a career service employee, a public servant. i consider him or her a patriot, someone who is aware of wrongdoing and has stepped for...

Believe based on that, that we will have to take a serious look at articles of impeachment. chris: what's your reaction to the report this morning that there is now a second whistleblower, a second intelligence agent -- apparently, he has not filed a complaint yet with your committee, but he or she, i should say, has spoken to the intelligence community's inspector general? >> let me just say this, chris, let's deal with the first whistleblower. i believe this is a career service employee, a public servant. i consider him or her a patriot, someone who is aware of wrongdoing and has stepped for...

Believe based on that, that we will have to take a serious look at articles of impeachment. chris: what's your reaction to the report this morning that there is now a second whistleblower, a second intelligence agent -- apparently, he has not filed a complaint yet with your committee, but he or she, i should say, has spoken to the intelligence community's inspector general? >> let me just say this, chris, let's deal with the first whistleblower. i believe this is a career service employee, a public servant. i consider him or her a patriot, someone who is aware of wrongdoing and has stepped for...

Died, or you understand that the constitution is being violated, as ed snowden realized with the mass surveillance that the nsa was doing. and at personal risk, face the possible personal consequences which could be very severe of telling the truth to congress and to the press. and don't wait. >> this whistle-blower has gone about it in a different way than you did. this whistle-blower did not go to the press, they went through the official channels. >> yes. >> does it surprise you they chose that way and that it seems to certainly have gotten attention? >> by the way, the channels that he's u...

Agents, didn't exist in my day. i wasn't an intelligence agent to begin with. but there was no federal protection of whistle-blowers at that imtoo. even in these days with this law, that route rarely works. people who make the complaint are simply superiors as a troublemaker or untruth tellers. in this particular case the system worked so i have to congratulate to the only the whistle-blower but the intelligence community inspector general who, although he was not required to tell congress did choose to do that. and the defector of national intelligence, maguire, also okayed that. so i congrat...