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>> sure. and it only got worse from there. the president not only continues his complaint on the whistleblower who revealed his phone call with the ukranian president, but it's getting even worse the angrier the president gets. >> the whistleblower wrote not that conversation, he wrote a vicious conversation. in other words, he either got it totally wrong, made it up, or the person giving the information to the whistleblower was dishonest. and this country has to find out who that person was, because that person is a spy, in my opinion. >> but after this morning with the president on the south...

Cia analyst and whistleblower himself patrick eddington. whistleblowers are typically protected from replies al. but donald trump wants this whistleblower exposed and by extension some say targeted.al. but donald trump wants this whistleblower exposed and by extension some say targeted. >> thanks for having me on. and let me just say that i think i would take some issue with the idea that the law you serves as any kind of meaningful protection. yesterday i hosted a panel in which i had the government accountability project on stage to talk about some of these very issues. and g.a.p. hams whist...

Your previous guest former deputy director of the fbi mr. mccabe noted. this person made allegations against the president of the united states, they appear to be a criminal conspiracy, and that's something i hope mr. schiff, to be blunt with you, is a newcomer to caring about whistle-blower issues. i hope he and his staff actually take these things seriously and run it to ground with a level of detail senator feinstein did with poor cher investigations or the church committee did with allegations about government spying 40 years ago. >> you have been excellent. patrick eddington, thank you fo...

>> the attitude i took going into this was if saddam hussein had used chemical or biological agents against our forces and that had not been properly reported or dealt with during the war and after the war the cia had a responsible to raise those particular issues and assure they were addressed. >> patrick eddington is now a policy analyst at the cato institute. patrick, sure you're grateful, we went to the archives and found you from many years ago but we wanted to remind everyone what you did. you spent years trying to raise this issue within your department and decided to go public. how imp...

Trump aides huddled with some staff were forced to sign gag orders so they would be contractually barred from talking about it. the staffers signed nondisclosure agreements according to two sources familiar with the matter. so, normal or not? congressional staff secretly working with the president, hiding it from republican leadership, signing gag orders so they can't discuss it. here are the facts. it is extremely rare for administration officials to circumvent republican leadership and work directly with congressional committee aides according to politico and this issue isn't really partisan...