safety or our security issues. short of that, what -- there's got to be -- there's no good reason i would imagine for the government to be doing what the trump administration and the department of justice were doing. >> there's a sharp line between political persecution of your enemies and taking on a righteous investigation that's meant to protect national security. nobody is arguing here that we shouldn't have, you know, vigorous prosecution of leaks of national security sensitive information that gets out into the public domain and impairs the safety of the country. that's not what this is about. there are questions about what this particular investigation was predicated on since at this point we know that it looks like this investigation wasn't about everyone with access to this information, even if you believe it was sensitive and still classified after some steps the trump administration took, but it appears to have targeted only