do now. what do you make of that? >> it's the same kind of talk we heard during the mueller investigation to intimidate witnesses. what we told dni maguire is you need to do everything you can to protect this whistle-blower and we need to make sure that others who have knowledge of the misconduct at issue are able to come forward to us. as you can tell from our q&a today, there are many witnesses. in fact, there were more than 12 witnesses on the very phone call at issue on july 25th. and they all took notes most likely. so this is something that is very disturbing. i don't like these mafia-like tactics to try to intimidate witnesses which i see as a pattern with our president. >> congressman good to talk to you. >> thank you. >> congressman of illinois a member of the house intelligence committee. coming up breaking news, a letter sent by the pentagon to lawmakers saying ukraine took