foreign leaders are typically handled. in addition to this breaking story, we are tracking everything coming out of the congress tonight after speaker pelosi's press conference. and i'm joined now by two democratic members of the house intelligence committee. congresswoman jackie speier of california and congressman denny heck of washington. good evening to both of you. congressman heck, we will get to everything that happened on the hill today, but your reaction to this breaking news and what does it mean that "the new york times" says the white house is conducting the review in this manner? >> well, as we've feared all along, we think that the white house is engaging in an attempt to discover the identity of the whistle-blower, ari. and the fact of the matter is that the intelligence community whistle-blower protection act affords the right of anonymity to the whistle-blower. and let's remember why that is -- >> well, let me stop you there just to understand. if you're saying federal law -- you're both lawmakers, you write laws. you're saying federal law is to protect the identity. if the white house counsel's