security peiter zatko, alleging the social media giant s leadership misled its own board, and government regulators about security vulnerabilities that could potentially open the door for foreign spying, hacking and disinformation campaigns. those are stunning, serious claims sent to congress and several federal agencies last month. our very own cnn correspondent donie o sullivan sat down with him to talk about this. here s the story. reporter: ready? yes. reporter: why are you coming forward? all my life i ve been about finding places where i can go, and make a difference. reporter: this is peiter zatko, until january of this year he was head of security at twitter, but now he s a whistle-blower, and he says twitter security problems are so grave, they are a risk to national security and democracy. twitter is a critical resource to the entire world. i think it is an extremely important platform. reporter: he handed over information about the company to various
list that the fbi released when it was unsealed from the justice department argument. they want to see exactly what they took because they don t really still have a good idea of what was in the boxes beyond what trump knows, what trump knows that they took. and so that is what they re searching for in all of this. okay. there is a trump playbook in defending against a whole host of investigations, and oftentimes they re public comments, public comments can differ what his lawyers are arguing in court as we have seen in this case. how does this latest step by trump s legal team fit into that strategy? yeah, it certainly does look a lot like the playbook we have seen trump take before. if you read this document, it technically is a legal document, because it is this motion that they filed, their first legal action, and so they have been saying a lot publicly on social media, on television, this is the first action they have actually taken in court. but if you read this document, it