you have a president and a majority party in the senate. i just think i i would add that go ahead. i just see the real long-term damage here. when you just these blanket statements over and over again, if you don t trust them, don t trust the nameless, faceless people who are doing all of this hard work, don t trust the fbi, only trust what s coming out of my mouth. it is i think there is real, sure, this might be a political defense for right now, in this moment, but this is a real moment of real long-term potential damage that can be done to these institutions. yeah. look, i completely agree. you know, i talk with people a lot about how long it s going to take to undo the damage that s being done to our democratic institutions. and it there is a lot of the damage being done. i still go to some agencies, spend time catching one colleagues. it s a very different feel. i just want to add another thing to what joe said. you know, the other thing that didn t exist back
has been a disservice to the very difficult job that our intelligence community has. but it also, this is the other part of this is that it sends a message. imagine if you re int tehran or moscow or north korea and thinking you know what, my regime, my government is up to no good and i want to help the united states, give them information that keeps the world safe, if you have to risk your life, commit an act of trees on, if you have a big public fight about the confidence and credibility of our intelligence services, not only do you hurt our folks morale, you re also sending a message to those people, if you don t trust them, maybe i don t trust them either, that s dangerous for long term health of intelligence collection so that the next president can get the information that he needs to make a good decision to keep the united states safe, so we need
intelligence community has. this is the other part of this, is that it sends a message, imagine if you are in tehran, moscow or somewhere in north korea and you are thinking my regime, my government is up to no good and i want to help the using use, i want to give them information that keeps the world safe. if you have to make that determination that you are going to risk your life commit an act of treason to your country to help the united states of america, if you have this big public fight about the confidence and creditability of our intelligence services, not only do you hurt our folks moral, you will sending a message, if you don t trust them, maybe i don t trust them either. that s dangerous for the long-term health of intelligence collection so that the next president can get the information that he needs to make a good decision to keep the united states safe. so we need to take this out of the political debate as soon as we possibly can and get back to