Jim Himes: Trump Must Stop ‘Publicly Attacking the Patriotic Men and Women’ of the Intel Community

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HIMES: "Well, first of all, like so much of what he says, it’s simply not true. That the story came out, broken by CNN that the chief of staff to the White House had asked the FBI to help color a story was hardly classified national security information. What is a threat to this country, of course, is when Iran and China and North Korea see the president of the united States attacking his own security services, his own intelligence community, you can only imagine what the leaders of those countries are thinking, knowing that the United States president is apparently at war with the very people who will advise him on the motion sensitive questions of whether there is a threat to the united States, whether there is a terrorist threat, what the Russians are doing, what the Chinese are doing. It’s just — this has been one of the most disheartening things of the Trump Administration. The president of the united States has got to stop publicly attacking the patriotic men and women who put their lives at risk to keep this country safe."