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PELOSI: "Well, let me just say this. I will say to you, 'Mr. Republican Talking Points,' what I said to the president of the United States. When you talk about the whistleblower, you’re coming into my wheelhouse. I have more experience in intelligence than anybody in the Congress, anybody's ever served; 25 years on the committee as top Democrat, ex officio as speaker and leader. I was there when we wrote the whistleblower laws. The whistleblower is there to speak truth to power and have protection for doing that and any -- and retribution or harm coming to whistle-blower undermines our ability to hear truth about power. So I will defend the rights of the whistleblower vehemently, vehemently."