. >> we're joined now by mieke eoyang. she's a former staff member of the house intelligence committee. also joining us john heilemann, national analyst for nbc and msnbc, co-executive producer of showtime's "the circus." mieke, this is one of the nights where we really need you and your intelligence experience and expertise. this story is so strange, not just for me, but i know for viewers out there that there could be this very, very valuable cia asset, so valuable that he had to be actually -- she perhaps, who knows, this person had to be extracted from russia for their own safety after delivering so much high-level, high-value information. but then living under the person's real name in the washington area? should we be as stunned by this or is this not so surprising to you. >> well, this has happened before during the cold war. >> what? this has happened before? >> during the cold war, right, when it was the soviet union, we did have high level sources, and many of them have lived in the united states and were exfiltr

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. >> and mieke, how much cooperation at this stage is there with the republican staff?re-trump era, there would have been a lot of cooperation between the parties on situations like this. >> yeah, i think under chairman schiff, what i've heard from former colleagues, is that things have gotten better. when you see the senate voting 100 to nothing to release this report and have the whistleblower complaint come forward, and you start to see republicans express unease about the allegations here, i think you're going to have more bipartisan concern about protecting whistleblowers than you might have previously. >> miek spairks eoyang, thank you for your guidance on what to watch tomorrow. really appreciate it. >>> that is "the last word." "the 11th hour with brian williams" starts now. >>> we are just ten hours from testimony with congress. those who have read the whistleblower report call is deeply troubling and disturbing. then there is the memo of two leaders who came face to face today, and this evening donald trump talked about releasing more revelations that could ro

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