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Pelosi On Trump: 'I Will Make Sure He Does Not Intimidate The Whistleblower'

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned the president not to intimidate the whistleblower, as the president continued to call for the anonymous person to be exposed.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a stern warning for President Trump on Sunday: Do not try to retaliate against the intelligence community official whose anonymous complaint helped spur the impeachment inquiry.

"I will make sure he does not intimidate the whistleblower," Pelosi said in an interview on CBS's Face the Nation. "I told the president, you're in my wheelhouse when you come after the whistleblower."

Pelosi's comments follow Trump's repeated calls for the whistleblower's name to be exposed. Trump on Friday that "everybody knows"

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