I'm not all that knowledgeable about Washington inside baseball, but it seems weird and suspicious to me that these establishment guys would care so much about

I'm not all that knowledgeable about Washington inside baseball, but it seems weird and suspicious to me that these establishment guys would care so much about Snowden's fate that they'd risk the Trump base's wrath over the issue, when they were conspicuously unwilling to do so on many seemingly more consequential matters.