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Citizens electronic communications can be intercepted. one is title 3 which is a criminal inquiry. the other is fisa which is an intelligence inquiry. theres no or way for it to be lawfully done. the good news about that is theres a paper trail. theres an application. there are warrants. all of which can be reviewed. right now the executive branch controlled not by the benjamin netanyahu ed-- obama administration. >> sandra: theres a lot being made ab the paper trail if this went through an fisa...

President is the ultimate declassification authority. he can take any piece of secret information in the government and decide to declassify it and read it on television. so, if he would like to show us evidence of a warrant for surveillance or transcripts or anything like that, he could clear that up today. now, t white house looks like its going the other direction with this statement this morning and saying theyre not going to comment on it, which some people will read as evidence that, no, i...

Understanding its highly classified. the other issue is that donald trump is the president of the united states. he is the ultimate declassification authority. if he believes there is a wiretap or a court order to wiretap trump tower, committee tell us tomorrow he can provide the evidence. that would be a great way to buttress his assertions. >> ken delanie, and thank you so much for that. >> thank you. >> all right. i want to bring in democratic strategist atima and john hart. thank you both fo...

The president can declassify anything he wants. if he says lets get this story out, implicitly he give declassification authority. so nobody actually leaked anything that was classified. i suppose you can declassify it after the fact, too. these stories paint a picture of a white house and a president so superior to mere mortal man, these leaks didnt occur accidentally. this was a concerted campaign. there is little doubt in my mind about that. megyn: when you were talking about the president ha...

Get resolution on this issue and that he was planning to have a conversation with the director about it. and he needed to have revalidation of those two points. >> you drafted the cable, is that correct? >> yes, at his request. >> isnt it common practice when a cable of this importance is drafted that it be copied to various parts of the legal establishment within the c.i.a. and was that done in this case? was that cable copied to mr. rizzo or other lawyers within the agency? >> senator, there w...