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Community and the fbi every day to stop these bad guys hes been after in the first place. >> alexi? >> so, i think the conversations hes having with paul ryan will suggest he will vote in line with his administration showing continued support for authorizing fisa. the president is watching "fox and friends." if you wonder where his support comes from, click on "fox and friends" and you will see an alignment with what they are saying and what he is supporting. it is confusing. they contradict eac...

Unmasking, leaks going on all around us. thats what we need to pay attention to, lawrence. they almost, almost paid the price for it today but i should say that the american people almost paid the price for it today if this legislation hadnt of passed. >> many republicans as we know consistently claimed that fisa is absolutely crucial to national security and what those republicans saw today is that donald trump is a danger to national security as they interpret it. ned price, thank you very muc...

This you the prelude to the big vote on the fisa authorization or section of fisa and this has to do with an amendment i believe youre part of this amendment, right? >> i am. >> this amendment by congressman justin amash, and this has to do with the unmasking, the revealing of the identity of americans, that is right, who might be sort of caught up in surveillance. tell us about this amendment and also with the knowledge you may not have heard of, but the speaker was on the floor arguing how if ...

Does the president not understand what the fisa bill is and the fact that his own administration was reporting it? >> we speak on an almost daily basis. it is well-known he has concerns about the domestic fisa law. today was 702 which is a different part that was law. thats title seven, not title one. this is foreign terrorists on foreign soil. he knows that and put out something that clarifies that. his position has been clear from day one. >> he didnt understand what parts you were voting on? ...

Collection of data. theres a lot of sftuff that ges collected. if there is a criminal investigation that is going to move forward based on the collection of the data for an american citizen you need a warrant to move forward with that. i dont think thats going to kill anything. i think thats going to protect civil liberties and it will be interesting to see what happens here. but we all believe that fisa has an important role to play that we do need to reauthorize fisa, but this has been a probl...

Fisa is a statute thats been around since 1978. it covers how electronic surveillance can happen in the united states on u.s. citizens. so any fisa surveillance that would have happened on someone in his campaign, say paul manafort would have required a court order, for everybody in the states. 702 is about targeting non-u.s. persons outside of the united states. nothing to do that would have potentially happened at least with the people that hes referring to there and as far as the steele dossi...

Intelligence communitys most important tools in order for us to be able to collect foreign intelligence on the threats that face this country. its one of the tools that we use for making sure that iran complies with the 2015 deal, with making sure that north korea is not trying to acquire the materials to move forward with their nuclear program. when i saw the presidents tweet this morning it was really startling for the entire intelligence community and as you indicated i talked to people who s...

First off as we wait for the speaker here, what is happening with -- i do want to talk about the political future, but lets talk about the fisa bill that is currently on the floor, a busy day on capitol hill. what is happening there as the president undercut his party, and then back pedalled because we understand now, we just got in that apparently president trump and house speaker paul ryan spoke after the first tweet where the president knocked fisa this morning. >> i think you saw in the pres...

Concerned about the first tweet, did it create any problems, he said there were two tweets and that was helpful to resolve some of the concerns from the right. this came after an effort of pretty significant lobbying effort by the administration officials to make sure that there were -- that there was a separate amendment by civil libertarians did not get added on, an amendment that would provide additional safeguards on this warrantless surveillance program. they believe it would essentially en...