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More than they want out. lets turn to our nbc national security analyst clint watts, is this everything out transparency, or is this political selective transparency for partisan purpose. >> its totally partisan, its selective, its cherry picking, and its also put out under this vail veil of the public needs to know. and the public does need to know. thats why were doing the mueller investigation. and you need to determine if someone is part of an espionage operation, foreign terrorist organizat...

You remember the iraq war was sold to the american people by cherry picking of intelligence. you have to put intelligence in context to understand exactly what is going on. and ali, the fisa application is a long application. first of all, you have to identify individuals and identify a crime and then you have to identify all of the information related to that crime. then you have to put a process in place to what kind of monitoring you need. what kind of facilities you are monitoring. what kind...

9/11. and your first book, i wish i had it with me, you have pages that are blacked out because you think sometimes this government has a tendency to overclassify things but you never decided that classified information is going to be declassified. if the fbi said something is classified, there is a process by which one has to go -- one should go through to get it declassified. >> absolutely. there is a process and you go through the process. and it is very irresponsible just for an individual t...

This fisa application, rod rosenstein the man standing between trump and mueller is in the cross hairs here. >> were getting nbc news reporting on this right now from the white house indicating -- an official at the white house saying no decision regarding the memo, its contents and possible release is planned before the state of the union. so the white house is going to review this memo and decide whether the president approves the release of it but not until after the state of the union. >> th...

Same information. so if it is indeed a firing offense, a terrible thing to have put steele information in this fisa application, rod rosenstein the man standing between trump and mueller is in the cross hairs here. >> were getting nbc news reporting on this right now from the white house indicating -- an official at the white house saying no decision regarding the memo, its contents and possible release is planned before the state of the union. so the white house is going to review this memo and...

Muellers work. these are indisputable facts that occurred. it would be simpler for all of us if the president in particular, but republicans, would say, youre right, these are indisputable facts. lets get to the bottom of these and move on. theyre saying, lets move on without addressing these facts. >> instead, your average document is like 100 pages long. >> for a fisa warrant. >> yeah. >> now they want to release a memo thats four pages long. if thats not cherry picking, i dont know what is. >...

The republicans like to say its a hoax, its nothing. you decide. our guest, a former cia operative. matt miller, a former chiefs spokesman for the justice department and msnbc justice and security analyst. and super star reporter, this woman works around the clock, cara lee, nbc news national political reporter. evan, i got to go to you first, because youre a former cia operative and there was a tweet that was put out that stuck out to me. this is from former acting cia director john mclaughlin ...

Information from field agents and supporting documents. typically, a career justice department intelligence lawyer and the fbi director sign off on the application. in rare, broader investigations, a more senior member of the doj is needed. someone like the attorney general or the attorney generals deputy. once the application is granted, the fisa court -- by the fisa court, it is good for 90 days. renewals are allowed. new information is required to renew. you just cant submit the same old pape...

>> my producer informed me this isnt a taped show. >> you have to hear this word salad. >> republicans allege the memo details abuses in the fisa warrant process in the early days of the investigation into russias interaction. why do i say process? i was in canada. officials can monitor communications on u.s. soil for national security reasons but only after getting approval from a fisa judge. investigators must show the judge the americans they are planning on targeting, or american, is known i...

Something completely unrelated? if i do a fisa application, will it be turn on me by a political witch hunt and ill be investigated for my job? or will the president decide he wants to pressure me and throw me out of the organization after 20 years of service? it destroys trust in u.s. institutions. what is ironic about this, this is the goal of russians. it is subversion, to confuse you withal te al terternative stori you dont understand what the truth is and you dont want to know. you quit try...