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But we do everything possible to keep this as far away from the political branches as possible. the permanent government, either an intelligence or law enforcement build the case, give it to an article iii judge and that judge gives the okay. you go ahead and go up on a warrant. it is as deep a poe littliticiz process as we can make it. >> we are listening to the most incredible voice on the process here. what do you make, joe, of what has happened? step back. we have been talking about this all...

Joining the conversation, former director of the cia and nsa now a principle at the chur took group. his book "playing on the edge american intelligence in the age of terror," is now out in paperback. also joining us on capitol hill, a political reporter for "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst, robert costa. joe, take it away. >> general hayden, so much to talk to you about. but before we get into the obvious questions, i just want to underline for americans watching who see this a...

Terms of the policy options that we are or even the chinese might have. and especially the chinese can slow them down, can make it more costly and more isolated it mord more isolated. i think they are determined. sooner or later, they are going to get it across the line. >> extraordinary detail and clearly an enormous amount of work in your report yesterday, but it raises the question, i think, among a lot of people, after so many years and so many billions spent here within our intelligence com...

Warrant. you do not need a warrant if youre targeting of a legitimate foreign intelligence target. you pick up information to, from, or about what we call a protected person. you can continue the coverage. i mean, that is why youre collecting foreign intelligence. you just have to protect the privacy of the u.s. person that is involved. talking to or being talked about in the conversation and what we do, joe, is we minimize. we remove the u.s. identity. they usually are referred to as u.s. perso...

Mike. from before the moment this guy was inaugurated he was attacking the intelligence community and flippant about accepting briefings from them. im pretty sure that on friday, he didnt see some intelligence that he decided he was then going to out the next day. i think he read the breitbart report that some staffer handed him and the breitbart report is rooted in pretty much nothing so i think its him declassifying intelligence. i think its him acting in a pretty crazy way. >> thats not encou...

Prosecutor to investigate this russian debacle. >> that is only going to increase given the fact that over the weekend on twitter, the sitting president accused the former president of committing a felony. >> and called him sick. >> and congressman, my question to you is, any president receives a notion of intelligence on a daily basis. you people on the house intelligence service committee, intelligence committee receive some of it. is it possible that the president, in a tweet on saturday morn...

President forgot for a moment in the morning saturday that he was actually president and that he actually could have called the acting director of national intelligence and the director of the fbi and asked them questions if the breitbart article or the other articles, which frankly didnt say, which they have alleged to have said, he simply could have asked. >> he could have. i am going to make the leap that he knows he could have asked. so why would he do this? >> well, now youre getting me out...

Literally what the president tweeted it could not have happened the way the president said it, that the president of the united states directed surveillance on someone. he hasnt been able to do that since the mid 1970s. youve got to go to an article iii judge and you got to have problem cause that is a target of the surveillance is either an agent of a foreign power or its very likely involved in criminal activity. so on its face, that is just incorrect. now, did that happen in another way? now ...

Immigration and who can come over. >> general, lets go back to the sound clip that we played a few minutes ago of paul ryan being interviewed on fox about the process involved here. the process of getting the warrant to tap or intercept, whatever. does it begin at 1600 pennsylvania avenue? or does it begin with the justice department? >> oh, no it doesnt begin at 1600 pennsylvania -- that is alien to my life experience. now, mike, i will admit, i had some interest in some fisa against legislate ...

Concludes with this statement. political collusion with a foreign power and abuse of intelligence collection to smear an opponent and threaten the integrity of democratic institutions. lets hope the intelligence committees rise above their party leaders and tell americans what really happened. are you confident that your committee, as well as the senate intel committee, can do just that? >> i sure hope so. ive thought all along this is really not a job for the congressional intelligence committe...