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Democracy. so what are we trying to accomplish here? to validate the findings of the intelligence committee as much as possible and to come up with a course of action as a nation bipartisan in nature because it was the democratic party of 2016 were the victims. it could be the republican party of the future. when one party is attacked, all of us should feel an attack. it should be an article v agreement between all major parties that when a foreign power interferes in our election it doesnt matt...

Country and got everybodys attention in another investigation. in this case, we have an 18-day gap between the notification of the white house that a senior official had potentially been compromised and action taken against that senior officials role. best the trump administration displayed serious errors of judgment. these may reflect errors that corruption at the hands of russian intelligence. my sincere hope is at this hearing and those to come will help us find out. thank you, chairman. >> o...

Transfixed the country and got any more attention. in this case we have an 18 day gap between the notification of the white house that a senior official had potentially been compromised and action taken against that senior officials role. at best the trump administration displayed serious errors of judgment. at worse they may reflect efforts of corruption at the hands of intelligence. my sincere hope is that this hearing and those to come will help us find out. thank you chairman. >> our two wit...

Accomplish here? to validate the findings of the intelligence committee as much as possible, and to come up with a course of action thats bipartisan in nature. because it was the democratic party of 2016 were the victims. could be the republican party of the future. when one partys attacked, all of us should feel an attack. this should be an article v agreement between both major parties, all major parties, that when a foreign power interferes in our election, doesnt matter who they target, were...

Unmasking an american citizen being incidentally surveiled when they are involved with a foreign agent. id like to know more. i want to make sure that unmasking can never be used as a political weapon in our democracy. so im all for hitting the enemy before they hit us. intelligence gathering is essential, but i do believe we need to take a look at the procedures involved in 702, particularly how unmasking is requested, who can request it and what limitations exist, if any, on how the informatio...

This conflict over there except that the russians are making all kinds of threats about the use of cruise missiles. >> right. we have a ship approaching in north korea. both the chinese are deploying their own vessels for intelligence gathering. if you look at putins rhetoric, the relations have gotten worse under president trump. and people are on state t.v. in russia saying that the trump to more unstable than jong-un is in north korea. theyre not concerned about our response to a chemical att...

Piece in there that will then, take out that piece of equipment. >> it is like a super worm i guess? >> yeah. so stuxnet actually was a worm. its interesting, it was a seven layer worm. probably one of the most costly developed pieces of malware for any kind of government agency to do. theres a super worm in the usual sense but it has to be controlled. if it hits the wrong industrial control, this or that, we could have problems. right, so in some sense its similar to the naenvy s.e.a.l. operati...

Relaxed the law even more. what they were able to do and we know it went to susan rice. we know former cia director john brennan was allowed to do this and clapper. they had the ability to request unmasked american foreign to foreign raw intelligence. highly classified. >> sean: even if it was legitimate intelligence gathering, they are using that as a means to spy on innocent americans without the benefit of a warrant. a good way to put it. >> yes, thats certainly what intelligent sources are s...

Occur. in 2011, then in 2015 they relaxed the law even more. what they were able to do and we know it went to susan rice. we know former cia director john brennan was allowed to do this and james clapper. they had the ability to request unmasked american foreign to foreign raw intelligence. highly classified. >> sean: even if it was legitimate intelligence gathering, they are using that as a means to spy on innocent americans without the benefit of a warrant. a good way to put it. >> yes, thats ...

And if this were the only issue, the media would be all over it. >> chris: i want to pick up on exactly that issue because you have been talking about it for a while and i know you are troubled and, look, you should be if its true. be a crime, be unmasking of american officials swept up in intelligence gathering. the "new york times" reports today and you can take it or leave it, but they report today that most of the unmasking, the great part of it was foreign ambassadors or sphorn officials ta...