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Go through incidental intelligence that they end up handing over to congressman devin nunes, incidental intelligence gathering? was their task easy or did they have to look through a lot of stuff to find what they found? >> i think its bizarre if anything. incidental collection happens in any sort of electronic surveillance. ive worked on wiretaps before. when you go through, you minimize that so people that are arent arent discovered. if you hear looking for a political point which is i need to...

>> did the president direct anyone in this white house or in his national security team to try to find information or intelligence to back up his assertion about what happened? >> i dont -- im not aware of anything directly. i would have to look into that. >> when you have that connection of dots all the way along, does the process -- does the providence of this information not become relevant to the overall investigation? >> its up for the people who are conducting the review to decide that, no...

Intelligence gathering, suggests theres a lot of improper unmasking of their names in these reports. and kind of suggests that whistle-blowers have come to them with this very troubling information, that the trump white house, of course, immediately seizes on to it and says, you know, this somewhat vindicates our claims of being wiretapped. and this kind of goes on. nunes eventually admits he did get the information in a meeting at the white house. but its a story that makes no sense, because yo...

President-elect himself. here with reaction tonight former spokesman for the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., ric grenell for the american center for law and justice. jay sekulow and circa news sarah carter is back with us. sarah, lets starts with what devin nunes said last night and more importantly what james rosen is reporting here. did the obama administration, is it it possible that under the guise of intelligence gathering that they were actually spying on president or president-elect or even ...

And possibly the president-elect himself. here with reaction tonight former spokesman for the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., ric grenell for the american center for law and justice. jay sekulow and circa news sarah carter is back with us. sarah, lets starts with what devin nunes said last night and more importantly what james rosen is reporting here. did the obama administration, is it it possible that under the guise of intelligence gathering that they were actually spying on incoming president o...

Intelligence gathering. the questions is, why were they obtained in the first place? is there more investigations i dont the russia stuff? these are the questions that are being raised as well as his coordinating supposedly with the white house yesterday. >> explain this to me. i know its apples and oranges. the president felt justified when the reporter asked yesterday that maybe it confirms his suspicion that he was surveilled or tapped. but he could have been surve surveilled as part of a pro...

Trump campaign ordered by the obama administration. now, we surveil foreign agents all the time. foreign leaders. we surveil people as part of the intelligence gathering. the one thing that is disturbing is that a transition team you expect to be talking to other countries. what i want to know is when a transition team member talks to a representative of another country, what are the procedures to make sure that that is confidential in terms of the interaction between our government and a foreig...

Acting in a very irregular way takes potentially classified information to the media and the white house. were at a point where all reasonable and thoughtful people would say, get this investigation the heck out of the partisan fray that is in the congress and put it in an outside fully fair and bipartisan commission. >> do you think the president has reason to feel at least partially vindicated by the information the house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes provided him today? because ...

Department of justice and all its components. the department has no information that supports those tweets. >> we have seen nothing on the nsa side that we engaged in any activity nor did anyone ask us to engage in such activity. >> the democrats focused on potential ties to the campaign in russia, and republicans on the house intelligence committee pressed fbi director james comey on recent leaks of classified information. congressman trey gowdy asked a series of questions confirming the detail...

Well be happy to see what president trump has or his staff. please turn it over to the intel committee and let us review t. right now weve seen nothing. >> because the president said in this interview he said wiretap, in his words, covers a lot of different things. he wasnt necessarily being precise in those four tweets 11 days ago, he repeatedly accused president obama of wiretapping him in trump tower in new york. do you think hes backing away from the initial claims? >> i really dont know. if...