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Committee to fusion gps and because they hired natalie ohr, that political document worked its way to the intelligence process. i support the presidents efforts to make sure that our intelligence process is not politici politicized. the president has reason to be concerned. >> neil: and so much came from the carter page thing. you have no idea. but having said that, to look into him with these reports that he was talking to russian operatives or russians in general apart from all of this other, ...

Greatest negotiator in the history of the world, and blah, blah, blah, all these things about his ego and his self-image that have driven him to make these unilateral decisions outside of any kind of staff process, outside of any kind of intelligence process, disconnected from both counsel and values that the american people generally expect their presidents to understand, has led him into this hole. he is in this ditch of his own making. he was the one who went in that meeting yesterday and jus...

Is either ignorant of intelligence thats been widely accepted throughout the intelligence community, or, second choice, she is corrupting the intelligence process deliberately to benefit and protect the president and/or her own job, that americans need to be concerned about what their state and local systems are doing to protect the midterm elections. thats only those two choices. shes corrupting the intelligence process or shes ignorant. ignorant. both of those are bad. both of those should con...

Elections? >> well, i think under normal circumstances, brian, as you say, we would be coming together in a bipartisan fashion to ensure the security of the midterm elections. when we hear this play out as were hearing today, that the secretary of homeland security is either ignorant of intelligence thats been widely accepted throughout the intelligence community, or, second choice, she is corrupting the intelligence process deliberately to benefit and protect the president and/or her own job, t...

Knowledge that we have been under and remain under constant electronic threat, especially to our ongoing and rolling elections? >> well, i think under normal circumstances, brian, as you say, we would be coming together in a bipartisan fashion to ensure the security of the midterm elections. when we hear this play out as were hearing today, that the secretary of homeland security is either ignorant of intelligence thats been widely accepted throughout the intelligence community, or, second choic...

Accuracy. heres what he said reiterating that point. >> we had then and continue to have now grave concerns about the accuracy of the memorandum because of omissions. we provided thousands of documents that were very sensitive and lots and lots of briefings and its very hard for anybody to distill all that down to 3 1/2 pages. >> what is the pushback from the fbi? did this harm their ability to investigate the intelligence process that exists here in the u.s.? >> i think the biggest casualty her...

Youre a staff prosecutor, working for the justice department or the fbi, how hard is it to tune out the noise like the kind that were hearing? >> well, i can tell you that as a former federal prosecutor who worked and conducted federal investigations without regard to politics, this is insulting, its harmful, its completely irresponsible, and it absolutely serves no legitimate purpose. there are career prosecutors and investigators throughout this country and at the fbi that are doingheir job to...

Republicans, i think, have gone from the beginning of earlier in the administration sending a signal that was a red line that would trigger a severe political backlash to sending much more ambiguous and if not encouraging signals. even though it is the president who decided to declassify it, it was the house republicans who set all of this in motion over the very clear objections of the fbi and doj. it chronicles or memorializes their evolution from independence to then kind of shelving signific...

Independent voice. thats critical. but let me say, jake, something thats happening here is we have two processes that -- that are separate. we have this political, opposition research situation, political campaign develops opposition research thats a part of the process. and then we have -- we have got an intelligence process, a national process wills the physical acourt process. unusually knows arent combined. but in this situation they have become combined. and there is natural concern over th...

Political campaign develops opposition research thats a part of the process. and then we have -- we have got an intelligence process, a national security process, which is the fisa court process. usually those things are not combined. its unusual for them to become combined. but in this situation they have become combined. and there is natural concern over that. i think thats reasonable. >> you understand why people would be concerned about bringing opposition research to a fisa court? >> i -- i...