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Investigation. this document was key in comey making that fateful decision. >> the question is was it because we learned about that from "the new york times" report in late april. but what our reporting found was that in august they were aware -- by august at least, they were aware that the intelligence value of it was unreliable. so in easterrly july, did they believe it was reliable and that was influenced their decision as it was prernlted in "the new york times" article, or was this just exp...

Discussions that happened in trying to determine what the intelligence value of that document is. what we learned is that by august, they had determined that it was unreliable, that it is not something that should have been counted on in any way because unreliable is a fairly straight assessment of the lack of reliability of the information therein. we found out several months later this was part of the explanation for why he made the decision in early july to push lynch to one side basically an...

And all of this was to get the investigation into michael flynn and trump/russia eliminated, to get it dropped. and now we appear to have documentary evidence of that. >> how much do we have on his conversations with people like kislyak, the russian ambassador? you dont see them dancing around with trump. i dont know why hes showing himself to be so useful that way. tell me this. what do we have factually on that, the conversations between flynn and the russians? >> we know there absolutely has ...

Out how to comply with court orders but were having productive conversations. >> section two of the fisa act is up for reauthorization. we have much more to go on than simply speculation or theory. now the intelligence value of section 702 is well documented and never been intentionally misused or abused. every federal court including the fisa court that has addressed the issue concluded that 702 is lawful. administrations of both parties have strongly supported it. describe for us the targeting...

Orders, or maybe we dont go there. but we are having productive conversations right now. >> section 702 of the fisa amendments act is up for reausization threau reauthorization this year. we have almost a decade of experience using this statute. we have much more to go on than simply speculation or theory. now, the intelligence value of section 702 is well documented. it has never been intentionally misused or abused. every federal court, including the fisa court, that has addressed the issue co...

It involves masked u.s. person information. it could be a reference to a u.s. person. it could be a u.s. person talking. happens all the time as does the unmasking. if somebody feels theres intelligence value -- theres a series of procedures that you have to go through. lawyers look over your shoulder. theres nothing unusual about unmassing. with respect to susan rice, its one report out there. its not particularly unusual that a national security adviser might ask for something to be unmasked. ...

The point is that we said fine, sit down behind closed doors with comey and rogers and do the open hearing. >> in terms of this issue about susan rice, and unmasking, how concerned are you about the issue of unmasking and then information being leaked to reporters? >> i guess i have two things to say. one, theres nothing unusual about unmasking. we get all kinds of intelligence intercepts all the time. it involves masked u.s. person information. it could be a reference to a u.s. person. it could...

Foreign intelligence agency and i personally was informed that my name was unmasked in order to protect me to find out that other agencies, you know, from hostile agencies were, in fact, targeting me. that happens all the time in the u.s. intelligence community. sometimes for your own protection. sometimes to determine whether or not whether an american citizen is carrying out a nefarious act and sometimes because the position of that person requires they be notified when information of intellig...

Overseas and their staff and we know u.s. intelligence agencies routinely monitor those people including if they had any interactions with the trump transition team. we know, for example, during the transition, that the president-elects team had multiple calls with countries that we know that u.s. intelligence is listening to, that is israel, russia, china, taiwan, these are countries that if you hear them discussing the president, the new incoming team, there might be something of intelligence ...

That is israel, russia, china, taiwan, these are countries that if you hear them discussing the president, the new incoming team, there might be something of intelligence value that the nsa analyst who is listening might decide is worth summarizing and then its kicked up to the white house, including to the obama white house. >> the incoming trump administration did not log meetings with foreign leaders is as is part of protocol. can that be part of the issue here? >> reporter: it could well be....