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Been done in the first place, dated to meet foreign intelligence value, secondly, were any other american names unmasked, and i have information that says that there were. >> eric: joining us now with more from washington, catherine herridge. you heard the sound bite, "hannity" a little later tonight. he said it was legal, teaming the dissemination or accessing the information? >> when you unmask an american, if they are picked up, you have to have specific reasons for doing it. for example, you...

Essentially be gawked at by a wider circle of insiders. is that okay? here is chairman nunes in an interview that will air later tonight on "hannity." >> i will say that the dissemination was pretty far and wide, and like i said before, it appears to me that it was all legal. the question is, should it have been done in the first place? did it meet for an intelligence value. and secondly, or any other american names unmasked, and i have information that says that there were. >> martha: informati...

Of it. the american people deserve to know exactly what happened. there is something interesting in what nunes reported saying that the surveillance did not involve the ongoing fbi inquiry into russias alleged involvement, so therefore if they were capturing stuff it was an american citizen and it didnt have intelligence value, the identity should remain secret. the information should be discarded in the incidental collection. >> bob: what nunes did, he is getting attacked from the left and righ...

It through the regular order of that. he said something interesting, one, it had nothing to do with russia, that will raise more questions that it was legally obtained and likely proper and had some intelligence value. all of those raises more questions, doesnt answer questions. i was scratching my head a little bit on why he took this particular tact to do it. of course now theyre both being partisan about it and i worry about the voracity of the investigati investigation. >> very quickly, is t...

Essentially be gawked at by a wider circle of insiders. is that okay? here is chairman nunes in an interview that will air later tonight on "hannity." >> i will say that the dissemination was pretty far and wide, and like i said before, it appears to me that it was all legal. the question is, should it have been done in the first place? did it meet for an intelligence value. and secondly, or any other american names unmasked, and i have information that says that there were. >> martha: informati...

Team were put into intelligence reports which may or may not -- its probably fine, but we have to make sure that the president himself needs to see this because clearly there was surveillance that was conducted. and i dont know if it was -- im sure it was used legally, but he should know this just like the other administration knew what was in those intelligence reports. >> you are obviously an important man on the capitol hill. youre the chairman of the house intelligence committee. doesnt pres...

Were all the procedures followed, right. so, if you pickup incidental collection of americans, those names should be minimized. and i think theres very few times where you should be able to tell who an american is if they end up in some intelligence report. and clearly thats not the case with this. >> but there was intelligence value or there was not intelligence value? >> in some of it, a lot of it was good intelligence value. but some of it i think is questionable, at best. and, look, until we...

Some of the stuff didnt seem to him to have intelligence value, yet it was circulating around. id like to know more about that. >> you worked at the cia, i thought it was interest, he made it clear he did not get it to the heads of the agencies and now wants to know why he didnt get information from the heads of the agencies. what do you think happened here? >> he made a suggestion that somebody kind of slipped it to him under the table. basically -- >> whistle blower -- but it was illusi illusi...

Valid collection authority. based on that, well then take a series of actions. in some cases well just purge the collect, make no reporting on it, not retain the data. its incidental collection, it has no intelligence value and has no purpose to what we are doing. in some cases, if we believe theres an intelligence value, for example whether its a reference to a u.s. person, as an example in a scenario, in our reporting then well mask the identity of the individual. well use a phrase like "u.s. ...

Valid collection authority. based on that well take a series of action. in some cases well purge the collect, make no reporting and has no intelligence value and wasnt the purpose of what we were doing. in some places and if we believe there is intelligence value for example whether its a reference to a u.s. person as an example in our reporting then we will mask the identity of the individual. well use afraid like u.s. person one or u.s. person two. i would remind everyone for our purposes u.s....