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Procedures have to be followed to minimize the irrelevance or extraneous conversations that are overheard, and to make sure that the overhearing process targets specifically information that could be relevant to the criminal probe. when giuliani, for example, says that they would have had to see notifications to the president if the conversations included ones with him, thats simply not the law. the law does not require notifying people and therefore blowing the cover of a wiretap. what it does ...

>> i think the highlights are this. the ability to get a search warrant for an attorney. there is a very, very high bar from that. we know from public court filings, to be able to look at e-mails and conduct surveillance on e-mails is an incredibly high bar. . may be even more of a high bar, and it is a higher bar, to be able to get a judge to approve a wiretap of any individual, let alone an attorney. we want to let folks know that this is a stringent process. theres been a lot of discussion ab...

When you investigate attorneys, you go -- >> its privileged. >> because of attorney/client privilege, you go up to a higher standard where youre trying to look, was there any other means we can get this evidence that makes it the least likely im going to stumble into attorney/client privilege. based on analysis they decided to execute warrants. they did historical warrants on e-mail. if the reports are true for the wiretap that required not just a proval at the field office in the southern distr...

Things that the judge takes very seriously. a judge is not going to put their name on this and write their name down and approve a warrant if they dont believe that this is something that has been lawfully sought and is something that is within the guidelines of the laws of the united states. while there may be a lot of political ramifications, while people are going to say a lot of things about this, presumably the presidents attorneys are going to say a lot of things about this. presumably the...

Panel who worked at the department of justice. everybody at doj takes their responsibility very seriously. >> i do want -- hugh hewitt, we have a large group with us, including somebody who has also worked at the department of justice. >> okay. >> im sorry, go ahead, ill let you finish your thought. >> we take it very, very seriously. theyre not going to go get a warrant because theyd like to listen in on the president. theyre not going to get a warrant because theyre interested in salacious gos...

Example but i think its a good way of explaining exactly how this woe uld go down. and at the end of the day, a judge has to sign off on. judges sometimes kick these back and say no, go back, i need you to try a couple more methods. get me some more evidence that you think theres an actual crime here. this isnt something where a federal judge will just say, yes, you want to listen to somebodys phone conversation, sure, ill sign it right now. thats not how this goes. theres a significant legal pr...