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With that, we welcome back the former director of the cia and also acting director. thank you so much for coming back on with us. i would like the begin with your answer for a lay audience, and i count myself among them. what to you is the biggest danger of the release of this memo? >> i think the biggest danger here is that it upends the intelligence oversight process in the use. these two committees were created in the 1970s to ensure the american public after a period of scandal, including wa...

He will put on his appraisal, i got fbi pitted against the white house, congress against the fbi, the white house against its own department of justice. >> that gets your attention. with that, we welcome back the former director of the cia and also acting director. thank you so much for coming back on with us. i would like the begin with your answer for a lay audience, and i count myself among them. what to you is the biggest danger of the release of this memo? >> i think the biggest danger here...

Cleanse the memo from disclosing unauthorized sources or get it to a point where they can live with the release. i think the white house decided this is going to come out and its going to happen. >> when the president says 100%, he wants it. >> ken, unlike a piece of evidence, a document, this memo is a narrative. it is an opinion on the part of the republicans. to toms point, it can be edited and changed. they can shrub it of all the stuff the justice department doesnt want to come out. its not...

White house. this is not unusual, but it is to this extent. >> weaponized. >> finally you have the overlay of the fact people inside the bureaucracy are simply not trustful of people in charge of the bureaucracy, so theres a relationship between the press and people deep inside as basically an alternative to the normal oversight process that has broken down. >> not even just not trust full, you talk to enough people and you will find people find elements of the administration to be dangerous. a ...

May not know anything. >> right. and the second thing is theres so much factionalism in the white house people are constantly selling stories against their own inside the white house. this is not unusual, but it is to this extent. >> weaponized. >> finally you have the overlay of the fact people inside the bureaucracy are simply not trustful of people in charge of the bureaucracy, so theres a relationship between the press and people deep inside as basically an alternative to the normal oversigh...

So much factionalism in the white house people are constantly selling stories against their own inside the white house. this is not unusual, but it is to this extent. >> weaponized. >> finally you have the overlay of the fact people inside the bureaucracy are simply not trustful of people in charge of the bureaucracy, so theres a relationship between the press and people deep inside as basically an alternative to the normal oversight process that has broken down. >> not even just not trustful. y...

Because his opening statement has been released. there is now, seems to me a new question as to whether or not administration officials who continue to serve in the administration will just refuse to answer congressional questions whether or not they have a legal basis to refuse. joining us now is senator ron wyden, member of the senate intelligence committee, one of the questioners during todays hearing. thank you for joining us tonight. i know this has been a very important time. >> thank you ...

Wyden, member of the senate intelligence committee, one of the questioners during todays hearing. thank you for joining us tonight. i know this has been a very important time. >> thank you for having me. those officials made a mockery of the oversight process. we have a legal obligation to do vigorous oversight. what they basically said is, so what. i can tell you we are not going to sit back and say this is acceptable. you ran the chip about my question to director coats. one of those answer is...

National security agency conducts a portion of its fisa 702 collection. a recent example of the oversight process at work as a recent example, nasa identified a compliance incident involving queries of u.s. persons identifiers into section 702 acquired upstream data. upstream data refers to nasa receives information directly from the internet with the assistance of companies that maintain the backbone networks. the fisk fisa court was promptly notified and doj and dni worked with nsa and scope a...

Significant change in how if national security agency conducts a portion of its fisa 702 collection. a recent example of the oversight process at work, as a recent example, nasa identified a compliance incident involving queries of u.s. persons identifiers into section 702 upstream data. upstream data refer to when nasa receives communications directly from the internet with the assistance of companies that maintain these backbone networks. the fisk fisa court was promptly notified and doj and o...