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To be lower. made an impression on leadership in a short amount of time. you have senator angus king, independent from maine. you might remember he made some news with james comey several months ago, honestly, nicolle, feels like years ago, but pushing him on hillary clinton. so i think those are three people you really want to focus in on as the hearings start to unfold. >> and meika, at the substantiv level, is jim comey going to be able to speak to precisely what the president said to him, pu...

Witness that has access to firsthand information. i want to under russian efforts. if there was collusion. keep in mind the question i asked before. direct with president trump, direct with his campaign or direct with hanger on folks who arent official. those are three different things. i want to know the answer to all three of them. >> bill: is that like a carter page connection, the third one? >> im sure you have people in your life that claim to know you but they really dont. i suspect presid...

I believe theres some surveillance programs that are up for reauthorization. what would you say to the american people as names or unmasked on the last day that people are in office and classified information appears on the front pages of major u.s. newspapers? how would you tell your constituents lets reauthorize this program again despite the fact that we have abuses? help us make that argument when we go home. >> you and your colleagues are going to have to make that argument based on the mer...

Newspapers. were talking about prohibitions that you place on yourself with respect to identifying u.s. persons as part of our surveillance programs, right? >> thats correct. >> all right. >> yes. >> and you just cited some of the very important reasons that we do that. and i would assume that there is a process, a protocol under which the intelligence community goes through if they seek to unmask a u.s. persons name. >> thats correct. >> have you ever requested that a u.s. persons name be unmas...

>> yes, generally speaking, yes. >> thank you. and with that, i yield the remainder of my time over to i believe mr. gowdy. >> thankful for my friend from utah. director brennan, why is it important to protect the identity of u.s. persons as part of our surveillance programs? >> because there is i think a right of all americans to privacy and that sometimes information is collected about u.s. persons who may or may not be involved in any manner of criminal activity. and therefore, respecting tha...

Some of your colleagues have testified that our surveillance programs are critical, vital, indispensable to our national security doch security. do you agree with their assessments? >> speaking generally, yes, some of those programs are vital to our national security. >> do you believe there is is a tacit agreement between the american people and their government that they will allow us secertain powers for guardin the privacy of the information collected? >> i think there is certainly an expect...

Just do it last. some of your colleagues testified that our surveillance programs are critical, vital, indispensable to our national security, do you agree with their assessment? >> speaking generally, yes. they are absolutely essential and vital. >> do you agree there is an agreement that they will allow us certain powers and freedoms in exchange for safeguards t-- safeguarding protected. >> i assume there would be an assumption of privacy. >> even in the intelligence community as it relates to...

Look at upcoming elections. would you agree with that. >> in general, yes. >> i yield the remainder of my time over to, i believe, mr. gowdy. >> director brennan, why is it important to protect the identify of u.-- identity of u. persons as part of our surveillance programs? >> because there is a right of all americans to privacy, and that sometimes, information is collected about u.s. persons who may or may not be involved in any manner of criminal activity. therefore, respecting that privacy o...

Excellent answer? >> that somebody violated their oath to protect classified information and violated an oath and shared that information in unauthorized fashion with members of the media. >> well, my friend from washington, i was impressed not only with his elconvincoquence h the conviction he just spoke but ive got other colleagues not from washington that tend to minimize the nature of leaks as if there is somehow a weighing and a balancing that needs to take place between how interesting we ...

It on the front page of newspapers. were talking about prohibitions that you place on yourself with respect to identifying u.s. persons as part of our surveillance programs, correct? >> correct. >> you just cited some of the very important reasons that we do that. i would assume that there is a process, a protocol, under which the intelligence community goes through if they seek to unmask a u.s. persons name. >> thats correct. >> have you ever requested that a u.s. persons name be unmasked? >> y...