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Blow a whohole through the whol separation of powers. >> i think the first threshold question that needs to be asked and answered is, and this will be challenged in court if the congress is unable tos a resolution to invalidate a president trump declaration of a national emergency. the threshold question is is it a national emergency? i dont believe the facts on the ground support that. in terms of the authorizations that the president would use, the idea that you would use title x, thats milita...

Category for those types of cases. theyre called sensitive investigative matters. and what that means, and again, you know, thats terminology, but what that means is that if you have a certain threshold of case that involves a politician or a lawyer or a member of the clergy, a protected class, those require the highest levels of approval from the department of justice. so this isnt something that the fbi would open on its own, and then send over some type of notice. this would require coordinat...

Because we need the conclusions. we should all want that. >> so president trump has been tweeting over the last hour about this story about mueller, about comey. mccabe as well. his first tweet. he says here that the investigation was opened for no reason and with no proof. your former supervisor, special agent. give me the truth on this. how much work would it take and the thresholds to cross into investigating a president from potentially working on behalf of a foreign government against u.s. ...

Court. we have asha rangappa and jim schultz. beautiful guests for tonight. experience on the fbi side, experience in the white house. lets get after this conversation. asha, how big a deal is this "new york times" report? >> its huge. look, you know, there are two kinds of investigations in the fbi. there are criminal investigations and there are national security investigations. and there are different predicates, is what theyre called in the fbi to open both. on the criminal side, its whether...

Criminal investigations. josh campbell, you were there at the time, first of all, explain to us or verify what you can about this reporting. >> caller: yes. so john, i have to be obviously very careful with information that i talk about, that i knew when i was in the fbi. as you mentioned, you know, working for director comey, after he was fired i continued on in my role as a special assistant to the director. so, again i mention that just to say that any fbi employee takes an oath that they won...

Threshold, you kacant go on fishing expedition, you have to have concrete to point so. the investigation is just that, you are gathering information of what happened. if you are looking at the impact here, lets take ourselves back in time to that place where you have the fbi director -- the president of the united states who was removing the fbi director, the person who was investigating him which he knew about because comey was on the record and public testimony indicating he was investigating ...

It is his job, as somebody who represents the president to do just that, to play it down. and to suggest, as he did in the story, that, well, it doesnt seem that anything came out of it. so who cares? well, again, thats his job. but he also doesnt really know what went on. you know, the question is, yes, there are accusations and there will be larger and louder accusations of fbi overreach at the time. but i think what josh said is really, really noteworthy, that when it comes to a run of the mi...

Understand, the fbi when it comes to the president of the united states or any type of effected officials. there is a special category for those types of cases. theyre called sensitive investigative matter. what it means and again thats terminology. what it means if we have a certain threshold that involves politician or lawyer or remember clergy or protected class. those requires the highest levels of approval from the department of justice. this is not something that the fbi would open on its ...

Merged to an extent of the criminal investigation. josh campbell, you were there at the time. first of all expla, explain to verify what you can about the reporting. >> yes, john, obviously i have to be careful of information that i talk about that i knew when i was in the fbi. as you mention working for director comey after he was fired, i continued on as my role as a director. it is kind of hypothetically of the mechanic and the impact of such an investigation. i think first of all, it is impo...

>> its huge. look, you know, there are two kinds of investigations in the fbi. there are criminal investigations and there are national security investigations. and there are different predicates, is what theyre called in the fbi to open both. on the criminal side, its whether theres suspicion or a belief that someone has violated the law, the u.s. code. but on the national security side, its whether this person may pose a threat to the national security of the united states. now, sometimes that...