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Communications, then you can apply to get that. now, in the 702 fisa reapplication hearings, the republican majority on the house intelligence committee pretty much said this is a foolproof process, the warrant process. the judges on the fisa court are particularly adept at this stuff, they are appointed to that court by chief justice roberts, so they said to america in 702 hearings, you have nothing to worry about. now, however, when it affects them personally, they say the whole system is flaw...

Officials to look into this. youre a republican. what are your thoughts? youve gone through it. >> they actually did application 3 qualifications, which is a fisa warrant in criminal court, so ive been through this process. i dont see anything that was overly classified, except the fact that this came from a fisa application which is secret. the thing with this is, and this is what i worry about, the first thing it succeeded in doing is having the fbi agents association come out and make a polit...

There are layers and layers of process. it goes from u.s. attorneys, it goes to the court. lawyers for the fisa court who review this before its submitted to the actual judge just to make sure that everything is in order. and also what youre going to see is going to come up in this, and theres been reports about this, is that this has to do with renewals. which is a much different issue. and this, i think, is what the fbi has an issue with. in order to get a renewal at the fisa court, you have t...

Happened here. there may have been mistakes that were made by some people in leadership, but it wasnt necessarily for partisan purposes. at least thats the point of view of the fbi. and i think what you see in this memo is obviously they believe that the fact that this dossier was used is the end of the story. its the beginning of the end of this memo. they believe it should never have been used. its important to remember that the law was written by these members of congress -- by the way, they ...

Process, which is all about obtaining a secret warrant to surveil an american citizen should not have very strict oversight, very strict scrutiny. and if there are problems with it, it should be uncovered and it should be corrected. the problem is the system here and the process through which they have to go. >> the republicans arent focusing on that, right? if they wanted to talk about that, talk about the fisa process, talk about very specific instances of abuse, they could do that. thats not ...

Person went on to say, i think you all know the process is a house process meaning this is something that will be released by the hill not from the white house and they went on to say, they sent over the memo. weve had it over the last couple days to look at it to make sure it doesnt give away too much in terms of classification and they went on to say, right now we will tell congress probably tomorrow that the president is okay with it and i doubt there will be any redactions. this person ended...

Then give those findings to rod rosenstein and it is up to rod rosenstein to determine, quite a weight on his shoulders, what to do to make them public. give it to congress with the findings on this massive investigation and if we know that this is a way, dana, for the president to get away with not firing mueller, which would look really bad, what is this really about? you following me? >> totally. absolutely. i think thats an open question, you know. theres some people who we have talked to wh...

Are given these ten year terms to be impervious to politics and pressures from a president, ie, whats happening right now? >> absolutely. theyre expected to serve no more than ten years. some have served more, some have served less, but the idea is for them to serve longer terms so that theyre not -- so theyre less vulnerable to political pressures by virtue of their longer service then they also get to choose their teams obviously so thats parts of it too. were seeing right now why its just so ...

>> what do you mean by that? >> the court is perfectly capable of issuing directives if they have -- if that court has not received accurate information, number one. so that can be brought to the attention of the fisa court. secondly, secondly, theres an inspector general who investigates such things but even if the majority wants to issue a statement criticizing the process, they have to do so without implicating national security sensitive information. they can do that until the cows come home...

Now. he has actually a long path to winning the partys nomination. he can take two routes, hell have to collect 28,000 signatures from registered republicans to get on the ballot or he can go to his partys nominating convention and that could get a little wild because some of the delegates who control that process have not liked favored candidates in the past, so he has two paths to pursue. theres a lot of leg work to do but clearly hes been going around talking to voters about what his agenda s...