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Biased investigation. how do you prevent that for for instance, fisa wiretap applications. thats according to the house intel chairman. >> were pulling him in to our committee to say, okay, now that weve seen there were abuses, this was wrong and there are problems with fisa itself, what are the recommendations that you think we should pursue? here are some things were looking at. what do you think of these? >> and thats the legislative angle here in congress. tomorrow before the judiciary commi...

The sloppiness in one of the most intrusive techniques used. reading someones e-mails. again, if youre in middle america, move on to something else. if youre in the fbi, im with director comey. ready to trash him, but not today. yeah, you got to look at this. this is significant internally within the fbi. >> josh, help us understand the work flow. why the head of the fbi would not have tight control on the ins and outs and the details of an investigation as big as one that could impact the presi...

His power. against that backdrop theres more interest in this notably at times obscure hearings. this is what were dealing with. it is 400 pages, this thick. this is the report, supposed to guide the facts today. as a prosecutor watching the hearing, putting as much politics aside as you can, how much of what you saw in congress was following these facts versus just trying to layer right over them with other views? >> as a prosecutor, criminal prosecutor, i worked for all moefrt two decades with...

Friendly to saying this is government misconduct if true. he says he is not fully aware of the details of this. he said he was about to call president trump to discuss the nbc news story. to figure out whats going on. he said that this could lead to a real evisceration, in his words, of attorney/client privilege, if an attorney was being wiretapped. so an angry reaction, defiant reaction from the former new york mayor. >> can i respond to that? >> yes, please. >> i find that incredibly ironic. i...

So the gop has been saying the steele dossier cant underline any of this but the steele dossier was not what started this, according to this memo. bobby, i want to get your take. what do you make of all of this? >> well, you know, in addition to being an agent for 27 years, im also an attorney. and i was really interested in seeing what this memo was, what it looks like. quite frankly, early in my career, i did a lot of title 3 applications, wiretap applications. one of the always routine things...

Famous dossier funded at times by democrats. i spoke, for instance, yesterday to the former director of national intelligence, michael haydn, who like you has been involved in fisa warrants, the issuing of them. he made the point, listen, you do not ever seek or get granted a fisa warrant based on some one piece of outside information. youve got to have independently collected intelligence to bolster that case, intercepted communications, et cetera. say it was mentioned in the fisa application, ...

An investigation into collusion and people around him. into financial dealings going back some years long before he entered the last race. if that is true that does seem like mission creep on a pretty grand scale. >> well, i think mueller has a pretty broad, if i remember his charter correctly, he has a broad scope of inquiry. thats common in investigations like this. and there is no indication that i have seen that mueller is involved in any of these wiretap applications. but there is no questi...

An investigation into collusion and people around him. into financial dealings going back some years long before he entered the last race. if that is true that does seem like mission creep on a pretty grand scale. >> well, i think mueller has a pretty broad, if i remember his charter correctly, he has a broad scope of inquiry. thats common in investigations like this. and there is no indication that i have seen that mueller is involved in any of these wiretap applications. but there is no questi...

Into financial dealings going back some years long before he entered the last race. if that is true that doesret seem like mission creep on a pretty grand scale. >> well, i think mueller has a pretty broad, if i. remember his charter correctly, he has a broad scope of inquiry. thats common in investigations like this. and there is no indication that i have seen that mueller is involved in any of these wiretap applications. but there is no question when you bring a guy like like bob mueller on, y...