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This is stuff you acknowledged to senator whitehouse that you knew happened. the report explains that, quote, russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that uses to influence direct decision making. in other words, russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption and then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit and the intelligence community's unclassified assessment of the russian campaign to influence the american election, our nation's intelligence agency is right, quote, putin has had many positive experiences working with wes...

Community especially nsa. >> when we talk about things like cyber investigations so often on cable tv it becomes a shirts and skins exercise without asking you, would you see more targeting of public discourse and elections? >> do i. i think one of the lessons that the russians may have drawn from this is that this works and so as i said a month or so ago, i expect to see them back in 2018 especially in 2020. >> you regularly testify and correct me if i've misheard you, but you've regularly testified that you don't think the bureau is short of resources. you don't come before us and make big i...

>> who do you ask? >> i asked my intelligence briefer who works for the pdb staff and she goes and asks the owner of the information. >> the nsa? >>. >> does the owner of the information record or request the unmasking? >> i believe nsa definitely does. >> there should be a record somewhere in our government for a request to unmask regardless of who made the request. >> i think that's right. >> is it fair to say that very few people can make requests for unmasking? >> i can't go and make that request as a senator, can i? >> sure, it's a fairly small group of the consumers, which i am of the sm...

American citizen caught up in incidental collection? >> oh, yes. i did it this week in connection with an intelligence report. >> before i authorize 702 and i'm i pretty hawkish guy. i want to know how unmasking works. are you aware of anybody in the white house, anybody in the obama administration to unmask american citizens that were caught up in incidental surveillances in 2015 or 2016. >> i'm not aware of any request to the fbi. >> who would they make the request to. >> well, they could make it to anyone in the fbi who was -- >> what about the nsa? wouldn't you make it to the nsa? >> sure,...