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But to extend it several times. do you know, mr. chairman, through the extensions, did they ever tell the fisa court the funding source for the dossier? >> no. they did not. and not only that, they used the word, very bizarre, they used the word in a footnote at the end of the warrant application, they say we speculate that this could be opposition research. i'm paraphrasing it. speculate. nobody was speculating anything. they knew who had paid for it. they knew it, they had the information, and they didn't provide it to the court. this is black and white, that the court was not told everythin...

What they're supposed to do, under our statutes, our fisa statutes and so forth, is to only unmask under very extreme circumstances and even then to keep that name protected. and instead, it's leaked. and even go further, the accounts of conversations raise the prospect that mr. flynn violated a law against private citizens engaging in diplomacy. they're talking about the logan act. >> it's ridiculous. mark: here's my question to you. sally yates, the former deputy attorney general under the obama administration, she would become the acting attorney general for a short period under trump. she ...

What they're supposed to do, under our statutes, our fisa statutes and so forth, is to only unmask under very extreme circumstances and even then to keep that name protected. and instead, it's leaked. and even go further, the accounts of conversations raise the prospect that mr. flynn violated a law against private citizens engaging in diplomacy. they're talking about the logan act. >> it's ridiculous. mark: here's my question to you. sally yates, the former deputy attorney general under the obama administration, she would become the acting attorney general for a short period under trump. she ...

Out who the leakers were. mark: and speaking of that, here it is. february 9, 2017, "new york times" article. >> i remember this well. mark: weeks before president trump's inauguration national security adviser michael flynn discussed american sanctions against russia, against cooperation with the country's ambassador to the united states. throughout the discussions, the message mr. flynn conveyed to the russian ambassador that the obama administration was moscow's adversary and relations with russia would change under trump was unambiguous and highly inappropriate, the officials said. here yo...

>> reporter: a controversial argument, ali. let me try to break it down. effectively aing under article 2 of the cons stushgs the president can't obstruct justice because he's the chief operating officer. the president cannot obstruct justice because he's the chief law enforcement officer under the constitution's article 2 and has every right to express his view of any case. that last part significant, effectively saying whether talking to james comey or whoever right, he has the authority and the ability to have those conversations, because he's the chief law enforcement officer. still all of...