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For somebody in using clapper's word to infiltrate. clapper doesn't like to use spy. infiltrate the campaign and get information on it and so -- >> that's not what clapper said. >> that's why the president's using infiltrate now. >> i see. that's not what clapper said. clapper talked about how they use informants. do you think that somebody was spying on the trump campaign? >> in the context of the description of this professor's actions, clapper justified it by saying we always use informants like that. >> and the fbi does. >> yeah, but the actions of that professor being paid to go in and in...

Ed, thank you very much. joining us now south carolina congressman trey gowdy chairman of the house oversight and government reform committee and house intel committee. you were one who saw some of the background documents related to this issue of whether or not there was a spy or informant in the campaign late last week. anything that you can share on a broad scale about what went down there? >> i think there are two things important to understand. number one, the source of president trump's frustration. brennan said he should be in the dust bin of history. comey said impeachment is too good ...

Makes sense. not something that's going to take many years but something that's reasonable in a couple of years. i'm confident ou delegation would wan to see that from the north koreans. whether they would want to put that on the table or not is another manner. likely there is going to be differences, martha. the summit hinges on whether our delegation in their minds can resolve some of those differences through negotiation where the summit can at least have the strategic framework and begin a process to be successful. if they think it's not resolvable, then i think the summit would be delayed...

Conference today with sean spicer saying clapper is being misleading. he's changing his story, but, in fact, it's the white house who is being misleading, and donald trump is hanging on to this testimony from clapper earlier on and hanging on to some comments made by grassley. this is their big defense. they are hanging on to him, but, again, it's -- they are cherry picking and it's misleading in terms of what clapper actually said and what he would actually know. >> what white house officials are saying he was the top intelligence official knit united states and he says he didn't see there's ...

Him, if he doesn't take these steps to preserve that legitimacy, it might end up harming him in the long term. >> but the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein doesn't think that there's a need for a special prosecutor. >> prior to this week rod rosenstein had a very strong reputation and served as u.s. attorney under both obama and bush. you know, the issue is now that he's sort of complicit in the offering what was clearly a pretextural reason for comey's firing. trump himself said that wasn't the reason and it's imagine how rosenstein's judgment can be seen as credible and independent movi...