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Intelligence collection tools, the fisa tools. it doesn't make any sense. you have divisions inside congress and it's all up to the white house. they want to push this ajaengag. at the same point they want to keep the conspiracy going in the news. we'll end up having a weakened federal law enforcement agency that can't use these tools when they need it. can you imagine being an fbi agent using a fisa warrant or wiretap in a corruption case knowing years from now a politician on the hill may pick out pieces of your documentation. >> very public one going on between the fbi and the president. a ...

Deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, admiral mike rogers and acting director of the federal bureau of investigation, andrew mccabe. i appreciate you coming today to discuss one of our most critical and publicly debated foreign intelligence tools. title 7 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act, fisa is set to expire on december 31st, 2017. it includes several foreign collection tools wib including one known as section 702. section 702 provides the capability to target foreigners who are located outside the united states but whose foreign communications happen to be routed to and acquir...

That we're using for this pressure cooker bomb? >> well, you can use it. under the wmb statute, a bomb of that can be considered a wmb. >> i did not know that. >> there's your terrorism charge, potentially. so, i personally believe terrorism is a form of criminali criminality, should be treated as so. that's not to say there are other tools in the toolbox that should be discounted. for example, if you have something that's considered a national security investigation, you get authority to do things like fiza, national security letters, things like that. those are all valuable intelligence coll...

Like fiza, national security letters, things like that. those are all valuable intelligence collection tools. >> then we get to this interesting point, right, if it's someone who's a domestic u.s. citizen, presumably that national security aspect will not be brought into play, right, if it is a foreign national presumably it will. i wonder what your reaction is to that, hina. >> chris, i think what this really hones in on is the fundamental question we've had since 9/11, which is does an act of terrorism cause us to change our laws, our values, our principles, and the bottom line is that it do...