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Our values and interests was awfully refreshing after the last four years. >> i'm wondering if you have learned anything more about what we learned, i guess it was two weeks ago or so, a week ago, the justice department under former president trump secretly seized personal communications data from house committee members including yourself. have you learned any more about the size, the scope of any accountability that may be in the pipeline? >> you know, i've learned a little more since then only because we learn of additional people that have had their records subpoenaed in this way. a lot of...

1975 and said today it is nothing new. i get it. there are corruption investigations. we see them a lot but secretly seizing communications data in the ranking member of the house intelligence committee to say nothing of family members is really nothing new? >> well, i would disagree profoundly with senator grassly. yes, there have been as andy can attest, there are investigations of individual members of congress normally for suspicion of criminal activity but not like this and the sweeping nature of this. this is quite different, and, you know, shocking, stunning but not surprising are words...

Legal process. but, of course, only on one side of the aisle. so the way it was executed, to me, wreaks of political purpose. >> yeah. that's what we talk about when we talk about it being an un -- unprecedented. the scope and the size of it. and that's why there are, still, so many questions. despite that, director clapper, i mentioned earlier that republican chuck grassley has been in congress since 1975. said, today, that investigations into lawmakers and staff are nothing new. i get it. there are corruption investigations. we see them a lot. but secretly seizing communications data and the...

>> just to recap the breaking news we got at the top of the show, the new york times reporting tonight that the trump justice department secretly seized communications records from members of congress, from democratic members of congress serving on the intelligence committee in the house. this is something that's never been done before as far as we know. two democratic members of congress serving on the house intelligence committee as well as some staff members and their family members, including one child, had communications data subpoenaed from apple by the justice department under trump att...

Just to quickly recap the breaking news we got right at the top of the show, the "new york times" reporting tonight that the trump justice department secretly seized communications records from members of congress, from democratic members of congress serving on the intelligence committee in the house. this is something that's never been done before, as far as we know. at least two democratic members of congress serving on the house intelligence committee, as well as some staff members and their family members, including at least one child, had communications data subpoenaed from apple by the j...