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Problem. >> why should we know that though? >> why shouldn't we? >> it is a confidential investigation based on evidence and based on some sort of -- >> evidence, by the way, that is -- that started this whole thing. besides the fact that comey leaked out his memos to the special counsel. it is evidence, the fact that he was going to continue to investigate the president for his election. i think we need to know how the fbi conducted itself. i don't think there's anything wrong with the american people knowing that. >> well, there is something wrong with the american people knowing about confi...

It now becomes a situation where the fbi cannot guarantee to its potential sources that they will remain confidential. that impacts everything going forward. particularly in the counterintelligence realm where sources are essentially everything. you don't have wiretaps. you don't have -- i mean, you have fisa applications. on a criminal side, there are other means you can use to investigate something. e-mails, et cetera. on the counterintelligence side which this was at that time in 2016, that is how the fbi counterintelligence team does its work. and if you cannot guarantee that people on the...