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On a busy day, we'll get about 2600 pieces of mail coming in. going out we probably send out half that, 1300 pieces. daily. then we'll go to the cutting machine and open them all up. and we start the inspection process. we don't read all of the mail. however, we do scan the mail. we open it, inspect it and once it passes our inspection, we go ahead and reclose it and send it to the inmates. we're looking for gang affiliations, signs, markers on the envelopes. searching for contraband, of course. >> most of the mail corporal johnson and his staff process are letters written from one inmate to a...

Robert mueller is going to be the point man for these investigations. >> i think that's right. especially if they're going in the direction of possible criminal probes. when they've got a grand jury and they've got evidence going in that direction which is what rod rosenstein told the senators yesterday, then the senate in the house will defer to the investigation because they can't bring criminal charges themselves. >> jon: it's interesting because during the campaign, donald trump's talk about hillary clinton's emails. there was one thing he said which many people took to mean he was encoura...

Illegal pharmacies that are online at this point disturbing narcotics. 18-20 of those go on line a day still. can you help me understand a little bit more about the fbi is doing to be able to engage, how many are american, how many are international, and what we can do to be able to stop the movement of narcotics through our mail system? >> it's a great question and one that we spend a great deal of time on. as you know, the traffic of illegal narcotics is something that we along with our partners at the dea and other partners have focused on for many years. we've had great success, but the is...

Earlier is the fact that this is coming through the u.s. mail system so as opposed to heroin which primarily comes over land from mexico or other drugs, crystal meth coming from mexico or produced in america, this is produced for the most part overseas and shipped to our country via the mail system. what law enforcement tells us it's impossible for them to find packages that are suspicious packages to try to stop some of this poison from coming into our communities. if we just require the post office to provide information as other carriers have to provide, ups, other private carriers, it woul...

Again under the supervision of the foreign intelligence surveillance court on non-u.s. persons who are outside the united states if they are using american infrastructure. email system or phone system in the united states. it doesn't involve u.s. persons or activity in the united states. and then each agency has detailed procedures for how we will handle this information that are approved by the fisa court and become court orders that govern us. not only overseen by that court but the inspectors general and congress checking on our work and you're correct. there have been no abuses. every cour...