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Surveillance tool and program in being able to foil terror attacks in the planning? >> section 702 is this part of the fisa law that allows the intercept of foreign nationals on foreign soil and to be able to use that if that person is communicating with american citizens in a criminal case. one example of where the section 02 collection was used was in the case of muhammad muhammad. this was the man who attempted to blow up the christmas tree lighting ceremony in portland, oregon. so that intelligence information, collection of those communications, was used to bring that case. so just one ex...

Your question is completely ridiculous and shows the lack of knowledge that you have on this process. >> can you explain -- >> i've tried several times. i'll do it a tenth time here. look, the president supports the 702 but he has some very strong concerns about the fisa program more generally. again, this is why he put out a memo last week outlining such and why the dni director put out a new policy this morning. i'm not sure what the confusion is there. >> i just -- >> you definitively are saying the president's tweet this morning was in your view not at all confusing and not at all contra -...

Was voted on before the main bill which would have reformed 702 which i would have said would have been a useful thing where the intelligence community would need to get warrants to get information about phone conversations between foreigners and american citizens. i think that's a good idea. >> i think that was in there. they have 24 hours to go to court to get -- i think that was -- >> that was not passed. the main bill was passed and didn't have that. but because of trump's confusion or whatever you want to call it, that put the kabosh on that note and people were afraid of not even passing...

An atta girl at her. >> they're all euphemisms. this was an extraordinary admission of ignorance about the single most important job the president of the united states has to protect the security of every american. even donald trump has recognized that as the number one job of the president. you cannot protect the security of americans without understanding the foreign intelligence surveillance act and the 702 amendment to that act. he has been in office a year. i was absolutely dumbfounded that he had no idea what fisa was and 702 was. as various people have pointed out. the president's daily...

There are questions on the democratic side about getting rid of the visa lottery. there are other sticking points in that sort of four-pronged part of this that are going to be more complicated than what physical structure gets built along the border. >> i need to talk more about flips. because this just out. the house was set to reauthorize fisa today. that's the warrantless wiretapping law. last night, last night, the white house, where president trump lives encouraged that reauthorization. now this morning president trump took to his favorite medium twitter and says, quote, house votes on c...