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It. >> significant errors in the fisa process and you say it was handled in a thoughtful and appropriate way? >> he's right, and i was wrong. i was overconfident in the procedures the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. i thought they were robust enough. it's incredibly hard to get a fisa. i was overconfident in those because he's right there was real sloppiness. 17 things that should have been in the applications or at least discussed or cakized differently, it was not acceptable. and so he's right, i was wrong. >> david gergen and bill crystal are back with us. this has been on trump's ...

I was over confident in the procedures that the fbi and justice had built over 20 years. i thought they were robust enough. it's incredibly hard to get a fisa. i was overconfident in those. >> that's james comey admitting the inspector general's report revealed real sloppiness in the surveillance of a former trump campaign aide in 2016. we should also note, one of the world's i think foremost experts on the whole fisa process is here. you worked very, very seriously on just this subject for years before you were the fbi general counsel. so when you hear the fbi director former say he was right...

Committee is planning to hire van drew's former staffers. president trump is suggesting jail time for the former fbi director, james comey. comey said there was sloppiness in the obtaining of fisa warrants, the justice department internal watchdog determined the fbi was justified opening the investigation and found there was no bias. but the inspector-general found serious errors in the way the probe was conducted. >> significant errors in the fisa process. and you say that it was handled in a thoughtful and appropriate way. >> yeah. he's right, i was wrong. i was overconfident in the proced...

Remove the president. but you're saying if just three republican senators take a stand that would at least ensure a fair process in the senate. explain. >> right, so a majority of the senate sets the rules for the trial. i think it's important to understand they take a fresh oath. they're not supposed to be whipped the way you normally do on legislation. they're supposed to sit and listen and act as jurors. before the trial they typically have agreed on a set of rules and procedures that was unanimous in 1998 when bill clinton was tried in the senate. very hard to say that those four people do...

Her press conferences the desire to have the focus on the other things that the house is doing at the very same time of impeachment but if i could i wanted to ask you about one because this is a historic week on impeachment, i want to ask you about the next step. when it comes to the next step, speaker pelosi, she needs to announce who the house managers are of the senate trial. that sounds maybe in the weeds for folks but essentially it's the prosecutors as you think of this as a trial to take place over there. there's a movement among some freshmen democrats to have a republican turned indep...