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Mine, he speaks frankly and i do too. i'm not sure what rudy is doing over there, mr. giuliani is a private citizen, he has the right to travel and do whatever he wants. if he's going to do his own investigation or work on a documentary, that was the other rumor we heard, i don't know, i don't have any control over his actions. what i'm focused on is this impeachment proceeding and our duty as members of congress to follow the constitution and there are high standards here. there's a reason that only three presidents have gone through this before. it's supposed to be an exceedingly rare thing....

And that filtered through to the fbi. a guy named bill priestap, a nonpolitical public servant, made the decision to open the investigation. horowitz testified not only did he find no evidence of bias, he pretty much communicated to the senators that he believed that decision was made on the up and up. he couldn't say the same thing about the 17 errors in the carter page fisa, there may have been some bias, not necessarily political bias, it could have been prosecutorial bias. but it wasn't the claim that trump was making which is that this is a deep state conspiracy cooked up by my enemies. h...

Used to have confidence in the fisa process, after that senate hearing, not so confident. i think there is a bipartisan agreement that there should be reforms here. but they don't go to the question of political bias at the opening of this investigation because there is no evidence that there was any, yasmin. >> brendan, talk about the political optics here, especially for the president, who has basically been up against jim comey for quite some time, and hearing jim comey basically say he takes responsibility for some of the things that were shown in the report with regards to the fisa applic...

In an interview just yesterday with chris wallace, the former fbi director was pressed to explain inspector general michael horowitz's report on fbi process, and here's what comey had to say. >> 17 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 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 fi fisa. i was over confident in those. there was real sloppiness, 17 things that should have been in the...

Omissions were in the fisa applications, progressives and civil libertarians have argued for years that the fisa process is being abused. and now that the republicans are outraged and affect people like carter page, is there an impetus to reform the process? >> fisa was passed in 1979 and there has been a number of additions to that to ensure that when federal law enforcement or the intelligence community looks to get electronic surveillance on an individual, especially an american citizen, that our fourth amendment civil liberties are being protected. i think there are debates right now about...