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Were having a broader conversation on abuse of power that inspector general horowitz found out in his report from those fisa applications that we used on carter page. i think that is something all americans should ultimately be concerned with and spending time with trying to understand that to prevent this from happening in the future. >> you have an intelligence background, served your country in that capacity. the foreign intelligence surveillance application, under some pressure to be reviewed and reformed, it will survive, you have people like yourself or senator ben sasse who said yesterd...

Application and you see misstatements, miscommunications, and omissions of this magnitude, it does raise a question for me of how typical this is. and that's why i think mr. horowitz does a service in determining here that he needs to do a broader audit of the fisa process, the handling of these title one fisas in more typical cases in order to figure out is this that the stress of this particularly high profile case made things worse, or that this is actually, you know, the kind of sloppiness that we should expect to see more generally? in which case we've got a real problem. >> horowitz also...

Statements from all 41 members. that could go on for several hours. >> forever. >> but tomorrow they'll start introducing amendments. what are you hearing about the republican strategy? >> the republicans are clearly going to take this as one more opportunity to show their complaints about the process and to also, as congressman collins sk said today, to talk about the evidence and the substance and perhaps deal with the fact that the president's phone call was perfect or whatever. but they're going to use it as another way to tell their story. and they're going to do it over and over and over...

In the history of our country by far. it's not even like an impeachment. >> except for one thing. impeachment is impeachment. >> it is. and it is something that the president does not want. he's out there and downplaying it and saying it is no big deal but we're told privately he has been griping to aides and stewing about the process and concerned that this is what people will remember from his presidency. he believes that is the case with bill clinton and as you know bill clinton gave him the advice to just focus on the job, publicly, to focus on the job, let your aides deal with the impeach...

Constitution and no one in this country is above the law including the president of the united states. if we allow him to do this, we allow this president and future presidents any time they face a tough reelection to seek out foreign assistance and lose our democracy. so we'll stay focused on the evidence, the law, the constitution and i think we'll see our republican colleagues try to gum up the process. engage in distraction and disruption because no one yet has said why they think it is okay for the president of the united states to seek foreign interference in the american presidential el...