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But we do everything possible to keep this as far away from the political branches as possible. the permanent government, either an intelligence or law enforcement build the case, give it to an article iii judge and that judge gives the okay. you go ahead and go up on a warrant. it is as deep a poe littliticiz process as we can make it. >> we are listening to the most incredible voice on the process here. what do you make, joe, of what has happened? step back. we have been talking about this all weekend. >> right. i want to step back even beyond this week. general, i want to step beyond the fa...

Joining the conversation, former director of the cia and nsa now a principle at the chur took group. his book "playing on the edge american intelligence in the age of terror," is now out in paperback. also joining us on capitol hill, a political reporter for "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst, robert costa. joe, take it away. >> general hayden, so much to talk to you about. but before we get into the obvious questions, i just want to underline for americans watching who see this as political intrigue, the stakes involved. north korea has fired another missile. the danger they pr...

Terms of the policy options that we are or even the chinese might have. and especially the chinese can slow them down, can make it more costly and more isolated it mord more isolated. i think they are determined. sooner or later, they are going to get it across the line. >> extraordinary detail and clearly an enormous amount of work in your report yesterday, but it raises the question, i think, among a lot of people, after so many years and so many billions spent here within our intelligence community and the pentagon, why is it? what is the biggest obstacle as to why we can't counter their mi...

Warrant. you do not need a warrant if you're targeting of a legitimate foreign intelligence target. you pick up information to, from, or about what we call a protected person. you can continue the coverage. i mean, that is why you're collecting foreign intelligence. you just have to protect the privacy of the u.s. person that is involved. talking to or being talked about in the conversation and what we do, joe, is we minimize. we remove the u.s. identity. they usually are referred to as u.s. person number one, u.s. person number two, unless, joe, unless the u.s. identity is critical to underst...

Mike. from before the moment this guy was inaugurated he was attacking the intelligence community and flippant about accepting briefings from them. i'm pretty sure that on friday, he didn't see some intelligence that he decided he was then going to out the next day. i think he read the breitbart report that some staffer handed him and the breitbart report is rooted in pretty much nothing so i think it's him declassifying intelligence. i think it's him acting in a pretty crazy way. >> that's not encouraging. >> >> no. >> congressman jim himes, thank you. coming up, politics can be scary thing e...