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Recording. i want to bring in george bebe, special adviser to dick cheney. good afternoon to you. what a busy day. where do we start? let's start with the president's tweets this morning. no evidence of this, but the claims appear to be based on reporting in conservative media of two fisa warrants. one in june that was denied and then another in the fall that may have targeted a server tied to a russian bank. you can talk about how fisa warrants work? frankly, i think a lot of people -- it's not new, but all the attention is on this this morning. so can just explain whether you think this is...

Him? >> it's entirely possible that the russians had some signaled intelligence involving this individual that motivated them, or perhaps he had contacts in chechnya, in dagestan, in the northern caucasus, but they didn't make enough that available, it appears, and as a result we were all shortchanged in this matter. it's not unusual. the russians are extremely leery of letting us have any idea of what information collection capabilities they have. ref, tsarnaev was in dagestan for six months and the russians never went and questioned him. there was nothing stopping them from doing that. it ap...