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Vigorous oversight. the right way to handle this is for christopher wray and others to testify before the house and senate intelligence committees and present their evidence in a classified setting. that's apparently not being permitted. >> can i ask you this? can a president, whose advisers are under investigation in an ongoing investigation, be the champion credibly be the champion of reform of that investigation? and the institutions carrying it out? >> well, i -- the president is the president. he is entitled to declassify information and state his opinions. but in this case, first of all,...

Into a fisa application seems convenient. >> it's a good point but fisa just renewed republican lawmakers had ample opportunity to review the law in congress and yet voted for renull of the 702 protections which is really the background. >> it may be different if we were looking at the actual contents of the application for warrant versus a memo created by a partisan in congress. that's not more information. the other pointed i wanted to -- following up on what you said after the hoover situation that's where we have a ten-year fbi director tenure. in order to create an fbi that's independent ...

Everyone has their own opinion that we should be getting to the truth here. and we should be seeing the actual information. we need to find out the exactly what went on. because, again, if say the clinton campaign -- if it was a research document from them to help to go and get a fisa warrant and that's what helped get this whole thing going, i think that's really problematic. >> lara coats is it possible the fisher was doing it'set job in investigating the hilt emails and aggressively investigating a whole host of charges though nothing has come out of it for the president regarding russian i...

Investigation in the criminal probe. why are we throwing out the credibility of the organization with the political back water. >> liz, i wonder for folks at home following this for some time, there are some remarkable allegations being leveled at u.s. law enforcement intelligence agencies here. right? talk of a secret society, a deep state, treason. these are words thrown at the agencies -- let's be frank, they need oversight. but they're also agencies whose job it is to cope the country safe. >> yeah wsh i think i teach constitutional law there is a problem in terms of the separation of powe...

Mandate. is it legally? no. neck have hearings they can have hearings on whether it's proper to continue the fisa. broad hearings on the propriety of the fisa in contained circumstances where the national intelligence information issant maintained. but in this instance the congress does have the authority to release in coined of information if it makes the determination that the public interest outweighs the national interest. here we have the fbi and doj saying the opposite and they have the expertise. >> laura i don't know if there is a hopeful message. you have had a series of instances whe...