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World. >> or that would be a violation of crimes and misdemeanors. >> tri par tide system of justice, more complicated than for any individual when you have the president. >> let me bring in david priest, former cia daily intelligence briefer. do you have any thoughts on all this? >> i think it's fascinating because we're talking about differe different definitions. general ford said it best before watergate. what is an impeachable offense? whatever the house of representatives says it is. >> i think the point that at least i was making is that an impeachable offense would be one that would be...

>> who do you ask? >> i asked my intelligence briefer who works for the pdb staff and she goes and asks the owner of the information. >> the nsa? >>. >> does the owner of the information record or request the unmasking? >> i believe nsa definitely does. >> there should be a record somewhere in our government for a request to unmask regardless of who made the request. >> i think that's right. >> is it fair to say that very few people can make requests for unmasking? >> i can't go and make that request as a senator, can i? >> sure, it's a fairly small group of the consumers, which i am of the sm...

>> my intelligence briefer, who works for the pdb staff. i'd like to know that. she goes and asks the owner of the information. >> which would be the nsa? >> in this case, i think it was cia information, saying the director -- >> does the owner of the information record requests for unmasking? >> i believe the nsa does. i don't know about csa. >> there should be a record. somewhere in our government for a request to unmask, regardless of who made the request. >> i think that's right. >> is it fair to say that very few people can make requests for unmasking? i mean, i can be the go and make tha...

Julian assange over the u.s. intelligence community. joining me now, ken delaney, an nbc news intelligence and national security reporter, and david priest, a former intelligence officer, and daily intelligence briefer. he's also the author of "the president's book of secrets." great to have both of you with us. david, let me begin with you, your response to trump's tweet on, "intelligence services" and ding with julian assange over our own community here. >> you know, i focus on a different word in that and that's the word, "could." the intelligence community generally doesn't deal in coulds ...

Was a very sleblelective releas information from the compound. that seemed to have one purpose and that was to diminish bin laden in the eyes of the muslim world, to belittle him, almost. you see this picture of this vain old man sitting in front of a tv set with a clicker watching himself in his glory days, the fact that he's got the white beard in real life and then contrasted with the dyed beard he uses for his videos shows his vanity, shows how he tried to cultivate his image. that was the purpose of all this. the other purpose there, though, we talked about before, was the comments about ...