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Some questions. why would the u.n. ambassador who was not traditionally having an intelligence function be seeking to so-called unmask over 260 people? what was the purpose? what was the goal? and why was this done? these are all questions we have to get answers to, bill. >> bill: what was she looking for, right? molly, do you have an answer for that, by the way? what could have been so highly important to put in this number of requests? >> i think it's important to remember that u.s. citizens aren't supposed to be spied on by intelligence agencies. they can be caught up in the surveillance we...

I served in it, they are not going to give it to you unless they feel you have a reason. >> dana: >> dana: it's hard to understand why someone would need to unmask and get information about the trump campaign when you are at the nations. that is the part to me that i don't think is understandable. speak out right. this goes back to, let's raise the questions and have a thorough investigation. why these individuals were unmasking. i made it clear, one of the evidence is shown, the fact that you have one government official, with no intelligence function basically asking for hundreds of unmaskin...

You know, as a tight team. he ran a very tight ship. it was not loosely run. he held people accountable. he put in a lot of the metrics systems that are there, he reform the the entire intelligence function. if you remember after 9/11, they wanted to take counterterrorism and intel basically away from the fbi and it's because of mueller are's success that that actually stayed. >> and he started just a couple days before 9/11.are's success actually stayed. >> and he started just a couple days before 9/11. tara, the one criticism that some have are is that ultimately he can can still be fired by...

Having a security clearance. or you wouldn't be able to come back into the government and assume a role with an intelligence function, which is very much what he did. it's also one of the most basic tenants of intelligence, which is you don't accept money from a foreign government, particularly one that's an adversary. that sets up the russian government to compromise a person that's very well-known, known in the intelligence community and someone who can influence back into the u.s. population. it is a basic thing you learn any time you enter into government, especially federal service with a...

Respect him says going to the white house and yet we're supposed to have oversight. that's the executive branch of government. the executive branch has intelligence function that congress has to get information from in order to still do that stuff so the idea of going to the executive branch does not violate the idea that we're not practicing oversight over the administration. i think -- i think you can do both, because, again, the administration is where a lot of the intelligence is collected and disseminated from. we need bipartisan answers from this. there's multiple investigations going on...