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Accuracy. here's what he said reiterating that point. >> we had then and continue to have now grave concerns about the accuracy of the memorandum because of omissions. we provided thousands of documents that were very sensitive and lots and lots of briefings and it's very hard for anybody to distill all that down to 3 1/2 pages. >> what is the pushback from the fbi? did this harm their ability to investigate the intelligence process that exists here in the u.s.? >> i think the biggest casualty here, peter, is the trust that goes between the intelligence community and congress. they want to kno...

You're a staff prosecutor, working for the justice department or the fbi, how hard is it to tune out the noise like the kind that we're hearing? >> well, i can tell you that as a former federal prosecutor who worked and conducted federal investigations without regard to politics, this is insulting, it's harmful, it's completely irresponsible, and it absolutely serves no legitimate purpose. there are career prosecutors and investigators throughout this country and at the fbi that are doingheir job to gather the information so that we can protect our national security. so when you politicize the...

Republicans, i think, have gone from the beginning of earlier in the administration sending a signal that was a red line that would trigger a severe political backlash to sending much more ambiguous and if not encouraging signals. even though it is the president who decided to declassify it, it was the house republicans who set all of this in motion over the very clear objections of the fbi and doj. it chronicles or memorializes their evolution from independence to then kind of shelving significant oversight, the house intelligence process broke down over russia to actively participating with ...

Independent voice. that's critical. but let me say, jake, something that's happening here is we have two processes that -- that are separate. we have this political, opposition research situation, political campaign develops opposition research that's a part of the process. and then we have -- we have got an intelligence process, a national process wills the physical acourt process. unusually knows aren't combined. but in this situation they have become combined. and there is natural concern over that. i think that's reasonable. >> you understand why people would be concerned about bringing op...

Political campaign develops opposition research that's a part of the process. and then we have -- we have got an intelligence process, a national security process, which is the fisa court process. usually those things are not combined. it's unusual for them to become combined. but in this situation they have become combined. and there is natural concern over that. i think that's reasonable. >> you understand why people would be concerned about bringing opposition research to a fisa court? >> i -- it's -- it's an unusual thing. and i understand why some americans might say, well, wait a second,...