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Generic identifier. the senior officials will say, hey, in order to understand the foreign intelligence value with the significance and meeting of this, i need more information. and in that case they'll make request of nsa and in order to provide that additional information it will be in the ordinary job of the national security adviser. also, nsa would be making a separate determination as to whether or not it met those requirements before actually performing lastly. >> i kept sort of running through the thought experiment here, i'm susan rice and i made some intelligence product that says fo...

Welker, put this question to the white house press secretary any potential that the president had a hand or any knowledge of what has transpired. >> did the president direct anyone in this white house or in his national security team to try to find information or intelligence to back up his assertion about wiretapping? >> i don't -- i'm not aware of anything directly. i'd have to look into that in terms of -- again, there's two sides of this. one is the information side, and two is the policy and the activities and the legal piece of what happened. and i don't -- there's -- those are big bucke...

People we're about to lean on to explain to us just what it is we just saw. kelly o'donnell, kasie hunt, jeremy bash, malcolm nance. malcolm, of the four, you've probably gathered the most and dealt with the most intelligence reports of anyone. we what did we just witness? >> well, i'm not sure. i mean, you know, i've spent many years wearing headphones and i've been involved in incidental and targeted collection. but i was quite confused about the terms he was using. at one point he was saying names were involved addition were seen in intelligence product. well, that's true, because if your n...

Use specific language. but within our world, that is a very serious charge. it is very serious accusation because systems and people and laws must be in place or must be broken to do that. but to say that, perhaps, you know, went on our little intelligence internet and saw a reference to donald trump, an intelligence product, which could be coming from all oefrt world, including news media reports, i mean, at the end of this program, i'm sure brian williams will show up in someone's intelligence report. >> so will malcolm nance probably. >> yes. but that is not collection. that will not valida...

His vice president, his good friend joe biden said why are you telling me this? isn't that an indication that there is something off here? >> it's clear that the agency and the intelligence community absorbed documents that were paid for as part of opposition research they were unverified and just a hit piece and inserted it into the intelligence product. just insane. it was so poorly handled. look, other issues, you know, in relation to this. and this is the whole issue of russia and of lacking and information operations. in 1999, a couple of chinese colonels wrote a book called unrestrictive...