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Court was comfortable with. the court authorized us to execute that solution and also then granted us authority for the 17, 6702 effort. >> so you reported initially to the court this is an issue or the court initially came to you and said we have an issue. >> i went to the court and said we have an issue. >> the court said we agree, we have a problem, as well. >> then it got held up, went through the process of review. the court is now signed off on the other 16. >> that's correct how does this harm your collection capabilities to not be able to do the about collections? >> i acknowledged tha...

Department of justice, and by march we came to a solution that the court was comfortable, we executed that solution and they granted us authority for the 702 effort. >> so the court initially came to you and said we have an issue. >> i went to the court and said we have an issue. >> and the court said that we have an issue as well. >> correct. >> and it went through the process of review and now they're signed off on the other 16. >> correct. >> how does this harm your collection capabilities? >> i acknowledge that in doing this, we were going to lose some intelligence value. my concern is tha...

Security adviser, susan rice, might ask for those identities to be unmasked so she can understand the intelligence value of that conversation. makes sense to me. >> and it's something you referred to in the past as attempt as criminalization of routine intelligence gathering. >> right. and this example kind of stands out that if this were one of those cases where she asked for unmasking, she would be derelict in her duty if she didn't try to find out more. >> okay. let me try and be generous toward the trump administration with regard to this inquiry. the fact that "the washington post" broke ...

The fbi's lap. then the question is the discussions that happened in trying to determine what the intelligence value of that document is. what we learned is that by august, they had determined that it was unreliable, that it is not something that should have been counted on in any way because unreliable is a fairly straight assessment of the lack of reliability of the information therein. we found out several months later this was part of the explanation for why he made the decision in early july to push lynch to one side basically and announcing the end and the closing of the probe into clint...

Aware that the intelligence value of it was unreliable. so in early july, did they believe it was reliable and that was influenced their decision as it was prernlted in "the new york times" article, or was this just explains as a decision making factor to us later on because, again, the public only became aware of it in april. was it used to explain after already knowing it was unreliable as justification for a decision that had been made. the question is, is it the fbi kind of got duped by something that was unreliable and they didn't quite know that yet, by is bad in one way, or did they dec...