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Investigation. this document was key in comey making that fateful decision. >> the question is was it because we learned about that from "the new york times" report in late april. but what our reporting found was that in august they were aware -- by august at least, they were aware that the intelligence value of it was unreliable. so in easterrly 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 ...

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 clinton's e-mails, which is the reason he the...

And all of this was to get the investigation into michael flynn and trump/russia eliminated, to get it dropped. and now we appear to have documentary evidence of that. >> how much do we have on his conversations with people like kislyak, the russian ambassador? you don't see them dancing around with trump. i don't know why he's showing himself to be so useful that way. tell me this. what do we have factually on that, the conversations between flynn and the russians? >> we know there absolutely has been a recorded conversation between general michael flynn and the russians from both sides. the ...

Out how to comply with court orders but we're having productive conversations. >> section two of the fisa act is up for reauthorization. we have much more to go on than simply speculation or theory. now the intelligence value of section 702 is well documented and never been intentionally misused or abused. every federal court including the fisa court that has addressed the issue concluded that 702 is lawful. administrations of both parties have strongly supported it. describe for us the targeting that section 702 requires and how each agency's procedures are subject to oversight. >> 702 is a c...

Orders, or maybe we don't go there. but we are having productive conversations right now. >> section 702 of the fisa amendments act is up for reausization threau reauthorization this year. we have almost a decade of experience using this statute. we have much more to go on than simply speculation or theory. now, the intelligence value of section 702 is well documented. it has never been intentionally misused or abused. every federal court, including the fisa court, that has addressed the issue concluded section 702 is lawsuit. mr administrations of both mpartie supported it. 702, how are the a...