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It involves masked u.s. person information. it could be a reference to a u.s. person. it could be a u.s. person talking. happens all the time as does the unmasking. if somebody feels there's intelligence value -- there's a series of procedures that you have to go through. lawyers look over your shoulder. there's nothing unusual about unmassing. with respect to susan rice, it's one report out there. it's not particularly unusual that a national security adviser might ask for something to be unmasked. we need to remember that so far, there's absolutely no allegation of wrongdoing, even by the ch...

The point is that we said fine, sit down behind closed doors with comey and rogers and do the open hearing. >> in terms of this issue about susan rice, and unmasking, how concerned are you about the issue of unmasking and then information being leaked to reporters? >> i guess i have two things to say. one, there's nothing unusual about unmasking. we get all kinds of intelligence intercepts all the time. it involves masked u.s. person information. it could be a reference to a u.s. person. it could be a u.s. person talking. happens all the time as does the unmasking. if somebody feels there's in...

Foreign intelligence agency and i personally was informed that my name was unmasked in order to protect me to find out that other agencies, you know, from hostile agencies were, in fact, targeting me. that happens all the time in the u.s. intelligence community. sometimes for your own protection. sometimes to determine whether or not whether an american citizen is carrying out a nefarious act and sometimes because the position of that person requires they be notified when information of intelligence value is being used by a third party. so i'm very confused at this and i think it is a distract...

Overseas and their staff and we know u.s. intelligence agencies routinely monitor those people including if they had any interactions with the trump transition team. we know, for example, during the transition, that the president-elect's team had multiple calls with countries that we know that u.s. intelligence is listening to, that is israel, russia, china, taiwan, these are countries that if you hear them discussing the president, the new incoming team, there might be something of intelligence value that the nsa analyst who is listening might decide is word summarizing and then it's kicked u...

That is israel, russia, china, taiwan, these are countries that if you hear them discussing the president, the new incoming team, there might be something of intelligence value that the nsa analyst who is listening might decide is worth summarizing and then it's kicked up to the white house, including to the obama white house. >> the incoming trump administration did not log meetings with foreign leaders is as is part of protocol. can that be part of the issue here? >> reporter: it could well be. that's a protocol that's established, you usually have people at the state department who are trai...