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Representative. first chairman nunes draws some criticism by rushing to the white house with intel, not sharing it with the committee first, then he postpones tuesday's public hearing. he's getting a lot of criticism for this, how do you explain those actions? >> i agree with both congressman nunes's action and congressman peter king's defense of those actions. he said the president's name was caught up in surveillance between a foreign agent and a u.s. citizen, the name was unmasked, it appears to have no intelligence value, the person appears not to have been committing a crime which is the ...

Pursuant to and i'm not going to get into the weeds here and as a result of the intelligence or the information that was sucked up people in trump tower apparently had no intelligence value. none of it was related to russia and names were unmasked. the fact that they were unmasked when we say the information is sucked up. it's intellect dental collection. since they act have been in place since 1978 there has been something that individuals who are not the actual targets of the foreign intelligence survey list. there are procedures about why it's supposed to be handled. we do it all the time. ...

Pursuant to and i'm not going to get into the weeds here and as a result of the intelligence or the information that was sucked up people in trump tower apparently had no intelligence value. none of it was related to russia and names were unmasked. the fact that they were unmasked when we say the information is sucked up. it's intellect dental collection. since they act have been in place since 1978 there has been something that individuals who are not the actual targets of the foreign intelligence survey list. there are procedures about why it's supposed to be handled. we do it all the time. ...

What do you make of this? >> clearly they were after gossip because it's political. this has no intelligence value. let me be clear on this, i have run these sorts of operations before. i have had to go to the white house and brief on this sort of operation. and you instantly, and let me be clear on this for your audience. you instantly bend information relating to u.s. persons. it used to take us time, like minutes. now it can be done instantly. i mean the moment it hits so there is absolutely no technical reason. so what i have been saying is this incidental, it's incidental on purpose. they...

Been done in the first place, dated to meet foreign intelligence value, secondly, were any other american names unmasked, and i have information that says that there were. >> eric: joining us now with more from washington, catherine herridge. you heard the sound bite, "hannity" a little later tonight. he said it was legal, teaming the dissemination or accessing the information? >> when you unmask an american, if they are picked up, you have to have specific reasons for doing it. for example, you think a crime is being committed, there is an imminent terrorist threat, or it helps you understand...