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Team were put into intelligence reports which may or may not -- it's probably fine, but we have to make sure that the president himself needs to see this because clearly there was surveillance that was conducted. and i don't know if it was -- i'm sure it was used legally, but he should know this just like the other administration knew what was in those intelligence reports. >> you are obviously an important man on the capitol hill. you're the chairman of the house intelligence committee. doesn't president trump already have access to all that information? >> he was not aware, from what i could...

Were all the procedures followed, right. so, if you pickup incidental collection of americans, those names should be minimized. and i think there's very few times where you should be able to tell who an american is if they end up in some intelligence report. and clearly that's not the case with this. >> but there was intelligence value or there was not intelligence value? >> in some of it, a lot of it was good intelligence value. but some of it i think is questionable, at best. and, look, until we get these reports in our hands and i can share them with all the members, both republicans and de...

Some of the stuff didn't seem to him to have intelligence value, yet it was circulating around. i'd like to know more about that. >> you worked at the cia, i thought it was interest, he made it clear he did not get it to the heads of the agencies and now wants to know why he didn't get information from the heads of the agencies. what do you think happened here? >> he made a suggestion that somebody kind of slipped it to him under the table. basically -- >> whistle blower -- but it was illusi illusion. >> or someone who had the same political affinity as he did or someone who had the same as th...

Valid collection authority. based on that, we'll then take a series of actions. in some cases we'll just purge the collect, make no reporting on it, not retain the data. it's incidental collection, it has no intelligence value and has no purpose to what we are doing. in some cases, if we believe there's an intelligence value, for example whether it's a reference to a u.s. person, as an example in a scenario, in our reporting then we'll mask the identity of the individual. we'll use a phrase like "u.s. person 1" or "u.s. person 2." and i would remind everyone that for our purposes, "u.s. person...

Valid collection authority. based on that we'll take a series of action. in some cases we'll purge the collect, make no reporting and has no intelligence value and wasn't the purpose of what we were doing. in some places and if we believe there is intelligence value for example whether it's a reference to a u.s. person as an example in our reporting then we will mask the identity of the individual. we'll use afraid like u.s. person one or u.s. person two. i would remind everyone for our purposes u.s. person is defined broadly. it's not just a u.s. citizen it's a corporation, an aircraft, an in...