Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180201:17:13:00
>> why is that? why do you say that? >> because many years ago in the '70s we set up a whole new structure to govern the law enforcement and intelligence agencies to correct the abuses of hoover, the cia and president nixon. that system has worked quite well but it's based on trust. trust that the executive branch can give its most important secrets to congress and to the fisa court and in return, the congress and the court will treat that information responsibly. when it's politicized, as has happened here, it poisons that whole system. it desecrates, frankly, this wonderful system that we ha...