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Make it so that probable cause can support it. and if you look at the testimony in the 702 renewal, you'll see that the majority of the house subcommittee on intelligence said these are like the best of the best of the judges. appointed by the chief justice of the united states for particularly reviewing this type of probable cause. >> we got to take a quick break. we're going to have more with the panel ahead. up next, what ambassador james woolsy has to say about the intelligence community concerns over this memo as a former cia director and a former trump adviser. when i received the diag...

Choice for fbi director probably won't be enough to keep the nunes memo from seeing the light of day. joining me now is former cia director james wools yeey, was senior trump adviser. do you believe the white house should -- >> it depends on entirely on sources and methods. that's what's at risk when something is disclosed in intelligence. that you lose an agent, somebody gets killed, or you lose a telecommunications link that you penetrated that nobody knows about. on the other hand, you have the public's right to now, and this is an important public issue. so those two tendencies or judgment...

Of privileged information. that was the first indication that flynn might be cooperating. and now this second step of this meeting with mueller's team suggests to me the first stage of going down the path of cooperation. >> barbara, our source tells politico the president had a, quote, lengthy conversation with former campaign adviser james woolsy last weekend. he also served on the board of flynn's lobbying firm and said he attended a 2016 meeting with flynn and the turkish government when they reportedly discussed extraditing a critic of the turkish president. what do you make about this? wh...

John. >> cnn's manu raju own capitol hill, manu, thank you very much. want to discuss all of these developments with cnn national security and legal analyst susan hennessey. thank you for being with us. help me understand the myriad legal issues that could be at stake from this reported meeting or meetings that michael flynn had with people of turkish interests of somehow removing this turkish cleric from u.s. soil possibly in return for money? >> yeah. there are -- there's a lot of concerning developments here. jessica previously referred to the september meeting that was sort of had been r...

Director james woolsy saying he recalled a meeting prior to the election in which this came up. of course, the flynn side has denied that. michael flynn having lost his job for having lied to the vice president amongst others. and james woolsy as a former director of the cia, i certainly know who i would be likely to believe in that situation. >> michael flynn sr. did meet with turkish representatives both before he was named national security adviser and he had another meeting after he was formally named national security adviser during the transition before he started his role after the pres...