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To lead healthier lives and that's invaluable. ♪ there's no question president trump is shattering precedence. he's ordered the justice department and national intelligence to declassify portions of a highly secret surveillance application on former campaign aide carter page. he's ordered text messages about the russia inquiry from former fbi officials including james comey and lisa page be declassified. all of this for one reason -- to support his political allies in congress who said that a deep bias against the president by some in the intelligence

Community exists. the president said he's doing it for transparency. the author of "the assault on intelligence: american national security in an age of lies" is with me. is this about transparency, do you think? >> no, of course not. and, anderson, thank you for having a few moments here tonight. i know how important the kavanaugh question is to the future of the country, but this is an important issue as well. >> why is this important? >> it's important, number one, you said it's unprecedented. for folks like me and my personal e-mail network has lit up, it is breathtaking. it is chilling to...

If she doesn't show on monday, it sounds liking from what i've heard senator graham suggested they'll probably have to move forward without going into it. it's too bad. it would have been bet fer she would have been willing. >> to her point, if it's the fbi's job to be do a background collect, can they accurately say they have completed a background collect if there is this allegation out there? >> i think it's reasonable they should do you some follow-up to previous collection. he's been through several of these. i don't think they would get a lot of new information. imambivalent on this ques...

There's no question that president trump is shattering precedents. and now he's done it again. he's ordered the justice department to declassify things on carter page. he's ordered that text messages about the investigation can also be declassified. all of this for one reason, to support his political allies in congress who says a deep bias on the president in the part of the intelligence community exists. the president says he's doing it for transparaphernalency. is this about transparency? >> no. of course not.

Anderson, thank you, for having a few moments tonight. i know how important the kavanaugh question is to the country. this is an important issue, as well. >> why is it important? it's unprecedented. for folks like me when my personal e-mail lit up. it is breathtaking and chilling to cese see this in the intelli community. not everyone gets to play in fisa applications. and we limit on who gets to see intelligence reports that are derived from fisa warrants. and now, you have the president demanding that 20 or so pages of a fisa application be made public. that's an application that's been reda...