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Procedures have to be followed to minimize the irrelevance or extraneous conversations that are overheard, and to make sure that the overhearing process targets specifically information that could be relevant to the criminal probe. when giuliani, for example, says that they would have had to see notifications to the president if the conversations included ones with him, that's simply not the law. the law does not require notifying people and therefore blowing the cover of a wiretap. what it does require is a very strong showing of need to use the wiretap procedure, very care ful narrowing of t...

>> i think the highlights are this. the ability to get a search warrant for an attorney. there is a very, very high bar from that. we know from public court filings, to be able to look at e-mails and conduct surveillance on e-mails is an incredibly high bar. . may be even more of a high bar, and it is a higher bar, to be able to get a judge to approve a wiretap of any individual, let alone an attorney. we want to let folks know that this is a stringent process. there's been a lot of discussion about surveillance, about fisa, about whose tower was wiretapped or recorded, or whatever it may be. ...

When you investigate attorneys, you go -- >> it's privileged. >> because of attorney/client privilege, you go up to a higher standard where you're trying to look, was there any other means we can get this evidence that makes it the least likely i'm going to stumble into attorney/client privilege. based on analysis they decided to execute warrants. they did historical warrants on e-mail. if the reports are true for the wiretap that required not just a proval at the field office in the southern district of new york, but you got to get approval by the main justice career attorneys who have been t...

Things that the judge takes very seriously. a judge is not going to put their name on this and write their name down and approve a warrant if they don't believe that this is something that has been lawfully sought and is something that is within the guidelines of the laws of the united states. while there may be a lot of political ramifications, while people are going to say a lot of things about this, presumably the president's attorneys are going to say a lot of things about this. presumably the president himself may say a lot of things about this. at the end of the day, this is a lawful pro...

Panel who worked at the department of justice. everybody at doj takes their responsibility very seriously. >> i do want -- hugh hewitt, we have a large group with us, including somebody who has also worked at the department of justice. >> okay. >> i'm sorry, go ahead, i'll let you finish your thought. >> we take it very, very seriously. they're not going to go get a warrant because they'd like to listen in on the president. they're not going to get a warrant because they're interested in salacious gossip. it has to do to a specific case for which there was probable cause and they will put asid...