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That we would never dream of engaging the president afterall is the person who sets the national security priorities of the country, who identifies the priority intelligence, collection priorities for the intelligence community. and for the fbi to say this is such an extreme situation that we have to treat activity by the president of the united states as a potential threat to the security of the country. my question is precisely the opposite. what kind of a deg reigation of the presidency does it require to produce that kind of -- that kind of reaction from the bureau? >> if you will, i want ...

There and the patriotism of the people involved, to me the relevance is precisely the opposite, which is what would it take for that group of people with all their deference to the executive branch as a hierarchy and as a people they work for to say this is so bad, this is so terrifying that we have to treat the president of the united states as a threat to national security. >> right. how bad would it have to be? >> how bad would it have to be for us to do precisely the -- you know, to engage in a way that we would never dream of engaging the president afterall is the person who sets the nati...

These daily briefings, how much is that concerning you. he isn't president yet. >> you know, i think some of the information i've got is that vice president elect pence is being briefed, perhaps there is communication day to day. if there is not a very pressing need, then having a daily brief might not be that important. certainly if there is some developing issues, we saw issues yesterday in turkey, for example, i would imagine that that's the type of information on who the adversaries are there, what the methodology that was used, the type of information or intelligence that would be of valu...