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Suggestion it was a fisa warrant? is that true? >> you're quite right, tucker. it's a semantic difference. even chairman gowdy, who objected to the word spy admits there was an informant. on one side of this, we have people who are engaged in hyperbole, the other side is engaged in euphemism. we are talking ted about the sae thing, we are talking about covert operatives sent into get information. you don't have to have a fisa surveillance warrant to use an informant. in fact, it's a pretty low standard. we know there wasn't some fisa surveillance, there may have been more than we know about, b...

Why is it not spying? >> any republican who saw a shred of evidence that the obama administration wast spying on te trump campaign would clearly have said it was spying -- >> tucker: that is your explanation? some politicians that it's not spying. i'm asking you as an officer -- running for office. use your brain. tell me why, given what you jusl said, it's really simple, i'm not asking whether it was justified. it may havein been. but why is that not spying? secretly gathering information on somebody and passing it back to your handlers in the administration is spying but you won't concede it...

And i think they have to let mueller work. i don't want anyone to feign surprise when this president starts to go after rod rosenstein or robert mueller. we just saw what happened with mccabe. set to retires, fired two days before then. hopefully, he will listen to trey gowdy, i doubt it. i think it's going to be a war with the fbi to try to discredit them. it's irony. and do you remember when barack obama was in office, and everyone criticized him for not being stuff enough on russia? >> yeah. >> like, i mean, it's ridiculous the stark contrast. it's the same exact people making those comment...

Representative gowdy and whether or not president shutrump shoul interfere with him? >> i can tell you, let him do his job. folks we've interviewed there's no evidence of collusion. that's the best i can do. executive branch investigations have more credibility. they have more tools and that's what i think my fellow citizens ought to be waiting for and have confidence in. not congressional investigations that are run by guys running for the senate in california who have never met a camera that they didn't fall in love with. >> more tools, interviewed more people as well. there's been a very li...

Can't end a trial simply because the defense won't cooperate. >> for 16 years i spoke in trial met force and perhaps i need to get out of that habit. what i simply meant is when you ask me how long something's going to last, i need to know how cooperative the other side is going to be. >> did the congressman in effect give away what's going on here that this is really about putting the administration on trial and not trying to find out what's happening? >> i think it was his world, but everybody knows representative gowdy, who i have a lot of respect for, is an outstanding prosecutor, and he h...