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Here. you're playing the game where they selectively leak stuff that is not subject to cross-examination. >> okay. >> rigorous review. check against documents and timelines. by the way, when they had to do this in the open in the russia investigation, with mueller, with lewandowski, democrats looked terrible. now they're trying to do things in secret so we can have interviews so you can cherry pick elements of leaked testimony and ask me about them when i wasn't in there, you didn't see the testimony, and more importantly we're unable to see how those statements hold up against cross-examinati...

There are so many checks and balances built in from the field office level through the general counsel, the national security law review branch and comes up through the highest levels of the organization. and i can tell you having signed off on hundreds and hundreds of fisa, they never make it up the first time. they don't make it up the second time. there's numerous reviews before they even go across the street to be signed off by the deputy attorney general and attorney general. i've testified in fisa court many times. some of these testimonies take hours and there's a rigorous review. so i ...

Hours and there's a rigorous review. so i think people need to understand that. it's not the rubber stamp that you hear some people say. >> thank you for that. the last time we had how on the broadcast i was reminded because you had just written an article about how robert mueller writes a case, for magazine. let me take you back to your med line and tell me how do you think he's working this case? what do you think is going on? >> i think he's going to keep doing exactly what he's doing. this memo is not going to slow him down one bit. what i read today further stanchiates the investigation t...

Of information. >> that's absolutely right. i'll tell you, it's good point you make. if you've been inside a national security arena, especially in the fbi or any other united states intelligence community or other arorganizations, the fisa process is extremely rigorous, so many checks and balances. it comes up through the highest levels of the organization. and i can tell you, having been the assistant director of counterintelligence and signed off on hundreds and hundreds of fisas, they never make it up the first time, the second time, numerous reviews before they go across the street to be ...

The nbc reporting on secretary tillerson yesterday. but there is not denying there's a split in the administration on the issue. here is a listen to defense secretary mattis and others. >> do you believe it's in our national security interests to remain in the jcp away? yes or no. >> yes, senator. i do. >> does the president have to consider more broadly things that fall under his portfolio of looking out for the american people in areas that go beyond the specific letters of the jcpoa. in that regard, i support the rigorous review. >> iran is not in material breach of the agreement and i beli...