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West virginia. reporter also get a chance to shout some questions as he gets on the chopper and maybe get some answers. you'll want to watch to see if that happens about 35 minutes from now. one of the reporters who will be there is my colleague, kristen welker on the north lawn right now. before you and i talk, i want to set up here the who, what, when, where, why of this memo thing. we know it was written by devin nunes and his staffers. it reportedly charges the fbi and justice department of abusing their spy powers, in particular against an associate. somebody close to president trump. the...

Dangerous. two, cia, deep state abuse of spy powers to subvert elected government is dangerous. one can cogently believe both. speak to that issue. >> sure. i'm somebody who has advocated a lot of political positions, devoted my journalism and legal career before that to a lot of positions that the trump presidency is waging war. on i think the trump presidency poses severe dangers. there is also a severe danger from having unelected but extremely powerful people who operate in the dark, who exercise permanent power in washington subverting the diabetically elected government -- democratically...

Now on wiretapping. statistics from the justice department showing the obama administration has increased the number of applications to install wiretaps on suspected terrorists, spies and their associates by roughly 10% over the last two years. is it making america any safer? chief washington correspondent james rosen live in d.c. with that. james? >> reporter: jon, good morning. these new numbers on wiretaps have surfaced at a time when the obama administration is pressing conference to renew certain spy powers set to expire at year's end. these latest figures released by doj earlier this we ...

Dossier and how much the fbi may have relied on that when getting those fisa surveillance warrants. president trump met today with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in differences between a republican memo that explains the spy powers and the democrat memo that counters at narrative for this is after president trump refused to rule out firing the deputy attorney general . >> shannon, great to see if you're just breaking tonight, we are getting our hands on a less redacted version of the criminal referral that senator chuck grassley sent to the justice department last month about christoph...

Have relied on that when getting those fisa surveillance warrants. president trump met today with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in differences between a republican memo that explains the spy powers and the democrat memo that counters at narrative for this is after president trump refused to rule out firing the deputy attorney general . >> shannon, great to see if you're just breaking tonight, we are getting our hands on a less redacted version of the criminal referral that senator chuck grassley sent to the justice department last month about christopher steele. it shows us that the f...