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Comey, the american people give you the tools you need even if it infringes and in return government promises to safeguard the privacy of the u.s. citizens and when that deal is broken it jeopardizes american trust in these surveillance programs. so let me ask you, do you agree fisa is critical to our national security. >> i do. >> do you agree programs like fisa were intentionally designed to safeguard the identity of u.s. persons? >> yes, there are other important elements but that's the primary goal i believe. >> it wasn't an afterthought or accident. they're intentional safeguards we put i...

Know. i get that the jury always wants to know why. i think you and i can agree there are a couple of reasons you would not have to unlawfully, feloniously disseminate classified material. it certainly wasn't done to help an ongoing criminal investigation, because you already had the information, didn't you? >> again, i can't answer in the context of this particular matter. >> how about in theory? is there something a reporter would have access to that the head of the fbi would not? >> it's hard for me to answer. i would hope not. >> i would hope not too, since it's part of our surveillance pr...

Android phones and cars, even when they are turned off. documents also providing instructions on how anyone can use them. >> following it closely. i long said emails in many electronic devices are not safe. they are not safe from our adversaries like the russians and chinese. >> intelligence experts calling the police more dangerous than and snowden, top-secret nsa surveillance programs, snowden acknowledging the severity of the leak saying still working through the publication at wikileaks has here is genuinely a big deal, looks authentic. accusing the cia of avoiding security weaknesses show...

That he said obama engaged in this wiretapping. i don't know what he meant, but i don't think it's as important as the issue general mukasey was talking about, was there surveillancessur vailance that swept into its scope, the trump campaign. fisa is a lower standard. it's a bit odd. the obama administration is not as pure as driven snow when it came to surveillance. james clapper was accused of lying to congress about one of the largest surveillance programs in the history of this country. president obama's administration put journalists under surveillance, like rosen at foxx. -- fox, so i th...

Lying to congress about one of the largest surveillance programs in the history of this country. president obama's administration put journalists under surveillance like rosen at fox. so you know, i think it's a mistake to overplay there issue. >> i should point out that, and i wrote this down in the green room watching it that james clapper's denial was kind of a nondenial denial. he said that donald trump wasn't wiretapped. and at the trump campaign wasn't wiretapped but that is not the same assaying that there were no intercepts going on of any kind that involved people around donald trump....