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Communications, then you can apply to get that. now, in the 702 fisa reapplication hearings, the republican majority on the house intelligence committee pretty much said this is a foolproof process, the warrant process. the judges on the fisa court are particularly adept at this stuff, they are appointed to that court by chief justice roberts, so they said to america in 702 hearings, you have nothing to worry about. now, however, when it affects them personally, they say the whole system is flawed and the intelligence that was brought in may have some of the steel dossier in it, and it just sp...

Officials to look into this. you're a republican. what are your thoughts? you've gone through it. >> they actually did application 3 qualifications, which is a fisa warrant in criminal court, so i've been through this process. i don't see anything that was overly classified, except the fact that this came from a fisa application which is secret. the thing with this is, and this is what i worry about, the first thing it succeeded in doing is having the fbi agents' association come out and make a political statement on a document like this. >> this is so rare. >> it almost breaks my heart to eve...

There are layers and layers of process. it goes from u.s. attorneys, it goes to the court. lawyers for the fisa court who review this before it's submitted to the actual judge just to make sure that everything is in order. and also what you're going to see is going to come up in this, and there's been reports about this, is that this has to do with renewals. which is a much different issue. and this, i think, is what the fbi has an issue with. in order to get a renewal at the fisa court, you have to go to the judge and say there is stuff coming. we're getting information out of our original fi...

Happened here. there may have been mistakes that were made by some people in leadership, but it wasn't necessarily for partisan purposes. at least that's the point of view of the fbi. and i think what you see in this memo is obviously they believe that the fact that this dossier was used is the end of the story. it's the beginning of the end of this memo. they believe it should never have been used. it's important to remember that the law was written by these members of congress -- by the way, they just reauthorized a section of the fi issa law. and they knew what was in these documents that t...

Process, which is all about obtaining a secret warrant to surveil an american citizen should not have very strict oversight, very strict scrutiny. and if there are problems with it, it should be uncovered and it should be corrected. the problem is the system here and the process through which they have to go. >> the republicans aren't focusing on that, right? if they wanted to talk about that, talk about the fisa process, talk about very specific instances of abuse, they could do that. that's not what they're doing. they are a part of what david and what everybody around this table is talking ...