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Person went on to say, i think you all know the process is a house process meaning this is something that will be released by the hill not from the white house and they went on to say, they sent over the memo. we've had it over the last couple days to look at it to make sure it doesn't give away too much in terms of classification and they went on to say, right now we will tell congress probably tomorrow that the president is okay with it and i doubt there will be any redactions. this person ended by saying, then it is in congress's hands after that. this has very much been in the white house'...

Then give those findings to rod rosenstein and it is up to rod rosenstein to determine, quite a weight on his shoulders, what to do to make them public. give it to congress with the findings on this massive investigation and if we know that this is a way, dana, for the president to get away with not firing mueller, which would look really bad, what is this really about? you following me? >> totally. absolutely. i think that's an open question, you know. there's some people who we have talked to who have suggested that as part of this whole criticism of the way that the fisa warrant process wor...

Are given these ten year terms to be impervious to politics and pressures from a president, ie, what's happening right now? >> absolutely. they're expected to serve no more than ten years. some have served more, some have served less, but the idea is for them to serve longer terms so that they're not -- so they're less vulnerable to political pressures by virtue of their longer service then they also get to choose their teams obviously so that's parts of it too. we're seeing right now why it's just so important that our law enforcement leadership has independence because there are situations l...

>> what do you mean by that? >> the court is perfectly capable of issuing directives if they have -- if that court has not received accurate information, number one. so that can be brought to the attention of the fisa court. secondly, secondly, there's an inspector general who investigates such things but even if the majority wants to issue a statement criticizing the process, they have to do so without implicating national security sensitive information. they can do that until the cows come home and the minority can criticize what the majority says, but don't involve our national security ass...

Now. he has actually a long path to winning the party's nomination. he can take two routes, he'll have to collect 28,000 signatures from registered republicans to get on the ballot or he can go to his party's nominating convention and that could get a little wild because some of the delegates who control that process have not liked favored candidates in the past, so he has two paths to pursue. there's a lot of leg work to do but clearly he's been going around talking to voters about what his agenda should be very much primed for taking on this new role which is very interesting to watch in d.c...