adam housley joins us now from los angeles. he's been working on this this morning.can you tell us? >> we've been spoken to by number of sources for the last couple of days and it really came to a head this morning. and our report yesterday, they apparently outed two of its b-17s sources. our sources who had direct knowledge of what took place were upset because those two individuals they said had nothing to do with the outing of this information. let's go through the headlines. we found and we learned that the surveillance led to to the unmasking of what started way before president trump was even the g.o.p. nominee. basically, the surveillance to all of this at some point earlier last year started. the person who did the unmasking is very well-known, very high up, very seen in the intelligence world and is not in the fbi. this led to other surveillance which led to multiple names being unmasked. these are people who are private citizens in the united states. it had nothing to do with russia or foreign intelligence of any kind. we're also told that the people who he

adam housley in los angeles.one of the countries lasted last time are still there, but one, iraq. the fbi is also investigating whether 300 people admitted in the u.s. as refugees would be on these counter probes. i should stress existing visa passport holders won't be affected. although existing would not be effective. that was the thorniest issues in the last case. general jack kent. general, this is supposed to be a more appeal proof version of the first go-round, which has jettisoned. what do you make of it? >> certainly it has been improved. visa holders and green card holders are exempted from this. they changed the ban from 120 days to 90 days. took iraq off, as you noted. never did understand why iraq was on that. remember, why these countries in the first place -- we don't have a u.s. government entity or embassy in these countries to be able to vet the people so that they can enter our country. the reality is, in iraq, we have one of the largest embassies in baghdad. i'm delighted to see they're off the

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adam housley has talked to a couple intelligence officials that say the two members of the white house staff, ezra watnick was involved in helping nunes see the information. they were not his source. the source is someone else. devin nunes is protecting that source. we'll not talk about that regardless how many times he's asked. we understand from intelligence officials during housley's reporting that chairman nunes is aware of one of the people that unmasked the identity of transition officials and may know the name of the person who ordered the unmasking. that was a big topic today at the briefing. let's listen to this exchange with sean spicer. >> fox news has been told by intelligence officials that chairman nunes is aware of who did the unmasking of certain individuals in the transition and may be aware of who ordered the unmasking of those individuals. is the white house aware of that information? >> i don't know what he knows in the sense that that's -- again, i've tried to make it a comment not to get into the specifics of that report. i will not -- i think it's not in our inte