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advisor to the president and former cia director john brennan and a separate set of requests for ben rhodes that did not require a subpoena. like washington has taken a long time to churn through the system. not you records are coming to light and that committee is pulling those individuals before them saying now that we have the documents maybe you can explain why you requested 260 unmaskings. why did you request this particular meeting sat trump tower? kennedy: there are serious implications how people caught up in the net, how they came to be unmasked and why. is there any statement from power's team? catherine: samantha power's team did not respond specifically to our questions about the request numbers. but emphasize she did have a role in the national security council and she was making these requests in the spirit of further trying to understand the intelligence reports. a lot of her job at the u.n. is understanding proliferation rights. she wants to know who in the u.s. may be selling component parts that could be used by iran or north korea. but based on the volume that's not what

records were requested for ben rhodes.a congressional hearing, a senior republican pressed the cia director on the issue without mentioning power by nam name. >> do you recall any u.s. ambassadors asking names be unmasked. >> i don't, i don't know. maybe it's ringing a vague bell but i could not answer with any confidence. >> on either january 19 or until noon on january 20, did you make on the -- make any unmasking requests? because i don't believe i did. >> power had no comment on the numbers or timing of the request but previous statements said she was acting as the national security council. >> bret: back with the panel. the unmasking thing is ringing of vague bell. we have covered this many times. it hasn't been covered a lot of other places but it's a little curious that samantha power as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations had 260 plus unmasking requests for the trump team. >> that's what trey gowdy was getting out in may, asking john brennan about this. the whole idea of unmasking has been kind of discredited

advisor to the president and former cia director john brennan and a separate set of requests for ben rhodes that did not require a subpoena. like washington has taken a long time to churn through the system. not you records are coming to light and that committee is pulling those individuals before them saying now that we have the documents maybe you can explain why you requested 260 unmaskings. why did you request this particular meeting sat trump tower? kennedy: there are serious implications how people caught up in the net, how they came to be unmasked and why. is there any statement from power's team? catherine: samantha power's team did not respond specifically to our questions about the request numbers. but emphasize she did have a role in the national security council and she was making these requests in the spirit of further trying to understand the intelligence reports. a lot of her job at the u.n. is understanding proliferation rights. she wants to know who in the u.s. may be selling component parts that could be used by iran or north korea. but based on the volume that's not what

why would samantha powers and susan rice and ben rhodes -- to the extent, they are spying on an oppositionandidate. here's my broader question. assuming all of that is true, now we are back in a situation which goes with your column today. 11 months of russia, russia, russia. no evidence and now they have investigative -- all of these issues in crimes that you laid out so systematically in your column today, that explain -- where's jeff sessions? i've always liked senator sessions. where is he doing his job? >> he's spent setting the seves attorney general. failures to act where action is demanded. he's done nothing about james comey or hillary clinton or susan rice. you can appoint a special counsel to do it. second special counsel. you can't count on mueller to investigate comey for example. he hasn't done it. i argue that he's not just been unproductive and ineffectual, he's proven to be incompetent. i hate to say that. i really do. he's a very fine man. he's a good u.s. senator. >> sean: is a possible he's doing all these things and we don't know about it yet? >> we would know about if

. >> sean: if samantha power, susan rice, and ben rhodes and in the case of samantha power -- unmaskingday? when does that become the rule of u.n. ambassador?rs that's beyond bizarre and that's unprecedented and raises questions that this was all political. here's my question with all the nonstop chatter in the media about russia, russia, russia. it's clear they have a big target on paul manafort. then you have all those people unmasking, surveillance, intelligence leaking -- thosee are crimes. all of hillary clinton's felonies. we've been over this many, many times. a leak a day. mueller and rosenstein and comey. where's the congress?nd where's the special counsel. what is the attorney general doing here and shouldn't he be playing a big role in investigating what seems to be real crimes and constitutional violations like in the case of sharyl? >> that they be doing that. sean, if it was done properly and there is an investigation going on, we would not know that. i would hope that the whole aspect of the leaking scandale that is taking place now for months and months and months includ

we have not even mentioned samantha power and unmasking and susan rice and ben rhodes. me get gregg to weigh in. >> fisa warrants should not even exist. they are secret. you can conjure all matter of fabrication including anti-trump dossier which was apparently used to get the manafort warrant. it was totally fake. i think of the judges who approved the warrant new that the evidence was fabricated, they would be more than angry. we should not have fisa courts. i understand electronic surveillance, americans talking to terrorists abroad but fisa courts and spying -- -- >> sean: americans should be off-limits. un-american. thank you both. when we come back, members of a youth football team took a knee during they national anthem. judge jeanine pirro has a lot to say about this. when they come back. liberty stands with you™ liberty mutual insurance. whether it's connecting one of or bringing wifi to 65,000 fans. campuses. businesses count on communication, and communication counts on centurylink. - i love you. - love you too, dad. ♪ i will love you ♪ in the morning ♪ when

we have not even mentioned samantha power and unmasking and susan rice and ben rhodes.e get gregg to weigh in. >> fisa warrants should not even exist. they are stirred chambers. they are secret. you can conjure all matter of fabrication including anti-trumj dossier which was apparently used to get the manafort warrant. it was totally fake. i think of the judges who approved the warrant new thatt the evidence was fabricated, they would be more than angry. we should not have fisa courts. i understand electronic surveillance, americans talking to terrorists abroad but fisa courts and spying -- on americans including a presidential candidate, an incoming president. >> sean: americans should be off-limits. un-american. thank you both. when we come back, members of a youth football team took a knee during the national anthem. judge jeanine pirro has a lot to say about this. she will be debating. when we come back. hey, big guy! come on in! let me guess your weight! win a prize! sure, why not. 12 ounces! sorry, mate. four ounces. i've been taking the stairs lately. you win, bi

ambassador, and ben rhodes, who also worked in national security.sking these same kinds of questions. but it really does hurt the argument of the former house intel committee chairman, devin nunes. >> and even the trump administration has said there's no evidence that president obama ordered the wiretapping of trump tower at any point. what's your analysis, beana, of all of this? >> once again, the president digging himself into a hole that months later he's now having to pay for. and seeing the consequences unfold from this. i mean, this was all transpiring, the meeting took place december 15th. this was at the time that the obama administration was getting a bit frustrated, saying publicly, there's one administration at a time. we know that we're about to transfer power to a different administration of a different party, but what typically happens in the transfer of power sequence of events is that you have administration officials reaching out to the incoming administration, saying, lets facilitate meetings with other representatives from differe

nsc staff inside the white house from fighting wars, which was happening under susan rice, and ben rhodes, where they are actually picking bombing targets. send it back to combat and commanders, sent it back to the pentagon, to the cia. that takes a leader. that takes somebody that understands what his-- what he is supposed to do as commander in chief, make the big overall decisions, work with general mattis to do that, mattis, pompeo, all agreed 100%, does he get kriddity for that, absolutely no. he has done more i think to sort out the national security apparatus on his watch than bush and obama combined. he has been the most prudent commander in chief and he weighs and measures these things like nobody. 75% of his time is spent on these issues of national security. let me talk about another thing, let's talk about the experts. these people, this group of experts every day on tv ripping on donald trump, thins in "the wall street journal" about donald trump, these are the guys, here we stand, what has done all trump inherit. the bay of pigs in venezuela, the cuban missile crisis in north

national security advisor and the deputy national security advisor ben rhodes. we are told samantha power exponentially had more unmasking of names and under surveillance and anybody else. >> it's an interesting question about what sort of obligation to have two respond to the public after you've left office. you were entrusted with this position when you are with the obama administration. you've left office. it's been nine months. what's your obligation? i would say strong one. she says, samantha powers, through an attorney, says she will testify in a classified setting next month. in the meantime you've had susan rice testified. by all accounts apparently and i think catherine herridge reiterated it. she was as forthcoming as she can be. i think there is still some questions, then why did you say you didn't know about the unmasking. but she was emphatic she didn't leak any names. i think when it gets down to it, they will try to say it's not illegal. was it an abuse of power for samantha power to be asking for that unmasking and what were you doing with them.

unmasking some of the details that susan rice evidently was engaged in purity of three main players, ben rhodesntha power's, who is the investor to the united nations, and susan rice. susan rice a few months ago a singer had no idea and wasn't involved and had nothing to do with me. i would've never done this. now we are finding out that she actually did do something. >> bill: she said she did nothing to nobody. the losses, at least for political purposes. we have not determined that she has done either of those two things. >> unmasking unto itself is not against the wall. the timing is highly suspicious, the volume and frequency in which they were doing this unmasking. it's united arab emirates for goodness sakes. it's not like they are in imminent threat to the united states of america, and of course they're going to come meet with the new leader, upcoming leader of the free world. >> bill: judge napolitano has been on the story from the beginning. he said this last night with bret peers >> for goat the lea, to me, susan rice new and presumably her boss president obama that president-elect tr