pitcher -- the patr amendmentd the fisa allows for these intercepts. so you have the fires of amendments act, which allows the government and the national security agency to collect the communications of foreign officials, even if there is a u.s. person at the other end of that communication. that is done for foreign intelligence purposes. that is one of the ways general flynn was ensnared. the other is executive order that governsan era the day-to-day operations in the intelligence community. former state official john a beer time wrote a piece a couple years ago talking about -- drawn tie wrote aier piece about this a couple years ago. that is why the complaints of ,olks really ring hollow because they knew what they were voting for when they did that. host: take us deeper. what would have triggered the monitoring of general flynn and the phone calls to the russians? guest: the national security agency especially is tasked with monitoring communications of foreign officials, whether military or civilian. without question, if they picked in whichicati

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i think we have to be very careful about the legislative branch of government getting fisa warranted, communications and that we start coming through private conversations american citizens are having. we have to be very careful where we go with this. i think what it appears to me like is that it seems to me there is a difference between russia's sanctions are to people like myself, which when i think russia sanctions i think of dealing with crimea, dealing ith the invasion of ukraine by the russians and the sanctions that we have put in to place working with our allies and then what happened right at the time after christmas when president obama kicked some russian diplomats out. i don't consider that to be sanctions. inaudible] mr. nunes: russia sanctions on the global stage. most of the meetings i have with foreign leaders, when we talk about russia sanctions that's what we're referring to. when president trump kicked out a few diplomats, and that was -- umber one it was way too late, number two, it was extremely weak. and number three, the russian government didn't even respond to

and now, the good thing about fisa and the way it works is that there should be a record of who in the government knew about general flynn talking to the russian ambassador, and from there we should be able to know who is in the realm of the possible of who we need to talk to. >> and can i ask you, who the decision of the last administration would have unmasked flynn and was it appropriate? >> we don't know yet, and that is a very good question, and some of the, i think that that we should be able to find. we should find out who within the executive branch knew about the initial conversation, and then who went to who to get flynn's name unmasked, and that should be a realtive hly small number of people. >> and please. >> and when the intelligence community begins presenting evidence to you, is that evidence to be turned over to the committee or continue to be housed in the intelligence committee? >> well, that is one of the contentious issues of where the ininformation is housed. some here, and some apt the agencies. >> have you heard anything about anyone in the white house directing

will you commit to declassifying any secret legal interpretations related to fisa as well? >> that's something that i'll have to continue to work with you on. obviously i'm going to commit to do everything i can to try to get you that number. i need to find out why it has taken so long and what are the complications in getting that number. i think it's important for the committee -- >> this is declassification. >> well you mentioned the number also. but on declassification, as long as it doesn't -- i mean, declassification process is in place so that we can, if there are sensitive sources and methods that could be exposed, that have negative consequences to our intelligence agency, we have to declassify those. but those we can declassify for, for the needed purpose, i think we need do. >> mr. chairman, if i could take a few more second, as you did. my point is, and i appreciate what senator coats is trying to say here. a, we need it that number. we have sought it for years and years. more and more americans are getting swept up in the searches. we are trying to do go after

they're not monitoring flynn unless they had a fisa, a warrant to monitor flynn's communications which we have no information to suggest was the case. and so this is something that is going on every day. it's -- there are constant agents of the fbi who are listening to these kislyak communications with everybody and collection is the communications of a u.s. person who's not subject to the warrant that gets accidentally sucked up as part of that collection. and when that information is circulated around the government, it's called minimization. they won't use the name of the person in the intelligence report, it will just say, for example, in this case, probably something like transition official number one or something along those lines. and so, you know, that is done in order to protect the privacy of flynn in this case, but for senior intelligence officials, for the fbi agents, they can see who it is in many cases. they can identify who it is and often from the context of the conversation, you can tell who it is, for example, kislyak may describe flynn as the incoming national secur

they're not monitoring flynn unless they had a fisa, a warrant to monitor flynn's communications whiche have no information to suggest was the case. and so this is something that is going on every day. it's -- there are constant agents of the fbi who are listenilist listening to these kislyak communications with everybody and collection is the communications of a u.s. person who's not subject to the warrant that gets accidentally sucked up as part of that collection. and when that information is circulated around the government, it's called minimization. they won't use the name of the person in the intelligence report, it will just say, for example, in this case, probably something like transition official number one or something along those lines. and so, you know, that is done in order to protect the privacy of flynn in this case, but for senior intelligence officials, for the fbi agents, they can see who it is in many cases. they can identify who it is and often from the context of the conversation, you can tell who it is, for example, kislyak may describe flynn as the incoming nati

they're not monitoring flynn unless they had a fisa, a warrant to monitor flynn's communications which we have no information to suggest was the case. and so this is something that is going on every day. it's -- there are constant agents of the fbi who are listening to these kislyak communications with everybody and collection is the communications of a u.s. person who's not subject to the warrant that gets accidentally sucked up as part of that collection. and when that information is circulated around the government, it's called minimization. they won't use the name of the person in the intelligence report, it will just say, for example, in this case, probably something like transition official number one or something along those lines. and so, you know, that is done in order to protect the privacy of flynn in this case, but for senior intelligence officials, for the fbi agents, they can see who it is in many cases. they can identify who it is and often from the context of the conversation, you can tell who it is, for example, kislyak may describe flynn as the incoming national secur

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i think we've got to be very careful about the legislative branch of government getting fisa warrantedommunications, and that we start combing through private conversations that american citizens are having, we've got to be very careful where we go with this. >> reporter: do you think it's concerning -- [ inaudible question ] >> no, what it appears to me like is it seems to be there is a difference between what russia sanctions are to people like myself, which when i think russia sanctions, i think of dealing with crimea, dealing with the invasion of ukraine by the russians and the sanctions that we've put in, into place working with our allies, with the eu and others, and then what happened right at the time after christmas, when president obama kicked some russian diplomats out, i don't really consider that to be sanctions. [ inaudible question ] well, look, russian sanctions on the global stage, most of the meetings i have with foreign leaders, they always revolve around -- when we talk russian sanctions, that's what we're normally referring to. when president obama kicked out a few

if you look at the fisa court you see that reference all over the place and the hagee is cases it's truehat the government gets lots of deference. i think at the margins that judicial review is a useful thing and there are ways for courts to actually uphold what the government has done while narrowing the afford -- authority going forward so one accord appears to be in a specific case deferring to the government decisions that can articulate a rule that has the constraining effect going forward. there's another benefit i think to having the judiciary involves , so right now the government has a choice of using legal force and the never having to attempt the use of legal lethal force or possibly capturing the person and having to submit evidence in a criminal trial, not just the courts that the public to invest habeas decision and i don't think it takes, you don't have to be paranoid about using government power to see that the structure the government is going to lean towards killing even when capture is a possibility because you don't have to account for your actions when you kill like

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but the warrant -- if they don't have a fisa warrant to do this, that's nuts. i'm not sure i agree with you that flynn didn't know he was being record. if he didn't know he was being record, that's really grotesque incompetence. the guy he was talking to is precisely the kind of got it nsa is supposed to be monitoring. it's a hot mess all the way around. if it is true that this is done unfairly and flynn's account of this is basically correct, then why the heck did the trump administration throw him under the bus. he shouldn't have been let go if it's as innocuous as everyone is saying. kennedy: i think our government and our country and our press are all strong enough to handle that sort of inquisition. what do you think if there were stuff on flynn? >> if there was stuff on flynn? kennedy: is there worst stuff on flynn? >> i don't know. i always thought this relationship and track record with russia was nervous making. i know he says a lot of hawkish things about russia in his book. the whole administration is extremely weird. kennedy: if you have people insi

the good thing is about fisa and the way it works, there should in the ord of who government knew about general ynn talking to the russian ambassador. from there we should know who is n the realm of the possible. we don't know yet. but that's a very good question. and we're -- those are some of the -- i think that we should be able to find out. we should be able find out who within the executive branch knew about the initial conversations. and then who went to who to get flynn's name en masse. so that should be a small number of people. . reporter: is that evidence turned over to your committee or will it continued to be housed in the intelligence committee? mr. nunes: well, that's one of the contentious issues, how it will be housed. some will remain at the agency. reporter: do you know anyone at the white house directing mr. flynn to discuss the issue, any issues with the russian ambassador? would anyone at the white house tell him to do that? mr. nunes: general flynn is an american war hero, put together one of the greatest military machines to eliminate al qaeda from iraq and he was

the only way he could be authorized to do that is by the fisa court. >> this is really silly. >> don'tecture me. >> the russian am balances doer would automatically know he's being wiretapped. >> he's a foreign diplomat. last time i checked, michael flins an american citizen. charles: you are saying the call would have been recorded no matter. >> normal think exactly. >> releasing for is not recording. charles: this information being leaked. i thrift bigger deal than you think it is -- i think of it as a bigger deal because it's been undermining the trump administration. >> the president is right to be upset by the and wanting to do something by the. but let me remind you where this ends. this ends in james rosen's telephone being tached. in reporters being monitored and surveilled. because that's what president obama did when he got upset about leaks. everybody leaks. >> it's the cover-up. i don't think mike flynn was wrong in speaking with the ambassador even if they spoke about sanctions. but it seems like he's not telling the truth. charles: it was mishandled afterward. >> on that

that in the national security cases generally courts tend to be differential -- if you look at the fisa court and government gets lots of difference i think at the margin that kind of review is a useful thing and ways for court to uphold what goth has done while narrowing authority going forward. so even when a court appear to be in a specific case deferring to government decision it can articulate a rule that has con straining of that going forward. there's another benefit i think to having the judiciary involved -- so you know right now -- the government has a choice with with using legal force and then never having to account for the use of legal force. or possibly capturing the person and having to submit evidence to a court in a criminal trial not just it a court but public too for the procedure, and you know i don't think it takes, you know, you don't have to be paranoid about use of government power to see that insen tiff structure is one at which the government will try to lean towards killing when capture is a possibility because you don't have to account for your action when i

the fisa court ordered. was the any key medication between the white house counsels office and the fbi that those transcripts -- >> i will say obviously there was medication between the widget and the white house counsels office. i'm not going to get into that specific nature. it would be inappropriate because of the nature of information that was being discussed. >> why not dismiss the jet on general onthe january 27th? why, if the question was a trust and immediately january 15, he's on face the nation saying vice president is on face the nation saying this is what general flynn told me. january 26 you hear the opposite why not immediately, why wait another two and half weeks? >> i don't understand how that is a due process. the attorney general didn't come in, the acting attorney general camino say there was an issue. he said we want to give you heads up that there may be information, okay? you could not confirm that was an investigation. it would be unbelievably shortsighted and wrong to go in and dismis

intercepts that probably would have been gleaned by the national security agency through an appeal to the fisa court, the international wiretapping. he wouldn't get into the details of that. "the new york times" is reporting that the fbi interviewed michael flynn about all of this in his tenure as the national security advisor. >> shepard: what are members of congress saying? >> depends on the side of the aisle. democrats say this needs to be further investigated. some democrats held a press conference where they talked at length about it. republicans were talking about it. watch the difference between paul ryan and congressman elijah cummings had to say. we'll play it back to back. >> the president made the right decision to ask for his resignation. you cannot have a national security advisor misleading the president and others. >> i know he's resigned. but he's not going to get off that easy. we need some answers to a lot of questions. >> and the questions that they say they want the answers to on the democratic side, what did the president know and when did he know it. chuck schumer said th

. >> a few words about the fisa cord it was set up in 1978 to oversee request for surveillance warrants against spies in the united states by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies and young's attorneys say they want to seat application to see whether the court and whether the evidence against young was lawfully collected. paul wagner. "fox5 local news". >> and developing tonight, police are searching for a man wanted for a deadly shooting at a house party in arlington the victim was 23-year-old michael gray. he was shot during a fight at a party saturday night at home in the 6300 block of north 29 street and investigators have identified a suspect in the shooting but he is still on the run. and 37-year-old jason allen johnson is take a look very closely and see if you recognize this man. if you spot johnson or know where he may be please call please call police immediately. >> and misplaced fire ashes are blamed for a fire in germantown over nights after midnight. this is what is left behind. heat from the fire also damaged several homes nearby. and the good news no one was

. >> they went to a fisa court and i get a warrant for a wiretap and it is the nsa that typically --bill: diddy flynn no? >> if you are talking to the russian ambassador, you should know. you got to be pretty assured -- >> bill: i said that. >> we don't know whether flynn was told. we don't know that. >> they wouldn't tell him. >> bill: okay. this is fascinating. so, flynn makes the call, he should know, being a sophisticated guy, that the russians are taping it, for damn sure, and that the nsa is probably taping it because it is a call to the russian ambassador. but they don't tell him, hey, we are taping this. so, that, then, if you look at the chargers floating around, that flynn lied to the fbi about what he said, that is the latest. we will get onto this on the program a little bit later. that doesn't make any sense, doesn't stack up if flynn knew he was being taped. why would he lie to the fbi about a? that is a crime. >> you would think that a person about the sophisticated knowledge of electronic intercepts, as he did and would because he was the head of the dia, would not li

compromising the prism program, the program called 702, because that's the part of the national -- fisa act that it refers to. foreign intelligence surveillance act that it to, they basically compromise the entire war on terrorism. i am not sure if glenn greenwald did, he was being being e, accurate, because snowden had compromised in his video from hong kong. i wouldn't attribute it to greenwald, and i think he is doing what he says he is doing. he is publishing documents that he thinks expose secrets. i am not blaming him for doing hat. i don't blame us on -- assange. once documents get weeks, stolen in this case, and given to journalists, i think we accept that journalists will publish them, even if it is buzzy publishing -- buzz feed publishing a dossier from an undisclosed source. that's what journalists do. they publish. that's what greenwald did. he published. i have no objection to what glenn greenwald. host: he lives in brazil, i believe, and he writes for "the guardian" newspaper in london. is he an american? dr. epstein: he is an american. american lawyer. for his own persona

despite with the constitution requires and that is because the law that was enacted in 2008 called the fisa amendment act with president obama's approval that she was a senator at the time and voted for it -- authorizes u.s. government to listen in on americans calls with no warrant as long as they are talking to someone outside the united states for the government says they are targeting. that is what the episode shows. they were able to listen in on general flynn's calls with no warrant because they say they were targeting someone with whom he was communicating. as far as the reaction is concern in terms of how edward snowden's leaks were received versus this leak, it is like night and day. i have not yet heard not one democrat condemn the leakers inside the cia were intelligence community who leaked signals intelligence and in the process, alerted these russian officials to the fact their communications have in -- been. they told these russian officials, we have successfully penetrated your communication systems and you can be sure they are now in response, fortifying the cubic a show an

don't know the context of the conversation, if his phone was legally tapped or if the government had a fisang on him. why didn't the fbi inform the trump transition team before all of this came to light? there are a lot of unknowns here. paul: but somebody does know the answers to all these questions, which is to say the intelligence services. look, if mike flynn was being investigated as a person of interest, then they had some reason for that. what do they have? paul: right. >> donald trump should ask them the come into his office and lay it out so that he at least understands what's going on. paul: and, james, trump made a very categorical denial of any relationship with russia between himself and as far as he knew, he said, any of his officials. he's out there on a limb now. if that's contradicted and there's ties or collusions shown, that might be an impeachable offense. >> look, i really think talking about impeachment and watergate is way premature -- paul: of course it is. i'm saying we don't know anything, but if he's contradicted, that's my point. >> yeah. but i think, i mean, thi

>> well, since the fbi we already know has fisa warrants out there, i'd be doing exactly what we've already seen. we're coordinating, they're coordinating with the national security agency. they're coordinating with the central intelligence agency. however, getting that warrant also anow nollows them to take intelligence from other foreign intelligence collectors. the ukrainians, latvians, estonians, french gchq in england. that's an enormous amount of collection power out it tl. i would scrub every connection these people had, personal, telephone, financial and try to determine exactly what they're trying to determine now. are these people connected to russian spies? are they being handled by russian spies? are they russian spies? >> can we tell, using modern electronics and data collection, if somebody's met, if they talked on the phone, if they e-mailed? can we basically get a universal look at all communication pretty much now? is that -- how -- what p percentage of communication can we nail down? >> well, not universal look at communications. what we get is a focused look at communicat

what we call a fisa warrant which is constantly being renewed on kizlyiac's phone and he knows this, and flynn knows this too, or he should know it. that by accident basically they get flynn in that conversation. >> interesting. adam entous, "washington post," thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> when we come back, much more on our breaking news, national security adviser michael flynn resigns in the wake of the national justice department's warning to the white house about his contacts with the russian ambassador. we'll be right back. can i keep the walnuts? yes. but i get to pick your movie. can i pick the genre? nope. with the blue cash everyday card you get cash back on purchases with no annual fee. backed by the service and security of american express. you get cash back on purchases with no annual fee. i realize that ah, that $100k is notwell, a 103fortune. yeah, 103. well, let me ask you guys. how long did it take you two to save that? a long time. then it's a fortune. well, i'm sure you talk to people all the time who think $100k is just pocket change. right

people from russia all the time reporting back and forth and they were innocent, they would haven't a fisarrant going on right now. they would not have -- it's not just wiretaps, this is the awesome collection power of the national security agency and all of our allies which means we can handle any information we get on someone who we believe is in communications with a russian intelligence spy. >> so here's the remarkable thing, too, about the specifics of the flynn intercept which is is what the ambassador -- what would the change of custody of a transcript like that be like? it's remarkable to me that in some ways it's gotten out. this is a piece of political dynamite in some ways. who would have access to that kind of thing? >> that's an excellent question. you have to understand that when general flynn communicated with the russian ambassador, this was under the purview of the fbi and the national counterintelligence officers who were there to monitor the communications of our enemies within the united states and possibly any american citizen who decides they want to talk to the russi

was taping him and probably the ambassador as well through the fisa which tapes all that stuff.: absolutely. ainsley: when they were talking about what's happening in the hotel room first of all i don't like germs second of all i know i'm being recorded in russia. brian: has to get a request listening in on flynn. if the intelligence agency wants to listen in on film, ideally they have to go to the nsa and say i have to listen in on the phone call. question is who asked? who gave permission? steve: see the way fisa is set up is if you have communications with somebody internationally you are fair game. but the american citizen's identity has to be masked and that's the problem because somebody in the intel community unmasked and took the little tape off of michael flynn's name so everybody knows it. judge napolitano says look, this sudden not surprise anybody who understands how this works because there is a shadow government out there trying to mess with president trump. >> we now have a state of affairs where we have professional spies in the intelligence community who can tur

evidence, that the fbi has transcripts of these intercepts which i assume were done by the nsa via a fisa court order. was there any communications between the white house council's office and the fbi, is it the transcripts ever enter -- >> there was obviously communication between the department of justice and the white house council's office. i'm not getting into the specific nature of that. i think it would be inappropriate because of the information being discussed. >> sean? >> sean? >> yes? >> why not dismiss the general on january 27th? why, if the question was of trust, and immediately you know, you have january 15th on "face the nation" saying that vice president pence is on "face the nation" saying this is what general flynn told me and january 26th you hear the office -- why not immediately act? >> i don't understand how that's a due process. what the attorney general didn't come in and the acting attorney general come in and say there was an issue. she said we wanted to give you a heads up that there may be information, okay? she could not confirm there was an investigation, an

in all likelihood it was pursuant to fisa warrant that would render those calls classified material. obviously that was made public. it was given to the press. it's pretty clear at this point that there was an effort to bring it to the administration, right, so sort of early briefings. and then it appears that what was sort of the motivation for the leaks was the administration's failure to recognize the concerns of the individuals that were career civil servants and also false statements to the public. that's something that i think will start to become more of a pressure point, or may encourage really, you know, not unprecedented behavior but certainly an unprecedented scale, we're see manager leaks than we ever have and the rate is astounding. and then it really, it's going to be in response to how we hear the administration talk. i do think if there becomes a sense that the white house is not accurately representing things, that there will be more of a tendency to try and alleviate that pressure. there is also the tension between sort of the need for secrecy and security and the r

the executive branch many of the powers that president bush took upon himself in routing around the fisa court, that happened only after a full discussion about whether or not that was the right way to go. so i think that what this, what we've learned out of all of this and what we've learned really in the era since the pent gone papers is that it's very important to have that conversation so that we understand that something we're about to publish could cost a life, cost an ongoing operation, cost an imminent operation and i don't think most people in the responsible media want to go do that but that also means that we have to make a judgment about whether the broader discussion about whether we're heading in the right direction with a set of policies gets aired, and there's a way to go do that, to move through that line. the point's been made in the world of the internet where everybody's a publisher, not everyone is going to show that judgment and that's certainly one of the big challenge of our time. >> we should also take a position of humility on this, and i think ben could would a

michael flynn's phone calls, and i have no idea how they were obtained, but it is pursuant to the fisa warrant that would render the content of the phone u calls classified material, and it is made public and givetone the press. it is clear at this point that there was an effort to bring it to the administration, right? so early briefings, and then it appe appears that what was sort of the motivation for the leaks was the administration's failure to recognize the concerns of the individuals in the clear civil servants and also h false statements to the public. so that is something that is going to be become more of a pressure point or may encourage really, you know, not unprecedented behavior precedented scale, and we are seeing more on a scale that we have seen, and the rate is astounding, and it is going to be in response to how we hear the administration talk. i do think that if there is a sense that the white house is not accurately representing things, that there will be more of a tendency to try to alleviate that pressure, and there is always a tension between sort of the needcr

. >> bill: under the fisa law you can listen to conversations from those overseas but you need causeder to listen to conversations on americans. so then as you interpret that law, was that a violation? was a law broken or not? >> again, i don't want to be discussing things that really should be only discussed in a classified setting. and that's the problem with what these leaks are. we are now talking about what the u.s. government is doing monitoring different types of phone calls. that never should have been leaked. it should not be in the public domain right now but it is. that's very unfortunate, which is why it's quite serious. >> bill: nancy pelosi came out with a statement moments ago. flynn's resignation is a reflection of the poor judgment of president trump and the man's answers to the grave questions over the president's involvement. what would you say to the house minority leader on that, senator? >> i wasn't privy to any of those conversations so i don't know why in the end general flynn decided to resign. but i actually do appreciate in a leader loyalty to people that w

actual evidence, that the fbi has tranripts of these intercepts which i assume were done by the nsa via fisar. was think any communication between the white house counsel and fbi, did those transcripts ever -- >> was there communication between the white house counsel and justice department, i will not get into that. because of nature of information being discussed. >> why not dismiss the january 27th. if the question was trust, immediately january 15th, on faisst the names, saying that this is what general flynn told me. january 26th, you hear the opposite. why not immediately act. why wait another 2 1/2 weeks. >>> i don't understand how that is not due process? acting attorney general came in said there was issue. wanted to give you heads up there may be information, okay? she could not confirm there was an investigation. it would be unbelievably shortsighted and wrong to go in and dismiss someone immediately. what the president did take decisive action to make sure the white house counsel thoroughly reviewed and vetted the situation. he took immediate, decisive action. if you look at the

patriot act, and later the fisa amendments. we disagreed on those.disagreed on amendments that introduced with senator durbin to limit the intrusiveness of u.s. intelligence gathering activities, relative to american citizens. we continue to disagree on a number of things over the years. senator leahy and i introduced the u.s.a. feedback on all that was had bipartisan support, signed into law by president obama that ended the warrantless practice of both metadata collection with regard to american citizens. senator sessions was a vocal, vigorous opponent of the usa freedom act. senator sessions disagree to strongly with another top priority of mine which involves criminal justice reform. senator durbin and senator whitehouse and several others who serve on this committee joined with me in pushing for a number of efforts to achieve criminal justice reform, including the sentencing reform and corrections act, and the smarting sensing act. he opposed us on those. senator sessions has disagree with me on a number of immigration reforms that i have suppor

disagreements as we were dealing with the reauthorization of the usa pa i patriot act and later the fisang the intrusiveness of u.s.-intelligence gathering activities relative to american citizens. we have continued to disagree on a number of things over the years. he introduced the freedom act signed into law by president obama that ended the warrantless practice of bulk metadata collection with regard to american citizens. senator session was a vocal opponent of the usa freedom act. senator sessions disagreed strongly with another top priority of mine which involves criminal justice reform. senator durbin, senator white house and others who serve on this committee joined with me in pushing forward a number of efforts to receive the criminal justice act and he opposed us on those acts. senator sessions has disagreed with me on number of immigration reforms that i have supported. senator sessions opposed the work that i did with senator feinstein when we introduced the due process guarantee act which is designed to make sure that the u.s. government cannot indefinitely detain u.s. citize