this you the prelude to the big vote on the fisa authorization or section of fisa and this has to do with an amendment i believe you're part of this amendment, right? >> i am. >> this amendment by congressman justin amash, and this has to do with the unmasking, the revealing of the identity of americans, that is right, who might be sort of caught up in surveillance. tell us about this amendment and also with the knowledge you may not have heard of, but the speaker was on the floor arguing how if this amendment passes it would kill the entire program. >> well, i don't think he's right and i think you have an interesting combination of, you know, freedom caucus members and folks who on the democratic side who care deeply about civil liberties coming together to say look this amendment is very simple, it just says that you need to get a warrant if an american is caught up in this collection of data. there's a lot of sftuff that ges collected. if there is a criminal investigation that is going to move forward based on the collection of the data for an american citizen you need a warrant

the tweet on fisa? reporter: yeah. there has been questions raised about the president's fitness for the office and qualification. back in september of 2016, you said he is qualified and nominee. what would be the worst thing to have a businessman in office. now you have had 12 months of this. do you still stand by this? the speaker: what you saw on display, the meeting he had down at the white house with democrats and republicans on immigration, that's the meeting we always have with the president and i'm glad the country had a chance to see it. reporter: does it surprise you that the president of the united states doesn't seem to be aware of the white house's position is on fisa? the speaker: he knows what 702 is. reporter: leader mccarthy said that bob goodlatte thought the immigration bill is a good bill. the speaker: it is a good bill. we're working on that. i think it's a good bill and start putting ideas on the table. you know from the meeting i just referenced at the white house, the agreement was that the four

to continue fisa. the chamber started work on that today and look at the rule debate from this afternoon. one. collins mr. s pr, for the purposes of debate on i yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from florida, mr. hastings, pending which i yield myself such time as i may consume. during consideration of this resolution all time is yielded for the purposes of debate only. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on house resolution 682, currently under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. collins: thank you, mr. speaker. i am pleased to bring forward this rule on behalf of the rules committee. the rule provides for consideration of s. 139, the fisa amendments re-authorization act. the rule provides for one hour of debate with 40 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the house permanent select committee on int

the fisa amendments re-authorization act. as a former united states attorney, i know firsthand the enormous value that programs like section 702 provide in protecting our country. the threats have been thwarted through our intelligence and loirment communities having tools like section 702. chairman goodlatte, along with members of the judiciary committee, worked diligently on legislation to implement meaningful reforms while ensuring the law enforcement and against committees still had the necessary tools available. this bill includes many other reforms from the u.s.a. liberty act, enhances section 702 protections and maintains law enforcement's abilities. i would ask all members to join me in voting yes on this legislation. to implement real remorms while ensuring that we still provide the tools necessary to keep american citizens safe. and in conclusion, as a u.s. attorney, i have used this, my office used this section. we followed the law to the letter. there are no complaints. and i want the american people to realize so

also put out a new policy on fisa this morning. this is something that's been ongoing, a regular topic of discussion, and the president wanted to put something out. there's not much more than that. . reporter: sarah, i am not sure i got a clear answer from the treasury secretary of what this administration hopes to achieve with additional sanctions on iran. i want to give you a crack at that. sarah: i'll wait until additional sanctions are made before i weigh in. as the treasury secretary said, we anticipate that's likely to happen and we'll keep you posted as it does and what that process will look like. >> [inaudible] sarah: we have not made a final decision on jcpoa. >> [inaudible] sarah: obviously. reporter: back to immigration real quick. yesterday a group of house republicans butt out an immigration plan that would deal with daca but also do a whole lot of things that weren't kind of under the umbrella of the four things you guys outlined in the meeting yesterday. was that helpful? was that not helpful to getting to a deal ul

the house votes s on fisa act, said on twitter. the tweet, which was presumably prompted by something that he saw on fox news this morning sent the white house into a tailspin. his administration along with the intel community had been urging lawmakers to vote down a reform amendment to the bill. within hours chief of staff john kelly was on capitol hill trying to convince confused lawmakers that the president did actually support the reauthorization. while folks like paul ryan tried to explain away another presidential tweet. >> title one of the fisa law is what you see in the news that applies to u.s. citizens. that's not what we're talking about here. this is title seven, section 702. >> the president is supporting the vote today. he is supporting the abstention of 702. >> the president seems to contradict himself. >> i was confused by those tweets and what was said as well. so we'll see where the white house is. >> is the president confounding that process by tweeting about it again this morning? >> i love his tweets in general

the fisa amendments re-authorization act will extend the foreign intelligence surveillance act, or fisa, title 70 -- for six years while increasing oversight of its implementation at every level and providing for more robust privacy protections for americans. section 702 of fisa has proven to be an invaluable tool for collecting foreign intelligence and providing insight into the plans and intentions of our enemies. it's one of the national security administration's most important operational authorities. it permits the government to conduct targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the united states with the compelled assistance with electronic communication service providers to require foreign intelligence information. mr. speaker, this program is important to the national security cannot be overstated. while many examples of successes are classified in nature, i can tell you here today it's helped protect the homeland and american people. one declassified example that i can share with you concerns the story of haji who rose through the ranks of isis, eventually becomin

one does the president know what fisa is he responded he is aware of it, he knows what fisa is and then does he understand it paul ryan says he just has concerns about other parts of fisa. he went on to say it is well known he has concerns about fisa. he put out something that clarifies that to your point. >> you want this summed up by one tweet by congressman amash, get a warrant. you going to surveil an american citizen anywhere in the world. get a warrant. show the p.c., the probable cause and get a warrant i understand of story. >> harris: the moment you hear that voice on the other line. once have you sond and there is an american in that mix, you need a warrant. and senator rand paul told me yesterday the problem with not getting one and the slippery slope that that reveals is the fact that you just put so much hands in the power of a government that can't even look at all the information that it's gathering on all of us. >> sandra: yep. we have another fox news alert for you. ♪ >> that will include the wall. we need the wall for security. we need the wall for safety. we need the

the fisa amendments re-authorization act. as a former united states attorney, i know firsthand the enormous value that programs like section 702 provide in protecting our country. the threats have been thwarted through our intelligence and loirment communities having tools like section 702. chairman goodlatte, along with members of the judiciary committee, worked diligently on legislation to implement meaningful reforms while ensuring the law enforcement and against committees still had the necessary tools available. this bill includes many other reforms from the u.s.a. liberty act, enhances section 702 protections and maintains law enforcement's abilities. i would ask all members to join me in voting yes on this legislation. to implement real remorms while ensuring that we still provide the tools necessary to keep american citizens safe. and in conclusion, as a u.s. attorney, i have used this, my office used this section. we followed the law to the letter. there are no complaints. and i want the american people to realize so

taking up this fisa bill section 702. you saw paul ryan talking about that just before the top of the hour. this morning the president got up and tweeted out something very critical of the fisa law where he tweeted, quote: house votes on controversial fisa act today. this is an act that may have been used with the help of the discredited and phony dossier to so badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others. you know, the president's staff led by homeland security advisor tom bossert has been selling for weeks now the importance of renewing this fisa or what's called 702 authority, pushing it as a critical tool in rooting out people who could do harm to our nation overseas. the reaction was immediate. adam schiff leapt to the floor to say well, because of what the president said, maybe we should put this whole discussion on hold. listen here. >> in light of the irresponsible and inherently contradictory messages coming out of the white house today, i would recommend that we withdraw c

lets us know a whole bunch of people don't know anything about fisa. one thing that's really striking is who is -- who are these people speaking to and for? so if she was actually moderate in her response, if she was actually reasonable in her response, would donald trump understand sarah huckabee sanders to be vigorously defending him? and i think that person who stands in the white house who is watching television is the one that's driving all of this, right? he's the one that's actually leading these people to be snarky, mean-spirited, in their defense. and it's actually demeaning -- diminishing our country. >> we know that if the fbi is being smeared by donald trump, he described them as in tatters, where is sarah huckabee sanders going to get the space to do anything other than what she did today? >> look, i mean, these -- for all these people who are playing to the constituency of one, we've soon it now. steve miller. >> lindsey graham does it. >> every time they go on television they do it. for each of them, they are facing, every day, they get

. >> so for instance, if this is about a fisa, a renewal fisa that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein approved, in order to get an approval on a renewal, you have to show the fisa court that the existing fisa was giving you information, that you were getting valuable information. in order to get the renewal, so if they got a renewal that, means the court felt they were getting good information. >> i want to get more into that, but big picture here, you have christopher wray, the new director of the fbi, chosen by president trump, openly, is he not, defying the administration here and the justice department. >> certainly is. we're told there are people at the department of justice that did not want the fbi to do this, to issue this statement, to go public with their concerns over this. privately, certainly people at the fbi, at the department of justice who have spoken to us have raised this concern. but for the fbi to issue this kind of a statement so publicly, it's unprecedented, unheard of, and perhaps maybe the fbi is now saying, you know what, enough is enough. we've been beat up

they are trying to obtain a fisa warrant to spy on the trump campaign. sources tell us that the first request for the warrant was rejected. they said no which rarely happens. that's when the clinton bought and paid for phoney russian dossier was used. they were granted the fisa warrant and that allow the obama administration to target an opposing candidate in an election. this is part of the importance of fusion gps and the co-founder simpson. this was released yesterday. he didn't verify what was in the dossier. he trusted the person he was paying. a british spy steele. his skilled nature is what? his skill is depension. -- deception. we learned that the clinton campaign and dnc knew he was reaching out to the media to get them to right stories about the fabricated russian dossier. just like we have been telling you, clinton bought and paid for a dossier. $12 million. it was going right through one lawyer to her campaign. right through to the dnc. in it what do we? russian lies. all in an attempt -- he rigged the election against bernie sanders and now

. >> this is based on a fisa warrant. >> exactly. >> to tell our viewers a fisa warrant, you need multiple things in order to get a fisa warrant. there's word that they're talking about the dossier in this memo and saying the dis was used to get a fisa warrant against carter page. it would need to be more than that, though,, right? >> well, and what we're being told is it was a lot more than that and by, again, we're sort of talking around something we haven't seen, but only based on what people have said, they've been told by other people who have seen it, that the dossier is only if it's part of the fisa application, it's only a small part. and we can concluded what everybody's saying, at least people who think this shouldn't come out is, if that's what the memo says it ignores the other stuff that was in the fisa application. >> pete williams in washington. thank you very much. >> you bet. >>> last night while staying hands with republican lawmakers, president trump was caught on a hot mic telling one lawmaker he would release the memo. >> release the memo. >> don't worry, 100%. >> this

sean, who was in relationship to who when it came to the fisa warrants? how do they operate with one another? what were these really egregious actions that took place that only this memorandum and report can tell us? i've been watching my twitter feed and watching twitter all day and i am seeing hashtag release the document, #releasedadocument, the american public deserves to know the truth. it isha absolutely essential tht we understand what is happening and this is a duly elected president of the united states of america and of people within our own government were trying to usurp that and change the trajectory that the american people need toca know. >> sean: i agree with you. "the wall street journal" is demanding the same thing. congressman jordan, we deserve to see this. do you agree with that? how soon can we get our eyes on the documents? great question. chairman nunes in the intelligence committee cantt brg the committee back together, they can have a vote. if the majority votes to release these documents, the executive branch gives a certain amo

the fisa amendments re-authorization act will extend the foreign intelligence surveillance act, or fisa, title 70 -- for six years while increasing oversight of its implementation at every level and providing for more robust privacy protections for americans. section 702 of fisa has proven to be an invaluable tool for collecting foreign intelligence and providing insight into the plans and intentions of our enemies. it's one of the national security administration's most important operational authorities. it permits the government to conduct targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the united states with the compelled assistance with electronic communication service providers to require foreign intelligence information. mr. speaker, this program is important to the national security cannot be overstated. while many examples of successes are classified in nature, i can tell you here today it's helped protect the homeland and american people. one declassified example that i can share with you concerns the story of haji who rose through the ranks of isis, eventually becomin

was there systemic abuse with the fisa warrant? is it just related to the hillary clinton campaign or does it go beyond? >> sean: it would render anything they've got inadmissible. the media has been trying to sell "the new york times" report. gregg jarrett made a good point to me earlier today. in fact, that it was "the new york times" reporting that papadopoulos mouthed off to an australian diplomat he heard the russians had dirt on hillary. that's not even admissible. that's triple here say. >> senator feinstein started this yesterday when she released this whole fusion gps testimony. i say let's go ahead and release it all to all the members. if there is nothing that is of national security interest, then lets release it to the american people and let them be the judge. there is no collusion, nothing to hide. let's get it out there. >> you're right, sean. story in the "new york times" a week half ago was laughable. >> sean: a guy in russia tells a guy in london who tells papadopoulos who tells an australian diplomat who tells t

fisa saved 60 lives in new york city. >> another incident where fisa reportedly was involved in helping to prevent a terror attack. >> he was running operations and the only in roads do we have and the only thing is through fisa. it's all covered under the fisa law. >> what about concerns for privacy over u.s. citizens? you have a lot of lawyers sitting on this. this stuff is not disseminated. i have seen cases where cnn anchors have been intercepted and you had to call it up and know someone to get the names. the deep state is after them and not true. it's a pair notice a. >> thanks for the plain explanation. let's bring in jackie spear from house who serves on the house intelligence committee. thanks for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> you just voted no on the fisa act. why? >> so first of all let me say that the men and women who serve us in the nsa and cia who rely on 702, i totally support. i will say that this particular reauthorization expands 702. the privacy communities and advocates would prefer to have reauthorization of the existing law rather than this proposal. they add

official going forward seeking fisa surveillance. and the court can reject or send the application back and ask questions or ask for more information. and so, again, this is i think in concert with what the president said in early 2017 when he first accused the obama administration of wiretapping trump tower. they continue to make baseless attacks against the fbi and without going into contents of this memo, this is just more efforts to really just torch the entire fbi building. not caring what it does to the importance and independence of the rule of law. >> why is chairman nunes involved in this at all? i had understood that he had recused himself. what is his role? >> he had been recused, i guess in name only. he was still signing subpoenas up until this point, but he did preside not only in spirit, but in body at the meeting where they allowed the memo to be released to the house. i think that really defies his recusal. paul ryan can intervene. as you know, the chairman of the intelligence committee is not appointed by the house,

they took some of that information and used it in the fisa application.ublicans are quibbling about is that they tell that steele didn't tell the fbi that he was working for the democrats. what steele did tell the fbi is he was working for anti-trump forces. it's a distinction without a difference. the republicans are trying to blow up the whole application based on this one threat. what's a little disingenious is we have not seen the whole entire fisa application. these things are lengthy. there could be 30, 45 pages. this stuff about steel could be immaterial. >> we're not going to know it because we're only going to see their summary. they paid for it. it leaves out. the pages of information. that would make the gop memo. >> there's no way the fisa warrant was based on the dossier. this is really a short lived victo victory. then extended the fisa because it was obtaining information. this means there was a there there. it's really what they want to move. they are trying to prove the opposite. they are putting focus that will end up the exact effect. >

was their systemic abuse with the fisa warrant?s a just related to the hillary clinton campaign or does this go beyond? >> sean: it would render anything they got and admissible. the mediath has been trying to sell this "new york times" report, gregg jarrett made a good point to me today, in fact, it was "the new york times" reporting that papadopoulos mouthed off to some australian diplomat that he had heard that the russians had dirtru on hillary. that is not even admissible. that is tripleev hearsay. >> sean, that is exactly why we need to go ahead and be transparent with this. senator feinstein started this yesterday whend she released ts whole fusion gps testimony. i say, let's go ahead and release it all to all the members. if there is nothing that is of national security interest, then let's release it to the american people and let them be the judge. there is no collusion. there is nothing to hide, so let's get it out there. >> sean: jim?u' >> you're right, sean. the story in "the new york times" a week and a half ago, laug

so when the time was up for the initial fisa report, the fisa request, it was time to get an extension its face, i don't know that the dossier played in this very much at all. it could be considered corroborating. although we did not include the dossier in our original assessment that we published last january -- >> including a summary. >> it was separate however, some of what was in it was corroborated by the assessment derive from other sources of information. so it shouldn't completely dismisser totally what is in the dossier. steele was regarded as a retired former intelligence offer in the uk intelligence service. >> how damaging would it be? do you agree with democrats who are saying, this is just an attempt to destroy the fbi, to protect president trump? >> it certainly has that appearance. now they are acting as an agent on behalf of the white house and putting out a one party partisan memo he and then refusing to allow the democrats to publish, put out their rebuttal. so to me, this is, has the experience of purely a political stunt. >> general clapper, always good to see you.

fisa is about spying on foreigners in foreign lands. most of us agree the program has value and is useful but we should not use information collected without constitutional protection on americans. so at the very least there ought to be a warrant to search americans in the database. the database is enormous. we take millions of americans caught up in this database. history has not been forthcoming about how many americans are in the database through purely domestic information in the database and how often they are looking at it so we would like to see more protections for the americans and we would like to see that the constitutionis adhered to as it was intended. with that i'd like to introduce senator wyden . >> that you senator, great to be here with chairman leahy. what unites our bipartisan coalition is that we strongly oppose an end run on our constitution. we stand united in terms of fighting terrorists on foreign soil. that is not what is at issue. the fact however is 702, this law that we are debating , is a whole lot broader

i have been a critic of fisa for many years. i was back in fisa in a prehistoric age in the reagan administration as a young intern. i have opposed that court because the standards are so low in terms of engaging in surveillance of u.s. citizens. so it always raises alarm when people go to the fisa court as opposed to a regular federal court to engage in surveillance. if you add to that that they used dossier, if it is true, that was funded by a political candidate, and a political party at the dnc, the basis for the fisa, you are talking very serious allegations. now, we don't know for sure, there are other serious allegations here that should concern others. the suggestion of money laundering. >> martha: that's what i just wanted to ask you about. the issue of money laundering that's something that steve bannon also raised in the book. he said i think this is where the mueller investigation is going. what do you make of it? >> i think he may be right about that. that mueller brought on his team notably, a number of people whos

house votes on fisa act.he act that may have been used with the discredited phony dossier, says the president, to so badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others. we'll keep watching that. the president has got his eye on that as well. >> bill: this is what's going on the west coast. new video coming in from southern california. a car sliding down that road covered in mud and water. we're live on the scene as mudslides continue to threaten that area. look at that. >> sandra: unbelievable images. the suspect the last month's failed bomb attack in new york city now indicted on terror charges. the latest details next. >> bill: also president trump's personal attorney taking buzz feed to court over the anti-trump dossier. so is this the battle that he and the president can win? >> president trump: can't say things that are knowingly false and be able to smile as money pours into your bank account. we are going to take a very, very strong look at that and i think what the am

so back to carter page and the fisa warrant on him. it's a very important variety of things happening here. at that point the obama administration, they should have known that the dossier was totally false, full of salacious russian lies. it should have been suspect on its face value. now fusion gps, they never even verified what was in that dossier, never tried. because they trusted christopher steele who they hired who put it all together. the same christopher steele would reportedly, you know, pay russians to get information. and by his very nature, think about it, he has a former mi-6 guy. he was highly skilled in deception. so tonight's sources were familiar with this classified information only congress can see it right now. they are telling me that it's a case of show me the man and i will show you the crime. all right. now that you are up to speed on that part. we have a lot of questions for key people involved. now, we need to know what all of these top obama administration officials knew and when they found out. and exactly h

trump's tweet seemed to conflate the vote today with the larger fisa program. it also came shortly after a segment highlighting the fisa program aired on his morning show favorite, "fox and friends." >> i don't understand why donald trump is in favor of this. his woes began with unlawful foreign surveillance and unconstitutional domestic surveillance of him before he was the president of the united states. and now he wants to institutionalize this. mr. president, this is not the way to go. spying is valid to find the foreign agents among us, but it's got to be based on suspicion and not an area code. >> his tweet came soon after that aired and then later when asked at the white house briefing sarah huckabee sanders doubled down support for trump's narrative. >> on the president's first tweet this morning on fisa, when he said that it may have been used, the fisa act, to surveil and abuse the campaign, what specifically was he talking about there? he said may and abuse and surveil. could you point us in the direction? >> look, i think this is something we've tal

massive fisa abuses. this is a major development. those of you that called congress and tweeted and texted and puts notes on facebook to release the memo, you should be happy because you the american people deserve to know about these abuses. we will have all of the details as soon as we get them. also breaking this hour, we have a news media in this country that is obsessed with calling one of the biggest scandals in american history with a mountain of evidence and facts supporting it, they are trying to dismiss it as a conspiracy. the same media naifs that was pushing baseless conspiracy threes. we have in evidence and they have none. we put this montage together. take a look. >> we are looking at the possibility that the president of the united states and those around him during an election campaign colluded with a hostile foreign power to undermine the basis of our democracy. >> donald trump is afraid. a political hurricane is out there. call it hurricane vladimir putin. >> this is evidence of willingness to commit collusion. >>

this fisa, you talk about a post-constitutional america, mark.our books on the constitution are phenomenal, must-read by anybody who cares about it. we're seeing a presidential candidate fix a primary, who gets an exoneration before investigation with comey and struck, tries to fix -- talking about hillary. bought and paid for russian propaganda. then those laws are used to get a fisa warrant against the opposition candidate and incoming. and his team f that's not post constitutional, i don't know what is, mr. levin. >> couple of things about that. as an old chief of staff to an attorney general at the justice department. first of all, let me say this, as an american citizen to watch this is repulsive, unconscionable, to watch the mob media do what they're doing. last week we were told the president is mentally unstable. for months before that we're told me's cluing with the russians. today we are -- colluding with the russians. today we're told he racist. could lewding with the russians, mentally unstable, a racist. >> going to start a nuclear w

once the application is granted, the fisa court -- by the fisa court, it is good for 90 days.als are allowed. new information is required to renew. you just can't submit the same old paperwork. this is all to say one can't just run out and get a fisa warrant on somebody. >> this is extraordinarily complicated. here to break it down, nbc news national security reporter ken. analyst and former fbi special agent clint watts. and former assistant special watergate prosecutor, nick ackerman. ken, you have the home-court advantage. talk about the significance. the house intel committee has never used this power to release documents ever before. >> it's hard to overstate what a big deal this is. this has never been used in the history of our republic, as far as somebody can tell. it seems to be designed to allow congress to blow the whistle on serious wrongdoing in the intelligence committee. when democrats were investigating cia torre cuturto didn't use the rule. >> what about the republican's memo but not seeing the democrat's memo? >> it is a rigged game to fair-minded observers.

dn hierks also put out a new policy on fisa this morning. wanted to put something out. not much more than that. >> i'm not sure i got an answer to my question what this administration hopes to achieve with additional sanctions on iran. so i want to give you a crack on that. >> i'll wait until additional sanctions are made before i weigh in on what that would look like. but as the treasury secretary said, we anticipate that that's likely to happen and we'll keep you posted as it does and what that process will look like. michael? >> decision? >> yeah, we haven't made a final decision. >> outside of that? >>

house votes on controversial fisa act today. this is the act that may have been used with the help of the discreddy itted and phony dossier to badly surveil and abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others with a question mark. that directly contradicted trump's own administration statements to reauthorize the provision for its value in the fight against terrorism. 90 minutes later, the president walked back the comments tweeting, with that said, i have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today's vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. we need it. get smart. but the damage had been done in the eyes of some lawmakers. >> look, we speak on an almost daily basis. >> he thinks it's still in the bill. >> a mistake. the president is a posupporting vote. >> the president is echoing the latest message heard from a common daentator on fox news. >> peter, still there. in the end the president came around. the fisa it was reauthorized another six

we have set up procedures to improve this annually under the fisa courts. we have a probable cause requirement to protect u.s. persons. we do not need to be protecting anything but u.s. persons when it comes to this. i stand for civil liberties and the defense of national security. i would remind the people that are concerned about this focus thate civil liberties google, facebook, verizon, and at&t hold more information that the u.s. government has. oppose thei will amendment and support the reauthorization of 702. i urge this adoption. >> the gentleman yields. the amendment veiled 183-233. this is 30 minutes. >> thank you mr. speaker. i yield myself as much time as i can consume. under the usa writes act, the government can still use section 702 for its purpose of surveilling foreigners overseas. the government can continue to share, store, and access that data. difference is, has to do with the collection and use of innocent american eta. -- data. the amendment cannot harm if they are solely designed for foreign.intelligence we all want the intelligence

the fisa amendments re-authorization act. as a former united states attorney, i know firsthand the enormous value that programs like section 702 provide in protecting our country. the threats have been thwarted through our intelligence and loirment communities having tools like section 702. chairman goodlatte, along with members of the judiciary committee, worked diligently on legislation to implement meaningful reforms while ensuring the law enforcement and against committees still had the necessary tools available. this bill includes many other reforms from the u.s.a. liberty act, enhances section 702 protections and maintains law enforcement's abilities. i would ask all members to join me in voting yes on this legislation. to implement real remorms while ensuring that we still provide the tools necessary to keep american citizens safe. and in conclusion, as a u.s. attorney, i have used this, my office used this section. we followed the law to the letter. there are no complaints. and i want the american people to realize so

extension of 702, the amended fisa, past the house today. 256-164.t heads to the senate. one of the people possibly standing the way, senator paul, we will see how it develops. it was an interesting day on this issue and others. let's bring in the panel. fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. mara liasson, national political correspondent at national public radio and matt schlapp. judge, i will start with you because you started this morning on "fox & friends" and said this. >> i am scratching my head. i don't understand why donald trump is in favor of thi this. his woes began with unlawful foreign surveillance and unconstitutional domestic surveillance of him before he was the president. now he wants it institutionalized. this is not the way to go. spying is validated to find the foreign agents among us but it's got to be based on suspicion and not area code. >> bret: later on twitter, the president tweeted: "house votes on controversial fisa act today." this is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and

that shows severe fisa abuse against members of the trump campaign. the president needs to get final approval before you can see it. all of that plus a "hannity" expose into just how deeply corrupt and dishonest and conspiratorial they destroy trump media really is. they have been lying to you, the american people, for over a year while ignoring a mountain of evidence of wrongdoing and corruption in what is one of the biggest scandals in american history. that is tonight's breaking news, all important opening monologue, a busy hour. ♪ >> sean: we start tonight with a massive shake-up of the fbi. fox news now reporting that deputy director andrew mccabe has not been removed from his position at the bureau. this is very reports and pray the timing of mccabe leaving the barrel comes just hours after he went to capitol hill to view the classified memo, detailing obama era fisa abuse is against trump campaign.th "the daily beast" reporting that mccabe, james comey, and rod rosenstein, our own name to this document. other reporting suggesting the christophe

i've gotten fisa warrants.they involve extensive people, court review and there is a clear paper trail. you can go back and look to see the steps it took to get to its final destination. if it goes through a review i think it will end up validating the director's statement then you have a situation where you have an independent review also contradicting the president. it will be interesting to see if he hangs his hat on a chair that the chairman nunes didn't even look at the information on which this memo is based. >> i think jeff zeleny put it correctly, it will be news if the white house doesn't release this thing. thank you for your voice and experience with the fbi. the other breaking story this wednesday afternoon out of rural virginia. this train, carrying members of congress on to their legislative retreat in west virginia hit this garbage truck as it was rolling along and the impact, we're told, tossed lawmakers out of their seats, left one person dead. let's go live to senator jeff flake, speaking righ

but he has concerns with fisa more generally. >> sticking on the fisa topic. >> secretary sanders: at we are consistent. >> you did not see confusion and contradiction between the first tweet and the white house, then why two hours later issue the second tweet that seemed to clarify? >> secretary sanders: we were not confused, but some of you were. we wanted to make sure that you knew the white house position. i had several questions from people in the room, as i am sure all of you know, because most of you are the one sending them. to the president has been clear about what his position as. we have issued several statements, put out one last night that had to do with this. i cannot be more clear. i am speaking on behalf of the president and the administration on what our position is. i have laid that out several times here today. >> on medicaid and what cms put out today, critics would say that you need to be healthy to get a job in the first place. how are they wrong? >> secretary sanders: look, certainly won't want the american workforce to be healthy, and we are focused on helping

another story that's going to be out next week is the fisa memo. we expect that to be out some time after the state of the union in midweek. it's explosive. i know this not just from talking to congressional members and other law enforcement officials who have gone to congress as whistleblowers about fisa abuses. it should shock every american and it's a way to keep the country up check. it's one part of so many more pieces of the puzzle. a lot of the information is classified. it's classified information so we can't get our hand on it. they'll go ahead and put out the pieces, redact it, i think after the fisa memo. >> andrew weisman, the number two at mueller's operation send an e-mail supporting sally yates' order and went to hillary clinton's election-night party. >> sean: and he leaked information about paul manafort before he started investigating him to the a.p. so many conflicts all coming together. next week will be a massive news week on to the state of the union and the memo being released. when we come back, more breaking news this frida

inspector general but the fisa court and congress will continue watching the f.b.i.'s use of this program, and keep guard against such misuse. so i have to say i find the critics' arguments to be wholly without foundation. section 702 is constitutional and strikes a pretty good balance between security and privacy. there's no good reason to let this program expire, and no good reason to hold this authorization up any longer. let's remember, after all, that last year there were two terrorist attacks against new york city within six weeks. not to mention a christmas eve plot against pier 39 in san francisco that was disrupted. also, admiral rogers, the director of the national security agency, has testified that the intelligence community would not have been able to put together its intelligence assessment about russia's interference in our 2016 presidential campaign without this vital program. we face a lot of threats -- terrorism, spying, nuclear proliferation are just a few. they aren't going away any time soon and neither is the russian threat of meddling in our pol

they broke the story about fisa abuse and a warrant at trump tower.reaction, harvard constitutional law professorialan der show wits. good to see you again. you fear they're going to try and go after obstruction of justice. it was supposed to be about collusion. explain your fear. >> well, my worry is a constitutional crisis could be started if mueller starts probing the president's motives as to why he exercised his constitutional authority to why he fired comey and telling comeyy, comey to go easy on pipeline and prosecutors can't probe the motives and get in the brain of the president any more than when president bush pardoned casper wineberger. nobody thought thought to probe his mind or the workings of his mind. i think one possibility is for the president to say, look, ike -- i'll answer questions about alleged criminal conduct but not moti motives on my constitutional authority and if you press me on that we'll get that resolved in the supreme court before anybody can be charged with anything relating to obstruction of justice or exercising con

fisa. nancy pelosi is asking that the vote be rescheduled after a pair of contradictory tweets by president trump this morning. he first tweeted house votes on controversial fisa act today. this is the act that may have been used with the help of the discredited and phony dossier to so badly abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others question mark. now, that tweet seemed to call into question his own administration's position in favor of reauthorizing the program that allows the government to conduct foreign surveillance on u.s. soil. surveillance of foreign agents, potentially on u.s. soil. then came what appears to be a clean up by the president. 90 minutes after his first tweet, with that being said, i personally directed the fixed to the unmasking process since taking office and today's vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. we need it, get smart. that tweet, by the way, also inaccurate because fisa does allow the surveillance of