i like jim bakker, with whom did work for five or six years, i cannot call if you left before i did or not, but in any event, i'm pleased to be here. you may be aware as a result of an op-ed that i happen to publish on the 23rd of january i think it was, it may be what i consider to be a very modest for proposal, which i will repeat this afternoon. having to do both with the process in certain applications of the court, and it will perhaps, enhance public confidence in some of the decisions the court reaches. that proposal is quite simply, that congress give the fisa ,ourt judges either discretion or perhaps direct them to obtain the services of outside independent counsel when the court is resented with something that is new and novel. this would happen on very rare occasions. one of the things i want to emphasize is how infrequently this type of representation would be necessary. the vast majority of fisa applications are simply fact- based. there is a very low rumble cause standard. the probable cause showing, working on behalf of a terrorist or terrorist organization, once that is

. >> jim bakker, you said in your opening remarks, i hope i'm not misquoting you but i think he said something along the lines of we have gone as far as we can with the fisa court, my words, -- would you extend speed as i was referring many to section 72 to but i think it applies to section two which is the outer limits of what we currently expect the court to do. and we shouldn't think of them in some sort of super inspector general that is conducting oversight of the activity of the intelligence community. i think there's significant constitutional issues with that but i think a lot of practical issues with the. the court is not resource to do that. the judges are not trained to do that in that way. they just playe play a differene and so i'm trying to set expectations. i'm urging you to set expectations in a realistic way with the american people about what you can reasonably expect the court to do. that applies to congress. what can members of congress and the staff recently expected to do when it comes to conducting oversight of the agency's. and in my opinion the primary sponso

remember jim and tammie faye bakker, famous televangelists, got rich preaching on television and tellingto send them money. one thing they did with all the money they made was they fit a theme park, heritage usa which does not exist anymore. it did give us one of the greatest photos of all time their fellow televangelist jerry falwell going down the water slide in a suit. these tell evangelists made the holy land experience where bill mahr memorably has a debate with a guy paid to look like jesus. the prayer tower in tulsa, oklahoma, built by televangelists. real credit to goes to televangelists building colleges. oral roberts university in oklahoma in the 60s. remember jimmy swaggart. the bible college. pat robertson, christian broadcasting university, regent university, jerry falwell founded liberty university. televangelists used to build mansions, towers, theme parks, now they build colleges. it turns out they help each other out. some times hard to tell them apart. when oral roberts university failed to have a law school, they boxed up their whole law school library and mailed tight