mr. wray gave a clear timeline. mr. wray: the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in rch, and we administratively closed the file in january, and earlier this month we received additional information and wet passed t as well. jane: the white house had saidck that the fbi cwere ongoing. >> this hearing is adjourned. jane: the rest of thing took place behind closed doors, but the public statements imply at america's domest divisions are becoming a threat even as its foreign enemies circle. for more on all this, my colleague katty kay oke earlier with leon panetta for her program "beyond 100 days." she started by asking the former ona director about the str message of russian interference in the election. sakatty: the m from those intelligence chiefs in the senate was pretty clear -- this has been a threat, it is still a threat, it is going to continue being a threat to american elections. and yet the president hastill not yet held a cabinet-level meeting on te issue.

mr. wrayelling congress he's not seen any fights and encouraging the fbi agents to ignore the noise on social media and tv. we'll discuss wray's distorted view of reality with dr. sebastian gork ka. >>> tonight, more evidence that special counsel robert mueller's team, a partisan hack. the latest addition of his team, a left wing activist. a full report coming up. >>> president trump pressuring democrat to act now on daca and immigration. >> this week i know you're working very hard on daca. everybody in the room wants daca. let's see if we can get that done and it would be a great achievement. we've been talking about it for many years and if we could do it would be a great achievement. >> a congresswoman says border security must come before any daca fix. she joins us. >>> christopher wray's stunning claim of no political bias at the agency. for months now the fbi has been open to scandal, scandaled over the discredited trump dossier, scandal over the texts and corruption investigation. buch

director's statement, mr. wray, and your statement yesterday seem to be at odds with one another. do you see anything that you'd like to clarify in terms of what i asked you today based upon your answer yesterday? sarah: as i said earlier, my understanding is any information would have gone to the personnel security office. that office had not completed their process in order to make a recommendation for adjudication to the white house. that was still ongoing, and, therefore, recommendations had not been made. reporter: you said the specific papers regarding the completion of the background check had not been received. sarah: that's part of that process that the white house personnel security office plays. run by career officials. and we hadn't received a recommendation from that office. reporter: yet, the f.b.i. director said under oath, the completed background investigation was actually submitted in late july. so which one is it? sarah: let me read this to you again. the white house personnel security office, staffed by career officials, received information last year in what t

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so let me begin with mr. wray. has the president directed you and your agency to take specific actions to confront and blunt russian influence activities that are ongoing? >> we're taking a lot of specific efforts to blunt. >> directed by the president? >> not as specifically directed by the president. >> director pompeo have you received a specific presidential direction to take steps to disrupt these activities? >> i'm not sure how specific. the president has made very clear we have an obligation from our perspective from the foreign intelligence perspective to do everything we can the make sure there is a deep and thorough under being of every threat including threats from russia. >> has he singled out the russian threat, which appears to be critical to this election coming up? i know there are threats from many different directors. have you received a specific threat very important to him to get this done correctly? >> yeah. i think the president has been very clear to ask our agency to do everything we can to

the administration has been vague about what it knew and when, but mr wray gave a clear timeline of informationd during border security clearance. the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march and then we administratively closed the file in january and then earlier this month we received some additional information and passed that on as well. the white house had said the fbi checks were ongoing. it will adjourn until the close of session at 2:30pm. the rest of the hearing took place behind chased deersg= but the public statements imply that america's domestic divisions are becoming a threat, even as its foreign enemies circle. let's ta ke let's take you back now to the report of the israeli police saying they recommend to the attorney general but the prime minister be charged with corruption offences. he does deny any eeqefeqf .. . fewer than 1.5inth this time as well they will result—innnth'ngfr w in israeli politics. the police recommendations ,, wieewfiei against him will now be handed over to israel's attorney general. it's up to this official to decide whether

the administration has been vague about what it knew and when, but mr wray gave a clear timeline of information border security clearance. the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march and then we administratively closed the file in january and then earlier this month we received some additional information and passed that on as well. the white house had said the fbi checks were ongoing. it will adjourn until the close of session at 2:30pm. the rest of the hearing took place behind closed doors, but the public statements imply that america's domestic divisions are becoming a threat, even as its foreign enemies circle. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. there's been a shooting in utah. details are still coming in. multiple people are reported to have been wounded. the incident took place in west valley city, just outside salt lake city. police are securing the scene. the american ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, has called on the security council to put pressure on the burmese leader, aung san suu kyi, to acknowledge that

the administration has been vague about what it knew and when, but mr wray gave a clear timeline of informationduring border security clearance. the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march and then we administratively closed the file injanuary and then earlier this month we received some additional information and passed that on as well. the white house had said the fbi checks were ongoing. it will adjourn until the close of session at 2:30pm. the rest of the hearing took place behind closed doors, but the public statements imply that america's domestic divisions are becoming a threat, even as its foreign enemies circle. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. the british actress and musician minnie driver has quit as an oxfam ambassador after 20 years‘ involvement. she says she's horrified and devastated at the allegations that staff in crisis zones paid for sex with vulnerable locals — and by oxfam's response. a statement from the charity says they are saddened by her decision, but understand and respect it. the american ambassador to t

the administration has been vague about what it knew and when, but mr wray gave a clear timeline of informationring border security clearance. the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march and then we administratively closed the file in january and then earlier this month we received some additional information and passed that on as well. the white house had said the fbi checks were ongoing. it will adjourn until the close of session at 2:30pm. the rest of the hearing took place behind closed doors, but the public statements imply that america's domestic divisions are becoming a threat, even as its foreign enemies circle. what does the white house make of all of this? i spoke to our correspondent david willis in washington. president trump has attempted to portray the suggestions of russian interference as sour grapes, if you like, on the part of hillary clinton and her campaign, but i have to say that we've had this basically across—the—board agreement on the part of the us spy chiefs, including the heads of the cia and fbi and the national security agency, out o

>> two things happen, one, mr. wray looked at the nunes memo. inspector general looking at fbi, and all took place during hillary clinton investigation, those things that i think he referenced. >> sean, i know you are in that train crash yesterday. i also know you were there with your wife, and also you'r your a children, is everyone okay if our family. >> yep, the kids and rachel of fine, our family think a lots of the americans are praying for two injured and one decided person from the truck, our hearts go out this those families. one the deceased had a child, and a fiance, we're heart broken about the loss. it was horrible. >> congressman sean duffy we appreciate it. >> yeah. >> we're coming right back with more. stay with us. >> president trump rallying republicans, as dems are in denial over president's economic successes. >> you would have thought on that one they would have at least clapped a little bit, that tells you perhaps they would rather see us not do well than see our country do great. >> are republicans likely to add to majoriti

mr. wray's call managing up through the d.o.j.? coip good morning, tom.with several top republican lawmakers about whether or not they still have confidence in mr. wray as a result of the nunes memo that came out on friday. now, so far, hardly any republicans, and no considerable republicans are calling for mr. wray's resignation. despite that, president trump expressing frustration with the f.b.i. now, as of now, there's no signs that president trump will fire christopher wray, but there's no question about the intense political fallout from this memo, which democrats, of course, say is nothing to see here. tom: there's a number of ways to go here, but what i found fascinating was the response over the weekend to the president's tweet. obviously the whole memo blowup. let me ask you an open question. which of those republican responses had the greatest interest to seven kirilee? coip senator james lank fomplt he's a republican from oklahoma, a member of the senate intelligence committee. i interviewed him at the west virginia retreat in a press conferenc

mr. wrayeen any fights and encouraging the fbi agents to ignore the noise on social media and tv. we'll discuss wray's distorted view of reality with dr. sebastian gork ka. >>> tonight, more evidence that special counsel robert mueller's team, a partisan hack. the latest addition of his team, a left wing activist. a full report coming up. >>> president trump pressuring democrat to act

. >> those two statements, the fbi director's statement mr. wray and your statement yesterday seem to be at odds with one another. do you see anything you would like to clarify based on your answer yesterday? >> my understanding is that any information would go to the personnel security office. that office had not completed its process. that was ongoing and therefore recommendation had not been made. >> the fbi director said under oath that the completed background information was actually committed in late ideal. >> the white house security personnel office received information last year in what they -- report in november. they had not made a final recommendation for adjudication for the white house because the process was still ongoing when porter resigned. the fbi's july report required significant additional investigatory fieldwork. we find those statements to be consistent with one another. >> those statements are not consistent with one another. and this isn't some esoteric policy dispute. just last week, he was being praised by the white hou

in this statement, mr. wray expressed, quote, grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy. in a letter to the memo's author, the representative devin nunes, the justice department says it is, quote, unaware of any wrongdoing relating to the fisa process. but the president and his allies don't accept those appeals delivered first in private, and when that didn't work, in rare public statements from officials appointed by this president, mind you, and yet contradicting this president. a public debate about how and when the u.s. surveils intelligence targets including americans would be fair and warranted. but is that what this president and his allies are after here? keep in mind the president is attacking those carrying out an investigation in which he and his advisors are involved. keep in mind as well that this is just the latest in a series of attacks on the fbi and other individuals and institutions involved in the russia probe, including but not limited to ja

mr. wray rosenstein had their own letter that they sent simultaneously to the democrats raising the questions and i have to say, paul, god knows what the american people are making of this right now. i mean, they must feel like they they were sucked in novel. you have one set of memos dueling with another set of memos. go back to the beginning of this, this is ultimately about whether trump was colluding with the russians, from day one that's always been a shaky story and i always wondered how are they actually going to nail down and verify that collusion was taking place and the difficulty of that is being played right now in the memos. paul: kim, on the democratic memo ten pages and the democratic memo only four, just on its face and length the chances increase that you could get some compromising of sensitive material, but i have to say, my view is trump ought to not play this game of this memo, that memo, just get the original fisa application out in total. let the american people see it a

mr. wray rosenstein had their own letter that they sent simultaneously to the democrats raising the questions and i have to say, paul, god knows what the american people are making of this right now. i mean, they must feel like they they were sucked in novel. you have one set of memos dueling with another set of memos. go back to the beginning of this, this is ultimately about whether trump was colluding with the russians, from day one that's always been a shaky story and i always wondered how are they actually going to nail down and verify that collusion was taking place and the difficulty of that is being played right now in the memos. paul: kim, on the democratic memo ten pages and the democratic memo only four, just on its face and length the chances increase that you could get some compromising of sensitive material, but i have to say, my view is trump ought to not play this game of this memo, that memo, just get the original fisa application out in total. let the american people see it a

mr. wray, you probably wind up with this more than anybody else. it gets messy, gets difficult and we've all got to recommit ourselves to what we're actually doing here to reach the right facts. i would respectfully disagree with my good friend from virginia that we are no better prepared to handle the russians onslaught in '18 than we were in '16. when this happened in '16 those of us on this committee, those of you at the panel and most everyone who works in the ic were not surprised to find out the russians were attempting to med until our affairs and after we had the best hearings we've had this year was the open hearing we had on how they used social media and we saw how disjointed it was, how ineffective it was, how cheap it was for them to do that but after that with all due respect to my friend from virginia, i think the american people are ready. i think they'll look askance a lot more at the information that this attempted to be passed out through social media. the american people are smart people, they realize there's people attempting t

so those two statements, the fbi director's statement, mr. wray and your statement yesterday seemed to be at odds with one another. do you see anything that you'd like to clarify in terms of what i asked you today based upon your answer yesterday? >> as i said earlier, my understanding is any information would have gone to the personnel security office. that office had not completed their process in order to make a recommendation for adjudication to the white house. that was ongoing. recommendation had not been made. >> regarding the completion of the background checks had not been received -- >> that's part of that process. that's run by career officials and we haven't received a recommendation from that office. >> had the fbi director today said under oath that the completed background investigation was submitted in late july, so which one is it? >> let me read this to you again. the white house security office received information last year in what they considered to be the final background investigation report in november. they had not made a

mr. wray, are you aware of a gentleman by the name of oleg daraposka? >> i have heard the name. >> fair to call him a putin-linked russian oligarch? >> well, i'll leave that characterization to others. and certainly not in this setting. >> chuck grassley, the chairman of the judiciary committee, last week sent a letter to a london-based lawyer who is a -- represents mr. dare pos ka and asked if christopher steele was employed either directly or indirect indirectly by daraposka at time of writing dossier. do you know if he worked for him? >> that's not something i can answer. >> could we discuss it in the classified setting? >> there might be more we could say there. >> thank you. maybe we'll hear back from the lawyer in london, as well, to give us a straight answer. jim comey testified before this committee in an opening setting last summer and he referred to the dossier as salacious. does that remain the fbi's position? >> i think maybe there's more we can talk about this afternoon on that. >> okay. thank you. i'd like to turn my attention to the pose

so those two statements, the fbi director's statement mr. wray and your statement yesterday seem to be at odds with one another. do you see anything that you would like to clarify in terms of what i asked you today based upon your answer yesterday in. >> as i said earlier, my understanding is any information would have gone to the personnel security office. that office had not completed their process in order to make a recommendation for adjudication to the white house. that was still ongoing. and therefore recommendation had not been made. >> you said the specific papers regarding the completion of the background check had not been received. >> that is part of that process that the personnel security office plays run by career officials and we hadn't received a recommendation from that office. >> yet the fbi director said today under oath that the completed background je investigation was actually submitted in late july. >> let me read this to you again. the white house personnel security office staffed by career officials received information l

. >> so, those two statements, the fbi director's statement, mr. wray, and your statement yesterday, seem to be at odds with one another. do you see anything that you'd like to clarify in terms of what i asked you today, based upon your answer yesterday? >> yeah, as i said earlier, my understanding is any information would have gone to the personnel security office. that office did not complete their process in order to make a recommendation for adjudication to the white house. that was still ongoing and therefore recommendation had not been made. >> the fbi director said the completed background investigation was actually submitted in late july. so, which one is it? >> let me read this to you again. the white house personnel security office staffed by career officials received information last year and what they considered to be the final background investigation report in november. but they had not made a final recommendation for adjudication to the white house because the process was still ongoing when porter resigned. in the view of personnel securi

so let me begin with mr. wraynd say has the president directed you and your agency to take specific actions to confront and blunt russian influence activities that are ongoing? >> taking a lot of specific efforts to blunt our speedy with a directed by the president? the president? >> not as specifically directed by the president. >> director pompeo, have you received specific presidential direction to take steps to disrupt these activities? >> sorry, i'm not sure how specific, i mean, the president has made very clear we have an obligation from our perspective from the foreign intelligence perspective do everything we can to make sure there's a deep and thorough understanding of every threat including threats from russia. >> but has he singled out the russian threat, which appears to be critical to this election coming up? i know there are threats from many different vectors, but have you received a specific -- >> i think the president has been very clear that he's asked our agency to cooperate with each of the in

and mr. wray probably you wind up with this more than anybody else. it gets messy. it gets difficult. i think we have all got to recommit ourselves to what we're actually doing here to reach the right facts. i would -- i would respectfully disagree with my good friend from virginia that we are no better prepared to handle the russians onslaught in '18 than in '16. when this happened in '16, those of us on this committee, those of you at the panel, most of you -- most everyone who works in the ic, we're not surprised to find out that the russians were attempting to meddle in our affairs and after we had the -- i think probably one of the best hearings we have had this year was the open hearing we had on how they used social media and we saw how disjointed it was, how ineffective it was, how cheap it was for them to do that. but i think after that, with all due respect to my friend from virginia, i think the american people are ready for this. i think that now they're going to look askance a lot more at the information that is attempted to be pass the out through soci

mr. wray, you'll probably wind up with this more than anybody else. it gets messy. it gets difficult. i think we've got to recommit ourselves to what we're actually doing here to reach the right facts. i would respectfully disagree with my good friend from virginia that we're no better prepared to handle the russians' onslaught in '18 than we were in '16. when this happened in '16, those of us on this committee, those of you on the panel, and most everyone who works in the ic were not surprised to find out the russians were attempting t meddle in our affairs. i think one of the best hearings we've had this year was the open hearing we had on how they used social media. we saw how disjointed it was, how ineffective it was, how cheap it was for them to do that. but i think after that, with all due respect to my friend from virginia, i think the american people are ready for this. i think that now they're going to look askance a lot more at the information that is attempted to be passed out throu

>> a key question is what is mr. wray going to do. he's been slapped big time by the president of the united states. he's the fbi director. he was approved six months ago or so. what will is rod rosenstein and the deputy attorney general, can they stay on the job after being publicly humiliated by the president of the united states, after grave concerns of releasing this memo. >>> everybody stand by. we got a statement from the democratic leader in the house, minority leader nancy pelosi, saying this. i'll read her words. donald trump has surrendered his constitutional responsibility as commander in chief by releasing nunes' unredacted classified memo. his decision undermines our national security and is a bouquet to his friend putin. that was strong words. we'll assess that. a lot more coming up. i'll also speak live with a republican member of the house intelligence committee. this is cnn's special live coverage. we'll be right back. relief and zicam intense sinus relief. for colds and allergies, get your better back with zicam nasa

he wants to see the director of the fbi, mr. wray, step down. what is your answer to that?t of all if there were mishandlings of the fbi we ought to investigate it and those folks should be held accountable. let's be very clear. in spite of them looking into this particular individual and the state of florida, he still would have been able to acquire the weapon he acquired. he still would have been, at the age of 17, as a teenager, been able to get access at an ar-15, shooting off 35 rounds in 60 seconds. his mental health capacity still would not have prevented him from being able to do what he has to do. the fbi has to be held accountable. we have to not move the buck, make sure that the republican governor and legislature are held fully accountable for the changes they have the power to implement. don't kick the can down the road or divert the attention away from the fbi. they will be dealt with. i want to hear from the governor and the legislature what they will do to keep our kids safe. that's their job. >> donald trump rescinded the directive order that made it harder

mr. wray probably you will wind up with this more than anybody else. it gets messy and difficult.nk we've all got to recommit ourselves to what we're actually doing here to reach the right facts. i would respectfully disagree with my good friend from virginia that we are no better prepared to handle the russians onslaught than we were in 2016. when this happened in 2016, those of us on this committee, those of you at the panel and most of you -- most everyone who works in the i.c. were not surprised to find out that the russians were attempting to meddle in our affairs. i think probably one of the best hearings we've had this year was the open hearing we had on how they used social media and we saw how disjointed it was, how ineffective it was, how cheap it was for them to do that. but i think after that, with all due respect to my friend from virginia, i think the american people are ready for this. i think that now they are going to look a lot more at the information that is attempted to be passed out through social media. the american people are smart people. they realize that

mr. wray, are you aware of a gentleman by the name of oleg daraposka. >> i heard the name. >> fair to call him aputin russianin-linked oligarch? >> i will leave that. >> sent a letter to london based lawyer, who represents him, and asked if christopher steele was employed directly or indirectly by him at thetime he was running the so-called steele dossier. do you know if christopher steele worked for him? >> that's not something i can answer. >> could we discuss it in classified setting? >> there might be more we can say there. >> thank you. >> maybe we'll hear back from the lawyer in london as well to give us a straight answer. jim comey testified before the committee inopen setting last summer and referred to the dossier as salacious and unverified. the thought? >> we can talk more on that this afternoon. >> i want to talk about chinese telecom companies. senator rubio talked about threat of rising china and threat of confucious centers. and telecom companies pose to our country. that's why

steve: if devin nunes releases this and the president releases it that mr. wray should quit.sident of the united states was out in west virginia addressing the republicans. here he is, he is talking about how the economy has taken off and, of course, nancy pelosi, famously, talking about how that's just crumbs. listen to this. >> and then we got hit with these corporations giving tremendous bonuses to everybody. that nancy pelosi called crumbs. that was a bad -- that could be like deplorable. does that make sense? deplorable and crumbs? steve: of course, deplorables came back to haunt hillary rodham clinton, the big question is does nancy pelosi think crumbs was a problem? listen to this. >> there is some tax advantage in the beginning for families, and that's their enticement. while they give banquets to the rest of the -- to the high end, to the top 1%, to the corporate america. they are giving i say crumbs. they mocked me in ads for saying. compared to the banquet they give at the high end. brian: it really could be trouble. as you see there is something going out there. t

i think there is an opportunity right now for christopher wrai and m -- wray and mr. rosenstein to come forward and say, we have a lot of great people working for us, but this is a great opportunity for them to say, let's air our laundry. let's see if someone did something wrong. let's see if we just need to public setting for this. >> do you agree with trey gowdy who says the dossier has nothing to do with meeting at the trump tower in new york, it has nothing to do with cambridge analytica. it has nothing to do with the papadopoulos meetings in great britain? it doesn't have anything to do with obstruction of justice? so there's going to be a russia probe even without the dossier? do you agree with trey, gowdy. >> i agree, and what we're talking about with the memo is a sub set, if you will. we're talking about the dossier operates, and you got to think about this court. it's one of the few courts when you're seeking a warrant that the cues does not . >> we know it's a phony if you're withholding evidence. i'm not saying it was done on purpose, but it sure looks lik

he was joined by florida governor rick scott who on friday called for wray to resign. but mr. trump did not discuss wray's future or the fbi. instead he praised the first responders. >> the president also visited a south florida hospital where some of the victims are being treated. he is spending the holiday weekend at his south florida resort which is about 40 miles from the parkland. man yell bojorquez has more. good morning. >> the fbi says it will investigate how that tip was mishandled. 5 1/2 weeks before nikolas cruz allegedly gunned down 17 people, they say they received a tip about the suspect's gun ownership and desire to kill people and potential of shooting people. the tip did not get passed on to the miami field office for followup. now the attorney general wants a review and the florida governor is calling for wray to resign. >> what would you say to people who believe fbi missed a chance to prevent this tragedy? >> the potential of the fbi to miss something is always there. we will be looking into where and how if the protocol broke down and we'll come back strong

mr. boudish moving up to the number two spot under director wray? >> i don't have any personnel announcements on that front but you win for biggest and best word used. >>. >> i didn't say anything about

he was joined by rick scott who called for wray to resign. mr. ump did not discuss wray's future or the fbi. instead he praised the first responders. >> the president visited a south florida hospital where some victims are being treated. president trump is spending the holiday weekend at his florida resort about 40 miles from parkland. >> reporter: good morning. the fbi says it will investigate how it mishandled that tip which the agency says came from someone woo who was close to th shooting suspect. 5 1/2 weeks before cruz allegedly gunned down 17 people at stoneman douglas high the fbi said it received a tip about the gun ownership, desire to kill people and the potential of him conducting a school shooting. the tip did not get passed on to the miami field office for follow up. florida governor rick scott is calling for fbi director christopher wray to resign. miami fbi agent in charge. >> what would you say to people who believe fbi missed a chance? >> the potential of the fbi to miss something is always there. we will be looking into where an

wray. received both his presidential appointment as former head of los angeles fbi under former director comey. given the administration's almost contumacious criticism of mr. comedirector comey. given[cheering] y-- >> [laughter] >> any objection to him moving to the spot under director wray? definitelys: you deserve the award for best and biggest use of a word. >> current government funding runs out thursday. the house voted to fund the government through march 23. the legislation now heading for action in the u.s. senate. live coverage of the house is tn c-span and the senate on c-span2. >> c-span's washington journal, live with news and policy issues that impact you. coming wednesday morning, oklahoma republican congressman steve russell will join us to discuss the latest on the deal to avoid a government shutdown in the government's waste watch report. then we are live from jackson, mississippi for the next stop on the c-span 50 capitals tour. joining us will be attorney general jim hood, talking about key policy issues in his state. democratic congresswoman carolyn maloney on efforts to avoid a government shutdown, and volatility in u.s. financial mar

mr. caray made a really -- christopher wray made a really rare statement. he would listen to him them but now you decide that you will listen to them. we will see how this works his way through it will be interesting. >> ryan riley, huffington post. >> there are no rules here. this is a total lawlessness! [multiple speakers] >> you are no longer obligated to give the president sound legal advice. so should he talk to robert mueller? and second, hessian democrats think about james comey these days? >> to the president talk to robert mueller? that is a determination he and his lawyers will have to make. it will be interesting to see how this plays out. i think the possibility exists that even in common with the receipt of a subpoena, that the president might not speak to robert mueller. it is entirely possible that he could use his fifth amendment privilege. which would be almost fatal for any other politician. but if this president says he catches on fifth avenue and no suffer any negative political consequences, number five is an interesting one. you fifth

mr. rosenstein and christopher wray have an opportunity to come out shining. this is not about degrading the fbi or doj. i can tell you, we spend a lot of time with members of the fbi with with the department of justice, and i have the highest and utmost respect for them, but when you're sitting at the top, you may have the opportunity to say, you know what, we're going to make sure the american people have trust in what we do and we will go down this road and take a look at everything. >> except when you talk about transparency and you're saying this memo, the release of the memo underscores there needs to be some sort of transparency, whether it be in the fbi or the fisa court, i mean, the way in which it operates in a clandestine way is to help protect investigations, right? so this memo only underscores or underlines a portion of the process of this fisa application and warrant, but it doesn't tell the whole story, whereby it leads to a lot more confusion. so how do you see the release of this memo actually clarifying a process or offering, you know, a rea