president trump if you will saying to the crowd in davos it is obvious to everyone, climate change. no one invited here doesn t understand climate change. at that moment, there were laughs and applause around the room. that gives you the sentiment into when you president trump is walking. not so. macron saying hard to believe when you see the snow. thank you, nic. the justice department saying it is reckless to release a classified memo without the department and the fbi a chance to review it. media reports say the memo describes abuse of fisa authority by the fbi. the justice department to chairman devin nunes asks why they seek to disclose classified and sensitive information without consulting with the members of the community.
expected a few of those. he talked to jim conway about the rash of intelligence leaks that ended up in the media. watch this. would director brennan have access to an unmask u.s. citizens name? in some circumstances, yes. think of national security advisor susan rice have access to an unmasked u.s. citizens name? yes, in general, any other national security advisor board. do you agree much of what is learned from these programs is classified or otherwise legally protected? all fisa applications reviewed by the court collection by us pursuant to our fisa authority is classified. the dissemination of us which is a felony of 210 years in prison? unauthorized dissemination of classified or otherwise legally protected material punishable by a felony of up to ten years in federal prison? yes, as it should be.
all fisa applications reviewed by the court, collection by us pursuant to our fisa authority is classified. is the dissemination of which is punishable by up to ten years. unauthorized classified. up to ten years in federal prison. yes, as it should be. all right. in january of this year the washington post reported according to a senior u.s. government official a named citizen and i will not use the name. a named u.s. citizen phoned a russian ambassador several times on december 29. in february of this year, the washington post reported nine. nine current and former officials who were in senior positions at multiple agencies
trump tower or an e-mail sent. the dossier has nothing to do with george papadopoulos s meeting in great britain. doesn t have anything to do with obstruction of justice. is it possible to predict what impact what gowdy had to say might have on the gowdy is interesting in this. he was one hillary clinton s primary antagonist through the benghazi process. he has credibility with the same type of conservatives who want to make this memo into a huge deal and he s also an ally and friend of speaker ryan and his language and the speaker s language has been very similar on this. they both focused on the idea that this people memo purports describe abuse of fisa authority. it needs to stay there. doesn t talk about mueller or the russia investigation, which they say it needs. we ll see if gowdy s credibility