somewh somewhat vindicated. joining us now from washington is military analyst cedric leighton. let s start with this. nunes. what is he suggesting? is it u.s. spy agency abused their powers? if so, how? dave, good morning. that is the fundamental question here. part of the problem with what representative nunes said was all of this was leg. he was concerned about the intercepts that he took to the president, but he said it was all done under fisa court order and all legal. apparently all of the targets were foreign entities. if that is the case, dave, you have something that happens in the course of normal collection. it seems strange that he would think this would be the right thing to do to go to the president at this stage of the
connections two russian interference in the election. who knows what impact that would have had on the campaigns. it just seems to be a little bit selecti selective outrage. it could be selective outrage, but don t forget, the last item you re talking about there is that it involves trump, that came out as a result of fisa court order, that came out in october, so i don t know whether you can equate that with what went on the previous eight months of last year. also, let me ask you, on the wiretapping, you know what came out or what didn t come out yesterday. do you believe that the president should say, i was wrong about accusing president obama of wiretapping me, calling him bad and sick. do you think he should apologize or not apologize? let s not get too far. do you think he should own it was a mistake? your question is based on what i heard yesterday. that s where you started your question. i can t answer your question, because i didn t have one eye on the television set all
admiral rogers i ll begin with a question to you concerning the foreign intelligence surveillance act. now admiral, as you know, the foreign service, foreign intelligence surveillance act provides the circumstances or authority under which the intelligence community may collect or intercept the communication of a foreign person located outside of the united states or as mr. comey indicated a person who is covered under a fisa court order with mr. rooney and gowdy you discussed the minimization procedures under the foreign intelligence surveillance act and those minimization procedures are supposed to protect the privacy rights of u.s. citizens. specifically it s geared toward the communications of those who may be inadvertently or incidentally collected as a result of the intelligence community s lawful collection of communications of others. mr. rogers, is the intelligence community required to cease
admiral rogers, i m going to begin with a question to you. now, admiral, as you know, the foreign service foreign intelligence surveillance act provides the circumstances or the authority under which the intelligence community may collect or intercept. the communication of a foreign person located outside of the united states or as mr. comey has indicated, a person who is covered under a fisa court order. with mr. rooney and mr. gowdy, you discuss the minimization procedures under the foreign intelligence surveillance act and those minimization procedures are supposed to protect the privacy rights of u.s. citizens. specifically it s geared towards the communications of those who may be inadd verptly or incidentally collected as a result of the intelligence community s lawful collection of communications of others. mr. rogers, is the intelligence community required to cease
unfounded wiretap allegation took some interesting turns today. began with bipartisan members of the senate intelligence committee saying they ve seep no evidence that president obama ordered president trump s phones tapped during the campaign. came out at a perez briefing where sean spicer gave a long and winding and contradictory defense saying president trump stand by the claim. paul ryan and others have been briefed. here s what he told wolf blitzer a short time ago. we have not seen any evidence that there was a wiretap or a fisa court order against trump tower or somebody in trump tower. so should the president of the united states, do you believe, apologize to former president obama and apologize to the american people for making such an assertion? i m going to leave it to him to make his decisions. you still personally trust president trump? yes. back now with the panel. i was trying to remember an incident where the president or donald trump as a citizen really has