was justified, the fisa application for carter page? listen, i ve said before there are things that should never find their way in the public domain. fisa applications are one of those. i think it s an awful precedent. if the american people learned anything from it release, it was that there was great justification of the courts as to why the fisa application was approved. richard burr. joining me now is minnesota senator amy close into share. thanks for joining us. thank you, katy, great to be on. what do you make of senator burr saying that, that the fisa application process for carter page which many in the republican party have been using as an example of why they believe this investigation is politically motivated and why it s not fair to the president, what do you make of senator burr on the senate intelligence
cia and the department of defense has a little looser rules. malcolm, i have to ask you to hold for a second. peter alexander is standing up there. let me go to him before this press conference starts. peter, what s going on? it s 45 minutes after when this presser was supposed to start. reporter: i can t tell you that. it was supposed to start 45 minutes but 15 minutes before this scheduled news conference that s when it release came out from the senate intelligence committee not only saying there was no indication of any wiretapping but no indications of any surveillance broadly before, during or after the 2016 election. as you can imagine, on a day when the white house was expected to be talking about, defending, reinforcing the budget blueprint, instead they re going to be defending, fending off a lot of questions about the president s claim that president obama wiretapped trump tower during the course of that campaign. among the questions reporters in this room certainly want
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then denied tax deductions to tea party groups for more than a year and harassed them with question after question and in a few cases, leaked their donor lists. sometimes leaked them to left wing groups. that is despicable. this is just raw political abuse. brook rollins runs one group that was abused. the texas public policy foundation. what happened to you guys? well, john, what happened to us in the spring of last year, 2012, our donor list and as a 501 c 3 charitable organization, which is what our organization is, we have to file with the irs a list of larger donors. but as you know, that list is supposed to remain anonymous and the irs in return promise toss black out every name before it release that is information about the organization. why should it be anonymous? people say if you give to a political cause, you ought to be known. well, this goes back to the founding of our country in my opinion. the right to associate and to engage is inherent in a democracy and in a fr
year and harassed them with question after question and in a few cases, leaked their donor lists. sometimes leaked them to left wing groups. that is despicable. this is just raw political abuse. brook rollins runs one group that was abused. the texas public policy foundation. what happened to you guys? well, john, what happened to us in the spring of last year, 2012, our donor list and as a 501 c 3 charitable organization, which is what our organization is, we have to file with the irs a list of larger donors. but as you know, that list is suppose today remain anonymous and the irs in return promise toss black out every name before it release that is information about the organization. why should it be anonymous? people say if you give to a political cause, you ought to be known. well, this goes back to the founding of our country in my opinion. the right to associate and to engage is inherent in a democracy and in a free