that news interview on morning joe she said if the trump team knew how we got the information, they would try to expose our tactics. she hinted those tactics were illegal surveillance and collection of trump team members using reverse targeting. meaning, again, going after legitimate targets cleared to reverse target trump officials. it s very important that she be subpoenaed and talked to. she left the administration in 2015 to join the hillary clinton campaign. now she s coordinating with obama officials in the nsc post election to discredit the trump administration as they come into power. that s a problem. sandra: what you heard from sean spicer just then and you heard it over an over. you just heard it from john roberts. he continues to emphasize the media is worried more about the date and process than the substance. we should all be focusing on the leaks. that s what the american people should be concerned about. right.
willing to, you know, list all of their assets, under go this public scrutiny, but also set aside a lot. you ll see that people often told they have to sell an au set or get rid of something to come to government. there are people who have done a lot to come into this administration and give back that have been inspired by the president s victory and agenda to move the country forward. jim? general flynn s attorney said that his client has a story to tell. is the white house concerned that general flynn has damaging information ab the president, his aides and associates about what occurred during the campaign with respect to russia? nope. the other thing i wanted to ask you. you re just saying a few moments ago that some of this information that would be helpful to the committee, you were talking ab evelyn farkus and so forth. that seems to be something that pertains to during the transition. that the president s tweets time and again talked about tapping
we should want or have questioned. alexi alexis? i have three follow-ups. you used two phrases. one is politically sensitive information and the other is classified information when you re talking about what the president believes was released. because you said yesterday that you, yourself, had not seen the information and that s why understanding. are those term spwers changeable or are they different in terms of what you know from the podium was released? there s a classification level. there is there s certain sensitive information on individuals while classified is considered stuff that the government protects. then there s secret, there s top secret and, without getting into it, there s a lot higher. while you may not know a piece of classified information, called pii information sensitive
well, there was all this surveillance of the trump thanks for having me. what we learned with the washington post and new york times learned was that general michael flynn, the incoming national security adviser, had a conversation with a russian ambassador and that information was leaked. and that information is what we call raw intelligence. it s the highest classified level of single intelligence intercept. what it contains is the cell phone number and the geo location of that phone call. both mike flynn s cell phone and location and the ambassador s location. and that is not supposed to be leaked to the press. as a former intelligence officer, i would go to jail for doing something like that. so that sparked this whole thing. now we learned there were other officials that were reverse targeted. you don t have to have an order in place. you simply go after the foreign entities, already under legitimate orders, you target
from being used against him as has famously been done in the past, i, e, ollie north. thank you for joining us. thank you. sandra: democrats accusing house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes of getting in the way of the russian investigation. but a wall street journal editorial piece said nunes has seen dozens of documents with information on trump officials. and the information is not related to russia. the reports masked identifies but made it obvious which trump officials were being discussed. at least one trump official besides michael flynn was unmasked. these documents were circulated the highest levels of government. and the bottom line is that president obama s team was spying on the incoming administration. a former intelligence officer, mike, this is so much for all of us to take in. we continue to get new details by the hour, it seems. what do you make of the latest revelations on this?