breaking news from the washington post tonight. the headline is fbi obtained fisa warrant to monitor former trump campaign adviser carter page. the fbi and the justice department convinced the federal intelligence surveillance court, secret court, last summer to issue a warrant, which is a hard thing to get from the fisa court, targeting the communications of donald trump s foreign policy adviser carter page. this is the first time we ve had confirmation of that kind of that part of the investigation by a long shot. washington post just posting this tonight just after 7:00 p.m. much more ahead tonight. stay with us. allergies with nasal congestion? find fast relief behind the counter with claritin-d. [ upbeat music ] strut past that aisle for the allergy relief that starts working in as little as 30 minutes and contains the best oral decongestant. live claritin clear, with claritin-d.
intelligence surveillance act in the first place. the fisa court. secret court set up that according to a report and this is what the president referenced according to a report for a couple of months ago granted permission to president obama s justice department to actually spy on trump tower. forget all of the allegations about russian collusion between the trump campaign and let s just even though they have never produced a scintilla of evidence that that happened. let s just argue for the sake of argument let s say this was legitimate. even if it was legitimate this is extraordinary thing, brian that happened. you have a sitting president, his department of justice spying on a political opponent in the middle of a presidential campaign. that is a huge, huge deal. and, again, maybe it all turns out to be perfectly justified and something nefarious was going on, but even if that s the case, this is an extraordinary, extraordinary
largest class action lawsuit ever filed on behalf of the bill of rights. we ve had 386,026 people show an interest in having their records protected. we believe that this lawsuit could conceivably represent hundreds of millions of people who have phone lines in this country or cell phones. we think this is an important first step. we don t do this out of disrespect to anyone. we do this out of respect to the constitution. and out of the belief that these decisions cannot be made in secret by a secret court. but they need to be made in open by the supreme court. so what they re asking for specifically is for the court to declare what s known as the mass associational tracking program, unconstitutional as in violation of the fourth amendment. but they re not asking for a temporary injunction. so this is a case that could go
governments. and he makes that distinction. well, we heard a lot of lies here in this speech by obama. he said, for example how so? the national security agency has never abused what it has done. when the fisa court has found even the fisa court has found again and again that it has done just that. so if the national security agency is interpreting what national security means, the secret court, fisa, is interpreting what national security means, of course, ambiguous terms. and in a secret institution, they gradually become corrupted over time. that s precisely how he ended up in in this. if you will, specifically yes, go ahead. we re not going to spy on angela merkel or david cameron. or the australian prime minister. sure. but let me just spy on everyone
days or this month will announce what reforms he likes, what reforms he doesn t like. that s right. and we re hearing some oh of the things they have more positive view towards. one, as you mentioned, the idea of putting a public advocate on the fisa court, secret court where decisions are made. because up to this point, really, it s just been lawyers making the case for the administration, and no one offering the counter argument. when you look it s the mostardent critics and he like other advocates say that s not enough. they want to see more. even with the reforms, it leaves as the default setting and gathering all this information with limitations as opposed to