Providers. Giving you a front row seat to democracy. We are joined today by george crohn or. He is the National Security Program Senior fellow at the Foreign Policy research institute. Well be talking about the reauthorization debate surrounding section 702 of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. Good morning, george. Good morning to you. Thanks for having me on the program. Thanks so much for joining us. Lets start off, sections 702 is close to sunset at the end of the year. Congress is supposed to extend it. What does that allow the u. S. Government to do and how is it different from other types of surveillance that the government has authorized . Sure. Whats 702 allows the government to do is to target nonu. S. Persons, foreigners, not u. S. Persons, reasonably believed to be located outside of United States. So they are outside of the domestic u. S. , to acquire foreign intelligence information. And it does that and is implemented principally by the National Security agency,
Time with us. Guest you bet. Host we will return to our question that we had earlier. You heard, who do you trust in this russia investigation . You heard professor banks layout before you all. Should there be an independent commission outside of congress . What are your thoughts on this . Lines on your screen. Start dialing in now. The president saying this there was collusion between the russians. Is what the president has to say. What do you believe . Want to get your questions and comments on this. The New York Times has a piece about the options. After comey, here are the options. What would the appointment of a special counsel do. To 1990 nine,k when they issued new regulations to create it after the independent counsel law expired. Regulations say special counsel should not be subject to the daytoday supervision of any official of the department. They need to pull away three republicans in order to get the number that they need, 51 for any sort of special counsel to be named. St