investigation into one of the leading 2020 candidates or the 2020 nominee. on the basis of some sort of opposition research that had been provided to the trump campaign from a conservative operative. you would be good with that. of course, they would not. and i would also like to ask them, how they came to change their views on some their view so quickly in things, particularly civil liberties. the outrage from democrats when president bush was trying to to the patriot act, and other things, we got constantly told we cannot use these surveillance tools, even metadata, which is nothing compared to fisa warrants, by the way. but not even metadata because of the risk that it might invade an american s in some way or a fo, or allow the government to surveil.ov so i m not quite sure where that has all disappeared other than into politics because it s more convenient to now not hold that position. jason: sara, we heard
counterintelligence investigation into one of the leading 2020 candidates or the 2020 nominees. on the basis of some sort of opposition research that had been provided to the trump campaign from a conservative operative. you would be good with that. of course, they would not. and i would also like to ask them, how they came to change their view so quickly in particular civil liberty. for a long time, the outrage from democrats when the president bush was trying to do the patriot act and other things got constantly told we could not use these surveillance tools, even metadata which is nothing compared to fisa warrants, by the way. but not even metadata because of the risk that it might invade america s privacy in some way or form or allow the government to survey old. so i m not quite sure where that has all disappeared other than politics because it s more convenient to now not hold that position. jason: sara, we heard devin nunes his comments on
counterintelligence investigation into one of the leading 2020 candidates or the 2020 nominees. on the basis of some sort of opposition research that had been provided to the trump campaign from a conservative operative. you would be good with that. of course, they would not. and i would also like to ask them, how they came to change their view so quickly in particular civil liberty. for a long time, the outrage from democrats when the president bush was trying to do the patriot act and other things got constantly told we could not use these surveillance tools, even metadata which is nothing compared to fisa warrants, by the way. but not even metadata because of the risk that it might invade america s privacy in some way or form or allow the government to survey old. so i m not quite sure where that has all disappeared other than politics because it s more convenient to now not hold that position. jason: sara, we heard devin nunes his comments on hannity last night.
author won t confirm that that was used by james comey, the fbi director at the time, to secure the first fisa warrant in october 2016 against trump campaign associate carter page but opened a back door to spy on the trump campaign and the entire trump transition team and the entire trump white house when he became president. let s be clear. 99.9% of american intelligence officers, workers in this country performed dangerous and courageous work. they use the best skills in the industry, the surveillance tools to keep americans safe from terrorism, hostile actors at home and abroad. in the height of the 2016 election, just a few select high-ranking bad actors abuse all of these powerful tools of intelligence that we entrust to them and it s clear tonight they trampled on the rights of many americans, committed what is clearly a premeditated fraud on
the fbi, and his point is i think what many people inside the justice department believe, and that is, this is an agency that was staring at a set of facts, and their job, again, is to protect the united states from foreign intelligence threats. and when they saw all this smoke, they opened an investigation to get to the bottom of it. and as you mentioned, there was oversight as it related to the surveillance tools, not only the 90-day renewal, but they had to go back to the fisa court and show what they found in order to keep these surveillance techniques going. and so, you had that oversight that was in place. one thing i ll say, and lis hit on it, which was spectacular when she talked about this potentially backfiring. again, if you re the president or you re house republicans, i think careful what you wish for here, because the more you get to the bottom of what the fbi was staring at, it s going to be that constant reminder that for the first time in known history, we had a campai