shows claiming it was a video and now we know all along, we know that attack had nothing to do with the video. sean: great reporting. we appreciate it. joining us now, eli lake, sara carter. eli, let s start with you. incidental surveillance. this is what devin nunes was talking about. what bothered him. now we find out susan rice seemingly is unmasking the names of people but only trump transition people or trump what those conversations were if they were picked up incidentally. why is that dangerous and why should the american people understand the seriousness of this? i want to just stress that i
when about the surveillance of president trump, candidate trump and members of his transition team. also tonight, we appear to have a very important key piece of this very complex puzzle. fox s own adam housley will join us in a few minutes for the full report. he is revealing that the unmasked names of peoplele t associated with donald trump were then sent to all of those at the national security council and some of the defense department, james clapper andur then cia director john brennan, essentially the officials at the top including ben rhodes. it was known by a lot of people and it s widespread. intel sources now tell sara carter with circa news who will also join us tonight that the unmasking of names connected with the trump team appeared to beginn last july around the time the trump secured the g.o.p. nomination and accelerated after trump s election in november,
james clapper, all the people of the top including ben rhodes. these names were part of incidental surveillance, we are told, and people close to him including his family members for up to a year we are told before he took office.ud names of americans are incidentally collected but are supposed to be masked or redacted on last it is an issue of national security or crime.nt there are loopholes and ways but americans are supposed be protected from incidental collection. our sources say in this, they were not. the former deputy assistant under obama said this in part. i was urging my former colleagues and frankly speaking to people on the hill, it was
don t know other things she requested to be unmasked but the way i understand is that the national security staffer that was doing a review of the unmasking policy noticed an anomaly in the patterns of requests from susan rice, unmasked the names that were incidentally collected, basically raw intelligence. that was then discovered by the staffer whose name has been out there. he then takes that to the general counsel s office in theo white house who then looks into this some more and tries to make this available to first devin nunes, but also adam schiff, the ranking member of that committee. they also offered this to the senate intelligence committee. sean: sara, why would susan rice especially as it relates to everything we have been talking about take incidental surveillance and ask this is raw intelligence ask for the unmasking but only seemingly in the case in the trump transition team or perhaps even trump as a candidate? how dangerous is that in the white house, when th
the end of the obama administration. i know nothing about this. i was surprised to see reports from chairman nunes on that count today. sean: oh, really? i know nothing about that?or that s what you just heard her say. was she lying in that clip? new reports indicate that yes,ha yes she was. keep in mind this new information about susan rice comes on the heels of the smoking gun tape that was uncovered last week that we played on the program of former obama official dr. evelyn farkas admitting not only surveillance took place but the names were also unmasked and they wanted them leaked. s we are demanding answers to these questions. the american people now have a right to know. for example, what justification did susan rice have to unmask these names? that s pretty unprecedented. what did ben rhodes know? what did the former director of national intelligence know? what did john brennan know?