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He is president of the united states, he could call in the head of the fbi and the head of the nsa and say what the heck is going on with surveillance. he has access to all the information out there about surveillance in the united states, so the idea that somehow he doesn t know what s going on or couldn t know, seems odd, don t you think? and that the unmasking, show the american people, we all deserve that information. i don t think the president s a liar, i know he s not a liar, i know he s guilty of imper situation if anything. perhaps you saw the susan rice unmasking documents, it led him to send that tweet. it was an imprecise tweet. it s one that should have been sought over. maybe twitter wasn t the best medium to send that out. but there s a question about the unmasking of people in the trump campaign by cia officials. unmasking wasn t what the ....
Ainsley: susan rice denying that she knew about the surveillance of the trump transition team two weeks ago. i was surprised to see reports from chairman nunes on that count today. steve: and now multiple sources confirm that she, in fact, did know about the surveillance and was responsible for the unmasking of people within the trump team. brian? brian: i will take it over, steve. you just wait there. the president now weighing in saying she may have committed a crime. what s going on? let s ask fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. we know the president is not a lawyer. was he right though? i can tell you what would be criminal. we start out with what we know and what we don t know. we don t know exactly what susan rice did. but we know what she admitted to. she admitted to asking for the unmasking that is the revelation of the names of the people caught up in nsa intercepts. people who were working at trump tower. she claims that the reason she ....
Asked for their names was to understand conversations involving national security. so, if the russian ambassador is talking to somebody at trump tower and she gets the transcript of it, to which she is entitled because she works for the president and they are involved in national security, it won t have the name of the american to whom he is speaking. steve: right. here is what the statute says. if it is necessary to get that name in order to understand the conversation she can get it that s called unmasking. she can do that. the president can do that if they keep it to themselves and if the conversation is truly about national security. if they cause that name to get out in the public, then they have exposed a top secret national state secret. that s the same crime that hillary clinton probably committed when she put top secret information on a nonsecure email server. on the other hand, if susan rice, and this is what the president is concerned about, we don t know if she did this y ....
What s all this mean for how the senate works in the future and how will this affect next year s midterm election? meghan: plus devin nunes temporarily stepping down from the russian probe amid ethics complaints, he blames the left-wing groups. could this be a court in an effort to distract from the susan rice unmasking scandal? harris: we are ready to go. #oneluckyguy, direct from fox and friends, brian kilmeade is in the house. julie: see you guys. jon: the culture vote has failed in the u.s. senate. it democrats have for the first time ever successfully filibustered the nomination of a judge to sit on the united states supreme court. there was a filibuster some years ago, but he was already a sitting justice and there is a filibuster of his ascension to chief justice role. history being made and all kinds of ways in the u.s. senate right ....
Conversations, that were not national security related, like, let s just say paul manafort and candidate trump discussing on the telephone or even in person his speech at the republican national convention in cleveland. if she got that and unmasked that, that s a felony. that is the use of american intelligence for political purposes. steve: there is a republican congressman familiar with what some of the documents have said. said that it s like or file. shows what the person is doing from from morning until night with very little left to the imagination. it sounds every day. brian: is that peter king. i think i heard peter king say that on one of shows of one of our colleagues. unmasking that is clearly a felony. there is no legitimate national security purpose served by the unmasking. brian: so catherine herridge indicated that by requesting it s not a crime. by leaking what i found is the crime. ....