he found it troubling to the point where he took the information and went down to the white house and said, hey, donald trump, look at this. brian: he also brought it to mike pompeo to cia and nsa. did not bring it to the ranking member adam schiff who said it was all politics and he has questions now about the integrity of the investigation. steve: shocking. brian: i know, i agree with you. incidentally tapped. don t know for sure. looked to tap donald trump or not but incidentally tapped their names came up. steve: incidental collection is what it is called. it s the thing where they take american citizens incidentally collected as they are listening in to somebody else. brian: listen, i just told the president and i will tell you what i know. listen. what i have read, seems to me, to be some level of surveillance activity, perhaps legal, but i don t know that it is right, and i don t know that the american people would be comfortable with what i
much different and very accurate. we vet all of our sources and outside teams critiquing what the conclusions are. i am no longer working on the hill, but i do have top security clearance. i have been anned ed adviser to cia and committee since i left. not right now. the way this is done is extremely carefully and i have confidence that their high confidence is accurate. so, it has changed and that is something that donald trump doesn t seem to know. he is going back to 2004 saying they got it wrong and then they can t be trusted now. you re here to say, no, it is actually quite different. let me just add one more thing. it takes a while to understand intel speak. to get the language and to know what the briefers are really saying. he s getting higher level briefings than i ever got. it it took me a couple years and i was very serious about it. i would say getting regular
kelly called him on friday. tillerson asked the president if he can wait until tuesday before he made the announcement. he got back 4:00 a.m. yesterday, five hours later, the president made the announcement. you saw the picture of pompeo. his replacement, the man who will lead the confirmation hearing. senator bob corker he likes the choice. listen here. he s very smart. he knows lot about the world being head o cia. we had nice confers yesterday. the woman to replace pompeo at the cry gina haspel will face questions about her involvement in the cia black site operations in the early 2000s. extraordinary rendition. but the senator rumored to be a candidate for cia is senator tom