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The Daily

Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Republican push to release a classified memo has brought attention to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and to the long battle to determine when national security concerns outweigh civil liberties. What has surprised many is the side Republicans chose this time. Guest: Charlie Savage, who covers national security and the law for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

0:32.6

This is The Daily.

0:39.6

Today, the Republican push to release the memo has brought attention back to Pfizer and the

0:46.9

years-long battle over when national security should trump civil liberties.

0:53.4

The surprising thing this time is which side Republicans have chosen.

1:02.4

It's Tuesday, February 6.

1:09.0

Your reporting tonight, the FBI obtained a FISA warrant on Carter Page, a Trump campaign

1:14.2

advisor.

1:15.2

Republicans alleged that the memo details abuses in the Pfizer warrant for four times FBI officials

1:20.3

went to a federal surveillance court.

1:22.1

And were those wiretaps attained through a FISA warrant that was based on the Trump

1:27.2

does?

1:28.2

In this secret court that we can't watch the proceedings.

1:30.6

That the memo centers on this question of the FISA application.

1:34.8

The FISA court was fooled by a warrant.

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