Hugh Hewitt: ‘This Memo Does Hurt the FBI with the FISA Courts’

CHUCK TODD: Hugh?

HUGH HEWITT: The memo proves—I reviewed hundreds and hundreds of FISA applications for two attorneys general. I did that job for two years. The omission on the material fact is a big deal. And that—

CHUCK TODD: We don’t know there’s an omission of that material fact though, Hugh. We actually don’t know that is true.

HUGH HEWITT: I believe it is fairly—I will rely on the fact they did not say DNC, HRC. They said political. And so I’m going on—

CHUCK TODD: Political opponent.

HUGH HEWITT: Political opponent. If I’m reviewing that and I tell the attorney general, “By the way, this came from the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign,” and that’s not in the memo, we go back to the F.B.I., there was no division of national security at that time, and we send it back and put it in. If you were a corporate executive in America and you did a quarterly earnings report that showed income from a source and you did not describe that source as sketchy, shady or in some way compromised you will go to jail. And people ought to think about a FISA warrant as a quarterly report and hold it to the same standard. All that said, you and I talked on the radio, they oversold it. They should’ve put it out there without saying anything about it. And they have hurt themselves as a result. Rod Rosenstein is not going to get fired. The special counsel is not going to get fired. But this memo does hurt the F.B.I. with the FISA Courts.