RUSH EXCERPT:
MUKASEY: "On news reports that you mentioned in the last — I also base it on kind of inadvertent blurting out by Adam Schiff that his committee wants to talk to the counterintelligence agency at the FBI involved in this. That means this is part not of a criminal investigation, but of an sbel against-gathering investigation. The FBI investigates crimes and gathers intelligence. They started gathering intelligence in ‘08 based on DI guidelines we put in place. They tried to get a wiretap in June. It was turned down. They tried to get, and got, an order permitting them to conduct electronic surveillance. In October. October 2016. So that’s when, apparently, that’s when —"