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REPORTER: "On that point, had the committee been previously briefed about the intercepts in general, or had you had any background knowledge about these intercepts? You say you don't have these intercepts, but were you aware of these intercepts? Do members of the committee have information about those?"

SCHIFF: "It's impossible to know. Because we don't know what intercepts the chairman is referring to. So again, my assumption from what the chair said is that these are intercepts that we don't have. But he also said this doesn't relate to the Russian investigation. So if it doesn't relate to the Russian investigation, if they were lawfully conducted, and he said there's no reason to believe they weren't, then we wouldn't have them as a part of the investigation. Now, we have made a request of the intelligence agencies for information about their masking procedures. If indeed it's within the scope of our request, then it's information we should be getting. And if that's true, and I think the chairman indicated he thought that the information he'd received is within the scope of what we've asked for, then it's a significant question that if this is within the information we've asked for, that the agencies are going to be delivering to us later this week, then why make the statement to the press before we have it. It just begs more questions, frankly, than it answers."