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It is smart to avoid the redaction war and let the f.b.i. do it as we said there. there is a greater problem here that there is underlying intelligence and the fisa application itself that a lot of people havent read who are on these committees and that the american public might like to know more about. thats what this really is about here, the application process and how the warrants get granted. we hear a narrative from either side that totally doesnt match the other one about how this happene...

Dossier was all they needed to issue a surveillance warrant, which clearly was a big screw-up. what more did we learn? >> so we also learned that -- that is one part of it, right, the dossier is one part of it. the interesting thing about the memo is it revealed the problems of the fisa application process but some of the other questions left unanswered are what are the issues for that and are their solutions for how we fix this moving forward? if republicans or anyone is unhappy with this appli...

Christopher steeles antitrump dossier was all they needed to issue a surveillance warrant, which clearly was a big screw-up. what more did we learn? >> so we also learned that -- that is one part of it, right, the dossier is one part of it. the interesting thing about the memo is it revealed the problems of the fisa application process but some of the other questions left unanswered are what are the issues for that and are their solutions for how we fix this moving forward? if republicans or any...

Say there was no knowledge of the political influence. your thoughts, david. >> this memo is garbage in the sense it cant be used to come to any conclusive understanding of what went on in the application process. fisa applications, this is what you give to a secret court to get the right to spy on americans, run 50, 60 pages, they can cite public information but often they site private information. we have just the word of devin nunes here, or his staffers, this memo is an accurate characteriza...

Political opponent. even if they didnt spell out it was democrats that funded it, the judge was aware this was somebody out to get donald trump. >> but josh, whats t optics on all this? because the republicans have already gotten the memo out on this. even if the democrats get their memo out and the white house decides to release this memo, have americans already made their decision on this? >> i think for the most part, yes, and democrats have had a fairly effective response to the memo. two ke...

Involving the hillary clinton e-mail investigation as well as the beginning of the counterintelligence into the russian meddling investigation into our elections. you put all those together, there were serious things that were done that need to be looked at. now, im comfortable with the office of the inspector general doing that, but to say if you argue that the fbi senior executive level ranks made some mistakes here, that youre attacking the fbi or thats not factually accurate, thats not true....

Wanted sessions to recuse himself and appointed robert mueller in the first place. and allow this entire controversy to stretch into the second year of the presidency in the way that might not have. so this memo would by name have rosenstein is on the had a role in the fisa application process. give the president another opening to criticize rosenstein or maybe he would not have had one before. i think the house recognizes it would be disasters. especially because this might end organically in w...

Hillary clinton, according to u.s. officials familiar. so theyre not correct when they say there was no knowledge of the political influence. your thoughts, david. >> this memo is garbage in the sense it cant be used to come to any conclusive understanding of what went on in the application process. fisa applications, this is what you get give to a secret court to get the right to spy on americans, run 50, 60 pages, they can cite public information but often they site private information. we hav...

The democratic committee or hillary clinton, according to u.s. officials familiar. so theyre not correct when they say there was no knowledge of the political influence. your thoughts, david. >> this memo is garbage in the sense it cant be used to come to any conclusive understanding of what went on in the application process. fisa applications, this is what you get give to a secret court to get the right to spy on americans, run 50, 60 pages, they can cite public information but often they site...

Hes a trump appointee. so the notion that this was a big conspiracy sort of falls apart there. furthermore, the very last part that said this investigation began before the fisa warrant was sought. it was the result of something that looks like ""new york time" reporting. >> dana: take a listen to what adam schiff, democratic congressman, the vice chair of the house intel committee. listen to this. >> there is no demonstration in this memo, this misleading memo, of a systemic abuse at the fbi, a...