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Start with conspiracy. >> martha: andrew mccabe signed off on leaves. so did bob rosenstein. you dont believe that they had any conspiratorial drive in presenting that dossier to get that warrant, to listen in on carter pages phone calls because they didnt want president trump to be elected? >> martha: that is such a serious allegation, you would have to have something other than the fact that they were signing documents that led me to draw that conclusion. i am really troubled by what i have re...

Unsubstantiated assertions about russian efforts to cozy up to then businessman and now candidate donald trump. now, we have known for some time that the dossier was funded by the dnc and the clinton campaign. and the fbi and the doj knew it, too. but heres the rub. even though they knew the political origins of the dossier, the fbi did not tell the fisa court, neither did the doj. they would go on to secure three fisa surveillance renewals on carter page. all based on that same dossier uopo res...

But this is an interesting point in terms of why did the president decide to release this. why did he give republicans permission to release this? ive read the memo about seven times and i just read it again about ten minutes ago. i dont understand how this exonerated the president. i dont get that. there is questions about the process, but if anything this strengthens the special prosecutors hand, robert muellers hand. so politically i think this will hurt the republican party in the long-term....

Have the american people be able to make objective reading what theyre seeing we have to have more than balanced assertions. you have to have evidence that the fisa system was somehow nefariously corrupt. they did not go through all the checks anne balances, every single hurdle that the extensions of any fisa warrant with respect to carter page were not presented with corroborating evidence in the first place. remember, the dossier may have played a role in the fbis investigation. but to get to ...

Supporting evidence. it shouldnt fly in congress to have that in a court of public opinion. because if the goal here is transparency, and the goal is to have the american people be able to make an objective reading of what theyre seeing, you have to have more than bald assertions. you have to have evidence that the fisa system was somehow nefariously corrupt, they did not go through all the checks and balances every single hurdle that the extensions of any fisa warrant, respect to carter page we...

So again, that was before he actually saw the memo. all signs point to the fact that hell use this information to try to undermine or delegitimize the russia probe to essentially put some meat on the argument hes been trying to make for some time. hes called it a hoax. now he has one point which democrats say is cherry picked and which is merely for the purpose of brainwashing people. but undoubtedly, hell use this information to try to back up some of his assertions. in terms of the fallout, yo...

Zeldin. also legal analyst coats. and ken if i can begin with you. you have this charge now from the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. this famous memo about fisa abuses changed somehow from what they voted onto the one thats going to the white house for review. right now. its interesting i heard from someone on the staff of congressman schiff to understand what changes they were actually talking about. it wasnt clear from the letter. they tell me that this it appears that th...

Assertions that would poison the well of public sentiment, that would hurt bob muellers investigation, and how the fbi is perceived. we actually thought, well, why dont you at least let us put out a counterer memo putting this into focus. our memo is ten pages with footnotes, goes into great detail about who occurred, and the republicans voted to block the american people from seeing that. you have to ask yourself, what are they afraid that the american people would see? what the american people...

Romans. >> im dave briggs. pyeongchang is where things are starting to move ahead for the olympics. and the house intelligence committee chairman accused of making changes to the classified memo. a memos release which could have implications for the russia investigation. the ranking democrat on the intel committee devin nunes sent a version to the white house that was materially different than the one approved along party lines. >> schiff says this is not the document the committee approved. the...

Point to an -- a potential i.g. report coming out and say thats the reason that christopher wray made the move to, ill say, remove andy mccabe. that had to be -- and ive read the memo, and i have that advantage, of course. but if the memos incomplete according to the assertions of the doj, have they read it, havent they? i dont know. but theres no such thing as a complete memo. you can always assert that about any memo. i believe its solid. its factual. but also, being objective, the information...