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Dont think its going to affect the progress of the mueller investigation and i dont think its going to affect the outcome of the mueller investigation. >> melissa: can i ask real quick. weve seen jim comay tweeting about rats and other things or whatever that tweet was. you see in item four, they say after steele was terminated, a source validation report conducted by an independent unit within the fbi assessed steeles reporting is only minimally corroborated get as early as january 2017 after t...

Steele dossier was salacious and unverified. is this pointing to what the fbi said were material -- material -- im forgetting the word, things left out of the dossier. >> omissions. >> material omissions. thank you very much. >> what we dont see in this document is what else was in the affidavit. and what portions of the steele dossier was actually used to bolster an fbi affidavit for a fisa. you know, it is written -- it is pieced together a bunch of different information weve seen already. and...

And i think that is what were going to find here as more information comes out. the complexion and the context of the thing will change markedly and there is one sentence in there -- or one sentence in representative schiffs commentary, not formal memo but his commentary today that caught my eye. it is the sentence in which he says thein convenient fact left out of this memo is that without the steele dossier, had it never entered -- had christopher steele never entered the picture, there could ...

Memo had been verified. im going to read from the memo and then read what comey actually said. this is the fourth item in the third page. according to the head of the fbis counterintelligence division, assistant director bill presnap corroborated of the steele dossier was in its infancy at the time of the initial page fisa application. after steele was terminated a source validation report conducted by an independent unit within fbi assessed steeles reporting was corroborated. yet in early janua...

Before the committee in december 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the fisa court without the steele dossier information. that last bit about m here in t. but the portion about james comey and what he testified, that the memo was salacious and unverified, that is misleading. james comey in his testimony in front of congress did not say that the entire steele dossier was salacious and unverified. he was saying a portion of it was salacious and unverified. this is chair...

Into the details of the house investigation. they go on a little bit more. and he says, i didnt use the term counter intelligence. i was briefing him about salacious and unverified material. it was in a context that he strong defensive reaction about that not being true. my reading of it was important to me, for me to assure him we are -- we were not the person investigating him. im sorry that im -- i mumbled a bunch of it because it is i from a transcript and they are not complete sentences. bu...