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The time. sometimes you go to a regular court or criminal judge and ask for this. but when it comes to the fisa stuff it takes a lot to go there especially on a u.s. citizen where you really need a lot of. >> who has not been charged. >> in this case carter page -- its not clear he is ever going to be charged. when we started this story remember we get o kept getting the distinction this is a counterintelligence investigation. these are the kinds of things that the fbi does in counterintelligenc...

Charge that its happening illegally, you better present some evidence. >> thats why this is never supposed to be so public, right. the fbi, this is their concern. they value the work they do on fisa and the courts, fisa courts and they treat it with extreme sensitivity, because the work that goes into this is so sensitive and so important in terms of the way they view it for national security, that we cant -- they cannot afford to expose anything that goes on in that court. there are people unde...

Dossier are unverified and salacious. are there parts of the dossier that are true? >> that russia is a country and carter page is a person. >> you dont know anything corroborated? >> no, i dont know what the fbi agent was smoking that would think that carter page who hasnt had a job for many years, who is a russian sympathizer, that the russians who said he was an idiot in court testimony and this was presented before the court. russian agents said carter page was an idjot. do you think that th...

Thats what happened. then they got a warrant on someone in the trump campaign using opposition research paid for by the democratic party and the hillary clinton campaign. thats what this is about. its wrong. it should never be done. >> is it true that the fbi led the fisa application with the dossier? >> yes, the largest percentage of the entire application has to do with the dossier and then using the news story to corroborate the dossier. >> democrats insisted that the fisa court was told of t...

Interpretation how he felt about the memo. >> its a disgrace. people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. >> reaction to the document came in like a flood. carter page the trump volunteer at the center of the fisa memo said the oversight by congressional leaders represents a giant historic leap in the repair of americas democracy. former fbi director james comey tweeted: in a conference call, adam schiff from the house intelligence committee ripped the memo as blatant politi...

House. but we begin with catherine. first to get exerpts of the memo. >> thanks. the white house sent a letter to the house intelligence committee confirming the president used his authority as commander and chief to declassify the records without changing. the memo paints a troubling picture. the 4-page republican staff memo makes the case that the secret national security court was kept in the dark by the fbi and justice department when they sought a surveillance warrant for trump campaign aid...

Steele was directed to brief a half dozen american media outlets. matt gertie -- the majority did not go with the story. the carter page fisa application cited a yahoo news article which focuses on pages july trip to moscow. page denied working with the russians. >> i have never broken any law in russia or relating to any russian person. >> according to the memo, an fbi counter intelligence chief said the creation of the dossier was in the early stages. days before the inauguration, comey said t...