Of 2016 as the u. S. President ial race was getting underway, an individual was linked to the russian government reached out to the Truck Campaign for mr. Trump. In july of 2016 the russians began dumping the emails in the same fannish fashion. It was at this point informed of the russian outreach to patent jobless and aware that the russians were meddling in our elections through the anonymous release of information that the fbi opened up this investigation. As james comey would explain in his first public testimony in march 2017 and before this committee, the investigation began not as a criminal probe but as a counterintelligence investigation. What does that mean . How does the counterintelligence investigation differ from a criminal investigation . What does it mean that he u. S. Power . May be acting as a how could the russians use the compromise of u. S. Persons to influence u. S. Policy in a manner that jeopardizes our National Security . These are the questions we hope to answ
Bravbravery demonstrated by then and women who supported to this. You declared your support. Well i dont know if you want us back this morning p but were here. Whether you like it or not. For the next four hours on sunday morning. Good morning. Good morning. Before you go to church, dont get up, dont get dressed, stay with us. Im good. Here to be on a weekend with a lot of news from washington. How do you keep your big new york hair when weve got so much rain. I went for a rai a run in cel bark and my new york hair didnt even wilt. You ran six miles . Its been 16 years since i ran six miles. He runs for all of us. Youve done a lot of reading in the last 24 hours. Hold it up for us. We have a 412page top secret fisa document release im giving a lot of credit to fedex this morning. They fedex i. D. It on friday and it came in on saturday instead of monday. Im seeing a lot of black lines. It was a light read. We are going to begin with a fox news alert. The department of justice releasing
Evidence presented to the fisa court about the political sources and the possible political motivations behind. Democrats tried to have released at the same time rebutting some of the key claims, that did not happen. The white house has now after a period of review with the democrats reviewed some of the information that was included in their response, declassified it and made some redactions to it. What we havent seen is the actual memo itself. That is up to both chairman devin nunes whos actually speaking right now at a conservative gathering just outside washington, and adam schiff, the top democrat who was the lead author of this memo. Its up to either one of them to release that publicly. Well be interested in reading more about what the response to the republican memo says. What we understand that it does is provides more context about that application. It says that there were in fact information presented to the fisa judge about potential political sources for information that w