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All we get is some oblique reference that george papadopoulos made in a bar. thats the whole reason we had a two-year long investigation. >> julie: that was the whole theme of the f.b.i.s basis. they had no basis. they used the christopher steele memo -- dossier which turned out to be b.s. and that was their basis. so they were going knowingly on b.s. >> right. that was the basis in the fall. that was the fall of 2016. even before that, when they quote launched the russia investigation, it was b...

Be an executive branch thats out of the control of the executive. the idea that the fbi launching counterintelligence investigations against the president that they serve, this is j. edgar hoover stuff. and, obviously, it was common in that era that the former fbi director in order to get leverage on politicians would dig through their personal lives , surveil them, and its highly disturbing to see that return. paul: that was, ultimately, subsumed by the mueller probe, took over this. thats wher...

Joyce vance, lets go to the second bucket of information. thats mike flynn. michael flynn is also mentioned in the dossier, the steele dossier, which reads sort of like a spy novel when you now go through it and you think about all of the sort of things that it brings together. but one theme of it is that various high level members of the trump team, at least per the christopher steele memo, were having these interactions both to further the cause of getting dirt on hillary clinton and helping d...

With the russians with, and all kinds of variables between that, and he was planted right there. >> yeah. it is incredibly intriguing. joyce vance, lets go to the second bucket of information. thats mike flynn. michael flynn is also mentioned in the dossier, the steele dossier, which reads sort of like a spy novel when you now go through it and you think about all of the sort of things that it brings together. but one theme of it is that various high-level members of the trump team, at least per...

Covert communication phone that he handed to someone to deal with the russians with, and all kinds of variables between that, and he was planted right there. >> yeah. it is incredibly intriguing. joyce vance, lets go to the second bucket of information. thats mike flynn. michael flynn is also mentioned in the dossier, the steele dossier, which reads sort of like a spy novel when you now go through it and you think about all of the sort of things that it brings together. but one theme of it is th...

internally with some other members, but the public, no, we may not know a word of what was said and also too that the testimony and the transcript thats created is going to be scrubbed for anything that might compromise the investigation thats going forward. so thats an element to include here as well. eric: do you think one of the most important questions they can ask is mr. rosenstein what went into the fisa application the fourth one you signed on carter page? were you told, the document, ...

The presidents state of mind especially relates to the russia investigation. you referred to one. in the first conversation with comey, it was there the fbi director tells president-elect trump about some of the salacious disclosures in the christopher steele memo. i counted on three separate times, six subsequent comey had with president trump in which president trump brings them up. the hookers thing is nonsense, but that putin has told him we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the wor...

That the president tweeted recently that the russians are laughing their asses off. how do you think theyre doing now?>> i think theyre also laughing there butts off! [laughter] anything that sows discord or skepticism on the part of the american system works an advantage for yes parts of the memo from christopher steele may have been salacious and unsubstantiated. some of it was. the memo demonstrates that the fbi was pretty straight with the fisa court about christopher steele strengths and we...

>> it does not say that in the memo. the other thing we know from our reporting and its not mentioned in the memo, is that carter page was a known quantity to the fbi. in 2013, he was on their radar as part of a russian espionage case and he became a cooperating witness and helped secure the conviction of a russian agent for espionage in the united states. in the course of that investigation, the russians fell carter page was totally unsuitable for recruitment as an asset.the other thing i want ...

President trump is calling in to judge janine. wait for that program later on on the fox news channel. - - is on the lawn of the white house with details of their reaction. >>reporter: white house press secretary sarah sanders released a statement shortly after that memo came out. it says in part quote, this memo fails to answer serious concerns raised by the majoritys memorandum about the use of partisan opposition research from one candidate loaded with uncorroborated allegations as a basis to...