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One of the things that sticks out is what we see consistently from the president in terms on of a clear focus on what is happening not only with the investigation, a focus on andrew mccabe and a misunderstanding, i would say, of how government works in certain respects. this was early on for the president, obviously in 2017. but were seeing consistently questions from him and even from his staff in terms of reince priebus that are not always appropriate and show perhaps that lack of understandin...

>> harris: circular reporting which is different than just having political. >> you know, we know the republicans paid for this memo. we know democrats paid for this memo. >> thats not true. republicans were paying fusion gps to look at donald trump and casinos and financial dynamics which came to no good end. that investigation ended. glenn simpson contacted the dnc and hillary campaign and said we are kind of in motion here trying to do stuff in the campaign. they said okay, lets do this. and ...

Form for putins positions, some of his business activities. adam schiff has said that the aspects -- the parts of my article that were cited to the fisa judge did not relate to that which came from the steele dossier. now, i havent seen the fisa application. im just hearing dueling sides. im raeeading the republican me. i see what adam schiff says. without seeing the actual fisa application, its very hard to know to what extent there might have been any circular reporting here, if there was. >> ...

Article for carter page into question or not? >> i dont think one can reach that conclusion based on what we know now. we dont know what it is that they cited my article for. my article, if you go back and read it, quotes a lot of different sources about a lot of different aspects of this, pages background, his sympathy for putins positions, some of his business activities. adam schiff has said that the aspects -- the parts of my article that were cited to the fisa judge did not relate to that w...

Understand the kind of information in order to spy on americans. im a professional intelligence officer. my job was to determine the difference between intelligence and information and in that process of collecting information, the information as judge and determine to make sure its not fallacious and we shouldnt use saying unverified information. we shouldnt be using rumors from other folks and i dont know what court would use a newspaper article. my friends on the other side of the aisle say t...

>> laura: i was thinking about it. one of the most damning revelations in that memo was the medias role in lending credibility to that unverified phony russian dossier. the one that led to the fbi spying on the trump campaign advisor american citizen. doj officials used a yahoo news story as independent evidence to support the dossier. even though that story was fed to reporter michael isikoff by the dossiers author, christopher steele. that blows my mind. lets examine the circular reporting wit...

>> laura: i was thinking about it. one of the most damning revelations in that memo was the medias role in lending credibility to that unverified phony russian dossier. the one that led to the fbi spying on the trump campaign advisor american citizen. doj officials used a yahoo news story as independent evidence to support the dossier. even though that story was fed to reporter michael isikoff by the dossiers author, christopher steele. that blows my mind. lets examine the circular reporting wit...

Investigation is that it was the democrats and the media campaign spreading this that actually colluded with the reconciliations and aloud the russians to have an effect on all our politics right now. ed: thats an important point the article by isikoff that we now learn was also used along with the dossier to go to the fisa court and get the initial warrant to surveil carter page the trump advisor. why is that important? circular reporting because isikoff himself did a podcast yesterday saying i...

>> laura: i was thinking about it. one of the most damning revelations in that memo was the medias role in lending credibility to that unverified phony russian dossier. the one that led to the fbi spying on the trump campaign advisor american citizen. doj officials used a yahoo news story as independent evidence to support the dossier. even though that story was fed to reporter michael isikoff by the dossiers author, christopher steele. that blows my mind. lets examine the circular reporting wit...

Everybodys taking notes. so what you said earlier wasnt it would appear from what you had seen, and now we all can see, fusion gps, the firm that put together that anti-trump dossier to this british by christopher steele was putting forth some sort of active campaign to brief media outlets. and do you think the media outlets, and this is really important, knew that they were part of a narrative or campaign? where they just getting the information? i dont know if we can get that from here, but ya...