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First of all, let me apologize for last Sunday’s column. It was not what I had originally intended to send in; today’s column should have run last week. Last Sunday

They had found no evidence to corroborate the allegations in the steele dossier. >> its not that clean, folks. they knew and they ignored it. and they continued to surveil him. why? why did they doctor the ema i-e. the people continued getting warrants that wasnt legitimate had a biased thatic road. how this opened, i dont know i know mr. durham has a different view. i respect your view they may have been a lawful predicate, one of the people pushing this was peter strzok from day one. so, ladie...

And hes marketing the dossier, which is a bunch of garbage to anybody and everybody. to me thats important. is that important to you? >> any evidence of bias is supposed to be disclosed to the court and to the department lawyers. >> okay. so, lets play this out. in january, 2017, when they figure out the primary subsource and they talk to the russian guy that provided steele all the information, what should the fbi have done at that moment? >> two things. reconsidered internally where things sto...

January of 2017. so its not -- i might have to go back and look precisely. >> in president-elect bush he mentioned that steele cant verify. >> correct. >> so its pretty clear to me that it got up. so the court should have been told there were not. >> correct. >> how did they describe this meeting to the court in the warrant application? >> so, in the second and third renewal of the last two application, they told the court they had interviewed steele subsource on whom steele relied in writing th...

And a total of 17 by the final renewal application. for example, the crossfire hurricane team obtained information from steeles primary subsource in january 2017 that raised significant questions about the reliability of the steele reporting. this was particularly noteworthy because the fisa application relied entirely on information from the -- from the steele, im sorry, from the primary subsources reporting to support the allegation that paige was coordinating with the russian government on th...

Team concerns pages alleged recent activities with russian officials. the fbi toirns advised it was ready to request fisa authority to surveil paige. fbi officials told us it pushed a fisa proposal over the line quosaed quote in terms of establishing probable cause. we concluded it played a central role in the decision to seek a fisa order. fbi leaderships supported relying on steeles reporting to seek a fisa order of being advised of concerns expressed by department attorney that steele may hav...

Gave steele all the information to disastrou dossier, that not only they should have told the court, they should have slowed down, do you think the second and third warrants set a legal basis after that point? >> you know, we dont reach that conclusion and im not going to -- >> would you have submitted a warrant application as a lawyer? >> let me put it this way, i would not have submitted the one they put in. >> okay. >> no doubt about it. it has no business going in. >> what i want you to know...

Reporting from christopher steal considering pages election acts for russian 06 fishls, the department was ready to move forward to obtain feis zoo author to surveil page. the steele reporting pushed fisa over the line in terms of establishing probable cause and we concluded that it played a central and essential role in a decision to seek a fisa order. fbi leadership supported relying on steeles reporting to seek a fisa order after being advised of concerns expressed by a department attorney th...

Inspector general for the doj. not intelligence community. so, if the intelligence community mislead. brian: right. >> some people into the fbi into spying, i dont think horowitz knows that. brian: exactly. >> but barr. we thats why i think this friction is developing right now. brian: right. even though he respects the report and said some positive statements he might include a paper with it to give his point of view on it along with it. "new york times" today say this about steele and his repo...