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Is essentially 17 memoranda have two as they relate to page and relate to his conversations with the head of the russian national oil company, and it relates to the relief of sanctions. >> okay lets set that aside for a moment because i want to zero in on the memo and what we learned. you heard michael zeldin make the point that the central allegation of how -- you know this was all about the dossier, you know and how this warrant was obtained not backed up by the evidence there but also prior t...

2016. we know from our reporting that papadopoulos told an australian ambassador that the russians had dirt on hillary clinton and the ambassador told the fbi, and that kicked everything off. the memo tried to make it seem there was no connection between page and papadopoulos, no communication. how could the papadopoulos bit of this be relevant to the the carter page fisa warrant? >> what i think is interesting about the fact that they included this piece is it does undermine their overall point...

The election if they had a basis whatsoever. >> they didnt publishize didnt go public at all. >> no one knew about it. >> what was about the impact on the identification if it was in private as fisa court requests are always done? >> im asking instead what did they need that information so intently for that they had to engage in something like this within two weeks before an election? i think that is suspicious. but were not going to know on this until we get to the end of it. and if we remember...

American people by claiming their sources and methods being jeopardized. i read this there is zero damage to sources and methods. the only reason timothy try to fight it because it embarrassing thats not good enough reason. >> do you think the director wray was right in that he was concerned there were some critical omissions? >> well let -- let them. >> the informations are the other information used to get the application. >> but lets deal with that. lets have an investigation look at the fact...

Happened and petered out. its funny i asked this question last night, you know, what if just the fbi and doj were doing their jobs and discovered an american who might be talking to russians and explore and found more evidence went back to the judge, isnt that a plausible explanation for what they were up to here? >> its pretty extraordinary if you think about it, the fact that the fbi, the hand pick fbi directors come out basically said look this causes grave concerns to release this. the white...

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Like president trump, president nixon waged war on the media, but the difference is president trump has a friendly network on his side, which apparently leaked the memo before it -- >> they got it before. it was on the air before they briefed all the reporters. >> how much of a difference is that making? >> its a gigantic difference. i mean tim touched on one, that nixon had to deal with the democrats on capitol hill and back during the saturday night massacre days, you had republican senators, ...

With the release of this memo, there have been these comparisons to mccarthy, there have been comparisons to nixon. you know, you guys are historians. tell us how you see it. you first, doug. >> well, if rod rosenstein would have been fired by donald trump, it really would have added to the saturday night massacre analogy, which took place on october 20th, 1973 when nixon ordered the firing of archibald cox. as it is, its been feeling like a saturday night massacre in slow motion. the firing of ...

I want to bring in the justice correspondent. evan perez. and justice reporter cara, where to start. evan lets go to you. now we have this memo theres been so much build up to it. three 1/2 pages. critics say its misleading whats the central allegation that stood out. >> i think the central allegation here from republicans who prepared this is that there were four fisa warpts, four surveillance authorized on carter page. and according to the memo the fbi and the justice department failed to disc...

Him and his campaign. >> well, i think thats a fair point, though the memo itself is really pretty devoid of substance that might tip the hand of the prosecutors with respect to mcgahn or the president or anybody in his orbit. i think the congressman is correct that it was really poorly executed from that standpoint. but i think in the end there is not enough there to really tip his hand. with respect to what impact does it have on the investigation, you can look at it in a couple of ways, one w...