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That it was tainted and the fbi is bias against the u.s. president. critics say its misleading and shows part of the picture. given what we know, there is a lot we dont know. was this a hit or a miss from republicans making this information public? >> well, i think whats behind it are two things, lets be fair. one is the midterm elections in november, republicans want to win, they want to hold on to the house. two is a white house under threat from the robert mueller investigation into alleged l...

All this? we asked tom foreman to explain. >> reporter: in the long investigation into possible russian meddling in the u.s. election, carter page has become a flash point, not because this one-time adviser to donald trump had a long relationship with russia or he traveled there during the campaign, that is true. instead, some republicans believe the justice department improperly used a fisa court to wiretap carter page. now, fisa stands for the foreign intelligence surveillance act. this is wha...

Your first thoughts as you look at this? >> i think there are some parts of it that are damaging to the fbi and to the trump investigation, raised questions about it and there are some aspects of it that are striking to me in terms of what it leaves out. one other point i think is important to make right at the start is that you heard from adam schefter and some of the congressional democrats on how damaging this memo was to national security, that basically give up sources and methods. there is...

Foreign intelligence security court without the steel dossier information. they dont have a quote, they just say as a fact that mccabe says they never would have been a warrant to fire carter page without the steele dossier. what doesnt it have? >> harris: can i just step in? i want to step back, there are a lot of questions about this. the fisa court has so much power, its so secretive and important in this country. catherine herridge has been reporting on the processes we go through to make su...

Serious question about how all of this was handled. democrats are saying that if this memo is used to fire rosenstein or mueller, that it will be a constitutional crisis. i think there are a lot of questions with this memo. >> harris: do we know why deputy ag rosenstein decided to just extend the surveillance of carter page? >> we dont. thats a perfectly legitimate question that rosenstein -- why does he do that? as a trump appointed person, what does he see that the carter page surveillance nee...

Collection of documents was corrupt and we know it was problematic because he was fires that impugn the vice warrant th? >> is certainly the use of the dossier seems to have been and probably dont know how much of a role that played in the fisa warrant. this is what i wanted to talk about. a fisa warrant is usually dozens of pages, 30, 40, 100 pages. the idea that the only evidence in the fisa warrant was the dossier seems highly unlikely. thats another point i think is being overlooked. carter ...

Agents tried to reprove carter page as an agent for the russians in this country. in 2014, this was years before donald trump ran for president, carter page was the subject of a separate fisa warrant. carter page has a long history and it seems unlikely -- the dossier may have played a role into the degree, that is very troubling and may be corrupt but very unlikely that that was the only evidence that was brought. carter page had a long history and the fbi had him on his radar for fashionable r...

All of that for this document was not shared to make the surveillance. the basis according to a quote in here, the dossier -- thats what we know from the memo. fisa requests are very detailed. and there is a lot of information. perhaps -- and we havent heard this directly but we have heard of problems with this coming out. perhaps theyre saying theres a lot more behind this that is omitted. we will likely see it in a democratic memo and that comes out into the raw intelligence that backs up both...

The trump investigation didnt start with the carter page warrant in october of 2016. it started after george papadopoulos who was another foreign policy advisor to donald trump had talked to an australian ambassador, a diplomat and that started in july of 2016, months before the carter page warrant was ever obtained. >> harris: go ahead, i will bring up the dossier after you are done. >> what it says here in this memo is that the papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an fbi counterin...

Geraldo almost got decked with an egg last night. brian: yesterday example how bad it is, how bad it became. here is griff jenkins with a very special and unique protester. >> in fact this young man, you were participating in the fire. whats your name. >> my name is carter and i actually kind of started the fire. >> why did you start that fire carter. >> im sorry, why did you start that fire. >> because i felt like it and im just saying [bleep] our president. >> well, there you have it. steve: t...