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Unceremoniously, well, fired, and he did it for the very purposes of ensuring that a special counsel investigation happened after his own nine-month investigation got nothing. and that his good friend robert mueller was appointed to lead the witch hunt, even though, again, they had found nothing. you may remember this. >> the president tweeted on friday after i got fired that i better hope theres not tapes. i woke up in the middle of the night on monday night because it didnt dawn on me original...

Now, i thought, if i remember correctly, a fisa application can only be obtained if a career law enforcement official swears that the information is true and correct. or else there will be serious consequences. where did i learn that from? oh, rod rosenstein. take a look. >> fisa application is actually, a warrant, like a search warrant. in order to get a fisa search warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a career federal enforcement officer who swears that the information in the affidavit is ...

Wheres the mueller investigation into fisa to be as? after all, its clear and compelling and incontrovertible evidence that a trump campaign associate was spied on by federal officials, the bulk of the information in the fisa application was that hillary bought and paid for russian dossier. by the way, they never told the court that hillary paid for it. wheresha the mueller investigation into the coordination and the effort of the state department to use the clinton bought and paid for russian d...

Scrutiny. i think that was appropriate. what happened after that, some of the processes and the protocols that many of us, former agents, have questioned the way the nice sa application was submitted. -- fisa application was submitted. the things that were the actual impetus behind opening that investigation. we can disagree about that again, im not discrediting him for making the decision that something needed to be looked into. its how they western about it. the fact that they talked about the...

As you know, i cannot talk about ongoing investigations. >> he cant talk about ongoing investigations. but he changed his tune when it came to a question from ranking member douglas collins. >> the office of inspector general is currently looking at the carter page fisa application. >> which is very much of a concern. >> and it is also being reviewed at the same time, simultaneously by mr. john huber, who is the u.s. attorney from utah who was asked by attorney general sessions to conduct a revi...

Is currently employed with the department of justice. >> is there any process that you can comment on -- are you aware of the discussions and also the implications investigations from congress and from others surrounding his involvement in many of the investigation problems we have seen over the past few years at doj? >> mr. collins, i am generally aware of mr. orr being questions being raised by his -- >> know what you know, and using your past experience and prior knowledge, do you believe mr....

The department of justice. >> is there any process at this point or that you can comment on, you are aware of the discussions and implications spanning from congress with bruce ohrs involvement in many of the problems weve seen in doj? >> im generally aware of mr. ohr being -- questions being raised about his behavior at the department of justice. >> knowing what you know and seeing what you have seen and using your past experience and prior knowledge do you believe that mr. ohr was operating ou...

His discussions with anyone in the administration about the special counsel and on that basis whitaker has declined to answer those questions saying thats really an issue for executive privilege. a couple other things that have jumped out at me. we have had confirmation from the acting attorney general the carter page fisa surveillance warrant obtained by the f.b.i. and justice department in october of 2016 for trump campaign aide and more specifically the contact the senior f.b.i. and justice d...

Department of justice and the fbi were aware of prior to the first fisa application was your relationship with christopher steele and glenn simpson, your wifes relationship with christopher steele and glenn simpson, mr. steeles bias against donald trump, your wifes compensation for work, glenn simpson and fusion gps, correct? is and then he answers you -- his lawyer gets involved and says can i have a second, and then bruce ohr answers you and says, right. so to reiterate, when i spoke with fbi,...

Weve been pushing hard on these issues, and thats why its critical. ing. maria: and you want to see sally yates testify. >> i do. thats the perfect example of why. lets bring in the former deputy attorney general, sally yates, who signed the first fisa application. lets ask why she verified an unverified dossier according to her own deputy, bruce ohr, why she verified that christopher steele was reliable and credible when her own deputy, bruce ohr, had questions about christopher steeles reliabi...