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Like carter page, the investigation of him, basically you have a counterterrorism tool. a tool used to protect us from terrorism instead used a fisa court, its being used to spy on a presidential campaign, unprecedented. >> shannon: i want to recap. the president asked for tonight. declassified or release these things. portions of the carter page fisa application, fbi reports they had with bruce orr. and also the president said they want all these unredacted text release regarding the russian in...

Dossier. also you will find out people like carter page, when no one could think of using a week with the russians, you have a counterterrorism tool use to protect us from terrorists being used to spy on an american campaign, presidential campaign, unprecedented in our history. >> so folks know -- the president asked for declassified for release these things, portions of the carter page fisa application, fbi reports of the interviews with bruce ohr in connection with the page fisa applications, ...

History repeating itself. weve seen that before when devin nunes released his memo which was about this underlying fisa application. thats what happened. when the redacted version of the fisa application was released in the summer, thats what happened. im sure thats likely that thats what would happen now, but the cost of that, of course, even if it might, you know, kind of expose the president -- expose more of the ties between the presidents campaign and russia, the cost simply isnt worth that...

>> i think they could make public the deep concern over the way the president is pursuing this in the same way dni coats stepped forward after the putin/trump summit and said, look, we believe the word of u.s. intelligence over the word of the kgb successor organizations as the president said in helsinki. and so there may be moments, nicolle, when i think the men and women of the intelligence community and justice department actually take a very firm stand against the president. >> matt miller, ...

Director chris wray. not that they need any more tests, but christopher wray has said he has steel in his spine. i believe in an interview with lester holt. and the deputy attorney general has talked about not being extorted under fierce questioning from some of the presidents most fringey allies, if you will, on the house intel committee. how important is this test for mr. rosenstein and mr. wray? >> its important to them for two reasons. one, just for the -- to protect the information thats co...

Going on. congressman adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee who will join us in a moment released a statement saying president trump in a clear abuse of power has decided to intervene in a pending law enforcement investigation by ordering the selective release of materials who ebelieves are helpful to his defense team and thinks will advance a false narrative. i have previously been informed by the fbi and just department they would consider it a red liep th line that...

Andrew mccabe, peter struck, lisa and bruce ohr. and also 21 additional pages of the secret fisa application. congressman, i dont even know how to -- i dont even know how to form a question almost about this because its so unprecedented and so strange in the middle of an investigation the fbi is ordered to make public its own information inside an investigation. is this the president trying to help all of the potential witnesses in the investigation and give them ways of getting through any poss...

York, chief political correspondent for the washington examiner, he joins us tonight. give us a quick overview of what the president is considering declassifying, whether you think he will, and if he does what were likely to learn from the documents. >> well, it does appear that he is likely to do. that the first thing that everyone mentions is essentially the rest of the carter page fisa application. remember, some of it was declassified and released. we all knew there were large parts of it th...

Political correspondent for the "washington examiner," and he joins us tonight. give us a quick overview of what the president is considering declassified, whether you think he will, and if he does, what we are likely to learn from these documents. >> it does appear that he is likely to do that. the first thing that everyone mentions is essentially the rest of thees carter page fisa application. remember, some of it was declassified and released. we all knew that there were large parts of it tha...

Nelly ohr was retained and paid by fusion gps to work with christopher steele to create that dossier. we have also come to find out that bruce ohr was communicating with christopher steele for 10 months before the first fisa application and another seven most after the first fisa application. there are a lot of questions about why a guy who had no responsibilities or apparent authority to be involved in this investigation was so involved. >> sandra: so should he, too, have his security clearance...