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Infamous dossier by christopher steele. in the memo written by devin nguyens, they say essential part of the fisa application was the information from the dossier. the schiff memo released saturday night says the department of justice used that but very narrowly. secondly, the nunes memo says there was no mention that in this application to surveil carter page that christopher steele was working on be haft of the clinton campaign. schiff argues that the fbi said they had reasons to believe steel...

Theres conspiracy in the fbi among democrats in the judiciary we should make clear there were four republican judges and part of this started in the obama administration carried over into the trump administration when these were improved by the trump justice department. >> the democratic memo even in its redacted form does not substantiate and underscore all the points that devin nunes was making. the president seems to be pursuing that point. assuring the base, trying to assure the center of th...

Was corroborated independently in subsequent renewals. i do -- this is the narrow question of page. this doesnt undermine the entire russia investigation. was it independently verified before the warrant was taken out? i think that is an important outstanding question. you would like to look at the underlying fisa application if we could. >> if we could is a great question. maybe this will lead to more transparency. if you listen to what the president said last night and listen here the author o...

Interviewed by the fbi. >> republicans on the house intelligence committee claims that the so-called anti-trump dossier prepared by former british spy christopher steele formed an essential part of the page fisa application. and the initial application and three renewals afterwards failed to say that the hillary clinton campaign helped to fund the dossier. the democratic memo disputes that in late july of 2016. it claimtion investigators received steeles reporting in mid september, more than sev...

Were asked for after he left the trump campaign. so we forget some of the outrageous things our president said, but remember a year ago he said that obama ordered the spying on his campaign. this proves that that was not true. theres a lot of mystery still involved in this. mr. page hasnt been charged with anything, and thats important to remind everybody about. but why they were looking at him so closely and what that investigation was about, theres a lot more we need to learn, i think, in term...

Knew, but they could have known a fisa application was being made. they certainly knew that the fbi was concerned about russia connections. they may have known what connections there were, so that stands to reason. i think the thing thats really kind of incredible, although theres nothing you can put past president trump, for him to blame president obama for doing nothing, you know, hes been president now for more than a year, has he ever said that the russians were responsible for anything? if ...

Serious concerns raised by the majoritys memorandum about the use of partisan opposition research from one candidate loaded with uncorroborated allegations as a basis to ask a court to approve surveillance of a former association of another candidate at the height of a presidential campaign. she goes on to say as the majoritys memorandum stated the fisa judge was never informed hillary clinton and the dnc funded the dossier that was a basis for the department of justice fisa application. in addi...

Of steeles information that are used to support the application to do the surveillance of carter page. none of the salacious details, were not going to get into them. were going to the vite people to go to koogal if they want to read some of that stuff, but the information that they use is very, very limited, according to the democratic memo thats been released today. it says here that the justice department cited multiple sources to support the case for surveilling page, and only made narrow us...

October of 2016, when the justice department and the fbi go to the secret court to get this surveillance warrant, they have additional information. they say that by the time there are three more renewals of that surveillance of carter page, they say that the fbi had been able to corroborate important pieces of information in the dossier that was put together by christopher steele. another important point here that devin nunes said, which was that the court was never advised that the steele dossi...

Stated, the fisa judge was never informed that hillary clinton and the dnc funded the dossier. that was a basis for the department of justices fisa application. in addition, the minoritys memo fails to even address the fact that the deputy fbi director told the committee that if it had not been for the dossier, no surveillance would have been sought. as the president has long stated, neither he nor his campaign ever colluded with a foreign power in the 2016 election, and nothing in todays memo...