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Russian nationals in the quarter page had cooperated with the bureau and help secure a -- in 2015. im looking for this now. lets see, the first section deals with christopher steele intelligence reporting. lets see -- >> okay so this is the first point that we were just discussing. make the argument that the fisa application was made on the basis of intelligence. and here is the key phrase. it was quote - unrelated to the dossier. >> i will continue reading. >> you raise a good point because ini...

For sure. i dont want to go in that direction until we verify it yet. there is quite a few people involved here. now with david kramer this is significant and important. he was a state department official. remember, he was the guy who went and get the dossier for mccain answered brought it back. the fbi already had the dossier. we know that the fbi had obtained that dossier earlier that summer. he goes back. he gets the dossier. and he is pleading the fifth because he doesnt want to answer one g...

Know for sure. i dont want to go in that direction until we verify yet. theres quite a few people involved here. with david kramer, this is significant and important because he was a state department official but he was the guy that went to get the dossier for mccain and he brought it back. the fbi already had the dossier. we know that. the fbi had obtained the dossier earlier that summer. he goes back, he gets the dossier, and hes pleading the fifth because he doesnt want to answer one question...

Obama and top members of the administration owe you an explanation. hillary owes you an explanation. what this did is a dereliction of duty. they fail to stop a major national security threat. we did reach out to obamas office for comments, shockingly we havent heard back. another example of russian collusion, is the clin to be bought and paid for -- clinton bought and paid for dossier filled with russian and russian government lies and propaganda. hillary clinton and the dnc shelled out over $1...

Of classified information. it doesnt seem there would be a lot of human sources, for example that would be in danger as a result. but the inaccuracy i think is what wray was getting at. they were able to pick and choose what they wanted so the narrative the nunes memo presented which is the carter page fisa application was all built around a flimsy dossier was not accurate. he thinks there was more there that should have been presented. >> kerr, let me talk about the politization of this moment....

Steele represented to the fbi that he had not talked to anyone in the media about the dossier. and so then the fbi took that, that he was reliable and he had not spoken to the media and went to the fisa court with the application to get a warrant for surveillance of carter page as we have been reporting. well, in this memo, grassley says, quote: the fbi already believed mr. steele was reliable. he had previously told the fbi he had not shared the information with the press and lying to the fbi i...

Subsequent renewal applications, you know, filed with the foreign intelligence surveillance court in april and in june of 2017. now, heres the important part of page 5. the first of these filings was publicly reported in the u.s. media in april of 2017. yet, the fbi did not subsequently disclose to the fisa court the evidence suggesting that steele had lied to the fbi. instead, the application still relied primarily, remember, the bulk of the application is the firestone clinton bought and paid ...

Did you ever hear of anything like this in your life. >> i never heard of anything the way you described it in my life. >> sean: the reality is unverified information that came from russia of all places, and that was paid for, clinton paid for the dossier. thats a fact. its indisputable. its incontrovertible and then used to apply for a fisa warrant and became the bloiskt fisa application. >> let me get this straight. this series is based upon you were level fbi management. not the rank and file...

Article apparently to shield mr. steeles credibility on which it still relied on the renewal request of the fisa application. have you got to renew it every 90 days. it said given that the information contained in the september 23rd news article generally matches the information about page, that steele discovered, doing hirst/her research redacted. stop for a second. so they used the same information from the same pinner. they presented to the court like they are two separate yet corroborating p...

Jarrett. let me start with you on the legal side. the bulk of the application, what they didnt adhere which was in the nunes house intel memo, steele, before the election, was known to hate donald trump. very important key. so, the bulk of information that the fbi gave to the fisa court was the steele dossier, which we know was unverified which comey said in january to trump was unverified. but they used it anyway. >> right. >> sean: what does this tell you? >> it tells you need a calculator to ...