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The judge would have to make that application. the central claim is that the whole warrant to monitor carter page, and of course the president carries this forward to say really the entire russia investigation is based all on the steele dossier, the nunes memo itself notes that there was also information included in that warrant application from george papadopoulos, former trump campaign adviser, who months earlier told an australian diplomat that he knew russia had damaging information on hilla...

Heard it, is that they almost always authorize what the fbi and the justice department, as they rarely reject a request. >> so thats really inaccurate. we went through this process and we went through the very careful process, by the way, in the committee a few years ago to bring in a fisa judge not as a witness. this was all negotiated, to come in and talk through how all of that process worked. we kept getting these allegations that as an fbi guy, i know it wasnt true. i sign the application a...

Dueling memos. out of the classified space thats never a good thing. as someone who did not a fisa application but a title 3 application, which is the criminal version of the same thing, i can tell you that this is not enough to get a warrant from a judge. so this begs the question -- which i always question why, and i think this is why the fbi was so strident about there are omission s in here that would lead you to the wrong conclusion if you just read this memo. thats what the fbi was talking...

Papadopoulos were conspiring together. so the suggestion is it was inappropriate to include this information about papadopoulos or it doesnt strengthen the application. the fact is, papadopoulos was approached by the russians and told that the russians had stolen hillary clintons e-mails, dirt on hillary clinton. and this took place in april of the election year. so they were making an approach to one of the trump foreign policy advisers. what was page? another of the trump foreign policy advise...

>> lets get some reaction to what we just heard. gloria, he is a very intelligent guy, very smart guy, very passionate, very committed. great patriot. and he strongly defends the release of the memo. >> he defends the release of the memo. he believes, as you heard him say quite strong ly, that the american public needs to know that the fisa court made a decision based on a political document, the steele d ossier. what we know from reading through this, by the way, as we all have been doing, is t...

Supporters to discredit the investigation. >> how things change. weve been reporting that he was part of the russia probe and all this time, the president and all those around him said he wasnt part of the campaign. the president himself wouldnt be able to pick him out of a room. he had no idea who carter page was, although he did mention him to the washington editorial board. now it fathers white house and republicans are using this fisa warrant on carter page. as an example the fbi was targeti...

Jim sciutto laid it out. the insinuation is that the fbi was biased against donald trump and they used democratic opposition research, hid that from the fisa court, and improperly got this warrant to spy on carter page. >> first of all, weve only got threats that the republicans on the committee want to lay out. reality is much richer. a fisa application runs 40, 50, 60 pages. it is very rich and youre very careful. the judge will pick it up and hit you in the head with it if it is not done well...

It led them to show up at his door. the other activities are probably in the application. we dont get to see any of it. thats why i think its a disservice to come to a conclusion on this memo. >> youve read the memorandum. whats your reaction? >> let me say that mike and i overlapd f overlapped for two years on the house intelligence committee. i had already joined. when he joined he became a chairman. eight years under the committee serving as one and two chairmen, the system is broken, possibl...

Criticism of a single fisa application involving carter page and its renewals that cherry picks information, that doesnt tell the readter whole application. and as the d.o.j. and fbi have said, deeply misleading and factually inaccurate. you can cherry pick any fisa court application and do the same thing. if the committee was seriously interested in oversight, they would have done what we usually do. they would have said, lets bring in the fbi, lets hear what they have to say. if they think som...

Papadopolousling charged as part of the mueller probe. >> george papadopoulos was charged for lying to the fbi and the russia probe and its interesting because in the last page of this memo, wolf, it makes reference to papadopoulos, that his name was in the fisa application for carter page. in the memo, the argument was made that there was no evidence that carter page and george papadopoulos had talk ed or thee was any sort of cooperation or conspiracy between the two. it does sort of undercut t...