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Department of justice. >> did the then deputy director andrew mccabe tell your committee he there would not be a fisa warrant without the dossier? >> well, the language thats used in the memo was not his language. i cant give both precisely what he said, i cant do it from memory but more than that he talked about, i can say in very general terms, that a fisa spliks viewed in its totality. each part of an application is important to the application. and so well have to wait, i guess, until his te...

Than a parking ticket. the opposite is true. if you read this, frankly, both democrats and the republicans have been making this, hyping this as some huge document. and it really doesnt assistant up. one thing i want to clarify, fusion gps, the company that hired steele. by the time they hire christopher steele theyre being paid by the democrats. just to clarify that. >> right. as you pointed out, there was other information. it alludes to being part of the fisa application including george papa...

>> laura: come on, the memo doesnt have anything to do with russia collusion, i bet my bottom dollar it has nothing to do with collusion. when it does have to do with is how a fisa application was drafted and on what it was base based. if it was based on opposition research, that should never have been done. you guys are the oversight of the executive branch, you do the oversight of the fbi and the doj. the american people are quite concerned about this investigation and i think the people have ...

See the fisa judge, a court which reaches levels of importance in these united states almost with the supreme court. i havent heard you say it, that a fisa judge would allow such a thing based on an unverified dossier. it sounds very nunes. >> thats an adjective? >> theres a history. you cant ignore history when talking about the president. you cant. >> i will say this: if they presented the dossier, this is why i think you have to be somewhere in the middle. you cant say man, the republicans ar...

>> laura: come on, the memo doesnt have anything to do with russia collusion, i bet my bottom dollar it has nothing to do with collusion. when it does have to do with is how a fisa application was drafted and on what it was base based. if it was based on opposition research, that should never have been done. you guys are the oversight of the executive branch, you do the oversight of the fbi and the doj. the american people are quite concerned about this investigation and i think the people have ...

Memo had been verified. im going to read from the memo and then read what comey actually said. this is the fourth item in the third page. according to the head of the fbis counterintelligence division, assistant director bill presnap corroborated of the steele dossier was in its infancy at the time of the initial page fisa application. after steele was terminated a source validation report conducted by an independent unit within fbi assessed steeles reporting was corroborated. yet in early janua...

Paying fusion and paying chris steele when they took the application to the fisa court. >> what makes -- just because something is made by a political partisan or just because somebody sees evidence that scares them and suddenly they become biased against the individual they are veet -- investigating you how does that undermine what they found. >> from the standpoint of facts, but from a standpoint of a warrant to spy on an american citizen. it is a no-no. and you dont do that. >> i understand t...

You should bring an end to this investigation. that is i think singly destructive and encourages the white house to engage in conduct that could bring about a it youal crisis. >> joining me is julia ansley with nbc news. susan page, washington bureau chief for "usa today" and mika eoyang, a former staffer on the house intelligence committee itself. in that record, talk about what the republicans are up to. what is chairman nunes up to, julia? is he trying to destroy the prosecution against the p...

Waters. a huge question on the original fi fisa, renewed fisa application of the carter page. it has nothing to do with what really happened in 2016 or in 2017. and to the degree touch-toit wi trump supporters -- it will say that rosensteins renewal, i guess of the fisa application was somehow questionable, it may leave the groundwork for trump firing rosenstein which he would love to do. thats what the nunes memo is about, firing rosenstein. >> absolutely what its about. go ahead. >> its someth...

Wrote it and under the law its judges that approve these warrants, its john roberts and its a nonpartisan job, but if youre counting, 80% of the current surveillance judges are also republicans. the process is secret, which is why its such a big deal that republicans want to release this classified info, but this is interesting, there was one former fisa judge said that they always probe before approving a warrant. >> i ask questions, i get into the nitty gritty, i know exactly what is going to ...