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Dossier influence the fisa warrant. >> bret: christopher steele as the british spy who was hired by fusion gps, a company that received money from the hillary clinton campaign and the dnc to do opposition research. >> what i will be looking for in the document to make my own judgment is do they really have a smoking gun on that? can they really show that if not for the steele dossier, this fisa warrant would not of an issue. that would be a big deal. if it is more murky than that i think were go...

And comey and mccabe. its just -- theres a hugege problem there and hopefully they are going to get to the bottom of it and this investigation. the final word. >> i agree. we need to clean house in both agencies in terms of folks that were responsible for what went on during the prior administration and fell into this one.tr we got to get the information out. there is no excuse that we still dont know these key answers about who paid for the dossier, how was it used. the fisa application. inform...

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Fbi was thinking, some of what the fbi was believing. and certainly the way they characterize carter page is significant. they call him possibly a foreign agent. the different ways in which they describe in which he was communicating with the russians and what they perhaps were trying to do to him. it says that this target -- hes the target of this application in the fisa court. then it goes on to say that the fbi believes page has been the subject of targeted recruitment by the russian governme...

Draftingdraft i ing, editing, or approving the four fisa applications to spy on carter page? >> i wasnt sure if you were directing that question to me. congressman, sitting here now, i dont know who was involved in drafting what fisa application. >> so just to be clear, apparently director wray, you have to answer for the deputy attorney general about fisa applications he signed? >> no. you were asking about -- >> the four applications on carter page. i think youve been vague on whether you sign...

>> thats a great wait to put it. we havent seen the president. hes had no public appearances the entire weekend. our only glimpse into his thinking is his twitter feed. and hes been very active on twitter and on this particular topic, hes tweeted four different times about the release of this document. and in his mind, it is vindication for his long-held belief that robert muellers investigation is a witch hunt and this particular fisa application was done almost criminally. he dribs escribes it...

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He can get information whenever he wants it. he says, one, it was all about the dossier, the fisa application. two, it turns out that it was done in shady fashion, and it wasnt disclosed to the judges where it was coming from. three, its clear that carter page wasnt anything of any concern to anybody, and thats wy the whole thing is a hoax. do you agree with any of those points? >> well, i disagree with all three, and i think now that the application, even though its heavily redacted, has been p...

Rosenstein, the odds of getting a two thirds margin majority in the senate are highly unlikely. this really is by all efforts and appearances anyway, an attempt to further plit size the mueller probe which is a win for president trump, hallie. >> jeff bennett at the capitol. weird to see you with the columns but i appreciate you coming on the show. now at the university of baltimore school of law and also onset, erin blake for the "washington post" and white house correspondent for pbs news hour...

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