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Brit at this records show fusion gps briefed half a dozen media outlets in the fall of 2016 but the majority did not go with the story. one who did was apparently used to just identify fbi surveillance. the carter page fisa application cited a september 23rd, 2016, yahoo news article by michael isikoff which focuses on a jewel 2016 trip to moscow. page denied working with the russians. >> i have never broken any law or done anything untoward in russia or relating to any russian person. >> accord...

Information on hillary clinton. he allegedly, according to court records, was told that by a professor in london, that russians had thousands of hillary clintons e-mails. that sparked alarm bells in the fbi when that information was reported and thats why the russian probe was open in the first place in july of 2016. clearly, the fbi was making this argument to go up on carter page, saying, look, we already have this application. we already have concern that the russians were trying to meddle in...

Rod rosenstein, the man who oversees robert muellers work, special counsel. rosenstein is mentioned as one of the officials who signed the application for a warrant targeting carter page. here was the presidents response. when rosensteins name came up for his comment a little while ago. liste listen. >> do you have confidence in rosenstein? >> you figure that one out. >> clearly an angry look on his face. lets bring in jeff zeleny. youre hearing more from the white house now about why this memo ...

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The surveillance of page, by comey, deputy mccabe then obama sally yates and rod rosenstein. >> republicans raise a specter of legality over the trump dossier. today the attorney general sent a formal repersonal to the inspector general. >> shannon: catherine herridge on top of this story for months now. thank you very much. we return to chief correspondent ed henry and claims the president is ready to release top doj officials. what do you know about that? >> theres a lot of talk, the white hou...

Conversation. i want to know what you think. go to my website, smerconish.com, right now, and answer this question. which do you think was more politically potent? hash tag release the memo, or the actual nunes memo? ill tell you the results at the end of the program. now, one reason the devin nunes memo said the steele dossier should be discredited was the accusation that christopher steele leaked his alleged findings to the media, including my next guest. the october 2016 carter page fisa ap...

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Have assistant director for the fbi. so what do you think we might seeany time direct to have assistant director for the fbi. so what do you think we might see should we see the democratic response? >> it is actually not a surprise to me that the white house didnt release this memo because from everything we know, the democratic memo is about the context for that fisa application. all the other stuff it mad beyond the steele dossier that gave them suspicions about carter page and his ties to the...

A movement to smear the fbi which may have the effect of creating a smoke screen so he can do what he really wants to do, which is to get rid of the guy overseeing the mueller probe. >> i think it is important to call it, we all remember that the mueller investigation really had its origins in july of 2016 when after papadopoulos was basically approached by russian intelligence handlers, the investigation, the counter intelligence investigation of the trump campaign kicked off. so, the fact that...

Here. we dont see the supporting documents from the fbi, the fisa application, but at a minimum, a judge would have to be convinced that after 90 days, the fbi was getting value intelligence and information that indicates they had the right to continue this surveillance. >> but evan, in fairness to carter page, hes been investigated for a long time and all these warrants to get approval for the foreign intelligence surveillance court to monitor his activities. four other trump campaign officials...