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Not abuse. as for carter page, he was quote, assessed to be an agent of the russian government. page has denied any wrongdoing. in his memo, the house intelligence committee top democrat congressman adam schiff claims devin nunes is memo unfairly maligned the justice department and fbi. the best with us. a senior writer at the national review. i want to read a tweet from president trump just out. thing the democrat memo response on government surveillance abuses is a total political and legal bu...

Before three different fisa judges appointed by the george bush administration, they found it compelling enough for the fbi to move ahead. it is a pretty interesting memo. i dont think this alters the landscape. there was a muddying of the landscape by the newness memo. essentially undercutting the authority of the fbi. an attempt to undercut the authority of the fbi as they advance in the investigation of the trump administration. i think much of this was already in the public domain. >> this w...

He has not told vladimir putin, stop this right now. we are still arguing about whether or not christopher steele memo, salacious dossier or parts of it should have been released or whether or not it should have been used for a fisa warrant. perhaps, it is true that the fbi were overreached. that they should have used parts of the christopher steele memo that they use. maybe they did not do everything according to the book that they should have done to get the warrant renewed three times. also u...

It contradicts it in some cases with some pretty compelling evidence. for example, the nunes memo claimed the fbi didnt sufficiently disclose that christopher still was working on behalf of an opposition campaign. the quotation provided in the adam schiff memo says the fbi disclosed the person that was the first deals work was done on behalf of an entity designed to discredit the term campaign. designed to discredit. its another way of saying opposition research. that is not anybodys idea of a m...

Committee now so divided that it cannot even disagree on a version of history on who said what to whom on how a fisa warrant was issued and renewed three times. by the fisa court. the fundamental issues that the mueller commission was looking into, is looking into, is, did russian metal in our election? the answer to that is now overwhelmingly, we know because of last weeks event, yes. so this partisan squabble within the house intelligence committee, i think does nothing but undermine the credi...

Memo now released. catherine - - is life in washington with new information. >>reporter: there is clear division on the house intelligence committee between republicans and democrats. the democrats say the dossier was a small slice of evidence that was needed to get the surveillance warrant for a term campaign aide. republicans say it was the top line item the main element of the fisa application. there really is an independent third party and that is senator chuck grassley leads the senate judi...

Information for those who are deeply in the weeds on this investigation. and following very closely. at the end of the day, i think this is a sideshow. it shows a disk functioning house intelligence committee. anything that comes out of the house intelligence committee is not bipartisan, we will have to be suspect of giving this that is occurring. it causes us to focus very much on what robert mueller is doing. >> you just mentioned let me pick up on that a second pretty data shows it is functio...

Talking about the democratic fisa memo. as a bombshell on front of her new charges against paul manafort. this accusing him of secretly recruiting and funding a group of former european politicians to lobby here in the united states on behalf of the ukraine. this comes after his one-time deputy rick gates pled guilty after conspiracy and lying to investigators. marlene tonight with more on what is transpiring with that. first of all, some are asking why this plea deal, right now? >> hi eric! it ...

The broader question that the memo is all about, above and beyond whether the fisa process, the surveillance was authorized or if it was abuse. is worth awere the russians med? this becomes an asterisk. we know because of the indictments of 13 russians, that yes, they did metal. they meddled repeatedly. they meddled over time. obama knew about this meddling and the precious little nor did donald trump even after he was briefed. these are two separate issues whether or not the fisa process was ab...

>> thank you. this will prevent judy miller now. a pulitzer prize-winning author, and fox news contributor. this had more of catherine reporting on this. is there anything further that is jumping out at you judy?>> i think what jumps out at me is the timeline of this counterintelligence investigation. i mean, what the democrats say is that the investigation begins in july of 2015 when carter page is actually in russia, talking to the russians about ways in which they can be allegedly helpful to ...