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Joyce vance, former u.s. attorney joins us from birmingham. joyce, always good to see you. at the core of this from where you watch this, this is about a fisa application that the fbi does not grant. its important to point out. those come from on high and not the fbi. >> so there seems to be some almost deliberate ignorance coming from the white house and maybe from the hill about what the fisa process really looks like because youre right. decisions to grant fisa warrants are made by judges on ...

Compiled on trump by christopher steele, a former british spy was a key peterson of the information presented to the fisa court for the surveillance of a trup campaign aide. and said that information given to the court did not reveal that the dossier was financed by the democratic national committee and the clinton campaign. the first page of the memo reads in part, our findings which are detailed below, one raise concerns with the legitimacy and legality of certain department of justice and fbi...

Frustrated, top white house officials are worried hell resign over this because you have this clash of the president of the united states who wants to get this memo out there to discredit the mueller investigation and you have the top of the fbi saying no. >> this is an unprecedented moment. i think that we -- in these stories often get caught up in, like, this is more democratic/republicans partisan squabbling. >> no this is intelligence. >> this is something weve never seen in american history...

National security our compromise national security. that scrubbing has taken place in consultation with the fbi they made a change to register those concerns and then they voted on releasing the memo to the white house. so the process is exactly what it should have been. scrub to make sure that there are no sources and methods being revealed when a matter was brought to the attention of the committee, they addressed that matter and then they went through the committee process. >> mr. speaker, re...

Abused, then that needs to come to light so that that doesnt happen again. what this is not, is an indictment on our institutions of our justice system. this memo is not indictment of the fbi, of the department of justice, it does not impune the mueller investigation or the deputy attorney general. what it is, is the congresss legitimate function of oversight to make sure that the fisa process is being used correctly and that if it wasnt being used correctly, that needs to come to light and peop...

>> right. >> but from sort of what we have ascertained so far that this is a memo dealing with so-called abuses of the fisa process dealing with carter page as amanda was just saying. this memo, though, what we believe it contains is sort of the idea that republicans on the house intel committee are alleging that basically the fbi took the steele dossier and signed me want warrant across the top of the document and handed it in to a federal judge who rubber stamped it and sent it off to be imple...

Thinking? >> it seems to me that the republicans getting behind releasing the memo are putting a lot of faith that is not deserved into devin nunes and carter page. everyone pretty much suspects that this whole fisa debate has to do with whether fisa was appropriately obtained to keep tabs on carter page. this is the same carter page that was under fbi watch since 2013 when he was hanging out with russian agents attempting to recruit americans. this is the same carter page that lied and misled a...

Fisa process and russia investigation? >> thats certainly possible. part of vigorous oversight by congress in committees is to assume its possible that law enforcement and the intelligence committee can make mistakes, do make mistakes, thats partly why we have a structure where the house and senate intelligence committees have access to very wide range of sensitive classified materials. but ill remind you what is so unprecedented here. another norm being violated. in 40 years obscure committee r...

Think of it this way, taking your foot off the brake and putting it on the accelerator and giving america the opportunity to reach its potential. >> does anyone have any questions? phil? >> thank you, mr. speaker. president trump saying the memo should be released posed a great danger. >> let me just step back for a second. first of all, let me tell you what this memo is and what it is not. what this memo is, is congress doing its job in conducting legitimate oversight over a very unique law fis...

This does not implicate the dag. this is us holding the system accountable and reviewing whether or not fisa abuses occur. the government has been given extraordinary power over citizens civil liberties. it is our job to make sure that the process is followed properly and if its not followed properly, then we need accountability. let all of it out so long as were not involving sources and methods or revealing sources and methods to protect our national security, the more transparency the better....