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Informant who dont want their material included on fisa applications applications, there is already a real world implication to this document. >> and if the fbi decides not to pursue some fisa applications. we cant have that. and it is critical to our national security. and i would become concerned about trusting relationship between heads of counter-terrorism in the fbi and the hill and the oversight committee. so when they go there and give a briefi briefing -- as i did when i was assistant di...

Powerful people go beyond mere criticism. they could destroy the institution. although those critics revisionist supporters claim their ire is reserved for institutional leadership and not the rank and file, it is the fbi agent on the street it is the fn the street most severely affected as public support for federal law enforcement is sacrificed for political gain. let me start with you. i was reminded that fbi agents dont just count on people respecting the fbi when they are out in dangerous e...

Expected that i dont understand how people in the media, people who normally want to expose everything, people who want to make sure that the pentagon papers got published. people who have wanted to make sure that we knew everything about iran contra. people who wanted to make sure that we knew everything about every implication of watergate, and now they suddenly say nothing to see here, lets shut this down. we dont want to see that memo. i had one person respond to me on twitter, a reporter an...

Have reuped the fisa warrants time after time again if you didnt have probable cause to do so? >> that is correct. we know there was the original application for the further and it was reopened three subsequent times. each and every time it was submitted it had to meet a threshold level of probable cause. lets be clear, when you submit an application for a warrant and any law enforcement investigation, whether its at the state level or federal level, you only have to produce enough evidence to e...

Sought the warrant without the dossier information. >> yes. >> sought and information. so when you say dossier information, the implication there is it was corroborated by other research. >> yeah, and the memo points out, you know what they used to corroborate was the story by isikoff where steeles the source. so they used the same information presented as a separate piece of information that corroborates the dossier. >> congressman, do you know thats all that was used? >> i dont. i know what th...

So they may have been citing other aspects of the story. we dont know because we havent seen the fisa application. >> youre not denying that steel was a source. >> christopher steel said in a court filing that he talked to a number of journalists when he came to washington in september of 2016. and he named the news organization. ta he spoke to. and yahoo news thats me, was one of them. im not giving anything away. yes, christopher steel was somebody i spoke to when i wrote the story. >> implica...

About the implication for our democracy and its institutions. >> of course, you have your new episode of the ax files tonight. lets talk about that. you had a chance to sit down with somebody we all know, whoopi goldberg. lets play a clip. >> nonsense about, you know, whether barack obama was an american citizen. >> you actually had a pretty sharp confrontation with him about this on "the view" in 2011. >> yeah. >> i think thats the biggest pile of dog mess i have heard in ages. >> a white presi...

Concerns if the memo was released. outfront tonight former cia firm, our panel. all of this. jeff, raj, not wanting to engage on some of the core facts that are problematic. >> not wanting to engage on the facts, period, as far as i can tell. look, there are lots of facts that refute the implication that he was drying from this, from this memo. but the basic idea here is the president of the united states is willing to trash his intelligence community for the sole purpose of trying to discredit ...

That was something the fbi was seeking to do, and thats what we reported. >> if i am understanding, i think this is the important part. the implication of the nunes memo is that the dossier source and the yahoo! news source, your source, were one and the same, and therefore, not to be relied on, which begs the question, what additional reporting, if any, did you do to confirm what christopher steele told you for yahoo! news? >> well, i think i just explained that, which was that there were multi...

Constitutionality assigned functions. does this mean mueller cant indict the president without going to the supreme court or does it mean he shouldnt. >> reasonable academic minds disagree on this. if i were a judge, my view is that the sitting president cannot be indicted. first, because hes the unitary executive and therefore hes the only person in the government that if you arrest him, you essentially arrest an entire branch of the government, the executive branch. secondly, the language of t...