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Record saying more than just two people. what have these revelations done to the investigation do you believe, professor? >> well, first of all every civil libertarian whether a liberal or conservative should be concerned about this in the f.b.i. for years theyve been worried about abuses since the days of j. edgar hoover and suddenly many are saying well give them a pass if they are going after donald trump. thals not the right approach. we have to have complete transparency and know what our i...

Material drawn from the application materials for a fisa warrant, targeting carter page, a one-time campaign adviser to donald trump. although the application is said to have drawn on a variety of material, the memo apparently focuses on one strand -- information from christopher steel. a former british intelligence agent who wrote the dossier that president trump had been compromised by russian intelligence. the committee voted last week that they would make this memo available to all members o...

Sweeping government surveillance powers to spy on americans. up for a vote today on capitol hill along with an amendment to put new curbs on big brother. welcome to a brand-new hour of "americas newsroom," everybody. im sandra smith. >> bill: im bill hemmer. >> sandra: i cant believe an hour is already over. >> bill: todays vote come as we learn about more political snooping in the trump dossier. the house at this moment is considering a bill to impose new limits on the ability of an intelligenc...

As far as im concerned calling this intelligence is just flat incorrect. >> even if that were all true, it wouldnt make it not intelligence. just because somebody died -- >> sure it is. its political research. >> but if it was being done by an intelligence agent from the uk who was -- >> not anymore. both retired. both in the private investigation. >> that is what he is. thats why he was respected by the fbi when he came. >> not anymore. >> is james clapper said this man has a sterling backgroun...

Well have been the hope. now, on the good side for steele, if you want to paint him in the best light, he was concerned. he saw problems and hes an intelligence agent and he can put himself in the position of the other side and imagine what they might do and use this with. so theres a wide range of possible outcomes to this -- >> but, ken, i do have to say, just so we get the timeline right. current and former officials with direct knowledge of the investigation say that the federal inquiry did ...

He saw problems and hes an intelligence agent and he can put himself in the position of the other side and imagine what they might do and use this with. so theres a wide range of possible outcomes to this -- >> but, ken, i do have to say, just so we get the timeline right. current and former officials with direct knowledge of the investigation say that the federal inquiry did not start with mr. steeles dossier. early parts of which did not reach counterintelligence investigators at the fbi until...

Here are things we do know. fusion gps was part of the clinton campaign to get dirt on trump. the british intelligence officer used his contacts in russia probably paid for a lot of the information and to add his value, that of the british intelligence agent, steele, he goes to the f.b.i. and cooperates with the f.b.i. to try and magnify the dossier on trump and get them working on the case. this is really bad not only in the substance of there is nothing there there for trump liability and coll...

From any americans, congressional republicans have largely instead focused their efforts on trying to get the real russia investigation. in large part, they have focused their efforts on denouncing the dossier with all of their might and denouncing fusion gps, the firm that paid for it. senator grassley and senator lindsey graham right now are trying to get the justice department to bring criminal charges against the british intelligence agent who compiled the dossier. other congressional republ...

They work really well with us and theyre really qualified to do what they do. >> one, theres been controversy this week, very politicized controversy about text messages between an fbi -- a justice department lawyer? aleasea page was an fbi lawyer -- and a senior counterintelligence official. and theres controversy as to why their personal text messages to one another were made public. setting that aside for the moment, peter strzok was part of the mueller investigation. he was taken off the inv...

He wrote a really influential paper about how intelligence was going astray, but it didnt work out. its one thing toll an intelligence agent in the feel, another to manage a huge agency. whats next here for the white house? weve talked a lot about how ty cobb is trying to convince everybody this is going to wrap up. >> weve never believed a special prosecutor would wrap up quickly. the one thing we can actually say is it will not, but we could pretend like we know exactly what mueller is going...