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Were going to lunatic conspiracy theories, just not grounded in anything, and i think the attorney general did an appropriate thing here. >> laura: congressman meadows? >> we look at the facts, the facts speak for themselves, laura. when we are looking at, is it a material fact that peter strzok had a relationship with a fisa judge and they concealed it, yes. is it a fact -- and we now know that the investigation ended -- donald trump started late july, there was a meeting with the department of...

>> first of all, she had a lawyer. she had a lawyer negotiating a contract. so if michael cohen was speaking to the other lawyer and said, okay, you know, your client is going to be liable for damages, a million dollars per breach, i dont know where this guy is from. i dont know -- thats not a threat. thats something thats enforcement of a damages. >> one other question thats a material fact for people. the $130,000 is an odd number. people keep saying, she and karen mcdougal, the numbers arent ...

Over and over and one more time over again things that he knows are simply false. lies. i dont like to use that word, but he repeats things purposely that are not accurate. i dont know what else you call that. >> intentional deception of a material fact is a pretty solid definition of a lie. and youre saying that here because he knows that these dont stand up to the points you just made. they are not going to stand up to strict scrutiny. this will be the man with the man voice in the presidents ...

Basically, knew that the steele information was gathered, the dossier basically by someone who wanted to discredit donald trump, but the judge was not told that the dossier was financed by the clinton campaign and the dnc. that is such a material fact, such a bottom line here. >> omission. >> that both parties agree on when they agree on almost nothing else. how do you get surveillance of another campaign without add a admitting that the dirty information came, paid for by the other time thats s...

Court. that is not good enough. you need to present -- you need to act as if the defense is presenting their side. you have an obligation to present both sides of the issue. again, as ken said, it is all about process. process is the way we achieve process, and i think there are problems with the process. i want to hear both sides of the issue, but at the moment, i think there was a breakdown of process. >> laura: judge starr, as a former appellate court judge, you think about this fisa judge, w...

Lawyers instructions saying yes or no or i dont remember. remember, too, it is not a crime to lie in front of a grand jury. it is a crime to commit perjury in front of a grand jury. big difference. it has to be a knowing, deliberate, willful lie about material fact. if the president were to say something he really believed but turned out to be contradicted by evidence, that would not be perjury and it would not be a crime. that distinction has to be kept clearly if mind. >> sandra: you are makin...

Ive been talking to family members in miami who never really talk about politics. theyre like what is this memo? i dont understand what is going on. what did the fbi do? that to me is the power of this memo. you have people now questioning the institutions without really understanding what everything is about. >> hugh? >> the memo proves -- i reviewed hundreds and hundreds of fisa applications for two attorneys general. i did that job for two years. the omission of a material fact is a big deal ...

Both the reagan and bush 41 administrations. david, i wanted to start with you, should this mueller investigation be ended with what you know now? >> i would not say ended certainly is troubling. if further investigation reveals there is additional misconduct that led to the mueller investigation. >> laura: this memo says that the fisa warrants were applied for with the essential element in those warrants being the dossier. they admitted a material fact to the fisa judge, namely that the dossier...

>> laura: could the carter page, even with sovereign immunity, could carter page file in court an action for abuse of process or sanctions against justice department attorneys for omitting a material fact in a fisa application? is there any grounds for that? >> he could file something with the d.c. bar. wherever these people are members of the bar. he has filed a case in new york. >> laura: um-huh. >> he did it pro se. but he has a case. >> laura: comeys chief of staff chuck rosenberg all over t...

An attorney who served in both the reagan and bush 41 administrations. david, i wanted to start with you, should this mueller investigation be ended with what you know now? >> i would not say ended certainly is troubling. if further investigation reveals there is additional misconduct that led to the mueller investigation. >> laura: this memo says that the fisa warrants were applied for with the essential element in those warrants being the dossier. they admitted a material fact to the fisa judg...