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Now lets bring in senior political analyst david gergen and alexis glick who once worked as an analyst at goldman sachs i should point out. david, how political is this? i mean, is this just a coincidence? this is happening on the eve of, you know, debate over financial regulation? >> i do think its suspicious. i think the timing is probably not a coincidence. eliot spitzer argued today that it was not a coincidence. and its going to make a big difference in the senate debate. let me go back t...

>> their defense is the european bank is incredibly sophisticateded. it doesnt matter to you if i made the decision or somebody is standing in the corner. dont pretend to us thats a material fact. only now in retrospect does it appear material because you lost a lot of money. the problem for goldman is that most materiality decisions are made after the fact. when somebody who lost money claims that something wasnt disclosed to them, in this case, the fact that john paulson made these decisions. ...

Lewis, author of "the big short." david gergen and alexis glick who once worked as an analyst at goldman sachs i should point out. david, how political is this? i mean, is this just a coincidence? this is happening on the eve of, you know, debate over financial regulation? >> i do think its suspicious. i think the timing is probably not a coincidence. eliot spitzer argued today that it was not a coincidence. and its going to make a big difference in the senate debate. let me go back to what mich...

A very successful hedge fund guy. >> who made a huge sum of money betting against sub prime debt. theres nothing alleged to be wrong with him participating that way. the failure is goldman not explaining to you -- >> so i trust you and youre misleading me. >> a failure to disclose a material fact. he made the choice, not me. >> this made a little bit of news today. you said earlier you thought the timing of this coming out this week was a little bit suspicious. given that the administration is t...

Plane and would have had to make other arrangements, counseling for psychological evaluations, perhaps even institutionalization, those types of things. gregg: heres what she wrote in the note inside the kids backpack, the child is mentally unstable, hes violent, severe psychopathic issues and i was tide lied to and misled bit orphanage workers and directors and, if you misrepresent a material fact in a contract that is fraud. cant she sue the russian orphanage? >> well, perhaps, but, again, she...

Be suing that russian orphanage. heres why, stuffed in the backpack was a note have the adoptive mom: this child is mentally unstable, he is vie hrerpbt. has severe psycho pathic issues, behaviors, i was lied to, misled by the workers and director. david, you know that misrepresentation of a material fact is fraud. if the claim is true, couldnt she sue the russian orphanage for damages? >> absolutely. the hague adoption prevent shun does that the act of putting the child on the plane -- im sure ...

And democratic version, lets see the actual facts, what went before the fisa judge. the bottom line, even the democratic memo were told confirms that the original fisa judge was not told that the information for the warrant was essentially coming from a dossier. thats a material fact that the judge was not told, not according to the republican memo, but the new york times said the democratic memo admits that the judge was not told that the dnc and the clinton campaign paid for this, which led to...

Steele that he was paid and working for the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign? is it a material fact out there disclosed to the fisa court? >> it ought to have been disclosed to the fisa court. how significant that was, whether or not the central fact is whether or not they relied upon that. if it had not been for that dossier -- >> thats true. >> -- there would not have been surveillance. thats the really important question. thats what mccabe is quoted as saying. >> we dont know if thats tru...

What was his goal exactly? beyond just alerting the president to this information? the fact is, comey, and a a one-on-one national security briefing, chose to omit a material fact that would most certainly have given the president a fuller understanding of the intent behind the dossier. it would have certainly spurred him to ask more significant questions. stephanopoulos, well, he gets credit for asking the question, but boy, it would have been nice to have some real aggressive follow-up. such a...

>> 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...