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Infamiliar as you steele dossier and without that dossier, the warrant would never have been approved. our national political reporters point out that the rebuttal from democrats, quote, offers insight into one of the most secretive processes in government, directly quoting from the text of a secret surveillance warrant application to show that the justice department had disclosed that some evidence sprang from political opposition research intended to discredit a political campaign contradictin...

The ten-page, partially redacted memo was approved for release by the white house on saturday, over three weeks after the gop memo was made public, if you recall. among the major arguments "fbi and d.o.j. officials did not abuse the foreign intelligence surveillance act process, the fisa court, omit material information or subvert this vital tool to spy on the trump campaign." the original nunez memo alleged the mislead the court on the infamiliar as you steele dossier and without that dossier, ...

So we came one a version that corrected the record and it demonstrated the fisa process was followed. in fact, the fisa court was made aware that this was part of opposition research against donald trump. and ill confirm the way this firm, fusion gps, got involved in the first place, they were looking into president trump. then candidate trump in the first place. so wasnt a bunch of democrats. there were also conservatives involved as well. >> should that fisa application, with hindsight, knowin...

The democrat party. i dont think it will really affect senator feinsteins victory in the coming primary and the jungle primary california has or the general election but it is a symptom of the kind of problem the democrats are beginning to face, that if extremely liberal wing is beginning to dominate the processes. >> sandra: maybe there is a good thing for the democrats. maybe they are finally recognizing that they need some fresh blood. >> i hope they think its a good thing and let the disease...

A month before we get that but thats what i fully expect because again, as a former federal prosecutor, maria, i see one unprecedented coincidence after another in these cases of things that ive never seen before in my time as a federal prosecutor dealing with national security issues. maria: so you think people will be held accountable then? >> i do. and i think that thats part of having this discussion in the public view right now is ultimately healthy so we can make the reforms that are neces...

Department of justice or the fbi in the last six months. i mean obviously just reassure signing people for personal reasons doesnt tell the story but there are people who seem to be losing their position as a result but people want to know how will justice be served, congressman. i mean theres clearly nothing new here and the democrats have, well they have done what they wanted to do and that is muddy the water so tell us, where is the justice? >> well i think that were putting a spotlight and b...

Investigation would further delay the security clearance process of senior adviser jared kushner. according to three people familiar with the discussion, the post also reports, quote, the justice department officials said rosenstein did not provide any details to the white house about the matters that need to be investigated related to kushner. with me to talk about this is ken thomas, white house reporter for the associated press, my former colleague, and frank figliuzzi is back with us. frank,...

Scandal, including eliminating interim clearances that have been pending since june 1st of last year. the new guidelines were slated to take effect today. all this as "the washington post" reports tonight that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein alerted the white house two weeks ago that significant information requiring additional investigation would further delay the security clearance process of senior adviser jared kushner. according to three people familiar with the discussion, the p...

For the associated press, my former colleague, and frank is back with us. frank, thank you for sticking with us. im going to start with you because you have an understanding of behind the scenes of how the processes unfold. can you just kind of explain why, how unusual is it for a clearance to take this long? >> despite some white house assertions to the contrary, this is unusual. it is way too long and there are issues. when the attorney general picks up the phone and calls the white house and ...

Things with protecting the voters roles to prevent the actual manipulation of the vote tally. thats great. but you know, alisyn, thats not what happened in 2016. what happened was the russians messing with our minds and our political processes by affecting the flow of news inside the american information space. and i dont see any action with regard to that coming out of the government. >> all right. general michael hayden, thank you very much for your expertise on all of this. >> thank you. >> j...