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Going to be in government and in power the foreseeable future and i think its appropriate that the investigative processes dont get tainted with these political considerations like they clearly were in this case. >> you say like this type of thing, you say political considerations are part of this cas case. >> fusion gps hired christopher steele, who wrote the dossier and knellie orrs husband, bruce orr, valeted that into the justice department. they had to use a yahoo! news article to validate....

Comey. we need to hear from bruce orr. i thank you james comey should stand up and hold a news conference to take this on, answer the questions. to what extent was the court relying on the dossier. did the fbi inform the fisa court that it was paid for by hillarys campaign? james comey can answer a lot of these questions and i think its appropriate because of the amount of scrutiny this is under. its not fair to the new fbi director that he has to shoulder the burden because it happened prior to...

>> howard: its been a remarkable battle this weekend where you are in washington over whether this should be released, if devin nunes should really says no. the argument that appointing christopher where he was it would reveal or compromise classified sources and methods . after reviewing that, i wonder does your experience see anything that you could understand why this argument wouldve been made? >> i think we all know how and its very basic framework, the foreign intelligence surveillance cou...

Republicans want to do it on their own terms if the president approves it, if it goes through the proper processes, i would say that the tipping point for the white house is there is some reporting earlier this evening that christopher wray the fbi director could step down over his objections. i think that might make the white house nervous, it might make them pull back because there was some reporting that the chief of staff john kelly met with him to try to foment a compromise because that wou...

Republicans want to do it on their own terms if the president approves it, if it goes through the proper processes, i would say that the tipping point for the white house is there is some reporting earlier this evening that christopher wray the fbi director could step down over his objections. i think that might make the white house nervous, it might make them pull back because there was some reporting that the chief of staff john kelly met with him to try to foment a compromise because that wou...

According to the memo, deputy director andrew mccabe testified in december last year they would have never gone for a surveillance warrant had it not been for the dossier. >> one question. speaker ryan and the white house said they encouraged the democrats to release their version of the memo. do you have any idea what the timing of that might be? >> well, thanks have to go through a number of processes in terms of classification. one of the distinctions with the republican staff memo it was del...

The justice department brings to the court and thats actually not a negative. what that high percentage of grants reflects is how carefully these processes are vetted inside of the justice department. theyre vetted on the fbi side of the house. theyre vetted inside of the national security division by doj lawyers. there is an ethos of keeping the credibility so high on these requests that the court will understand that the justice only comes and asks for them when we are confident -- or i should...

Women. mike -- i mean matt miller, you know so well the dedication, the sacrifice and the danger with which these men and women deal every day. >> yeah. thats right. one of the things that i think they have to be worried about is that the release of this memo jeopardizes their intelligence relationships, jeopardizes the work they do, and that kind of brings us to this sham process that the president has run here in deciding to declassify this. look, i participated in declassification processes, ...

Compiled on trump by christopher steele, a former british spy was a key peterson of the information presented to the fisa court for the surveillance of a trup campaign aide. and said that information given to the court did not reveal that the dossier was financed by the democratic national committee and the clinton campaign. the first page of the memo reads in part, our findings which are detailed below, one raise concerns with the legitimacy and legality of certain department of justice and fbi...

From people like paul ryan, the speaker, who dont think this memo should be used to discredit the fbi, discredit the justice department, to discredit the russian investigation or robert mueller, is that -- there may have been a violation of civil liberties, presumably, carter paige, that fisa warrant, surveillance warrant based too much on political documents could have been used? is that possible? is there possibly a civil liberties issue underneath all of this? >> its very unlikely based on ev...