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Establish probable cause. and in the democratic memo today what were seeing is theyve determined the fisa court got what it needed, that the dossier was not critical player in that probable cause and that the court was properly notified of the basis of information provided in the affidavit. >> michael still watching this for us as well. mike, youve been going through the documents. i understand a new statement out from the house? >> thats right, adam schiff who along with his staff the top democ...

Law enforcement and instead revealed that both the fbi and justice department made exten extensive showings to justify all four requests. whats also interesting here that schiff says in his statement is that we know that the house intelligence committee voted two weeks ago to actually release a response memo to the nunes memo, which went public on february 2nd. the president rejected initially releasing that memo, the schiff memo in response two weeks ago. and there was some question as they wen...

I dont know why its taking so long. >> bill: two weeks ago it was said washington is going to implode if you release the republican memo. its still standing. >> im glad you brought that up. this is an issue that adam schiff has. he was shouting from the rooftops before the nunes memo came out this is going to endanger national security and put potentially at risk sources and methods for our intelligence agencies. then the memo came out unredacted and it didnt do any of those things. it became ve...

Restraining order against him. so, there is plenty of evidence. >> regarding the democratic response memo, what is the status of it now? can you say? >> so, the status of the memo is, that the fbi and the department of justice now, are going to meet with the minority members of the committee, particularly adam schiff is the ranking member. and determine what, if any, has to be redacted. ironically, the president issued the memo, redacted nothing. and yet, there were sources and methods that were...

I want to read this. this is what the president tweeted this weekend. democrats sent a political and long response memo which they knew because the sources and methods and more would have to be heavily redacted where upon they would blame the white house for lack of transparency. told them to do and send back in proper form. thats a jedi mind trick. given the presidents track record with the truth, this is hard to judge without seeing it because you have to go in and do fact checks and research ...

These are political memos written by what should be a bipartisan intelligence committee, which -- that is very partisan, but it should be something that theyre working together on to get to the bottom of what russia did and what happened in this country, particularly as were just nine, ten months away from another election. >> thats a little too level-headed. come on, dana. i want to read this. democrats sent a political and long response memo which they knew because the sources and methods and ...

Republican argument as our memo was shorter. the democratic memo was longer and more detailed. the president claimed on twitter the democrats sent a political and long response memo which they knew because of sources and methods and more would have to be heavily redakt cted. they would claim the white house or lack of transparency. i wonder if you think that argument holds water or this was a democratic plan to make it longer or they the process. >> that argument is totally bunk. not exactly a l...

And is totally focused on the abuser. one of his ex-wives got a restraining order against him. so there is plenty of evidence. >> regarding the democratic response memo, what is the status of it now, can you say? >> so the status of the memo is that the fbi and the department of justice now are going to meet with the minority members of the committee and particularly adam schiff is the ranking member. the president issued the memo and redacted nothing and yet there were sources and methods that ...

House. >> should they resign? >> thats a decision for the president to make but i think that theyre playing fast and loose with who theyre giving out temporary security clearances. >> what action if any should be taken now that we know that jared kushner and dozen of other trump administration staffers havent been able to obtain permanent security clearances? >> well, whoever is in a role that requires a security clearance and cannot be granted a permanent one should be out of that role. they sh...

Favor of sexual abuse of women. >> but its fair to say that an allegation is an allegation until they know that this actually happened. >> this is absolutely true. however, the white house is not a court of law. were not having a trial here, where someone is innocent until proven guilty. youre talking about someone who had access to the highest classified information. operating on a temporary security clearance. someone had to ask or should have asked whats going on here? >> lets get to that mem...