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Justice department based their application to the fisa court to surveil that trump campaign adviser carter page based on the so-called steele dossier. in the memo the democratic memo you say thats not true, explain. >> yeah, chris, thanks for having me on. it is a democratic memo now make s plain, the application to monitor carter page was not based on the steele information and if we have time we will cover whether the steele has been discredited. but as our memo makes clear, carter page was of...

Warrant. the fbi speculates that the u.s. person, glen simpson of fusion gps was likely looking for information that would have discredited candidate number one, donald trumps campaign, speculates likely, shouldnt the fbi had been a lot clearer to the court that the steele was bought and paid for by the clinton campaign? >> well, remember when steele is doing this work, he doesnt know the fact. hes been hired by fusion gps, hired by a law firm which has bn hired by the dnc and clinton campaign. ...

>> no. here -- here is what you have to do in this chapter, you have to weigh individual rights which i clearly believe in. i believe in the second amendment, but you also have to make sure you protect your citizens, your kids and so youve got to wage these things. what i did hear is im going to do what i can to make sure that guns are not in the hands of the wrong people. if you have mental illness, you shouldnt have a gun. you threaten others, if you threaten yourself, you shouldnt have a gun ...

Expected it to be. and that is a point by point refutation of the nunes memo. its fot as though the nunes memo needed a refutation because the best rebuttal to the nunes memo was in fact the nunes memo. but this lays out in about 10 or 11 very clear, concise pages exactly where the nunes memo erred. in my reading of this the most important takeaway here is the fact that the democrats contend the steele dossier was not in any way used to as a predicate for the july 2016 launch of the investigatio...

False impressions created over this long period. >> charlie, jill makes some interesting points there. does this memo suddenly become just a part of the noise where there are so many other things going on, and the memo is so much later than the gop memo that came out weeks ago, that this just doesnt really resonate with people, with the public, with citizens, as jill mentioned? >> it ought to. but it probably wont, i agree with that. the news cycle has moved on. were talking about guns now. and,...

And if youre a trump supporter, you go away feeling that hes been vindicated, without really understanding even what the argument is actually about. then the other track is the one thats way down in the weeds. its like, well, was the steele information the whole application or just a tiny piece of it? was the court told that his research was commissioned by someone with political motive against trump? or were they led to believe it was neutral information? why was this yahoo news article include...

Evidence presented to the fisa court about the political sources and the possible political motivations behind. democrats tried to have released at the same time rebutting some of the key claims, that did not happen. the white house has now after a period of review with the democrats reviewed some of the information that was included in their response, declassified it and made some redactions to it. what we havent seen is the actual memo itself. that is up to both chairman devin nunes whos actua...

Postscript or asterisk at the end. >> and charlie savage, tomorrow morning the white house is going to send out folks to the sunday morning talk shows, congress will be back in session on monday and these will be things that people are going to be talking about, both the release of this memo and the events that happened yesterday in washington. what do you anticipate might be the conversation that republicans will try to drive come tomorrow morning, come monday morning? >> well, the conversation...

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...

Operation, part of a political research document funded by the clinton campaign was not a critical part, was only part of the information presented to the fisa court and that the fisa warrant could have been issued even without it. which was the core claim that the nunes memo had made. a couple points that the schiff memo says, i want to read on screen here, it says that the doj met the rigor, transparency and evidentiary by demonstrating contemporaneous evidence of russias election interference...