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Of evidence even beyond information contained in a so-called dossier that would have led to the warrant being issued in the first place. >> okay, mike, thank you. i want to turn to jeff bennett for us as well who was at the white house for us this afternoon. jeff, what are you hearing from there? >> reporter: well, mike framed it perfectly. i would not only add this, remember, president trump had no issue declassifying the republican nunes memo without redactions. theres some reporting to sugges...

Investigation has been blown out of the water. >> for anybody joining us i want to reiterate we are talking now about the democrats response, the democrats memo from the house intelligence committee. again, weve been looking through it, as i look at it here hold it up here you can tell there are a lot of redactions, a lot of places where information has been taken out by the white house. so lets go back to mike digging through this a little more for us this afternoon. mike, what more can you add...

The page application before the fisa court was not made until october. the other points that schiffs memo makes is that the doj subsided multiple sources in seeking this fisa warrant on carter page. and that it made only, quote, narrow use of information from the steele dossier. republicans have really tried to argue that the steele dossier was a primary source of launching the entire russia investigation. what schiffs memo was saying it was only narrowly used in one fisa application here on car...

Elements to refute, rebut the contention that, for example, the steele information, the steele dossier information was critical to it. but, no, the big deal is making that fisa application public to begin with. it is all a big deal. the point is that the white house didnt care one eye owe ta for what the department of justice or the fbi thought the first time around. but now that there is a prebulls, now they have to take classification seriously. >> all right. so assuming, and i heard schiff is...

Research. and you ignore all the other information in that application. stuff that the fbi cannot talk about, to defend itself because that would blow every other source the country has, for figuring out what russia is up to. surveillance, human sources and so forth -- just steele, thats all this thing was, you make that scandalous. the third step is the memo says rod rosenstein used this, too, because he signed off on resubmitting it to the court for an extension. that means hes now vulnerable ...

Lead. >> because the timing really is crucial, i just want to make sure we understand the order of all of this. did the fbi start their investigation before they knew about the steele dossier, or do you know? >> we -- we do not believe that -- as we reported it was not at all the predicate for the investigation. we do think that at least one fbi agent knew about information that steele had provided. we believe he provided that in early july to the agent in rome. >> but we have multiple sources t...

Voluminous amount of information that was out there that was concerning about his contact with the russians. >> reporter: the memo written by adam schiff argues the dossier played a narrow role and multiple sources about pages activities with russians. >> carter page, i dont know of anyone who takes him seriously as a russian agent. including the russians or the fbi. he worked with the fbi against the russians in 2013 and never played a real role in the trump campaign. >> reporter: democrats pus...

♪ >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. good morning. the democratic rebuttal to the nunez memo is back and push back to the fbi surveillance abuses. >> the message from the white house seems to be there is nothing to see here. president trump calls the memo a nothing and says its writer congressman adam schiff is, quote, a bad guy. the president called into fox news after this memo was released. listen to this. he calls up reporters and they will ha...

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Him, that he said this completely showed that there was a political effort here to undermine his campaign alleging part of what he called the witch hunt of this whole russia investigation. what democrats want to be able to do is say there was information well beyond what was included in the christopher steele dossier, thats the former british intelligence agent that republicans say included a lot of information that was not vetted. democrats say it of course was. they want to be able to present ...