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Briefed you on, turns out is bunk, but the fbi goes back and renews its fisa application three more times and by this point the fbi knows that the steele reporting is not credible. >> yeah i think youre mischaracterizing both what the fbi knew and what mr. horowitz says in his report. they didnt conclude the reporting in steele was bunk. they said there were questions about subsource reporting that should have been included in renewals. when i brief the president, i said i didnt know whether it ...

That. in 2018 you were the ranking member, the top democrat in the minority in the intelligence committee. devin nunez then republican cherish issued a report talking about all the problems with the fisa warrants and the fbi case. you defended the fbis use of fisa warrants to surveil carter page in a lengthy memo. here you are discussing that. >> this is important for the public to see the facts that, the fbi acted appropriately in seeking a warrant on carter page. theyre not part of some deep s...

Primary source. >> in january 2017, there were significant questions about the reliability of the steele report. this is noteworthy because the fisa from the primary source sub reporting to support the allegation that paige was coordinating with the russian government on 2016. >> dana: this was important because the sub source was the source of the source -- if you are getting two sources but ended up being the same person. >> >> jesse: thats when it became an unconstitutional violation of carte...

Operations targeted the dossiers author, former british spy, christopher steele. private and former intelligence officers informing him of the russian campaign was likely designed to damage both candidates. hillary clinton,gn and all john, -- and donald trump because moscows ultimate objective was to tarnish the events eventual winner and office of the presidency. according to this memo, muellers job was to investigate russian interference and he testified that the dossier predated his appointme...

I dont subscribe necessarily to your -- the way you analyze that. im not saying its out of the ballpark but im not supportive of that analytical charge. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. mueller, over here. i want to start by thanking you for your service. you joined the marines and led a rifle platoon in vietnam where you earned a bronze star, purple heart and other commendations and united states attorney leading the homicide unit in d.c. and northern district of california. assist...

With lisa page? >> about the same time i learned about strzok. >> did you ever order anybody to investigate the deletion of all of their texts off of their government phones? >> once we found that peter strzok was author of -- >> did you ever -- youre not answering my question. did you order an investigation into the deletion and reformatting of their government phones? >> no, there was an i.g. investigation ongoing. >> regarding collusion or conspiracy, you didnt find evidence of any agreement ...

Page 419 replied hell no and then added viva la resistance. attorney two in the inspector generals report and strzok both worked on your team, didnt they? >> pardon me? >> they both worked on your team. >> who else were you talking about? >> attorney number two in the generals report. did he work for you? >> peter strzok worked for me for a period of time, yes. >> so did the other guy who said vaoefsh ja la resistance. when people associated with trump lied you threw the book at them. when chris...

Corruptly motivated conduct, is that correct? >> yes. >> even with the evidence you did find, is it try e true as you note on page 76 the evidence indicates that a thorough f.b.i. investigation would uncover facts about the campaign and the president personally that the president could have understood to be crimes or that would give rise to legal, personal and political concerns? >> i rely on the language of the report. >> is that relevant to potential obstruction of justice? is that relevant to...

Write-up of it in the report. >> didnt the president say on page 116, if he doesnt write a letter maybe ill have to get rid of him end quote. >> yes. >> did porter deliver that threat? >> i again refer you to the discussion thats found on page 115. >> okay. but the president still didnt give up, did he? the president told mcgahn directly to deny that the president told him to have you fired. can you tell me exactly what happened? >> i cant beyond whats in the report. >> well on page 116, it says...

Gentleman from texas did. is it true there is nothing in volume 2 of the report that says that the president may have engaged in impeachable conduct? >> well, we have seriously kept in the center of our investigation the -- our mandate. it does not go to other ways of addressing conduct. our mandate goes to what developing the report and turning the report into the attorney general. >> it seems to me that there are a couple of statements that you made that said that this is not for me to decide ...