the weekend titled five takeaways from the release from the democratic mem o what do you think people should be taking away from this. so a lot of this confirmed what we ve been hearing off the record or on background from sources but now we see it in a declassified memo that contains verbatim excerpts from the underlying surveillance application as the heart of this dispute. one piece of it is, yes, the information from the notorious steele dossier was used in this application of a former trump campaign associate. but the information that was used from that dossier was very narrow. apparently it focused only on a july 2016 meeting that carter page had had in moscow and all kinds of other information about years of suspicions the fbi had that he was being recruited by russian spies and including a revelation that as recently as march of 2016 they had interviewed him about his
ground attack. the regime s use of chlorine gas as a weapon only intensifies this. the united states calls for an immediate end to offensive operations and urgent access for humanitarian workers and badly needed humanitarian aid. thank you. i also want to ask about that luncheon with the national rifle association that the president revealed today. did you say whether that was on saturday or whether it was on sunday and why wasn t that on the president s public schedule given that he s a pretty open supporter of the nra and he often talked about it. it was on sunday. he wasn t trying to keep it under wraps or else he wouldn t have announced it so publicly and it is a public conversation and everyone is in agreement things need to be done and we have to have changes to take place to do what we can to protect americas kids and members of the nra want to be part of that discussion and as we ve said, the president is taking information from a number of stake holders and to try to
contacts with russian intelligence officials many months before chris steele was looking at him. another takeaway was that the republicans who have been saying it is outrageous, that the steele information was used in any form in this application have struggled to come up with exactly why. and one of the arguments made in the nunes memo is, well the judge was not told that this was opposition political research, that steele s research was financed by the democratic national committee and the hillary clinton campaign, thus the judge was misled and thought this was neutral information as the implication when he should have taken it with a grain of salt and democrats have been saying that is a lie, the judge did know this had a political motivation but without specific names attached. this had a verbatim skperp that shows the fbi did indeed tell the judge they thought that the research had been commissioned by someone with a motivation of discrediting donald trump s campaign. so the judge