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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. ...

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...

Enforcement." the memo was released over the objections of the fbi director. but the press is painting this as a war between president trump and the fbi. jessica: he doesnt want rod rosenstein there anymore. i dont think he will be able to do this on the backs of it. there are many republicans talking about this memo as a nothing burger. though i do think there is interesting information there that we did need to see. first, that the steele dossier isnt the only thing that the fisa warrant was b...

Page was the steele dossier. it doesnt -- and the steel dossier is tainted it says because of political sponsorship of the funding for it. but it doesnt show, number one, that the steele -- the dossier was a substantial or major part of the support for that. we know there was plenty of other support for that warrant. it doesnt say what that was or that it was insignificant. it doesnt show the steele dossier was a significant part or major part of the -- >> how are we going to know that? how are ...

Enforcement." the memo was released over the objections of the fbi director. but the press is painting this as a war between president trump and the fbi. jessica: he doesnt want rod rosenstein there anymore. i dont think he will be able to do this on the backs of it. there are many republicans talking about this memo as a nothing burger. though i do think there is interesting information there that we did need to see. first, that the steele dossier isnt the only thing that the fisa warrant was b...

For goodness sake, thats why he didnt disclose it in an open hearing. >> your own memo says minimally corroborated, so theres at least some corroboration there. >> it was about russia and the person they were looking at was carter page. they got the name right, and they got the country right. so there were some things that were probably accurate in the dossier. >> they got the fact that russia meddled in the u.s. election right and that may be the most important thing. i do want to move on to th...

Individual. >> were you in the room when andy mccabe testified before the committee? >> yes, i was. and i found him credible. and how they have characterized his testimony is wrong. and again that would come to light if our memo were reloesed. >> did he tell your committee that no warrant would have been sought without the steele dossier information? >> he did not say that. i cant say more without the memo being released. and also whats telling again, they didnt quote andy mccabe. in the possess...

Oversight or calling that transparency is a ruse. >> the truth is in the underlying documents, and evidence that are part of the fisa warrant application, but that is all classified and the memo raises serious questions about the extent to which the steele dossier was used to get a warrant to spy on carter page who by then had left the trump campaign, but the memo is leaving more unanswered of what is in the fisa application, and why is a secret court judge reauthorized a wiretap three different...

Fbi director andrew mccabe testified before the house intelligence committee in november of 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the fisa court without the steele dossier information and except that we have not seen the transcripts of the testimony and not everybody who was at that hearing agrees. listening to the ranking d democrat on the house intel committee who was in the room for mccabes testimony. >> what it ended up delivering is criticism of a single fisa applica...

Sa same thing. >> all right. your response? >> yes, just simply not true. and time will show that its not true. we look forward to the democratic response to this. we look forward to the fbi response. i hope the fbi does respond. i hope we can declassify and show more and more of this information. when we do, just like a couple days ago when we talked we said lets let the memo be judged on its own merit. let the memo and the democratic response to be judged on its own merits. everything in the m...