yesterday, have not been unredacted. huge parts yesterday. now the memo was providing further evidence that the fisa court was lied to by the fbi in order to get a warrant to spy on the trump campaign and there is new information that christopher steele may have lied to the fbi about briefing media outlets. there s a lot to cover. were going to go through it slowly. we ll do it together. the memo starts with this. page one of the memo right here. on the face, the dossier, it appears that mr. steele gathered much of his information from russian government sources inside of russia. according to the law firm, perkins cory, mr. steele slf efforts were funded by fusion gps on behalf of the democratic national committee and the clinton campaign. let s pause here. hillary clinton is paying steele to spread russian lies and russian propaganda. i ll read itse again because ths
office, january 2017, which mr. comey described to then president-elect trump as salacious and unverified. when asked at the march 2017 briefing why the fbi then relied on the dossier in the fisa applications, absent meaningful cooperation and in light of the highly political motives surrounding its creation, then director comey stated that the fbi included the dossier allegations about carter page in the fisa applications because mr. steele himself was considered reliable due to his past work with the fbi. later on that page, the memo reads, it goes, the bulk pay close attention the bulk of the fisa application put that back up on the screen consists of allegations against page that were disclosed to the fbi by mr. steele, and also outlined in the steele dossier.
is important. much of the information from russian government sources inside of russia. isn t that with the media has been investigating for the better part of a year?he oh, so keep that in mind as we move forward. here s another keyno portion. it appears that either mr. steele lied to the fbi or to the british court that the classified documents reviewed by the committee contained materially false statements. and then the memo goes on to read, and response to the committee s inquiries, the chairman and ranking member received aiv briefing. march 15th, 2017, from man, director james comey, than them model goes on to say that briefing address to the russia investigation, and the fbi s ree on mr. steele s dossier in two applications that are filed for surveillance under the foreign surveillance act. march 17th, 2017, the chairman and drinking member were provided copies of the two