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Heard from director comey, that he answered the questions, nothing about russia, only the e-mails and there was no problem with the fisa warrant process. it will also allow us to test the statements of republicans that a government lawyer really ran a lot of interference and shut down critical lines of questioning. >> tucker: if you look, christopher steele in the interrogatory, he wouldnt stand by his own dossier. if it was as the nunez and grassley information came from, then one has to questi...

He answered the questions, nothing about russia, only the e-mails and there was no problem with the fisa warrant process. it will also allow us to test the statements of republicans that a government lawyer really ran a lot of interference and shut down critical lines of questioning. >> tucker: if you look, christopher steele in the interrogatory, he wouldnt stand by his own dossier. if it was as the nunez and grassley information came from, then one has to question if this e-mail chain does exi...

Hearing. >> no, the fisa warrant application process is nothing like anything you would see in any other court and, in fact, the strange thing about it is while it doesnt have an actual hearing, instead what it has is arguably a more exacting process. as a criminal defense attorney you always want to hear and you want things to be in public but realistically with the warrant process and particularly with the fisa warrant process, that must be done in secret. people who apply for fisa warrants wi...

Differently. >> in my view, the warrant process needs to be looked at closely by congress. the main reason to issue the warrant was the dossier. the substance is a bunch of garbage. >> to be clear, the dossier was part of it. and other evidence from back in 2013, for example, was also part of the evidence the fbi put forward. talk about the judges that not only authorized this the first time but three subsequent times and why that matters. >> yes. i think thats a very important point to note is ...

Its likely the most loaded term in the partisan debate over the russia investigation, the steele dossier. its one element of the highly classified documents released by the fbi laying out the warrant request for surveillance of a former trump campaign adviser, carter page. it was just released this weekend. the president wasting no time to hammer the fbi over this, claiming the doj misled courts in the russia investigation by using the steele dossier as a factor for the surveillance of page. sen...

Television yesterday, even today, he doesnt have confidence in it. yet, to seek a warrant based on something that even after years, months, you dont have confidence, raises a serious questions. as an experienced criminal lawyer, i think joe would back me up on this, applications for warrants are often pretty sloppy. they dont always have -- >> sean: sloppy is not an excuse. >> everything is not always tied down. they use gossip and rumors sometimes. >> sean: gossips and rumors? >> is a civil lib...

Today, he doesnt have confidence in it. yet, to seek a warrant based on something that even after years, months, you dont have confidence, raises a serious questions. as an experienced criminal lawyer, i think joe would back me up on this, applications for warrants are often pretty sloppy. they dont always have -- >> sean: sloppy is not an excuse. >> everything is not always tied down. they use gossip and rumors sometimes. >> sean: gossip and rumors? >> as a civil libertarian, im opposed to that...

Related to the hillary clinton e-mail probe and potential abuses of the fisa warrant process. the fbi and doj are run by officials trump appointed. do these attacks make sense? >> they make absolutely no sense at all. weve never seen anything like this. trump needs to remember hes in charge of the executivejustice, fbi, theyre part of the executive branch. he needs to have their back. these tweets, while theyre not devastating, you know, one or two of them, theyre chipping away at the credibilit...

By the democratic party through fusion gps. he had had associates in russia that could have easily compromised him, and we believe the warrant process was abused, and the reason we want a special counsel because i think crimes were committed. >> i call on us appointing a special counsel, a second one, to investigate the investigators. >> you have to give the court the whole truth and nothing but the truth. i dont think there was the whole truth. this needs investigating. the only remedy is a sec...

News. what does that mean to you? >> what it means is we can expect the president to be up early tomorrow morning on twitter, giving us realtime peak to whats on his mind, probably a reflection of what hes seeing on cable news tomorrow morning. thats what happens when the president spend time over the weekend not in mar-a-largo holed up at the white house. i will tell you based on my conversations with diehard trump supporters that the developments tonight will only embolden them as they take ai...