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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...

Fisa warrant request or application. when did he live? october 2016 2016 or january 2? >> i think director comey has a series of serious legal challenges. he testified under oath and that question by john radcliffe about when did he make the decision whether or not she was guilty or not guilty or was she going to be charged? i should say. and it was clearly writing this out to multiple times before. you had senator grassley ask him directly with the to releasing information surreptitiously? he w...

Andrew weissmann said, no dossier, no fisa warrant request or application. when did he lie?be october 2016 or january 2017? >> i think director comey has a series of serious legal challenges. he testified under oath inh tht question by john radcliffe about when did he make the decision whether or not she was guilty or not guilty or was she going to be charged? i should say. and it was clearly writing this out multiple times before. s you had senator grassley ask him directly, was he party to rel...

As they could but its important for the public to see the facts that the fbi acted appropriately in seeking a warrant on carter page. >> reporter: schiffs memo attempting to knock down republican claims of wrongdoing by the fbi one by one. item one, countering the gops assertion that the fbi opened its count intelligence investigation into trump/russia ties based principally on the so-called steele dossier, an opposition research document on trump and russia. the memo notes that, in fact, the pr...

We dont even know how close it is to reality, because we havent seen the democratic side of things either. so what were looking at here appears to be a document released that will to some extent call some people to question an investigation. its going to maybe cause some people in congress or perhaps the president to question an ongoing investigation. those are all political procedures. when we get down the road to who was kept on maybe if the special investigator is fired, those were all politi...

Any prosecutor understands delaware v. franks and that obviously has shot the opportunity to use any of this in the foot. we know fisa courts, "the washington post" reported, has been weaponized against american citizens before. >> thats what we hope will be gleaned from that memo? >> i hope so. regardless of your political affiliation, you should be fearful of the government leveraging power against private s citizens, contrary to their reasonable expectation of privacy. >> you dont believe the...

One, cnns own reporting is that the fbi had its own intelligence to back up this warrant request. and lets be fair. and phil mudd would know this better than me seeing as he served in an actual supervisory role in the fbi. the fbi is not going to go to the court with a document produced by someone else. theyre going to come with their own goods. and whether or not that memo was mentioned in the warrant request is another question. but it appears that nunes is making the argument that this shows ...

It was based on that now famous dossier and in doing so they got the warrant based on democratically funded research. the fact is this, one, cnns own reporting is that they had its own intelligence to back up this warrant request. he would know this better than me being that he served as an actual supervise ry role. they will come with their own goods. whether or not that memo was mentioned until warrant request is another question, but it appears that nunez is making the argument that it shows ...

S could okay it to go to the point itself. they point to the fact he had contact with a known operative in 2013 and tried to recruit him as an intelligence person. >> self-described junior figure who never met donald trump. there may be truth to it. no idea what was in that fisa warrant request. whether there was there there will have to remain to be seen as the investigation goes on. he is a peripheral figure in the trump universe. moreover, the whole notion that donald trump is putins man in w...

Fisa warrant request. was there a request turned down in. skwrao: -- june or july. they got one that was appved sometime in october and hillary clinton tweeted that out october 31. the facts we need to put together and understand the scenario. do you believe all of the news story, some of them, part of them, the only thing we have is trumps tweets. >> do you believe the intelligence committee is trying to destroy his presidency. >> i previous sobelieve some of. that is a federal crime and a felo...