voluminous amount of information that was out there that was concerning about his contact with the russians. >> reporter: the memo written by adam schiff argues the dossier played a narrow role and multiple sources about page's activities with russians. >> carter page, i don't know of anyone who takes him seriously as a russian agent. including the russians or the fbi. he worked with the fbi against the russians in 2013 and never played a real role in the trump campaign. >> reporter: democrats pushed back against charges that the fbi misled the court about steele's motivations and financial backing from the dnc, writing that the court was informed the dossier's funders were politically motivated and wanted to discredit trump's campaign. >> we wanted out. we wanted out because we think it is clear evidence that the democrats are not only trying to cover this up, but they are also colluding with parts of the government to help cover this up. but what you're not going to see