as they could but it's important for the public to see the facts that the fbi acted appropriately in seeking a warrant on carter page. >> reporter: schiff's memo attempting to knock down republican claims of wrongdoing by the fbi one by one. item one, countering the gop's 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 probe started in july, 2016, seven weeks before the fbi team investigating russia received the dossier. the memo states "steele's withdraw intelligence reporting didn't inform the fbi's decision to initiate its counterintelligence investigation. in response to gop claims the fbi hid the political origin of the dossier, the democratic memo says that in its first fisa warrant request, the doj in fact mentioned steele was paid by a