unusual. in fisa's 40-year history, these applications have never been released before. and so there has been a whole chain of events, starting with the president and the house intelligence committee's statement statements about these carter page surveillances that have gotten us to this point. but really, the information contained in these documents is sensitive, it's classified, it's national security information. s so that other information would have further supported the case that the government was making to the fisa judge. >> glenn, one thing that is not redacted is what you mention in point number two. and that is that republican allegations about the dossier are not supported. in fact, republicans have said that the fbi failed to tell the courts that the steele dossier may be politically biassed and that is not true. the footnote reads, u.s.-based law firm had hired the person to conduct research regarding candidate number one's ties to