The latest chapter in memo wars. Who do you believe . Which memo are you on the side of it. 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. If you call it the republican memo or the nunez memo, its nothing but confirmation. Its so full of misinformation and doesnt mention russia. I say it all the time. Anybody that asks. Is there no collusion. Devastated. Sick to my stomach. You see what happened with the Police Officers that didnt have the guts to go and that coach who so brave that ran into gunfire to protect the kids, if he had his gun, he would be alive today. There is no reason for giving me a bonus for giving me a gun. Put that money in teachers paychecks and in our pockets. Announcer this is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning. The democratic rebuttal to the nunez memo is back and push back to the fbi surveillance abuses. The message from the white house seems to be there is nothing to see here. President trump calls the memo a nothing and says its writer congressman adam schiff is, quote, a bad guy. The president called into fox news after this memo was released. Listen to this. He calls up reporters and they will have a Committee Member and hell leak all sorts of information. Hes a bad guy. But its certainly the memo was a nothing. It confirmed basically, if you look at it, it confirmed i watched miss herge who is fantastic our show just before, and i will tell you, that was really just a confirmation of, if you call it the republican memo or the nunez memo, its referred to as a lot of things, but that was nothing the republican memo accused the fbi of politically bias in the russia investigation. The democratic memo takes on the claim and several others pointbypoint. Reporter the tenpage memo disputes a central claim from republicans that the controversial dossier written by exbritish intelligence agent Christopher Steele was at the heart of the surveillance warrant used on former Trump CampaignForeign Policy adviser carter page. This investigation did not start because of the steele dossier. It started because of george papadopoulos. It started much earlier than any surveillance on carter page and that surveillance of carter page was warranted because of the 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 pages activities with russians. Carter page, i dont 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 steeles motivations and financial backing from the dnc, writing that the court was informed the dossiers funders were politically motivated and wanted to discredit trumps 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 youre not going to see is anything that actually rejects what was in our memo. Reporter the schiff memo also suggests that in addition to the investigation into carter page, the fbi opened several subinquiries into multiple Trump Associates by september of 2016. What have we learned . With us now is cnn legal analyst page and samantha. Kara, i want to start with you. Explore one of the major contentions here. This is from the gop memo. According to the democrats rebuttal, this verbatim phrase was in the application. The significance of the difference here, kara, to you. Well, so that republicans are saying it should have been explicit and known that this was coming from the democrats, but its not the normal practice in these torts of situations is not to, quote, unmask who the source is. So by revealing the potential bias, the fbis theory is that it will cure and as long as the judge knows that someone is motivated because at the time that Christopher Steele was hired, he was also initially hired by a gop rival to President Trump. Now, at the time that he eventually went to the fbi, he was hired by the democrats and the dnc and Hillary Clintons campaign but the normal course for these sort of applications is to make the bias known without revealing the individual source. Lets put that into the context of year of outrage from many republicans on capitol hill about unmasking and we hear from the president and the republicans that they are disappointed or angry that Hillary Clinton specifically or the dnc were not named here. Paige, another passage here. According to the democrats rebuttal. In that role the casting of this by republicans that this was a partisan effort on behalf of president obama. Right. I guess the argument now is those judges were somehow parted this grand conspiracy to start this fisa application and approve this warrant for political purposes. Obviously, that is not true. What we know now is that when director the fbi director appointed by President Trump said the first nunez mehmo was incontract we know that to be true. Strikes me odd that nunez is saying there is some sort of collusion among part of the government to have furthered this fisa application when the fbi director who was appointed by this president says your memo was misleading and we know more about the process and i think in this case the process worked exactly as it was supposed to. Samantha, the president talked about this last night on his interview with fox news, and he called adam schiff, ranking democrat on house intelligence a bad guy. And also referred to democrats as the other side here. Yeah. I listened to that interview, victor. For a second, i thought maybe, finally, President Trump was talking about russia when i hear the phrase the other side or a bad guy, Vladimir Putin and the russians come to my mind as National Security analyst and particularly after this memo came out, we learned, again, that russia was trying to infiltrate the Trump Campaign. That should make every american angry and worried, particularly the u. S. President and would have been a prime opportunity for President Trump and the white house in their statement to say, okay, enough is enough, you tried to infiltrate the campaign. We know that is an old russian spy trick but not put up with it. Yet again, President Trump went and made negative comments about democrats and schiff which franklin i think is part of a white house Crisis Communications plan to distract and deflect attention. Kara, back to you. The nunez memo, one other element. The nunez memo referenced the yahoo news store by mike isikoff and said it was to corroborate the steele dossier which it should not because steele was isikoffs source. We know that now. According to the demonstrates rebuttal, it says the following. Important distinction . Yeah. I think so. I mean, the dossier was a small part of the memo to the democrats which also lays out a lot of other detail about how carter page was on the fbis radar. They had, in fact, interviewed carter page in march of 2016, several months before they made this application in october of 2016. So the notion that this article was another key piece of intelligence that the court was relying on doesnt stand up. Page, do you believe that i mean, the rebuttal of the democrats say that the dossier was impleed with narrow use here. Do you believe that this warranty would have been approved without the doesy say based on what we know . No way to answer that question and i think the argument between the memos and back and forth and how important was it would they have gotten the warrant without putting in the steele information . We dont know. The judges look at the totality of the evidence put before them and make a sdermgs is there probable cause to support the issue to this parent . At the end of the day we know some of that information was provided. We know the bias of mr. Steele was before the judges. They were aware of the credibility issues and made a determination based on all of that evidence not just to issue the first warrant but continue the surveillance based on incoming information. So what part it played ultimately only the judges know that. Samantha, you touched on it a bit at the end of your last answer. The timing here for the white house. Feels like a coincidence. The white house is under real significant pressure like clearance of Jared Kushners access to the daily president ial briefing and doing to keep our country safe from russias attack and this memo is released and i think is part of a strategy to deflect the questions the white house doesnt want to answer. Thank you all. Thank you. Be sure not to miss todays state of the union with jake tapper. He will have representative adam schiff with him to discuss the memo at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cnn. Is the olympics in south korea, they are coming to a close. There is a possible diplomatic opening. 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Over the latest round of sanctions and heaviest sanctions ever imposed on north korea target their shipping industry and the transfers of raw material that bring in money for their Nuclear Program and calling it tantamount to active war in their state media but the delegation on the ground here came with a message and the message perhaps the time is now or at least soon for talks with the United States. Before this situation shraits even further. A word of caution here. There is still major issues that divide the us and south korea and north korea at biggest of which north korea Nuclear Program and United States insist on total denuclearization and north korea has stated repeatedly and consistently to me and kim jongun in his public speeches very various state local officials saying they are not willing to give up their nuclear weapons. They say they are willing to talk with the u. S. Admiral john kiry ykirby is with us. What would the talks look like . I hope its very likely. 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