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Counterintelligence executive, christina greer from new york university, and former congresswoman elizabeth holtzman who voted to impeach president nixon, and danny cevallos. great to have all of you with us. frank, let me begin with you, if i may. these memos, duelling memos, began as accusations tarnishing the reputation of the fbi. does the democratic memo put to rest accusations that the fbi acted inappropriately? >> i think so. if you look at the information that's in that memo, there are citations from the actual fisa application itself, which is a bit problematic, only because you want ...

Speculates that the identified u.s. person, this is the people paying for the person, was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit candidate number one's campaign. now, that's a reference to donald trump. and it's important that passage is important simply because, again, the republican memo says that the fbi and the justice department never told the surveillance court that the funding of this memo was from democrats, that the hillary clinton campaign, that the democratic national committee had actually paid for this research, that again, they claim, was so important for ...

Classified information, but from your report and sources, do you think how much of a role the steele dossier played in the fisa applications that were submitted to those four different courts? >> what we've been told is that the steele dossier that was 30 plus pages that only select information from that foss yeah was included in the fisa application itself 37 and what adam schiff told reporters on friday was of that select information that was included, much of it was corroborated by sources within that.application. >> very interesting to see that breakdown. mike, great to have you with us. t...

There need to be changes in leadership at the top of the doj and the fbi. >> and that's what's going to be so interesting in the days to come. we're going to hear more. and when we hear either more about the fisa application itself, more statements from people at doj and fbi and around them, more statements from the speaker who as nick points out is trying to straddle a middle ground. he said i don't want this to be commingled. so because this is actually designed to conflate opinion, the memo with the mueller investigation, paul ryan, if he learns that the public doesn't find so much in this ...