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Don't think it's going to affect the progress of the mueller investigation and i don't think it's going to affect the outcome of the mueller investigation. >> melissa: can i ask real quick. we've seen jim comay tweeting about rats and other things or whatever that tweet was. you see in item four, they say after steele was terminated, a source validation report conducted by an independent unit within the fbi assessed steele's reporting is only minimally corroborated get as early as january 2017 after that, director, improved president-elect trump on a summary of the steel dossier even though it...

Steele dossier was salacious and unverified. is this pointing to what the fbi said were material -- material -- i'm forgetting the word, things left out of the dossier. >> omissions. >> material omissions. thank you very much. >> what we don't see in this document is what else was in the affidavit. and what portions of the steele dossier was actually used to bolster an fbi affidavit for a fisa. you know, it is written -- it is pieced together a bunch of different information we've seen already. and of course it paints a narrative consistent with the narrative that the republicans want to paint...

And i think that is what we're going to find here as more information comes out. the complexion and the context of the thing will change markedly and there is one sentence in there -- or one sentence in representative schiff's commentary, not formal memo but his commentary today that caught my eye. it is the sentence in which he says thein convenient fact left out of this memo is that without the steele dossier, had it never entered -- had christopher steele never entered the picture, there could still be a very robust investigation of the russia involvement here. if the ultimate memo that the...

Memo had been verified. i'm going to read from the memo and then read what comey actually said. this is the fourth item in the third page. according to the head of the fbi's counterintelligence division, assistant director bill presnap corroborated of the steele dossier was in its infancy at the time of the initial page fisa application. after steele was terminated a source validation report conducted by an independent unit within fbi assessed steele's reporting was corroborated. yet in early january 2017, director comey briefed president-elect trump on a summary. steele dossier even though it...

Before the committee in december 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the fisa court without the steele dossier information. that last bit about m here in t. but the portion about james comey and what he testified, that the memo was salacious and unverified, that is misleading. james comey in his testimony in front of congress did not say that the entire steele dossier was salacious and unverified. he was saying a portion of it was salacious and unverified. this is chairman bur asking the question of james comey. and the public domain is this question of the steele dos...