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Were going to show this all got started because of the steele dossier. the reason i'm intrigued by it, every time they have declassified documents, it turns out that the truth, the actual documents completely rebut their point. when we got a look at the fisa affidavit, it turns out that lo and behold, it was really all about george papadopoulos who you were talking about earlier, bragging about meeting russians who were talking about having e-mails. so i'm intrigued by it because documents and the truth are not the republicans' friends on this issue. so i worry, quite frankly, that if they do ...

So republicans in the trump white house apparently want to declassify and release that information that was used to get the surveillance warrant against him because they want to, i think, sort of further cloud the issue of why the fbi started investigating the trump campaign and russia in the first place. what was the basis for opening that investigation? and now this reporting at axios suggests that we should expect the president to order the declassification of those documents soon. and the other thing that trump is apparently going to declassify soon is documentation of the, quote, investig...

Them, when it came to carter page, those applications did require the government, the fbi to spell out the basis of their ongoing investigation. and so republicans in the trump white house apparently want to declassify and release that information that was used to get the surveillance warrant against him because they want to, i think, sort of further cloud the issue of why the fbi started investigating the trump campaign and russia in the first place. what was the basis for opening that investigation. and now this reporting at axios suggests that we should expect the president to order the dec...

Pro-trump house republicans have been clamoring for him for a while now. they reportedly are about to get their wish. axios.com is now reporting that president trump is about to order the declassification of a batch of documents, quote, covering the u.s. government's surveillance of trump campaign adviser carter page and the investigative activities of senior justice department lawyer bruce ohr. carter page is the trump campaign adviser who came under fbi surveillance for his repeated contacts with russian operatives. he was surveilled under fisa regulations that require the government to show...

Kremlin, including one dramatic instance in which bruce ohr reportedly met with a russian oligarch named oleg deripaska and tried to convince him to become a cooperate were u.s. law enforcement against the russian government. the president has been sending angry tweets about bruce ohr for weeks now. last month, house republicans summoned ohr for closed door testimony. but now we're told to expect the president to release classified information from ohr's, quote, investigative activities. joining us now is congressman jim himes who is a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, t...