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Some mafia guy and your informant is jimmy the weasel, maybe he's got a grudge against the cop, judges deal with that all the time. the test is always is there some reason to believe is the informant credible. and that's what jerry nadler says in this memo here. he says, a -- in his letter rather to his colleagues, he says, a, the fisa warrant to get the wiretap order against carter page doesn't rely heavily on the steele dossier. but secondly, steele's a credible guy. so those are basically what he's saying. and he's saying the case law has always supported using informants even if they have ...

Us to believe. so we finally have a more reasoned approach and response. and i think it will be the framework for the democratic response. >> which we are waiting to hear. ben, what do you make of this new reporting that we have here at nbc news coming from jerry nadler and his six-page response to the three and a half pages from friday? >> well, you know, i want to go back to the original memo and say you actually kind of rebuts itself in important respects, some of which you've had up on the screen, because the careful reader of the nunes memo, even without this subsequent rebuttal memo will...

Andrew mccabe would not say that the steele dossier was the major pretext to obtaining the fisa warrant on page, the one we've been talking about. "the wall street journal" reporting that page was on the radar of u.s. counterintelligence as early as 2013. of course that's long before the dossier even existed. still, the memo drafted by republicans pushes congressman nunes' narrative. nunes did not read the fisa documents as has been mentioned before. that is making up the basis of the memo. only republican congressman trey gowdy and democrat adam schiff has read that. but nunes claims he still...

Funding the dossier put together by research firm fusion gps. now, it was fusion gps who then hired christopher steele, the former british spy. hillary clinton and democrats then later continued the funding of that project. nunes also claims permission to spy on former trump campaign aide carter page was granted after presentation of the steele dossier as factual without disclosing the political funding to the fisa court. but democrat intel committee member eric swalwell says that's not true. >> that fact was disclosed, it was disclosed to the fisa court that part of the evidence was from a po...

Fusion gps with christopher steele. what they want to michael fly e. steele's work had nothing to do with hiring investigators to look into candidate donald trump, a new candidate. hired at first by a republican then later a democrat took on funding for that. ultimately what they told christopher steele, of course, the british spy who did all the research on trump's ties to russia gave him a basic marching order. why did donald trump want to do all of these deals in russia when normally real estate investors wouldn't want to venture into this, it's so corrupt and a mine field? chris fer steele...