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One of the things that sticks out is what we see consistently from the president in terms on of a clear focus on what is happening not only with the investigation, a focus on andrew mccabe and a misunderstanding, i would say, of how government works in certain respects. this was early on for the president, obviously in 2017. but we're seeing consistently questions from him and even from his staff in terms of reince priebus that are not always appropriate and show perhaps that lack of understanding, josh. >> you're spot-on. i think it's important at the outset to step back and just look at what...

>> harris: circular reporting which is different than just having political. >> you know, we know the republicans paid for this memo. we know democrats paid for this memo. >> that's not true. republicans were paying fusion gps to look at donald trump and casinos and financial dynamics which came to no good end. that investigation ended. glenn simpson contacted the dnc and hillary campaign and said we are kind of in motion here trying to do stuff in the campaign. they said okay, let's do this. and they then said let's look at the russian aspect and get this dossier. two separate dynamics. >> im...

Form for putin's positions, some of his business activities. adam schiff has said that the aspects -- the parts of my article that were cited to the fisa judge did not relate to that which came from the steele dossier. now, i haven't seen the fisa application. i'm just hearing dueling sides. i'm raeeading the republican me. i see what adam schiff says. without seeing the actual fisa application, it's very hard to know to what extent there might have been any circular reporting here, if there was. >> thank you both very much. as mike rogers says, that puts us in a very dangerous position. his a...

Article for carter page into question or not? >> i don't think one can reach that conclusion based on what we know now. we don't know what it is that they cited my article for. my article, if you go back and read it, quotes a lot of different sources about a lot of different aspects of this, page's background, his sympathy for putin's positions, some of his business activities. adam schiff has said that the aspects -- the parts of my article that were cited to the fisa judge did not relate to that which came from the steele dossier. now, i haven't seen the fisa application. i'm just hearing du...

Understand the kind of information in order to spy on americans. i'm a professional intelligence officer. my job was to determine the difference between intelligence and information and in that process of collecting information, the information as judge and determine to make sure it's not fallacious and we shouldn't use saying unverified information. we shouldn't be using rumors from other folks and i don't know what court would use a newspaper article. my friends on the other side of the aisle say there was more information. that doesn't discount the fact that under circular reporting. molly:...