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That out for yourself. which that wasn't a yes. that wasn't a no. and so i think that president trump will probably get asked about this again. he will have to take a very firm position on that. >> eli, this is to me the key issue. i signed off on this warrant, the extension of the carter page warrant, as did three people, including sally yates before him. would it have been obvious in your opinion that the court was not being fully informed about the dossier's role in the carter page application? >> that's not obvious to me. the memo doesn't say rod rosenstein knew about the origins of the on...

Have to show are being shown. under those circumstances, you could easily see an attorney general and fbi director missing some important facts because that's not their job. that's the job of the people closer to the actual investigation. but here you have a really fraught political situation where you are targeting for investigation somebody who has -- and i know the connection was formally broken. but you have somebody who does have a connection to the trump campaign. you know that you're relying on information that you have gotten from the opposition campaign. and it seems to me there was a...

Bought and paid for by one political campaign. and it is targeting at another political campaign. so any federal judge would want to have that information. and an important reason for that is unlike a criminal wiretap situation where everybody goes in with their eyes open, whatever work we give here, you know that some day this is going to be ape criminal case. it's all going to be disclosed. it's all going to be revealed. defense lawyers will pick over it. the trial judge will pick over it. you have a certain discipline about what you do in the way of disclosure and respect for the party's ri...

And then subsequently learned that the information was sourced to the dnc and the campaign, i, the judge, would have rescinded the authorization and issued a cause order to explain who and why this sourcing was not made known to the court. the fact that the the government told the court it was awe political source but did not identify who in this particular instance is highly problem active that they purposely misled the court. what say you, andrew? >> i would agree with that. if a federal judge was made to understand the precise sourcing here, they would have told the justice department to go...

An intelligence gathering exercise, i don't see the need to recuse him. >> let me ask a second -- >> if i could just finish. if this is a criminal investigation, and if, for example, they're trying to make an obstruction of justice case on trump and there's anything to do with that case that has to do with jim comey's being fired and if there's anything to do with this case that has to do with the evidence that was gathered in this fisa, if it's going to be thrown over the intelligence wall and become part of a criminal investigation, then i don't see how he can stay. >> interesting. okay. tha...