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Significant. i think it's significant for the rule of law and especially when you are talking about a fisa situation which was based on a unverified or salacious in the words of james comey dossier. that dossier information was leaked to the press. that the individual, christopher steele, who put that dossier together, was involved with bruce ohr, number four at the department of justice wife as far as working she was working for fusion gps. you stuart putting these together and then, of course, he ultimately gets fired, chris steele, because he leaked the information to the press. now, did th...

Application to the republican judges for a warrant. chris: but let me pick up on that because in the gop memo that was put out by the majority, devin nunes, i'm going to put up the quote, deputy fbi director mccabe testified before the committee in december 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the fisc without the steele dossier information. congressman, no where in your memo do you and the other democrats rebut that. >> that is true, but i was in the room, devin nunes was not in the room when andrew mccabe was interviewed and i will tell you that he did not say that, ...

Mccabe was classified and the democratic memo, this is important, chris, the democratic memo unlike the republican memo contained no additional classified information that was made -- that was made public. so, again, i was in the room, andrew mccabe did not say that the fisa warrant would not have been sought. what he did say that the warrant of the application itself which, of course, went through all sort of scrutiny and scrutinized by the republican federal judge that all of its pieces were important, but he absolutely did not say that they would not have been filed had it not been for doss...

It was important. there's been a lot made about the fact that some of the steele reporting at the time it was included was uncorroborated. that's true of almost every warrant application. if search warrant applications and criminal wiretap applications and fisa court applications could only rely on things that were proven and verified, you'd have very few of them. you need to get probable cause that a crime is committed or that someone is acting as an agent of a foreign power. >> your memo also says it represents steele dossier information about carter page being offered damaging information a...

That. it was important. there's been a lot made about the fact that some of the steele reporting at the time it was included was uncorroborated. that's true of almost every warrant application. if search warrant applications and criminal wiretap applications and fisa court applications could only rely on things that were proven and verified, you'd have very few of them. you need to get probable cause that a crime is committed or that someone is acting as an agent of a foreign power. >> your memo also says it represents steele dossier information about carter page being offered damaging informa...