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Collaborating and conspireing with the russian government among many other charges, the warrant itself has been the subject of a very partisan fight on the house intelligence committee and the president is already claiming victory on twitter. saying that the released documents confirm with little doubt that the department of quote justice and fbi misled the courts, witch hunt, rigged, a scam. in fact the tweet itself is misleading the documents show that the fbi did use material from the steel dossier but the fbi disclosed that the american who hired steel likely was looking for ways to discre...

Zeller. good to see all of you. your reaction of the release of this application and what it says. >> this is an unprecedented moment. no one has ever before had a fisa warrant released. the only reason this probably ever came to light was because of the issuance of the memoranda, controversial as it was. but when the president declassified the nunes memo and the justice department declassified in part the schiff memo it allowed these documents to be published, with these redactions, admittedly. now we have a fight. we have the information that came out, all the open source info, and the steel...

The unredacted version should be released? >> when the government issued this four month time frame to produce the records in march, we spent a letter to the president, care of don mcgahn, saying don't make the fbi go through this process, declassify the entirety of the applications, you can make specific redactions for very specific sources and methods to protect lives but give the public the full context. he has not done that. and instead he has a piece for his narrative. >> what's the danger or perhaps benefit of the release of this application, unredacted or otherwise? do you have concerns...

This to say about the surveillance of carter page. >> by the trump campaign's admission, carter page was not a big player. i don't think it means they were spying on the campaign, i don't think it proves anything about collusion. i think carter page is one of these guys -- we never would have heard of him before all this. but he was a guy on their screen even before the campaign and when he comes into the kind of near orbit of the campaign they get interested when they put that together when they put that together with what's happening with russian interference. >> how suspicious are you of ca...

Meetings, but, you know, to call me an adviser, i think, is way over the top. informal, having some conversations with people. i mean, this is really nothing. and just -- an attempt to distract from the real crimes that are shown in this misleading document. >> all right. so the document that page is referring to is this. the 412-page fisa application. and to related materials released by the justice department. late yesterday, the heavily redacted materials were made public after several news organizations filed a freedom of information act lawsuit to essentially obtain those documents. you m...