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Knew, but they could have known a fisa application was being made. they certainly knew that the fbi was concerned about russia connections. they may have known what connections there were, so that stands to reason. i think the thing that's really kind of incredible, although there's nothing you can put past president trump, for him to blame president obama for doing nothing, you know, he's been president now for more than a year, has he ever said that the russians were responsible for anything? if he's ever admitted the russians are responsible, maybe the russians, but could have been the chin...

Serious concerns raised by the majority's memorandum about the use of partisan opposition research from one candidate loaded with uncorroborated allegations as a basis to ask a court to approve surveillance of a former association of another candidate at the height of a presidential campaign. she goes on to say as the majority's memorandum stated the fisa judge was never informed hillary clinton and the dnc funded the dossier that was a basis for the department of justice' fisa application. in addition, it fails to address the fact that former fbi director or former deputy fbi director told th...

Of steele's information that are used to support the application to do the surveillance of carter page. none of the salacious details, we're not going to get into them. we're going to the vite people to go to koogal if they want to read some of that stuff, but the information that they use is very, very limited, according to the democratic memo that's been released today. it says here that the justice department cited multiple sources to support the case for surveilling page, and only made narrow use of information from steele's sources about page's specific activities in 2016, chiefly his sus...

October of 2016, when the justice department and the fbi go to the secret court to get this surveillance warrant, they have additional information. they say that by the time there are three more renewals of that surveillance of carter page, they say that the fbi had been able to corroborate important pieces of information in the dossier that was put together by christopher steele. another important point here that devin nunes said, which was that the court was never advised that the steele dossier was paid for by democrats. according to the democratic memo that was released today, they say tha...

Stated, the fisa judge was never informed that hillary clinton and the dnc funded the dossier. that was a basis for the department of justice's fisa application. in addition, the minority's memo fails to even address the fact that the deputy fbi director told the committee that if it had not been for the dossier, no surveillance would have been sought. as the president has long stated, neither he nor his campaign ever colluded with a foreign power in the 2016 election, and nothing in today's memo counters that fact. my panel is with me now. paul callan, samantha vinegrad, and our political c...