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No, it's not true. it wasn't revealed, the partisan funding behind that research. so let's find out. i think what's happened today in part, john, is the seal has been broken on information around this investigation, and now we'll see more. we'll see the mccabe interview notes. we might see the application itself. we certainly should see the schiff report, and i think all that is good for the public. >> i think even what you just said, you know, he said that certain parts of it were salacious and unverified and that the president had reacted badly to it. so the fact that they sort of misreprese...

Clinton paid for this. look, they knew that. >> do you have evidence -- hang on one second. do you have evidence that they tried to hide it, or do you have evidence that they just omitted it? >> well, i'm saying the fact that they said that there was political person behind this clearly shows they were trying to obfuscate. >> how? how is that evidence of intent? >> because they didn't tell them. they knew that hillary clinton -- instead of saying hillary clinton paid for this, the dnc paid for this, they just said, well, a political person paid for that. they clearly were trying to hide that f...

Court application and do the same thing. >> congressman stewart, your response? >> yes. it's just simply not true, and time will show that it's not true. we look forward to the democratic response to this memo. we look forward to the fbi's response. i hope the fbi does respond. i hope that we can declassify and show more and more of this information, and when we do, just like a couple days ago, john, when you and i talked, we said let's let the memo be judged on its own merits. let's let this memo and the democratic response to be judged on its own merits because everything in this memo is acc...

I've heard people say that, and i'm telling you it is not true. their accusations or their supposition that that's not what he said. i'm telling you it's not true. i was there for his testimony. i helped to question him. i asked him that specific question, and i can assure you that the response was, this fisa application would not have been submitted were it not for the dossier and the other supporting material, which was by the way shall a yahoo news report which was another news report based on the dossier. those were the two foundational elements -- >> was there anything else besides those ...

>> well, because the memo doesn't say what the fbi did in terms of what they actually did report to the court about the sources. it doesn't have an affirmative statement about what they said about those sources. it doesn't talk about what other bases for the probable cause was in the application. there could have been a whole host of other types of intelligence information that formed the basis for that application. it doesn't say -- the memo doesn't say whether or not the fbi and the department of justice went back to the court and said, court, we've changed our assessment of steele as a sour...