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What they find is that a lawyer supervising the fisa process at the fbi, according to mr. horowitz, doctored an email to the cia and fbi and will be referred for criminal prosecution. why is that important? carter page, who has been on the receiving end of all of this, the foundation to believe he was a foreign agent comes from a dossier that we'll talk about in a minute, provided by christopher steele, and we'll talk about him in a minute. they claim carter page meets with three people known to be russians. russian agents. people associated with russia. carter page, while being wiretapped by ...

Reasonable that if they didn't -- you can't answer this question -- but to me, it seems like if something is as standard as that process, before you go to a fisa court, to not do it was something they intended not to do. they didn'tt want to go throug it. i mean, it seems to be a logical conclusion. and then youeebe ask yourself, ? well, because we don't ever want this guy to get elected president. and if he does, sounds like they want to impeach him. i mean, i can't understand anybody working in this organization. understanding the scrutiny that we placed under the fisa courts. and by the way...

This. >> let's run a clip here. this is what comey said in 2018. it would be nice to have sound. do we have sound? never mind. i'll read it. director comey, the reporter is asking him, can i ask you a question on fisa abuse. it's a major issue for the republicans. do you have the total confidence in the dossier when you used it to secure a surveillance warrant and also in the subsequent renewals? this was asked in december of 2018, about a year ago. comey, i have total confidence that the fisa process was followed, that the entire case was handled in a thoughtful, responsible way by doj and th...

Other side of the aisle, when we take up impeachment next month, have that same standard for the weight of evidence that we're going to be asked tof look at. thank you, mr. chair. >> senator rona. >> thank you. you r identify significant issu with the fisa application process for conducting surveillance on carter page. before this investigation, were you aware of the use of the fisa process? >> i was not personally. although, we have done reports, as you know, senator, since 9/11 my office. >> well, you can't sit here and tell us that these errors only occurred with regard to this fisa applica...

Cetera. the director acknowledged your findings. and, in fact, he is moving ahead to make improvements to the fisa process and as he put it to make the fbi a much stronger institution. >> that's correct. >> would you agree that it is a major decision to seek authority from a fisa court to conduct surveillance on ant american? i agree. >> if fbi officials were politically-motivated and wanting to conduct surveillance on a particular american, wouldn't the decision to seek fisaee approval be a point wher political bias could affect the process? >> could. >> yes. >> yes. >> actually, that would b...