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Famous fisa wiretap for a former trump official, carter page and found a lot of problems with the scorching scrutiny he brought on every piece of paper. portraying it as sloppy, things left in should have been taken out. thingsut in, left out that should have been put in and in particular found a low-level lawyer altered and email he sent to another fbi agent who was going to sign an affidavit saying various facts were true and that that lawyer has been referred for criminal charges for making a false comment to a colleague. problems, no doubt. but not the sort of thing we've heard about appar...

Dossier. salacious unverified dossier. the memo makes the case nat bi relied on the information which is dubious and didn't tell the judge that steele was paid by democrats to carry out that investigation. therefore misled the judge and therefore this whole thing was improper spying on the trump campaign by fbi agent who were biassed kwens trump. the problem with that memo, we are are told, is that that's not the only thing in the fisa application. there was all kinds of different evidence about carter page, russia and its intentions that came from other sources and methods. the memo is mislea...

Joyce vance, charlie savidge, and aswan. i have a very tough name so i always butcher my own name sometimes. i apologize. charlie, let me begin with you, if i may. i want it start with the devon nunez memo. what do we know that might be in it and the purpose behind it? >> what we've been told is in this memo three or four pages of bullet points summarizing a case that the secret fisa wiretap obtained by the fbi and justice department in october of 2016 right before the presidential election targeting carter page, former campaign aide to then mr. trump who had been to russia that summer was bas...

The fire wall. we need to investigate this seriously and find out exactly what happened. >> juliette, what do you make of that? do you believe that? >> no, i mean, look, the law recognizes that senior national security officials will seek to unmask it. there's a series of rules, and presuming there's a fisa wiretap itself was authorized by a fisa court. assuming it wasn't rice that asked for it. but it was president obama or his chief of staff, if suzanne rice asked for it in order to understand the information. when she asked for the unmasking, who is this american citizen, let's assume that ...

Others don't. that's true to an extent. wouldn't others be privy to this information, any wiretap information that the president says he has without providing any evidence of that at all? >> poppy, i was former assistant director at the bureau. a fisa wire is very close hold in the government. there would be a handful of fbi agents and only the fbi is authorized to do a fisa wiretap, and then those affidavits with department of justice attorneys from the national security division present that to the visa court. again, this is all top secret, very close hold. so a number of officials at the wh...