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>> i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons but i asked him to because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. so i asked a close friend of mine to do it. >> who was that? >> a good friend of mine who is a professor at columbia law school. >> bret: so what specifically did you leak to mr. richman? >> i sent mr. richman a copy of a two-page unclassified memo and asked him to get the substance of it out to the media. >> bret: you call him a good friend and professor but you didn't reveal you ...

Beyond that such poor judgment. >> bret: should their work product then be questioned. >> sure. it's a reasonable question to ask. they were bad mouthing everybody, including candidate trump. >> bret: peter strzok interviews hillary clinton. deals with the bleach bit and the server and cheryl mills, all of that interviews michael flynn, and integral in this whole case. >> he is one of many other people involved in all the things you just ticked off. it's a reasonable question to ask. and i can tell you this. when i saw the text, i was deeply disappointed in them. but i never saw any bias any r...

Released. my recollection was it was part of a broader mosaic of facts that were laid before the fisa judge to obtain a fisa warrant. >> bret: it was a lot more than the dossier in the fisa application. >> my recollection was there was a significant amount of additional material about page and why there was probable cause to believe he was an agent of a foreign power. and the dossier was part of that but was not all of it or a critical part of it. my recollection -- >> bret: intel briefing at trump tower you briefed the president-elect on the sliver of the dossier, really the salacious part ab...

Case they are not involved in. but, i do believe, as it routinely happens, the ig will likely refer or has referred it to a u.s. attorney's office to look at it. >> bret: so, did you -- you see the disparity here where people look at how the clinton case was handled and how the trump case is handled. did you tell -- >> -- i don't see disparity though. >> bret: did you tell lawmakers that fbi agents didn't believe former national security advisor michael flynn was lying intentionally to investigators? >> no. and i saw that in the media. maybe someone misunderstood something i said. i didn't bel...

>> has any classified information relating to president trump or his association -- associates been declassified and shared with the media? >> not to my knowledge. >> bret: so at what point were you made aware that some of the information was classified by the fbi? >> which information? >> bret: in the memos? >> oh, yeah. i don't know, some time after i was fired the fbi apparently made a decision that there were some words in at least two of the memos, maybe one, i think two, that were diplomatically sensitive. and so my lawyers returned them to the fbi. but my testimony was truthful and i ...