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The work was being paid for through the clinton campaign through fusion gps. the republicans said the court was not informed there was a political motive here. the democrats quote verbatim from the application itself, which is certainly we rarely see, to show not that the clinton or dnc was mentioned but at that a political campaign was mentioned in is all having to do with so-called masking procedures, which devan nunes has complained of in the past but in this case he hangs his hat on it wasn't mentioned specifically. >> chris, in the real world does it do anything to help the white house/re...

At that a political campaign was mentioned in is all having to do with so-called masking procedures, which devan nunes has complained of in the past but in this case he hangs his hat on it wasn't mentioned specifically. >> chris, in the real world does it do anything to help the white house/republican case m. >> i think you're going to see the president will use whatever he can find whether or not it's grounded in fact to try to undermine the russian investigation. in this case he's used the republican memo to say the investigation had been biased against him from the start, that it's based on...

2016. that's three months before this carter page surveillance warren application process went under way. the republicans only refer to that sort of in passing when making a different point about one of the agents involved in that investigation, but the democrats spend a lot of time, they refer to it early and often -- >> and why is that important, mike? >> it's part of an effort to really take what the nunes memo and put it into a much fuller context. you addressed that democrats were most easily able to refute, and that was the work of steele. the work was being paid for through the clinton ...

Having reviewed the underlying applications, i can tell you that the dossier wasn't a small part. it was the central part of what was submitted to the court. >> bill: i just asked byron york this question. it is my understanding the law doesn't require you to name names when you argue before this judge. is that true or not? in other words, you can say it's political in nature but you don't have to reveal which politician or which organization was helping put it together or even paying for it. is that correct or not? >> well, i heard you reference and byron source one and u.s.-based law firm an...

That the chairman needs a briefing on the masking procedures, but nothing what i heard from the chairman indicates there was any kind of improper foreign surveillance. >> reporter: did the chairman say anything to you about the source of the information that he was provided? is it credible in your view? >> he did not want to disclose -- >> michael schmidt, mark halpern noted any reason to give two press conferences would be to protect the president of the united states. we should point out it's just interesting that david nunez was on trump's transition team as he moved into the white house af...