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Basis for continuing this fisa. >> i'm limited on time. an important quick final question. we've all heard about christopher steele. you dealt with him. did he strike you as being motivated bipartisanship, by annimus toward donald trump or concern over security? >> the latter. look, he is a serious guy. he was the mi-6 russia specialist for many years. and we'll have in the forthcoming book some very interesting stories about the role that he played for mi-6. he had this private investigative firm. he was well regarded in the field. he was known as a russia specialist. he had been a source for...

How there was other information, other intelligence, human intelligence, human sources. remember the fbi was conducting surveillance. they have sources overseas. they know carter page at this point had been to russia several times. they have sources in russia that they are relying on for information. all of that from all the reporting that we have done before even this memo came to light shows that they had other information. it wasn't just a case built on some dossier from a very respected mi-6 agent. he had credibility with the fbi, with our intelligence agencies way before he even put this ...

So all of the material information is there. >> is it possible, in your view, for -- for the doj or the fbi to have gone to the fisa court to get a fisa warrant strictly based on one dossier written by one mi-6 exofficial. >> i can't imagine a federal judge signing off on that, so it's a lot of hype. and the memo ultimately reveals that rod rosenstein, who signed off on the reauthorization didn't take the loyalty pledge. so he understands that though there's a trump hotel and a trump tower, there's not a trump fbi or a trump justice department. >> he did that when donald trump was president. a...

>> is it possible, in your view, for -- for the doj or the fbi to have gone to the fisa court to get a fisa warrant strictly based on one dossier written by one mi-6 exofficial. >> i can't imagine a federal judge signing off on that, so it's a lot of hype. and the memo ultimately reveals that rod rosenstein, who signed off on the reauthorization didn't take the loyalty pledge. so he understands that though there's a trump hotel and a trump tower, there's not a trump fbi or a trump justice department. >> he did that when donald trump was president. and so did dana boente. let's talk about what ...

Fbi was doing denying investigations in public that e he knew were happening about trump and russia. so he separated himself as well from the fbi. so they are trying to make a big deal out of nothing to discredit steel, the fisa warrant and the investigation. none of that holds. >> you think about one of the other things that's highlighted it's bolded in this memo. the idea that steel was very much an maited by a desire to not see him be president of the united states. he is a foreign national. and a member of mi-6. what do you glean from? if republicans want us to take from he was desperate t...