So what have you learned . Reporter well, anderson, u. S. Officials tell cnn that last year the u. S. Intelligence used a dossier as part of a justification to get a warrant to secretly monitor carl as one of the sources of information that the bureau has used to defend or to support its investigation. This includes approval from the secret court that oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act known as fisa, to monitor pages communications. The fbi and the Justice Department would have had to present probable cause that he was acting as an agent of a foreign power, mobile engaging in foreign intelligence gathering for a foreign government. Comey and other fbi officials would have had to sign off on
russian spies. Pai page denies he knew these were russian agents. Page says he took a trip independently, that he expressed his own views and overall, he has disputed anything was illegal in his interactions with the russians. He sent us a statement that reads in part, i look forward
from to travel to moscow and give that speech and he also met with several people. joining us to talk about it is our panel. philadelph phil, let s start with you, you ve been with the fbi, you ve been with the fisa courts, what did the fbi have on trump besides this dossier? i don t think this takes us a great deal forward, if you re going to go to a fisa court, that judge is going to you re going to go in with intercepts, directly from the russians with the national security agency would have picked up. you might have even sources, i want someone who i can identify who s directly in contact with you. if you contrast that with what we have here, a former british officer has an informant in moscow, maybe with a sub